PROFILE:

·  Has 11+ years of experience in Information Technology

·  Extensive hands-on experience with various EAI/ETL technologies.

·  Expertise in architecting and implementing large scale Data/Application Integration solutions.

·  Played various roles in the software development lifecycle including Technology Architect/Solution Consultant, Integration Lead, Interface Designer/Developer, Product Technical Support Engineer and Product Developer.

·  Extensive experience with global delivery model, managing and mentoring large teams spread across different delivery locations.

·  Experience in architecting integration solutions involving SAP (ECC/SCM/SRM) and Oracle retail.

·  Excellent problem solving skills.

·  Has strong understanding of software project quality processes.

·  Has sound knowledge of retailing concepts.

 

SKILLS:

·  IBM WebSphere DataStage

·  IBM WebSphere Message Broker/IIB

·  IBM WebSphere MQ

·  Core Java

·  TIBCO  BusinessWorks/BusinessConnect/Adapters

·  PL/SQL (Oracle/DB2/SQL Server)

·  Scripting (Shell/Batch/Perl)

·  IBM WebSphere MQFTE

 

OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST:

·  API Management (Apigee/Axway)

·  J2EE (JSP/Servlet/JavaScript/Ajax/HTML)

·  IBM WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance

 

EDUCATION:

·  Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic & Communication Engineering from University of Calicut, India.

 

CERTIFICATIONS:

·  IBM Certified DataStage v7.5 Solutions Developer

·  TIBCO Certified BusinessWorks 5 Professional

 

SOME OF THE KEY PROJECTS WORKED ON:

·  IBM WebSphere Message Broker/MQ based integration solution for a large health care services company based in North America. The solution integrated the SAP ECC/SCM with various front end customer ordering channels.

·  IBM Infosphere DataStage based integration solution for a large North America based fashion retailer. The solution integrated the Retek RMS, in house whitespace applications and JDA Allocation system.

·  WebSphere Message Broker/MQ based integration solution for a large retailer in North America. The solution integrated Sterling OMS, ATG Ecommerce Platform, WMS, Warehouse Control Systems and Legacy Mainframe applications under ESB/SOA patterns

 

DETAILED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1.         Integration Architect/Solution Consultant @ The Gap, Inc.

Start Date - End Date: September 2014 to Current

Description of the project:

The project involved enabling various in-house applications for Direct Delivery Purchase Order functionality. Current functionalities of various in-house applications (Logistics, Purchase Order, Inventory Management, Integration Layer etc.) were analyzed and changes were identified to enable direct to store delivery. Changes were also implemented in vendor applications (Shipment track & trace application (GT Nexus), Carrier (UPS)) for the new functionality. New integrations were created and existing integrations were modified to feed data (shipment, delivery, invoice etc.) between various vendor and in-house applications.

Responsibilities:

1.               Participate and contribute towards defining the Solution Architecture.

2.               Analysis & Integration Scope Definition

3.               Integration Architecture definition.

4.               Conduct detailed design sessions with various Vendor and In-house application teams, finalize integration requirements and obtain sign-offs.

5.               Review Functional and Technical design documents and provide review comments.

6.               Architecting and validating complex technical solutions.

7.               Validate/Review solution deployment blueprint.

8.               Co-ordinate test support.

9.               Onsite - Offshore Coordination.

 

Platform:

Windows, AIX. Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

 

Software:

IBM Integration Bus, WebSphere MQ v7.5, InfoSphere DataStage 11.3, Oracle PL/SQL.

 

2.      Integration Architect/Solution Consultant @ McKesson Corporation

Start Date - End Date: September 2013 to July 2014

Description of the project:

The project involved migrating around 80+ order to cash/procure to buy interfaces between SAP ECC/SCM/SRM and Ordering Channels/other Back End Systems implemented using WebSphere Integration Adapters (SAP/JDBC) based integrations to latest Java Connector Architecture (JCA) technology.

Responsibilities:

1.               Define EAI solution architecture and technical approach.

2.               Analyze migration solution options and approach, provide options with pros & cons to client and finalize.

3.               Perform hardware sizing and scalability analysis.

4.               Provide inputs for defining performance test strategy.

5.               Architecting and validating complex technical solutions.

6.               Validate/Review solution deployment blueprint

7.               Create roll-back strategies for contingencies.

8.               Co-ordinate test support.

9.               Onsite - Offshore Coordination.

Platform

Windows, AIX. Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Software:

WebSphere Message Broker v8.0, WebSphere MQ v7.0, Oracle/SQL Server PL/SQL, SAP Logon 730 GUI.

 

3.      Integration Architect/Solution Consultant @ McKesson Corporation.

Start Date - End Date: November 2012 to August 2013

Description of the project:

The project involved decommissioning mainframe based Front End Order Processing system and directly integrate Ordering Channels to SAP ECC/SCM via WebSphere Message Broker/MQ based EAI layer. FEOP functionalities like Catalog Search, Inventory Checks, DC Quantity checks and Order Simulations etc. are moved to SAP SCM. Various advantages includes reduced SLAs, reduced TCOs, simplified architecture, easy to introduce new business requirements like Back Order processing etc. Order persistence and re-submission capabilities are added to the Ordering Channels.

The integration project scope involved development of around 18 interfaces in to directly integrate SAP ECC/SCM with various front end customer ordering channels (Mobile Manager 25/50/100, McKesson Connect).

Responsibilities:

1.            Participate and contribute towards defining the Solution Architecture.

2.            Analysis & Integration Scope Definition

3.            Integration Architecture definition.

4.            Review Requirements, Functional and Technical design documents.

5.            Conducting Proof of Concept tests.

6.            Architecting and validating complex technical solutions.

7.            Validate/Review solution deployment blueprint.

8.            Co-ordinate test support.

9.            Onsite - Offshore Coordination.

Platform

Windows, AIX. Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Software:

WebSphere Message Broker v7.0, WebSphere MQ v7.0, WebSphere MQFTE V7.0, Oracle 10g PL/SQL.

 

4.      Integration Architect/Solution Consultant @ The Gap, Inc.

Start Date - End Date: July 2011 to October 2012

Description of the project:

This project fall under the broader GAP’s Europe Growth Initiative program. As part of EGI program, GAP plans to decouple the EU data (Foundational/Transactional) and software systems from the enterprise platform and implement a separate platform for EU market. This will provide GAP greater flexibility in implementing systems and strategies specific for EU market, driving sales, revenue and growth. This project involved conversion of GAP EU Inventory data from North America RMS (Retek Merchandising System) to Europe RMS.

The project scope involves developing new 35+ interfaces to interface GAP EU data from Legacy based applications (Item Creation/Purchase Order Creation/ Purchase Order Tracking/Allocation/Pricing Applications) to Europe RMS. It also involves creating one time conversion components to migrate foundation and transactional data from North America RMS to Europe RMS. The integration scope also involves decoupling existing interfaces between Legacy Mainframe based systems and North America RMS to filter out GAP EU data. The project used IBM WebSphere DataStage/Message Broker/MQ in delivering the final solution for this integration.

Responsibilities:

1.            Participate and contribute towards defining the Solution Architecture.

2.            Analysis & Integration Scope Definition

3.            Integration Architecture definition.

4.            Review Requirements, Functional and Technical design documents.

5.            Conducting Proof of Concept tests.

6.            Architecting and validating complex technical solutions.

7.            Validate/Review solution deployment blueprint.

8.            Co-ordinate test support.

9.            Onsite - Offshore Coordination.

 

Platform

Windows, AIX.

Software:

WebSphere DataStage 8.5, WebSphere Message Broker v6.1, WebSphere MQ v6.0, Oracle 10g PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Scripts.

 

5.      Integration Architect/Solution Consultant @ The Gap, Inc.

Start Date - End Date: January 2010 to June 2011

Description of the project:

Existing BR EU Demand Forecast – DC to Store allocation tool can handle only small volumes and limited features and was proving to be a bottleneck towards the growth of BR brand in EU market. The project involves replacing the existing BR EU Demand Forecast – DC to Store (Excel based) allocation tool with more robust and scalable and in-house developed Demand Forecasting System and JDA Allocation System.

Integration project scope involves developing new 30+ interfaces to integrate Europe RMS, JDA Allocation System, demand forecasting system and various mainframe applications. The project used IBM WebSphere DataStage in delivering the final solution for this integration.

Responsibilities:

1.            Analysis & Integration Scope Definition

2.            Integration Architecture definition.

3.            Review Requirements, Functional and Technical design documents.

4.            Conducting Proof of Concept tests.

5.            Architecting and validating complex technical solutions.

6.            Validate/Review solution deployment blueprint.

7.            Co-ordinate test support.

8.            Onsite - Offshore Coordination.

Platform

Windows, AIX.

Software:

WebSphere DataStage 8.5, WebSphere MQ v6.0, Oracle 10g PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Scripts, Perl Scripts.

 

6.      Integration Lead @ Parker-Hannifin Corporation.

Start Date - End Date: October 2009 to December 2009

Description of the project:

The overall project involved replacing legacy based order fulfillment system with Siebel based order capture system, Sterling order management system and IBM Message Broker integration layer. Infosys project scope involved enhancing the newly implemented solution to support new features like Physical kitting. EAI team’s scope was to modify the existing interfaces to support these enhancements. Scope also involved converting some of the existing IBM DataStage interfaces to IBM Message Broker interfaces.

Responsibilities:

1.            Analysis & Integration Scope Definition

2.            Integration Architecture definition.

3.            Requirements, Functional and Technical design documents.

4.            Conducting Proof of Concepts.

5.            Onsite test support.

6.            Deployment and Post Production Go-Live support

7.            Onsite - Offshore Coordination.

Platform

Windows, AIX.

Software:

WebSphere Message Broker v6.1, WebSphere MQ v6.0, WebSphere DataStage 8.0

 

7.      Integration Lead @ Safeway Inc.

Start Date - End Date: June 2009 to October 2009

Description of the project:

The project scope was to replace legacy ecommerce platform with new WebSphere Commerce Server. The integration project scope involved development of around 30+ IBM WebSphere Message Broker/DataStage interfaces to integrate IBM WebSphere Commerce Server, Manhattan Distributed Order Management System, Reporting systems and various other in-house applications. It also involved development of one time solution for the migration of Customer/Order/Ancillary/Products data from Legacy to WebSphere Commerce Server.

Responsibilities:

1.            Analysis & Integration Scope Definition

2.            Integration Architecture definition.

3.            Requirements, Functional and Technical design documents.

4.            Conducting Proof of Concepts.

5.            Onsite test support.

6.            Deployment and Post Production Go-Live support

7.            Onsite - Offshore Coordination

Platform

Windows, AIX.

Software:

WebSphere Message Broker v6.1, WebSphere MQ v6.0, WebSphere DataStage 8.0

 

8.      Integration Lead @ Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Start Date - End Date: September 2008 to May 2009

Description of the project:

The end to end project was to replace the legacy based ecommerce solution with new best of the breed ecommerce application stack (ATG Front End, Sterling Commerce OMS and IBM Message Broker ESB layer). The integration project scope involved development of around 35 IBM WebSphere MB interfaces in ESB/SOA patterns to integrate Sterling OMS, ATG Front End, Data Warehousing applications and various legacy mainframe applications.

Responsibilities:

1.            Analysis & Integration Scope Definition

2.            Integration Architecture definition.

3.            Requirements, Functional and Technical design documents.

4.            Conducting Proof of Concepts.

5.            Onsite test support.

6.            Deployment and Post Production Go-Live support

7.            Onsite - Offshore Coordination

Platform

Windows, AIX.

Software:

WebSphere Message Broker v6.1, WebSphere MQ v6.0, Java.

 

9.      Integration Designer & Developer @ The Gap, Inc.

Start Date - End Date: January 2007 to August 2008

Description of the project:

With a focus on increasing inventory efficiency, client laid a roadmap for replacing legacy merchandise planning and distribution systems with a suite of Integrated Demand-Driven inventory management processes & systems. The end to end project scope was to deploy i2 BAM and Demand Manager and for effective preseason planning and in season demand forecasting.

The integration project scope involved developing high volume data integration solution using IBM InfoSphere DataStage to integrate Retek RMS, Legacy and Whitespace applications with i2. The solution also leveraged the ESB layer services for logging, error handling and routing.

•      Over 120+ DataStage interfaces developed that integrated Legacy Mainframe applications with I2 Planning and Allocation system and enterprise Data Warehouse.  The interfaces processed 900 million records a day with stringent SLA to support business continuity.

•      30+ common DataStage modules, tools, methodologies, estimation models, best practices developed under the DataStage integration factory model.

 

Responsibilities:

1.            Interface functional and technical design

2.            Interface development

3.            Test support

4.            Deployment and Post Production Go-Live support

5.            Onsite - Offshore Coordination

Platform

Windows, AIX.

Software:

IBM InfoSphere DataStage v7.5.3, Oracle 10g PL/SQL, DB2 UDB, Teradata, Legacy Mainframe, I2 ERP suite, UNIX Shell Scripts, Perl Scripts..

 

10.                     Integration Designer & Developer @ Arizona Public Services.

Start Date - End Date: March 2006 to December 2006

Description of the project:

Arizona Public Services, one of the leading Energy Utility provider in North America implemented ABB Network Manager DMS as part of DOMS project (Distribution Operation Management System) for better managing the power outages, improving operational efficiency, optimizing the power supply and the operations management application involved in the logging and attending to power outages. The project involved the analysis, design of architecture, high level and detail level design of interfaces to integrate various applications with DOMS. Outmost importance was given to make the integration of external applications with DOMS secure using Secure Socket Layer. TIBCO Business Works/EMS based solution was created for Application Integration and TIBCO Business Connect was used to create B2B integrations.

Responsibilities:

1.            Analysis & Scope Definition and Integration Architecture.

2.            Functional and Technical design documents.

3.            Coding and Unit testing of TIBCO BusinessWorks interfaces

4.            Production implementation

Platform

Windows, Sun Solaris.

Software:

TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.4.0, TIBCO BusinessConnect 5.1.0, TIBCO EMS 4.2, Oracle 9i.

 

11.                     Product development and Customer Technical Support @ TIBCO Software Inc.

Start Date - End Date: July 2004 to February 2006

Description of the project:

The project involves the maintenance of existing Generally Available (GA) adapters, development of new releases of existing GA TIBCO adapters, design and develops new adapters, Release Engineering for adapters, Quality Assurance (QA) and adapter certification, adapter documentation and the development of adapter installation kits..

Responsibilities:

1.   Software development of design time and run time adapters.

2.   QA Testing of Adapters.

3.   Customer Technical Support of TIBCO COTS adapters for Tuxedo, Remedy & Clarify

Platform

Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux.

Software:

Java, TIBCO SDK, TIBCO Suites of products.