SamiR Kachhadia
763-***-**** **********@*****.***
SUMMARY:
6+ years of experience in implementing Oracle Retail Applications for Fortune 500 retailers.
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11+ year of experience in Retail Industry.
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3 successful large scale Oracle Retail Implementations.
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Extensive retail business process knowledge in Forecasting, Financial Planning, Inventory
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Management, Store Operations and Allocation.
Extensive functional and technical knowledge of Oracle Retail Applications including Demand
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Forecasting (RPAS RDF), Merchandise Financial Planning (RPAS MFP), Store Inventory Management
(SIM), Allocation (OReAL), Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server (ORPAS) etc.
Worked on multiple versions of Oracle Retail Application Suit including 11, 12 and 13.
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Experience of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirement gathering,
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design, development, testing & testing support, implementation and production support.
Vast experience of onsite and offshore software development model.
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EXPERTISE:
Implementation:- Oracle Retail Application Suit version 11, 12 and 13.
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Business Consultation:- Liaison between business stakeholders and development teams.
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Gap Analysis:- Identify gaps between base oracle retail application and business requirements.
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Gap Solution:- Providing solution for the gaps identified.
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Integration:- Connecting client’s legacy systems with and among Oracle Retail Applications.
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EXPERIENCE:
Wipro Technologies – Minneapolis, USA Since May 2009
Senior Business Consultant
Lead a team that involves in all levels of oracle retail implementation including requirement collection,
requirement analysis, solution design, development, testing, rollout and post implementation support for
three Fortune 500 retailers in area of replenishment. Subject Matter Expert for Oracle Retail Demand
Forecasting (RRAS ORDF), Oracle Retail Merchandise Financial Planning (RPAS ORMFP), Oracle Retail
Store Inventory Management (ORSIM) and Oracle Retail Allocation (OReAL) applications.
Client: Ahold USA, Boston
Role: Senior Business Consultant
Managed a team of 6 consisting onsite technical consultant and developers.
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Identify and prioritize activities across the replenishment products also monitored the progress of
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the overall and individual implementation.
Subject Matter Expert for Demand Forecasting (RRAS ORDF), Merchandise Financial Planning
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(RPAS ORMFP) and Allocation (OReAL).
Responsible for requirement collection and analysis, gap analysis and providing solution, design
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deliverables, approving technical designs, assisting development, migration and integration teams,
assisting testing team to craft critical test scenarios.
Worked effectively with client and in-house teams spread across 4 countries.
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Implemented Oracle Retail Application Suit version 13.
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Client: Academy Sports and Outdoors, Houston
Role: Senior Business Consultant
Managed a team of 5 consisting onsite technical consultant and developers.
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Subject Matter Expert for Demand Forecasting (RRAS ORDF), and Store Inventory Management
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(ORSIM).
Responsible for requirement collection and analysis, gap analysis and providing solution, design
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deliverables, approving technical designs, assisting development, migration and integration teams.
Worked effectively with in-house teams spread across 3 countries.
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Implemented Oracle Retail Application Suit version 13.
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Client: SuperValu, Minneapolis
Role: Business Consultant
Subject Matter Expert for Store Inventory Management (ORSIM).
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Responsible for approving technical designs, assisting development, migration and integration
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teams.
Delivered training sessions to client’s business and support teams to explain functionality and
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application know-how.
Implemented Oracle Retail Application Suit version 12.
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Oracle Corporation – Minneapolis, US May 2006 - May 2009
Role: Technical Analyst
Evaluated market trend and demand, along with strategy team, and presented technology
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solutions and recommendation for ORSIM enhancement.
Designed and helped offshore development team to implement ORSIM enhancements.
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Proposed and lead implementation of simplified core ORSIM libraries with performance
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improvement of up to 3 times.
Liaised with other Oracle Retail Application teams to enhance cross application functionality and
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integration.
Helped QA team to model test cases at unit, product and suit level.
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Worked on Oracle Retail Application Suit version 11, 12 and 13.
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Virtelligence Inc. - Minneapolis, USA Dec 2004 - May 2006
Client: Target Corporation
Role: Technical Analyst
Responsible for designing technical enhancements to its in-house developed store inventory
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management tool.
KPIT Cummins Infosystems - Minneapolis, USA and Pune, India Dec 2004 - May 2006
Role: Technical Analyst
Technology Labs - Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain Nov 2002 - May 2003
Role: Technical Analyst
Ideas Aplicadas - Medellin, Colombia Jun 2000 - Sep 2002
Role: Technical Analyst
EDUCATION:
Certified Oracle RPAS 13 Implementation Specialist
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Certified Oracle 9iAS Administrator
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Higher Diploma in Software Engineering
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Masters in Science
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TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:
Oracle Retail Applications: Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting (RPAS RDF), Oracle Retail Merchandise
Financial Planning (RPAS MFP), Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management
(SIM), Oracle Retail Allocations (OReAL), Oracle Retail Predictive Application
Server (ORPAS).
Oracle Technology: Oracle AS, Oracle WorkFlow, Oracle Database 8i and up.
Programming: PL/SQL, SQL, JAVA, Java Script, UNIX (shell scripts).
Other Tools: Microsoft Office Project, Visio, Oracle SQL Developer, TOAD, ER Win, CVS etc.
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