Rashmi S Nair
        +1  [Send email to request phone number] 649226
     [Send email using form at bottom]

SUMMARY
•	5 years of Business Analysis and client management experience in Finance
domain.
•	Very good understanding of Software Engineering Methodologies like SDLC, RUP,
Iterative development.
•	Extensive knowledge of Business Analysis and Design using UML, including use
case, sequence, state and activity diagrams
•	Experience in writing technical documents
•	Expertise in employing SDLC models in various phases like Requirements,
Analysis, Design, Development and Testing.
•	Expertise in conducting JAD sessions, holding interviews and documenting for
user requirement gathering.
•	Extremely flexible in learning new tools, ability to perform well in a fast
paced environment along a steep learning curve
•	Possess excellent customer interfacing ability and very good interpersonal
skills.
•	Consistently acknowledged as great team player.
•	Self motivated quick learner.
•	Ability to collaborate with peers in both business and technical areas to
deliver optimal business process solutions, in line with corporate policies.


EDUCATION
•	May 2000-June 2002	School of Communication and Management Studies, India
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration

•	July 1997-May 2000	RDVV, India
Bachelor of Commerce


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES- Securities Vertical 
January 2006-December 2006	[Bangalore, India/London/USA]
Analyst-Banking

Project Experience – Indicative engagements

A large investment Bank- Eagle PACE

Played the role of Business Analyst for writing process documentation and
specifications for Bank’s Eagle PACE project. 



Responsibilities:
•	Responsible for gathering business requirements, doing GAP analysis and
document them textually or within models.
•	Business consulting, knowledge gathering, creation of knowledge documents and
training.
•	Providing functional consulting and project specific domain knowledge to
offshore team.
•	Creation of intellectual property through thought papers and presentations
with focus on deep domain areas within the Buy-Side practice 
•	Analyzed business processes by breaking them down into their component parts
•	Providing training to account teams as required


A large custodian- Actuate Query (2006)

Played the role of Business Analyst for a project on Developing Information
Objects and Actuate Queries for a Large Custodian in London. The system developed
was to enable users to perform adhoc queries using extracts that are based on
various underlying databases.

Responsibilities:
•	Identifying and Gathering Business Requirements through client interaction and
meetings with stakeholders.
•	Preparing Requirement Definition Document (RDD), Business Solution Document
(BSD), and Functional Specifications (FS).
•	Preparing Integrated Test Cases and Unit Test Cases for conducting Functional
Testing.
•	Exposure to UML, Use Cases, ERD.
•	Single point of contact for all project related issues.


LARSEN AND TOUBRO INFOTECH- Securities Vertical 
June 2005-December 2005	[Bangalore, India]
Analyst-Banking

Project Experience – Indicative engagements

Global Custody and Clearing System (2005)

Played the role of a Business Analyst for a leading investment bank, focusing on
creating market interface for their global custody and clearing system. 
Functioned as the lead business analyst for the offshore project support.

The primary focus of the project was to involve seamless service delivery and
achieving high client satisfaction when managing daily business operations. 

Responsibilities:
•	Identify, gather and document business requirements.
•	Developing functional specifications, process flows and test plans
•	Conduct functional testing, preparation of test plans and coordination of
testing by users (UAT)
•	UML Exposure and preparation of Entity Relation Diagram for project work.
•	One point contact for the technical team members for functional issues.

ADVICE AMERICA
January 2005-May 2005	[Bangalore, India]
Analyst

Played the role of a Functional Analyst for major web based financial planning
and wealth management software provider. Served as a key member in channelising
financial solutions to various large investment banks and mutual fund houses of
the U.S. 

Responsibilities:
•	Evaluating product requirements and preparation of requirement
specifications.
•	Worked on financial models, contributed to research and functional
specification.
•	Worked on projects involving 72t, Life Insurance Analysis, Inherited IRA,
Qualified and Non-Qualified Annuities, Non-Deductible IRA, Community Property,
Efficiency Frontier, Model Portfolio Builder, Equity Classification, and
Retirement Planning.
•	Managed all technical documentation projects for the unit. 
•	Wrote extensive process documentation. 
•	Preparation of Use cases, functional testing and preparation of test plans.

CITIGROUP
June 2002-December 2004 [Bangalore, India]
Relationship Manager

	Responsibilities:
•	Providing investment services to bank’s high net worth clients and prospects
•	Developed solutions that meet the client’s needs, while providing expert
service and highly personalized interaction through financial planning