Premkumar Thangaraj

Experience

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  Cognizant

  Feb 2011 - Mar 2015

  Played a senior offshore team member and guided the team to support clients EDI systems with no impact to the business. As the client is the leading retail giant based out of US, I played a crucial role in supporting their business by performing value adds to the system when required. Always ensured and self motivated to minimise the business impacts whenever we encounter system performance issues. Started my career as a Programmer Analyst in EDI domain. Worked for leading retail giant company based out of US by supporting their EDI Sterling integrator system. Involved in IBM SI map enhancements and new trading partner on boarding in AS2 protocol. Performed value adds to the client EDI system and supported 12*7 support model from offshore.

  • Associate

    Feb 2014 - Mar 2015

  • Program Analyst

    Feb 2011 - Mar 2014
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  Infosys

  Mar 2015 - Aug 2020

  EDI Consultant to provide B2B end to end solutions for migration projects. Migrated one of the leading manufacture industry’s existing iscala systems into Sterling Integrator B2B system and received appreciations from the client team manager/director. Opportunity to work on AWS migration project for one of the leading logistics company based out of Belgium where had to migrate the existing on premise Sterling integrator/Sterling filegateway to AWS Sterling integrator/Sterling file gateway. Lead the offshore team for couple of Migration projects. Played a critical role in migrating client Gentran EDI systems to Sterling Integrator B2B EDI system. Developed and implemented complex business processes in BPML which was a grand success in production rollouts. Received appreciations from client and Onsite teams for expertise implementation Solutions provided from offshore. Represented Infosys in client location at South Korea for business requirenments gathering meetings. Worked as a EDI- GXS Map developer by gathering requirements from client to develop maps in GXS. As there were no Onsite team I I had experience on interacting directly with clients and Involved in Various EDI standards such as ANSI X12, EDIFACT, Tradacoms, Rosattanet messages.

  • Consultant

    Mar 2019 - Aug 2020

  • Senior Associate Consultant

    Apr 2016 - Mar 2019

  • Associate Consultant

    Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
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  CMA CGM

  Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

  Electronic Data Interchange Consultant

  Worked as an EDI consultant where I got opportunity to work on ITX map development. Involved in migrating existing CMA mapping tool (AMTrix) into ITX which includes AMTrix decoding to create Macro design document followed by ITX map development. Goal was to migrate the old EDI state to Advanced EDI system which integrates with SI and ITX. Developed couple of EDIFACT maps. Before to this assignment I was predominantly worked as IBM Sterling Integrator developer as mentioned in my previous organizations work history and here I got a chance to add a new additional EDI tool on my work summary. Though it was short span, I learnt quite new things. Show less

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  DXC Technology

  Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

  Associate Manager Application Delivery

  Worked as an Application Delivery Lead, I was taking care of IBM Sterling Integrator application for one of the leading US based Retail company.Providing production and enhancement support as per the project requirement ensuring no business impact.Involved and responsible in taking care of critical issues by mentoring junior folks in the team where ever needed.Installed perimeter in the new DMZ server which was rebuilt and restored the AS2 connectivity with external trading partners.Perform enhancement tasks on SQL mapping and BPs to improve system performance.Implemented lock feature in Business Process to mitigate Database lock issue which impact Sterling integrator application.Applied IBM SI Patch v5.2.6.3_16 in Windows platform through IBM Installation Manager and ensured no issue identified.Got recognized as Quarter Champ award within a short span of time for the excellence in the work delivered. Show less

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  HCLTech

  Dec 2021 - now

  Senior Technical Lead