A M I T K U M A R C H H A P A R W A L

8316 Vinoy Blvd, Apt 1119, Charlotte, NC-28262. Tel: 704-840-2545 apchhaparwal@gmail.com


PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Result oriented with experience in diverse areas of finance and telecom technology business analysis.
Expertise in implementing process improvement methods and streamlining daily business activities.
Working collaboratively with teams, problem solving abilities, work ethic, and superior analytical skills.
Background in SWIFT, FED, CHIPS message formats, Clearing Systems, Mass Payments and Global
Pay Plus (Fundtech Payment Processing Product).
Want to be a part of team for innovations and efforts lead to useful and noticeable results.
Seeking an opportunity in industry whereby utilizing my qualification which can increase my analytical
abilities, critical thinking and thereby providing maximum throughput to grow along with it.

PROFESSIONAL CAPABILITY

Role as GPP Technical Expert (Lead & Individual Contributor)
Present project with GPP Payments ReWrite, Bulk FX, Mass Payment implementation for Bank of
America Merrill Lynch in USA
Employed with USA Fundtech office
Lead Successful Implementations at the following client bank locations:
High value payment (PRW) phase-I for BGC, Sweden
Mambo, Westpac, Australia Phase 1 UAT & SIT setup
POC for Technical HighValue Implementation at National Australia Bank, Australia
Corporate Trainings to Banks Operations and Technical team on the GPP application

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

July 2010 Till Date Fundtech Limited Tech Lead (Implementation)
CHARLOTTE, NC (Individual .Contributor.)

GPP SP (SOA Based)

Global PAYplus Service Platform (GPP-SP) is single consolidated payments platform offering the
services and orchestration that facilitate execution of different payment types: High Value/ High Care
Payments, Mass Payments, SEPA Payments, UK Faster Payments.
GPP-SP's uControl rules engine allows business professionals to drive new payments services from
inception to market in real time with no IT intervention. -Flexibility. Existing and emerging payment
channels and interfaces (GPP-SP supports ISO 20022, XML messaging, SOA and industry-standard
supported message formats

Domain:
Banking - Payments

Current Role:
GPP-SP (SOA based) Techno Functional Analyst for BAML, USA
(On H1B visa valid till Sept 2014)



Roles/Responsibilities:
Manage & Estimate Test script preparation/execution for Sanity and Unit Test for GPP
related functionalities
Helping the test analysts in understanding functional/E2E scenarios for SIT/UAT for
various clients.
Familiarized on automated/manual testing tools/processes.
Defect triaging and monitoring.
Coordinating with all vendors i.e. IBM/SUN/HP/ORACLE for any technical
issues/solutions related to product.
Part of technical architect forum responsible for product/technical enhancements related
to the product
Handling all technical upgrades related to the product in close co-ordination with senior
technical architect of GPP product.
Debugging/analysis of log to understand RCA of production issues and provide
solutions to handle BAU mode.
Responsible for all delivery releases to the client and coordinating directly with the
client to resolve the issues as agreed on the SLA.
Key member of Frontline production support for GPP implementations handled at
various clients
Managing deployment activities with Build upgrades on Production
Support to Fundtech Internal QA / Dev as well as External Client for GPP-
SP(SOA)/other versions of GPP product
Perform Pre-Production deployment and validations reviews with clients product team
for clarification and understand business/technical gaps.
Managing message queues and External BIS application.
Provide workshop to client on Installation / Configuration, connectivity with external
BIS system) demo / training and Proof of Concept.
Mentoring and guiding team members on the functionalities related to the product.

Onsite:
Currently placed @ Bank of America, Charlotte onsite client location
Conducted Technical Training on GPP SP (SOA) to Burlington, USA
Conducted Techno-Functional Training on GPP-SP to Capgemini, HSBC team.
Visited to BGC, Sweden for SIT / UAT implementation/product setup.
Visited to Westpac Mambo, Sydney for Vanilla functional setup and SIT
implementation.

December 2007 July 2010 Amdocs India Pvt. Ltd Senior Subject Matter Expert
PUNE, India

Amdocs CRM 7.5 Smart-Client (SOA Based)

CRM is a customer management tool used by telecom service providers at their business call centers.
CRM is web based application integrated with ordering management as well as billing system for
telecom service providers. CRM exposed APIs which are used by external products to manage customer
details and verification needs

Domain:
Telecom

Project 1:
Light Speed Infrastructure & Integration for AT & T, Inc., Chicago

Role:
Technical Middleware & Functional Support Expert.


Responsibilities:
Test Case generation and Unit Testing.
Maintain Tractability matrix for all the test results.
Experienced in various types of Software testing processes such as, Manual, Integration,
Functional, Regression, and Database.
Enhancement and Defect Fixing
Supporting Production deployment and maintenance (Implementation)
Coordinating with QA for testing
Support to Amdocs Internal Client as well as External Client for CRM 7.5
Perform Pre-Production deployment validation reviews.
Root Cause Analysis
Estimation and planning for release deployment.
Managing message queues and External BIS application.

Onsite:
Visited for Live Production Support on client site AT&T

Project 2:
MAXIS Support for MAXIS, Malaysia

Role:
Infrastructure Middleware Lead

Responsibilities:
Technical Implementation Lead.
Supporting QA team for testing internal as well as external environments.
Release and Defect management.
Deployment validations and reviews.
Root Cause Analysis.

April 2007 December 2007 Synova Innovative Technologies Pvt Ltd Software Engineer
HYDERABAD, India

Staffed at CSC India Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad, India.

Domain:
Financial IT Services

Project 1:
Integrated Business Information Solution Data Migration & Integration (IBIS DMI)
and ODW Objective Data Warehousing for Sun Microsystems. Inc., California

IBIS is basically integration of all legacy applications of Sun Microsystems into one ERP
based system. And using ODW data is transferred to ERP gets collected at Informatica, data
is distributed based on certain criteria, this distribution takes place on Informatica stored data
via C++ program in objective format for distribution for data to specific table/schema in
ERP system for end user availability of data.

Role/Responsibilities:
Root cause analysis for BAU
Application server management
Release management
Application Implementation
Co-ordination with US team

Feb 2005 March 2007 Millennium Solutions Software Programmer /
AHMEDABAD, India Network Engineer

NETWORK TEST BED for ISRO Space Application Centre (ISAC), Bangalore

NTB is V/VoIP for satellite communication. This project used H323 implementation customized for
usage. It has facility for virtual conferencing controlled via centralized and de-centralized way.

Multiple Projects at Millennium Solutions, Ahmadabad, India

Website development (BSMMS.net)

This website is used for domain registration, website registration, software services, graphics
designing and other e-com services. It contains control panel for each service for administration.

Material management system for local cloth merchant market

This system is for local Cloth Merchant for job processing of Raw material to finished goods.

Internal Versioning system upgrade (Subversion customization)

Open source version control system to replace current VSS. Purpose of project was internal as well as
client request for maintaining of files for the purpose of security via Captacha implementation.

Role & Responsibilities:
System Analysis and designing. Complete SDLC handling.
Coding and implementation.
Test case generation and unit testing.
Requirement gathering and understanding of gap.
Coordinating with QA team for enhancements and defect fixing.
Estimation and planning of release.

ADDITIONAL

Best Peer Award from AT&T (Amdocs Client) for CRM 7.5 Support.
Awarded with Achievement Certification in C++ in CSC India for Objective Data
Warehousing project.
Acted as Internal Auditor for ISO (UK - UKAS) Certification at Millennium Solution.

EDUCATION

Masters of Computer Application.
(Regular)
2002- 2005 NICM, Gujarat University, Gandhinagar,
Gujarat, India

TECHNICAL SKILLS __

Languages C++, C, Core Java, J2EE
Application and
Web Server
(Middleware)
IBM Web Sphere ND & Base 7.x / 6.1 /5.0 (Intermediate)- clustering ,
IBM Http Server, Apache Tomcat (Basic), Oracle Web Logic 11g(Basic)
IBM Web sphere eXtreme Scale 7.0 and Oracle Coherence (Basic)
RDBMS Oracle 9i / 10g / 11i, DB2 9.2.7, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Platform UNIX (Intermediate majorly all flavor), Linux (Intermediate),
Windows 2000 / XP / 200x Server (Intermediate)
IDE NetBeans, Glade Designer GTK+, QT, Anjuta, BIRT, Crystal Reports, DataVision
Network Protocol H323, RTP, TCP/IP, UDP, LDAP, Sonic MQ, IBM MQ 5.x, 6.x 7.x (Intermediate)
Hardware Troubleshooting & maintaining all Hardware & Network peripherals.
Defect Tracking HP Quality Center, Star Team
Build Management CVS, XtraC+, Subversion.
General Software SQL Developer, PL/SQL Developer, Toad for Oracle/DB2, Action Base, Web-Ex,
VPN, VMware, Citrix, LISA Tool, SoapUI, FileZilla, WinScp, Putty.