Temenos GLOBUS/T24 Specialist

6/2007 – 10/2010

GLOBUS/T24 Technical Consultant

Client Name: Marfin Popular Bank, Cyprus (Work at site)
Duration: May 2009 till Oct 2010

Description of work:

Functional analysis and technical specification development

 Involved in discussions with the client on the functional specification documents and presenting them to the client in technical manners to prove the ability of the team in the pilot phase. The client was happy to sign the project off to Temenos due to the presentations.
 Involved in analyzing the functional specification documents for Marfin Popular Bank, Cyprus and develop the technical specification document so as to develop in T24.
 Involved in technical specification review meetings and discussed with the client on any CRs and signed off the documents after the agreement/payment on CRs.
 Implementation of local developments in T24 with respect to Teller, CRM, Facilities (Collaterals/Limits) and other areas.

R10 upgrades

 Willingly took up the initiative to learn the new R10 upgrades process, performed R10 upgrades for the local environments, and trained the team on the upgrade process.
 TAFC, TAFJ configurations/setup

T24 updates

 T24 updates installation for fixes from core team

Post-Implementation, Issue support

 Involved in supporting the client on SIT issues logged on application support. Swift and apt response was appreciated by the client.
 Provide post-implementation support


Change request management

 Manage and validate bugs logged by client to identify any new changes(CRs), this way improving the billing for Temenos
 Maintain a log of the CR using CR tracker for each local development


CRM and Process Workflow

 Involved in designing complex process workflow(PW) for Information workflow and sales process workflow

AA (Arrangement Architecture)

 Involved in analyzing AA(Arrangement Architecture) module related local enhancements. Also involved in making presentations to the client, detailing the implementation procedure.
 AA product setup
 AA loans

Credits

 Was made the technical lead of the team involving developers, analysts, testers and support engineers. Was the sole point of contact for the team for T24 upgrades.
 Central point of contact for the T24 technical team
 Responsible for code review for the entire team’s development work
 Managed the junior technical team including distributing the work among the team members, clarifying the queries posted by team members, training the team and ensuring that the team excels the best under all circumstances.
 Involved in supporting the client on SIT issues logged on application support. Swift and apt response was appreciated by the client.


Skills used: T24 release R08, R10, jBASE 5/TAFC
Tools used: Lotus Notes
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Client Name: Honda Bank, Germany (Offshore)
Duration: Mar 2009 till May 2009

Description of work:

Functional analysis and technical specification development

 Involved in analyzing the functional specification documents for Honda Bank, Germany and develop the technical specification document so as to develop in T24.
 Also used to various CMM level 3 procedures as a part of it.

AA (Arrangement Architecture)

 Involved in analyzing AA(Arrangement Architecture) module related local enhancement/designing for loans
 AA product customized setup

Local development

 Involved in designing/developing interfaces which could format the data in T24 to be sent to an external system in the specified format.

SCHUFA Interface

SCHUFA is a German credit reporting agency which needed a loan contact interface to T24. The main modules were SCHUFA.CUSTOMER, SCHUFA.ACCOUNT, SCHUFA.GET.PAYMENT which recorded the fund related information in T24. The data was fed to T24 from the external system in Oracle. Loans/deposits made for SCHUFA was handled using AA module.

Clients were scored before any loan was provided. Major information considered for client scoring include:
• Personal Data
• Income
• Marital Status
• Existing liabilities
• Bank
• Employment
• Occupational group
• Tenure
• Experience from a previous relationship
• Contractual repayment to/of those loans

SOFT Interface

SOFT is an interface to maintain the AA payments made to the bank via external funds management system. A replica of the loans/payment done in the external system was maintained in T24 via AA, FT modules and the relevant accounting entries were generated to ensure the statements are in sync.

R07 to R09 upgrade

 Upgraded the T24 system from R07 to R09 with the new TAFC R09 framework


Skills used: T24 release R07, R09, jBASE 5/TAFC
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Client Name: Credit Suisse Private Bank, UK(Guernsey/London – One Globus) (Offshore from Credit Suisse, Pune)
Duration: Feb 2008 till Mar 2009

Description of work:

Data Migration/Integration/Upgrade

 Migration of data/routines between London, Guernsey and Gibraltar
 Took extra efforts to design tools for code conversions (to overcome compatibility standards/other programmatic features between R05 and G14) for the client, which was used by the client during migration.
 Validation scripts, Data cleanup scripts, Data mapping
 Prepare Migration Specification Documents(MSD – Technical) for all the interfaces
 Clear any issues in data migration by testing
 Data migration from DB to XML format
 Dress rehearsals
 Prepare Migration Spec Documents for future reference
 Integration of data from London and Gibraltar to Guernsey
 Migration of interfaces
 Tuning up the system for better performance
 Once this is done, the area was upgraded to T24 R09

Local developments & Interface developments

 Involved in interfaces management, Securities module related local developments in T24, in addition to enquiries/report designing.
 Involved in issue support for client. Issues logged were responded with the correct solution and most of the issue responses have been hailed by the client for quick and apt solutions.

Few of those interfaces dealt are listed below:
• PEOPLESOFT – HR management system
• MANTAS – Oracle product MANTAS interface to provide insight into security trading activities
• DARE
• CRISK – Credit risk management software interface
• MIS – Management Information System
• Fees & Commissions (Safe custody, Advisory & Securities)
• Security transfers processed during day – Report to external system in a flat file
• Security trades processed during day – Report to external system in a flat file
• Open orders made during day – Report to external system in a flat file


Support for data migration

 Provide issue support for data migration and resolve all issues logged by client
 Ensure data migration process is handled efficiently to minimize the issues logged by client
 Designed tools for migration of routines between London, Guernsey and Gibraltar
 Check on mismatches in accounting entries for CS Singapore and resolve them
 Data migration from external systems – SAP, PEOPLESOFT, Oracle database to jBASE


Credits

Recognized by the client, for my work performed as a part of the project.

Skills used: Globus release G14, T24 release R05, R09, jBASE 5
Tools used: Mercury Quality Center 9.2, Rational Clear Case

SMS setup

• Configured the Security Management System(SMS) using USER.SMS.GROUP for the client
• Held SMS presentations to users and other stakeholders in the bank as part of knowledge transfer
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Client Name: Egnatia Bank of Greece, Greece (Offshore)
Duration: Dec 2007 till Feb 2008

Description of work:

Upgrade/local development/compatibility testing

 Responsible to upgrade the environment from Globus version G13 to T24 version R08.
 Responsible to check the compatibility of local developments in Globus version G13 to the upgraded version R08. Incompatible code will be redesigned and tested for their functionality.

Performance tuning of local code – For CoB/EoD and Online

 CoB performance management – Ensure the local routines are tuned to improve performance while invoked during CoB
 Certain no file enquiries were analyzed for proper select statements to eliminate selection on obsolete files and to use concat files as necessary.

Skills used: Globus release G13, T24 release R08, jBASE 5
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Client Name: Kenya Commercial Bank, Kenya (Offshore)
Duration: Aug 2007 till Dec 2007

Description of work:

Local developments

 Local developments in T24 for KCB involving Version routines, Enquiry routines(File enquiries/nofile enquiries)
 Local developments involving fees and charges for loans, deposits and mortgages

Java e-mail interface for T24

 Designed a java interface for T24 to process the bank statements from the database and convert them into JPG/PDF format. Once the files are converted, they would be sent as an attachment over secure mail transfer to the client.

Skills used: T24 release R09, jBASE 5, JAVA
Tools used: Eclipse
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Client Name: Deutshce Bank, Geneva (Offshore)
Duration: Jul 2007 till Aug 2007

Description of work:

Data Migration, SEAT testing

Handled data migration process using DM tool

SEAT(System Engineered Automated Testing) scripts execution and SEAT.TEST verification for developments done for Deutsche Bank Geneva. SEAT is an automated testing tool for Temenos T24. This project involved a team to analyze the development and test them against any issues using the SEAT tool and fixing them if required. Involved in a few local developments involving interfaces and some core modules.

Skills used: T24 release R09, jBASE 5, SEAT product, DM tool

Software Architecture

5/2006 – 6/2007

 Design of badafriend.com - User profile maintenance, direct information retrieval, Tweet message posting
 Design of freshershub.com - Employer/Jobseeker module, Admin Module, Social networking/discussions, Skillset rating, Friends invitation
 Design of Tomorrowwalkin.com - Fresher/experienced professional profiles maintenance, interview/placement papers, RSS feeds,sample video.

Skills used: .NET 2003, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000

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