Kashish Sharad
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Experience Summary:
. Over 7 years of experience in IT Consulting in Retail industry, with
last 5 years at client location.
. Working for Cap Gemini US LLC as Senior Consultant for Oracle Retail
Merchandising system.
. Worked with Infosys Technologies Ltd for big North American Retailers.
. Strong techno-functional knowledge of Oracle Retail Merchandising
System (RMS), Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting, Inventory management,
Oracle Retail Invoice matching and Oracle Retail Sales Audit.
In my current assignment, I am performing the role of an Oracle consultant
in a multi year Oracle retail merchandising system implementation. The
project is for a North American grocery retailer. I have been involved in
the project starting from CRP stage to data mapping stage. My previous
assignment involves ORMS 10.6 implementation for a specialty retailer in
North America. As part of the implementation, I was actively involved in
various management, functional and technical areas including but not
limited to purchase order, supplier, and demand forecast.
During my professional experience, I have performed various roles in all
phases of Oracle ERP implementations including
. Integration Lead
. Data Conversion Lead
. Stream Lead
. Test lead
Qualification: B.E. (Government Engineering College, Jabalpur, India) -
2001
Technologies worked on: Pro C, Oracle, PHP, and UNIX, DB2, CICS, COBOL
Work Experience Summary:
Client: Ahold USA Inc.
Description of the Project:
This project is an implementation of ORMS 13.x for a grocery retailer.
My task in this project includes.
Roles performed:
I have performed the role of Integration lead and stream lead in this
project.
Following are the various tasks I have performed in this project.
CRP Phase:
. Understanding the current business model of client
. Mapping current business model to various capabilities of ORMS
. Designing Global integration architecture
. Prepare implementation strategy
. Prepare data migration strategy
. Prepare conceptual design document
. Build client relationship and manage expectations
. Estimate the effort and time for integration
. Manage and Own Stream project plan
Detail design Phase:
. Develop detail functional requirements and use cases.
. Develop corresponding business process flows.
. Mapping Business process flow into Functional detail design
. Develop high level data and business rules requirement
. Perform data analysis and assists in data mapping
. Data modeling for common integration layer across global architecture.
. Build client relationship and manage expectations
Development Phase:
. Code review and Independent testing
. Preparing test case scenarios
. Providing End user training
Duration: 19 Months +
Previous Work Experience:
Client: William Sonoma Inc. (USA)
Description of the Project:
This project was a full scale product implementation of RMS 10.6 for retail
and direct to customer business for the retailer.
Roles performed:
I have performed the roles of Data Conversion Lead and Module lead.
Tasks in this project:
. Business requirement gathering
. Own and manage project plan
. Design/Develop conversion programs for migrating data from legacy
application to RMS.
. Development of special enhancements for implementation.
. Development of quarterly enhancements for RMS/RDF/RA/ReSA systems.
. QA of various modules of RMS
. Database design / Data Modeling.
. Executing the conversion activities
. Offshore co-ordination.
Duration: 26-months
Client: The Gap Inc. (USA)
Description of the Project:
As a part of this project I was a member of team responsible for designing
interfaces between Oracle RMS and Oracle SIM. These interfaces required
thorough understanding of business process of various systems in supply
chain like RMS, SIM, and WMS etc.
Role: Functional + Technical Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Understanding the business and application requirements.
. Gathering and analysis of functional requirements.
. High level functional designing.
. Offshore coordination.
Duration: 4-months
Client: The Gap Inc. (USA)
Description of the Project:
This project was to expedite the environment management process at Gap Inc.
Direct fulfillment center. As a part of this project I have designed and
developed environment management tool for Gap Inc.
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Responsibilities:
. This role required co-ordination with various project managers to
understand their need for development environments.
. To systemize the process for development environment requests for
different projects.
. Designing, coding and testing of an in-house application for
transparency and tracking in the environments domain.
Duration: 6-months
Client: Gap Inc. (USA)
Description of the Project:
RGTI WMS is a warehouse management system implemented to cater store
locations with their inventory requirement across the world for Gap Inc. I
have been part of both development and production support for this project.
Role: QA Lead, Software Engineer
Responsibilities:
. Preparing technical designs.
. Coding and self unit testing.
. Independent testing and quality analysis.
. Technical Production support.
Duration: 30-months
Personal Highlights:
o I am a self-starter.
o Eager to learn new things.
o Strive for continued excellence.
o Provide exceptional contributions as a team member to deliver value
for client.