Senior EDI Analyst

RESUME

Name : Santhosh Balasubramani

Email : ********.*************@*****.***

Mobile : +91-994******* / +91-893*******

Senior EDI Analyst with 8+ years experience in various roles such as EDI Support, EDI Enhancement, EDI Documentation and EDI Business Analyst

Professional Summary:

Experience with the full EDI life cycle: Mapping, Testing, Implementation and Support

Experience in using EDI mapping tools

Strong know-how in the field of EDI mapping

Exposure to communication protocols like FTP, OFTP, Email

Knowledge on standard EDI formats (X12, EDIFACT)

Good knowledge on EDI transactions and processes

Experienced with EDI documentation

Excellent communication skills having exposure to overseas clients such as, North America and Europe

Strong problem solving, root cause analysis, and solution design skills.

Exposure to EDI in Logistics domain

Experience Summary:

8 years of 6 months of total IT experience in production support, maintenance and technical-documentation projects

4 years and 4 months of experience in EDI Production Support

1 year and 8 months of experience in EDI Development & Maintenance

1 year of experience in EDI documentation

1 year and 4 months of experience as EDI Business Analyst

EDUCATION

Title of the Degree with Branch

College/University

Year of Passing

Percentage

M Sc. (Software Engineering)

Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology, Virudhunagar, TamilNadu, India.

2006

77.11

XII

T.M.H.N.U. Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Theni, TamilNadu, India.

2001

73.92

X

Scism Matriculation School, Bodinayakanur, TamilNadu, India.

1999

70.36

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages

SQL, PL/SQL

EDI Tools

Axway Integrator, Amtrix Datamapper, Tibco Business Works

Databases & Tools

Oracle 9i/10g, TOAD, SQL Developer

Other Utilities

Win-SCP, FTP-Client, Ultra-Edit, Notepad++, JIRA, CA Service Desk, HP Service Desk, Putty

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Name of the Company

Designation

From

To

Duration

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Senior Associate

Jan 22, 2007

Till Date

8 years and 10 months

1. PROJECT PROFILE:

Project Title

Integration Support

Duration

April 2007 – July 2011

Location

Cognizant, Chennai

Programming Languages & Tools

Oracle PL/SQL, Axway Integrator

Team Size

16

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The Integration Support project provides 24x5 production support for all Application to Application Integrations (A2A) within Customer’s applications and Business to Business Integrations (B2B) between Customer and Trading Partners.

CLIENT: Global Shipping & Logistics Company

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Involved in various tasks such as Proactive Monitoring, Root Cause Analysis, Incident Management

Performed Downtime Activities in Axway Integrator

Performed Integrator health checks, to ensure that the system is up and running.

Documented the analysis done for repeated issues and add them to the repository, which will be used by new team members

Responsible for submission of monthly metrics data

Responsible for preparing Shift Plan and managing Cab requests for the whole team

Acted as a mentor in training new members in team

Received appreciations from Customer & Onsite counterpart for resolving critical production issues on time without business impact

DURATION OF THE PROJECT:

52 months

2. PROJECT PROFILE:

Project Title

Integration Change Request

Duration

August 2011 – March 2014

Location

Cognizant, Chennai

Programming Languages & Tools

Oracle PL/SQL, Axway Integrator, Tibco Business Works

Team Size

8

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The Integration Change Request Project involves maintenance, development and migration activities on the various Integration components of customer’s business applications. These integration components are broadly categorized as Application to Application (A2A) integrations (Integrations within customer’s business applications) and Business to Business (B2B) Integrations involving customer’s business systems and external systems of its trading partners, Customs, Terminal Systems, banks and other 3rd party Logistics providers. These integration components facilitate sharing of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) files across applications and Businesses to automate the day to day business processes of customer.

This Project involves Requirements gathering, Impact analysis, design, Coding, Developing Test cases, Unit Testing, Integration testing, Performance testing, documentation, User Acceptance Testing support and production stabilization phase.

CLIENT: Global Shipping & Logistics Company

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Involved in Requirement analysis, Design, Development and Integration Testing.

Understood all the interfaces quickly and began working efficiently on the enhancements

Delivered all the work orders with minimal defect and on-time

Mentored the new joiners in both technical and domain knowledge

Took leadership responsibilities such as assigning tasks to the subordinates

Responsible for submitting monthly metrics and attending the process audits

DURATION OF THE PROJECT:

32 months

3. PROJECT PROFILE:

Project Title

INCA Migration Project

Duration

January 2013 – December 2013

(worked in parallel along with Integration Change Request Project)

Location

Cognizant, Chennai

Programming Languages & Tools

Oracle PL/SQL, Axway Integrator

Team Size

14

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The INCA (Integrated Common Application) Migration Project involves in migrating all EDI Interfaces from the existing Axway Integration platform to Tibco Integration platform. The integration components are broadly categorized as Application to Application (A2A) integrations (Integrations within customer’s business applications) and Business to Business (B2B) Integrations involving customer’s business and external systems of its trading partners, Customs, Terminal Systems, banks and other 3rd party Logistics providers. These integration components facilitate sharing of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) files across applications and Businesses to automate the day to day business processes of customer.

CLIENT: Global Shipping & Logistics Company

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Documented the EDI interfaces in the existing Axway platform

Studies the EDI interface in the old platform, understands the business and converts the same into specified document format

Supported Tibco developers by adding more clarity to the existing documents

Supported Testing Team in setting up the environment during the parallel testing

Received appreciations from Customer & Onsite counterpart for providing testing support on-time, which helped to run the testing smoothly and finish the same within deadline

DURATION OF THE PROJECT:

12 months

4. PROJECT PROFILE:

Project Title

VSE Migration

Duration

April 2014 – till date

Location

Customer office in Germany (first 4-weeks) &

Cognizant, Chennai

Programming Languages & Tools

Oracle PL/SQL, Axway Integrator

Team Size

5

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

VSE Migration Project involves in migrating all EDI Interfaces under this business. VSE stands for Vehicle Services Europe, which refers to the vehicle processing and inland transportation services. These interfaces are designed as Business to Business (B2B) Integrations involving customer’s business systems, external systems of its trading partners and other 3rd party Logistics providers. These interfaces are migrated from the existing platform which is framed on Oracle-PL/SQL and Axway Integration Broker. The new platform is mostly framed on Tibco and Oracle-PL/SQL is also used for backend processing.

CLIENT: Global Shipping and Logistics Company

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Performed the role of EDI Business Analyst and documented all EDI interfaces in the old platform of VSE.

Travelled to Germany for 4-weeks to discuss with customer’s Technical team and understand the business & existing architecture.

Studied the EDI interface in the old platform to understand the business and convert the same into specified document format.

Supported Tibco developers to understand the Integration and implement the same in Tibco.

Created all documents from beginning, without any other existing requirement documents

Documented the business requirements, such as interface-definition, business rules and triggering conditions

Documented the technical requirements such as Communication Protocols, mapping specifications, EDI file-structure and EDI Standards

Received appreciations from Customer Manager on preparing clear documents

Personal Details

DATE OF BIRTH : 07-September-1984

AGE : 30-years

MARITAL STATUS : Married

NATIONALITY : Indian

FATHER’S NAME : Mr. M.Balasubramani

LANGUAGES KNOWN : Tamil & English

PLACE: Chennai, India Yours faithfully,

(Santhosh Balasubramani)

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