Leading a team developing cloud-based applications to help customers manage large and complex networksLeading conversion projects from monolithic applications on legacy platforms to microservices based cloud applicationsHeaded the initiative to upgrade a company's IBMi OS from 7.2 to 7.4.Managing a team that supports existing AS400 applications, both inhouse custom and OTS ERPCreating MSA's and SOW's and handling budgets and P&L for client engagementsWorking across organizations and geographies to deliver critical customer required functionalityServing as Scrum Master in a Scaled Agile organization improving processes significantly improving processes around test-driven development, simulations, and automated testingDelivering multiple product releases on or ahead of schedule while dealing with cuts in the budget and changing requirements during the development cycleWorking with customers to define requirements, product architecture, functional development, and testing

IT Ownership of applications performing Replenishment/Demand forecasting/WMS Worked as Supply Chain IT consultantAS400/Legacy systems Point-of-Contact for end-to-end design review and integrationCross-platform integration between the iSeries and .net/java/SAP/HANA/DataStage/Oracle applicationsDesigned front-end applications for business by exposing functionalities as APIs and Web servicesResearch & Development team member to research, recommend and implement new technologiesAgile methodology development process using embedded SQL statements in RPGIV or RPGILE and COBOLSystem Development lifecycle (SDLC) following analysis, design, coding, unit testing and effort estimations Production and after-hours Support for critical business applications that handle drug supply across the USWorked with MANH(ERP provider) for new releases/hot-fixes and issue resolutionTools - MANH SCORE/DF/WMi, AS400, Free format RPG, COBOL, ILE COBOL, RPGLE, CL, CLLE, Embedded SQL, DB2, Synon, XAnalysis, Linux, MQ, IBM RDi, JDBC, PHP

Led one of the teams maintaining the PBM Rxclaim adjudication platform Worked as Agile lead for the DEV projects – Scrum for DEV and KANBAN for Prod SupportServed as functional and technical expert for supported custom applications and multiple ERPsSupported General Ledger, Accounts receivable and accounts payable on Lawson ERP Coordinated off-shore and onsite vendor resources and external software vendors Participated in interviewing for team and provide feedback on candidates' technical expertiseServed as R&D team member to research, recommend and drive implementation of new technologiesShared expertise throughout organization educating through formal or informal means Software and Tools Used: IBMi, RPG, SQL, DB2, Aldon, Synon, XAnalysis, ROBOT, SFTP, Stored Procedures

Worked as a IT consultant for the following client companies across geographies:-Bank of America | May 2011 – July 2013 | Senior DeveloperDana Corporation | March 2010 – April 2011 | Senior DeveloperDebenhams Retail PLC | August 2008 – February 2010 | Senior DeveloperCOSTCO Wholesale Corporation | October 2004 – July 2008 | DeveloperDevelopment and maintenance support for applications on 2 AS400 boxes in Spain, Italy and CanadaERP applications support for MAPICS, BPCS, Lawson, Infinium, Kronos, MANH WMi PKMSIntegration of ERP with heterogeneous systems from finance, EDI, Data WarehousingUpgrade ERP package Lawson Version 7 to Lawson 9 Communications processing using Trusted Link (TLI), Extol and TBT400Mapping of EDIFACT, ODETTE and VDA transaction standards Trading partner setup in Trusted Link (TLI) and TBT400EDI transaction monitoring and reporting24x7 on-call SLA based production support environmentDirectly dealing with all different groups from business to release managementTake part in all the business meetings to create system requirements for the initiativeSoftware development in COBOL, RPG,CL, Embedded SQL and case tools SYNON, LANSAPromotion of code to CIT and SIT environments by running turnover formsManaged a team of 15 developers on each releaseEstimating the time required for the tasks involved in developmentScheduling the tasks and tracking the progress of tasks using PM toolsCoordination with the client on issue resolution and risk managementTools - I-series, COBOL, ILE COBOL, Free form RPG, RPGLE, RPGIV, RPG ILE, CL, ILE CL, SQL/400, DB2/400, Hawkeye, Java, MQSeries, Turnover Embedded SQL, Websphere, Aldon, Synon, LANSA, Visual Basic 6, MS SQL Server, IBM POS, NCR POS, HP Quality Center, Linux, PEGA CRM, XML, JSON