Thanigaivel Srinivasan 417-***-****

Senior Application Developer ac0spq@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

** ***** ** ***** ** industry experience with many achievement, Involved in system design, database design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance and support. Strong knowledge and experience in SDLC process like requirement gathering, requirement analysis, preparation and review of impact analysis, preparing design documents, development, unit and integrated testing, implementation and application support

18 years of strong ERP systems experience using IBM AS/400 and package software

18 years of strong knowledge and experience in Free form RPG, ILE RPG, RPG III, CL, ILE CL, RPG, Embedded SQL and COBOL

9 years of Techno Functional experience in design, development, maintenance, support and migration of JD Edwards world A7.3/A9.2 versions modules

7 years of Techno Functional experience in design, development, maintenance, support, upgrade and migration of JDA MMS applications modules

7 years of experience in configurations, design, development, maintenance and support of Manhattan’s PKMS/WMS and Logistics Pro (LogPro) TMS systems and interfaces

13 years working experience in DB2, ORACLE, MS SQL Server, RDBMS databases and TOAD

3 years experience in Progen Plus (similar to Synon), Epicor/Aptos and Mulesoft

10 years experience in managing the team and played Team lead role includes onsite offshore model

10 years strong experience in EDI, Trusted Link, GXS/INOVIS Visual Mapper, GXS/INOVIS Biz Manager, AS2, VAN, and FTP. Change management tools like Aldon, Implementer and Turn Over

6+ years of in-depth knowledge and experience in DSI DcLINK, Cybra Mark Magic, Payware Transact Credit Card system, Digital document system, MIMIX and XML

6 years experience in ROBOT,Turn over,Aldon,Implementer,HAWK EYE,DBUand TAATOOL

11 years in migration projects and migrated different ERP systems

5 years experience in DB2 administration

20 years experience in MS Office, Visio and MS DOS

2+ years experience in web applications development using C, C++, COM, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, VB Script and ASP

Strengths include excellent leadership, ability to work well with others, excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Exceptional user facing skills and client relationship skills, ability to perform independently as well as in team player, ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure. Achieved many new cost effective process

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering, 1st class from Government College of Engineering, Madras University, India

CERTIFICATION: Six Sigma Green Belt Professional

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software/Tools

Package software products

IBM AS/400 (Mid-Range), ILE RPG, Free Form RPG, RPGIII, RPG IV, COBOL/400, Embedded SQL ALDON CMS, TURN OVER, IMPLEMENTER

EDI, Trusted Link, GXS/INOVIS Visual Mapper, GXS/INOVIS Biz Manager, AS2, FTP

DcLink, Hawkeye, XML ProGen Plus, helpsystems ROBOT

Main Frame, MVS, JCL, VSAM, MS Project, MS Visio, MS FrontPage Express, Microsoft Interdev, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS), HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, VB Script, ASP, COLD FUSION, XSL and JAVA

DB2/400, MS-ACCESS, ORACLE and SQL Server

C, C++, COM/DCOM, IIS 5.0, MTS, MS Office

JD Edwards World

JDA MMS

PKMS/WM

Logistics Pro TMS

JBA

EDI and Trusted Link

DSI DcLink

Model Legacy

Cybra Mark Magic Labels and forms

Rita Payware Credit Card System

MIMIX, Epicor/Aptos, Mulesoft

RJS digital document management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

PERFUMANIA INC., Fort Lauderdale / FL April 2014 to present

Projects: Applications development, maintenance, enhancement, support and migration

Role: Senior Application Developer

Perfumania Inc is America’s Largest Fragrance Retailer and is a part of Perfumania Holdings group of companies

specializes in the sale of genuine designer fragrances, bath and body, cosmetics, skin care products and related

gifts and accessories for men, women and children. Perfumania operates over 600 discount retail stores throughout

the United States and Puerto Rico. Our fragrance consultants are trained to provide personalized service and

expert advice about today’s most popular fragrances, as well as the classic and hard-to- find fragrances. Meeting

this need requires three basic principles: service, selection and quality. Because of the dedication and superior

customer service offered by our Associates, Perfumania has been successful at upholding all three, while

maintaining fantastic discount pricing. Perfumania and its group uses JD Edwards World, PKMS/WMS, JDA MMS, Trusted Link, INOVIS/GXS, FTP, EDI, MIMIX, SQL Server, Aptos/Epicor Retail and Model Legacy for their business

Responsibilities:

Development, maintenance and production support of JD Edwards World A7.3/A9.1, JDA MMS, PKMS/WMS and Model legacy applications modules using all AS400 technology and tools

Expert knowledge in JD Edward Tools such as Dream Writer, World Writer, Z-Files and SVR etc

Development, maintenance and production support of JDA MMS applications and modules

Migration of few JDA MMS modules and Model Legacy to Epicor/Aptos retail system

Developed many interface process and migrated few JDA MMS modules into new retail systems

Transformation of SKU, Style, UPC, customers, Inventories, BI history and CRM history,CRM integration with Epicor/Aptos .Achieved new retail system by migration and integration of existing systems . Data conversion and load using Mulesoft and XML

Created integration process to handle stores distribution from Epicor system for consignment orders

Created integration process for returns from Epicor/Aptos system

Created many custom interactive and batch applications

Configurations, Development, maintenance and support of WMS system

Working on various labels and forms using Mark Magic and Jmagic

Working on inbound and outbound WMS interfaces

Data base files, structures handling and optimizing

Development and maintenance of custom programs, user interface/batch programs and reports

Achieved solutions to many complex problems in short time and implemented

Development, Support, Maintenance of EDI programs and Jobs. Achieved many new process

Maintenance and production support of EDI process

Create new mapping and change existing mapping using GXS/INOVIS Visual Mapper

Handling GXS/INOVIS Biz manager using AS2 and Trusted link

Creating translations and user exit programs/customer facing programs for various customers

Create and maintain and support of 810, 812, 820, 832,850, 860,852, 855, 856, 864, 894, 895, 215, 753,754 transmission modules for customers

Create and use FTP and secure FTP process

Providing expert troubleshooting for system problems and program modifications for new EDI documents.

Modify programs to support new and existing applications.

Create and execute unit and system test script plans.

Create user guide documentation.

Working with iSeries Navigator and handing IFS documents

On-call support for all the systems

Development, maintenance and support for Cybra Mark magic Labels and forms applications

Maintenance and use of Spool Flex application

Development, maintenance and support for any new applications

Expert in Software applications development life cycle (SDLC)

Business analysis

Environment: RPG III, RPG IV, ILE RPG, Free format RPG, CL/400, ILE CL, SQL/400, Embedded SQL, Mark Magic, JD Edwards world and its tools, JDA MMS, PKMS/WMS, Model Legacy, Epicor Retail, EDI, Trusted Link, INOVIS Visual Mapper, INOVIS Biz Manager, MS SQL Server, DB2/400 and Turn over change management

TETERS FLORAL PRODUCTS, INC., Bolivar / MO August 2008 to April 2014

Projects: ERP Retail Applications

Role: Senior Application Developer

Teters Floral Products Inc is a leading importer, assembler and distributor of artificial flowers to retailers throughout the U.S. Teters is the leading supplier to the discount mass merchandise segment. Chain craft stores are a rapidly expanding portion of Teters market. Variety stores are another outlet through which Teters products are sold. Chain drug stores and supermarkets offer additional opportunities for volume distribution. The company distributes product nationwide from two distribution centers located in Bolivar, Missouri and Louisville, Mississippi.

Teters uses JD Edwards World, Trusted Link, GXS, FTP, LogPro, DcLink, EDI, RITA Payware, MIMIX, helpsystems ROBOT, SQL Server for their core business

Responsibilities:

Development, maintenance and production support for JD Edwards World applications

Development, maintenance and production support of programs for JD Edwards Bolt-on applications

Developed and archived many cost effective and profitable new process includes Freight adjustments

Business analysis

Development and maintenance of custom reports

Developing Invoice/Billing process, Invoice/Billing forms creation, print and automate Invoices/Billings.

Maintenance of DSI DcLink RF scanning application for pick process

Involved in upgrading of DcLINK from Ver 3.2 to Ver 4.2, Support of DSI dcLINK 4.2 applications

Customized transactional scripts within the DSI dcLINK 4.2 TranBuilder application

Developed new reports and modified programs for DcLINK

Customized interface programs between DcLINK and JDE World application

Customized LogPro programs based on DcLINK pick information

Modified custom applications for DSI dcLINK 4.2 data collection system by using DSI's TranBuilder

Modified transactional scripts within DSI dcLINK 4.2 data collection system by using DSI's TranBuilder application

Performed integration of DSI dcLINK data collection middleware into JD Edwards Distribution and Warehouse applications

Create custom interactive and batch applications

Development, Support, Maintenance and running EDI Jobs

Maintenance and production support of EDI process. Set up new Trading partners

Create new mapping and change existing mapping using GXS/INOVIS Visual Mapper

Handling GXS/INOVIS Biz manager using AS2 and Trusted link

Creating translations and user exit programs/customer facing programs for various customers

Create 810, 812, 850, 860, 852, 855, 856, 864 transmission modules for various customers

Create and modify new user file definitions

Create and use FTP and secure FTP process

Provide expert troubleshooting for system problems and program modifications for new EDI documents.

Modify programs to support new and existing applications.

Intra-company and Inter-company transactions processed.

Create custom reports for all EDI transactions set

Perform analysis, design and development of custom interface for new EDI customer set up

Migration from other applications into JD Edwards

Set up, maintain and run scheduled jobs using helpsystems ROBOT and native AS 400

Create and execute test script scenarios.

Create user guide documentation.

Provide DB2 System Administration -- Create/Maintain user profiles and user roles. Setup user role security. Create/Maintain user passwords. Daily backup and restore operations, Purge files and archive into tape, apply PTFs, IPL

Maintain disaster recovery using Vision MIMIX

Working with iSeries Navigator

Full save and restore management

Support and maintenance of Manhattan’s LogPro system

Analysis, Design, development, maintenance and testing of RITA Payware Credit card system

Development, maintenance and support for Cybra Mark magic Labels and forms applications

Maintenance of RJS digital document management application

Development, maintenance and support for any new applications

Expert in Software applications development life cycle (SDLC)

Upgrade various systems software

Environment: RPG III, RPG IV, ILE RPG, Free format RPG, CL/400, ILE CL, SQL/400, Embedded SQL, RLU, JDEdwards, LogPro, HAWK EYE, EDI, Trusted Link, INOVIS Visual Mapper, INOVIS Biz Manager, helpsystems ROBOT and DB2/400

CABELA’S INC., Sidney / NE April 2007 to August 2008

Project: Multi - Channel Transformation (MCT)

Role: Software consultant

Cabela’s Incorporated, headquartered in Sidney, Nebraska, is the world’s largest and foremost direct marketer, and a leading specialty retailer, of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor merchandise. Cabela’s uses JDA MMS and Manhattan’s PKMS application developed on AS400 along with legacy and other systems for their retail business. Cabela’s Inc. is now moving to a multi-channel operating model to support their 2010 vision and incorporate industry best practices in how they plan and forecast their merchandise and manage their inventory. Current practices are optimal for running a catalog company, but need to be changed to support a growing retail business. Current technology cannot scale to support planned growth, their custom code is high maintenance in terms of both manpower/cost and retail is not able to use best practices in currently installed software.

This project is the upgrade of JDA MMS latest version to use MCT. Part of this project includes the selection of a new inventory accounting and financial system. As a result of this change in system, Cabela’s has the opportunity to improve their inventory accounting methods.

Responsibilities:

Functional specification preparation

Review of functional specifications.

Conduct design, code and test walkthroughs.

Preparing of unit and integration test plans.

Worked in JDA MMS modules, JDA PKMS/WMS interfaces and JDA other interface programs. Upgraded JDA to 510

Worked in Manhattan’s PKMS application both interface and within many modules

Design, Development, testing and implementation of various JDA MMS and PKMS/WMS modules using RPG/400, ILE RPG, Free format RPG, SQLRPGLE, XML and CL/400.

Worked in ALDON CMS with over 4 levels of environments and 3 versions

Change & release management activities.

Unit and integration Testing and preparation of test results documents.

Co-ordinate with UAT Team.

Data storage & retrieval process using SQLRPG, SQL/400 and DB2/400.

Ensured timely deadlines and strict adherence to the deadlines

Adhere to the Project Execution Process to meet all department process standards

Environment: ILE RPG, Free format RPG, RPG/400, CL/400, XML, JDA MMS, PKMS, ALDON CMS and DB2/400

COVANSYS PRIVATE LIMITED / INDIA Feb 2004 to April 2007

Project: The Sports Authority (GART Sports), Denver / CO

Role: Team Leader September 2005 to April 2007

The Sports Authority, Inc. and Gart Sports Company are the largest and second largest U.S. sporting goods retailers. The combined company, now known as The Sports Authority, Inc., is currently using JDA MMS. It is an AS/400 application written in RPG/400, CL/400 & ILE programs. JDA MMS deals with the day-to-day operations like PO creation, receiving and the DC operation management of TSA retail business

Responsibilities:

Involved in functional specification preparation and review of functional specifications

Conduct design, code and test walkthroughs

Preparing of unit and integration test plans

Responsible for coding using ILE RPG, RPG/400, SQLRPGLE and CL/400

Offshore team lead and Offshore Onsite coordinator

Developed service groups and service programs

Developed RPG programs using automated tool Progen Plus

Work to resolve challenging technical problems

Responsible for coding in Free-Format of RPG 4

Worked in JDA MMS application

Worked in Manhattan’s PKMS application

Used ALDON and IMPLEMENTER for Change Control Management

Change & release management activities

Demonstrated ability to organize and/or create test data that allows for a valid unit test of the created code

Unit and integration Testing and preparation of test results documents

Developed search tool with enhanced features

Data storage & retrieval process using SQLRPG, SQL/400 and DB2/400

Ensured timely deadlines and strict adherence to the deadlines

Adhere to the Project Execution Process to meet all department process standards

Co-ordinate the team

Environment: ILE RPG, RPG/400, CL/400, JDA MMS, PKMS, ALDON, IMPLEMENTER, DB2/400 and Progen Plus

Project: New Balance, Boston / MA

Role: Team Leader February 2005 to August 2005

New Balance Shoes Inc. (NBS) New Balance Athletic Shoes Inc., is a shoe retailer, which specializes in athletic range and has grown to be the fourth largest athletic footwear and apparel company in the world. New Balance is using stable JBA application developed on AS/400 system for their business. This project is for their enhancement / development of the applications.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Functional specification preparation and review of Functional specifications

Preparing of unit and integration test plans

Responsible for coding using ILE RPG, ILECL and RLU

Responsible for Coding in Free-Format of RPG 4

Used ALDON for Change Control Management

Offshore team lead and Offshore Onsite coordinator

Unit and integration Testing and preparation of test results documents

Data storage & retrieval process using SQL/400 and DB2/400

Ensured timely deadlines and strict adherence to the deadlines

Environment: ILE RPG, ILECL, RLU, ALDON and DB2/400

Project: Specialty Insurance Services (SIS), Omaha / NE

Role: Team Leader, June 2004 to January 2005

Fidelity National Insurance Company (FNIC) has a mature and stable AS/400 system to support its Property and Casualty Insurance which includes Client Management, Policy Administration, Billing and Claims Management system. This project scope includes development, maintenance and enhancement of the entire application system.

Responsibilities:

Preparing of unit and integration test plans

Responsible for coding using ILE RPG, ILECL and RLU

Unit and integration testing and preparation of test results documents

Used ALDON for Change Control Management

Offshore team lead and Offshore Onsite coordinator

Data storage & retrieval process using SQL/400 and DB2/400

Ensured timely deadlines and strict adherence to the deadlines

Environment: ILE RPG, ILECL, RLU, ALDON and DB2/400

Project: GART Sports, Denver / CO

Role: Senior Analyst, February 2004 to May 2004

GART Sports is currently using JDA MMS. It is an AS/400 application written in RPG/400, CL/400 & few ILE programs. Basically, it is a modified version of the JDA package. JDA MMS deals with the day-to-day operations like PO creation, receiving and the DC operation management of GART retail business

Responsibilities:

Preparing of unit and integration test plans

Development, maintenance and enhancement of JDA MMS and PKMS/WMS applications using ILE RPG, RPG/400, CL/400, SQL/400 and DB2/400

Unit and integration Testing and preparation of test results documents

Used ALDON for Change Control Management

Developed RPG programs using automated tool Progen Plus

Offshore Onsite coordinator

Data storage & retrieval process using SQL/400 and DB2/400

Ensured timely deadlines and strict adherence to the deadlines

Environment: ILE RPG, CL/400, JDA MMS, PKMS/WMS, ALDON, DB2/400 and Progen Plus

POLARIS SOFTWARE LAB LIMITED / India September 2003 to Feb 2004

Project: Wheatley Insurance System (WINS) / New York

Role: System Analyst

WINS is software that helps in writing and maintaining the policy life cycle of policy product lines that are property and casualty related. The software is developed using COBOL/400. It consists of 6 modules namely File Maintenance, Policy Management, Premium Accounting, Claims Management, Reinsurance and Miscellaneous process

Responsibilities:

Design and development of programs and reports using Cobol/400, CL/400 and RLU

Maintenance and customization of product

Production support

Data storage & retrieval process Using SQL/400 and DB2/400

Design of Reports using RLU.

Review and testing of programs and reports.

Environment: COBOL/400, CL/400, RLU, ALDON and DB2/400

CDS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED January 2003 to August 2003

Project: Data Access Migration, Dallas / TX

Role: Programmer Analyst Jun 2003 Aug 2003

Project Description:

Data Access is a historical Patient data repository system that provides patient Demographic, Clinical and Financial information for all TENET facilities. The current system utilizes the IBM Mainframe platform (VSAM database) for its daily (Transaction based) processing. Then the result of this process is transmitted to the AS/400 (DAAC) machine (DB2 database) for the user interface. This process simply applies the transactions to each individual database file according to the updating code (Add, Delete, Change) dictated by the Mainframe process.

Responsibilities:

Design and development of programs and reports using ILE CL, ILE RPG and RLU

Data storage & retrieval process Using SQL/400 and DB2/400

Review of programs and reports.

Offshore Onsite coordinator

Design of Reports using RLU

Environment: ILE CL, ILE RPG, RLU, ALDON and DB2/400

Project: Resource Interface Conversion and Enhancement (RICE), USA

Role: Programmer Analyst January 2003 to June 2003

Project Description:

The main feature of this project is the conversion of AS/400 application into SAP and implementation of EAI and EDI in the existing ERP systems for Paramount Pictures. This system gets the data from various input files and creates the output extractor file. This extracted file will be loaded into SAP Server. The various reports were created during the extraction.

Responsibilities:

Analysis, design of ILE CL, ILERPG and report programs

Design of Reports using RLU

Coding and testing using ILE CL, ILE RPG and RLU on OS/400

Data storage & retrieval process Using SQL/400 and DB2/400

EDI Testing.

Ensured timely deadlines and strict adherence to the deadline

Environment: ILE CL, ILE RPG, RLU, SQL/400, ALDON and DB2/400

MEGASOFT LIMITED Dec 2000 to Jan 2003

Project: Field Expansion, USA

Role: Technical Consultant November 2002 January 2003

Project Description:

The main feature of this project is to expand the database field of an ERP product to store more values for Caterpillar Inc. This involves the analysis for impact on various screen files, COBOL programs, printer files, copybooks and database files. The old code has been modified as per analysis documents.

Responsibilities:

Analysis and coding using COBOL 400 and ILE COBOL on OS/400

Data storage & retrieval process Using SQL/400 and DB2/400

Analysis and Coding of Programs, Screens, Copybooks and Printer files.

Review of programs, Screens, Copybooks and Printer files.

Ensured timely deadlines and strict adherence to the deadline

Environment: COBOL 400 and ILE COBOL, ALDON and DB2/400

Project: Sales Order System, India

Role: Software Engineer, April 2001 October 2002

Project Description:

The main features of this system are provision for generation of sales quotations for customer information, generation of sales order from partial quotations. Generation of shipping advice for partial sales orders. A report of all sales orders, pending or otherwise, with a detailed list of items are printed over a period thus enabling one to determine which sales order has been shipped partially or completely.

Responsibilities:

Analysis and review of programs and reports

Design and development of pages using ILE RPG, ILE CL, RLU

Data storage & retrieval process Using SQL/400 and DB2/400

Ensured timely deadlines and strict adherence to the deadline

Environment: ILE RPG, ILE CL, RLU, ALDON and DB2/400

Project: Task assignment Register, India

Role: Software Engineer December 2000 to March 2001

Project Description:

The main objective of this project is to automate the task assignment at various levels. Provisions are made to Re-assign the task, Re-submit the task, view the reports for pending and completed task etc.

Responsibilities:

Analysis and review of programs and reports

Design and development of pages using ILE RPG, ILE CL, RLU

Data storage & retrieval process Using SQL/400 and DB2

Design and Analysis of reports

Environment: ILE RPG, ILE CL, ALDON and RLU

PALPAP ICHINICHI SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL LTD July 1997 to Dec 2000

Project: Material Management System (MMS), India

Role: System Analyst April 2000 to December 2000

Project Description:

Material Management System manages and gives a comprehensive control and accountability of the materials used on both SAL and third-party materials. MMS includes controls and records material requests, issues and returns, tracks material shortages and does material requirements planning, does material cost accounting to support customer invoicing and payments to SAL, provides more comprehensive management, controls, reports on materials usage on both SAL and third-party materials.

Responsibilities:

Analysis and review of programs and reports

Design and development of pages using RPG, CL and RLU

Data storage & retrieval process Using SQL/400 and DB2/400

Analysis and design of reports.

Environment: RPG 400, CL 400, RLU, ALDON and DB2/400

Project: Field Impact Analysis, India

Role: System Analyst July 1999 to March 2000

Project Description:

The main objective of this project is to find the impact of one field over the other fields used in various Programs, and Files. Provision was made to enter any field and search for impact on corresponding Files and Programs. Reports for impacted Files, Programs and total occurrence.

Responsibilities:

Analysis and Review of programs and reports

Design and development of pages using RPG, CL, RLU

Data storage & retrieval process Using RPG/400 and DB2/400

Testing of programs and reports

Environment: RPG, CL, RLU, ALDON and DB2/400

Project: Online Education, India

Role: System Analyst October 1998 to June 1999

Project Description:

This site helps the upcoming students to perform well and to increase their ability and their skills. The web site also helps to analyze one’s own potential and the opportunities that exist and the route to one’s goal. The additional inputs in this web site help to lead students more firmly in the right direction towards a career choice. Global sites related with education can be accessed from this site. This site also provides the search options.

Responsibilities:

Developed web pages using HTML, DHTML, C, C++, COM, JavaScript, VBScript and ASP

Data storage and retrieval process using Oracle.

Testing of application

ASP is used at the server side.

Environment: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, C, C++, COM, Cold Fusion, ODBC, Oracle, VSS and Windows NT

Project: Banking Systems, India

Role: System Analyst March 1998 to September 1998

Project Description:

This project was designed to manage customer details, day-to-day transactions of savings, current and recurring deposit amounts. Loan details, loan repayment details, fixed deposit and interest calculation.

Responsibilities:

Coding and Testing of the Transaction Module, which primarily tracks all the information of day-to-day transactions of all types of accounts

Developing Queries/Reports for finding out information like customer wise transaction statement, daily transaction statement etc.

Environment: RPG 400, CL, DB2, RLU, ALDON and COBOL 400

Project: Chennai Discounts, India

Role: System Analyst July 1997 to February 1998

Project Description:

The scope of the project was to develop a web based shopping for all home appliances and commercial items with discounts available in Chennai. It also gives details of organizations, discount rate, period of discount and provision for search of organizations, items/ gifts, sending discount details. Query System – It provides for the user to query about the details of each item including the make, models and prices with discount rate.

Responsibilities:

Involved in design and development of ASP using IIS.

Developed web pages using HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, C, C++, COM, VBScript and ASP.

ASP is used at the Server side.

The project functions were carried out using ASP, IIS, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, ODBC and Oracle on Windows NT.

Environment: ASP, IIS, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, C, C++, COM, ODBC, VSS and Oracle

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