Narender Reddy Putta

Whataburger is a fast-food restaurant chain based in San Antonio, TX Which has more than 700 Units across the US in different locations. Primary on-site JD Edwards Applications Lead as a Functional Analyst, Developer and CNC for Implementation, Upgrade and support role for various modules Retail, Supply Chain, Finance, HR & Payroll, GL and Job Costing

Role: JD Edwards Techno - Functional

• Production Support to run the business tickets for: JD Edwards GL, AP, AR, Procurement, Job Cost, Fixed Assets, Real Estate, Work Orders and Service Order Billing Module, HR & Payroll and their interfaces to other products.
• Participated on implementation of JD Edwards Job Cost, including Commitment accounting this implementation included interfaces to and from JDE to a project management tool, PM Web.
• Designed and implemented a Tax JDE UBE to accrue tax properly on parts used for maintenance work orders.
• Developed and Configured Orchestration for Inventory Items for creating Sales and Purchase Orders
• Implemented a change in JDE Service Order Billing to include Revenue Recognition rather than AR for the intercompany services journal entries.
• Designed and helped implement interfaces to and from JD Edwards and Cor-centric for AP Automation.
• Designed and helped implement interfaces to and from JD Edwards and Concur for Travel and Expense management.
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and solution development.
• Designed, tested and implemented various solutions to business requirements ranging from internal procedures to data integration with vendors providing an automated Procure to Pay solution.
• Design of AP Checks using the JDE BI Publisher.
• Responsibility for system integrity of those modules and running all period end processes for the Accounting and Finance department.
• Extensive account reconciliation experience in support of Corporate Finance for the global organization, responsibility for the identification and resolution of data integrity issues , coordinated numerous data clean-up initiatives.
• Responsible for the execution of all annual processes relating to the above-mentioned, including the uploading of budgets and the system setup and processing of allocations.
• Designed and developed a Custom W4 Process for Employee Hire and rehire.
• Developed Integrations for CIC+ Plus, Taleo, Business Solver.
• Developed a Custom Report to Import and Export Payroll Benefits for Third Party Vendors
• Created and processed interim check(s) for payroll to print the check for all the companies in single run.
• U.S. Payroll Support Functions and Issue resolutions related to Payroll Process, Tax issues, Vertex etc.
  US. Taxes | Tax Set Up | Tax Overrides.
• Payroll Processing | Interims Processing | Wage Attachment Workbench.
• PDBA Master Setup | Vacation Sick PTO Accruals
  Benefits Administration
• Government Reporting | Year End Processes, W2’s
• Detailed analysis of IT systems, processes, programs and data, working closely with business users and IT teams to ensure that business requirements are met through optimized, well designed and executed solutions.
• Wrote functional specifications for multiple integrations with third party systems.
• Design and Development of Detailed Product Sheet integration to load Item Price information into JDE.
  Designed, Developed and Created a Platform for Online shop order.
• Designed and developed a custom process for Supplier price catalogue load into JDE using File Process.
  Vendor Invoice processing using EDI to create purchase orders.
• Integration with the Third-Party Vendors using EDI 810,850,855,875,880.
• Integration of SL Orders into JDE Using EDI.
• Designed, developed a Daily Sales Reconciliation process for Integrating into JDE

Role: JD Edwards Technical/CNC

• Lead the JDE Upgrade Project from 9.0 to 9.2 by coordinating with the stake holders in the areas of Development, CNC and working with the Business analysts for project updates, deliverables.
• Designed and implemented several custom reports and applications for HCM, Finance, Sales and Distribution, Inventory module.
• Developed Programs to handle Integrations for Inbound and outbound Interfaces to import data from legacy systems.
• Designed Functional/Technical documents for easy Implementation.
• Experience in Requirement Analysis, solution Design and Technical Documentation in different phases of Project Implementation.
• Experience in customizing enterprise applications such as RDA, FDA, BSFN, Interfaces, UDO, Orchestrations, Form Personalization for business requirements in various modules.
• Package Assembly/Build/Deployment .
• Create Users, Provide security setup using security workbench.
• Change Management implementation for deliverables.

• Analyse Current Systems and provide software and hardware requirements for implementing JD Edwards ERP system.
• Installed and Configured JD Edwards Deployment server, Enterprise Servers, Database servers, Web Servers on various platforms like Linux, AIX and Windows.
• Setup CNC managed Services in areas of Configuration, Development Support, Security Set up adhering to Sox Compliance.
• Worked with External auditors and ensuring JD Edwards system is compliance to SOX Controls.
• Provided support for Requirement Analysis & JD Edwards Application Development
• Coordinated with Offshore team for requirements and deliverables.
• Development of custom reports, Form development etc as per business requirements.
• Status reporting of deliverables for stake holders involved.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial institution that delivers a broad range of financial services to a large and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals.

The client has JD Edwards ERP 8.10 and went for JDEdwards 9.1 Upgrade.

As a JDEdwards Technical Lead i was responsible for the following activities.

• Planning, Designing Architecture for JD Edwards Servers for Hardware, Sizing, OS requirements to meet customer technical requirements.
• Impact Analysis of current Infrastructure setup and system study
• Architecting and Design for Upgrade, Project Planning, Hardware and Software Requirements.
• Database Sizing & Server Configurations requirements,
  documenting upgrade strategy and Methodology.
• Communicating with Business of Upgrade Progress, Risk Management and Mitigations.
• Installing and Configuring JDE servers for Upgrade.
• Executing Upgrade in Different Environments.
  System Integration with Third Party production and Testing.
• Working with Infrastructure team to configure JDE servers into network.
• Installation of JDE servers like Deployment Server, Enterprise Server, Web Server and Database Server services.
• Work with DBA team for database copy to be ready for Upgrade.
• Worked with Installation workbench for Upgrade Plan and Data Conversion.
• Installation of Oracle WebLogic server 11g for JDE HTML.
• Installing and configuring Server Manager for JDE server management and HTML server configuration.
  Trouble shoot issues during upgrade plan while running table conversions.
• Retrofitting of JD Edwards Objects after Upgrade.
• Production Upgrade planning, Execution, Communicating to different stake holders about Production Upgrade and Impact to Business.

Support for ERP System responsible for

• Providing support for to manage and administer ERP system and Databases services in areas of Security, Build Management, System Configurations
• Providing production support involving security and business applications
• Installation and configurations of web servers and maintenance
• Customizations and Development of Software Applications as per Business requirement

Implementing ERP system responsibilities include

• Onsite/Offshore Coordination for Requirement gathering & Technical Design Documentation
• Managing development team for deliverables and Peer Review
• Mentoring and assisting team members helps resolve technical issue and provide solutions
• Responsible for customization of applications and coding as per business requirements
• Developed interfaces for Inbound and outbound transactions with third-party vendors.

For implementing Oracle ERP system responsible for

• Code development of various ERP applications as per business requirements
• Debugging and troubleshooting of various complex interactive and batch applications
• Coordination with business analysts on detail analysis on functional requirement
• Modification and enhancement of custom and standard objects with multiple JDE modules (Distribution, Procurement, Finance and Manufacturing etc.)

• Developed customizations as per business need in various modules Sales, Inventory, Finance, HR & Payroll, GL and Job Costing for a Quick Restaurant Service Company
• Coordination with business analysts on detail analysis on functional requirement
• Modification and enhancement of custom and standard objects with multiple JDE modules (HR & Payroll, Procurement, Finance etc.)
• Developed interfaces for Inbound and outbound transactions with third-party vendors.