Gridaran Birthuvi

Solution Architect

Summary
Over 12 years of IT experience in Oracle retail ERP. Expertise in end to end software development
life cycle such as Gap fit analysis ,Estimation, Project Planning, Requirement Gathering,Analysis,
Design, Development, Testing and Deployment across Retail, Supply Chain and E-Commerce line of
business.

Enriched global consulting exposure having worked for renowned Retail & Distribution companies
such as (Hallmark Inc -USA, C1000 -Netherlands, Al Tayer Group - UAE,Landmark Group - UAE )
and multinational IT organizations like ( Infosys, Oracle Corporation, Accenture Services Private
Limited and Tata consultancy services).

Roles Performed: Solution Architect, Product Consultant,Solution lead,Development Lead and analyst

Specialties:

- Order process, (Imports and Exports) Logistics, Inventory management, Replenishment and Deals
- Master Data Management, Multi-channel Model and Omni channel (Ecommerce
Implementation),SVI Single view of Inventory
- Supply Chain Management, Merchandising and Warehouse management, Store sales auditing
- Pricing and Promotions, Wholesale and Franchisee, Invoice Matching and financial integration.
- Price management, Consignment, Concession Model
- Financial, Merchandise and Demand planning
- Integration of External application such as VOX (Voice picking, Dexion and 3PL) to Oracle retail.
- Data Migration and Conversion
- Oracle Retail (RMS, RPM,REIM,RTM,RESA,ARI) and Proficient in RWMS,SIM,RDF,MFP
- Non Oracle retail- EBIZ financial Integration module PIM,OTM,PLM
- Technical Skills:Oracle SQL,PL/SQL, Pro * C, UNIX Shell Scripting, Oracle Forms
- ODI -Oracle Data integration

Experience
Solution Architect -Oracle Retail at Tata Consultancy Services
January 2013  -  Present
• Drive solution design workshop for new business process and projects
• Plan and manage requirements based on their priority, complexity and release

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 • Review the requirements with Business and the various stake holders
• Produce current state and future state solution blueprints
• Design effective and efficient solutions
• Review the functional and technical designs to ensure it is in alignment with the solution
• Provide workarounds in case of technical/functional feasibility/constraint encountered
• Product evaluation and analyze fitment with Oracle retail modules
• Manage post-production maintenance and support hand over process
• Lead roll out of solution, migration and cut over activities

Soultion Lead -Oracle Retail at ACCENTURE

May 2010  -  December 2012 (2 years 8 months)
Design and Development Soultion Lead for End to End implementation of Oracle Retail (13.1) -
Dutch Grocery retailer.

• Requriement gathering , System mapping , Functional design

• Review the functional and technical designs to ensure it is in alignment with the solution
• Review the test scenarios to ensure all business use cases/scenarios are accounted
• Onshore experience on requirement gather and gap fit analysis
• During QA phase,was directly involved with working with the System integration and UAT
business testing team

Awarded as “Retail Star of the Month” from Accenture Management for excellence in handling
Oracle retail implementation

Integration Lead - Planning implementation (Middle east Fashion Retailer)

• Consulting engagement on Data health check.

• Interface Design and development -ODI

Product Development Consultant -Oracle retail at ORACLE

October 2007  -  May 2010 (2 years 8 months)
• Part of R&D Product Development team that released a new version of MOM (version 13.0,13.1
and 13.2) with enhanced business capabilities
• Led a team of product engineers, working on development and delivery of business specific
enhancements on various product versions of ORMS
• Key member of the team in handling critical system and UAT defects
• Core member in building the tax engine for 13.2 Brazil localization

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Support Analyst -Oracle Retail at Infosys
May 2005  -  August 2007 (2 years 4 months)
• Development of PL/SQL,Shell Script and Pro*C for change request's
• Was part of 24x7 Oracle retail Batch monitoring and Production support team
• Performance tuning of Pro*c batches,SQL and PL/SQL
• Technical upgrade from (Forms 6i to Forms 10g) for Oracle retail environment

Education
Pondicherry University
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, 2001 - 2005
Seventh day adventist

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Gridaran Birthuvi
Solution Architect

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