Senior consultant with over 8 years in application development.

Overview

Thoroughly versed in IT departmental needs analysis, project management, support level agreements and system support optimization. This Consultant specializes in ERP implementation, business system migrations, ERP system implementation, application integration, automation, and customization. Core capabilities in software development and software maintenance

QAD Modules

Financials (AR, AP, GL), Sales Order, Customer Service, Manufacturing, Inventory, Data Collection, Purchasing, MRP, Costing, Quote Generation, Work Order, Supply Chain Management.

 

QAD Versions

8.5F
EB
EB2
SE
EE

Software Applications

QAD
Progress
Dell Boomi

Projects

Implementation lead, responsible for requirement gathering and listing all the Business process and gaining users approval. This process also involved loading the Expenses raised by Employees in Concur to be loaded into QAD against US & Mexico employees in the respective domains. Developed the interface using Qxtend Inbound by creating a Custom Schema and using the Interface program to call the same Schema and capture the response runtime. Organized and successfully completed UAT with Business users by showing all the Scenarios
As Business Analyst and Implementation Consultant. The client was implementing Salesforce based App for real time tracking of Inventory available with Sales Rep’s and thus required integration of QAD with Salesforce on real time basis. This gave the Rep’s a clear picture of Inventory on hand that can be sold to Medical Practitioners and transfer it to other Rep’s. Simultaneously the Management was able to track the Rep’s sales and compensate them accordingly. Onsite and involved in complete understanding of the Business Process and co-ordinate with Salesforce Application Team & the development team back offshore. I also developed multiple Utilities for transfer of data real time between QAD – Salesforce by making Web service call to Salesforce using Progress Appserver and handle error in case of lost data & log file handling. Involved in creating Custom database for mapping all the data points transferred between the applications. Also involved in Post Go-Live Support Offshore Production support
AM Lead, responsible for the Philippines region, ensure timely solution with less TRT and ensure continuity in business and Metrics Preparation & tracking according to SLAs. The plant had recently upgraded to QAD 2010 SE and required enhancements of multiple programs to the new version of QAD implemented. Involved in all the requirement gathering and guided the development team on the activities to completed. Multiple Business solutions required reporting using QAD Reporting Framework
Implementation team lead, involved in upgrading all the Custom programs from lower version to QAD 2015 EE. During Cutover, responsible for migrating all the Open Sales Orders to the new version of QAD which involved creating new Customer Ship-To’s as the new Version did not have Ship-to data. Architected the Integration process between Easy Access a Vouchering Application and QAD EE that involved developing a new Program to load data into Supplier Invoice Create using QAD EE API programming. This task also included creating Batch in QAD and Cron in Linux for the Interface to run automatically without manual Intervention.
AM lead, responsible for timely delivery of all the projects Involved in enhancement of QAD - Salesforce CRM Integration to comply with the GXP requirements. Compiled the CAPA (Corrective Action / Preventive Action) documents and showcased it to IT Audit Team. Involved in delivery of multiple projects like enhancement of Concur - QAD Integration, QAD - SAP-Lynx Integration and providing Support to Business for day-to-day activities.
The project required multiple data points like Item Master, Item Cost, Vendors, Customers, Open Sales Order, Open Purchase Orders etc. Onsite activities to understand the requirements from the SAP Consultants and Key Business Users and develop multiple extracts for data points stated above and pre-validate them with Business Users and with SAP Consultants Involved in weekly reporting of the Project status to Management and Business by adhering to Project timelines
Implementation lead, responsible for requirement gathering. Developed a Custom SI API and the corresponding progress program which calculates the requested number of serials already created in QAD and sends that back to the requesting Optel Middleware. Also involved in providing support to multiple Interfaces that send webservice requests to Qxtend for API’s like Pack Receipt by WO & Pack Build all related to Serialization module
Business Analyst & Implementation Consultant for a client upgrading from QAD 2008 to QAD 2013 SE and required to Integrate QAD with multiple applications like MS-CRM, UPS World Ship Manager & Accounts Payable System – ACOM. As an Implementation Consultant was involved in the system study of the new Integration Interfaces to be developed and all the data points that are to be integrated. Used Qxtend to integrate all the applications with the external applications with QAD. Configured Qxtend Outbound for all the data points to be integrated between QAD to MSCRM, configured Qxtend Inbound to integrate all data points between MSCRM to QAD. Analyze requirement and developed utility to make webservice call to Qxtend Inbound to load data into Sales Order Shipment API for UPS World Ship Integration. Developed multiple utilities to export data from QAD to ACOM & Configured Qxtend Inbound & Queues to load XML – data files from ACOM system to load data into Voucher Maintenance in QAD. Also developed program to parse the response generated for reporting.
Technical Consultant for a International Automotive Components client implementing a highly complex Custom module for tracking all their Business manufacturing processes . The process involved development of more than 100 Menu level Custom programs including Production Booking, product Inspection that would streamline their manufacturing process. The Custom module vastly improved the visibility of product Serial information across the system. As a Technical Consultant the consultant was involved in requirement gathering & analysis of the Business process, mapping them into Technical Specifications and development, testing & UAT of the Custom module programs. Also Involved in creating Custom Database design and for Database Activities like weekly backup.