Jay Thakkar

Address - Mumbai, India Mobile number - (+91)9029071788 Email id - jaythakkar16@yahoo.com

Eager to apply the knowledge, skills and techno-functional capabilities acquired over the years as an EDI/MFT B2B and A2A consultant by converting requirements into design, plan achievable strategies and implement them seamlessly.

Overall goal is to plan integration strategies, design and develop artifacts using standard middleware’s/custom software’s, deliver projects on time and add value to the business.

Company Client Domain Experience in yearsIngram Micro pvt. Limited

Ingram Micro pvt. Limited

Retail, Logistics 1.6 (present company)

Cognizant Technology solutions

The Hartford insurance group

Insurance 1.1

L&T Infotech Limited Ingram Micro pvt Ltd and Nordea Bank

Retail, Logistics and Banking

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EDI Consultant - Experienced in implementing transactions like 214, 830, 840, 843, 846, 850, 855, 860, 861, 865, 867, 869, 870, 856, 810, 811, 820, 940, 943, 944, 945, 947 and 997 using ANSI X12 and transactions like ORDERS, DESADV, INVOIC, PAYMUL, CONTROL, FINSTA, BANSTA, DEBMUL and CREMUL using EDIFACT.

Application to application integration expert (A2A) – Integrating different enterprise applications within and outside the organizations to support the current/expand existing business flows. Integration using web services (SOAP/REST), FTP, HTTP, SFTP, AS2, FTPS implicit/explicit, HTTPS, SMTP, LDAP, LDAP(s) with Active Directory and Site Minder.

Business to business integration expert (B2B) – Migrating existing trading partners and on-boarding new partner(s) to B2B platforms.

Objectives

Total Experience – 5 years and 7 months

Key Responsibilities

Team lead – Experienced in requirements gathering, developing high level designs, creating the work-task list, and managing the overall project. Guiding team members and providing technical guidance on various aspects of project lifecycle. Involved in techno-functional discussions with internal/external partners and other stake-holders.Reviewing code artifacts, suggesting improvements, bug fixing and troubleshooting issues is one of the major roles. Have experience with agile, water fall model of development.

Seeburger Migration lead – Have rich experience in migration of any B2B middleware platform with Seeburger BIS integration suite. Have migrated TIBCO BW and other proprietary middleware workflows to Seeburger BIS seamlessly. Developing the workflows using Seeburger BPMN process designer and maps using Seeburger BIC mapping designer.

Automation Expert – Responsible to automate various manual/repetitive tasks with stand-alone/ distributed softwares using Java/Socket/RMI/JSPs etc., developing and deploying Windows/Linux scripts for OS level automation.

PRIMARY SKILL CATEGORY EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) / B2B/ B2C/ A2A

SUB SKILLS Mapping developer, BIS Admin, BPMN developer, Application developer, Web developer

SECONDARY SKILL CATEGORY J2SE and J2EE (core java, Swings, JMS, RMI, Socket programming, JDBC, JSPs, EJBs, Servlets, Spring and hibernate)

Basics of Liferay 6.2

Oracle 11g SQL

C#.net (C# programming)

VB.net (VB programming)

Linux shell and Windows batch scripting (Basics)

Netbeans 6.5, Eclipse, Visual studio 2008

PROJECT ACQUIRED SKILLS SAP t-codes, BICMD, BPMN Developer, Seeburger BIS, Liferay

PRIMARY DOMAIN SKILL LOGISTICS (Supply Chain), Sales and Distribution, Banking and Insurance

Work Experience

Project #1: TIBCO platform Migration to Seeburger BIS Jun/2016 - Present

Project Type Migration

Project Domain Logistics

Client Internal project, Ingram Micro

Organization Ingram Micro

Team Project : 15

Software: BICMD designer, BPMN designer, Oracle TOAD, PUTTY, WINSCP, Apache Jmeter 3.0, Xming, Microsoft Office package, Beyond Compare, Microsoft Visio

Tools : Seeburger 6.5.2, TIBCO BW, TIBCO substations, Mainframe

O/s : Linux Red Hat

Functional Requirement gathering and Analysis, Work Estimation, Task planning, Map/ process development, Testing, providing daily/weekly status report, Bug fixing, Production Support.

Project Description:

Project was about migrating legacy TIBCO engine with new Seeburger BIS platform. Idea was to eliminate extra middleware’s thus reducing maintenance and upgrade costs. Legacy TIBCO had more than 50,000 partners on-boarded, Siteminder as authentication LDAP server, different DNS server, numerous workflows and connected applications which had to be migrated to Seeburger BIS specific components.

Contribution:

Developed business processes in Seeburger to migrate all the legacy workflows to new environment.

Developed transaction specific maps (XML Order, XML Price and Availability, XML Order Status, XML Order Detail, XML SKU Create, XML Suggested PO, XML Product Search) and updated the Message Tracking tables.

Assignment Highlights

Established connectivity with Site Minder SUN ONE LDAP and Active Directory for authentication, Seeburger BIS used Active directory for authentication unlike TIBCO which used Siteminder.

Established connectivity from Seeburger to partner servers for outbound traffic, reached out to partners for whitelisting new Seeburger external PAT IPs in their firewall.

Developed custom transactional reports for business and hazardous reports for warehouse teams for critical SKUs.

Migrated more than 50,000 partners from legacy to new platform without any changes at partners end. Developed a custom program that would read all the partners from legacy TIBCO database and create new setups in Seeburger BIS.

Performed volume and performance testing with legacy and new platform. Legacy platform had a benchmark of having throughput of 55transactions/ second and a SLA of < 3secs for PNA transactions.

Involved in DNS cutover for routing the traffic to new platform instead of legacy from load balancer. We performed DNS switch for this that would resolve existing server load balancer IP to Seeburger Netscalar load balancer VIP.

Developed automation testing tool in Java swings that would hit the request in old and new environments via HTTP, store and compare the responses like beyond compare comparison tool

Project #2: Carrier Integration with Ingram Jan/2016 – Jun/2016

Project Type IntegrationProject Domain LogisticsClient Internal project, Ingram MicroOrganization Ingram MicroTeam Project : 8

Software: BICMD designer, BPMN designer, Postman, Beyond Compare, DB2 visualizer, OAuth 1.0 and OAuth 2.0

Tools : Seeburger 6.5.2, Mainframes, DB2O/s : Linux Red Hat

Functional Requirement gathering and Analysis, Work Estimation, Task planning, Map/ process development, Testing, providing daily/weekly status report, Bug fixing, Production Support.

Project Description:

Project was about integrating Ingram’s system with carrier API’s to get real time updates and ETAs for shipments on the go.

Contribution:

Developed a generic business processes in Seeburger to integrate with different carrier APIs of UPS, FEDEX, DHL, SAIA, Old Dominion and others with Ingram Micro, extract the ETA and status information from XML/JSON response and update the backend.

Developed carrier API request and response maps Integrated with different carrier APIs using SOAP and restful web-services. Extracted tracking numbers from DB2 for generating the request and update the DB2 custom

table with current status and ETA Used OAuth 1.0 and OAuth 2.0 for integrating with few carriers.

Project #3: BIS upgrade 6.5.2 SP21 Nov/2015 – Dec/2015

Project Type BIS Software upgradeProject Domain LogisticsClient Internal project, Ingram MicroOrganization Ingram MicroTeam Project : 4

Software: BICMD designer, BPMN designer, Putty, WINSCP, BIS Front end, Oracle DB, Jmeter

Tools : Seeburger 6.5.2, Seeburger 6.3.5O/s : Linux Red Hat

Functional Analysis, Task planning, Map/ process development, Testing, Bug fixing, Production Support.

Project Description:

Project was to test the impact on existing workflows with new BIS 6.5.2 and explore new features of BIS 6.5.2

Contribution:

Understanding all the existing processes in production, testing and comparing the results of 6.3.5 and 6.5.2.

Updating all the processes that used SOAP adapter and replace it with HTTP client and WS adapters as SOAP adapters were deprecated.

Updated the process to remove all AS1 wsdl adapters as AS1 was deprecated

Performance testing using JMeter to check the new inbox feature and updated process. Explored other plugins like the restful API’s provided by Seeburger for creating entities,

restarting processes etc. Explored new virtual resource repository for bean shell scripts and external jar files

Project #4: Operational Data Source Integration Jul/2015 – Oct/2015

Project Type Integration, SQL and shell scriptingProject Domain LogisticsClient Internal project, Ingram MicroOrganization Ingram MicroTeam Project : 2

Software: BIS Front end, Oracle DB, Crontabs, shell scriptsTools : Seeburger 6.3.5O/s : Linux Red Hat

Functional Analysis, script development, Testing, Bug fixing, Production Support.

Project Description:

Project was to generate reports using operational data source (ODS) and integrate it with Seeburger BIS.

Contribution:

Analyzing the existing SQL scripts, modifying and creating new SQL scripts for different requirements using joins and other functions, cases etc.

Writing new shell scripts that would execute the sql script using sqlplus, zipping the file and sending files to Seeburger via FTP protocol.

Configuring crontabs to run the shell scripts on different schedules Configuring TPMs in Seeburger to have appropriate destination forwarding

Project #5: Seeburger MFT Jun/2014 – Jun/2015

Project Type MigrationProject Domain Insurance

Client The HartfordOrganization Cognizant Technology SolutionsTeam Project : 45

Software: MFT Seeburger BIS, BICMD, RAFT (custom inhouse file transfer system)

Tools : Seeburger MFT 6.3.5, Connect DirectO/s : Linux Red Hat

Functional Analysis, script development, Testing, Bug fixing, Production Support.

Project Description:

Project was to migrate existing jobs from legacy application to Seeburger MFT platform.

Contribution:

Understanding existing RAFT scripts and developing similar workflows in Seeburger MFT solution.

Developing SOAP web services for internal requirements using process designer. Developing ANSI 811 invoice maps to inhouse format Integrating with connect direct application Configuring Seeburger adapters like HTTP, HTTPs, AS2, FTP, FTPs (Explicit / Implicit), NAS file

systems, SFTP, SMTP to exchange files with partners and internal servers Onboarding EDI partners using Seeburger CPG solution with custom processing like having child

maps, additional forwarding’s etc. Transferring files with PGP encryption and compressed formats to one or more destinations

with fault handling capabilities. Creating SEEFX accounts for partners and configuring SEEFX entities in front end. Developed an automation map that reads values from an excel file and creates entities in front

end.

Project #6: Seeburger BIS Jan/2014 – Mar/2014

Project Type Support and DevelopmentProject Domain BankingClient Nordea BankOrganization Larsen and Toubro InfotechTeam Project : 15

Software: Seeburger BISTools : Seeburger BIS

O/s : Windows server

Functional Bug fixing, Production Support.

Project Description:

Project was to support existing workflows of Nordea Bank, creating new maps and onboarding new partners.

Contribution:

Developing EDI EDIFACT maps like PAYMUL, CREAMUL, DEBMUL, FINSTA, BANSTA and other XML transactions to inhouse format.

Tracking the files in Message Tracking Working on support tickets and adhoc requests Had developed Nordea solution document by decoupling the existing BIS processes and

documenting it, this was greatly appreciated by Nordea and L&T Infotech

Project #7: Seeburger BIS consultant Jan/2014 – Mar/2014

Project Type Support and DevelopmentProject Domain RetailClient Ingram MicroOrganization Larsen and Toubro InfotechTeam Project : 60

Software: Seeburger BISTools : Seeburger BIS, Oracle toad, winscp, PuttyO/s : Linux Red hat server

Functional Development, Bug fixing, Production Support.

Project Description:

Project was to support existing workflows of Ingram Micro, creating new maps and onboarding new partners.

Contribution:

Developing and fixing EDI maps for different business partners

Designing and implementing new process flows, developing bean shell scripts (BSH) and deploying it in the central servers

Participating during monthly maintenance activities and monitoring the behavior of Seeburger BIS engine

Troubleshooting different issues by analyzing Jboss server logs and other adapter specific logs Implementing transactions like 214, 830, 840, 843, 846, 850, 855, 860, 861, 865, 867, 869, 870,

856, 810, 820, 940, 943, 944, 945, 947 and 997 using ANSI X12 and transactions like ORDERS, DESADV, INVOIC, CONTROL using EDIFACT

Configuring Seeburger adapters like HTTP, HTTPs, AS2, FTP, FTPs (Explicit / Implicit), SFTP, SMTP. Developed a monitoring tool in java that sends out email notifications daily on the number of

business reports processed, number of reports not delivered to customers and reports that are unprocessed. Tool was deployed in Unix server and was very handy for the support engineers to monitor the daily/weekly/monthly reports

Prepared a web site in JSP that would help L&T manage the resource against the new project requirements. Managers had a one click view on the open projects, resources that match the skill set who are available to work on that project and other resource requisition stuffs.

Developed a tool in Linix script to monitor the RAM utilization, CPU utilization and manage other administrator related activities. Such proactive monitoring report prevented major SEV-1 or P1 issues

NIIT certified java professional J2SE 6.0 Oracle certified professional ITIL certified The Hartford client certificate for outstanding performance in Seeburger MFT solution. LnT Infotech certificate for outstanding performance

College/University Course Year GradeSikkim Manipal University

Master of Computer Applications

2013-2016 A grade (70+ %)

Mumbai University BSC-Information Technology

2008-2011 First Class (70+%)

HSC board Science 2006-2007 Distinction (75+ %)SSC board General 2006 Distinction (75+ %)

Certifications and Awards

Educational Qualification