Project Process

Ananda Raja, Ravi

Summary:

Work Experience: 5 years

Specialization in Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management as consultant

with experience in:

> Requirement analysis, design and implementation of PLM projects

> Agile PLM configuration for product, BOM, change management

> Agile privilege modelling and security

> Design and development of Agile PLM process extensions

> Middleware integration tools such as TIBCO

> ETL tools such as IBM Datastage 8

> Java/J2EE development

Employment history:

> Employed with a major IT consulting firm from July 2005 till date.

Education:

> Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications from Anna

University, Chennai.

Technical skill set:

Technology Last year Total years

of Use of

Experience

Middleware technologies

TIBCO 2010 3

ETL Tools

IBM Datastage 2010 3

Database

Oracle, MySQL 2010 4

Operating Systems

Linux, Windows 2010 5

Web technologies

DHTML, JavaScript, AJAX 2010 4

Languages

Java 2010 5

Special Mentions:

> End to End Oracle Agile PLM implementation

> Architect of robust process extension framework and SCM and deploy

scripts

> Liaison between the business/client team and IT team

> Self learner, team player

Professional Experience

* Project #7

Title : Agile Approvals and Validator improvements

Duration : Apr-2010 to present

Client : Leading semi conductor manufacturing company

Team size : 25

Role : Agile consultant and Development Lead

Overview:

Approvals and data validations should be an integral part of an Agile PLM

system in any major company that has multiple users making data changes to

items in Agile. The out of the box approval feature in Agile is very basic

and the validations that can be enforced are trivial. This project aims to

bring approvals and validations under a single roof by implementing an

'Agile centric rule engine' that allows implementation of powerful yet

robust data validation and approvals.With the implementation of the

project, there is more value to the validation, approval flow in the

client's PLM systems.

Apart from the rules framework, a regression data abstraction framework

will also be designed that will allow for regression testing of the

validation and approval rules.

Responsibilities:

. Analysis of the requirements

. Determining the right validations that could be brought in at an earlier

stage in the workflow by use of event framework in Agile 9.3

. Co-architecting the rules framework, regression testing framework.

. Sharing the design with the development team.

. Leading the team in the development phase.

. Participate in the system testing phase.

. Prepare the implementation plan and work in tight coordination between

the UAT team and the IT team

* Project #6

Title : Enterprise Agile PLM 9.3 upgrade

Duration : Sep-2009 to Apr-2010

Client : Leading semi conductor manufacturing company

Team size : 18

Role : Agile consultant and Development Lead

Overview:

The project aimed to upgrade the existing enterprise 9.2.2.1 Agile PLM

instance to 9.3. The database and application server upgrade was performed

in house. Attribute redlining and Event process extensions are major

motivations for the upgrade.

During the upgrade all the custom process extensions were converted to java

6. Ant scripts were designed to allow for flawless software configuration

management and easy management and deployment of the large number of

process extensions.

A generic process extension framework was developed that allows for quick

and easy development of new process extensions without having to worry

about the most commonly needed features. This allowed developers to

concentrate on the logic for the process extensions which eventually

brought down development time for newer process extensions.

Responsibilities:

. Gather requirements for the project.

. Architect a framework for process extensions.

. Direct the upgrade of process extension code to 9.3

. Closely work with Oracle support team on the various bugs/issues

identified in Agile 9.3 and apply HotFixes into the

development/test/production environment

. Participate and support IT Acceptance Testing and User Acceptance Testing

Significant Contributions:

. Involved in the decision making process on the required 9.3 features to

be enabled for the client needs.

. Participated in the configuration changes.

. Developed the Ant scripts, managed the framework design and the process

extension code upgrade

. Co-ordinated the inhouse upgrade to 9.3, schema backup and restore

activities

* Project #5

Title : Agile Cycle time reduction

Duration : Jun-2009 to Sep-2009

Client : Leading semi conductor manufacturing company

Team size : 4

Role : Agile consultant and Development Lead

Overview:

Project was aimed at analysing data in Agile to determine the cycle time

for the approvals of change orders and identifying bottlenecks in the

business process. The project involved extraction of data from Agile and

then feeding it into the enterprise datawarehouse for the organizational

business intelligence needs for developing reports/dashboards that show

cycle time metrics data to senior management.

Responsibilities:

. Gather the requirements for the project and analyze the requirements.

. Propose technical design

. Direct the development of jobs to extract data from Agile.

. Collaborate with the business intelligence group and support the

development of the load jobs, reports and dashboards by providing

Agile knowledge to the team.

. Participate in the Integration Testing activities

Special Contribution:

. Since the jobs needed to be fast and use of SDK is very slow, direct

Agile database access was chosen and in process learnt a greal deal

about the Agile database schema.

* Project #4

Title : Enterprise Agile PLM Implementation and sustaining

Duration : Jul-2007 to Jun-2009

Client : Leading semi conductor manufacturing company

Team size : 25

Role : Agile consultant and Development Lead

Overview:

The project was a major PLM implementation to migrate data and applications

from legacy systems to Oracle's Agile PLM. This project involved data

conversion activities, interface design and integration, development of

custom process extensions to support specific needs. This instance was to

support three different client groups with different business processes and

requirements.This was one of the major IT initiative by the client at the

time.

Apart from custom process extensions, an elaborate set of approvals and

validations were also designed to manage data changes and prevent interface

failures when feeding data to other systems. Agile Content Service was used

to deliver data to downstream systems via TIBCO and Datastage. The business

process in place and compatibility challenges between various systems

involved called for a very complex interface system.

Responsibilities:

. Participate in business process reengineering meetings and provide

inputs regarding Agile's capability.

. Manage process extension development

. Design the interfaces to/from Agile and support integration testing

. Lead the development team during the sustaining period.

Significant Contributions:

. Provided innovative ideas for application of business requirements in

Agile.

. Architected the inbound and outbound interfaces to/from Agile and

participated in the development. Agile was integrated with over 10

downstream systems including SAP either via realtime TIBCO, Datastage

interface or by means of scheduled batch jobs.

. Directed the development of custom process extensions. Major process

extensions include:

o Smart approvals - designed to determine what approvers are

required based on attributes/BOM that got changed and rules

stored in a database and allowed the user to choose the user

from the appropriate set of users

o Validations - to validate attributes, BOM based on an eloborate

set of rules.

* Project #3

Title : Agile Upgrade to 9.2.1 and sustaining

Duration : Jun-2006 to Jul-2007

Client : Leading semi conductor manufacturing company

Team size : 10

Role : Agile developer/analyst

Overview:

A small organization within our client were using an old visual basic based

Agile version and were facing problems in being able to express products as

site specific objects. They were upgrading to Agile 9.2.1 which supported

site specific parts and BOMs. The project involved upgrading to 9.2.1 and

migrating all custom process extensions to java.

Responsibilities:

. Developing process extensions in Java.

. Development of a JSP based system called Bizrules that assists users

to choose approvers.

* Project #2

Title : Problem Tracking System

Duration : Jan-2006 to Jun-2006

Client : In-House

Team size : 5

Role : Java developer

Overview:

This is a java based web application for tracking problem tickets. This

integrates with the client's ticketing system and routes all tickets in

scope to this in-house ticketing system for notification to support

personnel.

Responsibilities:

. Coding the web application using struts and javascript.

. Designing java based reports for management.

* Project #1

Title : SAP Exits framework

Duration : Jul-2005 to Dec-2005

Client : In-House

Team size : 3

Role : ABAP developer

Overview:

SAP has multiple customization points where user code can be written to

enhance the functionality. There are different extension points like Exits,

BTEs, BADIs. This is a Object Oriented ABAP framework that allows for

customization at a single point and the framework integrates with the

extension point.

Responsibilities:

. Extensive R&D for in depth understanding of available customization

points.

. ABAP coding for the framework.

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