SUMMARY

• More than 20+ years of Multi Industry experience in Banking, Insurance, Financial, Auditing, Government & Non - Profit organizations, Pharmaceutical, Construction, Transportation, Educational, Service, Manufacturing, and Publishing.
• Worked in several time-critical projects as a Project Manager and as Work stream Lead roles dealing with Stakeholders, SME’s, Reporting to Executives, and dealing with global teams. Experienced on large Global projects leading teams working with On-site and Off-Shore (virtual teams) resources.
• Experienced in performing various activities in all process groups of Project Management such as Project Charter, Project Scope Statements, Project Proposals, Feasibility studies, Process Specifications, Technical/Functional Specifications, Risks identification, Project planning & Control, Change management, Issues Tracking and Communicating project status to stakeholders, Gap analysis, Budget Management and Team appraisals etc.
• Experienced in Workday HCM SaaS (Modules: Recruiting, Core HR, Talent Management, Absence, Time & Attendance, Benefits, Compensation, Payroll, ESS/MSS). Working in Workday projects expertise in Business Process design, Data Conversion, Integration, Deriving Functional & Technical Solutions and Project Management roles for global implementations.
• Have strong Functional &Technical knowledge of PeopleSoft ERP (Enterprise Portal/HRMS/ Student Administration/Financials Applications). Working knowledge of SAP ERP, Oracle Financials E-Business Suite and Oracle Products such as Oracle Data warehouse, Oracle Portal etc.
• Experience of liaising with business owners to define strategic processes and how these would relate to technical solutions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Workday Techno-Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Integration lead with responsibilities included Preparing Integration Strategy, Mentoring client team in Workday Integrations, Defining Requirements, Working with Vendor & Implementation Partner during design, end-to-end testing and deployment of integrations (both Internal and External). Involved in working with Enterprise Architecture teams, business SMEs, developers in deriving integration solutions for Active Directory, SSO, Mobile App Deployment for Self Service users etc.
• As a Testing Lead worked with the Internal QA team to Design testing strategy and mentor QA team in Workday testing methodology, Prepare test scenarios for System Testing, End-to-End Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Payroll Parallel Testing and sign-off. Define Defect tracking and triage process, and conduct user sessions for testing etc. Testing of Employee and Manager self-service.
• Provide Tenant Management plan for Conversion and Testing. Coordinating with all stakeholders.
• Worked with Training and Change Management leads to define Post Production Support Triage Process via Phone Helpline and Mailbox. Develop Production support team and train them.
• Worked on developing Custom Reports, Identifyng Standard Reports as replacement to legacy, and Testing of Security Roles, Analysis of Security groups and access to Business Process and Domain security etc.
• Identifying EIB's for data loading and testing them with the Conversion team.
• Work with PMO team in Providing Status updates to steering committee, preparing Cutover Plan, and coordinate with implementation partner leads on project activities etc.

Environment: Workday HCM 28/29, SQL, SQL Server Database, sFTP server, HP ALM, SharePoint, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project etc.

Confidential

Workday Techno-Functional Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a Techno-Functional Lead involved in the Workday Project Implementation activities as: Project planning, Business Process design/configuration, coordinating with Implementation Partner/technical team and business SMEs, Architecture& Development of Integrations, PeopleSoft-to-Workday Data Conversion efforts, end-to-end Testing, Tenant Management and Post-deployment support.
• Conducted business analysis/requirement gathering sessions with client teams to determine Integration Current State, Integration Future State Requirements, Integration Scope, planning development timeline, Integration Architecture necessary for Development. Also Providing Workday Solutions to business needs, Write Technical Design docs, Coordinating Development/Build of Integrations and Reports, Testing and mentoring the client’s team.
• Responsible for overall delivery of Workday to HR Data store, Active Directory and many other critical integrations. Involved in Planning, Architecture and Development (Workday and SQL Server Database objects) and testing of a new HR Data Store and integrations to internal downstream systems. Workday HCM Core Connectors were used to pass data from Workday to HR Data Store and Informatica ETL was used to load data from XML file into DB tables.
• Good knowledge on EIB Inbound/Outbound integrations, Developing Custom Reports using Report Writer, Calculated Fields, and Defining Security and providing solutions for business needs. Developed Integration Security User & Security Groups and enterprise integrations scheduling in alignment with downstream systems
• Basic understanding of working with transformation using XML/XSD/XSLT, REST/SOAP protocols, Migrations, DT and Workday Studio tool
• Experienced in architecture of inbound/outbound integrations, Developing EIB’s, using Core Connectors, Custom reports, managing business processes, and sound HCM Functional knowledge
• Involved in PeopleSoft to Workday Data Conversion Approach Strategy,and during implementation advise in creating and reviewing Configuration documents/Workbooks with implementation partners and Core business users, and data integrity validation of tenant builds before handling to business users
• Develop Test scenarios and created test data for end-to-end testing that addresses areas such as Core HCM business processes, data validation, integration testing, Regression Testing, Negative Testing, error or bug retests or usability.
• Coordinate Defects related to Integration and Data conversion and find resolutions working with Implementation Partner technical team and help re-test the fixed defects
• Provide inputs for the Cut-over/Deployment plan and activities to collecting Cut-over data, Validating the converted data into Workday tenant
• Work with cross functional teams (Core Business, Infrastructure, Technical, Vendors)to drive the delivery timelines, coordinating training, and reporting to the steering committee members

Environment: Workday HCM, PeopleSoft, SQL, SQL Server Database, XML/XSD, Informatica, sFTP server, HP ALM, Liquid XML, Sharepoint, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project etc.

Confidential

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of the HR project lifecycles including planning, providing technology solutions, implementation, Upgrades, testing, monitoring and reporting in compliance with program standards
• Create and maintain project documentation; drive project milestones to completion, Track and escalate issues, risks, and report project status
• Evaluation of new HCM Products such as Workday, ADP HR, PeopleSoft and provide recommendations to the management team
• Support Planning and maintaining of HR Systems Data Integrity and Data Governance working across multiple companies business stakeholders. Track data exception using custom SQL scripts and Cognos Reports.
• Specify the HR systems workflow & systems enhancements to satisfy global business & reporting needs. Enhancements to Employee Self-Service (ESS) and roll-out to global countries
• Data Analysis and writing SQL queries for supporting reporting and data cleansing.
• Planning, Coordination and Implementation of Integrations with various external vendors for Benefits (Aetna, COBRA, Cigna etc.), Build Portal to track and report Affordability Care Act (ACA) to IRS
• Effectively communicate relevant project information to the senior management, HR business users, Stakeholders and project team
• Provide guidance and share expertise with the global project teams members and sponsors. Evaluation of new Software and working with Vendors on demos.

Environment: Costpoint HCM system, Cognos, SQL, MS SQL Server, MS Office Products, SharePoint etc.