Summary
I am a Certified PMP with eleven years of technical experience in software development
and implementation including five years in Oracle Applications (ERP) specializing in
financial implementation and customization. I have worked in several capacities on
several projects in all phases of SDLC in India and abroad.
My work with Oracle, GE, Dairy Form.Hong Kong, A.S Watson &Co. Limited., Polaris
software, Reuters, NCR and HCL Tech consulting has exposed me to numerous Retail,
financial and Manufacturing clients and project environments, providing me with valuable
experience of how to succeed under challenging conditions. I have been Involved in CMMi 3
level initiatives for Oracle India.
I played ATM (Assessment Team Member) role during the CMMi assessment.
I am proficient at managing projects using the AIM Methodology, designing, developing,
testing, implementing and training. I have broad technical experience in AP, GL, AOL,
Sysadmin and MultiOrg. I have been working on Offshore – Onsite delivery model for last 4
years which also involves traveling to client site and customer handling.
Also Involved in Project management activities like
Resource management.
Object management.
Configuration management.
Release, quality control and delivery of the work product to the client.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Applications
General Ledger / Accounts Payable / AOL/Sysadmin
Technology
GL/AP/PO/INV : Technical Team Lead for the customization and development of various APPS
Objects like forms, reports, extensions and interfaces/conversions.
Have worked on Amarta toolset, an ERP product for Insurance industry.
Clients include J.C.Penney, NCR, GE, Dairy Form.Hong Kong, A.S Watson &Co., Limited. Hong
Kong, Reuters Corporation, Nationwide Insurance USA.
Technical Skills
HW/OS
:
Pentium Server with Pentium nodes.
SCO UNIX / Sun Solaris/Windows NT / Novell Netware /
Windows 95 /
MS DOS.
: Oracle7.x/8.x/8i, 9i
: PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro and Unix
Shell scripting.
Tools
: Developer2000 (Forms4.5 & Reports2.5), Developer 6i
(Forms 6i & Report6i), Designer 2000, SQL*Loader,
TOAD, SQL Navigator.
ERP
: Oracle Applications Release 11.0.3 NCA / 10.7 SC and
R11i (11.5.9)
Professional Experience
Senior Consultant
Oracle India
May 2004
- Till date
Senior Software Engineer HCL Technologies
Mar 2001
- Apr 2004
Associate Consultant
Polaris Software
Mar 1999
- Mar 2001.
Analyst Programmer.
Binary Semantics Ltd
Apr 1997
- Feb 1999.
Programmer
SRG Infotech
Jan 1995
- Mar1997.
Oracle Architecture & Administration
Having fair knowledge of Oracle Applications Architecture, System Administration. Oracle
Applications 11i, RDBMS V8i/9.x, HP-UX
Oracle Applications 11i, RDBMS V8i/9.x, D2K 6i, SQL *Loader
Database
Languages
Experience Summary
Jun’05 – Till Date
Client
:
Responsibilities
:
Alcoa
:
Project Administrator
Currently assisting Program manger for a
European Project.Client is
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world leader in aluminum
manufacturing and distributed
across the globe. Responsibilities
include resource
Management, contract management, rate
negotiation and forecasting.
May’04
- Apr’05
Client
Environment
Duration
Modules
Inventory,
:
:
:
Tech Lead
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd,
Bangalore
JC Penny Retails
:
Oracle Applications 11.5.9, Oracle 9i
May ’04 - Apr’05
:
Accounts Payables, Oracle Purchasing,
HRMS
Responsibilities
:
Involved as the Offshore Technical Lead handling a team
of 6 technical and one functional Consultant. The project
requirement included extensions, conversions, Interfaces
Forms and Reports to be developed at Offshore.
I was involved in Development of Technical
design documents / Testing and Release of objects. Also
involved in preparing WSR,MOR and PMSR for the
project
I was also responsible for delegation, issue and risk log
Maintenance, issue resolution with on site, release,
delivery, quality control and training of all six members of
the team.
.
Company
:
HCL Technologies Ltd.Gurgaon.(Mar 2001 to Apr
2004
Client
:
NCR Corp.
Environment
:
Oracle Applications 11.5.9, Oracle 9i
Duration
:
Apr ’02 - Apr’04
Modules
:
Accounts Payables
Responsibilities
:
Involved as the Offshore Technical Lead handling a team
of 4 Consultants. The project requirement included
Conversions, Interfaces and Reports to be developed
Offshore.
I was involved in defining Data mapping, Development of
Technical design documents, coding, Testing and delivery
of objects. Was also responsible for configuration
management and quality control of the deliverables.
Client
Project Name
: Client: Dairy Form.Hong Kong.
: HKMS Business Procedures (On Site)
Responsibilities
:
Dairy Form is Hong Kong’s leading Retail
store chain
for Food/non food, drugs and
dairy products. To address
and manage their various
requirements, HCL developed
Hong Kong Merchandising System
(HKMS). HKMS is
an integrated system comprising
of various modules.
During the development of Software, client identified the
need of Business Procedures for all modules.
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I was responsible for developing Business Procedures for
INVOICE MATCHING Module. This module tracks an
Invoice from the time it is received till its payment to the
Supplier. It does have information about the RTV
Goods, Goods which are not there on Purchase order,
perishable goods and goods with various schemes (from
Suppliers). Suppliers fall under different categories
according to which they are paid.
Client
: A.S Watson &Co., Limited. Hong Kong
Project Name
: Accounts Payables Implementation
Responsibilities:
ASW has outlets in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and London with head quarters in Hong Kong.
ASW owns chains of food stores, chain of Electronics appliances and drug stores in all
four countries.
I was involved in developing an interface (Invoice import from various sources), for
their Legacy system, customization and development of new Reports and Training users.
Company
:
Polarids Softwares Labs.( Mar 1999 to
Mar 2001)
Client
:
GE Capital services
Project Name
:
Migration (On Site) Gurgaon.
Environment
:
Oracle Application R11NCA, report 2.5 on NT
Responsibilities
:
GE Capital services migrated Oracle application 10.7 to 11.0.3 and consolidated multiple
instances to single instance. This project consists of customization, consolidation and
migration of reports and interface programs from Oracle Applications 10.7 to R11.0.3.
Responsibilities included
Interaction with users for business requirement analysis. Design and enhancement of
interfaces/reports after migration.
Migration/Customization of reports using Oracle Reports 2.5.
Registration of Concurrent programs using AOL.
Wrote technical Specifications based on given Functional Documents.
Client
Project Name
Environment
NT
Responsibilities:
:
Reuters Corporation, Switzerland
Reuters Reports and package Customization
Oracle Application R11NCA, report 2.5 on WINDOWS
:
:
Development of custom reports.
Customization of existing reports.
Development of packages & Procedures.
Role
Project Name
Client
:
System Analyst & developer
:
:
Amarta Implementation
Nationwide Global Insurance, USA.
Nationwide is a major insurance
player in USA.This
Project was done onsite in USA
and was a
implementation project.
The project involves developing Workflow for the Corrective Processing module. The module
involves Development of 2 lifecycles and packages using PL/SQL, Forms 4.5 and Amarta
Toolset.
Responsibilities:
- Development of Low level designs
- Involved in the development of software.
- Testing
- Creation of User Manual
Company :
Project Name :
Client:
Binary Semantics Ltd. ( April 1997- Feb 1999)
Payroll System
Delhi Transport Corporation.
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An online user-friendly package caters to the statutory functional requirements of the
organization.
Role
:
System Analyst
Environment: Windows NT 4.0,Oracle
8.0.3 as backend
and Developer 2000 as front end,
Case Tool - Designer
2000 V1.3.
Project Name
Client
This system
Directorate
Directorate
Directorate
:
:
Lan Management system
Naval Head Quarters. New Delhi. India.
was developed for three directorates of Naval Head Quarters viz;
of Fleet Maintenance.
of System Engineering.
of System Electrical.
Seven modules were implemented in all three Directorates.
Responsibilities
:
System Analyst
Environment: Windows NT 4.0,Oracle 7.3 as backend and Developer 2000 as front end, Case
Tool - Designer 2000 V 1.3.
Besides this worked on few Fox Pro Projects.
Company
Duration
:
SRG InfoTech Ltd.
Jan 1995- March 1997
:
Played a role of developer and tester on few foxPro projects undertaken by Company during
that period of time.
CAPABILITIES
Engagement Expertise
Project Management
Applications Development
Applications Implementation
Data Conversion
Methods
Oracle Applications Implementation
Oracle Method
(AIM) Methodology
Technology
Software, Tools & Languages
Database
Oracle Applications Versions 11.5.9, 11.5.5, 11.5.3, SQL*Plus; SQL*Loader; PL/SQL; AOL;
TOAD; Reports Versions 6i.
MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Foxpro.
Oracle 7/7.x/8/8.x/9i
Hardware & Operating Systems
MS-Windows (95, 98, 2000, NT, XP), MS-DOS, HP UNIX
Industry & Process Expertise
Financials - Multiple Customer Implementations
Functional exposure to various modules.
EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
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Education
M.Sc and M.Phil(M.Phil Zoology) from Panjab University Chandigarh.India
Master of Science (M.Sc. Zoology) From Punjab Agriculture University. Ludhiana. India.
Bachelor Degree in Science(P.C.B.) From Punjabi University. Patiala. India
Professional Qualification:
Certified PMP by PMI institute.
Post Graduate Diploma In Computer Applications. From TULEC New Delhi, India
Oracle 7.1 and developer 2000 course from SQL * International . New Delhi. India.
Professional Training:
Attended Project Life Cycle (PLC) training conducted by Oracle (Training is Certified by
Project Management Institute (PMI) for 42 Professional Development Units (PDU).
Attened 3 day course “Introduction to CMMI level 3 “(By SEI certified trainer)
Attended “Requirements for SCAPMI method of appraisal for Level 3” by SEI certified
trainer.
Attended 3-day full time course for MPP (Microsoft Project Planning).
Certification
PMP Certified By PMI
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Vandana Bhalla
Email: vandy_bhalla@hotmail.com
Mobile: 9880214570
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