SUMMARY:

• HRIS/HRMS Strategic Planning ERP System Implementation & Upgrade Business Process Efficiency Business Requirement Analysis TCO ReductionVeteran Oracle/PeopleSoft consulting professional with more than twenty years of hands - on experience. Positions and consulting engagements in a wide variety of industries, including Financial Services, Software, Sports/Hospitality, Manufacturing/Industrial Products, Medical Supply, Environmental, Retail, Higher, Automotive, Healthcare, Utilities and Public Sector. Comprehensive and diverse background including, Human Resources, Recruiting/Talent Management, Benefits and Shared Services, & Development, Strategic Planning and Management of HR ERP Systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLS: PeopleSoft 7.x/8.x/9.x PeopleTools 7.x/8.x Oracle SQL Tuxedo Windows NT/XP/7/8/10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Independent Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Modules: Benefits Administration, Core HR, Recruiting Solutions (Candidate Gateway/Talent Acquisition Manager), Profile Management, ESS, MSS, North American Payroll, Time and Labor, Health and Safety, ePerformance, Workflow, AWE, Succession Planning
• Lead discovery sessions with the objective of gathering system requirements and business processes
• Lead role in recommending business process realignment, establishing roadmap for target operating model and optimum solution design

Senior Techno/Functional Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Modules: Benefits Administration, Core HR, Recruiting Solutions (Candidate Gateway/Talent Acquisition Manager), Profile Management, ESS, MSS, North American Payroll, Time and Labor, Workflow, AWE, ePerformance
• Lead for implementation of Talemetry recruitment marketing software to be deployed with applicant tracking system
• Lead for configuration re-design, documentation and optimization of Recruiting Solutions (TAM/CG)
• Lead for configuration re-design, documentation and optimization of HCM production modules

Senior Functional Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Modules: Recruiting Solutions (Candidate Gateway/Talent Acquisition Manager), ePerformance, Profile Management, Core HR, Benefits Administration, Administration, ESS, MSS, North American Payroll, Workflow, AWE
• Lead for configuration, conversion strategy, documentation and testing of Recruit, Performance Management and Profile Management
• Lead for cross module functional project teams
• Analysis of v9.1 Production issues; lead in resolution of Production issues
• Modules: Benefits Administration
• Lead for testing and troubleshooting of v9.1 Benefits Administration Production issues; life insurance, pension plans, passive events, open enrollment processing

Senior Functional Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of v8.9 Production issues; lead in resolution of Production issues
• Lead for configuration of v8.9 Production Open Enrollment plan design
• Modules: Human Resources, Benefits Administration, eBenefits
• Lead for configuration, documentation and testing of v9.2 Benefits Administration and eBenefits modules
• Provided guidance and subject matter expertise on Affordable Care Act strategy, configuration and testing
• Provided guidance on security, testing strategy and project mgmt.
• Developed and delivered custom plan and business process workshops
• Providing post go live and enhancement support
• Reviewed fit/gap analysis of v8.9 to v9.2
• Modules: Recruiting Solutions (TAM and CG), Human Resources, Benefits Administration, NA Payroll, Profile Management, ESS, MSS (customized), Security, Workflow
• Configured Recruiting Solutions module
• Guided project team through all testing phases
• Provided guidance on security, testing strategy and project mgmt.
• Conducted fit/gap of v9.0 to v9.2
• Modules: Human Resources, Base Benefits, NA Payroll, Time and Labor, Profile Management, ePerformance, ESS, MSS (customized), Security, Workflow
• Advised on timeline and resource allocation
• Presented findings and recommendation to senior management staff

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Senior Member of core team responsible for business development and PeopleSoft Practice leadership; supervisory duties for junior staff
• Presenter at 2012 PeopleSoft ReConnect Conference
• Functional Lead for Grocery Chain Retailer in diagnosing, troubleshooting and provide best practice guidelines for optimal v9.1 Benefits Administration performance; modules include Human Resources, Benefits Administration, NA Payroll and custom ADP Recruit interface
• Project Mgr for Resort Services client conducting HRMS v8.3 to HCM v9.1 double upgrade; modules include Human Resources, Benefits Administration, NA Payroll, Security and custom Taleo interface - Project size +$.5M
• Functional Team Lead for Environmental Services client conducting HRMS v8.3 to HCM v9.1 double upgrade; modules include Human Resources, Health & Safety, Time & Labor, Payroll Interface, Security and custom Bolt On apps
• Initial HCM implementation of v9.1, data conversion from ADP
• Modules: Human Resources, Benefits Administration, eBenefits, NA Payroll, Talent Acquisition Manager, Candidate Gateway, Profile Management, ESS, MSS, Security, Interfaces to third party systems, Workflow
• Lead role for Benefits Administration design and implementation
• Upgrade from HCM v8.8 to HCM v9.1
• Modules: Human Resources, Benefits Administration, NA Payroll, Talent Acquisition Manager, Candidate Gateway, ESS, MSS, Health & Safety, Security, Interfaces to third party systems, Workflow, Heavily customized environment
• Conducted detailed Fit/Gap sessions, delivered demonstrations of v9.1 Profile Management and v9.1 Delta’s
• Implementation impact for Benefits Administration v9.1
• Upgrade assessment for Enterprise Learning Management v9.0
• Implementation, ROI assessment for Recruiting Solutions v9.1
• Consolidation of sixteen (16) PeopleSoft production environments into one
• Upgrade from HCM v8.8 to HCM v9.1
• Platform change from DB2 to SQL Server
• Modules: Human Resources, Base Benefits, NA Payroll, Time & Labor, ESS, Labor Relations, Health & Safety, Security, Interfaces to third party systems, Custom bolt-on applications
• Functional lead in Fit/Gap, Conversion, Development, Documentation, Testing and phases
• Specialized focus on consolidation of configuration datasets and application security.

Confidential

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Delivered client presentations for new business opportunities
• Identified business requirements needs and converted those into tangible application solutions
• Managed scope and risk variants on projects ranging from $.5M to $2M+ in size
• Provided best practice advisement in data management and business processes relevant to client and industry
• Created and delivered best practice presentations at Oracle/PeopleSoft User Group and Special Interest conferences.
• Led multi system scope and upgrade for Healthcare client; HCM v8.8 and HCM v8.9 to HCM v9.0.
• Led multi system upgrade for major Midwest utility holding company merger; HCM v8.3 to HCM v8.9 and sync with Finance ERP
• Developed custom solution for national Automotive rental company to improve administration of employee time off and uncovered new business opportunity to implement/upgrade additional automated systems and provide support contract.
• Led functional efforts for HRMS and Learning Management Systems upgrade of Financial Services client; HCM v8.3 to HCM v8.9 and ELM v8.81 to v9.0
• Led functional efforts for implementation of Recruiting Solutions application for national academic medical center client.
• Performed in Project Management and Lead roles for HRMS upgrade and Learning Management System implementation of Texas based commercial banking client.
• Conducted Sarbanes-Oxley compliance activities for major west coast Manufacturing client.
• Prepared parent and subsidiary company regulatory reporting for Midwest Financial Services client.
• Led functional efforts for HRMS upgrade of major national Financial Services client; HR v7.5 to HCM v8.8.
• Designed and implemented new benefit program plan design for private University client and uncovered new business opportunity to implement additional automated benefit systems.
• Led project team in implementation of automated benefit system and conversion from legacy system for leading national provider of funding.

Confidential

Independent Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated highly custom ASP hosted Talent Management application
• Conducted detailed analysis of business needs against PeopleSoft solution and advised technical team on hybrid customizations
• Presented documented findings to client management

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Human Resources Project Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Functional team lead for system implementation in US, Canada and South America
• Defined system conversion strategy, developed testing and acceptance procedures
• Engaged leadership team, business owners and user groups in change management requirements

Confidential, Houston, TX

Manager, HRIS & Automated Services

Responsibilities:

• Project lead for Benefits Administration implementation, Paperless eBenefits solution, Manager & Employee Self Service upgrade and online Performance Review administration
• Counseled senior management on data management efficiencies, data integrity controls, system integration and shared service portal solutions
• Served as PeopleSoft Committee Chair, managed six (6) direct reports

Confidential, Houston, TX

Human Resources Information Systems Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project lead on three (3) proprietary software projects
• Oversaw technical requirements for all US employees
• Heavily involved in implementation of Organizational and Leadership Development programs, utilizing Six Sigma methodology

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Provided courseware instruction on various Microsoft Office Suite applications to Burnett employees, contract and independent students. Supported telephone help desk in Tier 1 support.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Director & Support

Responsibilities:

• Performed onsite installation, and support for proprietary contact management software. Created and delivered curriculum and support guidelines. Conducted audits, participated in new release debugging and presented company offerings at 1998 Houston Business Expo.

Confidential, Houston, TX

HR Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Administered all internal, procedures and project coordination for HR department. Supported five (5) trainers with development of curriculum, online catalog and interactive CBT courses.