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Senior Systems Analyst/EDI Lead

Location:
Vaughan, ON, Canada
Posted:
November 06, 2014

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AUBREY BALTHAZAAR, B.A.Econ

* ******* ******, ******** ****, ON

L4C 0B9

acgmxp@r.postjobfree.com

905-***-****

CAREER PROFILE

. Senior Business/Systems Analyst and EDI Team Lead with 18 years

progressive experience in a world class electronic company with a wide

range of system environments.

. Proficient at organizing tasks and meeting critical timelines.

. Reputation for providing excellent customer service and the ability to

deal tactfully. Works well with diverse teams to develop and implement

solutions in various system applications.

. Effective team member and leader in a global environment who is

frequently consulted for expert technical advice. Proactive and

creative problem solver with measured and pragmatic approach which

resulted in significant turnarounds in several system applications.

. Excellent written and verbal business communication internally and

externally across all levels of the organization.

. Ability to design, develop, implement and enhance system applications

within projects. Possess strength in program analysis, design and

analyzing clients' specifications.

. Liaised with business leaders, team members and EDI customers to

determine priorities and enhancements.

. Full Life Cycle Implementations of EDI and SAP R/3.

. Implementation of EDI customers and suppliers on SAP and legacy

systems.

. Demonstrated sound knowledge of business processes surrounding Supply

Chain Management and Warehouse Management.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

EDI Team Lead/Sr. Systems/Business Analyst

Sony of Canada, Willowdale, ON 1995 - May

2014

Analysis

. Worked with the business to identify and document all requirements

relating to EDI and its application to business process and supported

those requirements.

. Configure SAP and implement new customers and vendors.

. Documented defined business rules and with assumptions or limitations

per SOX specifications.

. Ensure integration, system, user acceptance (UAT) and regression

testing is complete for both inbound and outbound EDI transactions.

Technical skills: SAP Enterprise R/3, Software packages: Microsoft word,

Microsoft Excel, Microsoft project, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Outlook,

UNIX scripting, AXWAY -Tumbleweed

Support

. Provided extensive support to Sony of Canada's key EDI accounts such

as Sears, Future Shop, Best Buy, Staples, Wal-Mart, Loblaw, Target,

Rogers, ADI Marketing and Hudson Bay to ensure smooth processing.

. Managed to resolve transmission and translator issues with third party

service provider.

. Maintained existing UNIX scripts for all applications.

. Oversaw resolving issues and support decision-making and ensure common

understanding.

AUBREY BALTHAZAAR, B.A.Econ

. Coordinated mentoring and training and managed successfully EDI

Analysts in their daily EDI responsibilities and best practice problem

solving based on trends and analysis. Combine business and technical

knowledge in creating quality business application solutions for end

users.

Technical skills: SAP Enterprise R/3, UNIX scripting - KORN/BOURNE shell,

AXWAY -Tumbleweed

Technical

. Extensive knowledge with the following EDI Transaction Sets:

850 - Purchase order 855 - Purchase order Acknowledgement

810 - Invoice 820 - Payment order/Remittance

advice

846 - Inventory Inquiry/Advice 852 - Product Activity (POS)

Data

856 - Shipment Notice/Manifest 860 - Purchase order change -

buyer initiated

865 - PO Change Acknowledgement 997 - Acknowledgement

. Lead representative for EDI across the organization - Order

Management, Warehouse Management and POS data processing.

. Managed both incoming and outgoing translation of X-12 to IDOCs and

IDOCs to X-12 standard documents. Managed the daily flow of EDI

documents.

. Managed escalations and resolutions of EDI related translator and

system issues.

. Developed complex UNIX scripts and was the acknowledged script expert.

. Prime EDI contact for vendors, customers, VAN and internal functional

organizations.

. Carry out assignments focused on helping customers/vendors/service

provider meet their business needs.

. As EDI lead, collaborated with vendors, trading partners, VAN and

internal functional teams to define EDI requirements.

. Developed and maintained EDI mappings in translators such as GENTRAN

and EDIOPEN.

. Implemented 40 major EDI customers and 20 mid tear customers. Setup

was completed in SAP and EDI translator. Continued to setup new EDI

trading partners in SAP and EDI translators.

. Provided assistance in resolving SAP IDOC and POS data issues.

. Provided technical and business support for the EDI application,

mapping and interfaces.

. Designed and created new UNIX scripts for EDI and all internal

applications. Fully Experienced with transfer methods (VAN, FTP, SFTP,

AS2)

. Supported SAP-SD EDI.

. Oversaw the business processes surrounding Supply Chain Management and

processed all EDI documents thru SAP system and warehouse management

system.

. Administered AXWAY -Tumbleweed.

. Implemented new customers in Tumbleweed and worked with Sony US and

AXWAY to resolve major issues.

Technical skills: SAP Enterprise R/3, UNIX scripting - KORN/BOURNE shell,

EDI translators - EDIOPEN, GENTRAN, BIZTALK, AXWAY -Tumbleweed

Projects

. Project lead for EDI/ SAP upgrade and maintenance.

. Project lead for migrating in-house EDI translator activities to SONY

US mainframe.

. Project lead for migration of EDI translator activities from SONY US

mainframe to third party service provider - GXS.

. Project lead for annual warehouse product count and update SAP product

inventory.

. Project lead for converting all FTP UNIX scripts to SFTP Unix scripts.

. Technical lead for upgrade and improvement of warehouse management

system.

. Technical lead for migration of UNIX Scripts to Servers to US Sony

environment

AUBREY BALTHAZAAR, B.A.Econ

. Project lead for testing all scripts for migration of warehouse

management system to SONY - US

Technical skills: Project Methodology: Rational Unified Process, Object

Oriented Methodology, Database systems methodology, AXWAY -Tumbleweed

Programmer Analyst

Confederation Life, Toronto, ON

1989 - 1995

Analysis

. Played a key role in all aspects of development of new systems and

maintaining existing batch systems and on-line systems in a CICS

environment, using languages such as COBOL II and PL1.

. Actively involved in converting in Canadianizing applications

originally designed for the U.S. market and vice versa.

Technical

. Modified on-line screens using SDF2 software and enhance programs to

handle complex changes to term and whole life insurance products as

per client's specifications.

. Designed and created application Programs in PL1 and Cobol II

languages in conjunction with the senior member of the application

systems programming department.

. Created JCL (job control Language) and JCL PROCS for execution of new

batch jobs.

Transaction Support

. Analyzed, programmed, and implemented basic system changes, using

COBOL II and PL1 languages as required.

. Developed test plans, performed unit and system testing for newly

developed and enhanced batch and on-line programs in order to make

certain the programs produced correct results before implementing into

the production environment.

. Designed code applications to produce financial transaction reports to

allow clients to reconcile monetary amounts on daily, weekly, monthly

and yearly basis.

Technical skills: MVS, TSO, ISPF, CICS, Languages: PL/1, Cobol, Cobol II,

Job Control Language

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

. Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Computer Science - Brock

University

. Diploma in Electrical/Electronic Engineering - Niagara

Institute of Applied Arts and Technology

Technical Courses:

SAP courses: ABAP - BC 400, Processes in sales and distribution in

SD, Billing,

EDI interface, IDOC interface development.

TumbleWeed: Secure Transport Administration, Secure Transport

Advanced Transaction

Manager

Memberships/Affiliations:

Strategic Project Management



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