SUMMARY:

• Around 8 years of total AS400/I series application development, enhancements, and support experience with projects in Retail and Manufacturing domains.
• Proven track record of system development, implementation, and support. Consummate professional with excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical, and technical skills. Dedicated work ethic. Strengths include Exposure to iSeries modernization tools.
• Good knowledge of Island Pacific/Move X /PRMS/EDI/Mapics ERP’s.
• Good knowledge of Stores, E - commerce business, Warehouse Management system & Finance in retail.
• Expert in business and functional requirement gathering, business and process modeling, and capturing system specifications.
• Strong knowledge of quality processes and strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in JAD (Joint application development) sessions while capturing user stories and communicating with Stakeholders, development team, SME’s, System Analyst, Business Analyst and Project Manager.
• Experience in applying different (AGILE) methodology using modeling and requirement documentation tools such as MS Office, MS VISIO, and MS Project.
• Aware of SIX SIGMA process improvement methodologies.
• Strong functional and technical abilities complemented by sound communication and user interaction skills. Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Handled varied customer expectations, excellent people management and negotiation skills.
• Expert in working independently and handling multiple projects simultaneously.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: RPG,RPGLE, Free format RPGLE, CLP,CLLE, COBOL and SQLLEScreen Design Aid (SDA): Menus, Display Files, Sub-file Programming

Software: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, SFTP on I-series

Databases: IBM DB2/400

Technologies: AS/400 (I Series)

Operating Systems: OS/400 V5R4, Windows 7/VISTA/XP/2003/2000

Domain: Retail / Manufacturing

ERP s worked on: MOVEX, EDI, Island Pacific,Mapics, PRMS and In-house ERP s for different Vendors.

Applications: Worked on Supply chain modules, financial applications, stores systems and E-commerce for retail.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Module Lead / Technical Analyst

Confidential, Wayne, NJ

Environment: I Series (AS/400) V5R4, RPGLE, COBOL, CL, CLLE, SQL/400, Autosys

Responsibilities:

• Independently leading and solving complex technical problems that have significant impact on daily business processing.
• Collecting and analyzing business requirements; converting them into technical specifications.
• Designing, prototyping, developing and implementing technical solutions (COBOL/RPGLE with extensive utilization of embedded SQL).
• Assessing and determining system design considerations.
• Designing systems and system changes to meet clients and regulatory needs.
• Providing database design and administration.
• Completing complex programming assignments by defining specifications, writing new or modified code and testing the code to verify the process.
• Providing application development and support for both front- and back-end business solutions.
• Design and development troubleshooting and diagnostic tools with full range of modules.
• Providing custom solutions for several domestic and international clients, including all client- specific modules and data information requests.
• Being principally accountable for company's response to user questions regarding ongoing issues and reports; utilizing and coordinating multiple distributed resources.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Environment: I-Series (AS/400) V5R3, RPGLE, CLLE, CLP, RPG, SDU, Sub-files, Somplus, A Plus, ALDON, Scheduler and Robot

Responsibilities:

• Providing end to end Support of all the applications in Stores module (including Island Pacific Finance for one market) Plan and Coordinate with business and IT Teams to deliver code fixes on a monthly release basis. Follow all the change control processed formulated and in place for Client as well as TCS. Analyze the user requirements for application development, enhancements, fixes and change requests. Get clarifications on any business/technical queries related to the requirements. Provide estimation and proposal for requested business change to applications. Design document preparation, construction, unit testing and system integration testing.
• Monitoring User Acceptance testing and providing solutions or fixes in case of any issues. Plan for maintenance releases and critical business process execution like processing the sales for every day from across 1000 stores, Year-end reconciliation, Sales & Inventory flips. Involve in development of applications to aid data-management in production servers. Resolving Production issues within SLA so that streamline process and business did not get affected due to any production issue. Capture business process requirements from users, asses the information/requirement and convert those to technical points and document it.
• Create proposals and estimates for new development opportunities. Recorded, maintained & tracked defects, assigned type & severity levels. Co-owned the development of job schedule in the new application by working with all upstream & downstream team. Worked with all stakeholder including IT & business to work on Go Live plan and also to identify processes that should run in parallel after the new application went live. Track SLA’s and creates weekly and monthly status reporting for management. Worked with business & IT to do daily reconciliations by comparing result of new application with the processes running on legacy.

Confidential

EDI/PRMS Support/S&S Consultant

Responsibilities:

• EDI - The purpose of this project was to provide support to Confidential for enhancing and maintaining their EDI process. Managing and mapping DDM files on trusted link. Performing Enhancement and Development for Many Adapters, which were part of EDI Process. Test all the Adapters using Trusted link, which were working for different countries to support (EDI).
• PRMS - Objective of this project was to develop an automated process to Extract the data through the AP (Accounts Payable) for a Mc-Cain’s company for an invoice date. AP transaction associated to a Purchase Order, Freight, or manual entry. It should then create an extract that will include summary and detail information for Purchase Orders, Freight, and Manual entry transactions.

Confidential

S&S consultant

Responsibilities:

• As Onsite technical lead, I was responsible for interacting with Clients, Users and Onshore Client Team. Gather Requirements; create Analysis, Design and estimates.
• Analyze the requirements received from Client team for application development,enhancements, fixes and change requests.
• Get clarifications on any business/technical queries related to the requirements from theClient team and End users.
• Provide estimation for requested business requirement.
• Design preparation, construction, unit testing and system integration testing. Preparing unit test plans and unit test results for the same. Monitoring User Acceptance testing and providing solutions or fixes in case of any issues.
• Resolving Production issues within SLA so that streamline process and business did not get affected due to any production issue.
• Communicate with functional users and understand their requirement.
• Code the functionality based on the DD and do unit testing
• Prepare DD based on the User requirements.
• Provide support for Implementation and Post implementation activities.
• Do job monitoring and provide production support.