SUMMARY:

• Confidential is highly experienced (18+ years) and intelligent HCM/PR professional with both strong operational and application technical skills.
• Over his 18 years, he has a strong track record of completing projects on time and under budget, which he attributes to his attention to detail, hard work (a morning person and planner) which allows him to effectively assess, plan and manage projects.
• A majority of his work has been with PeopleSoft, but has recently switched over to Workday, for a project at Confidential, where is the Manager of Integration, managing the integration of a handful of agencies (with a variety of HCM/PR systems) into workdays HCM solution
• In the short time he has earned Workday Certifications that include: Integration, Report Writer, Calculated Field, Workday Studio and Enterprise Interface Builder.
• Confidential is very bright, articulate and really seems to know what it takes to drive successful projects, and isn’t afraid to roll up his sleeves and drill into details.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• PeopleSoft technical, since version 5.12.
• Certified Oracle DBA 9i
• Developed in one week of an application engine program that compares PS 8.0 to PS 9.1 payroll results during payroll parallel testing before it was used in production.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Integration Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed the communication infrastructure (both inbound and outbound).
• Worked with agencies in the States and reached an agreeable solution
• Project plan and schedule
• Worked with DBAs and developers in setting up integration database; worked with Workday to finalize all business processes for integration
• Participated in Benefits migration planning

Confidential

HR Function Lead

Responsibilities:

• Architect for evaluating the 14 - year old system to identify vulnerable area and revamp it within a very short period.
• The project encompasses data fixes, bugs identification, new architect and re-builds confidence of stakeholders.
• Development was completed in a highly pressured, deadline driven agile environment.
• Users and management chain were highly involved throughout the process.
• Mandates were clearly understood where no path was given.
• A small team was formed and knowledge and experiences were shared through daily briefing.
• Solutions were expressed in diagrams and charts that could be understood by different audience.
• Incremental processes were made and passed to the clients for feedback continuously.
• Work closely with clients to prepare for 2016 tax regulation changes, accurately calculate tax liability projection, enhance system controls, etc.
• Change configurations as needed.
• Resolve any lingering issues with clients. Advice clients on future enhancement, etc.
• Reverse engineering of the current system in production. Resolve some of the issues with new hires, transfers, termination and integrate HCM fully.
• Review and repair the discrepancy between employee self-service, manager self-service and PeopleSoft backend applications. Prepared process design mapping and data flow charts.
• Assist clients to review the current payroll process (e.g., 21 pages of steps); analyze and provide system comparison for future upgrade (e.g., SAP, Workday vs. PeopleSoft). Provide day to day functional and technical support.
• To implement AWE in workflow management; streamline the HR hiring process across the whole organization.
• In process of review and enhance the flow of resolving production issues.
• Eliminate many unnecessary steps in order to improve the overall response time.

Confidential, Washington, DC

HCM Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Used scrum methodology in an agile environment for all projects with multiple teams at multiple Continents
• IIC company re-org and merger. It involves define company and compensation framework, transition jobs, provide severance packages, data conversion, etc. (Dec 2015)
• Develop a system to bring consultants into HCM
• Assist upper management in planning budget, resource and schedule
• Configured Take elements and calculation rules for Vacation, Sick, Paid Time Off, Extended Leaves, Bereavement, Jury Duty, Office Closed etc.
• Configured absence accrual and leave request processing functionality, including a rules engine to compute the most complex accrual, consumption, payout and carryover logic.
• Setups of Extended Leave Templates and configuration of extended leave calculation rules for client's FMLA, Maternity, Worker's Compensation and Infant Care leave types.
• Configured request approval functionality, including multilevel approvals and alternate approvers using Employee Self Service, Manager Self Service and Approval Workflow Engine.
• Created custom Workgroups, Schedules, template-built Rules and Rules Programs.
• Created business process documentation and write configuration and system data documentation.
• Designed test plans and approach to validate complex Time and Labor, Absence Management business rules.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Introduced PeopleSoft Global Payroll product to the Confidential . Played key role in convincing stakeholders in selecting this leading-edge solution in the market. Partnered with Comptroller, I formulated the plan, coordinated product demos, prepared cost-benefit analysis, and drafted the business justification and project costing. I acted as technical lead of payroll re-implementation GP 9.1. Hands on the project from design, development, testing and migration. Conducted various training for clients. The upgrade was completed on April 1st, 2014 after two and half years of effort. Recognized individually by HR VP at the Project Celebration Ceremony.
• Lead the technical team to support payroll system since September 2007. Worked closely with clients onshore and offshore. Successfully paying 16,000 staff in over 150 countries on time correctly.
• Resolve all issues related Time admin process on a day to day basis.
• Created multiple dynamic groups to process employees within a specific time frame.
• Setup Time Reporting Codes with different level (Employee, Manager and System) of access.
• Value List, Rules and Recompilation of rules.
• Setting up load date and Time offsets for daylight savings.
• Analyze Time and Labor -> Archived Batches
• Custom SQR report to identify payable time discrepancies.
• Mentored and managed a team of 13 technical staffs in two continents.
• In the past 7 years, I recruited three staff to augment the payroll technical team. In addition, I experienced three vendor companies turnover (and staff), Confidential, Confidential and Confidential .
• Supported Bank Internal Financial Control Reporting (IFCR). . Reviewed and approved staff’s access to our PeopleSoft system monthly. Responsible to support internal and external auditors’ inquiries every six months.
• Built and mentored the payroll technical team
• Developed and inspired staff so that they can fully utilize their expertise
• Performed semi-annual performance review. At the beginning of the year, worked with each staff to draft the annual Staff Agreement (SA) in which we set the goals, objectives and action plans
• Built trust and dependency on the team
• Conducted regular staff meetings; kept the team transparent; re-assigned tasks per needs and limitations; kept my door open at any time
• Kept ITS management in the loop of all issues, achievement and future needs
• Fostered an agile environment (e.g., SCRUM) where team members were collaborating with everyone as well as with the end users continuously. Ensured all stakeholders have key interest for project success.
• Prepared the budget for capital projects
• Worked closely with the Project Management Office (PMO) to update the monthly cost of the project
• Maintained a perfect 100% rate of on-target project delivery
• Maintained the highest custom satisfaction from clients
• Maintained close relationship with Controller’s Department, HR Compensation, HR Benefits, Treasury Department, General Service Department, Executive Director Department, Corporate Secretariat etc