CHICO’S FAS, INC. (H.Q.) – FORT MYERS, FL

As the JDA EP Technical Administrator, I was responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining enhancements to the Enterprise Planning system, including:

• Design and develop interface solutions between SAP, TIBCO, and JDA EP, such as Inventory Lifecycle Planning conversion process.

• Design and develop ORACLE database objects (Tables, Views, Stored Procedures) as part of interface solutions

• Design and develop .NET applications as interface solutions between JDA EP and Business users

• Monitor and maintain 12 Windows servers and 1 Unix database server

• Monitor and troubleshoot JDA EP batch processes

• Implement JDA EP product patching and major releases

• Run JDA EP batch jobs to test ORACLE database patches and upgrades

• Maintain and monitor Production/QA/Development (Unix/Windows) servers, including PCI Patching and CPU & Disk utilization statistics

• Run Unix scripts to manually run batch jobs

Business Systems Analyst - Finance

Liaison between the Finance and Technology Department. Responsible for improving financial systems, processes, and practices. Responsible for defining & documenting systems needs and coordinating efforts with the Technology Department. Managed all aspects of the Systems Development Life Cycle process, including post-implementation support.

Specifically, responsible for the following:

• Ongoing enhancements and system upgrades of Financial Systems:
  Sales Audit/Vertex/CTT/Chesapeake (TRECs, SmartAnalysis, UPCS), including:

  • Monitoring and troubleshooting Sales feed from POS to Sales Audit to SAP

  • Monitoring and troubleshooting Master Data feeds and ICT processes for Sales Audit

  • Monitoring and troubleshooting Sales data feed to CTT and Vertex

  • Performing SAP Integration testing with Sales Audit, and Trecs (Sales load, Site Master, Article Master)

  • Performing ATG Integration testing with Sales Audit and CTT (Sales and Tax)

  • Working with internal and external support teams on troubleshooting issues

  • Working with DTC and POS Teams along with NSB/EPICOR on Translate changes needed to handle Business changes such as new coupon codes from Marketing or new line_objects to handle Locate transactions

  • Creating and modifying SQL Server Reporting Services BI reports for Finance

  • Creating and modifying in-line SQL for SmartLook reports for Finance

  • Creating custom applications as needed

  • Maintaining development servers

• SAP (R/3)- Researching, identifying, and testing appropriate configurations related to SD & FI and other modules as appropriate; specifically configuring (/POSDW/IMG) Tenders, Discounts, Taxes, and Financial Transactions, including corresponding IDOCs such as WPUBON and WPUFIB as well as Pricing & Procedure for Billing Document.

• Working with TIBCO Developers on interfaces that send data to and from SAP to other systems such as NSB Sales Audit and Chesapeake TRECS.

• Monitoring Sales data flow into SAP using the following TCodes: /SM37/BD20/BD87/WE02/WPER/ POSDW/MON0
   

Enterprise Application Integration

As an Enterprise Application Integration developer, I was responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining corporate applications, including:

• Implementing System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process, including Systems Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Systems Design, Integration Testing, User Acceptance, and Deployment

• Managing deliverables and user expectations

• Database design best practices – Normalization, Naming Standards, Documentation

I was also responsible for designing, developing, and implementing upgrades to Chico’s FAS internal Payroll system (Time & Attendance). These enhancements included:
 

• Utilizing Source Safe Version Control system for source code control, parallel development, and audit trail maintenance

• Using SQL Query Analyzer and Enterprise Manager to create, manipulate and maintain database objects such as Stored Procedures, Functions, Tables, Views, triggers, and indexes

• Modifying .NET Console application

• Monitoring and validating input and output of data, such as ADP file extractions and Payroll reports

• Monitoring and troubleshooting the process flow of incoming data files (i.e. TC.NEW, TA.NEW) from store registers through a Retail Transaction Switch (RTS) into Time & Attendance system

• Maintain and enhance Sales vs. Payroll process

Accomplishments:

• Received Excellence Award for outstanding performance as JDA EP Technical Administrator

• Received Excellence Award for outstanding performance as BSA for SAP Finance

• Implemented JDA EP upgrade to 7.7.2

• Created and automated a data validation process between SAP BI and JDA EP

• Created a conversion process to handle Merchandise Inventory Lifecycle Planning for Full Price and Markdown tracking for JDA EP.

• Created web interface to stage future stores in JDA EP

• Created a console application to check for missing plans

• Participated in two SAP implementations for retail apparel brands, WHBM & Chico’s

• Implemented new Associate Discount programs

• Implemented a solution to handle store register functionality

• Created and implemented a web user interface to generate and email End of Month Flash reports

• Created and implemented an application that reported corporate store register discrepancies

• Implemented a critical Financial System enhancement that converted all Chico’s FAS, INC store employees to an Hourly pay rate. As a result, all salaried employees were eligible for overtime compensation.  This enhancement was implemented across all Chico’s owned brands, which included White House | Black Market and Soma, at all locations across the United States, including Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

• Designed and developed a Corporate Web Application used for viewing and processing Employee Bonus information

• Upgraded SmartAnalysis and UPCS Chesapeake systems