SUMMARY:

• Highly successful results - driven IT professional with over twenty plus years of experience in all phases of design, development, testing, implementation, and support of PeopleSoft applications. Experience in the areas of Project Management, Business Analyst, Database administration, Security Administration, some System Administration. PeopleSoft modules are PeopleSoft (FMS), Human Capital Management (HCM), Supply Chain Management (FSCM), PeopleSoft Student Campus. Project management skills with the ability to plan, organize, coordinate, negotiate, motivate, problem solve, and deliver projects on time and on budget both in
• Waterfall and Agile Methodologies. Agile certified as Scrum Master and Product Manager. Major focus on streamline processing and automation with emphasis of lowering errors and faster turnaround of results satisfying customer. Possess a unique blend of skillsets to technical code, perform functional setup on specific modules and managerial skills to relate on a personal level regardless to position within the company. Strong communication skills allow for effective communication concisely to achieve the organization’s roadmap objectives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

PeopleSoft, Production Manager

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Methodology of Waterfall and Agile combination worked on this project to make it successful because waterfall worked for purchasing and setup of new servers and agile for tasks of retrofitting custom code, implementing new features via setup and custom code, streamlining processes and removal of custom processes and code. Meetings are conducted via agile methodology of daily meeting, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Organize a team of two per PeopleSoft HCM, FIN, and SIS system ensure coverage to meet production issues, enhancement request and other requirements/requests are met within service level agreement (SLA) or development life cycle based on business requirements/stories. SLA ranged from emergency which is a twenty-four-hour turnaround to two-week sprints. Others Confidential two week’s sprints are assess as projects.
• Work with team members change processes to process multiple files versus single file processing. This sped up processing whereby user can load as many files as desired to be processed versus waiting for the process to complete each time prior to loading the next file to be processed. Place notifications of processes, job definitions, job set definition for support team group email for immediate awareness and begin working on issue prior to a user support ticket submitting a support ticket via Team Dynamix. Meeting of one-on-one twice per month with team members to discuss personal and job-related topics. Finally, every quarter conduct a cross- session for team to learn another system or PeopleSoft development tool.
• Work with business analyst team creating or updating user guide, business requirements/stories and merge with technical specs in Team Dynamix ticketing system knowledge base section for quick access functionality of system processes. Also, to take on function setup support while developers focus on technical issues.
• Work with DBA team and system administrator on running dddaudit and sysaudit reports to keep PeopleSoft records and indices in sync with Oracle database. This will reduce research time during upgrades of know whether a record or indices should be retained. Resetting webservice to active and ensuring urls are setup properly for integration processing. Also. database alarms to prevent running out of cache or temp space, as well as automatic workload repository settings.
• Work with security administrator on redesign to allocate security roles and permissions based on position identifiers (first three positions identify the business unit; fourth position identifies level in organization followed last four digits). So, default security roles and permission to automatically setup for each user id. If by chance dual functions are required for a user id due to staff shortage, temp roles and permissions are granted for a short duration before automatically being deleted due to segregation of duties (SOD) violation to meet Sardines-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance
• Work with PeopleSoft teams to implement partial and full PUMs that required retrofitting custom code.

PeopleSoft, Production Manager

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Methodology of Agile for tasks of retrofitting custom code, implementing new features via setup and custom code, streamlining processes and removal of custom processes and code. Whereas an offshore team I too manage consulting service staff consisting of database and system administrators provided status reports and cutover projects during implementations. Meetings were conducted via agile methodology of daily meeting, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, and sprint retrospective. One meeting held during USA eastern standard time, another during a collaboration time with Vietnam and time during USA eastern early morning hours. Offshore consulting service staff did not participate in daily meetings only.Organize a team of two per PeopleSoft HCM, FIN, and SIS system ensure coverage to meet production issues, enhancement request and other requirements/requests are met within service level agreement (SLA) or development life cycle based on business requirements/stories. SLA ranged from emergency which is a twenty-four-hour turnaround to two-week sprints. Others Confidential two week’s sprints are assess as projects.
• Work with team members change processes to process multiple files versus single file processing. This sped up processing whereby user can load as many files as desired to be processed versus waiting for the process to complete each time prior to loading the next file to be processed. Place notifications of processes, job definitions, jobset definition for support team group email for immediate awareness and begin working on issue prior to a user support ticket submitting a support ticket via Team Dynamix. Meeting of one-on-one twice per month with team members to discuss personal and job-related topics. Finally, every quarter conduct a cross- session for team to learn another system or PeopleSoft development tool.
• Work with DBA team and system administrator on running dddaudit and sysaudit reports to keep PeopleSoft records and indices in sync with Oracle database. This will reduce research time during upgrades of know whether a record or indices should be retained. Resetting webservice to active and ensuring urls are setup properly for integration processing. Also. database alarms to prevent running out of cache or temp space, as well as automatic workload repository settings.
• Work with security administrator on designing and implementation of process to inactivate user ids from third-party sending data to PeopleSoft identifying Single Sign-on inactivation. Also, in resolving Sardines-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance reported issues with internal and external auditors
• Written component interface to absorb data from Workday HCM for use in Travel Expense module.
• Written many queries to monitor system issues, user validation queries to be deliver to users via email.
• Restructured processes to execute as jobs within serial job set definitions to prevent table locking and streamline processes with email notifications on the successes or failures.
• Designed for development team to code SQR/SQCs to be called via application engine to perform validation of frequently invalid data is fields being sent to use in external files from third parties.

PeopleSoft, Product Owner/Scrum Master Coach/Project Manager

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Project Manage to success the development, maintenance and technical support of PeopleSoft Financial Systems that encompass technical design, development, strategic planning of database upgrade and reduction of customizations that dropped from 80% to 38%. Fully engaged in managing projects and developing project specifications and schedules, working with business users to document process flows and business logic, and translating these into actionable requirements for technical development. Successful worked into becoming a Scrum Master from a project manager in working relationships with business partners, technical network and infrastructure support personnel and external hosting and application support staff. Provide dashboard status update. Manage on-site and off-site technical staff. Added was the experience of being engage as a Scrum Master in Scrum of Scrum meetings over many other projects along with coaching scrum team. Agile methodologies and techniques were Kanban, Xtreme programming, and scrum. At times using Test Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD).
• Organize a team inactivate code throughout delivered and cloned customized application engines from executing sections and/or involving foreign currency because Confidential does not and will working in a international capacity as well as change %UpdateStats in application engines from low to high to cause full statistics. This approach speeds up processing tremendously.
• Work with team members change processes to process multiple files versus single file processing. This sped up processing whereby user can load as many files as desired to be processed versus waiting for the process to complete each time prior to loading the next file to be processed. Place notifications of processes, job definitions, jobset definition for support team group email for immediate awareness and begin working on issue prior to a user support ticket submitting a support ticket via Team Dynamix. Meeting of one-on-one twice per month with team members to discuss personal and job-related topics. Finally, every quarter conduct a cross- session for team to learn another system or PeopleSoft development tool.
• Work with DBA team and system administrator on running dddaudit and sysaudit reports to keep PeopleSoft records and indices in sync with Oracle database. This will reduce research time during upgrades of know whether a record or indices should be retained. Resetting webservice to active and ensuring urls are setup properly for integration processing. Also. database alarms to prevent running out of cache or temp space, as well as automatic workload repository settings.
• Work with security administrator on designing and implementation of process to inactivate user ids from third-party sending data to PeopleSoft identifying Single Sign-on inactivation. Also, in resolving Sardines-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance reported issues with internal and external auditors
• Designed for development team to code SQR/SQCs to be called via application engine to perform validation of frequently invalid data is fields being sent to use in external files from third parties.

PeopleSoft, Production Manager

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Accomplish upgrades from 8.0 to 8.4, from 8.4 to 8.8, and finally for Receivables, Billing, Payables, General Ledger, Cash Management, Contracts, Project Costing. Grants, Asset Management modules. This include implementing bundle, patches, and fixes.
• Success in leading a team of 11 developers, 5 business analyst, 2 technical writers, 3 change management teams, 5 testers, and 5 end-users in achieving the corporate deliverables, on-time and on-budget in excess of 3 million dollars. Waterfall Methodology used to achieve the success of the projects were Work Breakdown Structure, Scope Management (Change Management/Control Process), Team Roles / Responsibilities / Resource Assignments / Project Schedule, Communication Plan, Detailed Project Plan development, risk and issue tracking logs Confer with project sponsors and senior management on managing PeopleSoft systems, infrastructure, and application development projects from end-to-end

Confidential, Richmond, VA

PeopleSoft, Technical Lead/Instructor/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Accomplish upgrades from 8.0 to 8.4, from 8.4 to 8.8 for Receivables, Billing, Payables, General Ledger, Cash Management, Contracts, Project Costing. Grants, Asset Management modules. This include implementing bundle, patches, and fixes being timely implemented to stay as current.
• Success in leading a team of 11 developers, 5 business analyst, 2 technical writers, 3 change management teams, 5 testers, and 5 end-users in achieving the corporate deliverables, on-time and on-budget in excess of 3 million dollars. Waterfall Methodology used to achieve the success of the projects were Work Breakdown Structure, Scope Management (Change Management/Control Process), Team Roles / Responsibilities / Resource Assignments / Project Schedule, Communication Plan, Detailed Project Plan development, risk and issue tracking logs Confer with project sponsors and senior management on managing PeopleSoft systems, infrastructure, and application development projects from end-to-end
• Worked as Contract-to-hire where I eventually joined LandAmerica as employee in 2004

Technical Lead

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Responsibilities:

• Accomplish upgrade 8.4 to 8.8 for Receivables, Billing, Payables
• Success in leading to perform both technical and functional setup Receivables and Billing. Customize Tree structure for accounting chartfields (chart of accounts). Code third-party interfaces in SQR/SQCs

Developer

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include but not limited to requirements analysis and definition, technical design and development, testing, implementation, and maintenance activities in support of application enhancements and system problem resolution. Handle both new development and maintenance projects effectively and efficiently.
• Providing technical and application expertise in the assessment and resolution of operational system incidents and technical issues PeopleSoft Version 7.5 General Ledger, Billing, and Receivables to meet business objectives as Functional/Business Analyst. Working directly with the PeopleSoft Functional Analysts to document functional specifications for project development/system change requests. Concentrates on the technical aspects of the environment to improve performance, efficiency, and customer satisfaction

Developer

Confidential, Purchase, NY

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities development, configuration and improve performance, and efficiencies to meet customers satisfaction