Hima Padavala
Irving,TX
Summary
- 14+ years of IT experience specializing in EDI, EAI, and B2B integration solutions across industries such as Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, Logistics, and Sports.
- Expertise in designing, developing, and supporting scalable integration solutions using cloud based ipaas platforms like Boomi and on-premise applications like IBM Sterling Integrator (SI), Boomi, IBM ITX, Gentran Integration Suite (GIS), Gentran Server, and Sterling File Gateway (SFG).
- Led end-to-end integration lifecycles, including requirement gathering, solution architecture, development, testing, deployment, and post-production support.
- Designed and implemented reusable integration frameworks and templates, significantly reducing onboarding time and operational complexity.
- Proficient in building and maintaining business processes using Graphical Process Modeler, Visual Mapper, AI Mapper, and SI Map Editor.
- Extensive experience in partner onboarding and configuration, including AS2, FTP/SFTP protocols, delivery channels, routing channels, producers/consumers, and partner profiles in SI, GIS, and SFG.
- Skilled in monitoring and troubleshooting integration flows using file tracking screens, error handling, and message replays.
- Strong background in business process performance tuning, job scheduling, and system optimization within IBM Sterling environments.
- Experienced in Connect: Direct, UNIX shell scripting, and working with legacy systems and mainframe data extraction.
- Experienced with integration governance, including documentation, version control, change management, and audit compliance.
- Exposure to cloud integration using AWS, Azure, and IBM Cloud platforms, and cloud-native services for data exchange and messaging.
- Worked with API management tools (e.g., Apigee, IBM API Connect) to expose and manage secure APIs for internal and external use.
- Familiar with event-driven and asynchronous architecture models using MQ, JMS, and Kafka.
- Collaborated with enterprise architects and cross-functional stakeholders to align integration strategy with broader digital transformation goals.
- Strong knowledge of SAP integration, including SAP adapter configuration in SI and working with SAP SD module.
- Proficient in SQL development on databases including Oracle, MySQL, and IBM DB2.
- Deep experience with a variety of data formats: ANSI X12, EDIFACT, IDOC, XML, CSV, and legacy-specific file structures.
- Provided technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, driving best practices, and ensuring the quality and scalability of integration solutions.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, capable of translating complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Integration Solution Lead
Ryder Systems Inc.
02.2019 - Current
- Lead the design and implementation of integration solutions across platforms and applications.
- Define and design scalable integration architectures aligning with enterprise goals.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to integration developers and engineers.
- Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for integration issues.
- Subject matter expert for various EDI, API, XML, Database, Flat files, and JSON mappings.
- Create documentation and perform gap analysis. Create maps for 204, 210, 214, 850, 856, 860, 861, 940, 945, 947, 846 and 888.
- Perform detailed analysis of project requirements and assist in the development of functional specifications.
- Work with the VAN to implement the necessary enhancements and monitor document transmissions.
- Create communication processes for AS2, FTP and HTTP within Cleo Harmony.
- Onboard customers using REST/SOAP web services and API.
- Perform detailed design and mapping specification creation for translation between Legacy and EDI formats.
- Develop and prepare EDI documentation, as well as provide content and format testing for internal and external use.
- Identify conflicting business practices and integration issues, suggesting alternative solutions.
- Responsible for training new resources in IBM Sterling mapping and process development concepts.
- Migrated EDI/B2B MFT Platform from Boomi, ITX to Sterling Integrator.
- Environment - Sterling Integrator 6.1, Boomi, ITX 10, Oracle SQL Developer, Cleo Harmony, Postman, VISIO
Sr. EDI Consultant
SCOM Inc.
02.2017 - 02.2019
- Worked as a Senior EDI Sterling developer. Attended meeting with customer and gather their requirements and customized mapping and processed as per their needs.
- Created documentation and performed gap analysis. Created maps for 834, 835, 837, 844, 845, 849, 277, 278, 850, 855, 940, 945.
- Performed detailed analysis of project requirements and assisted in the development of functional specifications.
- Worked with the VAN to implement the necessary enhancements and monitor document transmissions.
- Worked on communication processes for: AS2, FTP and HTTP-webservices.
- Performed detailed design and mapping specification creation for translation between Legacy and EDI and Idoc formats.
- Developed and prepared EDI documentation, as well as provided content and format testing for internal and external use.
- Identify conflicting business practices and integration issues, suggesting alternative solutions.
- Migrated MFT customers from Axway to Sterling File gateway.
- Worked with various testing phases like UAT, regression, integration and partner acceptance testing.
- Environment - Sterling File Gateway, SAP, Oracle SQL Developer, Axway.
Sr. EDI Consultant
Crane Worldwide Logistics
10.2013 - 01.2017
- Created various business processes models using GPM as well as text editor.
- Used various adapters like the JDBC, FSA, SFTP, FTP, HTTP adapters in creating the processes.
- Created Maps for transforming the files from several different formats to various other formats. Some of them include XML to XML, EDI to XML, XML to EDI, and EDI to EDI, XML to flat-file, SQL database to XML, SQL database to EDI, positional files. Created simple as well as complex mappings.
- Written extended rules, standard rules. Created code lists in the map as well as in the SI admin console.
- Worked with the team in analyzing and designing the inbound and outbound flows.
- Created maps for transactions that include 850, 855, 860, 856, 810, 820, 204, 210, 214, 310, 315 GR001 (goods received), GI001 (Goods Issued), INVOIC, BOOKINGS.
- Created business processes to query the database and create an XML file to feed as input to the maps.
- Created Business processes and scheduled them for automating the file transformations.
- Worked in User acceptance and system integration testing.
- Worked on defects that were reported in JIRA.
- On-boarded several trading partners in Sterling integrator and Sterling File Gateway. Created Envelopes for each trading partner.
- Created routing rules, delivery channels in SFG.
- Worked on support tickets for bug fixes and various other help desk tickets related to the applications integrated with sterling b2b integrator.
- Created Bp’s with connect direct adapter to exchange files with backend system.
- Worked on two other legacy systems to integrate with SI. Supported C2C application and Kewill Freight forwarder application to send/receive and process the purchase orders, bookings and invoices.
- Created FTP and SFTP logins for the trading partners to drop/pick the files from our servers.
- Created AS2 partners in SI by gathering necessary information from the partners (End Point, Certificates). Created trade relationships for AS2 using the organization profile.
- Worked well within a team as required. Contributed for successful testing within the application team. Worked individually for resolving issues.
- Participated in SI upgrade from 5.0 to 5.2.4.
- Worked with IBM Support in gathering upgrade checklist and procedures.
- Performed upgrade of the system and post upgrade validations.
- Created the application support documentation for the support team.
- Provided KT to the Sterling integrator application support team.
- Go – Live and Post Go-Live support to the projects on a daily basis.
- Environment - Sterling Integrator 5.2, Sterling File Gateway, SAP, Oracle SQL Developer, Axway.
EDI/SI Developer
Yodlee Infotech Pvt Ltd
12.2009 - 01.2012
- Worked on mapping for ANSI X12 transaction sets like 850,855,856 and 810 and major EDIFACT messages.
- Worked with different Idoc formats.
- Developed auto ‘Idoc id generator’ from the SAP parser file using java.
- Created document envelopes in the server to the corresponding maps.
- Created and Modified codelists in server.
- Worked in various testing phases, including the partner testing.
- Worked in trading partner AS2 setup.
- Created SQL queries to evaluate the database entries while testing the business processes.
- Worked with Bootstrap business processes, modified them to fit business scenarios.
- Developed the Error handling business processes, which will report the support team on errors.
- Worked in other aspects like Monitoring and Scheduling and Performance Tuning.
- Migrate maps from Gentran6.0 to GIS 4.2
- Prepared the specification documents from the COBOL copies.
- Accurately monitoring and recording results in test documentation.
- Writing test plans test cases for the developed screen.
- Executing test cases and fixing bugs through unit testing.
- Integrating the module with other modules and deploying them.
- Generating daily progress reports.
- Extract trading partner data from Gentran mainframes, like sample EDI, mapping specifications.
- Created documentation on the existing business processes and customer processes.
- Environment - Gentran Integration Suite 4.2, Java, Java Script and XML, Apache Tomcat, Oracle, Eclipse. Gentran 6.0, SAP, Windows 2000, JDK 1.4
Education
Master’s in business administration - Finance And HRM
Andhra University
Visakhapatnam, India01.2011
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
01.2008
Skills
- Azure, Oracle cloud
- Boomi Ipaas platform, IBM Sterling Integrator, Gentran Server, ITX
- Java, Shell scripting, Oracle 19c, MySQL
- Kafka, IBM MQ and JMS
- EDI Standards, ANSI X12, EDIFACT, XML, cXML, JSON, IDOCS
- Visual Mapper, Sterling Mapper
- AS2, SFTP, FTPS, API and Web Services
Jira, Remedy
Certification
- PMP Certification – ID 3369640
- Boomi Certified Integration Developer
- Azure certified Cloud Practitioner
Timeline
Integration Solution Lead
Ryder Systems Inc.
02.2019 - Current
Sr. EDI Consultant
SCOM Inc.
02.2017 - 02.2019
Sr. EDI Consultant
Crane Worldwide Logistics
10.2013 - 01.2017
EDI/SI Developer
Yodlee Infotech Pvt Ltd
12.2009 - 01.2012
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Master’s in business administration - Finance And HRM
Andhra University
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