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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.

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