1. Project 3 – Galleria Optura Next Gen
Description:
Galleria is a 3rd-party tool that is used to aid analysts in making assortment decisions.
Analysts look at 6 key characteristics when considering the assortment mix: Brand,
Flavor/Scent, Form, Size, Product Type, and Package. Through the manual analysis of these
characteristics in conjunction with other key performance factors, Client may decide to carry
or not carry particular items to their assortment. Currently 3 vendors are sending the details
to Client for Galleria analysis. As part of this project we need to retire the process of one of
the existing vendors and also incorporate the new vendor along with existing vendors.
Tasks
 Need to identify impacted COBOL-DB2 programs are used by Galleria in given
modules
 Need to identify the screens that may require the enhancement
 Need to make sure that no impact in the existing flow due to this new change
Responsibilities:
 Requirement capturing
 Mainframe high level Design and low level design
 Estimation
 Coding and unit testing
 System testing
 Production deployment
 Post and pre deployment activities
DURATION: Jan 2010 to Aug 2010
Software Used: VS COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, CICS and DB2
Roles: Technical Lead & Developer
Project 4 – Harmonized Sales Tax
Description:
Currently Canadian provinces British Columbia and Ontario are issuing PST (Provincial Sales
Tax-7%) and GST (Goods and Service Tax-5%) for the items. They want to introduce the HST
(Harmonized Sales Tax-12%), which is combination of PST and GST. This would be going live
on July 1st 2010.
Tasks
 Need to identify impacted programs in given modules
 Need to identify the DB2 tables and design, optimize the query
 Need to make sure that no impact in the existing flow due to this new change
Responsibilities:
 Requirement capturing
 Mainframe high level Design and low level design
 Estimation

2.  Coding and unit testing
 System testing
 Production deployment
 Post and pre deployment activities
DURATION: Sep 2009 to Feb 2010
Software Used: VS COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, CICS and DB2
Roles: Technical Lead & Developer
Project 5 – Flexible Spending Account card project
Description:
IRS has issued various tax favored cards such as Health Saving account card (HSA), Health
Reimbursement card (HRA), Flexible Spending card (FSA) etc. These cards can be used at the
various retail store locations to purchase qualified medical expenses.
Currently accepts the FSA cards at the stores for items labeled as FSA in the POS system and
the reimbursements are automated. HSA cards are also currently accepted in all US stores.
But there is no item level validations happening for HSA at stores. Customers have to
manually submit the sales receipt for reimbursement to 3rd party. Client is not directly
involved.
Prior to 2008, HSA and FSA were mutually exclusive and could not both be offered.
In December 2007, IRS introduced a new combo health plans with both HSA and *LIMITED*
(perhaps vision and dental only) FSA components.
These Combo (HSA + FSA) healthcare plans require an Rx sub-sub-total, as they need to
make sure OTC (Over the Counter items – need not have a prescription) items are not
purchased under the limited FSA purse. The plans can use the additional Rx sub-sub-total to
ensure the HSA purse handles the Rx portion of purchases, while the FSA purse handles the
non-Rx OTC portion
Tasks
 Need to identify the FSA items that need to be send to store
 Need to identify the DB2 tables and design the query
 Need to make sure that no impact in the existing flow due to this new change
Responsibilities:
 Requirement capturing
 Mainframe high level Design and low level design
 Estimation
 Coding and unit testing
 System testing
 Production deployment
 Post and pre deployment activities
DURATION: Mar 2009 to Oct 2009
Software Used: VS COBOL II, JCL, VSAM and DB2
Roles: Team lead & Developer
Project 6 – Handheld Application Uplift
Description:

3. For SOLO ordering we will need to send items with Locally Assigned Codes (LAC) to the store
CT2020 database. Locally Assigned Code – a number system 4 generated UPC code used to
represent items that have not been assigned a manufacturer UPC. LACs are used for items
that are typical not sold at the store such as material, expense, and resale items. An example
of a resale item is meat primal that are ordered and then cut to make meats sellable items.
Tasks
 Need to identify the business requirements to send the items that are missing in
store
 Need to identify the DB2 tables and design the query
 Need to append the missing items with existing flow
 Need to make sure that no impact in the existing flow due to this new change
Responsibilities:
 Requirement capturing
 Mainframe high level Design and low level design
 Coding and unit testing
 System testing
 Production deployment
 Post deployment activities
DURATION: Mar 2009 to Jun 2009
Software Used: VS COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, CICS and DB2
Roles: Designer & Developer
Project 7 – CAMS
Description:
The scope of the Canadian Air miles Project is to migrate the existing Legacy Air miles system
running on Mainframe to Copient, which is maintained by NCR. The primary objectives with
this migration are
 Enhance current system to accurately award the miles earned by customers
 To be able to view transactional information regarding miles being earned
 Customers to use Air miles card to avail of air miles promos and to earn points
Tasks
 Gathering information for the Legacy (QMF) reporting conversion
 Determining all minimal requirements to continue shelf talker functionality (Air mile
sign printing) on MVS environment
 Analyzing communication with Loyalty Management Group (LMG) (3rd party that
maintains Air miles for customers) and modifying this process for the migration to
Copient
 During the migration from Legacy to Copient, the analysis and implementation to allow
conversion for pilot retail stores. The required reporting for validation during the pilot
phase will also be designed and implemented
 Retirement of the Legacy system once everything has been migrated to Copient
Responsibilities:

4.  Design
 Coding and unit testing
DURATION: Dec 2008 to Mar 2009
Software Used: PL/I, JCL, VSAM, PM4DATA, Connect Direct and DB2
Roles: Technical lead/Designer/Implementer
Project 8 – IAM
Description:
Identity and Access Management is a combination of business processes and technical
infrastructure that consistently and efficiently enforces business and security policies,
regardless of network entry point by employees, partners and customers. The need t o
implement an Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution has been identified as an
integral part of satisfying client’s current and future operational and technical objectives.
Tasks
 Extract the Client employee’s data from database
 Format the report as UNIX needed
 Transfer the reformatted report to UNIX server
Responsibilities:
 Requirement capturing
 Design
 Coding and unit testing
 Deployment Activities
 Production support
DURATION: Nov 2006 to Nov 2008
Software Used: VS COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, MQ, Connect Enterprise, PKZIP, CICS and DB2
Roles: Technical lead/Designer/Implementer
Project 9 – WIC EBT
Description:
The scope of WIC EBT project is to convert the Retail stores from paper-based food
instruments (i.e., checks or vouchers) to electronic food instruments (i.e., smart cards). This
change is mandated by the United State Government.
Tasks:
 Receive the APL and HCL files and send it to stores
 Retrieve the claim files from stores and reformat the claim files, as State government
needed
 Send the reformatted claim files to State government
 Receive the reconciliation files from State
 Receive the error files from State and Resend the claim files
 Send the alerts to Support team, if state echoes back error file
 Prepare the reports from Claim and Reconciliation files and send to NASC
 Develop the Screen to update the database with WIC info provided by state

5.  WIC EBT application has been completed in state of Texas, New Mexico, Wyoming and
Nevada for Client stores
Responsibilities:
 Requirement capturing
 Design
 Minor Enhancements, as per the client requirement
 Coding
 All type of testing (unit, regression and system)
 Deployment Activities
 Production support
DURATION: Nov 2005 to Nov 2006
Software Used: VS COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, MQ, Connect Enterprise mailbox and DB2
Roles: Designer/Implementer
Project 10 – WIC MICR
Description:
The primary goal of this project is to enable capture of WIC check MICR while scanning a WIC
check and send it across to Northern California, Southern California and Pennsylvania State
WIC server.
Tasks
 Retrieve the MICR files from stores
 Send the claim files to State government as needed
 Prepare the reports from Claim files and send to NASC
 Update the database with WIC info provided by state
 WIC MICR application has been completed in state of California and Pennsylvania for
stores
Responsibilities:
 Requirement capturing
 Designing Mainframe
 Coding
 All type of testing (unit, regression and system)
 Deployment Activities
 Production support
DURATION: Sep 2005 to Oct 2005
Software Used: VS COBOL II, JCL, VSAM and DB2
Roles: Implementer
Project 11 – SAFWPACT
Description:
Promotion Analyze category review tool system analyzes and prepares the reports for
 STS – Short term scheme
 LTS- long Term Scheme
 Coupon management system

6. There is a change request from client to modify the length of the 2 columns from existing DB2
Table. Accordingly we need to change and test all the queries and Programs that deals with
this table, which involved preparing the above 3 reports. These reports are coming from UNIX
system and going to Tara data server.
Responsibilities:
 Unit testing
 System testing
 Deployment Activities
 Production Support