Elroy Serrao

Current

• Business / Process Analyst at IndiaIdeas.com Limited

Past

• Summer Intern at Mahindra & Mahindra
• Team Leader / Professional at JPMorgan Chase
• Software Developer at Hexaware Technologies

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Education

• Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
• University of Mumbai

Recommended

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Connections

181 connections

Industry

Financial Services

Websites

• Photography

Elroy Serrao’s Summary

Elroy has over three years of experience in building and designing applications for the Financial Services sector. He has worked with large teams designing and building applications for businesses in Leasing, Mortgage and Investment Banking. He believes that businesses can achieve better results through proper use of information technology and aims to help businesses understand how IT can be aligned with overall Business Strategy.

In addition to dabbling with all things digital, he also treks, shoots with his camera, catches the odd play or concert in and around Mumbai

Elroy Serrao’s Specialties:

Financial Analysis and Modeling, Corporate Finance, Business Valuation, Business Process Modeling, Statistical Modeling, Business analysis, Software application architecture, UML, Java, Ruby / Rails, Matlab, SPSS

Elroy Serrao’s Experience

• Business / Process Analyst

  IndiaIdeas.com Limited

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

• Summer Intern

  Mahindra & Mahindra

  (Public Company; Automotive industry)

  May 2008 — June 2008 (2 months)

  • Was part of the Corporate IT team in the IT Infrastructure department
  • Helped in designing a solution to move existing applications to virtual servers
  • Worked with teams from Mahindra group companies to understand the applications and the hardware requirements needed
  • Prepared detailed process documentation for the applications

• Team Leader / Professional

  JPMorgan Chase

  (Public Company; JPM; Banking industry)

  August 2006 — May 2007 (10 months)

  • Was part of the Investment Banking Technology application development team
  • Developed and maintained a Struts based work flow application
  • Managed application deployment through a geographically dispersed team

• Software Developer

  Hexaware Technologies

  (Public Company; Hext.bo; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 1 month)

  • Worked on developing a J2EE based web application for the Leasing industry in Europe
  • Developed a loan information product for the mortgage industry in USA
  • Participated in software architecture development for applications
  • Was deputed to Germany in a client facing role to gather requirements
  • Presented white papers to the senior management

Elroy Serrao’s Education

• Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies

  MBA , Finance , 2007 — 2009

  Key Projects done as part of coursework:
  • Strategic and financial analysis of the Ranbaxy-Daichii merger
  • Identification of factors affecting the BSE-AUTO index using multiple regression and factor analysis
  • Micro-economic analysis of effects of reforms on the Indian Telecom sector
  • Analysis of strategy at Jet Airways
  • Re-Branding "Sweekar" cooking oil
  • Portfolio re-balancing and optimization using Helmbold's Exponential Gradient algorithm (programmed in Matlab)

• University of Mumbai

  BE , Computers , 2000 — 2004

  Designed an Artificial Neural Network for Handwritten Character Recognition as part of the coursework for Onward Technologies Ltd.
  Organized LAN gaming at Cyberdrome in 'Iris 2002'
  Organized 'Iris 2003' - The Technical Festival
  Won First Place in Web designing at IEEE-TSEC organized Isaac
  Won First Place in Web Designing at SPCE's SPACE

Additional Information

Elroy Serrao’s Websites:

• Photography

Elroy Serrao’s Interests:

Internet and New Media, Design, Architecture, Financial Modeling, Open Source, Environment, Bird watching, Art, Theatre

Elroy Serrao’s Groups:

Mumbai Bird Watching Club

•    Agile Software Community of India
•    Agile Alliance
•    St. Francis Institute of Technology (SFIT) Alumni
•    NMIMS Alumni
•    x NMIMS
•    Hexaware Technologies Ltd.
•    JP Morgan Alumni
•    IIMs, ISB, MDI, FMS, SP Jain, Great Lakes, JBIMS, NITIE, IIFT, XLRI, IIT B, IMT G, NMIMS only
•    Worldwide Network for MBAs Class of 2009, 2010 and 2011
•    NMIMS Full Time MBA Batch 2007-09

Elroy Serrao’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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