Manoj S.

Experience

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  DLS consultants

  Mar 2001 - May 2002

  Officer Programmer

  Developed ERP system modules for Brakes India Limited in the Materials Management space in Fox Pro

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  CRISIL Global Research & Analytics

  Aug 2003 - Jul 2007

  Application Development Manager

  Excel VBA, VB6.0 and ASP developerLead a development team responsible for building VBA/ASP tools for top tier investment banks

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  Credit Suisse

  Jul 2007 - Jan 2024

  Brief overlapping experience with current role during handover processResponsible for multimillion dollar portfolio migrations from legacy to strategic risk management IT system:Responsible for end-to-end delivery which includes planning milestones, stakeholder management (Trading, Trade management Business and IT, Product Controllers and Chief Risk Officer teams)Hands-on experience in carrying out Pl. investigations, getting traders comfortable on to the new platform, getting sign offs from Trading, Product Control, CRO to move to the new system using established processes (Typically, a desk migration involves hundreds of accounts and takes ~2 years)Played a key role in data management strategy and provided SME inputs to fix issues related to front to back flows.Good experience working on various projects related to evolution of Front Office Risk systems (since 2007):From an Excel based to strategic web-based platformFrom having technical limitations of running 4 overnight risk reports overnight to running hundreds of risk reports daily.From hard-coded trader managed valuation models e.g., Model Parameters to a centralized controlled environment with clear demarcation of IT and Quants responsibilities.From a heavily IT support dependent legacy application to a more reliable, scalable platform with Geneos, Splunk and other monitoring Show less Jan 2011 to April 2015 - (Consultant at Credit Suisse, Employer - Crisil / Associate Director) Headed Operations:Strategic risk management application owner(used by majority of trading desks globally), overseeing all production support activities including all levels of production support, ITIL Management (incident, problem, environment, configuration and change/release) and enhancementsRecovery Team Lead for GM IT - Equities and Equity Derivatives including documentation of "Loss of Premise", "Loss of IT" and "Loss of Staff" procedures for GM IT - Equities and Equity DerivativesDeveloped strong working relationships with technology, operation, business peers and to achieve tangible objectives, including working directly with Sr. Traders to manage expectationsResponsible / accountable for all production stability issues in the USBuilt internal processes around key market and holiday events like Option Expiries, Early Close, heightened awareness days due to events like Brexit etc.Defined capacity and resiliency requirement metrics and failover capabilities in partnership with business and development teams to improve reliability, stability and capacity management. Worked with downstream users to agree to and document SLAs to measure delivery performance and manage expectationsConceptualized/managed the setup of a 24 x 7 support team to monitor and deliver key data outputs across time zones. Managed, motivated and recruited staffHelped to build a support team in the US. Managed daily interaction with stakeholders including Trading, CRO, Product Controllers and other upstream and downstream stakeholdersInterfaced with all teams to analyze and assess production incidents i.e. booked and market executed trade issues, trading errors due to missing static or market data and booking errors/outages due to IT issues. and raising problem tickets Show less Helped build Excel spreadsheets which holds multimillion dollar portfolios managed by equity derivatives traders where each sheet represents a product and PVs of each product were calculated using quant models, consolidated to derive the daily PL of the accountHelped build spot and vol bumping mechanisms in Excel to calculate delta and Vega risk which runs overnight for trading heads and chief risk officer teamsBuilt a generic viewer in Excel which can dynamically generate views at run time based on user selected Product (each product has different columns). This was done to help reduce memory utilization by the spreadsheetBuilt ad hoc Excel tools to show total long short option positions split at strike level so trading can have a view on the total long or short positionsBuilt Excel standalone tool to publish secondary valuations to external vendor application Secnet.Worked on migration of portfolios to a new generic excel based platform where new product models can be imported into the spreadsheetWorked on Rota to provide application support to traders under a high pressure environment Show less

  • Vice President, Structured Products Engineering Team Manager

    Mar 2019 - Jan 2024

  • US Head of Risk Management Systems Migrations (Front Office Risk IT)

    Feb 2017 - Mar 2020

  • US Head of Equities and Equity Derivatives Risk IT Production Services (Front Office Risk IT)

    Jan 2011 - Jan 2017

  • Equity Derivatives Rapid Application Developer and Team Lead (Front Office Risk IT)

    Jul 2007 - Dec 2010
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  UBS

  Feb 2024 - now

  Director, Product Development (COO), Corporate Institutional Advisory Solutions

  - Led execution of strategic initiatives, aligning with Equity Plan program objectives and milestones.- Partnered with IT teams (UBS and vendors) to deliver features meeting business and technical needs.- Oversaw program planning, roadmaps, client communications, and quality to ensure timely delivery.- Managed budgets and ensured optimal allocation for strategic initiatives.