Consultant Resume Profile
Summary:
Over 17 years of PeopleSoft hands-on development, business analysis and leadership experience for Financials FSCM or Human Capital Management HCM product lines. Played various roles in large scale implementations, upgrades, customizations, troubleshooting and post implementation production. Unique blend of technical expertise with excellent communication skills and self-starter attitude. Freely communicate with SMEs, business users and stakeholders. Proficient in all PeopleTools including Application Designer, Application Engine, Object Oriented PeopleCode, Application Packages, Component Interfaces, Excel-to-CI, Integration Broker, Approval Workflow Engine AWE , Upgrades, Conversions, Interfaces.
Employment history:
Confidential
Business Analyst
- Leading production support efforts for Financials and HCM suites of products.
- Directly interacting with functional users and stakeholders.
- Prioritizing issues between multiple groups of users.
- Leading meetings, tracking resolutions.
- Responsible for short and longer term resource and project planning.
Confidential
Business Analyst / Developer / Consultant
- As a Business Analyst, responsible for gathering new requirements for Purchase Orders Import interface.
- Member FSCM Development team responsible for multi-module production support, troubleshooting, design and development of customizations.
- In preparation for sharp increase in the daily volume, analyzed performance of the complex PO Import process utilizing Component Interfaces. Made suggestions for improvement.
- Responsible for analyzing business requirements for EDI file layout change to the Bank of Mexico, coding and testing necessary modifications.
- Communicate directly with functional users and business analysts.
- Following strict guidelines for migration procedures monitored by STAT change management software by Quest.
- Involved in business analysis, selection of most appropriate solutions and preparation of Functional Design Documents.
- Preparation of the Technical Design Documents based on the provided Functional specifications.
- Provided guidance for changes in the technical architecture, PeopleSoft Integration Broker, and data conversion support.
- Configured Integration Broker to receive data from Voucher Upload spreadsheet.
- Setup Integration between PeopleSoft HCM and PeopleSoft Financials, including all aspects of Integration Broker.
- Created Application Messaging interface between the PeopleSoft HCM and external MQ Series using Integration Broker.
- Analyzed and addressed performance issues for various reports.
Confidential
Technical Lead/Consultant
- Technical Lead for Accounts Payable and Asset Management modules.
- Intensive development effort for the PeopleSoft multi-module Financials 9.1 SCM Implementation for manufacturing client.
- Communicated directly with client SMEs and functional leads to gather requirements and create high level functional and technical specifications.
- Estimated efforts for customizations assigned them and kept track of the progress. Hands-on involvement in complex bolt-on customizations as well as changes to existing code using PeopleCode with Application Packages, Component Interfaces, Application Engine, PeopleCode Debugger and other PeopleTools.
- Regularly reported progress to the project management and steering committee.
- Strictly followed SDLC methodology using Agile approach to keep track of changes and get them ready for migration to QA and UAT environments.
- Analysis of reporting needs, development and implementation of reports.
- Extensive experience in trouble shooting of technical, application and environment related issues.
- Made extensive use of Integration Broker to integrate with other internal systems.
- Produced documentation for delivered customizations.
Confidential
Technical Lead/Consultant
- Designed, coded and implemented customizations to Accounts Receivable, Billing and eBill.
- Presented options and guided the client through the process of selecting the most beneficial for them.
- Wrote test scripts, took system through rigorous testing and identified issues which were critical for go-live and had to be addressed.
- Proposed, coded and implemented additional customizations to eliminate unnecessary dependencies, to simplify testing and go-live.
- Utilized custom code and synchronous Integration Broker integration for sending pre-authorization and settlement requests to the third-party credit card processor and receiving back the payment confirmation.
Confidential
Senior Consultant
- Worked with Accounts Payable AP , Accounts Receivable AR , Billing BI , Inventory IN , Purchasing PO , Expenses EX , General Ledger GL , Asset Management AM , Cash Management CM , eProcurtement, eBill.
- Participated in multi-module implementations on the latest Application and PeopleTools releases as developer and technical lead.
- Participated in the Image Now implementation for fast storage and retrieval of invoices and related documents.
- Full upgrades, maintenance packs, customizations, installations, system administration and troubleshooting, production support.
- Synchronous and asynchronous integration between PeopleSoft modules and 3rd party software using Integration Broker, Component Interfaces, Web Services.
- Inbound and outbound interfaces and conversion programs using SQR, Application Engine AE and Component Interfaces.
- Configuration of Financial Gateway for Cash Management.
- Designed, developed and implemented creative solutions for various customers, including the major private equity firm requiring processing of AMEX transactions in bulk, as a customization to PeopleSoft Expenses.
- Designed and set up Workflow using Approval Workflow Engine AWE for Accounts Payable and General Ledger, processing intercompany transactions differently from same company transactions.
- Created Workflow migration scripts to avoid repetitive manual entry in different environments.
- Defined technical architecture strategy for implementation projects, conversions and interfaces.
Confidential
Consultant
Provided technical support for HCM 9.1 modules Payroll, Core HR, Time and Labor, Benefits Administration, ADP and several interfaces. Responsible for logging and prompt resolution of issues with same modules, while clearly communicating solutions to the end clients. Wrote conversion Programs to convert Employee from different companies on different releases and also from legacy systems to PeopleSoft. Participated in enhancement, development, mapping of integration/conversion activities using App Engine, Component Interface, Integration Brokers, SQR, and XMP Publisher. Responsible for defining, documenting, configuring, testing, training, deploying, and supporting software configuration changes to support changing business processes. Provide mentorship for development and implementation of the solutions through the use of delivered and custom developed PeopleSoft functionality. Responsible for providing support for annual programs such as Performance Management and Bonuses, modified XMLP report such as W2.
Confidential
Technical Lead
Consultant
- Lead Technical Specialist for outsourcing effort to support and maintain PeopleSoft applications as well as develop necessary customizations. As a manager of several development teams and a liaison between them and the clients, responsible for writing high level business requirements as well as technical documentation. Monitor development and oversee testing of the product, have hands-on responsibilities for several applications. Projects included PeopleSoft support and administration, upgrades, conversions from SAP, ADP Payroll to PeopleSoft.
- Technical Lead of the 15 members upgrade team, managing 7 developers, during Financials/Supply Chain Management 7.5x to 8 Service Pack 1, Tools 8.14.10 upgrade for major Fortune 100 client. Responsible for coordinating efforts of the development team to meet Client specifications in 7 Financial modules - GL, AP, AM, BD, EX, PC and PO for setup and maintenance of all PIA components including Application Server, Web Server, Database Server, Portals for Test Moves to Production and final Move to Production efforts. Debugging PeopleCode on the Web and in 3-tier. Re-implementing some of the custom processes using newest tools and technology Application Engine, Business Interlinks, Component interfaces, Crystal 8, Brio. Personally responsible for supporting AP and PO modifications, including Workflow setup to use email notifications as well as Worklist. Designed customizations for Projects 8 module to allow additional flexibility in Funds Distribution and Project Analysis. Developed Queries and created custom SQR reports for supplemental cost review by expense type and project phase. Presented detailed plan of HRMS Commercial upgrade from 8 SP 1 to 8.3, including timeline, approximate resource requirements and scheduled downtimes of the system.
Confidential
Consultant
Defined strategy and addressed all technical aspects of the Financials SCM 7.53 to 8.0 SP2 upgrade, with further planning of upgrade to 8.4. Created detailed project plan reflecting all stages of upgrade up to Move to Production. Advised on the most efficient way utilizing of-shore resources. Worked hands-on to address issues in Application Engine, PeopleCode, SQR, Cobol, conversion of custom Panels to Pages. Utilized special tools to detect and address issues proactively, to minimize upgrade time and increase efficiency of the available resources.
Confidential
Consultant
During upgrade to PeopleSoft 8, lead fit/gap analysis and business reengineering efforts to combine two PeopleSoft production systems into one. Project involved analysis of new business rules, reevaluation and merge of customizations, planning of re-customizations using PeopleTools 8.12, evaluation of hardware requirements for changing DBMS platform, direct interaction with the users. Responsible for installation of 7.0 and 7.5 product releases and double upgrade from FDM release 5.10. Lead team of 4 people during different stages of the upgrade. Determined strategy and planned moves to production for major upgrade as well as Product Update and individual patches in nationally distributed environment. Suggested, designed and implemented numerous customizations, including complex enhancement to Voucher Entry panels - Chunking functionality which allowed users to process previously unmanageable amount of data with adequate response time in 3-tier mode. Applied individual patches as well as major Product Updates to address specific application issues. Maintaining and supporting in production Payables, Inventory and Purchasing modules. Responsible for tuning Application Server performance, time critical Application Engine, SQR and Crystal processes. Took part in HRMS upgrade and being involved in production support for HRMS, Payroll, Benefits and Pension Administration modules, which included maintaining SQRs, modifying and tuning PeopleCode, applying patches and tax updates and other duties.
Confidential
PSG Consultant
Served numerous PeopleSoft clients specializing in upgrades, complex customizations, troubleshooting and problem solving of HRMS and Financial Applications.
Confidential
Consultant
Maintained Program Trading System to meet constantly changing business and user's needs. Implemented distributed processes to deliver Equity Pricing data from Mainframe to SUN Workstation. Utilized CICS LU6.2 API.
Confidential
Programmer Analyst
Maintained, enhanced and supported in production back office applications: Government and Mortgage Backed Securities Clearance systems, Derivatives Pricing. Participated in numerous firm-wide international projects.
