associate director

director

software engineer

senior analyst

senior associate

DTCC

Good place to work
Responsibilities:
	Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5,7.0, 6.1, versions on AIX & Linux Environments.
	Migrated WebSphere® 6.1 to a to WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5 Intelligent Management cell.
	Mentored, provided guidance and was part of building the WebSphere/Portal team
	Integrated DataPower appliances with WSRR to support various application frame works.
	Involved in the design, setting standards and implementation of all WebSphere projects.
	Implemented the automation of WebSphere installation, upgrade, configuration.
	Implemented the automation of WebSphere Portal Upgrades.
	Installed and configured DataPower (XML Gateway) Appliances as per Business requirements.
	Developed Jython scripting for start/stop clusters, servers and for auto deployments.
	Installed, configured and propagated IBM HTTP server and its Plugins for managed and unmanaged nodes
	Maintaining updated documentation of all the Servers and the installed applications and patches.
	Monitoring Application log files, Application Server Performance
	Involved in configuring the Web Directory access protocols like LDAP for different levels of access at the site
	Configured a virtual host for Development and Test environments.
	Configured databases separate from the Websphere administrative repository database.
	Configured day to day adhoc request for different middleware applications
	Worked extensively on Rational Automation Framework for automating middleware environment build-outs, middleware administration, and deployment of application
	Responsible for scheduling the installations and up gradation, and maintains them in accordance with established policies and procedures
	Created scripts for Automatic deployment of new WAR files in to the Environment
	Configured Virtual hosts and associated them with web modules.
	Implemented Middleware applications related to Datapower, Jump Fire, Cognos configurations.
	Coordinate with development, database and infrastructure team to keep the applications up with high performance.
	Designing and implementing migration plan from WebSphere 6.0.x to 6.1.x and 7.x
	Worked on different tools like Visual Analyzer for configuration Management, Heap Analyzer, Memory Analyzer, Garbage Analyzer.
	Involved in configuring & administrating IBM Security Access Manager for our enterprise application on Authentication & Authorization
	Used IBM Support Assistant for Installation of patch & diagnosing applications for both Internal & External applications.
	Involved in configuring Intelligent Management in WAS 8.5 to enhancing the applications w.r.t. efficiency, reliability & administration
	Involved in Architect WebSphere clustering for application in dev/prod environment.
	Identified Java memory leak detection and recommendations on resolution
	Identified Heap analysis for jvm tuning and problem resolution
	Worked on configuring Tomcat & Apache related applications.
	Worked on configuring BPM related applications in our environment
	Technical Lead, Architect, and Develop the business logic to report County Property taxes and Delinquency notices. 
	Architect the application with MVC model framework.
	Implemented custom Web service calls to access data.
	Lead and Perform unit testing, system testing and performance testing

Expertise in diversified platforms which includes the responsibilities like scheduling the tasks, assisting the team in creating the test scripts and test data, performing testing, Configuration and Defects management, creating metrics and status reports to communicate project status, outages and project impacts
Complete understanding of Testing Methodology, Strategy and Testing Process and strong at analyzing business and technical specification and coming up with the test scenarios, cases based on them covering all the requirements with In-Depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). 
Expertise in Functional, Compatibility, System Integration Testing, End to End Testing, UAT testing and production smoke testing.
Extensively involved in entire QA Process and defect Management life cycle.
Attend Meeting with Business and Development teams to get proper understanding of the application.
Good experience of Java, VBScript, Excel Macros and SQL.
Hands on experience of UNIX, JIRA,  ALM and Clear Quest.
Designed and developed automation test scripts using Quick test Professional and managed testing activities using  Quality Centre & ALM.
Experience in backend database testing on Green Plum &  Oracle.
Experience of XML , FPML Testing  and xpath.
Experience in SOAP UI /Web Services Testing
Experience of working for Financial clients Depository Trade clearing corporation (DTCC).
Good QA Experience and business expertise for testing onboarding ,Dodd Frank’s regulators CFTC ,SEC ,HKMA ,EMIR, JFSA,ASIC and MAS and participant requirements for  Global Trade Repository (GTR)  for Credit, Equities, Interest Rates, Commodities and Foreign Exchange asset classes.
Ability to articulate alternative solutions and reasoning behind the alternatives. Instrumental in transforming identified alternative as business opportunities customer.
Adept at acquiring a detailed understanding of all aspects of the business and recognizing opportunities for systems improvements, prominent in supporting best quality practices 
Strong listening, interpersonal, management skills, demonstrated proficiency in establishing, Leading and mentoring groups of individuals. 
Experience working individually and team environment.
Excellent Communication skills along with verbal and written.
Motivated self-starter with exceptional team building, leadership, and interpersonal skills. Hard working team player with the ability to work in time sensitive environments.
Possess excellent communication and organization skills with the ability to adapt to new environments.

Working at DTCC changed my life in a number of ways, not necessarily badly. I was brought on to DTCC as a contract-to-hire. Meaning I would be a contractor and then converted to full time as long as I was the right fit. When I was hired, I was hired on the spot, I interviewed with my Director, my managing director and my team lead. I knew I was hired before my contract company rep did. The atmosphere is not what meets the eye, it seems stuffy but its very much the opposite. They decorate the office for big holidays, have company picnics and celebrations, and recognize holidays from many different cultures since we are world wide. My particular team was beyond what I could have asked for. My Directing manager was not a fan of micro managing, all management was approachable and had an open door policy. Many different teams often worked together, so you get to know contacts all over the company. The CEO comes across very caring. We have had several company wide meetings and emails from him since the pandemic started. It comes across that he cares very much about our health and well being.  The work at the start was challenging, and I had even had self doubt that I would be able to perform the job, but I quickly learned they did not have unrealistic expectations for me. They in fact understood there were things I would need to learn. I am harder upon myself than others are on me. The work remained challenging but not overwhelming. Working here I was able to grow personally and professionally. I was treated as a human and as a wanted and valued employee. I was able to grow exponentially and I will forever be grateful for that opportunity. Unfortunately, while my immediate management fully approved on my contract extension, (where I was told in 6 months they would then evaluate if I would be moved to full time or not) upper management did not due to them shifting all of their contracts to a specific contracting company that I was not from. This was solely due to the shift in vendors because of the covid budget and not based on my work performance. It was incredibly upsetting to those involved, DTCC is an amazing place to work. The management in some areas are above and beyond your expectation. They will stand behind you and back you up when needed. My expectation of workplace environment and treatment has grown now that I have seen what a healthy work place environment is like. I hope one day I will end up there again, if not, I'm happy I was able to have the experience. If you are considering taking your career here, do it.

A fast paced environment, continually responding to the needs of their customers and an ever changing marketplace.  The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) provides competitive salaries, benefits, and career opportunities for those interested in Securities and Finance. DTCC demonstrates interest and value of employees by providing corporate training in many areas, a mentoring program, tuition reimbursement, flexible hours, and courses on work/life balance. DTCC fosters open communication via town halls, internal on line blogs and newsletters. As an executive assistant, my day began with a brief meeting with the officer I support to review his calendar, provide meeting materials, discuss important deliverables,  emails, calls or messages, and events. I had excellent relationships with each executive I supported over my career and thoroughly enjoyed my supportive role helping him to meet and exceed stated goals. I really enjoyed working with the executive administrative team to demonstrate corporate support of the annual charity fund raising and various community volunteering events. During my time working with many departments across the company I learned how critical clear communication is and the interpersonal skills needed to garner support of departmental and corporate initiatives and mandates.  When employees are given the needed resources to perform, feel heard and respected, then productivity flows and morale is high. 

As a consequence of the tragedy of Sept.11, 2001, DTCC faced it's most challenging time with record numbers of procedural changes mandated by The Office of Homeland Security along with it's normal panel of governmental and financial regulating entities. Less than a year passed and DTCC was successful and recognized for their immediate execution of emergency operations and many individual employees were recognized and rewarded for stellar performances.

I managed and directed seven direct reports, 1 AML Manager, 5 AML Investigations Analysts and 1 Quantitative Analyst.  Day to day consisted of regulatory reviews (SEC Litigations and FINRA regulatory actions) against securities and broker dealers.  Review of all SAR filings for accuracy and ensure all the facts had the supporting documents to support the narrative.  Ensured all employees adhered to policies and procedures.  Conducted random sampling of alerts and cases for completeness.  Conducted gap assessments on data captured in scenario systems versus data captured and entered in the operational system.  This ensured that activity conducted was properly captured in the scenarios used for monitoring.  Dealt closely with SEC and FINRA regulators and well as Law Enforcement agencies as required. On a yearly basis or as needed dealt with FED and NYState Banking Regulators.  Reviewed and updated/enhanced policies and procedures. Developed job aids for the staff.  Created training manuals and conducted targeted training as needed.  Developed and presented  MIS reports to Managing Director Deputy Chief Compliance Officer, AMLOC and other business lines as required.   Worked with Risk Assessments and Compliance Testing and Monitoring Group obtaining their work papers and risk assessments so the Quant Analyst can leverage for scenario building and analysis.  My staff will participate in special projects and prepare adhoc reports as needed.  Daily challenges were the operational systems and gathering of information.  Overall my passion in the Compliance space has been rewarding.

•	Review current program – project structure, status to date, planned activities of in-flight projects.
•	Work closely with DTCC managers and staff, technologists, and stakeholders to understand information needs related to the project.
•	Develop and maintain a project plan, manage project tasks, dependencies and critical path.
•	Maintain financial planning and budgeting statements.
•	Monitor program progress and provide stakeholder updates.
•	Establish performance metrics.
•	Establish, prepare for, and lead project meetings, including planning, cross-functional team, and user acceptance test meetings.
•	Facilitate deliverable review and approval.
•	Manage the approval process for change requests, which impact program scope, schedule and budget.
•	Ensure quality of the program is achieved through periodic quality checks.
•	Adhere to DTCC standard policies and procedures
•	Creation and maintenance of the Data Playbook Content and Client Collateral – The data playbook includes documentation that describes the data assets including data flow documents, data dictionaries, and data quality reviews and client ready data profiles.
•	Creation and Management of all SteerCo Documentation – This is a recurring report out on the overall data products business, milestones and risk to related key work streams.
•	Development of the Overall Product Roadmap and Content Master Details – A new set of reports that will begin to monitor and report on all product SDLC and stage gate progress.
•	Financial Reporting – This involves assisting technology and finance in managing the financial data collection to be able to report business and technology allocation expenses.

Literally, they work you until you drop dead.    Everything is rush rush with a lot of finger pointing.  Upper management has draconian policies on what you can do, when you can do it and they are eager to burn you if you make a mistake.     I went through 3 managers, 1 had a heart attack, 1 was overwhelmed and the 3rd was let go.   I would of stayed longer but they simply forgot to renew my contract.      it's a meat factory for Sr Level IT and they will work you 60-70 hours a week if you let them (but will only pay you 40).  If you are salary, culture will demand the 60+ hours, so make sure you get paid fairly for that!   The pay is nice though, and the work is interesting.  It's not bad if you don't mind dying on the job from stress, being put under constant, unrealistic deadlines, absorbing HUGE technical debt that keeps getting pushed down the timeline for someone else, and like to be blamed for things constantly instead of focusing on solving a problem.   I mean, money is money right?    As per the last town hall I attended "You all should be grateful you have work".    I agree, in a sense, but not at the cost of my family or life.   I would like to say that direct managers and team leads are great, but upper management is clueless or apathetic to the family/life/work balance that makes life worth living.  I think the blame culture is directly a result of the upper level management.

Working at DTCC can be summed up as the hub or lifeblood of all institutional trades. It is the focal point for all post trade activities- a library of certificates that trade from one bank to another, and we help get that job done. 

Interestingly enough I learned that we are charged with maintaining a certain level of data analysis in order to establish risk preventive measures for the countries sake. We help the government sort out risky trades and problem prone transactions to help implement procedures as well as policy. 

The hardest part of the job has to be the attention to detail that is placed for every single process we do here. There is rarely room for error, and any mistakes are met with an analysis breakdown of how things went wrong and what we will do to fix this error in the future. 

The most enjoyable part of working at DTCC is the amount of collaboration that takes place between the different departments. It feels like your working in a small community and tightly knit relationships spanning the beginning of the company is not unusual. This makes for great conversation as you are able to here how DTCC has evolved over the years, reaching the level of one of the world's largest depository firm.

•	Prepared and managed WBS using MS Project and working with HP PPM tool. Monitoring tasks and providing status to higher management.  
•	Updating PM Dashboard, PMO Governance and stake holder’s status report presentations guidelines provided by DTCC BMO. 
•	Primarily responsible for all aspects of development by third party (TCS) and ensure team meet defined timelines.  
•	Managing release (QA/Production deployment-Maven) schedule and run Production Release Runbook (code deployment) for those releases including other program production deployment releases. 
•	Responsible for Identifying opportunities and parameters for business process improvement. Coordinate with Global Product Management team and Run the Bank (RTB) team on changes and proposals on day to day. 
•	Organize one on one meeting with individual PMO Leads to check any outstanding deliverables and current status of applications. 
•	Coordinating with different teams (15 teams) across the corporation on day to day concerns/issues/risks. 
•	Managed Portfolio & Project SharePoint pages and monitor the activities. Responsible for all PMO-Governance activities and also managed IT Document Repository Pages.

I have a total 8yrs of IT experience starting my carrier as a Linux admin and moved upon to devops engineer including aws. 

So my day start with a team meet around 10.am where our team which consists of 4 Melendez discuss the weekly task and and the up coming deadlines once the big picture is discussed we then move on to the daily tasks which we follow up in jira which is a issue tracking portal. Since I work majorly on aws and puppet my focus is onto automate the ami build process and it's functionality I build and test on daily basis and when ever we come across puppet with the applications teams I handle them too. Our month end target is to release the ami with updated patches and application required functionalities 

This whole process includes the usage of puppet,aws,Jenkins,bitbucket,jira,provisioning 
The ami which we build is based on the base image from amazon market place 

Next couple of weeks will be my last working days in this office I left with few documentation work which I might wrap within this week

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