SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a seasoned SAP HCM Functional Consultant with more than 19 years of business experience in HRIS / Payroll solutions.
• Confidential has over 16 years of SAP HCM expertise with strength in Time Management, Time Evaluation, CATS, Payroll and Absence Management.
• With six (6) full lifecycle implementation, Confidential has demonstrated ability to build an effective partnership between an organization's IT and HR functions.
• Confidential focuses on maximizing the ROI through defining and implementing the Value Drivers for the HR system.
• Confidential has gained deep experience implementing SAP Time Management solutions for Manufacturing, including scheduling solutions for manufacturing operations and integration with MRP systems to support labor capacity planning.
• Confidential possesses exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• He holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Computing and has registered for his PMP certification.

SAP TIME MANAGEMENT / CATS SUMMARY OF EXPERTISE:

• Multiple Implementations of CATS Timesheet / Time Entry
• Several CATS implementations for Manufacturing clients
• Development experience in all User Exits for CATS
• Implementation experience for Mobile time entry solutions including Fiori and Cordis
• Designed integration from CATS to external clocks and mobile time capture systems
• Configuration & Implementation of ESS/MSS for approval of Time Sheets and Leave Requests
• Configuration & Implementation of Time Evaluation
• Time Management integration with ESS/MMS/CATS functionality including EP6 Confidential timesheet
• CATS / Project Systems & Plant Maintenance integration
• Configuration of Absence Quotas - tracking leave entitlements
• Global experience with statutory requirements of Absence Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS PROILE:

• SAP HCM - T ime Management, Time Evaluation, CATS, Payroll, Absence Management, OM/PA, PD
• SAP Releases - 3.x to ECC 6.0, EhP 6
• O/S - Windows, UNIX, Solaris, MS-DOS
• HP (Mercury) Quality Center - Test Director
• ADP interface
• Kronos WorkforceReady Time/Labor Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Advised on enhancements to hybrid implementation of Successfactors EC with on-premise SAP Payroll for India and US.
• Designed automated payroll processes to calculate and pay productivity bonus, shift premiums. Also configured overtime rules for seven states.
• Planned and facilitated parallel testing for Confidential and data migration activities for payroll year to date etc.
• Oversaw all phases of testing (Integration, Regression and User Acceptance), including management of defects to resolution and reporting progress metrics to leadership

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Managed functional and technical upgrade for SAP HCM from EHP1 to EHP6 and Support Pack level SP7 to SP14
• Led requirement gathering and Functional design for upgrade from Java Confidential ESS/MSS to HR Renewal 1.0, including Timesheet and Leave Request
• Oversaw all phases of testing (Integration, Regression and User Acceptance), including management of defects to resolution and reporting progress metrics to leadership

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led a rapid implementation of CATS timesheet for allocation of labor hours to Capital and Billable projects
• Created technical specifications for integration with SuccessFactors for integration of HR Master data
• Collaborated with HR and Finance team members to define process for calculating standard activity prices based on market averages instead of actuals.
• Addressed audit requirements for capitalizing labor expense with a custom solution in CATS to normalize activity prices.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Solution Architect for a mobile application for Service Engineers to transfer billable hours to CATS timesheet
• Led SAP upgrade to EhP6 and I led the global rollout of the Confidential for ABAP for Time Management iViews.
• Oversaw implementation of Kaba Benzing clocks and integration with CATS timesheet. Configured time evaluation to create notification for unauthorized absences and tardiness.
• Developed creative solution to manage individual rotating shifts.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• SAP Solution Architect HCM implementation
• Partnered with Oracle Fusion developers to define integration of labor hours into Material Resource Planning (MRP) system
• Oversaw integration between HCM system and Confidential compliant Learning Management System (Cornerstone)
• Improved the ASAP implementation methodology to support Confidential Quality Systsem / GMP requirements. Also provided guidance on testing strategy and setup of Mercury Test Director.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead for Time Management module in global project to merge legacy SAP HCM systems following an acquisition of a global competitor
• Designed integration between HCM Time Management and external Payroll provider for Singapore and Israel. Interfaces included extract of data from Time Clusters for time-related payments and quota accruals.
• Redesigned and simplified the design for Time Evaluation schema for manufacturing locations to generate overtime payments and various allowances based on the data from the external clock system.
• Managed process change to integrate Time Recording in ESS/MSS with the Leave Request process and also a custom overtime approval process.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation for reorganization / optimization of manufacturing labor process
• Created solution for work schedules to support for 24/7 operations
• Configured Time Evaluation to generate shift premiums and automatic calculation of group piece-rate bonuses
• Resolved various pay calculation issues and adapted schema for a new union agreement

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed three standard SAP Time Management solution options for the 56 international manufacturing locations.
• All solutions provided a baseline solution for Time Management (CATS, Leave/Absence requests and automation of Absence Quotas)
• Produced interface specifications for payroll extract of evaluation results from Time Cluster tables for 6 countries not using SAP Payroll solution
• Developed various implementation accelerators to assist in requirement gathering process

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Established close relationships with stakeholders to overcome resistance to retirement of legacy systems
• Designed a solution for pro-rating and posting actual labor expenses to the SAP Project Systems (PS) module
• Designed several interfaces meet scheduling requirements for the Fire Department and Police Department dispatch systems..

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• SAP HR implementation including Organization Management, Net Payroll, Benefits Administration, CATS and Time Evaluation
• Specialized in design and configuration of Time Evaluation schema for positive time management in a unionized manufacturing environment
• Implemented beta version of SAP Time Managers Workplace in version 4.6B.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led testing for major SAP upgrade from 3.1I to 4.6C required parallel testing for SAP Payroll in 23 countries for 40 Payroll areas. implemented a new process for Employee Appraisals, which was significantly redesigned in release 4.6C

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Post implementation support and problem resolution for a live implementation of SAP HR / Gross Payroll and Time Evaluation
• Conducted detailed analysis of MSA payroll system in order to design and develop an ABAP/4 interface of gross benefit data for net processing by MSA
• Led implementation of SAP Benefits Administration for open enrollment including development of interface to benefits vendors

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the implementation of CATS timesheet for employees in 30 countries to capture costing information for Project Accounting and also for Resource Related Billing in the Sales/Distribution module.
• Implemented Travel Management module to enable travel expenses reporting to be integrated with time recording

Confidential

HCM Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed ABAP interfaces to a time clock system and a 401K vendor.
• Performed requirement gathering for all HCM security authorizations and data conversions
• Responsible for designing and coding in ABAP/4 of a weekly leave accrual program for updating vacation leave balances

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led a series of requirements gathering workshops for an implementation SAP HR for six sites in North America to include Master Data, Personnel Development and Time and Attendance.
• Oversaw the shortest time period for a successful SAP HR project (8 months)
• Participated with SAP for design of a pilot / prototype for Compensation Planning which subsequently became the standard SAP Compensation Management solution.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted requirement gathering for SAP HR organization management, Learning Management and succession planning
• Member of SAP HR configuration team responsible for the implementation of SAP HR in 42 countries
• Designed and developed ABAP/4 interface for ADP payroll.