EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a senior ERP consultant specialized in HR with over 14 years of experience.
• He has performed Consulting roles during his career as a Developer, Techno - Functional analyst, Business Analyst and as a Solution Architect.
• He also has product development experience with Oracle in PeopleSoft Global Payroll country extensions.
• He has experience in work-flow based business processes in Human Capital Management which includes Core HR, North American Payroll, Talent Acquisition Manager, Candidate Gateway and Talent Modules like ePerformance, Compensation, Succession, Career planning and Learning Management systems.
• He has extensive experience in working with the Business owners by providing functional solutions to strategize their HR Transformation projects.
• He has also played an active role in Pre Sales, design workshops and implementation of various HRIS systems as a Solution Architect with full life cycle implementations and upgrades. Implementation experiences include implementation of HR modules in PeopleSoft, Taleo and SuccessFactors.
• He has also lead teams in upgrading, redesigning, implementing and supporting various HR Information systems.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Tools: PeopleTools 8.56, PeopleTools 8.4x, PeopleTools 8.22

Reporting/Analytics: SQR, BI Publisher, Crystal Reports, SAS Basic programming

MS Tools: MS Office - Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Outlook and MS Project.

Languages/Tools: C, C++, XML, HTML, Java, SQL, Peoplecode, SQRs, PL\SQL, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, Application Package, Integration broker, REST APIs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Conference Room Pilots to HR teams across 10 UC campuses and Medical centers to demonstrate the technology solution adopted for their Talent Acquisition strategy.
• Worked with business owners from 6 UC locations to understand their Recruiting process and provide solutions to adapt to the new system design.
• Created Functional design document with approved business process flows for the requirements from six campuses and three medical centers are implemented as part of the TAM and ePerformance implementation.
• Worked with multiple Healthcare assessment vendors to implement assessments as part of the Hiring and On Boarding process.
• Worked on third party integration with External Job boards, background check vendors and third party survey system using Integration broker and IScripts.
• Explored ideas to integration of Job Builder and Career tracks to PeopleSoft job postings using REST APIs.
• Written test scripts for Functional unit tests and System tests.
• Conducted configuration gathering session with all business units, consolidated and configured in the system testing environment.
• Executed Functional and system test scripts and addressed issues with the technical team for an effective resolution.
• Coordinated with the technical team to translate the functional design to technical design through functional walkthrough sessions.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Third Party vendor Talemetry to understand the out of the box product functionality and provided an impact analysis for a cleaner implementation.
• Conducted requirement gathering sessions and system demonstration for Talent Management suites.
• Coordinated with the business users on new functionality and features available as part of the upgraded system and provided viable business process solutions.
• Written Functional requirement document with approved business process flows to ensure the customer requirements are implemented as part of the system upgrade.
• Underwent training on the Cloud based SuccessFactors system and successfully transitioned the client’s Learning Management system from in premise system to cloud.
• Implemented design strategies to integrate SuccessFactors Learning management system with the Core HRIS systems using SuccessFactor connectors.
• Worked with multiple Healthcare assessment vendors to implement assessments as part of the Hiring and On Boarding process.
• Documentation of implemented processes and maintained other project assets post project go live.
• Support, maintenance and enhancements for the existing HRIS and Learning Management systems.
• Developed multiple Interface programs using Application engine and ExcelToCI to integrate PeopleSoft HRMS system with Third party applications like SuccessFactors.
• Develop integration between PeopleSoft Candidate Gateway system and various Healthcare assessment systems using PeopleSoft IScripts and Integration broker for efficient screening of applicants.
• Developed custom SQRs and batch processes for Payroll Tax reporting and Year end processing.
• Conducted Fit-Gap assessments for existing customizations in PeopleSoft Recruiting solutions to implement Talemetry for Candidate sourcing and Resume parsing.
• Developed and customized Oracle Secured Enterprise Search (SES) for searches in PeopleSoft Recruiting and Profile Management.
• Developed custom Fluid pages for Employee and Manager Self Service modules for Profile management.
• Developed custom Connected Queries to build BI Publisher reports for Career and Succession Planning.

Confidential

Implementation Specialist/ Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Workshops with business owners of various departments to streamline their existing HR business processes to ensure out of the box system implementation.
• Business requirement gathering of Client’s Talent Management modules like Taleo Recruiting, ePerformance, Compensation, Succession Planning and Career Planning.
• Conducted demonstrations of Talent management modules with Case Studies to satisfy the Company’s objective to the Organizational chart through exhibiting Succession 360 for Key positions.
• Integration of Taleo Recruiting and Onboarding with PeopleSoft HCM using Taleo Client connect.
• Provided training to key personnel in configuring the system to implement specific rules and templates as per client needs.
• Provided a system to system comparison chart to provide a clear objective as to identify the fits and gaps between the actual business process and the out of the box system processes.
• Documented flow charts and responsibility matrix for each business requirement for procedural sign offs from business owners/entitites.
• Involved in Pre Sales activities like preparing RFP/RFI with cost estimations for a winning bid.
• Used proprietary cost estimation tools to calculate the overall implementation cost.

Confidential

Functional Lead/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead a functional team of 6 members to conduct workshops, writing functional design documents and process flow diagrams.
• Requirements gathering on new functionalities to be implemented to the HR business processes in PeopleSoft HCM 9.2.
• Analysis to replace custom bolt on functionality and map them to delivered PeopleSoft business process.
• Implement Candidate Gateway and Talent Acquisition Manager from scratch for St Elizabeth Physicians
• Coordination with Business sponsors on approval for the upgrade business processes and providing training on new functionalities.
• Providing solutions to improve their business process by reducing manual effort and performance improvement strategy.
• Business process re-engineering for existing redundant business processes.
• Write functional design document based on requirements gathered without affecting the business process flow.
• Implement two different career sites for St Elizabeth hospitals and St Elizabeth physicians.

Confidential

Senior Application specialist

Responsibilities:

• Implemented new interface reports for Tax Crediting using SQRs for year-end annual processing.
• Provided assistance in support for Core HR, Time and Labor and NA payroll.
• Enhancements for Approval workflow for Manager Self Service for Position Changes and Transfers.
• Created new Event rules for benefit elections for employees with predefined eligibility rules.
• Providing functional solutions for their Employee Self Service and Manager Self-service applications.

Confidential

Transition Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a cross functional team of 4 team members to transition support from Toulouse, France to Chennai, India.
• Implemented new interface reports for Tax Crediting using SQRs for year-end annual processing.
• Prepared High level Knowledge transfer plan and executed it between the onsite and offshore teams.
• Hired resources based on their skill sets matching the profile requirements.
• Plan for support activities from offshore developing user manual and appropriate documentation.
• Continuous improvement strategies using Six Sigma methodology to reduce cost for on service operations.

Confidential, St Louis, USA

Solution Architect/Subject Matter Expert/Business Analyst/ Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Leas a team of 10 technical developers to build, unit test and design prototypes of system functionality to obtain functional sign offs.
• Designed a prototype of the redesigned PeopleSoft TAM system to get approval from business owners for the commencement of the project.
• Designed and built custom pages using Adobe Flex framework and developed iScripts to populate data from PeopleSoft tables.
• Multiple iterations of page designs with the business owners to finalize the desired system design for their Talent Acquisition and Shared services system.
• Preparing technical design documents based on function specification provided.
• Decision making on technologies and tools to be used for requirements provided.
• Performing feasibility analysis on the functional specification and accordingly make design changes.
• Provide estimation on Technical design and build for each functional requirement as per the resources provided.
• Continuous improvement of business transaction to reduce inflow of issues through six sigma approach.
• Maintain the Service Level agreement above 98% every week for the modules handled.
• Worked with business analysts and the business owners to finalize on functional designs based on the business requirement documents provided.
• Analyze the requirements and provide design suggestions to improve system performance.
• Provide ideas for preparation of test scripts and regression test scripts.
• Weekly meeting with business owners to get sign off on the functional specifications.
• Prepare the technical project plan for the entire project stream
• Coordinate between the functional and technical team to avoid conflicts between functional and technical requirements.
• Setting up daily calls with the technical and functional teams to monitor the progress of the project.
• Weekly status meetings with the business owners to provide status on the project progress.
• Preparation of project go live plan and coordination of cutover activities with different teams involved.
• Transitioning of the system knowledge to the support team.