SUMMARY:

• Senior Workday Consultant with hands on Experience in configuration of workday modules like HCM, Finance, Staffing, Benefits, Compensation and different types of Simple, Advanced Custom Reports and Matrix Reports in Workday.
• Worked on ERP (Workday, Coupa, Ariba) implementations and upgrade projects, Fusion Middleware and pure development work, and experience in all aspects of project delivery from discovery to post production support. Worked with many facets of E - Business Suite including HR (HCM, Benefits, and Payroll), Manufacturing (Inventory, Discrete Manufacturing
• Bill of Materials and Engineering), Financials (General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Fixed Assets) and Procurement (Suppliers, Invoices, and Accounts Payable). Held roles on large HR, Payroll, and Financials implementations led all development work including business practice, integration, reporting, data migration, testing, and rollout.
• CORE COMPETENCIES
• Lawson Best Business Practice Management
• Profit & Loss Budget Management Market Research Specialist

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Workday Program and Change Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Workday HCM, Payroll, Recruitment, Financials, Procurement, Project, and Elearn.
• Lawson and ADP data transfer
• Integrations lead
• Provide technical expertise and recommendations in assessing new interfaces and initiatives to support and enhance our existing systems.
• Make recommendations on design and implementation approaches for solutions related to interfaces.
• Identify opportunities that can improve the efficiency of business processes, including technological and business process opportunities.
• Investigate and resolve integration related issues and provide first level support and troubleshooting of our ERP system.
• Assist in managing relationships with 3rd party application vendors.
• Troubleshoot technical issues and identify modifications needed in existing interfaces to meet changing user requirements.
• Map and re-engineer business processes for optimization
• Lead Business Process discussions and help to facilitate critical decision-making strategy meetings

Confidential

Senior Advisor for Workday Post Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Working in the post production enhancements and various change requests for Xchanging integrations.
• Worked on configuring business process and staffing models.
• Created custom reports and created multiple calculated fields.
• Work on Workday conversion processes and tools like EIB, Workday Studio etc.
• Analyzed client’s HR/Payroll business needs through client working sessions and Day to day support of Workday HCM, Security, Compensation and Reporting issues.

Confidential

PMO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Hired people to direct and oversee the Program Management Office (PMO) to ensure IT programs and projects meet organization goals and requirements.
• Develop and implement PMO processes and policies, directs project management staff, and works with other department leaders to define, prioritize, and develop projects and programs.

Confidential

Senior Program Manager II/ Integrations lead

Responsibilities:

• Proposed ERP Solution that provides the most efficient outcome for the organization by replacing five standalone non-integrated island solutions with one completely integrated ERP Solution. Which improved forecasting and planning accuracy and reduce month-end closing procedures from 10 business days to two business days.
• Mentor the client’s IT team to develop reports in Workday
• Reviewing and designing the HR systems landscape
• Participate in the discovery sessions with client and vendors, create the design and mapping documents and submit the same for sign off.
• Designed and developed a set of integrations to integrate Workday HR with Recruiting system
• Review Design and Build of the team members and mentor them.
• Established and led program business rhythms to monitor program technical and financial status, includes internal customer and senior business unit reviews
• Directed and monitored organization staffing, includes employee recruitment, selection,, career development, performance assessment, workload planning, recognition, salary actions and disciplinary actions

Confidential

Senior ERP Global Manager/ Branding Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led the in-house ERP software implementation initiatives that resulted in 50% cost savings in 2010
• Provided technical support to all areas of the business in relation to master data management and ad-hoc reporting on sales and financial data
• Implemented and configured an ERP software package to support all aspects of supply chain management from order entry through distribution.
• Examined raw material usage data to determine the appropriate ordering level based on sales forecasts for the coming quarter.
• Designed a new domestic and international cost margin analysis model that became the standard reporting methodology for Sales and Finance division and management team.
• Participated in several Kaizen events to create lean practices and documented processes that resulted in improved inventory control and shipping processes and procedures.

Confidential

Workday Program Manager/ SCRUM Coach

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with lead Instructional Designers and other key teams to understand new configuration requirements, determine impacts, develop strategies and craft tenant solutions.
• Manage and maintain Workday ’s configuration data that is used to support activities across multiple Workday product suites and classes, driving toward a single unified Workday tenant over time.
• Use and grow Workday knowledge to oversee and own new configuration to ensure it supports Workday’s unified solution.
• Develop and manage a testing strategy that facilitates the testing of activities across Workday’s suite of classes, product features and releases.
• Collaborate with the Workday Operations team to drive high quality and automation related to course tenant data.
• Expertly resolve issues with configuration and transactions, communicating solutions to Workday team members.
• Act as a liaison between Workday and Workday Presales to ensure is aligned with the demo-ware created by Presales, and Presales actively supports configuration data as appropriate for activities.

Confidential

Sr. Global Workday Program Manager/ SCRUM Coach

Responsibilities:

• Led the technical team to convert the business requirements to ERP Design Specifications.
• Carried out business analysis for Payroll and Benefits, Recruitment, Career Development modules to define functional and software specifications.
• Key member of the team responsible for choosing the Hardware and Software hosting company. Responsibilities included creating the RFP; evaluating the responses and providing input to the Information Technology management into the Statement of Work provided by the vendor
• Initiated the defect prevention meetings to do root cause analysis on defects and found ways to mitigate the defects.
• Implemented the new Incident Management System, which improved incident resolution time by 30%.

Confidential

ERP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading a project team consisting of multiple system integrators and internal resources for the implementation of PeopleSoft Financials 9.1; Workday HCM and Payroll; Oracle Revenue Management & Billing and PeopleSoft Portal 9.1. The project was implemented across U.S and Europe
• Key member of the team responsible for choosing the Systems Integrator to implement the project. Responsibilities included creating the RFP and integrator evaluation criteria
• Responsible for managing the Consulting company resources and internal team members
• Responsible for resource planning and allocation of work packages to project resources
• Responsible for management and escalation of risks and issues
• Responsible for reviewing project technical status and making decisions to achieve project goals