SUMMARY

• 8+ years of experience as highly organized IT Professional (Solution Architect, JDA Product Specialist, Business Analyst, and Project Coordinator) with varied experience of handling both large scale and continuous improvement projects.
• Sound knowledge of Retail domain: - Space and Category Management, Merchandising, Assortment Planning, Replenishment and Allocation Process.
• Excellent knowledge of JDA Products:- Intactix (Space Planning, Floor Planning, Category Knowledge Base, Category Knowledge Server, Web Publisher, Console and Space Automation) and Dynamic Allocation (part of SCPO Suite).
• Expertise in Product Design, Configuration, Interface Mapping and Customization.
• Presenting Solution Approach to Business Directors and Project Stake-Holders.
• Work closely with stakeholders and SMEs to assist the fulfillment of the project goals.
• Well experienced in Gap Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, ROI, RACI Analysis, Weekly meetings, Conference calls and other regular project meetings
• Efficient in documenting existing processes, preparing and reviewing Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional and Technical design, working with Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM), re-engineering business processes.
• Facilitated User Acceptability Testing UAT successfully.
• Worked with Analysts, Managers, Developers and Testers for complex projects during the SDLC.
• Proficient self-management and organizational skills
• Strong and influential communication & interpersonal skills with strategic sense and driven by passion of responsibilities.
• Effective at multitasking, committed collaborator & team leader.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Skills: Business Definition Requirements, Business Process Analysis, Gap Analysis, Use Case Modeling & Analysis.

SDLC Process: Waterfall, Agile.

BA Tools: MS Office Suite, MS Visio.

Operating Systems: Windows XP/95/98/NT/2000

JDA Tools: - JDA Intactix Suite versions 7.5, 7.8, 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2. JDA Dynamic Allocation version 8.2

Databases: Oracle and SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

JDA Dynamic Allocation Product Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business users to understand and document their AS-IS & TO-BE processes.
• Successfully organized business requirement workshops and conducted feasibility check.
• Responsible for creating and presenting prototypes based on the requirements to Business Directors/Users and incorporating continuous changes.
• Responsible for creating Functional Specification Design Solution Document.
• Product Configuration according to Business Requirements like Hierarchy creation, creation of searches and UDTs/UDCs.
• Created Data Mapping document for Interface creation.
• Working closely with off-shore development team to build custom scripts to achieve business requirements like creations of SKUs and item-store list upload.
• Assisted in end user training sessions.

Confidential

JDA Intactix Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for JDA Intactix 8.2 Database Technical upgrade and installation of Space Planning, Space Automation, CKB and CKS (Open Access) on batch and web servers.
• Designed Oracle procedures to perform backend processes modifying and validating CKB data.
• Worked closely with Packaging Team to build JDA Intactix Package and roll-out on user’s machine.
• Responsible for creating prototypes based on the requirements and incorporating continuous changes.
• Provided solutions for Space and Floor Planning enhancements/customizations like Floor Planning Reconciliation, Adjacency calculations and Seasonal Planning.
• Reviewed Functional and Technical Design Solution Documents.
• Worked with offshore developers to develop and test solutions designed onsite.
• Facilitated User Acceptability Testing UAT successfully.
• Responsible for Production readiness and Deployments.

Confidential

JDA Intactix Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for JDA Intactix 8.0 database technical upgrade from version 7.8 and installation of Space Planning, Space Automation, IKB and IKS (Open Access) on batch and web servers.
• Designed Oracle procedures to perform backend processes modifying and validating CKB data.
• Worked closely with Packaging Team to build JDA Intactix Package and roll-out on user’s machine.
• Prepared Functional and Technical Design Solution Documents for IKS, Mirroring and Metric Visualization.
• Designed and Developed Space Automation and IKS scripts to automate various end user facing and batch Space Planning tasks.
• Worked closely with Network and security team to integrate IKS (Open Access) with OAM (Oracle Access Manager).
• Configure IKS (Open Access) according to Business requirement.
• Integrate Space Planning application with in-house developed application to pull Product Sales Data (markdown, promos and ads) and load Space Planning active objects.
• Build Highlights, Reports, Layouts and Charts in JDA Space Planning using JDA Formula Builder for analytical purpose.
• Worked with offshore developers to develop and test solutions designed onsite.
• Facilitated User Acceptability Testing UAT successfully.
• Responsible for Production readiness and Deployments.