Brijesh Patel
Address: 30 Northumberland St
Edinburgh EH3 6LS
Contact no: +447975572657
e-mail: brijesh.patel@hotmail.co.uk
Consultant Profile:
An end-to-end Technical Consultant specialized in documenting client’s data, workflow, business
processes and reporting requirements as well as implementing it using Vermilion Reporting Suite
(specialty), SSIS, SSRS, Power BI and Excel BI operating primarily within financial services. My strength
lies in seeing the client’s vision, their requirements and tech stack to formulate a solution that provides
them with a target operating model that fulfills their production reporting requirements.
In my recent engagements, I have used Vermilion Reporting Suite to deliver Client Reporting needs for
my clients using inbuilt features of the software as well as combination of SQL/Java/VBA to overcome
software limitations to achieve requirements. Previous report deliveries include Factsheets, KIIDs, Fund
Profiles, Valuations, MIS and Investment reports in various output formats: PDF, PowerPoint, Excel and
XML. I have acquired considerable on-the-job business knowledge of financial lifecycle and fund
structures over my 10 years in the field and that helps me to engage with business stakeholders and
elicit requirements that are invaluable in designing their Data models and DataMart. My technical nous
allows me to architect a easy to maintain solution supported by data management and BAU activities.
IT Skills:
Programming Languages:
C#, Java, SQL, VBA
XML, JavaScript, Python, VBScript
Applications:
VRS, SQL Server, Windows Server, SSIS, SSRS, PowerBI,
SMA OpConXPS, HP OpenView, Hyper-V, System Center,
Azure, MS Office, Visio, Project, JIRA, WordPress
IDEs:
Visual Studio, SQL Management Studio, Eclipse
Others:
- Advanced
- Intermediate
FTP protocols, API, JSON, Project Management, Business Analysis
EEducation details:
Queen Mary, University of London
Bachelors of Computer Science (2010)
Certifications:
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Microsoft 70-483 : Programming in C#
Microsoft 70-761: Querying data with Transact-SQL
Microsoft 70-778: Analyzing and Visualizing data with Power BI
Oracle 1Z0-815: Java SE 8 Programmer I (In progress)
Microsoft 70-762: Developing SQL Databases (In progress)
Employment History:
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Citibank, Lead Vermilion Developer, Edinburgh (June’19 – June’20)
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Leading the front-end development of onboarding 8 Fixed Income Reports on the Atlantic
programme (ASI) with sub - portfolio level reporting on the same reports.
Providing advice and guidance to remote business analysts, offshore frontend developers,
backend SQL developers and general project support as required.
Creating standard VRS artefacts of record sets, data sources, components, and report
template design as per requirements
Creating VBA macros to create bespoke charts that cannot be achieved by default chart engine
as well as overriding system behavior with Java Custom code to achieve requirements.
Maintaining projects artefacts and documentation for the Ops BAU handover.
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FactSet, Vermilion Implementation Consultant, London (March’17 – June’19)
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Helping clients achieve their reporting objectives, by leading analysis, design and
implementation of client solutions catering their business strategy, operating procedures,
organizational design, data flow process, resourcing and IT change management.
I have implemented a whole range of usual client reporting documents for Factsheets, KIIDs,
Valuations, Investment reports, Excel Templates (vTemplate), PowerPoint Slides (vPitch), MI
reports and created sophisticated internal and external delivery workflows with high accuracy.
I have developed and designed data flows from data marts into VRS solutions to consume
data from various data streams such as Excel, Web Services and XML files and done
transformations of the client data to present it into VRS front end using stored procedures.
I am proficient in creating customized workflow with Wait For Data, Data Ready, Sign Offs,
Overrides etc and equally capable of writing custom processors to manipulate them if needed
to deliver client requirements.
My biggest strength is creating a dynamic and extensible reporting solution and ability to
create system overrides using Java, Excel VBA and SQL programming with which I am
confident in achieving any requirement presented to me.
Bank of New York Mellon, IT Production Specialist III, Blackfriars, London (Sept’10 –Nov’16)
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Reporting to EMEA IT Operations Manager working in a team of 6 with core responsibilities
of System administration, Incident investigation, Problem Management, Release
Management, Business Requirements gathering and Change project proposal developments.
Orchestrating and implementing monitoring policies, Client On-boarding activities, Incident
Investigation support, Order Flow Management investigations, Data Storage requirements
analysis, KPI reporting.
Database administration: Managing enterprise data on sql server, data integration from
various sources in our data warehouse, data migration, data ingestion with ETL using SSIS,
Data retention policies setup and backup schedule configuration using EMC Networker,
NetBackup and Commvault.
Monitoring and Automation: I have implemented system monitoring on Windows servers, SQL
servers and Mainframe capturing and alerting failures/errors using HP OpenView and
automate repetitive tasks using VBScript, PowerShell and OPCON automation tool in workflow
schedules.
Attributes:
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Continuously Learning: I have a burning desire to better myself always and actively spend time
to learn and broaden my understanding on exciting new tech stack coming up in the field. As such
I devote my time to download/install and play with them in a test environment. I, even take vendor
certification tests to validate my knowledge and understanding of the topic. Current interests are
aligned to Enterprise Architecture, Big Data analytics and Azure Cloud Computing.
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Workstyle: I believe nothing in IT is rocket science. It can be learnt by dedicating time, effort
and hard work. My analytical mindset helps me to understand the bigger picture of the
requirements and break it down to simplify and deliver them accurately in short space of time. I
plan my work according to the deadlines and deliver them to the required specs in a timely manner.
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Interpersonal Skills: I have cultivated good relationships with my colleagues and have earned
respect from my peers with my hard work, commitment, discipline and attention to detail in my
current and past roles. I am a good listener and communicate effectively with my stakeholders to
gather requirements as well as keeping them apprised of my work progress.
References:
Available on request