Working at Citigroup

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Working at Citigroup

• Janel Damstra, BS in CS
• Josh Knatz, BS in CS

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Citigroup is

• Worlds largest financial services company
• 275,000 employees manage 200 million customer
  accounts in more than 100 countries.
• First financial services company in the U.S. to
  bring together banking, insurance, and
  investments
• Major brand names

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Citigroup is

• Five Organizations within Citigroup
• Global Corporate and Investment Bank (GCIB)
• Meets all the financial services needs of
  corporations, governments, and institutional and
  individual investors around the globe.

Global Consumer Group
Citigroup International
Global Corporate and Investment Bank
Global Investment Management
Smith Barney
Global Equities
Foreign Exchange
Global Fixed Income
Global Investment Banking
Global Transaction Services
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FX eCommerce What we do

• Foreign Exchange (FX)
• FX is the largest market in the world
• They trade currencies, interest rates and
  volatility
• Citigroup foreign exchange is one of the major
  providers of liquidity to the worlds FX markets
• We support the FX Business
• Mirror business models electronically
• New application ideas, upgrade requests (phases)

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FX eCommerce Applications

• Our Applications (we support about 20)
• What they do
• Price currencies automatically or on request
• Accept match trades
• Commit trades for settlement
• Keep track of our customers
• Their use (scheduled uptime)
• Trading Centers in 5 different countries
• Most are running 24 hours a day 6 days a week
  (24/6)
• Who the users are
• Traders, sales people, other banks, hedge fund
  managers, end clients (corporations)
• Worldwide Presence Europe (UK), North America,
  Asia, EMEA, Latin America

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CitiTech

• CitiTech is the technology group that supports
  GCIB
• FX eCommerce is one group within CitiTech
• Other groups
• Support other areas of GCIB business e.g.
  Equities
• Internal support and development
• Develop tools that are used internally by
  technology groups
• Do not interact directly with any business groups
• Technology Infrastructure (TI)
• Database Administration
• System Administration

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Where do YOU fit in?

• Entry level positions within CitiTech
• Developers
• Business Analysts
• Test team
• Database and System Administration
• Policy, Audit and Control

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Developer

• Design
• Functional Specification, Technical Design
  documentation, Architecture review
• Programming
• Java - Apache Struts, Log4j, JavaDocs
• Others - UNIX scripting, c, XML, VB, SQL, more
• Support
• Problem Solving
• Bug fixes, broken business case solutions
• Environmental Setup
• UNIX Solaris 8, Windows
• Testing
• Integration QA, User Acceptance (UAT)

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Business Analyst

• BA is a liaison between the business and tech
  groups
• Meet with business to determine their needs for
  an application
• Meet with development group what solution can
  we provide?
• Develop and document
• Business requirements
• Functional requirements proposed to fit the
  business needs
• FUNCTION POINTS!?!
• Follow up during development and through to
  delivery
• A BA needs
• Technical knowledge
• Good communication skills

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QA Testing

• Test team is involved in all levels of the
  software process
• Developing and organizing the test plans
• Verifying that each level of documentation is
  valid
• Performing tests on their groups applications
• Logging bugs and notifying developers
• Maintaining the test environments
• Testing on multiple levels in different
  environments
• Developer tests
• Integrated systems testing
• Quality Assurance testing
• User acceptance testing
• Types of testing
• functional, regression, stress, performance,
  integration, white box, black box, and unit

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Applying what you learned

• CitiTech Software Development Life Cycle
• All applications development must follow the SDLC
• SDLC is a professional example of the Waterfall
  Model
• SDLC involves 7 stages
• Project Initiation, Definition, Technical Design,
  Construction, Validation, Implementation, Post
  Project Review
• Every application development team uses
• Project Issue Logs
• Gantt Charts and Project Plans
• Version Management (CVS)

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Questions?
Questions