EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Confidential has extensive experience with Agile/Traditional projects in the Retail, Warehouse Management, Supply Chain, Retek Merchandising System and E - commerce space (Desktop/Mobile) and is a Certified Scrum Master.
• Confidential is currently solely responsible for the Strategy and Delivery planning of one of the largest testing engagement for Confidential .
• Confidential is associated with the Retail practice of Confidential for 8 years with 6 years of specialized e-commerce and WMS experience.
• As a Functional Senior Consultant in the Supply Chain space, Confidential is an integral member of the Manhattan and Catalyst Warehouse Management and E-commerce team within the SCM domain.
• Confidential also has experience in presales having worked on several large/medium deals and has implemented the outcome based delivery contract for a large retail client. Confidential led various technology initiatives like front end optimization, continuous deployment, open source automation and cost optimization.
• Confidential has managed resource hiring, training planning and have been the PMO for a TCS engagement of 150 + team size.
• Confidential has managed the largest retail event (peak season) for one of the top retailers and has built the front-end performance testing practice for Confidential

SKILLS INVENTORY HIGHLIGHTS:

• Strategy and Delivery
• Warehouse Management
• Ecommerce Performance Testing
• SOW/contract negotiations
• Operational Analysis and Process Improvement
• Project Planning and Development
• Project Management
• Vendor Management
• Change Management / Implementation Planning
• Offshore and Onshore leadership
• Package Selection / RFPs / vendor selection
• Resource Management & Development
• PMO

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SDLC
• Agile Methodologies
• Scrum
• Catalyst, Manhattan WMS
• Release Management
• Design Thinking
• Java, WCS,OMS Performance Testing, Load Runner, Soasta
• Selenium, JUnit, WPT, Akamai
• Global Delivery Model
• HP Quality Center
• JIRA
• Oracle Retail suite
• MS Office/Project/Visio/Access
• HIPAA/SOX Compliance
• Retail E-commerce
• Warehouse Management
• Logistics / Supply Chain
• Store Systems
• Retail / Consumer Electronics

CHRONOLOGICAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Senior E-commerce Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led front end performance engineering and enterprise testing programs for Confidential Development and emerging platforms in IBM WCS
• Develop front end performance management and certification plan for peak readiness and application release cycle for desktop and mobile applications
• Build the automated framework for Mobile performance testing for native and Mweb
• Owned the change management and release team initial setup
• Owned strategic planning and project delivery management of Enterprise Digital testing portfolio
• Setup Change management post inhouse replatforming of Confidential from Amazon
• Well versed in Agile & Waterfall delivery model
• Led multi-location delivery teams (Mexico, Chennai, Bangalore and Minneapolis).
• Owned the cost optimization initiatives for the engagement
• Owned the sterling OMS development/engineering team delivery
• Owned the in-house image servers to Scene 7 migration Perf engineering
• Owned enterprise Target HIPAA/SOX compliance project
• Led the contract renegotiation with outcome based model delivery
• Defined the Change Management Process post Re-platforming of Confidential
• Defined the Release Management process after Confidential insourcing
• Owned the CAB meeting for change scheduling and approval

WMS Consultant/Sr Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Estimating, designing, code delivery, testing and delivering of OMS to Manhattan WMS
• Actively gather & interpret document requirements, while meeting directly with customers.
• Conduct requirements and detail design review meeting with customer.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and advocate for business and functional requirements to the designers, developers and QA personnel within development
• Participate in the development of approaches and designs, as well as actively participate in all review meetings to ensure requirements are being met completely and properly
• Ensure that solutions developed will effectively meet the business objectives of our customers and end users
• Good Exposure with all stages of the software development process.
• Experience with all phases of WMS implementation cycle from functional design and estimation to Rollout installation, UAT, Go-live and post go-live support.
• Good working knowledge of WMS functionalities including Receiving, Order allocation, Picking(Regular, List, Carton & Cluster picking), Loading, Cycle counting & auditing, serialized inventory tracking and data formatting and transmission to LMS/WFM.
• Experience with End User on site and in-house training.
• Technical documentation of set up, configuration and installation instructions
• Manage and track code changes using CVS or Subversion in multi-developer environments.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led project involving re-engineering of warehouse management systems for higher utilization and business best practice implementation.
• Owned Requirement analysis, development and implementation.
• Designed the Order fulfillment OMS to Catalyst /Manhattan WMS integration
• Reengineered inbound strategy and Label enabling $.5 M saving
• Designed the new business practice document for cost optimization across DCs
• Designed the new utilization report execution initiative
• Integrated the Legacy WMS and Manhattan reporting
• Integrated the WMS system reporting with enterprise team as part of consolidation
• Owned the Enterprise Tech upgrade Team for WMS version upgrade

Confidential

Project Lead/Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded numerous complex projects, including Retek forecasting integration with RMS, Pickup at store and RMS,WMS upgrade.
• Build the Dev program team of Oracle Retek practice for TCS Confidential
• Designed the solution for inhouse and Retek Forecasting system reengineering
• Owned the project delivery for integration of Oracle Retail Merchandising System version 9 and RDF for enabling forecasting of PFS along with main stores in RMS
• Owned the Retek RMS project delivery for pick up in store/ pickup at store project
• Led 13 FTE Testing team in creating manual/automated tests to ensure Oracle Retek RMS v13 upgrade
• Completed the project 2 weeks ahead of schedule
• Owned the RCA initiative for the engagement
• Received client appreciation for high quality defect free design and ahead of time delivery

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Owned design, development and testing of Catalyst WMS/NGS suites of applications. Functions surround the core Catalyst Warehouse Management System
• Owned the development Catalyst V6 European Module
• Worked on 'Catalyst Connect' module under New Gen Suite
• Owned the Frontend development WMS inbound /outbound UI
• Was the point of contact for all the Homedepot L2 support tasks
• Worked for CDC clients namely General Motors, Rebook, Home depot, Sony product customization as part of Catalyst Standardization team