SUMMARY:

• Over all 6+ years of industry experience working as a Kronos Consultant performing roles from solution feasibility analysis, Integration, customer discussion and requirement gathering, resource and time estimation.
• Experience in managing the data using WIM and Kronos Connect in different interfaces platform (ADP, Workday).
• Extensive experience on various Kronos modules like Workforce Timekeeper, Accruals, Activities, Advanced Scheduler, forecasting, Time & Attendance and Kronos Workforce Central upgrade.
• Installations and Integration of utilizing applications, which include: KRONOS Workforce Central V. 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0, Kronos Cloud, Stromberg, eTime, Kronos Mobile & Real Time Software products. Also experience working on Kronos mobile application.
• Expertise in UML (class diagrams, object diagrams, GAP Analysis, use case diagrams, state diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, and collaboration diagrams) as a data analysis methodology for application functionality designs.
• Worked on environment configurations necessary to successfully develop, deploy and maintain Kronos interfaces integrating HRMS and Clocks like Kronos 4500 and 9000.
• Install, support and configure Kronos applications to include Workforce Central Scheduler for Healthcare and Optimized Scheduler, Workforce Central Timekeeper.
• Configure new functionality within Kronos to support changing business needs such as pay rules, customer reporting, time & attendance rules, and automated alerts.
• Expertise with Time Card Management, Employee Accrual Maintenance, LOA, Security Access and Process profiles for Managers and Integration of Kronos with Oracle HR system.
• Partner with business regarding HR/HRIS projects, manage project process, lead meetings and drive timelines. Perform a bi - weekly SOX Compliance report for the director of Finance.
• Heavy involvement in configuration & customizations, including WIM, Navigator processes, Attestation, Time-Off Requests, Delegation, HRIS, Advanced Scheduling, SDM (Record Manager), Accruals, Cutover Plans, System documentation.
• Report data analysis, scoping and design. Created about 50 RDL reports (SSRS) in different formats, mainly with Tablix/Matrix and Line/Column/Bar chars.
• Have experience on Human Capital Management 9.1 Functional/Technical Testing Lead to organizing and initiating testing for the (i2p Project) Infinium to PeopleSoft 9.1 Upgrade for North American Payroll and three independent interfaced third-party Payroll, Recruitment and Time Keeping Systems (Infinium, Kronos and Workbrain).
• Tested, troubleshot and analyzed Taleo for current package and service upgrades, adding and configuring new functionality as it became available.
• Experience in Oracle Cloud JD Edwards One-Click Provisioning, manual Installation, configuration and administration.
• Work extensively in the UAT phase; reviewing test cases, writing UAT test cases, tracking the UAT logs daily.
• Good at manage hosting plans for Azure Infrastructure, implementing and deploying workloads on Azure virtual machines (VMs).
• Expertise in creating Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), and Functional Requirements Documentation (FRD).
• Proficient in Technical and Business Writing, Business Process Flow, Process Diagram, Business Process Modeling, Business Analysis and Testing various methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Kronos: Kronos V4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x Workforce Timekeeper, Accruals, Activities, Leave, Time & Attendance, Advanced Scheduler, HR, Payroll, Paycode, Payrule, HRIS, Workrule, Enrollment, Benefits, Forecaster and Kronos workforce central, Attestation, Labor Levels, Labor Accounts, Holiday setup, Overtime, Access Profiles, Display, Profiles.

Kronos Version Navigator: Workforce Timekeeper, Kronos Workforce Dimensions, Mobile and Tablets, Kronos Cloud, Advanced Reports, Advanced Scheduler, Process Designer, Integrated Manager.

Tools: Knowledge: Workbrain, ADP Etime, Payroll, SOX Compliance, RDL, SAP, Workday, JD Edwards, Lawson, Taleo, Clocks, HP Mercury Quick, Test Pro, Rational Quality Management, RPD, JdEdward, Win Runner 6.x/7.x, Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest and Bugzilla

Oracle E: Business Suite, AP, PO, AR, AOL, I expense, I procurement, HRMS, Payroll.

Languages: Java, .NET, JAVA Script, SQL and PL/SQL, Python.

Oracle Tools: 11g/10g, Oracle Workflow Builder, Oracle Reports Builder, BI Publisher.

Testing Tools: Atlassian Jira, ANT, Waterfall, UML, Agile/Agile Scrum.

Database: Oracle, MS SQLServer, UDB DB2, MS Access, Azure

OS: UNIX, Linux, Windows.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, North Carolina

Sr. Kronos Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Perform technical configuration, interface, reporting, and other application technical tasks for Kronos Workforce Central Versions 7.3 and 8.0.11 and 8.0.1.
• Participate and coordinate the daily project objectives daily from initiation through closure.
• Contribute to overall project by raising challenges and develop timely solutions.
• Proactively assist with identifying training and development needs.
• Strong ability to formulate and implement workflow transition plans to meet deadlines.
• Maintain communication with project stakeholders and manager expectations.
• Schedule meetings with team members to review deliverables and deadlines.
• Act a liaison with other departments within HR Solutions.
• Assist managers with the new hire on boarding process.
• Facilitate user training for facility supervisors and Human Resources management.
• Identify and execute continuous process improvements while adhering to Human Resources policies and guidelines.
• Serve as the technical subject matter expert for Kronos Workforce Central timekeeping, Attestation, pay practices, scheduling, forecasting, and reporting for all end customers.
• Supported activities for Kronos application in Time & attendance, Absence management and Accruals modules.
• Configure new functionality within Kronos Workforce Dimensions to support changing business needs such as Pay Rules, Customer Reporting, Attendance Rules and Automated Alerts.
• Audit payroll hours for all nonexempt hourly employees in various time zones.
• Generate reports and data analysis such as detail hours, exception reporting, and overtime usage.
• Perform reconciliations to ensure time & attendance hours balance with Payroll data.
• Update and monitor accrual balances and attendance discrepancies.
• Resolving clock issues for client stores and maintaining the clocks by Configuring the Device Groups and Devices.
• Evaluate requirements, write specifications for, develop, test and deploy interfaces through WIM 8.0 using extensive and complex calculations and database queries and commands.
• Responsible for developing Kronos Pay rules, Work rules, Paycode Profiles, Paycode, Wage Profiles, FAP's, Display profiles, Assignment Rules, Schedules, Labor Levels, Labor Level sets, and configuring Kronos 4500 devices utilizing WDM and DCM.
• As a Kronos Consultant, I work on implementing all building blocks of the Workforce Time & Attendance module.
• Experience in Implementing and configuring Kronos Scheduler, Accruals and Time & Attendance modules.
• Audit weekly earnings report for 8000+ bargaining unit employees to ensure compliance with contractual agreements.
• Experience in supporting Kronos for union/bargaining unit workforce. WFC Mobile Application Support.
• Configured Leave of absence, reasons, eligibility, documents, and Leave rules from HR practices, making recommendations for Kronos Timekeeping system best practices.
• Time & attendance, absence management, device manager and WIM modules in WFC 8.0 environments.
• Setting up all pay rules, time codes, security groups and all other configuration items in the application.
• Assisted with development and testing with integrations, upgrades, modifications, or enhancements to HRIS applications.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Kronos Developer

Responsibilities:

• Ensure Kronos WFC and Sage FAS Premier Depreciation applications, logical access, and environments comply with SOX and respond to internal and external Audit requests.
• Supported business initiative to unify timekeeping applications of hourly employees for best practices to timekeeping application Kronos Cloud version 8.0 and transfer data to Payroll Hybris SAP and ADP.
• Implement the Kronos 8.0 and WFM Suite in Cloud environments.
• Worked on environment configurations necessary to successfully develop, deploy and maintain Kronos WFC 8 interfaces Integration HRMS (PeopleSoft), and Clocks like Kronos 4500.
• Worked on creating and managing Pay rules, pay code distributions, work rules, breaks and all related block components for Pay policies.
• Expertise with Advance Scheduler that is included with Workforce Timekeeper and Experience with paper prototypes, User Interface (UI) storyboards and UI specifications.
• Involved in the production support activities for Kronos 8 application in Time & attendance, Absence management and Accruals modules.
• Managed the administration of employee time & attendance, advance scheduling, expense reports, and payroll for 500+ employees.
• Developed Connect scheduling interface to build Kronos WIM schedules from KNI.
• Configuration and maintenance of Data Collection Manager (DCM) for communication with over 250 Kronos wireless clocks.
• Act as first level support for HRIS/HRMS system related issues, imports, exports, and act as liaison with Kronos 8 to resolve issues.
• QA test configuration of work rules and pay rules for ERP implementation upgrade to WFC 8.
• Oversee QA testing activities for all Kronos HR and Timekeeper application related initiatives.
• Provide analysis and QA testing on system upgrades and new module implementations for the Kronos Workforce Management Suite.
• Install, support and configure Kronos applications to include Workforce Central Scheduler for Healthcare and Optimized Scheduler, Workforce Central Timekeeper.
• Experience in writing Stored Procedures, Views, and Functions in SQL using Oracle SQL Developer for data to SSRS reports.
• Write queries using SQL analyze and validate test results and data, QA data and close cases in Siebel.
• Identify two or more consecutive absence exceptions for any employee for a selected range of dates and create an RDL report.
• Developed Test Strategy, Test plan, Test cases, Test scripts and other project documentation in HP Quality Center.
• Developed Connect scheduling interface to build Kronos WFC 8 schedules from 3rd party software.
• Managed a complete overlay of HR employee data after the client had abandoned HR maintenance for well over a year, all in a production environment with ongoing payrolls.
• Provided support for ongoing Kronos WFC timekeeping, ADP payroll, and Kronos HR systems.
• Wrote technical specifications for modifications to the JD Edwards Enterprise One AR module to meet business and audit requirements.
• Tracked and managed defects along with analyzing data and provided reports with UAT Scripts.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Kronos Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, test and deliver custom solutions when necessary to accommodate client requirements. This includes custom reports, workflows, web pages, and SQL processes.
• Installed Kronos Workforce Central 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3, DCM and Process manager on client servers.
• Worked with many of the different WFC modules which included; Pay Policies, Advance Scheduler, Accruals, Time & Attendance, HRIS, Leave, Device Communication Manager, Workforce Device Manager, Kronos Connect, Workforce Integration Manager.
• Involve in Integrations and Maintenance of eTime (Timekeeping system), Employee Self-Service, and Manager Self-Service (with workflows), including setup of modules, execution of required changes, reporting, auditing, problem resolution, security, and overall functionality of the system.
• Designed and implemented SOX compliant payroll verification process for use during payroll processing.
• Maintain HR/HRIS Service Center Email box, allocate service delivery tickets to appropriate agents for timely resolution.
• Tracked employee's attendance, schedules as well as their benefit time off through the Kronos Time Keeping system.
• Worked on Taleo system, as well as designing enhancements in such as Taleo Scheduling Center, Candidate Communication Agent, and eOffer.
• Creating a scheduled RDL report for the time admins to identify and take action on time off requests for which there was no action taken by interface program.
• Perform Data Collection/Workforce Data Manager administration configuring and managing clock communications on DCM/ WDM.
• Troubleshot and solved all problems in software and configuration in WFC suite specializing in Workforce Scheduler (WFS) in addition to Workforce Time Keeper.
• Assisted in the successful implementation of new Infor-Lawson Smart Office (LSO) ERP software that helped makes business functions run more efficiently.
• Configured Leave of absence, reasons, eligibility, documents, and Leave rules from HR practices, making recommendations for Kronos SME Timekeeping system best practices.
• Partnered with the client as the WorkBrain functional expert and lead clients through WorkBrain implementation activities.
• Propose and implement a balancing process to confirm pay code/hours totals between Kronos and pay files created for Infor-Lawson Payroll process to reduce/eliminate errors in employee paycheck.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Kronos Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Propose and implement a balancing process to confirm pay code/hours totals between Kronos and pay files created for SAP Payroll process to reduce/eliminate errors in employee paycheck.
• Performs Kronos upgrades, tests on newly developed pay rules, troubleshoots existing pay rule configurations.
• Administer time & attendance systems transaction flow including transmitting employee time and updates of employee access and table maintenance.
• Created and modified configuration setup including but not limited to Access Profile, Payrules, Scheduler and Advanced Scheduler.
• Delivered the comprehensive Functional Specifications and System Design Specifications (SDS) and System Requirement Specification (SRS).
• Translate business priorities to CoE must deliver quality HR solutions in areas of organizational design, talent management, compensation, HR data and talent acquisition.
• Interacting with the Payroll coordinators to gather the requirements and implement them in the Kronos.
• Familiar with WFC Version 6.0. Provide virtual support to new and existing Kronos clients.
• Extensive experience WFM solution concepts such as Benefits, Time & Attendance, Entitlements Time & Attendance, Entitlements, accruals and employee scheduling.
• Make configuration changes based on the business requirements for WFC, WAT and other Kronos modules. Hands on experience on Backup and restore Azure services.
• Involve in Processing of Document and Reporting with Jd Edward.
• Performed SIT (System Integration Testing) and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Kronos Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Utilized technical ability to create, maintain, and support Kronos WIM Interfaces, advanced Crystal Reports, and stored procedures.
• Worked on Kronos Workforce Central, Workforce Ready, WFC, Workforce Integration Manager (WIM), Accruals, Advanced Scheduler, Activities, Clock (4500, 9000 InTouch),
• Involved in providing support for Empower scheduling software upgrade, including extracting requirements from union contracts and tracking requirements.
• Attendance Open-air, Kronos WFC 6.0 and Leave module, Workforce Integration Manager (WIM).
• Extensive Experience on various Kronos modules like Workforce Timekeeper, Accruals, Activities, Advanced Scheduler, forecasting, Attendance and Kronos Workforce Central upgrade.
• Configured system settings to control how the Integration Manager engine performs certain operations or displays data.
• Expert in Workforce Connect/Integration Manager, Time & Attendance, Activities implementation, Setup Data Manager, Advanced Reporting and Forecasting.
• Responsible for database Management for Kronos WFC 6.1 timekeeping system, profile setups, allocations, mapping, labor level transfers, PTO requests, scheduling and assist with special projects and database updates.
• Designed, developed and tested data mart prototype (SQL), ETL process (SSIS) and OLAP cube (SSAS) for Computer Maintenance Management System.
• Configured Kronos SaaS HR applications and features (e.g. work rules, pay rules, holiday schedules, attendance, pay code distributions.)

Confidential

Kronos System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted other business analysts in performing feasibility and complexity analysis to identify the technically feasible functionalities and determine the level of effort (LOE) needed to build each of them.
• Documented the Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Non-Functional Requirements.
• Involved in converting existing Crystal X custom reports to SSRS RDL reports using BIDS/VS 2008 and deploy to Kronos.
• Analyst for Kronos Workforce Central 5.0 including Kronos Activities for 5000+ employees across 15+ divisions with diverse and segregated use of systems.
• Apply patches to Kronos WFC, update firmware on Kronos clocks as needed; apply Windows patches to Kronos application server as needed.
• Write all internal documentation and end user training materials for Kronos.
• Primary project manager/analyst for Sage FAS Premier Depreciation.
• Evaluate user needs to implement new companies or custom Crystal reports in Sage FAS Premier Depreciation.
• Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and hands-on experience with the waterfall model.