To bring to your organisation enthusiasm, dedication, responsibility, and good work ethic, combined with a desire to utilise my skills obtained through experience in the Institutional banking sector
Equipped with strong problem-solving abilities, willingness to learn, and excellent communication skills. Poised to contribute to team success and achieve positive results. Ready to tackle new challenges and advance organizational objectives with dedication and enthusiasm.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
AVP-System Delivery
OCBC BANK
03.2021 - Current
Project Summary:
Project : SWIFT
Role : Involved in Developement and driving Projects
Skills : Swift Administrator, Swift Alliance Access (SAA), Swift Alliance Gateway (SAG), Browse, SNL, PKI Certificates, HSM, IPLA, GPI tracker, Microgateway BCI
Roles and Responsibilities:
Successful migration of Alliance Web Platform from AIX to RHEL 8.4.
Successful configuration of Microgateway BCI v4 to be used to enquire payment status from GPI Tracker.
Implemented Dev Ops automation using Ansible script to deploy configuration related changes in Alliance Access.
Working on IS20022 Standards for various industry standards like MEPS L4L, Bhatnet BOT, Australia AUSPaynet, CBPR+, Malaysia Rentas
Working on Alliance 7.6 migration mandatory for CBPR+
Senior Consultant
NCS
04.2019 - Current
Project Summary:
Project : SWIFT
Bank : DBS Bank
Role : Involved in both Production, UAT and Developement
Skills : Swift Administrator, Swift Alliance Access, Swift Alliance Gateway, Browse, SNL, PKI Certificates, HSM, ADK Component, IPLA, SAO Module(DBS Customized module for liquidity management), Alliance Messaging Hub
Roles and Responsibilities:
Involved in managing and maintaining SWIFT application, both SAA and SAG and connected softwares and modules.
Regressive customisation using JCaps for message filtering and routing connected as an ADK component.
Complete involvement in installing and configuring IPLA component used for file transfer with client Huawei and ManuLife.
Taking care of all the new users requirements from preparing SOW till its production implementation.
Responsible for extensive day to day support related to Health Check, user queries, monitoring, solving tickets ensuring timely resolution of all the queries and incidents.
Worked on SR migration of all the years with rigorously follow-up with the other technical teams.
MQSA to MQHA migration.
Migrated JCaps module through IPLA intergration.
SAA7.2 migration.
Production Support Analyst
Boston Consultancy/NCS
12.2014 - 04.2019
Project Summary:
Project : SWIFT
Bank : DBS Bank
Role : Involved in both Production, UAT and Development
Skills : Swift Administrator, Swift Alliance Access (SAA), Swift Alliance Gateway (SAG), SAW, SAB, Browse, SNL, PKI Certificates, HSM, ADK Component, IPLA, SAO Module
Roles and Responsibilities:
Involved in managing and maintaining SWIFT application, both SAA and SAG and connected softwares and modules.
Regressive customisation using JCaps for message filtering and routing connected as an ADK component.
Complete involvement in installing and configuring IPLA component used for file transfer with client Huawei and ManuLife.
Taking care of all the new users requirements from preparing SOW till its production implementation.
Responsible for extensive day to day support related to Health Check, user queries, monitoring, solving tickets ensuring timely resolution of all the queries and incidents.
Worked on SR migration of all the years with rigorously follow-up with the other technical teams.
MQSA to MQHA migration.
Migrated JCaps module through IPLA intergration.
SAA7.2 migration.
Senior Analyst
NextEdge- a subsidiary of Mashreq
04.2014 - 12.2014
Project Summary:
Project : SWIFT and Filtering
Bank : Mashreq–UAE based bank
Role : Involved in both TPS and TSD
Skill : Swift Administrator, Swift Alliance Access (SAA), Swift Alliance Gateway(SAG), SAW, SAB,Browse, SNL, PKI Certificates, HSM, Accord for Securities, SafeWatch, SIDE Reporting
Roles and Responsibilities:
Maintaining and Managing the SWIFT, SafeWatch and SIDE Reporting servers and Applications.
Updating patches & new releases of SWIFT, SafeWatch and SIDE Applications as per requirements.
Responsible for creation and modification of routing rules in Alliance Access with UAT testing.
Training & Supporting users in case of any issues faced w.r.t. Message flow in Alliance Access.
Responsible for end to end work in SafeWatch-creating zones, listset, List and defined rules.
Responsible for configuring and filtering Swift and local payment gateway messages in SafeWatch
Responsible for generating reports using sql script from SIDE on business requirement
Defined & created various process flow documents, SOP’s, training materials and Audit documents to help.
Replaced old HSM boxes with new IS6 boxes, applied mandatory bugfix on new HSM boxes.
Carried complete DR exercise involving SWIFT| SAFEWATCH| SIDE Reporting
Configured HKICL browse service in Mashreq
Ongoing SafeWatch Upgrade Project from 3.2.2 to 3.4.2
SR2014 Patch with latest ASP installation
Associate Consultant
Polaris Financial Technology Ltd.
10.2012 - 01.2014
Project Summary:
Project : SWIFT
Client : Barclays Capital
Role : Involve in BTB(Build the Bank) & RTB(Run the Bank)
Skills : Swift Administrator, Swift Alliance Access (SAA), Swift Alliance Gateway (SAG), SAW, SAB, Browse, SNL, PKI Certificates, HSM, Accord for Securities, Unix
Roles and Responsibilities:
Maintaining and Managing the SWIFT servers and Applications.
Updating patches & new releases of SWIFT Applications as per requirements.
Managing the backup & restore activities for SWIFT.
Responsible for creation and modification of routing rules in Alliance Access with UAT testing.
Training & Supporting users in case of any issues faced w.r.t. Message flow in Alliance Access.
Defined & created various process flow documents, SOP’s, training materials and Audit documents to help.
Standardise the project.
Responsible for handling and coordinating the RMA related activities for the bank.
Ensuring smooth flow of day to day business and BAU activities.
Investigating and troubleshooting any issues faced till the root cause of the problem is known.
Managed the addition of NEW BIC to Alliance Access including configuration planning, UAT and live.
Implemented the BIC file download in SAA using FileAct service.
Automated RMA file Import from the SMS application.
Upgraded Accord to ver. 7.1 & ver. 7.2.
Managed the SR 2012 SWIFT Standards implementation.
Participated in SWIFT Cold Test 2013.
Implemented SSL on MQHA in Swift Alliance Access
Created and tested procedure of restoring SAA old version data on SAA 7.0
Software Engineer
Mphasis an HP Company
12.2009 - 10.2012
Project Summary:
Project : SWIFT
Client : ABN Amro and RBS Bank
Role : Production Support
Skills : Swift Administrator, Swift Alliance Access (SAA), Swift Alliance Gateway (SAG), SAW, SAB, Browse, SNL, Unix fundamentals, Oracle 9i (SQL), SIDE, LPM
Roles & Responsibilities
Support for any Functional or Technical issues related to Alliance Products.
Support for Fircosoft AML including Upgrades, Installation of patches and troubleshooting the connectivity issues related to Fircosoft and SWIFT servers.
Production Support for MQ Series w.r.t SWIFT Alliance Access.
Resolving the queries related to the SWIFT infrastructure, SWIFT Messages, Interfacing of business applications with Alliance Access etc. with the business and IT users of bank.
Co-ordination with various stakeholders for SWIFT Alliance issues.
Responsible to ensure smooth flow of traffic to and from SWIFT network.
Support in performing daily health check for Production & Test environments & reporting any issues observed to the respective stakeholders.
Handling of Recovery calls and On-Call support.
Support for Implementation of SR2010 and SR2011 SWIFT Message Standards.
Support/Configuration of SAG administrator and responsible for complete maintenance of SAG.
Responsible for monitoring SNL failures and file transfers on SAG.
Support client for setting up the browse and interact services.
Have constant coordination with client regarding SWIFT maintenance and releases.
Perform daily support task to ensure the SIDE application is constantly communicating with Alliance Access.
Support for any Technical issues related to the LPM application w.r.t SWIFT Alliance and daily monitoring of the application.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information & Technology
UPTU University
01.2008
Skills
Comprehensive hardware knowledge
Skilled in managing multiple operating systems including Windows and Unix
Shell scripting proficiency
Banking expertise
SWIFT Alliance applications expertise
Experience with digital workflow systems
Operations management
Channel strategy development
Effective internal communications
Timeline
AVP-System Delivery
OCBC BANK
03.2021 - Current
Senior Consultant
NCS
04.2019 - Current
Production Support Analyst
Boston Consultancy/NCS
12.2014 - 04.2019
Senior Analyst
NextEdge- a subsidiary of Mashreq
04.2014 - 12.2014
Associate Consultant
Polaris Financial Technology Ltd.
10.2012 - 01.2014
Software Engineer
Mphasis an HP Company
12.2009 - 10.2012
Bachelor of Engineering - Information & Technology