Kris Veeraghanta
SUMMARY:
Effective innovative technology executive, project manager and systems designer with over 23
years experience. Expertise in designing and architecting technology solutions for complex
business problems, re-engineering business and technology processes, and leading large
projects (up to 60MM and over 70 people) of different complexities, matrix managed with various
size teams in distributed geographic areas (including various continents and both in-source and
outsourced groups). Chief Architect for various products, design and development including
middleware solutions (NEON tools, Adapters (for SAP, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards)) using hub
& spoke architecture, SOA and distributed and cloud environments, full SDLC and technical
sales and presentations to C-level and Board level executives on architecture, design and
implementation of technology and e-Commerce (B2B, B2C) solutions. Extensive call center and
data center operations and maintenance including trading systems in a 24x7 environment with
complete redundancies. Experience in Financial, Structured Fiance, Asset Management,
Insurance, Human Resources, Manufacturing and Retail industries. Extensive knowledge of ITIL
and knowledge of networking and telecom equipment.
EXPERIENCE:
03/06 – 04/09
Gravitas Technology, New York, NY
Consultant
Representative Clients include: Alliance Bernstein, Apollo Capital Management, Ardsley Capital
Management, Deephaven Capital Management, DB Zwirn
 Responsible for implementing the RiskMetrics solution for hedge funds. This included
systems analysis of over 16 different systems, analyzing the architecture, data and process
flows to identify the appropriate data for optimal design and implantation.
 Worked as Interim Chief Risk Officer/CTO and COO for hedge funds. Worked on designing
the risk reports extracting data from various systems and merging them into cohesive
information for decision makers.
 Advised Clients on the ideal approach to architect a risk management solution with data
streams from the appropriate systems for accurate and reliable reporting. Worked with
various groups and divisions and people from various geographic regions to achieve a robust
solution and presented to the CIO board for funding and approval of the architecture.
 Managed the implementation of Advent Geneva accounting system and the migration and
reconciliation of all the portfolio data for eventual migration to Moxy.
 Designed and implemented their Disaster recovery strategy and implementation details and
their systems strategy for redundancy.
07/05 – 03/06
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Merrill Lynch, Hopewell, NJ
Vice President
Chief Architect for wealth management solutions
Managed the re-engineering of the managed products billing system which generates
over $1.3B in annual revenue. The re-engineering included designing and architecting
business-rules based processing data model which would require no application code
changes. Managed teams locally and outsourced overseas teams.
Architected a data model and application (object oriented) classes with a anywhere-anytime
solution using web based solution using Erwin data modeling tool. Also designed the model
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interactions diagrams and use case scenarios for various business cases. Overall
responsibility for Data Architecture, Data Design, Conceptual and Logical Data Models.
Responsible for architectural review for systems during a merger of acquired companies
systems and a seamless way to integrate into existing systems.
The front-end design utilized a C# and .NET and the underlying database is a DB2 and
Microsoft SQL platform using Scrum design methodology.
07/01 – 07/05
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Veeraghanta Associates & Co., Ltd, India
President & CEO
Founded an entrepreneurial venture for outsourcing technology, operations, accounting
and application development work in India.
Partnered with systems integration firms for integration solutions.
The successor company currently operates as an accounting firm.
05/00 – 05/01
JP Morgan, New York, NY
Vice President, Investment Banking
Project Role: Chief Architect and Investment Advisor for LabMorgan
 Manager and Chief Architect for the Institutional Investor portal. Designed all the portal
modules and research functionality using the existing taxonomy and content aggregation.
 Managed the process of vendor selection, identifying best technology proposals and
reviewing and selecting responses to RFPs and SDLC processes.
 Managed all the portal infrastructure from design, development, integration and
production support; a complete project life cycle from JRun environment to
J2EE/WebSphere implementation using Sybase with outside vendors. The Applications
were built using ASP, EJBs and Java.
 Manager and Chief Architect for the employee portal and designed the data model and all
the Epicentric portal modules. Managed the business and technical requirements by
preparing the interaction diagrams in UML.
 Managed the infrastructure requirements by designing models based on projected
portal usage including the size of databases, data pipes, routers and bridges and
bandwidth
 Managed the various firms and a team of independent consultants and the budgets
and presentations to the senior management, including the CTO and the CFO
 Designed and implemented the integration interface to the Client Knowledge
Engine(CKE) to build a client knowledge database for portal based product marketing
 Chief Architect for a single sign-on for the post trade Client Service Portal and the JPM
Client Portals. Managed a consulting firm for implementation of the design to
communicate between two security products (Netegrity and Siteminder) This project
involved design of information and system security architecture for global institutional
clients and portal infrastructure. This has been eventually productized and evolved into a
separate firm.
 Chief Architect for a firm wide architecture of Knowledge Mail System for building a firm
wide knowledge base utilizing the existing mail infrastructure.
07/99 – 04/00
New Era of Networks Inc (NEON), New York, NY
Chief Architect, Commercial Group
Representative Clients include: IBM, IBM-Retail, MetLife, Siemens, ARG, Fidelity, Time Warner
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Primary job roles included providing Technology and Integration Architecture Solution for ReEngineering Existing Systems for Solving Business Problems. This included Business
Analysis, Systems Integration Issues, Web Enabling Legacy Systems and Providing Strategic
Solutions for future Web Solutions. Managed software implementation of various protocols,
including FIX to MQ and vice versa. Managed over 40 people and a budget in excess of
$25MM.
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Managed and Architected E-Commerce and Enterprise Systems Integration solutions for
global systems Integration for E-Commerce solutions. Managed the life cycle of design,
implementation and production support for each of the client implementations. Included
design of various Data Warehouses and Data Marts for various business units.
Generate revenue in excess of 25MM for the commercial division pre-sales, with the stock
price gaining from 12 7/8 to 94 ½ during my stay with the firm.
Managed and Architected Solutions using Integration Servers with Web Servers and
back office and fulfillment systems. This involved Pre-Sales, Marketing and Presentations
to CEOs, CFOs and CIOs. The projects involved custom design and development for various
adapters like Seibel, SAP, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards
11/96 – 07/99
KPMG, New York, NY
Senior Consultant, Capital Markets
Representative Clients include: Deutsche Bank, CS First Boston, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan,
Refco Group, Bank of Montreal, Merrill Lynch and Citicorp
Primary job roles included life cycle Project Management, Management Consulting, Business
Analysis, Business Re-Engineering using advanced technology concepts, Cost Benefit Analysis
and ROI analysis, Provide Strategic and Technical Solutions using Current Technology
 Managed an engagement on Risk Management Analytics, models for various product
and business area; did process and system flows and reviewed different algorithms for
Credit, Market and Settlement Risks for a Major Bank. This included review of major
systems like Summit, Sunguard, MB Risk Management, Murex and Algorithmics etc. Also
worked in Proprietary trading and Arbitrage (risk, statistical and fixed income) areas
mostly doing trading strategy and models. Wrote a 680 page book for the bank covering
various legal entities for Market Risk.
 Co-Managed a Technology and Risk Assessment firm wide for a major
Commodities and futures trading firm with branches all over the world. This
included settlements and clearances at various exchanges. The engagement included
processing all kinds of commodities; weather and energy based trading instruments and
derivatives including equity derivatives, fixed income derivatives, interest rate
derivatives also including execution at various European exchanges.
 Analyzed systems for assessment for SEC Compliance and for generating reports to
meet compliance and regulatory reporting
 Managed the re-architecture, redesign and development of Loan Analysis Software
for commercial loans for banks that also does credit risk and evaluates loan
portfolios. This included embedded credit derivatives, including, swaps, options,
swaptions, caps, floors, collars and other exotics. This application uses a model, which
utilizes gradual degradation of ratings. This application is written in C++ and the user
interface in Java. The model calculates the EPVs and RAROCs for commercial loans.
 Analyzed a major Canadian Bank for its Market Risk for FX and Interest Rate
instruments and implementation of a system for calculating capital requirements
and for compliance and regulatory standards.
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Managed an engagement involving design of Enterprise Security Architecture for a
Major Bank involving heterogeneous systems and networks; Developed modules for
SEC fee reporting for a back office system and the corresponding regulatory
reporting requirements.
. 04/94 – 11/96 Merrill Lynch, Jersey City, NJ
Manager & Systems Architect
Books and Records Project & TES: Designed Integrated OO Models (OMT Methodology) for
the entire project using three-tier architecture. During this project managed up to 60 technical
staff and analysts.
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Designed Books and Records for Institutional Client business using Open Item book
keeping; developed an application server in C++ for processing transaction into Open
Items using business rules. Designed a rules based transaction processing for the
Books and Records project. This is a VLDB Data Warehouse of all transactions broken
up into open items. This data warehouse consists of multiple data marts for clients,
counter parties, products and Books & Records. The Systems uses Rules Engine for
business processing and Formatting engine for automatic data conversion. They
are now part of the MQSeries. Designed a methodology of generating C++ code
using Rogue Wave libraries for application and repository classes and IDLs using Orbix;
Design and implement a global security measures for the corporate wide B&R project
Managed the Designing and Developing of Transaction Entry System and System
Security: Designed a Transaction Entry System for entering Complex transactions
(interest rate derivatives, swaps, swaptions, equity derivatives, caps, floors and
collars) for posting in the Books and Records Repository. This included even exotic
trade instruments like weather, humidity and soil conditions. The system could post
structured derivatives that are based on each client’s requirements. Designed a
Security application for the Books and Records System
Systems Architect, Administrator for Mortgage Backed Allocations:
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Rewrote mortgage optimization algorithm for optimizing high coupon rate mortgage
pools Supported the mortgage allocation project on HP (HP-UX) platform. Setup the
production and development groups, systems security and maintenance. Worked on
development of a Collateral Asset Management (CAMS) system on a windows platform.
Systems Architect and Administrator for Variable Interest rates preferred trading
system: Supported a trading group for Variable interest rates preferred Supported
the development efforts for the group doing software installations
06/90 – 04/94
CTA Inc, Somers Point, NJ
Senior Engineer
Project Manager and Lead Technical Designer for Reconfigurable Cockpit Simulator (RCS):
Designed and developed an end to end data link software using mixed model (Motif and GL)
programming using Object Oriented C. The Simulator is built using F-16 Simulator and
converted into a B-747 simulator.
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Integrated Flight Management Computer software to the existing software and added
data link functionality
Developed a class library for integration with the Air Traffic Control Software
Designed and developed an experimental manager software with Air traffic and 3-D
graphics for Airborne DataLink Program Designed and developed a simulation software
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for decision analysis for streamlining the contract division at the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) Technical Center
Modeled and developed software for TEB/LGA shutdown phenomenon for the National
Airspace Simulation Performance and Capability (NASPAC) project using Simscript II.5;
Developed software for scheduling batch simulation programs for the NASPAC project;
Analyzed the output of simulations for different scenarios for decision analysis
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Extensive Knowledge and experience of Web/Portal, E-Commerce, B2B, B2C,
Architectures, Hardware and Software Design; Web and Application security, products,
protocols and procedures;
Operating Systems:
Unix, BSD, AIX, Ultrix, HP-UX, DG-UX, Solaris, IRIX, SVR4,
Windows NT, XP, Macintosh OSX
Scripting:
Unix Shell Scripting, Text processing Utilities (awk, sed, Perl,
Tck/Tkl, Tex, LaTeX etc) Shell programming in C-Shell, TShell, Bourne Shell, Korn Shell, Bash,
Networking:
Unix Networking (UUCP, TCP/IP, PPP, SLIP, NFS, NIS+), make,
rcs, sccs, PVCs; Unix Internals (solaris device drivers and OS
internals) , IPC facilities and development; Unix (all flavors)
Systems Administration, Network Administration, Web and News
Administration
Object Oriented
Methodologies & Tools: Scrum, Agile, RUP, UML, OMT, Fusion, Booch, Bertrand Meyer,
Ivar Jacobson), S-Designer (PowerDesigner), Erwin, Cognos,
Informatica ETL, Rational Rose, Paradigm Plus, ETIL, Data
Architecture, Data Security, Data Distribution, Meta data
structures, Data warehouses, Data Marts, Data Integrity,
Conceptual, Logical, Dimensional and Object Oriented databases.
Windows Programming: Motif, OpenLook, Xwindows, Xt, XDarwin, Windows, TeleUse,
Neuron Data, NextStep, Xfree
Languages:
C, C++, C#, Ruby on Rails, Java, J2EE, Java Beans, EJB,
Simscript II.5, Visual C++, Visual Symantec Café, XML, fpML,
Visual Basic, Pascal, Fortran, Prolog, Modsim, Simula, Ada,
OpenGL, GLX, GLXWidgets, Performer, Objective C
Programming
Paradigms:
Multi processing, Distributed processing, Vector programming,
ISIS, Realtime, Super Computing, Knowledge of Artificial
Intelligence, Neural Networks (Kohonen and Backpropogation) and
Orbs
Databases:
Sybase, Oracle, SQLServer, DB2, ndbm, SQL and SQLPlus,
Database Administration, Database Performance Tuning and
Optimization, Stored Procedures Optimization
Math & Stat:
SAS, SPCSS, MatLab, Mathematica and other Statistical and
Optimization Packages; Rogue Wave Libraries (tools.h++,
math.h++, dbtools.h++, net.h++)
Messaging:
MQSeries, NEONet, Orbix, and Integration Servers, Vignette,
WebSphere, JRun, Vignette, Integration Adapters for Siebel,
PeopleSoft, SAP and JDEdwards; WebServers, Apache, IIS and
iPlanet
Security:
Security tools like Netegrity and Siteminder
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Utility tools:
Trading Systems &
Risk Systems:
Knowledge of System and Information Security including PKI,
Certificate Servers, Calendar/Mail Servers, LDAP,
heterogeneous networking, routers and firewalls configuration
MS Applications, MSProject, MSAcess, Excel, Visio, Web
Authoring tools and ASP, JSP, HTML, Knowledge Management
and Search Management and Engines.
RiskMetrics, Algorithmics, Numerix, Summit, Sungard, Calypso,
Murex, Sophis, OpenLink (Endur,Findur), MB Risk Management,
Streambase and various proprietary trading, VWAP, high
frequency and risk systems.
EDUCATION:
1991 MS in Engineering The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Thesis: Simulation and Modeling of AVI Systems Installation and Economic
Feasibility
1986 B.Engg Civil Engineering, Andhra University, Waltair, AP, India
Thesis: Bending Moment calculation of pre-stressed pre-fabricated concreted using
Matrices
PROFESSIONAL COURSES TAUGHT & PUBLICATIONS:
Professional Courses Taught: (at hedge funds)
 Financial Derivatives
 Risk Management 101
 Rules Driven Data Modeling
Papers & Books:
 Market Risk – Proprietary models, data & process flows across all
institutional trading desks and legal entities
 Fast Algorithm to generate unique identifiers across multiple distributed
messaging
 LGA/TEB air traffic pattern phenomenon using NASPAC modeling
 Research on optimal paths using ocean currents for ship routing
 Decision Analysis model using simulation for optimal cost structure for FAA
Tech Center expenses
Courses taught (undergraduate):
 Decision Analysis
 Engineering Economics
 Fluid Mechanics
 Engineering Mechanics
 Numerical Analysis
 Engineering management
 Simulation & Modeling
5133 NW 30th Court, Margate, FL 33063.
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