SUMMARY

• Accomplished professional looking to utilize extensive experience in technology implementations, business process improvement, and business analysis in a manner that will enable HR Technology to drive improvements and efficiencies, in partnership with the business that we support.
• 2.5 years of experience in Workday HCM with 2 different customers, 7+ years project management experience in HR Technologies, 8+ years of business analysis and process improvement, and 3+ years of technology implementation consulting experience.
• Possesses broad perspective and experience to integrate technology and business knowledge, formulating system solutions to complex business problems, and a quick study in learning new systems.
• Natural ability to read people and situations, adapting to the circumstance in order to overcome obstacles and move the project to successful and timely completion.
• Skilled in managing projects through all phases of the project life cycle (SDLC).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Workday HCM: Workday Lead during this 1 - year project, which was deployed in more than 58 countries.
• Led the HRIS team during the implementation, and played a key role in design sessions, testing, reporting, and mentoring and training team members on Workday and best practices.
• Workday configuration and support lead for US/Canada Payroll, Time Tracking, Time Off, Leave of Absence, Performance Management, Core HR (ESS/MSS), Onboarding, Workday Mobile, Reporting, and Dashboards.
• Responsible for the deployment and configuration of Workday Mobile - including facilitating the internal business justification portion to gain executive buy-in.
• Regularly requested to present for HRIS in executive sessions, demo sessions with Human Resources or other internal customers, and frequently asked to facilitate trainings, as well, due to the projected comfort-level and passion in presenting and discussing all things Workday.
• Developed a 1-year roadmap for the HRIS team around Workday initiatives, which entails consolidating many global systems, eliminating maintenance and support costs, and integration touch points.
• Drove executive and team buy-in around the core project principles of best practice, global process harmonization, and systems consolidation.
• Strategized and deployed a “post go-live” support model and “voice of the customer” approach for Workday Update enhancements.
• Single point-of-contact with Workday for Confidential and active member of the broader Workday Community.

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Workday HCM: Served as the Technology Lead for the HR Technology team on this $5 million dollar, 1-year Workday implementation project, which was deployed in more than 15 countries.
• Led the HR technology team and all initiatives related to the project plan during implementation.
• Developed and facilitated weekly meetings with more than 75 business stakeholders and executives, providing updates on their respective integrations ensuring there was full transparency throughout the project and that key milestones were met.
• Built and executed the HR Technology data conversion strategy to get all necessary data out of the legacy HRIS and in to Workday.
• Managed the integration inventory to ensure more than 75 integrations were built and tested on time.
• Continued to oversee and administer the legacy HRIS and complete tasks and projects during the Workday project, ensuring the business was not impacted negatively as a result of the Workday time obligations.
• Transitioned to the functional side of the business post go-live and quickly became a Workday configuration go-to around Core HR and business process configuration, and Leave of Absence.
• Key member to configure and deploy the new Change Job, and laid the foundation for Workday Mobile.

Confidential

Senior Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed a small team responsible for the implementation, administration, support, and maintenance of a variety of HR applications - some included modules of the HRIS, learning management system, recruiting management system, health and welfare applications, and others.
• Responsible for supporting and extending the functionality of mission critical HR applications and ultimately became the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for many. All enhancement work was done in-house, likely saving the client millions of dollars in development or out-of-the-box systems and implementation/consulting costs.
• Led requirements gathering, design, development, and delivery of custom Intranet site(s). Successful implementations delivered previously nonexistent solutions, provided SOX compliance, and gave U.S. and Canadian employees the ability to perform various HR tasks and business processes online.
• Successfully managed, implemented, and served as the single-point-of-contact for several critical projects annually, such as: benefits open enrollment, hardware and software upgrades for the HRIS, and the HR Technology year-end processes.

Confidential

Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented complex systems in fulfillment of strategic initiatives for one of the largest management and technology-consulting firms in the world.
• Team lead responsible for business analysis, project management, and release planning on a $4 million dollar software deployment project to reduce in-house application development, testing, and support costs for AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals.
• Managed the design and implementation of a fully functional ecommerce web page during a start-up Internet project. Streamlined payment receipt, and provided a sleek business solution ahead of schedule and above functional expectations for the client.
• Performed business analysis, test, and fix functions on the U.S. Air Force’s Integrated Maintenance Data System (IMDS), which was a multi-million dollar application that eliminated the need