Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Sale, Xadmin and Xcenter products customization related requirements analysis, design, development, Technical Lead/Technical Architect and delivery lead

The TJX Companies, Inc. operates as an off-price apparel and home fashions retailer. It operates through four segments: Marmaxx, HomeGoods, TJX Canada, and TJX International. The company sells family apparel, including footwear and accessories; home fashions, such as home basics, accent furniture, lamps, rugs, wall décor, decorative accessories, giftware, lighting, soft home, tabletop, and cookware, as well as expanded pet, kids, and gourmet food departments; jewelry; and other merchandise. They are using the Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Sale, Xadmin and Xcenter products to sell their products in Retail stores and I have customized Xstore base product according to their business requirements

Responsibilities:

• I am working in Oracle Retail Xstore, Xadmin and Xcenter products. It is robust, Flexible and Scalable product.
• Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service is built on a redundant real-time transaction framework. It breaks down the outdated paradigm of the retail store. Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service can fully leverage the power of advanced network technologies and integrate all field operations into a single, powerful, empowered retail organization.
• All business logic operations within Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service are handled by processing a chain of individual functions. The order in which the functions are executed is configured through an editable XML document which can be easily modified within the back-office application. Modifications can be made in the extension layer in the base code which avoids programming costs and allows the modifications to be inherited by future base upgrades.
• I have proactively involved in Xstore POS, Xadmin and Xcenter products customization and implementation of Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Sale 15.0, Xadmin 15.0 and xcenter 15.0. The major customization has done in Credit card authorization, Check Authorization, Tax Modifications, Tlog modifications, Gift Cards, Agency Voucher functionality, discount functionality, and different types of Receipts like customer copy, store copy and Audit copy modifications, Xadmin new reports generation and Xcenter broadcasting the eReceipt data to third party systems.
• Migrating from the Xstore POS 15.0, Xadmin 15.0 and Xcenter 15.0 to Xstore POS 17.0, Xadmin 17.0 and Xcenter 17.0
• Proactively working on production support, Production defects, QA and UAT defects fixes and CR’s development.
• I have been customizing the Xstore product as per Client requirements, which is based on Opchain framework, DTX (Data transfer) Framework, Persistence mapping configuration, Query Configuration, DocBuilder Framework, Forms Framework and Reports Framework Architecture using JAVA/J2EE, Spring, Oracle Queries, Oracle Application Server 12c and Oracle 12c database as back end

Oracle Retail Point of Sale, Oracle Retail Back Office and Oracle Retail Central Office products customization related requirements analysis, design, development, technical lead/Technical architect and delivery lead.

Cox Communications (also known as Cox Cable and formerly Cox Broadcasting Corporation and Dimension Cable Services) is a privately-owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States. It is the third-largest cable television provider in the United States.

Responsibilities:

• I have proactively involved in POS, BO, CO customization and implementation of Oracle Retail Point of Sale 13.0.4.3, Back Office 13.0.4.3 and Central Office 13.0.4.3. The major customization involved in Back Office Bank Deposits report generation, Employee module customization and customization of the Till Reconcile Reports and Store Summary reports. Point of Sale has customized to integrate with external systems like ICOMS, Paymentech for credit card authorization and Telecheck for e-check authorization, using Apache axis web services.
• Migrating from the ORPOS 13.0.4.3, ORBO 13.0.4.3 and ORCO 13.0.4.3 to ORPOS 13.3.6, ORBO 13.3.6 and ORCO 13.3.6 and migrating from ORPOS 13.3.6, ORBO 13.3.6 and ORCO 13.3.6 to ORPOS14.1, ORBO 14.1 and ORCO 14.1
• Mentored the offshore development team and assigned the tasks and getting the daily status from the offshore team.
• Actively involved design and development of the Back Office Bank Deposits reports generation, Till Reconcile, Till summary and Store summary reports customization, Employee module customization, etc.
• Actively involved in designing, developing, deploying and Unit Testing phases for customizing the ORPOS and ORBO products.
• Good experience to integrate the devices using JPos drivers for the following devices VeriFone, Barcode Scanner, Epson Receipt printers, Line Display Pole etc.
• Excellent experience in Oracle Retail productions installation of Central Office, Back Office, POS Server and POS Client in different platforms.
• Experience in installing different products, services, drivers that go along with a POS installation.
• Customized the Oracle Retail POS/BO/CO base products Build and batch scripts as per the client requirements.
• Good experience in QA, Staging and production environments support.
• Actively Involved QA, Staging and Production environments defect fixes.
• Coordination with Developers and QA Team regarding the Testing issues like setting up builds, issuing tickets, setting up Testing and Development Environments.
• Actively involved in deployment of POS/BO/CO in QA, Staging and Production environments.

Cox Communications (also known as Cox Cable and formerly Cox Broadcasting Corporation and Dimension Cable Services) is a privately-owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States. It is the third-largest cable television provider in the United States. Cox has 143 plus retail stores in different locations in United States. This project involved customization and implementation of Oracle Retail Point of Sale 13.0.2, Back Office 13.0.2 and Central Office 13.0.2. The major customization involved in Back Office Bank Deposits report generation, Employee module customization, Till Reconcile Reports and Store Summary reports. Point of Sale has customized to integrate with external systems like Siebel CRM, ICOMS, Paymentech for credit card authorization and Techcheck for e-check authorization using Apache axis web services. Based on the Cox Store hierarchy I have generated the Store Hierarchy process for Back Office and Central Office.

Responsibilities:

• Mentored the offshore development team and assigned the tasks and getting the daily status from the offshore team.
• Working on the Central Office 13.0.2, Back Office 13.0.2 and Point of Sale 13.0.2 base development and customizing these products according to the client requirements.
• Actively involved design and development of the Back office Bank Deposits reports generation, Till Reconcile, Till summary and Store summary reports customization, Employee module customization, etc.
• Actively involved in designing, developing, deploying and Unit Testing phases for customizing the ORPOS and ORBO products.
• Actively participated to customizing the ORBO as per Client (Cox Communications) requirements, which is based on MVC 2 Architecture using Struts, EJB and JAVA, Oracle Application Server and Oracle 10g as back end.
• Point of sale application has integrated with Seibel CRM and ICOMS systems using the JAVA web services. Designed and developed the new interfaces to connect the Seibel CRM system and ICOMS systems using JAVA web services.
• Point of sale has integrated with Paymentech for credit card authorization, Tele check for E-check authorization using JAVA web services.
• Developed Axis Web Services to connect to Third Party systems.
• Good experience to integrate the devices using JPos drivers for the following devices Verifone, Barcode Scanner, Epson Receipt printers, Line Display Pole etc.
• Excellent experience in Oracle Retail productions installation of Central Office, Back Office, POS Server and POS Client in different platforms.
• Experience in installing different products, services, drivers that go along with a POS installation.
• Customized the Oracle Retail POS/BO/CO base products Build and batch scripts as per the client requirements.
• Good experience in QA, Staging and production environments support.
• Actively Involved QA, Staging and Production environments defect fixes.
• Coordination with Developers and QA Team regarding the Testing issues like setting up builds, issuing tickets, setting up Testing and Development Environments.
• Actively involved in deployment of POS/BO/CO in QA, Staging and Production environments.
• Actively involved in Migration of POS/BO/CO products from 13.0.1 version to 13.0.4.3 version.
• Resolved the production tickets issued and deployed patched to the test environments
• Actively involved to integrate the LDAP for Central Office, Back Office and POS.

!PALM (!dea Promotion And Loyalty Management) GUI is an interface containing all the possible combinations of the Trigger for Promotions, Eligibility criteria for the promotions and the Benefits. The user can select a combination of all three for creating a new promotion. The newly created promotion will be passed to the !PALM instance where it will be turned to a generic rule for passing the promotion.

!PALM instances are nothing but different processes for ODS (Operational Data Source). These instances are created on the basis of the IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) number of the subscriber. The basic idea behind creating various instances of !PALM is to distribute the load. These rules are in turn responsible for giving the promotion to the subscriber.

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in Object Oriented Analysis, which is based on MVC 2 Architecture using J2EE and GWT.
• Service calls through RPC mechanism.
• Developed web tier using Ext Js and GWT.
• Developed persistent layer using ibatis.
• Front end validations using Ext Js.
• Written code for Dao, VO.
• Used the log4j as the logger of the requests and responses in our application.
• Configuring the application form host mode to web mode.
• Actively involved in bug fixing.
• Preparing Junit test cases

BT’s main requirements for eCommerce are to provide a consolidated shopping cart and order journey that allows a customer to select, validate, order and configure multiple disparate products. This provides significant challenges to an eCommerce package because BT has multiple, separate ordering and customer support systems depending on what products are being ordered and BT has multiple business rules about its products.

BT.com eCommerce portal broadly divided into Presales, Order Journey and Post Sales. In that I was involved in Presales module. In Presales there is only one catalogue per store and a user can see all the product categories for that store. User can choose a category to see further listing of sub-categories and products. A user can order a product in the BT.com portal ecommerce platform. Presales having different types of categories like employee, pensioner and constructor which display the pages containing products and services based on the selected user type. Presales module mainly focuses on presenting the user about all the existing and new telecom products and their usage profit. Comparison of aimed products, Plans, pricing, discount on multiple selection, short term and long-term benefits of them. How the consumer can enhance the features of already existing BT products and information of beneficiary he is suitable and so on. After the absolute analysis has been done, customer will go for ordering of products. In that I have involved to design and development of Presales module using Open source technologies such as struts1.1, Spring1.7.6, Hibernate3.0, JSP, JSTL, CSS, HTML, WebLogic 8.1, Eclipse3.1, myeclipse1.4 and Oracle9i.

Contribution

As a team leader, was responsible for

• Used rational rose to create use cases, class diagrams and sequence diagrams to complete design documents.

• Gives the technical support to the team members.
• Daily Team meetings and status calls.
• Review discussion and peer to peer discussions.
• Design discussions with designer.