Professional Profile
. Around ** Years of Lawson ERP Application Consulting, Development &
Maintenance Experience.
. Extensive experience in Oracle Style/ANSI SQL writing and performance
tuning skills.
. Extensive experience in Procurement/financial/HR/Grants & Payroll
modules.
. Worked at Lawson Offshore Development Centre in Financial and Procurement
systems.
. Involved in customization, enhancements and Integration testing on Lawson
solutions.
. Developed dashboard applications and reporting for LSF9 security.
Technical Skills
Lawson4GL, Lawson Security 9 (LS9), 4GL, IBM Web Sphere, Process flow,
Lawson Design Studio, Lawson Self Service applications, Spring
MVC/Security framework. JQuery & JavaScript, JMS (Java Messaging
service)/MDB (Message Driven beans), Maven/Ant, junit and log4j,
Application deployment skills for WebSphere container, Oracle and ANSI
style SQL writing skills, Posix experience(Shell scripting, crontab,
Smitty, etc) and Crystal reports.
Projects Summary:
St Jude Children's Research Hospital (March 2013 - Present)
. Supported/Maintained/Customized Lawson applications using Lawson
4GL
. Developed interfaces between Lawson and third party systems using
SQL
. Developed various AIX scripts to handle post/pre operations for
various 4gl interfaces
. Developed a reporting application which integrates with Lawson
authentication/transaction web applications to monitor user
activities within Lawson. JMS/MDB was used as the communication
platform between Lawson and the reporting application. Reporting
application was build using Spring MVC/security framework with SSO
authentication with Lawson.
. Developed a web application to let the Lawson administrators
maintain cost center/activity/requesting location assignments to a
user. This application also had views for a disaster recovery
inbasket solution. Spring scheduler is used as well.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (April 2011 - February 2013)
Inbasket Customizations(Build using Spring MVC framework), Interfaces,
Kronos & SSRS reporting,, 4GL, Unix scripting, Supporting process flow
developments on Occupational Health - LMS - Obligational Authority -
Corporate user account management workflows, Automation on Workflow setup
based on GM03, LS9 security request and approval through self service
solutions, etc.,
Avaap USA Inc (January 2009 - March 2011)
Involved in developing an LDAP extract process within Java to build a
security dashboard application.
Client work: McGraw Hill Companies (September 2009 - Present)
Assisted McGraw Hill with the Lawson 8.x to 9.x upgrade project and
was a member of the self service application team migrating ESS, MSS &
Design Studio forms to adopt the new /servlet/data and /servlet/ags
from cgi-lawson. Responsibilities include:-
V Self Service applications
V Design Studio customizations
V Development of web applications using MVC spring framework
V Web applications with Maven build using Junit and log4j.
ENoah (January 2009 - September 2009)
Worked as part of the development team and provided remote services to
clients on their upgrade and development projects. Responsibilities
include:-
V Process flow migration to various health care hospitals from 803 to
LSF9
V Development, customization & integrating document upload product for
various sub systems in Lawson.
V Involved in the development & reporting of security reporting and
dashboard applications for LSF9 security
V Involved n various design studio customizations for various process
flow solutions.
V Process flow custom inbasket solutions using design studio.
Xansa, plc (November 2005- December 2008)
Client work: Church's Chicken (June 2008 - December 2008)
Supported Church's accounting and IT team to host and maintain Lawson
financials. Developed several adhoc reports and performed Lawson
environment upgrade. Responsibilities include:-
V Providing 2nd level Production support for AR & AP team
V Developing BCI interfaces for 3rd party systems like Radiant,
Bank of America, FedEx and Property Works
V Development of accounts receivable reports
Was responsible for the following tasks in LSF9 upgrade project:-
V Implementation of Adam LDAP
V Active Directory Bind
V IBM Websphere 6.1 configuration
V Bouncy Castle encryption
V Lawson Core Technology Installation
V Migration of 8.0.3 LOGAN data to 9.0.0
V Conversion of BCI procedures to PF integrator flows
V Design studio customizations.
Client work: Macquarie Air Finance (June 2007 - December 2007)
Recommended client solutions on the following modules:-
V Accounts Payable
V Cash Ledger
V Supply Chain Management
V General Ledger
V Activity Management
V Report Writer / Transaction Writer(GL/AC)
Additionally designed, developed, implemented and automated the
following 4GL Interfaces
V Citibank to Lawson Ledger (CB Payments, CB Deposits
and Bank reconciliation)
V Lawson AP to Citibank (Electronics Payment Interface
for world link, ACH and wire transfers)
V Bloomberg to Lawson Currency System (Daily Exchange
Rates)
V ICMS Settlements Interface (Lawson Cash Ledger to
AMT-SYBEX ICMS)
Also customised and implemented the following process flows
V AP Invoice Approval
V Requisition Header level approval process flow
V Bloomberg daily feed alerts
V Design Studio
Lawson Offshore Development Centre (November 2005 - January 2007)
Responsible to fix the priority 1, 2 and 3 type bugs in Procurement and AC
/ BR Module's which involves turn around time from 5 days to 20 days for
Lawson Global Support Centre(GSC). Supported the sub-systems like
Inventory Control, Requisitions, Purchase Order as part of procurement and
Activity Management and Billing Revenue Management as part of AC / BR
module. Worked as a part of RSS (Requisition Self Service) teams and did
changes in Lawson 4GL programs to produce necessary XML data from Lawson
to RSS.
Client work: Nuffield Hospitals (February 2007 - March 2007)
Responsible to design, customize and implement the following
processes as part of Lawson Blended professional services team:-
V Cash Forecasting
V Invoice Processing Statistics
V Payment Form Creation
V Payment Tape creation
V Mass PO Issue (Purchase Order)
V Period End Valuation (Inventory Control).
Client work: Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (April
2007 - May 2007)
Involved in design, development and delivery of in-bound and out-bound
processes like
V Patient Interface from Lawson AP to PARS
V Patient Refund Interface between Lawson and IDX BAR
V Wachovia Cleared Checks
Client work: Prudential Life & Pensions (January 2008 - May 2008)
Involved in design, development and maintenance of various Unisys
technology products, work includes the following areas:
V Accumulation Unit Mismatch
V DB Charges Mismatch
V Funds not 100%
V Multiple Lapse and revival transactions.
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.TECH) in Information Technology (IT) from Anna
University (2001-2005)
Professional References:
Teresa McPherson
Senior Project Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3078244
Leonard Woodall
Manager Administrative Systems
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