Manish Verma

• Due to parental illness, had to step out of my career to run the family business
• Periodic setbacks prevented a suitable replacement being found
• Now resolved, I am very keen to resume my career.

Technology: OpenLink Endure, HP, QTP

Project Manager - EON Energy Trading, Germany - US Power Regression

• Automation of regression testing for US Power (swaps, heat rates and options) from XENON to Openlink Endur
• Responsible for daily tracking and execution of the project
• Managed a team of 8 – QTP developers, Tech team lead, testers
• Project was a success measuring against the KPIs – time, cost and scope
• Acted as a functional POC and made sure that the business requirements specifications (BRD) were met and understood by the team
• Nominated thrice for displaying the corporate “core” values at Sapient

• Travelling, exploring India, spending time with family, GMAT
  

• Technology: Java SE5 / Oracle 10g / PL/SQL/Visual Basic 6.0/Excel 2007/ASP/VB.net/XML
• Developed analytical, automation and decision support tools for Analytical, Trading, Derivatives, Market Risk, Marketing and P & L departments for the power, gas, coal, emissions and oil commodities trading
• Interacting directly with analysts, traders, captured the requirements, pain-points and developed systems to the requirements / analysis.
• Developed, extended parts of EnergyDatabase, an internal analytical database (Datawarehouse, ETL), unmatched in trading industry, with a user base of more than 500 spread across London, Paris, Europe and Japan
• Automated various price feeds, weather, power generation, outage, spread, demand, forward curve, trading position, capacity and forecasting tools using in-house Java APIs
• Developed Coal and Freight forward curve tool for the new business in Japan
• Provided market volume/share analysis for EDF's take-over bid of British Energy and SPE in 2008 and 2009 for European Commission.
• Lead customisation and deployment of the trading tools build over the years to the EDF-Calyon Bank Joint Venture trading desk in 2009
• Acted as an interface between the business and IT and provided both first-line, tactical and complete support to the analytical and the trading desks
• Interacted directly with various providers, power exchanges, TSOs, generators and EDF in order to build and maintain automated systems and admin.
• Provided out-of-office, across time-zones, overnight support for the developed systems.
• Joined on a 6-months contract and within 3-months, recommended to be made permanent due to “Value addition that was missing before”. Joined to support only the Analysts, initially, but expanded the role to support other teams too (Front, back, middle)
• Promoted twice, most recently, to lead a small team to support the trading, analytical desks and other departments.
• Juggled conflicting priorities from different desks and tried to manage the expectations.
  
  

• Visual Basic 6.0 / SQL Server 2000 / ASP
• As part of team, developed web-based employee benefits systems for Thomsons Reuters.
• Sole interface to the external financial providers.

• Technology: Visual Basic 6.0 / SQL Server 2000 / TIBCO messaging / Access 2000
• Solely responsible for delivery of the requirements, analysis, design, coding and implementation of a real-time LinePack Monitor ticker for the trading desks that talks to AT-Link
• Enhanced the Gas IMS, the in-house trading system according to the user requirements and delivered the requirements, analysis and design for replacement trading system.
• Link between corporate IT in U.S and users / IT in London.

• Visual Basic 6.0/Visual C++ 6.0 / Oracle 8 / DCOM / MSMQ / Oracle Receivables
• Programmed (team) a new Product TradeBlotter Workstation, the real-time trading and position management system for trading desk.
• Supported Amerada Hess Gas, London, on-site for 2 years (7 FO/BO/MO users)
• Improved systems design leading to improvement in performance by over 300%
• Introduced, coded and designed some modules and enhanced some others for Contango, the energy trading system (ETRM)
• Single-handedly developed Invoicing and Settlement module for the trading system
• One of the pilots in devising the real-time response DCOM / MSMQ / XML servers.
• Automated the servers by writing Windows NT services, classes and Win32 APIs
• Mentored other team members for technical issues and the new product knowledge.

• Visual Basic 6.0/SQL Server 6.5/ASPJava ScriptVisual Basic
• Script/COM/Access
• Programmed the prestigious WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) project,
• Bhutan Industrial Proprietary System for Royal Government of Bhutan
• Programmed GCC Equity web site displaying stock information of companies in Gulf countries
• Coded an ActiveX DLL to create graphs on the fly on the internet
• Researched industry-wide and documented coding, GUI standards for the company.