AKSHAY RAO3410 Andrews Drive, Apt #105, Pleasanton, California 94588, USA

Contact: +1 (650) 228 4213 E-mail: akshayraop@aol.com

SUMMARY OF SKILLS

Qualified Bachelor in Engineering specialized in Information Technology from Mumbai University, having 5+ years of industry expertise in IT services, determined to carve a successful and satisfying career. Currently working as Technology Lead with Infosys Limited.

Experienced in implementation of Oracle Retail (Retek) products to integrate with client’s existing business, and embed a futuristic trend to improve competency in managing their retail business.

Acquainted with rich domain skills to interact with Business pioneers (clients) and business solution providers to transform their requirement into optimal technical solutions.

Good communication skills with comprehensive understanding and practical knowledge of software technology.

Good track record for meeting deadlines and submitting deliverables on time. A systematic, organized, hardworking team player determined to be a part of

a growth-oriented organization. Reliable as a fully contributing, responsible and accountable member of

task/project teams.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Part of special purpose team involved in onshore client interfacing working closely with core business development management to improve their retail merchandise operations.

Directed offshore team as a development lead to reengineer the legacy planning methodologies of a telecom industry with optimized planning solution provided by retail predictive analytics tool.

Appreciated with Infosys Crown Award of Excellence as the most valuable team player for the duration involved in decommission of legacy merchandise application moving the functionality to Oracle Retail Merchandising System.

Supervised one-time fixed cost project to minimize security flaws to an acceptance of 5% for certain exceptions from a web-based application that handled critical data related to income taxation of India.

Supervised one-time fixed cost project, to improve application performance approx. up to 40% of existing functionality, data processing related to income taxation of India.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Package/Suite : Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS v13, v12, v10),

Oracle Retail Sales Audit (ReSA v12), Oracle Retail Price Management (RPM v12), Oracle Retail Predictive Analysis Server (RPAS v13)IBM InfoSphere Datastage (v8.5, v7.5) – ETL tool

Language/ Technologies : PL-SQL (Oracle), UNIX (Shell Scripting), Pro*C (Oracle)

Database : Oracle, IBM DB2, MS SQL Server, MS-Access

Operating System : Linux, IBM AIX

WORK EXPERIENCE (Reverse Chronological Order)

INFOSYS LIMITED Mar’12 – PresentTechnology LeadReporting to: Director of IT Dept. (Client)Team Size: 11

Key Accountabilities

Technology consultant catering to provide integrated technical solutions and designs to upgrade or transform existing retail merchandise business operations with Oracle Retail application like Merchandising System (RMS), Pricing System (RPM), Sales Audit (ReSA).

Client interfacing to deal with offshore driven projects for code development and testing, supervise version controlling to production and post production promotion defect fixes.

Designing and reviewing file formats for data exchange. Mapping business requirements to prepare technical design documents,

review and assist in build and development of code, prepare deployment plan and assist in execution.

Designing test plans, preparing test cases and review of test cases. Training and knowledge transfer to system integration and end-to-end testing

team, undertaking defect analysis and fixes identified during testing phase. Involved as an offshore development lead in market data analysis, cleansing

and processing to transform legacy retail planning & forecasting methodologies to Oracle Retail Predictive Analytics Server (RPAS) tool. Extended as an offshore support anchor to drive post deployment data crunching activities.

Carrying risk analysis and gap analysis in existing system, analysis of procedures and problems to automate processing, and improving existing business systems through process re-engineering.

Defining and monitoring implementations of BCP strategy for the newly created systems.

NATIONAL SECURITIES DEPOSITORY LTD Nov’09 – Feb’12Assistant Manager (Business Analyst)Reporting to: Senior Manager (NSDL)Team Size: 5

Key Accountabilities

Developing solutions catering to client requirements related to a number of 3-tier online applications, backend applications and standalone utilities.

Executing system integration with file formats for data exchange suggested by business.

Mapping business requirements for process enhancements, translating these requirements into functional specifications and putting it across to development team, training of fellow employees, assist in conducting UAT sessions for statutory authority and end-users.

Liaising between development and business teams and coordinating and supervising the new version promotion to production and post production promotion testing.

Designing test plans, preparing test cases and execution.

Supervising application security testing activities and security fixes conducted by authorized vendor to protect critical taxation data handled by the website of income tax department.

Supervising performance improvement activities conducted by authorized vendor to improve the overall data flow and processing by website, internal business layer applications and database application.

Documenting releases as per the ISO 27001 standards policy of the company.

TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS

Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS 13.1) Business Essentials: Foundation Data at Oracle University Virtual Training Class, August 2013

Personal Soft-Skills development - Emotional Intelligence, Professional Communication, Presentation Skills, Client Interfacing at Infosys Limited, September 2013

Infosys project execution process at Infosys Limited, April 2013 Enterprise Application Overview training - Requirement Engineering –

Elicitation & Analysis, Requirement Management and Communications, Introduction to Process Analysis, Validation and Maintenance Lifecycle at Infosys Limited, February 2013

Team Building training at Infosys Limited, March 2012

EDUCATION

Mumbai University Mumbai, IndiaBachelor of Engineering in Information Technology 2005-2009

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 05th March, 1987, Language Proficiency: English, Hindi, Marathi, Tulu,References: Available on request

Place: Pleasanton, CA .

Date: ________________AKSHAY RAO

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PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS WORKED ON (Reverse Chronological Order)

INFOSYS LIMITED

01

Project Name : Implementation of Direct Store Delivery (DSD) Interface across Global Markets (Europe, China, North America) using Agile Methodology of Software Life Cycle

Client : GAP Inc. (Multinational Cloths & Accessories Retailer)Description : As a solution to support Gap’s test designer series to

have visibility in market and to determine the pattern of customer demand, we enabled DSD interface across Global Markets to reduce the turn-around time of availability for these designer series from vendors/suppliers to stores bypassing the classic model of Supplier-Warehouse-Store allocation and shipments. It involves implementation of new interface from Legacy Global Logistics and Vendor System(GLV) to interface directly to Store Inventory Management (SIM) and record Purchase Orders and Shipments in RMS.

Role : Technology Lead / ConsultantResponsibility : Functional/Technology Lead driving the initiative for

Europe Market; Responsible for Spike Analysis and Representation of Stories in bi-weekly iteration under Agile Model of implementation; Driving offshore resources during development and required customization of Oracle Retail products (RMS, SIM). Additional responsibility to avail support to QA team for regression and end-to-end testing.

Duration : March 2015 – PresentHardware : UNIX AIX PlatformSoftware : Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS) v.12,

Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management (SIM) v.12, JIRA Tool(Agile Project Tracking tool), Legacy Purchase Order Creation System, Legacy/Custom Shipment Tracking system(GLV), IBM Infosphere DataStage (v.7.5, v.8.5), Putty (UNIX terminal), CA CAWA (Scheduler tool), Serena Dimensions (Version control tool), Service Now (Migration tool), Citrix application (as end user)

02

Project Name : Europe/China Global Initiative- Oracle Retail MINIQ projects (Agile Methodology)

Client : GAP Inc. (Multinational Cloths & Accessories Retailer)Description : Oracle Retail MINIQ projects are list of change

requirements suggested for continues business improvement in existing functionality to ease business operations, system performance and batch optimization. It involves re-design, implementation and customization of oracle retail products (RMS, ReSA, RPM, SIM) to incorporate evolving business needs.

Role : Technology Lead / ConsultantResponsibility : Functional requirement gathering and analysis,

Design and Implementation of suggested change; Responsible for Oracle Retail Suite best practice

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suggestions wherever applicable.Responsible for deployment planning, job scheduling changes and post go-live warranty support to production.Extend support to system integration and end-to-end testing team to review functional test scenarios and to improve the test capability.

Duration : May 2014 – Feb 2015Hardware : UNIX AIX PlatformSoftware : Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS) v.12,

Oracle Retail Sales Audit (ReSA) v.12, Oracle Retail Price Management (RPM) v.12, Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management (SIM) v.12, IBM Infosphere DataStage (v.7.5, v.8.5), Putty (UNIX terminal), CA CAWA (Scheduler tool), Serena Dimensions (Version control tool), HP Service Manager (Migration tool), Citrix application (as end user)

03

Project Name : Sales interface to Loss Prevention Predictive Analytics System (Sysrepublic)

Client : GAP Inc. (Multinational Cloths & Accessories Retailer)Description : Secure is a software based Loss Prevention solution,

initiative by Sysrepublic, to prevent fraudulent activities. This analytics tool consumes sales information from POS & online system to generate reports on suspected store operations and sales.The Sales feed from Oracle ReSA and online legacy systems was interfaced to extract and push the sales data securely to Loss Prevention system via EDI interface. All critical PCI/PII payment information was required to be masked before pushing.In addition to Sales, inventory adjustment feed is extracted from RMS stock ledger transaction data via an ETL tool namely IBM DataStage and interfaced to Sysrepublic.

Role : Technology Analyst / ConsultantResponsibility : Requirement gathering, Analysis of Sales data to

satisfy PCI/PII compliance, Interface Design to extract RTLOG (Sales Information) from ReSA to Secure, Interface Design using Datastage to extract stock ledger feed from RMS to Secure.Development & Build, end-to-end test support and Review of Code, scheduling jobs and historical sales migration activity.

Duration : January 2014 – April 2014Hardware : UNIX AIX PlatformSoftware : Oracle Retail Sales Audit (ReSA) v.12, Oracle Retail

Merchandising System (RMS) v.12, IBM Infosphere DataStage (v.7.5, v.8.5), Putty (UNIX terminal), Mainframe Scheduling, Serena Dimensions (Version control tool), HP Service Manager (Migration tool), Citrix application

04

Project Name : Vodafone TAPaS (Terminals Advanced Planning Analytics System)

Client : Vodafone (UK Telecom Retailer)Description : The TAPaS programme deploys business processes

and IT enablers for planning, forecasting and

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replenishment, driving key benefits for the business. Demand Planning project is as a part of TAPaS programme.The demand planning project will deliver the Demand Planning solution in ORPAS as well as the associated business process and integration with legacy systems.

Role : Technology AnalystResponsibility : Offshore Development Lead for end-to-end Business

Data Analysis activities like data cleansing & processing in order to provide suggestions to improvise Market Legacy ERP data fed to generate smooth predictive forecasting curves using ORPAS solutions, later extended to Offshore Support Anchor, Coordination with on-site & client, Migration activities

Duration : March 2013 – December 2013Hardware : Intel Pentium platform, UNIX Linux PlatformSoftware : Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server (RPAS)

ver.13, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), TOAD (Oracle DB Client), Putty (UNIX terminal), Microsoft Team Foundation Server (version control), HP Quality Center 11.0 (Defect Logging tool), BMC Remedy Action Request System

05

Project Name : RLTP TAPaS Integration, Vodafone UK

Client : Vodafone (UK Telecom Retailer)Description : “Retail and Logistics Transformation Programme

(RLTP) - TAPaS integration” is a business transformation project focus on interface design between Oracle Retail packages - Retail Merchandising System (RMS) and Retail Predictive Application Server (RPAS).The interface design included feed from RMS to RPAS for forecasting purpose and feed back to RMS for initiating Purchase Orders and Transfers.

Role : Technology AnalystResponsibility : Transform Business Solution to optimal Technical

Design, Requirement Analysis, Functional change recommendations, Coordination with On-site, Coordination with RMS implementation team, Development & independent unit testing, Version Control, Assistance to Domain/System testing team.

Duration : November 2012 – February 2013Hardware : Intel Pentium platform, UNIX Linux PlatformSoftware : Oracle 10g, Oracle RMS ver.13, TOAD (Oracle DB

Client), Putty (UNIX terminal), Microsoft Team Foundation Server (version control), Tortoise SVN (version control), HP Quality Center 10.0 (Defect Logging tool).

06

Project Name : IPMS Sunset

Client : William Sonoma Inc. (WSI - Specialty Retailer)Description : “Island Pacific Merchandise System (IPMS) Sunset” is

a decommission project implementing Oracle Retail package - Retail Merchandising System (RMS) for direct to customer (DTC) channel interfaces handled by IPMS. Entire DTC channel functionality was migrated to RMS and WSI legacy system - IPMS was

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decommissioned.The migration project included modules like Foundation Data setup, WAC calculation & applies, Inventory transactions & Returns setup, PO & Receipts interface, custom interfaces between RMS & WSI legacy systems and IPMS cut-over activities.

Role : Senior Systems EngineerResponsibility : Development & independent unit testing, Managing

Build Version Control, resolving technical issues, Coordination with on-site, coordinating Migration & Go-Live activity, post-migration warranty support, knowledge transfer to system support team and shadowing activity.

Duration : March 2012 – October 2012Hardware : Intel Pentium platform, UNIX Linux PlatformSoftware : Oracle 10g, Oracle RMS 10, Oracle Form Builder,

TOAD (Oracle DB Client), Putty (UNIX terminal), Microsoft Team Foundation Server (version control), Tortoise SVN (version control), Control-M (scheduler tool).

PRIOR PROJECTS EXPERIENCE (Reverse Chronological Order)

NATIONAL SECURITIES DEPOSITORY LIMITED

07

Project Name : Tax Information Network (TIN)

Client : National Securities Depository Limited (self)Description : Taxation Information Network (TIN) is an initiative by

Income Tax Department of India (ITD) for the modernization of the current system for collection, processing, monitoring and accounting of direct taxes using IT services. The underlying module TIN – OLTAS (On-Line Tax Accounting System) embedded the process of receiving information & maintaining records of tax paid through Banks by online upload of Challan details to the central processing unit of ITD and accordingly accounting the remittance to FM Dashboard.

Role : Assistant ManagerResponsibility : Translating business requirement into functional /

technical specification and sending across to development team, System testing, Application Performance review, Application Security review, Business & technical Support, Deployment Support.

Duration : November 2009 – February 2012Hardware : Intel Pentium platform, UNIX Linux Platform, UNIX

AIX PlatformSoftware : IBM DB2 UDB, Putty (UNIX terminal), MS Office.