SUMMARY:

• Experience as a trusted adviser & leader across departments, divisions, international boundaries, and cultures: 16+ years of IT experience.
• Successfully work for fortune companies across diverse industries, including: Telecommunication, Travel, Pharmaceutical, PR, Human Resources, Print, Media & Advertising, and Public sector, Real Estate, Higher and progressive roles, large scale, complex multiphase projects.
• Procure - to-Pay | Travel and Expense Management | IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance | Financial Analytics | Financial Control and Reporting | Order to Cash | Credit-to-Cash | Asset Lifecycle Management | Enterprise Grants Management | Change Management |ITIL | Information Security|
• Experience in project management and change management. Standardized the IT Compliance documents
• Strong presentation skills and ability to present complex ERP and Business systems technology issues in a clear, concise and understandable manner.
• Strong leadership and management skills; demonstrated success in a heavily matrixed environment, working with cross-functional teams and influencing at senior levels in an organization.
• Demonstrated track record of managing a diverse and dispersed group of stakeholders. Experience working closely with the C-suite as well as the front line.
• Demonstrated leadership in strategically planning and executing the ERP Implementation: Standard Application, Configured Application, Extensions, Interfaces, Conversion, Scenario Driven Testing, The Triage Key, Defect Identification, Criticality Assessment, Root Cause Assessment
• Identifying and articulating issues relating to specific ERP and Business Systems
• Finding and seizing opportunities for significant growth across the business, considering potential benefits or gains as well as costs
• Consistently focusing attention on annual goal
• Using quantitative methods to analyze problems and results
• Directs the daily operations of the ERP and Business Systems department and is responsible for the human resources activities, budgeting and overall departmental management and supervision. Establishes departmental goals and objectives and reports s and plans on a regular basis.
• Serve as the principal leader and advocate for the ERP systems, as well as all other systems within the department
• Provides and articulates resource requirements (financial, technical, and human resource), risk analysis and impact of requested information system projects for the ERP and Business Systems
• Proactively resolves issues encountered during and post system implementation working with all levels of personnel both internal and external to the institution.
• Evaluates new technologies/software/vendors that may provide opportunities for solutions or new applications necessary to accomplish institutional goals, objectives, and strategies particular to the Financial and Administrative Systems Department.
• Coaches, mentors and leads ERP and Business Systems Department staff to continuously improve technical capabilities and develop and implementation processes and builds a strong team.
• Works jointly with user project managers and other information systems groups to successfully implement projects.
• Communicates with the user community on financial and administrative systems projects, especially in relation to their goals, status and expected outcomes, as well as overall information systems vision and strategies.
• Assumes fiscal responsibility including overall budget performance for the acquisition, development, installation, implementation and maintenance of financial and administrative system projects.
• Serves as the primary coordinator for ERP and Business Systems areas including but not limited to finance, supply chain and human resources.
• Establishes strategic and tactical input regarding financial and administrative System strategies in support of IT business strategies and priorities
• Develops and maintains effective relationships and communications with the CIO, other IT leaders and staff.
• Develops and maintains effective relationships and communications with executives, department heads and other key customers in departmental supported areas.
• Develops long and short range plans according to the overall IT strategic plan for modifications, evaluation, testing and maintenance of the financial and administrative Systems.
• Help define, change and manage the position duties and responsibilities as it changes and morphs.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or required.
• Expertise in Managing and executing a testing strategy for major ERP implementations.
• Recommended and Critiqued the scope of the Unit Testing, Performance Testing, Integration Testing, end-to-end system testing, security Testing, configuration testing and setup Testing, define the milestone validations and track the results in the financial business cycle.
• Proven track record of: Project Execution, Project Co-ordination, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Change Management.
• Extensive knowledge in: Feasibility Analysis, GAP Analysis, Impact Analysis and Risk Analysis.
• Strong experience in: creating & executing Oracle/IBM/MS SQL Server - SQLs queries for Data Analysis and QA report testing.
• Expertise in the SDLC life cycle: Phases & Gates - Component Test, Configuration Test, Application Test, Application - Integration Gate, Conversion Test, Integration Test, Integration/User Acceptance Test Gate, User Acceptance Test

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Sr. Lead PeopleSoft Functional Consultant

Confidential, NYC, New York

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis - Business requirement document and functional design documents.
• Confidential Marketplace Lead - Strategic Sourcing, Vendor Management
• Create and Execute the Test Plan Strategy, Unit testing, Functional testing, and Integration testing.

Sr. Lead PeopleSoft Functional Consultant

Confidential, Healthcare, Connecticut

Responsibilities:

• Pioneered PeopleSoft Matching Exceptions Project.
• Executed Buyer Supplier Issue Resolutions. Resolved bad debt/payment issues.
• Research & document root-cause analysis.
• Release payments by evaluating correct charges are invoiced against purchase orders, requisitions, receipts. Communicating with Pharma suppliers, Buyers, Requestors.
• Recommended the resolution of Budgeting issues - Pre-encumbrance, encumbrance and expense within P2P cycle.
• Created Business requirement document and functional design documents.

Sr. Lead PeopleSoft Functional Consultant

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Responsibilities:

• Pioneered the ERP Implementation Project.
• Spearheaded the meetings with Business teams to evaluate the scope of the project, and define the budgets for it.
• Perform the fit-gap analysis
• Design & Configure AWE - stages, paths, steps, recipients and notifications for each approval process ID.
• Create & execute the test strategy, test scenarios, test cases, test plans /Unit testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression Testing / Lead UAT’s / Conduct test status meetings.
• Document analysis, track and review defects with the group of testers, technical team and functional team.
• Create status reports, metrics, defect ratios, defect analysis and control measures.

Sr. Lead PeopleSoft Functional Consultant

Confidential, Barrington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Overhauled the upgrade strategy based on the business feedback. Restructured the Chart of Accounts.
• Create and Execute the Test Plan Strategy, Unit testing, Functional testing, and Integration testing.
• Critique, review - the test cases, test plans and Lead the UAT’s created by consultants.
• Monitor, review, and recommend the solutions for the defects - SharePoint portal.
• Lead the stakeholder discussion for 9.2 Implementation Strategy from functional standpoint.
• Created the strategy document based on the business functionality.
• Perform the system configuration.
• Design the Approval Workflow Engine based on the business requirement.
• Create and Execute the Test Plan Strategy, Unit testing, Functional testing, and Integration testing.

Lead PeopleSoft Functional Consultant

Confidential, Clearwater, FL

Responsibilities:

• Conduct & document the business process interviews with the functional users and managers.
• Draft the as-is business process documents for the College’s business operations.
• Conduct the functional demo’s for new features that are offered in PeopleSoft 9.2 modules.
• Configure the Workcenters, AWE & dashboards across multiple teams.
• Reduce customizations by performing the fit-gap analysis of the existing reports/workflows and processes.

Lead PeopleSoft Functional Consultant

Confidential, Des Plaines, IL

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Requirement gathering sessions with the business teams and prepared business requirement documents.
• Design the functional documents for the customizations.
• Design and Configure the Approval Framework Process Flow.
• Create the PS Queries.

Lead PeopleSoft Functional Consultant

Confidential, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Lead Requirement gathering sessions with the business team and prepared business requirement documents.
• Participate in the Data mapping sessions with the Oracle technical and business team.
• Design and execute “Excel to CI” feature to load Items.
• Involved in creating SIT test plan and test scripts and executing them as part of the testing phase.
• Assisted the business team with UAT test phase and provided inputs for the preparation of the UAT test beds and metrics.

Lead Functional Consultant

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• As part of mass bundle patches application to the existing PeopleSoft application, worked in the bundles project plan and road map.
• Analyzed PeopleSoft maintenance packs and patches for each module
• Performed Impact analysis of the bundles and patches for each module based on the Confidential ’s customizations.
• Involved in the discussions with the governance team, steering committee and the business users on the business decisions to analyze and gauge the new enhancements and to determine the bundles and patches that were required to be applied.

Lead Functional Consultant

Confidential, Delaware

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering for AR & BI conversion from third-party legacy system ‘Admarc’.
• Create fit-gap documents, configuration documents, functional specifications based on requirements gathering.
• Prepare the functional design documents and assisted the technical team.
• Led the conversion efforts from the legacy system including: Bad debt items, Open Items, Customer Historical data, Invoice historical transactions, and Customer Conversations etc.

Sr. ERP Lead

Confidential, Albany, NY

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the meetings with the business users on the requirements revisits and revised business requirement documents.
• Create Functional design documents and assisted the team with the functional testing processes.
• Create the SIT test plan, test scripts and assisted the team in executing the test scripts and capturing the test results.
• Work with the users for the UAT test phase and led the UAT test sessions.

Lead Functional Consultant

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Create Functional design documents and assisted the team with the functional testing processes.
• Create the SIT test plan, test scripts and assisted the team in executing the test scripts and capturing the test results.
• Create new BRDs based on the UAT test phase results and coordinated with the technical team on the defects, corrections to the programs.

Management/ Functional/Business Consultant

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Work on customizations and acted as a liaison between technical team, quality team and business team.
• Recommend process improvements, facilitate automation efforts.
• Design the BRD documents, fit-gap analysis, suggest process improvements, facilitated the process automation efforts.

PeopleSoft Functional Consultant

Confidential, Seattle WA

Responsibilities:

• Conduct Requirement gathering sessions.
• Conduct requirements gathering sessions with all the stake holders.
• Design & execute the test scripts and capture the test results.