PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Successful PeopleSoft HR professional /Consultant with over 20 years of experience with PeopleSoft HR modules from version 5.0 to 9.2 across multiple industries such as in health care, manufacturing retail and finance.
• Core HR, Payroll, Benefits, ESS and MSS, Time and labor, Payroll & Benefits interfaces and Taleo.
• Skills also include techno - functional including database, infrastructure and as working as team leader.
• Demonstrated the abilities of preparing detailed documentation such as Business Process documentation, Project Plan, Upgrade Task Lists, RFP-Proposals, User Acceptance documentation, System integration document, Functional design document, Technical design document, Job aid & End- User documentation, as well as the ability to create reports using Query manager.
• Prepared test scripts and test scenarios for unit testing, conference room pilot, User Acceptance testing, System integrated testing etc.
• Devising and managed project deliverables, and successfully guided organizations through the business process improvements, project management, installations and upgrades, testing, system documentation, design and development, production support and audits.
• As an effective communicator who possesses excellent interpersonal skills.
• Competent communicator from Toastmasters.
• Previously board member of the Midwest people soft user group, Confidential .
• Attended several Oracle open world conferences.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: Oracle 11g, UDB, Oracle8i, Informix, DB2, SQL Server, Access

Languages: PeopleCode, SQL/SQR, APS-COBOL, CICS, BAL, JCL, Shell Script, Informatica, HTML, Java

OS: Windows 7, MS Server 2008, HP & Sun Ultra 6000 with Solaris- Unix, MVS-IBM 3090, IBM-AIX, NT2000

Applications: Taleo Recruiting, ADP payroll, ePay self-service, Employee Self-service, SharePoint, LDAP, CICS, Restrac, Ev2, CSS, Self-service HR systems with PeoplelSoft Component Interface, Application Server, Web server & Process Scheduler setups.

Tools: PeopleTools 8.53 and below, SQR, Runba, Taleo, Change Assistant, App engine & App designer, PS QUERY, Microsoft Project, Visio, PVCS, Autosys, Cron, TSO/SPF, Crystal Reporting, Metaframe, MQ Series, SecureFx, Quest, Endevor, Phire, STAT, TCC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, West Burlington, IA

PeopleSoft System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Completed brand new implementation of PeopleSoft 9.1 HR, payroll benefits with the Cerner.
• Developed various new sub systems such as Labor Distribution Reporting & Check reconciliation Midas vendor extract using App Engine.
• Customized benefit confirmation statement, Materials & cost management Zebra Bar code program for item storage labels.
• Tax Update & pay check & DDP retrofitting, support & maintenance of Financial & HR SQRs, People Tools 8.53 with Oracle 11. Taleo implementation.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed and tested a new subsystem to download 18 HR & Compensation related files using Application Package, methods and FTP them automatically to the PeopleFluent vendor for periodic annual salary increases and Bonus cycles.
• Used People Tools 8.52/HCM 9.1 & Oracle 11 and STAT to do the migration of the objects.
• Managed change management with the internal and external customers and documented the process for training.
• Also worked with the Cornerstone learning, Beeline, Benefit express, Compliance 11 etc. vendor systems and Integration broker issues.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Consultant for the PeopleSoft upgrades from 9.0 to the 9.2 PUM 10/8.53.18 tools versions.
• Used DB2 Database in the main frame.
• Conducted research, fit-gap analysis and creates specification documents using People books for the 9.2 version.
• Created test scripts.
• Reapplied customizations/ retrofits HR, Benefits, Payroll & TL and self-service modules and migrate in projects for objects such as page people code, pages, component & record people code, App package, records and views. Migration with Endeavor & Phire.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

HRIS Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead of the Knowledge-net for Global HRIS applications and infrastructure management for the PeopleSoft HRMS 9.1, Tools 8.52, Taleo, Oracle 11g, various Java applications for client management and the firm’s multiple performance management applications.
• Responsibilities include PeopleSoft infrastructure and application developments. Lead for PeopleSoft 9.1 upgrade from 8.9 and 8.51 and 8.52 tools upgrade.
• Completed Taleo & Hyperion implementation. Included project planning, fit gap analysis, customizations, UAT & parallel testing& migration and performance monitoring.
• Business Analyst for HR business processes for custom projects such as Shareholder, Active time, Time in Job, PS Employees for contractors, Employee verification for TALX, Forecast Module and performance evaluation systems with requirements gathering by interviewing subject matter experts and develop functional and technical documentation using SDLC Gateway, Profile Management, Position Management, Base Benefits, Employee and Manager Self Services.
• Development using heavily on SQR, App Designer, Activity/Work flow, Integration broker. Supported PeopleSoft payroll & ePAy for US employees and used ADP payroll for the Confidential Government project employees.
• Upkeep done for the production and all test/development server installations & configurations- App-server, Web server & process scheduler.
• Used Change Assistant to installs periodic PeopleSoft & Ceridian tax updates. Worked with the Oracle Customer support and resolved support tickets.

Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL

Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project Lead for Goldman Sachs global HR with PS - HRMS 8.8 and Informatica 7.13
• Project manager for 10 offshore resources for Dev., QA, UAT & Migration and production support.
• Business Analyst for HR business processes for Goldman Sachs for requirements gathering for complex new projects.
• Prepared test scenarios and test scripts and conducted system testing & UAT.
• Designed and developed a new Background Check Process with App Designer, App Engine, Unix-UDB, Informatica, JCL, EFT

Confidential, Kenosha, WI

Senior Developer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for Payroll Integration Upgrades, Data Archive, Year End. Compensation, SBU re - org. for cost savings, Bonus, merit increases, Event Maintenance, Open Enrollment, Pension/ Retirement, 401(k), Health & Welfare Benefits Plans, ADP Payroll interfaces & SQRs.
• Effectively upgraded quarterly patches and maintained Dev., Test & Prod DB by applying and testing upgrades, updates and fixes, App Server set up with Oracle 8i. Ben Admin implemented.

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementation - Held technical and functional roles in the implementation of PeopleSoft system.
• This was a conversion from a DB2 legacy system to UNIX operating system with an Informix database for 300,000 associates, the largest PeopleSoft payroll in the world of that time.
• Authored technical and functional specifications to convert twenty Sears businesses from legacy system to new system, Wrote SQR s to load from flat files from mainframe into PeopleSoft with Informix Database and Sun Solaris.
• Upgrade -Analyzed and coded SQRs, People Code, Panels for PeopleSoft 5.0 to 7.0 upgrade.
• Provided production support on new system in high-pressure environment.
• Monitor payroll process from data collection to check printing within limited window of opportunity to ensure that all programs run successfully and accurately including PAYCALC & PAYCONFIRM processes.
• Tax updates done. Wrote Unix scripts to automate payroll, Interfaces to vendor & implemented Kronos Time and Attendance.