KRISHNA VIRENDRA DODIA

SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of professional experience as a Business Analyst in working with complex capital

market technology projects involving equities, fixed income trading (munis, corporate
bonds, treasuries) and risk management and support for trading system.
• Experience working with CRM tool Salesforce.com.
• Excellent understanding of Equity derivative (futures and options) and Credit Derivative
trading system (Calypso) for products such as CDS, CLN, TRS, structured finance products
such as CMO and MBS.
• Excellent understanding of securities lending process and related operational process.
• Experience working with sub asset class such as bonds, stock, futures, forwards,
options, and swaps.
• Excellent understanding on various Fixed Income parameters such as Duration,
Convexity, Coupon, Yield (YTM, YTW, etc).
• Hands-on experience on funds transfer application such as CHIPS and FedWire and the
messaging system like SWIFT and FpML
• Extensive experience in Software development life cycle (SDLC), Project management
life cycle (PLC), and various SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, RUP and Agile.
• Excellent understanding in gathering user requirements using tools such as rational
requisite pro and case complete. Conducted JAD sessions, interacted with business users
to gather requirements, documented BRD (Business requirement document) and FRD
(Functional requirement document).
• Interacted with developing team, QA team, Business team and various other departments.
• Experience on writing Use cases and UML (such as use case diagram, activity diagram,
sequence diagram) using various tools such as MS Visio, Visual paradigm and Rational
Rose
• Experience with Data modeling using ER diagrams and tools like Erwin, MS Visio. Data
Mapping and Data definitions and ETL process using Informatica.
• Hands-on experience in writing SQL code to run queries (using tools such as PL/SQL, SQL
developer) against databases such as Oracle, MS SQL server, MS Access.
• Interacted with the QA team and assisted them in creating test case, test plans, test scripts,
performed black box testing, smoke testing and UAT.
• Experience working on Sharepoint.
• Excellent analytical abilities evaluating business needs, suggesting and developing
innovative solutions, part of change management and improving process efficiency.
• Effective at interviewing business users, stakeholders and subject matter experts (SME's)
and eliciting needs and translating those needs into concise functional and non-functional
requirements
• Involvement in version control & change management using VSS 6.0.
• Interaction with technical people in understanding the input parameters for various web
services.
• Knowledge & experience of UNIX.
• Ability to manage time and priorities effectively to allow for the timely completion of
multiple tasks on concurrent project assignments

TECHNICAL
SKILLS:
• Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/NT/Unix
• Languages: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Visual Basic (VB), UML, SQL
• Database Systems: MS SQL server, Oracle, MS Access, MySQL
• Modeling Tools: Visual Paradigm and Toad modeler
• Testing Tools: QTP, Quality Center/Test Director, Win Runner, Load runner
• Reporting Tools: Crystal reports 11, Business Objects 6.5, Vermillion reporting suite
• Programming Environment: Java 1.4/1.5, J2EE, .NET, ASP, JSP / MVC architecture
• Other Tools: MS Office Suite, MS Outlook, MS Project, MS Visio, VSS 6.0

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EXPERIENCE:

04/10-Present OppenheimerFunds Inc, New York

Business Analyst
Project: Marketing/ Investment Data Strategy – Process Flow
Functionalities:
This project was within the group that supported Sales and Marketing team that worked with
Investment Data and took feeds from investment systems so marketing can use data
appropriately. The scope of this project was to study the current publications, analyze what
process is being followed, identify gaps, inconsistencies; data redundancies then evaluate
and improve all workflows for the client facing publications (graphs, charts of information
presented to external clients).
Responsibilities:
• Performed analysis by going through existing documentation and collected the thorough
information on various requirements and prioritized them.
• Highlighted the discrepancies by performing current state and future state analysis.
• Interviewed business partners to understand the processes and data origination within
the different group/ departments.
• Documented the requirements into BRD.
• Worked with Sr. Management discussed about the current process, data elements involved,
identified the facts and shared this information with business group.
• Interacted with cross functional departments and streamlined the process flow by ironing
out various process related information such as what is the data source, who gets the
information, who does commentary, who gets approval, etc.
• Interviewed business users to understand various reports and their layout. Prepared the
report layout in MS Access and shared with the users for their approval.
• Extensively used MS Visio to design the cross functional process flow/ workflow and
highlighted the processes for the particular group/ department responsible.
• Interacted with Project Manager and updated the daily or weekly progress of the project.

Environment: MS office suite, Sharepoint, MS Visio, Agile Methodology, .Net Technology,

Business Objects.

1/09 – 3/10 Morgan Stanley, New York

Business Analyst
Project: Client / Branch Experience – Document Management
Functionalities:
The document management is a strategic project that provides an improved branch
experience in regards to document handling for document Capture, Processing and
Tracking. This project is about the NAO (New Account Opening- such as IRA, IPO, Active
Asset Allocation, etc.) efforts to improve the account opening and maintenance, Branch and
Client experience, end-to-end account opening cycle time and transparency into the
location of documents at a given time after the documents have been received by the client.
The Document Management process for this initiative begins at the point of a document
requirement being generated, based upon new account opening or account maintenance.
Once submitted to the processing group, the document receives a real-time status update
of ‘Branch Received’ in the back-end system. The document is then routed to the
document reviewer based on the work type of the document. As a result of review, the
document is either approved or rejected, for which in the latter case it is sent back to the
branch. If a pended document is approved, the document status is updated (in real-time) to
‘Approved’ and the image is archived.
Responsibilities:
• Performed analysis of the scope of the project by going through existing documents (BRD
and SRS).

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 • Captured the business level requirements off the BRD and performed the GAP analysis to
lay out the intersection point that required analysis on technical design scheme.
• Interviewed the various team members from technology to trace the connecting point
between various systems and application.
• Conducted the JAD sessions to bring business and IT on same wavelength ensuring the
business requirements are in line with the IT framework.
• Documented the solution to business requirements with SRS (Solution Requirement
Specification)
• Worked with technical people to understand the input parameters for various web services
such Update Doc status, Get Doc Req., etc
• Extensively used MS Visio to prepare process flow diagrams and UML diagrams.
• Created layout for various report using MS Excel such as Daily Reject Report,
Reconciliation Report, Missing Document Report, etc.
• Interacted with Technical people to help them clarify the requirements.
• Designed the Screen mock-ups for various reference screens using MS Visio.
• Presented Weekly / Monthly Project status reports describing the project status to date
and the impact of issues and change requests on the project plan.
• Interacted with QA team members to understand the requirements and assist them with
testing. Also performed testing for document processing component of Document
Management.

Environment: SOA Architecture, Web Services, MS office suite, VSS 6.0, SQL server 2005,
MS Visio, .NET Technology, Rational Rose.

11/07 – 12/08 Putnam Investments, MA

Business Analyst
Project: Mutual Funds – Client Reporting Data Strategy
Functionalities:
The project is all about developing a data strategy that involved the central body
(Composite Studio) that can access the data from multiple sources apply the business logic
(in the form of views) and generate/deliver the output data in desired manner.
With the legacy pattern reports like Investment updates, and Product profiles were created
using spreadsheets using data sources like FIRE (for fixed income), PPA (for equity and
fixed income) and PIVOT. Another objective of the project was to remove the manual
intervention as much as possible, and that all the data tweaking must be embedded within
the code; doing this provided the consistency in the reporting data.
Also worked on another project called ticket monitoring system. The scope of this
application was to collect the data from various ticketing application such as Salesforce,
Change management and Piret. All this information related to ticketing such as ticket no.,
open date, close date, owner of the ticket, issue, description, etc was captured from all this
system & stored in the Oracle database.
Responsibilities:
• Performed the analysis of legacy system and graphed the inconsistencies as per the
objective of project.
• Performed analysis for report involving various Fixed Income parameters such as Duration,
Convexity, Coupon, Maturity, Yield (YTM, YTW, etc.)
• Interviewed business user to understand the various levels / time period desired for
varieties for report (such as Duration report, Maturity report, etc.) related to fixed income
products.
• Performed requirement analysis by going through existing documentation and collected
the thorough information of “what is there and what is to be build”
• Interviewed the business users to collect the requirements for various data sources,
business logic, understanding the reporting requirements, report design (screen layout) and
various data elements.
• Conducted the JAD sessions to capture the requirement for true data sources, any
alternate data source that was possible if any.

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 • Documented the business requirements in BRD and functional/technical requirement in
SSD.
• Extensively used MS Access to perform data analysis by drilling down to the data level
and check the business logic/ data tweaking done within the code. Also used PL/SQL to
write queries and retrieve the data from ORACLE database.
• Worked on Composite studio (a virtual data management tool) by running the view
developed within it. This was the testing done in order to compare the output with the actual
desired result.
• Worked on the Vermillion reporting suite and did the analysis of the all the reporting
components that made up the entire client reports.
• Performed testing by running various comparisons (by running SQL codes). Also
performed the UAT.

Environment: SOA Architecture, MS office suite, MS Access, Oracle, PL/SQL, Composite

Studio, Vermillion reporting suite, Java J2EE.

1/06 –10/07 Brown Brother Harriman, NY

Business Analyst
Project: Global Client Profitability Data Warehouse
Functionalities:
The project is all about developing a global data warehouse as a repository storing the
reporting data (using Business Objects) for all the business functions across the globe,
using the agile methodology and star schema, .NET technology and MS SQL server
database. The business functions included the reporting data for Prime Brokerage, Swaps
and Stock loan (equities). The purpose of developing GCPD was to improve the data
quality, expand and enhance the underlying data in CPD, Global data capture, local report
delivery, change the data sources and data infrastructure, expand to include feeds such as
FF&O (Financial Futures & Options) and DMA. Also built was a dynamic Assumption engine
that customized the measures on a regional basis. It was an interactive web based user
interface in which user can enter the assumptions and fund rates. Business user can slice
and dice the data and view data in different dimensions such as region (US, EMEA and
Asia pacific), time (daily, weekly, monthly or yearly) or as per the platform/business
functions and sales coverage.
Responsibilities:
• Analyzed the current system and proposed system to come with the GAP analysis.
• Performed detailed requirement analysis by going through the existing documents for CPD
and the CPD vision documents.
• Interviewed business users across the globe (US, EMEA and Asia Pacific) to collect the
requirements for analysis and validation.
• Conducted the JAD sessions with the users to collect the information about true data
sources, the data feed, the format for input data file.
• Documented the requirements in Business Requirement Document.
• Documented the requirement for assumption engine UI in UI specification document
• Liaised with end users for the BO related requirements such as the design for universe,
schema design, class and object definition, in BRD.
• Assisted developers in creating the universes for web intelligence / desktop intelligence
user using Business Objects 6.5
• Interacted with business users and captured the requirement in understanding the objects
and classes for universe design.
• Performed testing on various report generated by business object reporting tool by verifying
the data in front end & back end.
• Extensively designed UI mock-up and flow diagrams (using MS Visio) for assumption
engine.
• Interacted with the off shore development team members to explain the attributes and
functionalities of assumption UI.
• Worked with DBA team in understanding and designing the schema [star schema] for
the universe.

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 • Worked with ETL developers assisted them in understanding and implementing business
logic.
• Extensively worked on MS Access, did the data analysis, did the mapping of input field
(source field) with the output field (reporting field) in CPA (client profitability analysis) and
map those fields with the output fields of GCPD.
• Performed the data mapping for the input-output fields for various sources for GCPD from
the requirements gathered, also performed data analysis by writing SQL on MS SQL
server 2005.
• Assisted the data analyst in resolving issues with Data modeling and Data Mapping (such
as understanding the fields and its attribute).
• Assisted project manager in updating the status of project progression throughout the SDLC
cycle
• Performed UAT and assisted in preparing the user manual and providing training to the
users.

Environment: MS office suite, MS Access, MS SQL Server 2005, .NET 2.0, HTML, Informatica
and Erwin, Business Objects 6.5

6/04 – 12/05 Macquaire Bank, New York

Business Analyst
Project: Credit derivative trading platform (Calypso)
Functionalities:
This project was within derivative group of Macquarie bank on the application called
Calypso. Calypso was a robust trade order management tool built on Java technology
which allowed traders, asset managers and portfolio managers to trade in the credit
derivative products such as CDS, CDS Index, CDS tranches, IRS, Currency Swap (FX),
CLN, TRS, CMO and MBS (mostly RMBS) and equity derivative such as CFD, equity
basket derivatives, equity index swaps, equity futures and options. It was an automated
front to back office trade processing and settlement that leveraged the STP capabilities.
This CPDT tool worked in entering, configuring, and executing the credit derivative trade
with trade affirmation/confirmation through FpML and the daily reconciliation that was done
through the integration of the system with Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation’s
Deriv/Serv. With the help of quick entry and bulk entry feature, system captured and
populated the trade details very efficiently. Another unique feature Calypso supported was
Novation protocol. Using the analysis tool, the system generated a view of risk and P&L
based on user defined criteria’s. Risk management enabled real time risk analysis for
derivatives. Users could track and alter the changes that would affect the impact on trades
with the pre-deal analysis functionality.
Responsibilities:
• Liaised with IT, Business groups and project manager to ensure coordination of projects.
• Performed the analysis of existing system and documents, performed the GAP analysis to
come up with the requirements through JAD sessions. RUP methodology was followed
under SDLC.
• Communicated with traders, subject matter experts, and risk managers to understand the
requirements for the new credit derivative project. Gathered requirements using case
complete for various derivative instruments such as CDS, CLN, TRS, CFD (contract for
difference), etc.
• Documented the high level business requirements in BRD and functional requirement in
FRD.
• Created use cases using Case Complete and use case diagram using MS Visio
• Elaborated the user requirements by designing prototypes, screen mockups and dummy
GUI’s.
• Worked on implementing the FpML messaging system. This was done to replace the
manual conversation that took between the counterparties for negotiating the contract
terms.
• Various modules of FpML implemented were the business logic pertaining to Trade
affirmation, Trade confirmation, Novations, cashflow matching and contract notifications.

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 • Assisted the data analyst in Data Mapping and Data Modeling.
• Assisted in integration of the Calypso to support the ISDA’s novation protocol
• Maintained Data Feeds, Back-Office integration, and data imports from DTCC’s Deriv/SERV
(Trade Confirmations, Trade Processing, Clearing and Settlement and payment
reconciliation).
• Assisted QA team with preparing test plan, test cases, test script, and performed system
testing and UAT
• Created weekly report during the development phase and testing phase, to keep a track of
the progress of the project at every stage.
• Extensively wrote SQL queries to retrieve the data from the Oracle9i database and
performed the data testing under exception conditions.
• Actively participated in change management to reflect the changes with on going
development.
• Performed defect management tasks in Test director 8.0 – recorded defects, assigned
defects to appropriate developers and generated defect matrix.
• Provided support to business users in post-production phase. Prepared user manuals and
provided training to business users.

Environment: UML: - MS Visio, Visual paradigm, MS office suite, Oracle 9i, Java, JSP, HTML,
SQL, Rational Rose, Test Director 8.0.

11/02 – 5/04 BNP Paribas, New York

Business Analyst
Project: Securities Lending
Functionalities:
This was a web based front office application that enabled trader to borrow and lend
securities. User can view the list of securities available for lending and borrowing and can
match the borrowers need as per various criteria such as rebate rate, maturity, price and
collateral. This new system was embedded with features like contract comparison (feature
that enabled user to compare/match the trade terms), and mark-to market comparison to
reflect the up-to-date value of securities and recall which would take care of the correct
securities to be returned to lender in case the lender places a recall for its securities.
Another unique feature embedded was called reallocation. Depending on the list of
available inventory the user can either accept the trade in full, partial rejection, partially
filled, fully rejected or force trade.
Responsibilities:
• Involved in defining the project objectives and scope, identified the users and appropriate
interviewing methods, understood the current business process, business rules and
constraints and gathered requirements following agile methodology.
• Closely worked with SME’s to analyze all the parameters such as rebate rate, collateral,
maturity in securities lending process. And also collecting the various parameters for SWIFT
messages
• Extensively used MS Excel features (such as Pivot tables, V lookup and H lookup) for data
analysis.
• Prepared various process diagrams such as activity, use case diagram using Case
Complete.
• Made detailed analysis and workflow diagrams (MS Visio) for securities lending which
included - sourcing of market and reference data , analysis and decision support,
preliminary instrument setup , setup of static data like counter party info and settle delivery
instructions, configuration of message generation rules, review risk analyses, similar front-
office activities and analyze data for instruments.
• Worked closely with QA team and assisted them in preparing test cases, test plan, test
scenarios and performed UAT.

Environment: MS Office, and Toad modeler for UML development, SQL server database
and .NET

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EDUCATION:

Indian Institute of Planning and Management, India

• Master’s of Business Administration (Finance & Marketing)

Tolani College of Commerce, INDIA

• Bachelors of Commerce