Client - Nordstrom The Delivery Systems application suite consisted of a number of .Net web and batch applications, and WCF services that were used to route order information from upstream order management and warehouse management systems, to downstream shipping applications. The Enterprise Product Management Suite consisted of the MDMCenter master data management product developed by Riversand, which had been selected by Nordstrom to support its item management requirements. Our work involved enhancements to these .Net applications to improve performance, handle updated business scenarios, to re-design UI and to incorporate changes arising due to changes to interfacing systems. Responsibilities : - Leading a team of 5-6 developers at offshore - Obtaining and clarifying requirements from the onsite team - Analyzing the impact of changes, and estimating the effort and time required to do the work - Working with the onsite and offshore teams, to plan and prioritize the work to be done - Designing and building the solution and associated test cases - Mentoring the team and reviewing the teams’ deliverables - Working with the QA and UAT testing teamsTechnologies/Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, Soap UI, WCF, SSIS, PL/SQL, C#, Windows Services, IIS 7.5, MDMCenter 7.4 by Riversand

Client Name - Canadian Pacific Railway The project involved providing maintenance and production support to three main application suites namely, Order Entry Suite, Other Train Suite and Shipping Suite that consisted of .Net applications with Oracle stored procedures and tables that assist the client in accepting orders from its customers for order pickups and drops, support the planning and scheduling of trains on the clients rail network, and that are used to add additional shipment data that has to be loaded for a train and its associated orders. The work involved making enhancements to the applications based on client requirements, handling incidents related to the application and fixing recurring issues in production. It also included production support and maintenance activities such as production defect analysis, defect prevention activities, bug fixes, application support and transitioning knowledge back to client teams. Responsibilities : - Leading a team of 5-6 developers at offshore - Obtaining and clarifying requirements from the onsite team - Analyzing the impact of changes, and estimating the effort and time required to do the work - Working with the onsite and offshore teams, to plan and prioritize the work to be done - Designing and building the solution and associated test cases - Mentoring the team and reviewing the teams’ deliverables - Working with the QA and UAT testing teams - Performing production support and maintenance activities for these applications - Analyzing production defects and coordinating the fixes - Handling incidents reported in production Technologies/Tools : Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, TOAD for Oracle, PL/SQL, C#

Client name - Royal Bank of Canada The project involved designing, building, testing (unit/integration), test support (QA/performance), deploying to various environments, and finally providing maintenance and production support to trading applications, and its supporting systems. Responsibilities : - Working with multiple teams (business and technical) at the bank side, to develop the solutions - Obtaining and clarifying requirements from the business/technical teams at the client location - Analyzing the impact of changes, and estimating the effort and time required to do the work - Working with the onsite and offshore teams, to design, build and unit/integration test modules - Coding, self testing and fixing any module that needs closer discussion with the client - Creating/altering automated unit and regression testing suites - Reviewing and fixing, code and test cases delivered by the offshore team - Deploying the developed application on the necessary test environments - Working with the QA, performance and UAT testing teams, and with any external application teams, to provide test support, and to fix any high priority bugs - Planning and deploying of the application on the production environment - Performing production support and maintenance activities for these applications - Analyzing production defects and coordinating the fixes - Handling incidents reported in production - Procuring, configuring and installing required software on application servers to host the applications Technologies/Tools : Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, MKS Integrity Client, Citrix Client ICA, SQL Server 2005, CruiseControl.Net, FX Cop 1.35, MSBuild, Crystal Reports, HTML, IIS 6.0, Windows Server 2003/2008

Client Name - Canadian Pacific Railway The project involved gathering business requirements, designing, building and testing, a windows-based .NET smart-client planning application that could be used by yard managers located at railway yards belonging to the client, to plan for their inbound and outbound traffic, and to plan other work to be done by the crews in the yard. The application was based on Windows Forms technology and used Oracle as the backend storage for data. Responsibilities : - Attending Knowledge Transfer sessions in order to interact with and obtain knowledge from client users - Documenting all knowledge obtained from the above mentioned sessions - Providing a Reverse-Knowledge Transfer session to the client users to explain to them the knowledge obtained, and to receive corrections/updates, if any - Obtaining and clarifying requirements from the business/technical teams - Working with the onsite and offshore teams, to design, build and unit/integration test modules - Coding, self testing and fixing any module that needs closer discussion with the client - Reviewing and fixing, code and test cases delivered by the offshore team - Integration testing the delivered code at the client location, - Working with the QA, performance and UAT testing teams, and with any external application teams, to provide test support, and to fix any high priority bugs - Scheduling the deployment of the application on the production environment - Analyzing production defects and coordinating the fixes - Handling incidents reported in production Technologies/Tools : Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Tortoise CVS, Oracle

Client name - The Allstate Corporation The work in this project consisted of analysis of multiple mainframe applications with the objective of suggesting various ways to reduce CPU usage. Two approaches were concurrently used to do this, namely Top-Down approach which involved analyzing the design specs of the existing applications and suggesting ways to reduce CPU usage, and Bottom-Up approach which involved running tools on each piece of code associated with the application to detect various anti-patterns that contribute to CPU usage Due to the sheer volume of applications that had to be analyzed within the short period of time, an automated mechanism was suggested to scan the programs for anti-patterns, that are general patterns of code that were known to be CPU intensive. Programs written in REXX were developed to perform scans of applications containing thousands of programs and generate reports indicating the number of such anti-patterns. These reports were sent to the client indicating a potential technique to reduce CPU utilization. Responsibilities : - Analyzing existing mainframe applications to detect flawed design strategies - Developing tools based on REXX to be run on existing code to detect anti-patterns, and running the tools to obtain reports - Providing solutions to reduce CPU usage Technologies/Tools : COBOL, REXX, JCL, DB2

Client name - Toronto Dominion Bank The project involved developing new code and screens to support the new business requirement of selling Mortgage Insurance during Mortgage Renewals. This included developing COBOL programs to support CRUD operations on the DB2 database, based on a batch file containing millions of records. The program was checkpoint based, so it they could be restarted in the event of failure. Responsibilities : - Developing programs based on COBOL and an IMS checkpoint re-start based program - Unit testing (test case creation and execution) of the above created programs - Preparing the System Appreciation Documents associated with these new programs - Handling Defect Prevention activities Technologies/Tools : COBOL, JCL, DB2

Client Name - First Canadian Title The project involved modifying the existing interface between FCT and a third party entity ‘NAS’ to support the additional data flow between the two. The project also included analyzing another application called Statement Engine along with its components that were responsible for generating reports and sending statements to customers. Responsibilities : - Analyzing existing code, database and interfaces - Creating the detailed designs for updates required to existing application - Modifying existing programs/databases and developing new programs as needed - Testing the new interface (test case creation and execution) Technologies/Tools : VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server, XML, Web Services, Windows 2000

Client - Toronto Dominion Bank The project involved modifying existing code to ensure the implementation of new business rules associated with Line of Credit. Responsibilities : - Analysis of existing code to ensure that changes do not affect existing functionality - Testing of modified programs Technologies/Tools : COBOL, JCL, DB2

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