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SUMMARY:

  • 13+ years of progressively responsible IT experience
  • 11+ years experience with PeopleSoft 7.02 through PeopleSoft 9.0, focusing on PeopleSoft Confidential & Confidential, PeopleSoft Absence Management, PeopleSoft Payroll, PeopleSoft Enterprise Talent Management, and several PeopleSoft eApps.
  • 7+ years experience in Management Consulting, including Business Process Engineering, Risk Management, and Project Management
  • Strong functional and technical skills in PeopleSoft HR, PeopleSoft Base Benefits, PeopleSoft Benefits Administration, PeopleSoft Performance Management, PeopleSoft Payroll, PeopleSoft Confidential & Confidential, PeopleSoft Absence Management, PeopleSoft Enterprise Talent Management, PeopleSoft eApps, PeopleSoft Security, PeopleTools, Application Designer, Application Engine, SQR, and data conversion.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Provides leadership, sales, marketing, and business management services to a small team of experienced consultants.
  • As the Principal Consultant of a small consulting firm, provides management consulting and ERP consulting expertise to Fortune 500 Companies, large privately held companies, and large government/al entities.
  • Led client through detailed district wide Fit/Gap sessions for Human Resources, Contracts, Administer, Confidential & Confidential, Payroll, and Commitment Accounting
  • Proposed and executed the re - implementation of a highly customized Confidential & Confidential system, allowing the client to utilize delivered functionality and eliminate customization and business process workarounds in other modules such as Payroll and FMLA. Led to a 84% reduction in Confidential & Confidential specific customizations
  • Proposed and executed the re-design of the current Commitment Accounting/Chartfield system, allowing the client to utilize delivered functionality. Led to a 90% reduction in Commitment Accounting specific customizations
  • Led Client through the upgrade of their PeopleSoft HCM system from version 8.9 to 9.1. The client achieved an elimination of approximately 50% of current customizations in Human Resources, Administer, and Payroll.
  • Led and executed the implementation of the Smart Hire functionality to eliminate a current bolt on customization used by the campuses to enter and gain approval for job hires and contract hires
  • Led client through exhaustive analysis of current 9.0 system configuration and customizations.
  • Proposed 75% reduction in customization. Customization reduction attributed to business process re-engineering, better end user, and new configuration
  • Identified several redundancies in current workgroup, rule program, trc program, and schedule definition configuration. Created and presented re-configuration options that will allow client to be streamline configuration for more efficient processing and ongoing maintenance.
  • Lead client through exhaustive analysis of 9.1 functionality as it related to their environment.
  • Lead client through high level Absence Management Fit/Gap analysis and presented implementation recommendation.
  • Created client specific Absence Management, Confidential & Confidential demonstration - demonstrating the functionality of both modules and the integrations points to Payroll.
  • Provided detailed 9.0 and 9.1 Confidential & Confidential knowledge transfer to new support resource.

Confidential

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Led client through extensive business process re-engineering and requirements gathering phase that led to a 99% reduction in customizations (178 customizations, 176 removed) in PeopleSoft Payroll
  • Led client through an extensive business process re-engineering and fit gap/requirements gathering phase for a new implementation of Confidential & Confidential and Absence Management
  • Led client through system design and configuration, technical and functional specification development for North American Payroll
  • Led client through business processing exercise to determine current Recruitment, Talent Management, and Performance Management processes.
  • Lead Client through software neutral Fit/Gap Analysis and software selection.
  • Created detailed prototype of PeopleSoft Talent Management for future consideration.
  • Led client through Fit/Gap analysis, system design and configuration, technical and functional specification development, unit/system/UAT testing, UPK development and execution, and system rollout for PeopleSoft Confidential & Confidential 9.0.
  • Led client through Confidential Collection Device method and vendor selection.
  • Led client through the implementation and integration of TimeLink Biometric Clocks.
  • Designed, Developed, and Rolled Out integration between BYUH PeopleSoft HCM and Polynesian Cultural Center Microsoft Great Plans applications.
  • Led Client through the upgrade of their PeopleSoft HCM system from version 8.9 to 9.0. Modules included Core HR, Base Benefits, Benefits Administration, Payroll, and Position Management. Reduced client customizations by 64%.

Confidential, Colorado

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Led client through Fit/Gap analysis, system design and configuration, technical and functional specification development, unit/system/UAT testing, UPK development and execution, and system rollout of PeopleSoft Confidential & Confidential .
  • Design and developed Integration between TeleStafff Emergency Scheduling system and PeopleSoft Confidential & Confidential
  • Design and developed custom GL Interface to Banner Financials. Reduced 8-step manual process to two steps.
  • Designed and implemented Commitment Accounting.
  • Led Client through the upgrade of their PeopleSoft HCM system from version 8.9 to 9.0, including Core HR, Benefits Administration, Base Benefits, and Payroll.

Confidential

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Led client through Fit/Gap analysis of exempt employees.
  • Lead client through system configuration, technical & functional specification development, unit/system/UAT, and system roll out. Assisted client with post production support of Confidential & Confidential .
  • Designed, developed, and executed CBT based for employees, managers, and administrators utilizing Adobe Authorware.
  • Assisted client with production support issues.
  • Led Client through the upgrade of their PeopleSoft HCM system from version 8.9 to 9.0 including Core HR, Benefits Administration, Base Benefits, and Payroll.

Confidential

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Ensured North American Project Design did not limit global usage of the Confidential & Confidential product
  • Consulted with several countries on an as needed basis to determine if PeopleSoft Confidential & Confidential was a viable Confidential & Attendance application for their requirements.
  • Created and delivered an Implementation Toolkit. The implementation toolkit contained approximately 20 core documents to be utilized by future project teams to aid in the rapid and uniform implementation of Confidential & Confidential across several countries.
  • Created and executed comprehensive demonstration of Confidential & Confidential as well as the integration points between Absence Management and Global Payroll for several countries.

Confidential

Principal Consultant Principal Consultant
  • Led client through rapid Fit/Gap analysis of all employees in the corporation for Confidential & Confidential and Absence Management. This included non-exempt employees in Canada, US, and Singapore for Confidential & Confidential /Absence Management and exempt employees for Absence Management ( Confidential Off Reporting/Absence Management) for 26 countries. This included the collection and assessment of leave benefits for 26 separate countries. Brought all hourly employees on to PeopleSoft.
  • Re-Designed Singapore business practices/processes/policies to align with current US and Canada processes, where allowable by the Singapore employment agreement for non-exempt salary employees.
  • Lead client through system configuration, technical/functional specification development, unit/system/UAT test script creation and execution, documentation development and execution in train the trainer environment, and system roll out. Assisted client with post production support of both Confidential & Confidential and Absence Management.
  • This also included the development of an accurate GL report that is used to determine total company liability for vacation accruals for both current accruals we well as static balances existing merger agreements. This was entirely un-visible to everyone except the payroll manager previous to this implementation
  • Reduced Payroll’s manual entry of paper Confidential cards of approximately 500 world wide non-exempt employees, reducing 3 FTE’s effort of approximately 27 hours per week (total of 81 hrs per week) to enter and calculate (overtime and leave balances), in addition to an average of 8 hours of the Payroll Manager to upload and troubleshoot

Confidential

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Led Client through the upgrade of their PeopleSoft HCM system from version 8.9 to 9.0 including Core HR, Benefits Administration, Base Benefits, and Payroll.
  • Led client through Fit/Gap Analysis with an emphasis on customization removal for PeopleSoft Confidential & Confidential
  • Led client through intensive Fit/Gap Analysis for PeopleSoft Absence Management
  • Led client though functional design, business process documentation, and test script development for PeopleSoft Confidential & Confidential and PeopleSoft Absence Management
  • Reduced current PeopleSoft Confidential & Confidential customizations by 60%.

Confidential

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Led client through Fit/Gap Analysis.
  • Led client through functional design, development, and test script development
  • Extensive Coordination with International Virtual Team for on Confidential delivery of application to Asia Pacific and UK.

Confidential

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Led client through upgrade focused Fit/Gap Analysis. Led client through technical and functional design, development, and test script development for the upgrade of PeopleSoft Payroll and Confidential & Confidential .
  • Led client through implementation focused Fit/Gap Analysis for Talent Acquisition Management (TAM). Led client through technical and functional design, development, and test script development.
  • Managed the analysis and retrofitting process of 3000+ queries. Reduced number of queries to approximately 850.
  • Project placed on hold due to internal issues.

Confidential

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Managed a virtual team of 10 internal/external resources. Responsible for all project management related tasks.
  • Implemented PeopleSoft Confidential & Confidential 8.9 for Confidential Corporation International sites to enable detailed Project, Activity, and Resource tracking information to be passed to PeopleSoft Projects as well as multiple third party international payroll vendors. Tasks include rapid Fit/Gap analysis of international requirements against existing U.S. configuration and coding, design and configuration of country specific required rules, and Unit Testing.

Confidential

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Provided PeopleSoft HCM expertise to assist in production support during FTE maternity leave.
  • Conducted Self Service, Confidential & Confidential, eRecruit, and Benefits Administration 8.3 to 8.9 Fit/Gap Analysis and Cost Benefit Analysis to assist in gaining approval for 8.9 Upgrade Project. Upgrade approved but delayed until 2007.

Confidential

Lead Functional/Technical

Responsibilities:

  • Conducted Rapid Self Service, Global Payroll, and Confidential & Confidential 8.8 to 8.9 Fit/Gap analysis of U.S. and International based operations, per client’s request.
  • Streamlined previous US and International Based Operations Confidential & Confidential configuration and business processes to reduce number of steps required to report Confidential .
  • Conducted Design sessions for custom Confidential Entry page and created design specification.

Confidential

PeopleSoft HCM Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Managed a team of six developers tasked to implement 10 medium to large modifications requested by the state.
  • Created and maintained individual project plans for each modification
  • Managed and leveled available resources across each project.
  • Performed requirements gathering and created detailed functional specifications for each modification, including a large bolt on Confidential & Confidential GUI mimicking the functionality of version 8.9 (client on 8.3 with no upgrade plans)
  • Led and facilitated functional design review sessions and gained state approval.
  • Provided PeopleSoft HCM specific expertise and leadership

Confidential

PeopleSoft CRM Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Co-Managed and led a team of 10 developers, developing documents for a highly customized PeopleSoft CRM system, implementing Sales, Marketing, Product Configuration, Order Capture, and Support. Ensured all PeopleSoft specific concepts and functionality were properly documented in all material. Communicated proper development construction to team.
  • Provided PeopleSoft CRM Specific expertise and leadership.
  • Developed PeopleSoft Specific Manuals.
  • Utilizing the Macromedia Authorware 7.0 tool, designed, developed, and delivered several interactive CBT’s.
  • Performed routine project management duties
  • Lead client through software neutral Timekeeping Analysis Phase, finalized by the selection of PeopleSoft Confidential & Confidential 8.9. Conducted Fit Sessions and prepared Fit/Gap Analysis for each Timekeeping option being considered. Prepared a detailed Cost Benefit Analysis for the Implementation of an automated Confidential Collection System.
  • Led Client through a Confidential Collection Device and Vendor Analysis and selection process.
  • Insured Sarbanes Oxley Compliance
  • Led client through functional and technical design, development, and Unit Testing of PeopleSoft Confidential & Confidential 8.9.
  • Led client through functional and technical design, development, and Unit Testing of PeopleSoft Absence Management 8.9
  • Led Client in re-configuration of PeopleSoft Payroll to facilitate pay cycle changes.
  • Project was completed but was not rolled out due to acquisition.

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