Experience Summary:

• Has 8+ years of experience on Sterling Commerce GENTRAN: Server GIS4.3 , EDI-GXS, AI5.0 and EDI using ANSIX12 4010 and EDIFACT standards
• Extensive exposure on Transportation Domain working for Confidential, Transportation-
• Extensive exposure on shipping domain, worked for Confidential, and NYK Logistics
• Good knowledge on Health Care domain, worked for Cardinal Health
• Good exposure on mapping on Map Editor
• Exposure on Extended Rules
• Sound knowledge on Code Lists
• Exposure on FTP, AS2 and VAN setup
• Worked on EDI COBOL programming
• Sounds knowledge on Trading Partner setup
• Sound knowledge on Business Process implementation
• Worked on SAP- IDocs to EDI X12 data
• Having experience inprogramming Languages and extensively worked onEDI-Gentran: Server, CL/400, RPG/400, COBOL and RPGIV.
• Working on TURN OVER FOR PRODUCTION DEPLOYMENT
• Exposure on migration project from Gentran windows Env to GXS AI 5.0 UNIX env.
• Exposure on preparation of Technical specification
• Good exposure on discussions with clients for the requirements
• Exposure on creation of architecture on UNIX environment
• Exposure on work flow design in UNIX
• Good exposure on Per scripting
• Creation of Trading Profiles/Relationships in GENTRAN and FTP for Production Customers and Carriers. Expose on inbound and outbound process
• strong EDI Knowledge in AS400/GENTRAN and Mapping Transaction Sets
• Worked with partner Groups and Partner transactions.
• Worked on Unix shell scripting,SSH and Perl
• Worked on TEST, STG and PROD environments
• Exposure on migration from 4010 to 4020
• Exposure on SAP- IDocs
• Extensive exposure EDI mapping (GXS Application Integrator), X12, EDIfact, XML, flat files.
• Exposure on EDI implemented guide /paper maps and Map fix
• Trading partner setup , view point and audit log lookup
• Understanding of claim processing, ability to perform all phases of SDLC
• Extensive experience in Business analysis, Development & creating of EDI Implementation Guidelines and Mapping Specifications.
• Knowledge of HIPPA transaction sets
• EDI ANSI X12 210, 204 , 211 and 214 for transportation.
• Extensive hands-on on EDI messages 309, 350 and 355 for US customs
• Extensive hands-on on EDI messages 311, 824 and 997 for Canadian customs
• Worked on CUSCAR, CUSDEC, CODECO, COARRI and COPARN messages
• Worked on flat file formats
• Extensive exposure on EDI Control Structure
• Extensive working exposure on 810, 850, 856, 855,322 and 997 for Invoice, purchase order and functional acknowledgement.
• ANSI X12 270,271,276,277,835,837,812,895 and 894
• Exposure on version control management—Clear case tool and Microsoft visual Sourcesafe6.0
• Analyzing and Identifying ticket issues and L2 Support
• Good working exposure on bug-tracking tool REMEDY and HP service desk
• Familiarity with X12 versions 3020, 3060, 4010, 4030, 5010
• Have ability to work independently or in a team.
• Exposure on GXS Enterprise
• Designing, developing, testing, documenting, and supporting Data Integration and EDI applications, using GXS Enterprise, Application Integrator.
• Exposure on Installation of Trade guide , Workbench and configuration settings
• Able to setup Trading Relationships in the Enterprise

Technical skills:

Operating Systems

Windows(95, 98, NT, XP, 2000), UNIX, OS/400 and MSDOS

EDI

Text editor

Gentran :Server GIS4.3 and EDISIM ,GXS-AI5.0,(Trade Guide and workbench) ,

Ultra Edit, SSH

Programming

RPG/400, COBOL, CL/400, SQL/400 , Java, C and C++

Databases

Oracle8i/9i, DB2/400, MS Access

Tools

REMEDY, HP Service Desk, ACMS, X-analysis, Defect management, Clarify case and Hawkeye, TURN OVER

Version control

Clear case, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe6.0,

Education:

Master of Computer Applications (MCA).

Bachelor of computer science (Bsc)

Professional Experience

Project #1 : ACT Transportation
Client : Confidential,Dothan, AL, USA.
Role : EDI Software Programmer /EDI Analyst
Team size : 6
Duration : Nov’09 to present
OS : Windows7
EDI Tool : EDI-GIS 4.3, GENTRAN
IBM : AS/400, COBOL, SQL/400
Ticket handler : Clarify case
Version control : Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe6.0
Text Editor : UE

Description:
Confidential, is located in Dothan, Alabama, and is in the business of Transportation and Logistics. Additionally, ACT provides trailer load brokerage and dedicated services.
Confidential, Transportation("ACT") is a family owned, non-union, regional less-than-truckload trucking firm serving 12 southeastern states and Puerto Rico plus the industrial areas of Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville and Minneapolis. ACT has 78 strategically placed terminals in the Southeast to allow our customers to receive next day and two day service between points.
Additionally, ACT provides trailer load brokerage and dedicated services. ACT meets customer needs for international services to and from the Caribbean, Mexico, Canada and Alaska through Partner Carriers
Confidential, Transportation has offered its customers the capability of sending and receiving EDI transmission Originally Confidential, Transportation utilized batch software provided by a network service known as Transettlements. Through the use of this software we were able to support the EDI 210 (Freight Details and Invoice), EDI 214 (Shipment Status Message), EDI 820 (Payment Order/Remittance Advice) ,204 Electronic Loading ,211 Electronic Bill of Lading ,214 Shipping status message and EDI 980 (Functional Group Total).

Current system EDI GIS4.2 and IBM i-series AS/400 and COBOL on Windows7 environment.
Current using EDI ANSIX12 transactions sets 210,204, 214,997,211,214 and 820.

Responsibilities:

• Developing COBOL EDI Programmers
• Analyzing, developing coding, debugging and testing the COBOL programs.
• Preparing test data from production for EDI test
• Working on EDI-Gentran Integration Suit (GIS4.2) from Sterling Commerce.
• Working Partner setup
• Working on Business process.
• Making EDI test files and sending to the customer for review.
• Working on Production issues and Deployment of production.
• Working mapping on Map editor.
• Working on Invoice and Payment issues issues
• Working on Trading Partners Setup
• Working on TURN OVER for Production Deployment
• Developing the business requirements for the customers.
• Resolving daily customer issues for transportation.
• Working on IBM i-series AS/400.
• Coordinating with team for architecture related things
• Working on SQL Queries for Database updates.
• Providing support for transport customers.
• Implementing Data Exchange setup on FTP, AS2 and VAN.
• Working on shipment loads, Shippement statuses, Invoices, Billing, Payment Orders from the EDI

Project #2 : Supplier EDI (Migration from Gentran windows Env to GXS AI5.0 UNIX Env)
Client : Confidential, Dublin, OH, USA.
Role : Project Tech Lead
Team size : 26(offshore + onsite)
Duration : Nov’07 to Oct09
OS : UNIX
EDI Tool : Gentran:Server, GXS-AI(Trade guide and work bench) and EDISIM
Ticket handler : Clarify case
Version control : Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe6.0
Text Editor : UE

Description:
Confidential, as a Pharmaceutical Distribution company deals with a number of customers and vendors for business transactions. Cardinal Health exchanges these business documents to its vendors and trading partners through different modes.
One of the modes of document exchange is through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). All the EDI document exchange between Customers and Cardinal are handled Customer EDI Application .And all the EDI document exchange between Cardinal and Suppliers (Vendors) are handled by Supplier EDI. Apart from Pharmaceutical Distribution, Cardinal is doing several other businesses in which case Supplier EDI manages EDI for both customers as well as suppliers.

Current system supplier EDI has Gentran windows environment and it is migrating into GXS AI 5.0 Unix environment
Supplier EDI Business Units:

• Specialty Pharmaceutical Distribution(SPD)
• Pharmaceutical Distribution (PD)
• Specialty Pharmaceutical Services (SPS)
• Pharmaceutical Trading(820 customer)
• Pharmaceutical Re-Packing(PPK

Responsibilities:

• Design, development and testing of UNIX Environments for Development, Staging
• Partner setup
• Map fixing
• Worked on Extended maps in Gentran
• Working on EDI inbound and outbound data
• Working on xref tables.
• Working on SAP-idocs issues and translating into EDI X12
• Setting up SAP idoc Trading Partners
• Support work on SAP idocs issues.
• Creating/updating/Deleting of mappings based on structural changes in application.
• In case of any discrepancy in EDI data sent to customs, Re-Transmitting the EDI data after making necessary updates
• View point and auditlog
• Interacting Daily meetings with offshore.
• Detailed Design of Technical specifications, transitioning these specs to Off-shore folks.
• In case of any discrepancy in EDI data sent to customs, Re-Transmitting the EDI data after making necessary updates.
• Using transaction sets 810,850,844,856,855,867,849 and 852
• Reviewing T-Specs and making necessary modifications to meet the requirement and submitting to approval
• GXS maps reviews, Unit testing and fixing the bugs, conveying the review comments to Off-shore.
• Extracting test data from as/400- Gentran and providing to offshore folks for unit testing
• Trading Partner setup in the enterprise and testing.
• Extracting Gentran specs and preparing paper maps for GXS coding
• Monitoring the quality of mapping and mentoring the off-shore folks.
• Coordinating for all technical issues with team at the time of code review and coding standards
• Analysis of map consolidation as per current requirement Daily production monitoring, error correction and recovery.

Project #3 : OSCAR
Client : Confidential,Secaucus,NJ ,USA
Role : EDI Developer
Team size : 10
Duration : Feb’07 to Sept’07
OS : HP Unix
EDI Tool : GXS-AI(Trade guide and work bench) and EDISIM
Ticket handler : HP service desk
Version control : Clear case.
Text Editor : UE
Bug tracking : Defect management

Description:

The NYK Group provides the best possible logistic solutions to satisfy present customer\'s logistical needs which are becoming more complicated in proportion as the business process of sourcing, shipping manufacturing, and marketing extends more to a global context.

The NYK Group has a perfect lineup of logistics business units inside every field of transportation (sea,land,air), forwarding, warehousing, distribution and other logistics services. Each unit is a specialist with long and rich experience of supporting the customer, taking the leading position in sea, land and air transportation.
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Responsibilities:

• Exposure on advanced mapping development and trace log analysis
• Setup the new trading partner profiles
• Running the shell scripts
• Working on Service calls/Incident/tickets.
• Developing the AI maps(Source and target),using Ultra Edit
• Working on xml schemas
• Working on Production issues.
• Exposure on trace log
• Working on paper maps and EDISIM
• Working on EDI inbound and outbound data
• Working on xref tables.
• Exposure on code reviews
• Working on Production deployment
• Interacting with testing people once development is finished
• Exposure in TEST , STG and PROD environments

Project Description:
Confidential, is a World leading Cargo Container Shipping Companies which is based in USA. Confidential, main business is Cargo Business. Confidential, takes the Booking of the Cargo and get it delivered around the World through LYNX System. Presently working on the EDI part of US Automated Manifest System and US expert AES system. When the Requester or the Partner has any issue regarding the acceptance of the Cargo or release of the cargo, the Ticket is raised. Then accordingly, analysis is done and the bug is reported. Then the bug is fixed by doing the enhancement. The Edi messages we deal are both ANSIX12 and EDIFACT. The whole system setup is done in Sterling Commerce Gentran.

Confidential, use EDI for sending the data to its various Partners and Customs, as our client is related to shipping domain they need to send the contents in the containers and the details of the containers to Customs for each Vessel when ever it is sailing.

All the data from booking to delivery is through EDI process for its trading partners, in such process we monitor daily operations for completeness and quality. In any case if the data is not transmitted properly we will correct the EDI data and retrigger that EDI data. In this project we use to send the EDI for 309, 350, 355, 311, 824,997 & EDIFACT etc. messages.

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in supporting EDI related issues, which was raised due the failure of EDI message reaching the partner in a proper format.
• Created implementation Guide lines for various partners for various Transaction sets
• Extensive experience in Business analysis, Development & creating of EDI Implementation Guidelines and Mapping Specifications.
• Was responsible for sending vessels/voyage shipment details to Custom Authorities, in order to get Customs clearance.
• Was responsible for sending manifest to agents, for vessels/voyage before it could reach the destination port.
• Discussing the ticket issues with team members
• Preparing the weekly status report and presenting the same during Status meetings.
• Ensuring the timely communication of information to users, colleagues and Line Management.
• Was responsible for maintenance of our project for all the communication failures of the EDI data.
• Worked as primary contact point for B/L module.
• Worked on Production Server on system-critical issues, after taking permission from superiors.
• Communicates with partners and internal users to diagnose and resolve issues regarding data exchange.
• Used Remedy, for Bug Tracking.

Environment: EDI, Gentran: Server, AS/400