Candidates About

Binu Vasudevan   

 HIGHLIGHTS

• Oracle Apps Techno Functional Consultant - More than 16 years of hands on experience as Oracle Apps Techno Functional Consultant with functional knowledge of Order Management, Inventory, Shipping, Warehouse Management (WMS) and Payroll systems.

• Expertise in Oracle based Application Development, Data Modelling, Maintenance, Support, Upgradation and Migration projects. Sound technical knowledge in Oracle E-Business Suite Application Development, Oracle PL/SQL & SQL, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle Forms Personalization, Oracle XML Publisher, Shell scripts, Batch scripts and Performance Tuning activities.

• Overall experience is in areas of Oracle Application Development, includes Prepare solution to RFPs, Stakeholder interactions, Resource loading and Team Recruitment Process, Project management, Quality Process, Project Planning and Scheduling, SME, Requirement Gathering, POC and Discovery Activities, Data modeling, Project Estimation, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation and Maintenance.

• Achievements and Certifications - Awarded CSAT rating 7/7 in all parameters consecutively four times from Customer Seagate Technologies. Certified Project Manager from Wipro Technologies. Received Wipro “Feather in My Cap” award twice for best project delivery. Received “Key Employee” status from previous company Kumaran Systems, Chennai.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jul 2016 – Present                       Cognizant Technology Solutions

Jul 2016 – Till Date           Customer: Express Scripts. Memphis, TN, USA

Currently working as Architect for RCM Optimization project under Specialty Finance COE. Project Responsibilities includes Customer IT/Business/External Vendor Interactions, Requirement gathering, provide functional and technical solutions, Estimation, Sprint Planning and execution, Design, Reviews, Coordinate with Business, QA, UAT and RM teams.

Jan 2005 – Jul 2016                     Wipro Technologies

Apr 2016 – Jul 2016         Customer: Cisco Systems, Inc. San Jose, CA, USA

Worked as Oracle Apps Techno Functional Consultant for Cisco Oracle Territory Management project. Project Responsibilities includes Customer IT/Business Interactions, Provide support to OTM system. Onsite – Offshore Coordination, and Handle customer escalations.

Oct 2015 – Apr 2016        Customer: Fruit of the Loom. Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA

Worked as Oracle Order to Cash Techno functional consultant for Fruit of the Loom, Maintenance project, Oracle Apps Order to Cash module. Project Responsibilities includes Customer IT/Business Interactions, provide functional and technical solutions, Requirement gathering and Design, Reviews, Onsite – Offshore Coordination, and Handle customer escalations.

Mar 2015 – Sep 2015        Customer: Seagate Technologies. Scott valley, CA, USA

Worked as Solution architect for Seagate WMS - LaCie Integration Project Responsibilities includes Customer/Business Interactions, provide functional and technical solutions, Discovery and POC Activities, Requirement gathering and Design, Reviews, Onsite – Offshore Coordination, and Handle customer escalations, Coordinate Business SITs and UATs.

Jan 2012 – Mar 2015        Customer: Seagate Technologies (ODC, Bangalore, India)

Handled offshore development team.  Responsibilities includes Prepare solution to RFPs, Estimation, Stakeholder interactions, Provide functional and technical solutions, Discovery and POC Activities, Requirement gathering and Design, Reviews, Project Management, Customer Interactions, Manage Quality Process, Customer Billing and fulfilment, Handle customer escalations, Mentor fresher, Handle appraisals of team, Manage multi skilled team, Interact with varies practices and manage resourcing in various technologies, Plan trainings of team, Team timesheet, Initiate and attend Audits, Initiate CSAT, Manage team located in remote locations.

Sep 2006 - Dec 2012        Customer: Seagate Technologies (ODC, Bangalore, India)

Worked as Oracle Apps Techno Functional Consultant and Managed WMS, OM and Shipping Enhancement projects. Was responsible for POC and discovery activities, Estimation, Requirement Gathering, System Analysis and Design, Customer interactions, Planning and scheduling deliverables, Design and Code reviews and Go live activities.

Jan 2005 - Aug 2006         Customer: Seagate Technologies (ODC, Bangalore, India)

Worked as individual contributor, managed analyzing the requirements and existing functionalities and preparing design specifications. Worked on Code Development (using Oracle Applications 11i E-Business Suite, Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle Forms and Reports and Shell Programming). Test Case Preparation, Testing, Peer Reviews, Third Part Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing and Code Promotion Monitoring.

Aug 2004 - Jan 2005                   Finch Software India. Pvt. Ltd.       Bangalore, India

Worked as individual contributor. Analysis the requirement and design the functionality. Design and develop Oracle backend packages, modifying Oracle forms and Reports.

Aug 2003 - Jul 2004                    Kumaran Systems, Tidel Park         Chennai, India

Worked on both Migration and Development projects. Worked on development of Oracle backend packages, Oracle forms and Reports. RCA and Bug fixing.

Dec 2000 - Aug 2003                   Xylon Technologies Pvt. Ltd.           Cochin, India

Worked on couple of project implementations. This includes Integrated Messaging System for Cochin Port Trust, Payroll System for Cochin Corporation and Production Planning System (PP) for Indian aluminum Company (INDAL), Studied the existing system with the team assigned and develop backend package procedures, data base jobs, database links, shell scripts and UNIX daemons. Worked with business users closely for Implementation.

TECHNICAL EXPOSSURE

Operating System             Windows/UNIX/Linux Environments

RDBMS                            Oracle

ERP                                   Oracle E-Business Suite Applications

Development Tools           Oracle E-Business Suite Application Object Library

                                          Oracle PL/SQL, Forms and Reports

                                          Oracle Forms Personalization

                                          Oracle XML Publisher

                                          AOL Migrator

                                          Shell Scripts

                                          C3 Augmenter

                                          Mapsuite

                                          CA7 Scheduling and Batch Scripts

                                          Toad, PL/SQL Developer, Oracle SQL Developer

                                          Ignite

                                          Quality Centre, Remedy, Snow

                                          Harvest, Subversion, Visual Source Safe

                                          Erwin Data Modeler  

                                          Microsoft Visio 2010

                                          Microsoft Project.

                                          Agile tools – Jira, Confluence

FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE

Development and maintenance of Express Scripts - Finance COE applications under Specialty Business.       

Support of Oracle Territory Management (OTM) for Cisco Systems.

Support and Maintenance of Fruit of the Loom, Oracle apps Order to Cash System.

Development and maintenance of Warehouse Management System (WMS) for Seagate Technologies.

Maintenance of Oracle Applications Order Management, Inventory and Shipping modules for Seagate Technologies.

Development and Implementation on Integrated Messaging System (Customs-Port EDI) project for Cochin Port Trust

Development and implementation of Payroll System for Cochin Corporation.

Maintenance for Production Planning System (PP) for Indian Aluminum Company (INDAL), Kochi, India.

Development for Materials Management for SRMT, Hyderabad.

EDUCATION

MCA, Manonmanium Sundarnar University, Tamil Nadu

B.Sc. Mathematics, Kerala University, Kerala

PROJECTS IN LAST 2 YEARS

1. Express Scripts – RCM Optimization Projects: RCM Optimization Backlog comprises of Rx Home application enhancement requirements under Specialty Finance COE. Executed in fast track and implemented compliance project Meaningful Access. As part of Patient Pay enhancement, stopped external vendor service and leverage internal systems to benefit in reducing cost, better accuracy and quality services, Under Bank account restructure and cash management initiative switch all the remittance functions from Bank of America to US Bank.

Client              : Express Scripts. Memphis, TN, United States

Duration          : July 2016 – Present.

Role                 : Responsibilities includes Customer IT/Business/External Vendor Interactions, Requirement gathering, provide functional and technical solutions, Estimation, User story preparation, Sprint Planning and execution, Design, Reviews, Coordinate with Business, QA, UAT and RM teams, Prepare and Present the Weekly Status Report on development team activities with customer IT leadership.

1. Cisco Systems, Inc. – OTM Project: Project goal is to automate flexible sales crediting for all sales models, provide planning environment and provide timely, accurate compensation to drive desired sales behavior. To help achieve this, system will deliver an operational reporting solution that will maximize the benefits from the OTM sales crediting system and associated tool enhancements. System will build the reporting Suite on the Sales Crediting framework, providing greater functionality and performance, coupled with the benefits of additional field attributes necessary for Business Ops to deliver against the latest go to market strategies.

Client              : Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, California

Duration          : April 2016 – July 2016.

Team Size        : 08

Role                 : Understanding the as-is process, Support bug fixes and issues reported, Monitoring and working with Business for the day to day issues faced and resolving them as per SLA, Preparing the Training Docs and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the End Business User, Preparing and Presenting the Weekly Status Report on the Project activity with customer IT/Business team.

1. Fruit of the Loom – Order to Cash: Fruit of the Loom is in the process of migrating their ERP system in their IT landscape to Oracle E Business R12 Environment R12, considering the future growth. The current R12 Environment is planned to host 5 Business Units /Lines of Business (Vanity Fair, Fruit of the Loom, Spalding, Huffy Sports, Canada operations). Wipro’s scope it to establish an Application Management Services Model (leveraging business analysts from Fruit of the Loom) to Run and Maintain services for the current business processes on Oracle R12 EBS.

Client              : Fruit of the Loom, Bowling Green, Kentucky

Duration          : October 2015 – April 2016.

Team Size        : 06

Role                 : Understanding the as-is process, Solution Design and map To-Be Process, Identify the Gaps and Fit-Gap analysis in the Manufacturing and Quality Track, Preparing the Test Scripts for CRPs and Capturing the Requirements / Defects, Support bug fixes and issues reported, Monitoring and working with Business for the day to day issues faced and resolving them as Per SLA, Preparing the Training Docs and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the End Business User, Preparing and Presenting the Weekly Status Report on the Project activity to the Senior management of Fruit of the Loom.

1. Seagate Technologies - R12 Upgradation and LaCie Integration Project: Project requirement is to upgrade customer’s OM and Shipping execution module from R11 to R12 and enhance current WMS system to support newly acquired LaCie system functionalities.

Client              : Seagate Technologies, Scott’s Valley, California

Duration          : June 2014 – Sep 2015.

Team Size        : 08

Role                 : Requirement gathering and System Design, provide functional and technical solutions, Demonstrate the proposals to Business for Approval, SME Reviews, Customer and Business Group Interactions and Delivery Team Management.

1. Seagate Technologies - WMS Consolidation Project: Seagate’s current Warehouse Management today faces challenges such as high costs in maintaining 15 applications. Current WMS is developed on Oracle ERP 11.5.10 framework. The database is on 11g.The forms and reports are developed in 6i. We need to enable system to support multi org (same ERP tech stack 11.5.10, 11g database and Developer6i) so that we can have less number of instances.

Client              : Seagate Technologies, Scott’s Valley, California

Duration          : Nov 2013 – Oct 2014.

Team Size        : 20

Role                 : Prepare solution to RFPs, Estimation, Stakeholder interactions, Discovery and POC activities, provide functional and technical solutions, Requirement gathering and Design, SME Reviews, Customer Interactions.

1. Seagate Technologies - Offshore Project Management for various projects: Responsible for billing and resource management of 20 members Seagate offshore Team. 

Client              : Seagate Technologies, Scott’s Valley, California

Duration          : April 2012 – March 2015.

Team Size        : 20

Role                 : Manage Quality Process, Customer Billing and fulfilment, Handle customer escalations, Mentor fresher, Handle appraisals of team, manage multi skilled team, interact with varies practices and manage resourcing in various technologies, Plan trainings of team, Team timesheet, Initiate and attend Audits, Initiate CSAT, manage team located in remote development centers.