Upgrade Specialist Resume Profile
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SKILLS:
- Hardware: IBM, HP, AIX, SQL Server
- Software: PeopleSoft's PeopleCode, ORACLE 7x, through 11g, Visual Basic, MS Access
- OS: MS-DOS, MS-Windows, MS Windows NT Workstation, HP-UX, IBM AIX, and DB2/UNIX HP TRU64
EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Technical Lead and PeopleSoft Upgrade Specialist
- Financials Upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 Image 10
- PeopleTools Upgrade from 8.53.10 to 8.54.05
- General Ledger Asset Management Project Costing Account Receivables Billing Accounts Payable Purchasing eProcurement Treasury Cash Management
- Installed and configured the Oracle VirtualBox and imported the PeopleSoft 9.2 Image 5 / PeopleTools 8.54.02 virtual appliance with Secure Enterprise Search SES and later Images 9 and 10
- Installed and configured Demo 9.2 database and PIA environment along with Environment Management Hub
- Oracle WebLogic 12.1.2
- Java 7 64-bit JDK
- Oracle Tuxedo 12c R1 VS2012
- Installed and configured PUM server and applied Image 9 and Image 10
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012 R2
Confidential
Technical Lead and PeopleSoft Administrator
- Production and Development Support
- 4 Production Databases
- 20 Development Databases
- Multiple PeopleTools Versions
- 15 SQL Server 2008 R2 virtual servers
Confidential
Technical
- Upgrade Specialist for the PeopleSoft Financials 9.0 and 9.1 to 9.2 Application Upgrades as well as PeopleTools 8.53.01 to 8.53.08 upgrade
- Application upgrades and Patchset application performed using the PeopleSoft Update Manager PUM and the Oracle Virtual Server - Image Maintenance Strategy
- Accounts Receivable
- General Ledger
- Asset Management
- Billing
- Project Costing
- Reporting
Confidential
- Technical Lead and Upgrade Specialist for the PeopleTools 8.53.01 Upgrade
- Beta Test Site for the PeopleTools 8.53x
- PeopleTools 8.52.05 to 8.53.01
- Accounts Receivable
- General Ledger
- Asset Management
- Billing
- Project Costing
- Reporting
Confidential
- Technical Lead and Upgrade Specialist
- PeopleTools 8.50.11 to 8.52.05
- Accounts Receivable
- General Ledger
- Asset Management
- Billing
- Project Costing
- Reporting
Confidential
- Technical Lead and Upgrade Specialist - Remote and On-Site
- PeopleSoft Financials 8.8 to 9.1 Application Upgrade
- 4 Production Databases
- 20 Development Databases
- Assisted with the installation of the Demo environment and build of the upgrade environment
- Applied all Application Maintenance Packs, Bundles and 1-Off patches
- Accounts Receivable
- General Ledger
- Asset Management
- Billing
- Project Costing
- Reporting
Confidential
- Upgrade Specialist Remote and On Site Test Move and Go-Live Support
- PeopleSoft Financials 8.8 to 9.1 and PeopleTools 8.49.11 to 8.50.11
- Assisted with the installation of the Demo environment and build of the upgrade environment
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- General Ledger
Confidential
- Technical Lead Upgrade Specialist 2000 users / 80,000 employees
- Installed, Built and then performed the upgrade for the Demo and Upgrade Environments:
- HRMS 8.0 SP1 to 8.9 MP1 to 9.0 MP7 Double Upgrade
- PeopleTools 8.19 to 8.49.24
- AIX 6.1 IBM WebSphere 6.1
- Oracle 9i to 11g
- BEA Tuxedo 9.1
- Modules Upgraded / Implemented:
- HRMS, Payroll for North America, Benefits Administration, Candidate Gateway, Absence Management, Enterprise Components, Portal Pack, Recruit Workforce / TAM, Resume Processing, Shared Components, Talent Acquisition Manager, Time Labor, eBenefits, eCompensation, eCompensation Manager Desktop, eDevelopment, ePay, ePerformance, eProfile eProfile Manager Desktop
Confidential
Project Manager Technical Lead
- Project Manager for the following project deliverables:
- Infrastructure Assessment of Current PeopleSoft Infrastructure
- Develop Supported Platform Matrix by PeopleTools Version
- Managed the migration the PeopleSoft Financials 8.8 SP1 from a SQL Server to the Oracle Linux 5 Operating System Platform
- Managed the Oracle 9i to 10g RAC database upgrade
- Managed and performed the PeopleTools upgrade from version 8.45.13 to 8.49.12
Confidential
- Upgrade Specialist for the following upgrade:
- DB2/UDB 8.2 AIX 5.3 FixPack 16
- Financials' 8.4 SP2 / PeopleTools 8.45.16 to Financials' 9.0 / PeopleTools 8.49.07
- Installed and Configured the following:
- Application Servers
- Process Schedulers
- Report Repository
- PeopleBooks
- Verity Context Search Functionality
- Debugged all installation and configuration issues.
- General Ledger
- Accounts Payable
- Purchasing
- Expenses
- eProcurement
Confidential
- Upgrade Specialist for the following upgrades:
- Financials 8.4 to 9.0 PeopleTools 8.47.03 to 8.48.10 All modules
- EPM 8.8 to 9.0 PeopleTools 8.47.03 to 8.48.10 All modules
- Portal 8.4 to 9.0- PeopleTools 8.47.03 to 8.48.10
- Demand Planning to Supply Chain Conversion 8.4 to 8.9 PeopleTools 8.47.03 to 8.48.10
- IBM AIX 5.3 / Oracle 10g
Confidential
- Upgrade Specialist / Performance Tuning for the following upgrade path:
- HRMS 8SP1/PTools 8.18.15, on Oracle 8.1.7.3, to HRMS 9.0 MP1/PTools 8.48.07, on Oracle 10g HP/UNIX
- Provided remote performance tuning support for end user acceptance testing - online and batch processing.
Confidential
- Tech Lead and Upgrade Specialist for the Financials' 8.4 SP2 to 8.9 upgrade and Unicode conversion.
- PeopleTools 8.45.07 to 8.47.03
- SQL Server DBA for the SQL Server 2000 environment
- Modules upgraded were General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Expenses, Asset Management and Projects
- Installed and Configured the Demo, Development and Production Environment.
- Authored the technical assessment for the infrastructure design and sizing specifications for production environment.
- Applied all PeopleTools and Application patches required for both the installation and upgrade.
Confidential
- Technical Lead and Upgrade specialist for the HRMS 8.3 to 8.9 upgrade.
- HRMS 8.3 SP1 to HCM 8.9 MP1 Tools 8.46.05
- HRMS, Benefits Administration, Payroll Interface, eBenefits, eProfile, eProfile Manager Desktop, eCompensation Manager Desktop
Confidential
- Supported HP PeopleSoft eCenter via MS Remote Access.
- Troubleshoot support of application servers, ORACLE 8i and 9i and SQL databases, and PeopleSoft applications HRMS, CRM, Financials, Portals, etc.
- Resolved COBOL compilers issues in a UNIX environment.
- Utilized HP's system-level monitoring product OpenView/OVO .
Confidential
- PeopleSoft Technical Lead Project Upgrade consultant for the PeopleSoft v7.52/7.61 to v8.8/8.44.07 Financials upgrade.
- Performed application upgrade to Financials' 8.8 SP1 and Tools upgrade to 8.45.3
- Modules upgraded were General Ledger, Travel Expenses, Accounts Receivable, Asset Management and Accounts Payable.
- Infrastructure:
- Oracle 9i
- Windows 2003 Servers
- Organized, prepared and presented overall project plan to senior IT and Business management. Project plan was then used to manage the entire project lifecycle.
- Organized and directed the construction for the system infrastructure to include a Demo, Development, Testing and Production environment.
- Performed all upgrade steps for 4 test moves and the final go live move to production utilizing the PS Upgrade Assistant.
- Applied several hundred PS software patches and bundles utilizing the PS Change Assistant.
- Debugged all DataMover, SQR, SQL, Application Engine upgrade script processing throughout the upgrade.
- Debugged and traced all GL, AR and infrastructure issues during all phases of testing and the post go live period.
- Worked with DBA to tune the following:
- Online transaction processing
- Nightly batch processing
- Long running SQRs and application engine programs as well as both private and public queries
- Worked with DBA to configure and size the following:
- Application Server, Web Server, Database Server, Process Scheduler, Report Repository and Single Signon
- Database backup, restore, refresh and tuning strategy
- Scheduled and deployed the pre-loading of application server cache for on-line system performance.
- Worked with internal security group to manage the PS security portability across all database instances within Development, Testing and Production.
- Developed and then deployed the software change management procedures during and after the upgrade go-live period.
