SUMMARY:

• Around 10yrs. of IT experience at various levels, in a highly competitive and challenging environment that stimulated and encouraged constant learning on the job and at the same time demanding creative & innovative skills of the highest order.
• Hands on experience in PeopleSoft Payroll, HCM and HRIS Techno - Functional Consultant in the area of Core HR, Recruitment, Base Benefit and Benefits Administration, People Code, Campus Solution, Absence Management, E-performance, PS Protal.
• Worked on re-implementation with HCM 9.1, upgrade projects with HCM 9.0, two new implementations and conversion & maintenance projects handling a key lead role in project implementations & support in payroll and TAM, HP Quality Centre.
• Functioned on TAM (Talent Acquisition Manager) to complete, integrated system that enables organizations to effectively manage workforce acquisition across all employment categories, as well as ideally suited to meet organizations needs in hiring conditions, applicants screened, interviewed, and hired quickly and efficiently.
• Strong PeopleSoft Functional experience in PeopleSoft (PS) HCM 9.2, 9.1, 9.0, 8.x - Core HR, Workforce Administration, Talent Acquisition Management (TAM), Candidate Gateway (CG), PS Reports, PS Query, PS Security, PS Workflow, Employee Self Service, (ESS), Manager Self Service (MSS), e-Recruit, e-Pay, e-Performance, e-Compensation, and Tree Manager.
• As well as Payroll, Base Benefits, Benefits Administration, Time & Labor, Administer Workforce, Variable Compensation, & Employee Self Service modules, People Tools, e-Profile, e-Benefits, etc.
• Involved in PeopleSoft Testing, Upgrading, Requirement Gathering, PeopleSoft 8.8 and 9.1, CRM 8.1 and 9.1.
• Project Management - Currently leading a project of size 7. Prepare Project scope, plan, status reports, conduct meetings and coordinate between Onsite & Offshore
• Professional consulting experience includes all phases of project initiation, planning, architecture, requirements gathering & analysis, process reengineering & mapping, functional design, development & configuration, testing, Online Pages, implementation, UAT activities & error resolution, user training and post-Go-Live support.
• Excellent Project Management experience in resource management, budget and time management, project status communication to stake holders, quality assurance and delivery management.
• Strong knowledge in PeopleSoft RDBMS, XML Publisher, SQL, Crystal Report, PS Query and PS tools Application Engine, Fit-Gap Analysis, Integration Broker, Data Mover.
• Operating systems: Windows Vista, Windows XP (2003 & 2007) Accounting Software experience using QuickBooks, ADP and Paychecks, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio.
• Skilled trainer, mentor and project leader; able to communicate effectively with management, business users, vendors and team; adept at creating and maintaining project schedules delivering presentations, demos & briefing to executives and in facilitating with users and multi-faceted team meetings.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: PeopleSoft 9.2/9.1/9.0/8.9

People Tools: 8.9/8.8/8.4/8.16

Modules: HR, Payroll, Benefits, Benefits Administration, eApplications, NA Payroll, Campus Solution.

Development Tools: Application Designer, Application Engine, Core HR, People Code, Process Scheduler, Data Mover, Component Interface, Application Messaging, Integration Broker, STAT.

Reporting Tools: PS/ query, SQR, Crystal reports.

Languages: People Code, Java, C, C++, PL/SQL, HTML, XML.

Operating System: Windows XP/2000/NT/95/98, UNIX.

RDBMS: Oracle 9i, 10g, Ms SQL Server, DB2.

Applications: Visio, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel, Adobe Photoshop, Test Director, HP Quality Center testing tool, Remedy.

Function Skills:Incident Management, Team Management, Support and Maintenance, ITIL, Application Development, Production Support

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hopkins, MN

Functional Lead (PeopleSoft HCM)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Resolvingday-to-day production ticketsin HR and Payroll/Absence management.
• Involved infit-gapanalysis, compare reports between Vanguard and Enterprise HR and payroll modules.
• Built custom functionality to produce the related content frame from HCM and show the under the ESA page using iScript. This functionality helps the user to apply the leave in HCM while associate entering the Timesheet in ESA.
• UpgradedSQR’s,People Codeto9.0based on8.8customizations.
• Hands on experience in NA Payroll & Tax updates related activities
• RetrofittedHRandPayrolland Absence management based on new requirements and customizations.
• Created customizedApplication Engineprograms based on user requirements.
• Performed PeopleSoft setup and configuration and assist with functional aspects of code development.
• WrotePeople Codeto customize the delivered objects for HR records.
• Worked on several customs TableAuditsand created Test scripts for functional test.
• Suggested and fixed thePayroll InterfaceCOBOL time-out issues related to PI INRUN App Engine.
• Configured and maintained all the tables involved inPayrollprocessing, such as Pay calendar, Job Code, Deductions and Processes such as Pay sheet creation, PayCalc, Pay confirm, Tax Tables etc.
• Involved in running weekly and biweekly payroll with functional team and error solving.
• Involved in sending payroll deduction information to 3rd party vendors.
• Applied tax updates 08C to 09E and Retrofitted customizations after each tax update.
• Applied ADP patches to PeopleSoft.
• Involved in adding new pay groups to all the customizations.
• Involved and identified Uni-code problem in data, which crashes the COBOL procedure called by the Payroll Interface.
• Wrote custom error messages on Benefits records and pages to hide beneficiary information based on different Plan Types.
• Retrofitted several views to carry forward 8.8 customizations to 9.0.
• Worked onData Mover Scripts (DMS Scripts)on HR and Benefits tables to validate in different environments
• Hands on experience in NA Payroll & Tax updates related activities.
• Design and development of new/modify existing integrations using EIB, Document Transformation, Core connector, Workday Studio for Workday HCM and Payroll modules
• CreatedRun Control Pages, ComponentsandRecordsand attached them to required menus through Application Designer and made them available to various operators throughMaintain Securityto have the reports run underProcess Scheduler.
• Created Unit testscripts to test the business functionality for the delivered code based on the requirements.
• Worked onPeopleSoft Securityby creating and testing user roles and permission list.
• Involved in the testing phase of the Application by setting up the test cases.

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.2/9.1, PeopleTools 8.49/8.42, Core HR, TOAD, Oracle 10g/11i, SQL, PL/SQL, STAT 5.2, UNIX, Windows XP.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Sr. Business Analyst (PeopleSoft HCM)

Responsibilities:

• Accomplishment Requirement gathering, Fit/Gap Analysis, impact Analysis, functional and configuration design spec preparation and integration testing for PeopleSoft HR, Benefits Admin, Absence Management, Campus Solution, E-performance and North America Payroll module.
• Created the technical design specifications which detail the design changes required using People Tools, People Code, SQR's, Crystal report and Application Engine.
• Creating several reconciliation analysis reports for coordination between PeopleSoft HCM (9.1) development team, Mainframe team, PeopleSoft financials team and various point solutions.
• Leads team to create structure directing on policy practice development and records, process improvement and documentation and restructuring of current process associating with other HR Functions.
• Involved in Project Management such as Project Planning, Execution, Preparing all QA related documents like Productivity & Utilization metrics, Defect Review Metrics, Test Execution Metrics etc.
• Served as compensation thought leader and strategist to HR Generalist partners and Business Unit Leaders, responsible for development of business unit compensation philosophies and strategies.
• Generated new salaried structure program under development for all exempt position to be followed the consolidation of several nonexempt payroll structures across Sears' and Kmart formats.
• Designed leader for base pay programs and will collaborate closely with peer variable pay leader on business unit bonus and commission plan.
• Participates in development of business HR strategies and initiatives as assigned by the HR Director, including project planning, development, process testing in field or store environment, fact based analysis and feedback, change management recommendations and implementation supports.
• Design complex interfaces between PeopleSoft and other point solutions(8.9), such as interface from the recruitment system to PeopleSoft using Component Interface to process data load of new hires, rehires and internal transfer's employees.
• Scope of the Program included implementation of the entire suite of PeopleSoft HCM (Talent Acquisition Management, Candidate Gateway, Core-HR, Base Benefits, e-Compensation, e-Profile, e-Pay, and Payroll, Payroll GL2) and a reporting solution to go along with the transactional system.

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.1/9.2, People Tools 8.49, TOAD, Oracle 10g, SQL, PL/SQL, STAT 5.2, UNIX, Windows XP.

Confidential, Plano, TX

HCM Sr. Business Analyst PeopleSoft)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in running the PSDelivered Application Engineprocess for data conversion from our current version to the newer version.
• Involved in maintenance ofHR, Benefits, Payroll and eApps.
• Created new and customized existing Record definitions, Pages, Components for the client specific functionality.
• Configured and maintained all the tables involved inPayrollprocessing, such as Pay calendar, Job Code, Deductions and Processes such as Pay sheet creation, PayCalc, Pay confirm, Tax Tables etc.
• Customized and modifiedePerformance, eCompensation, eRecruitpages upon user requests.
• Built custom configuration pages to the users to be able to add items that are used inePerformancedocuments.
• ModifiedCustom 8.3 SQR'sinto PeopleSoft 8.9 standards as per field name and record name changes.
• As part of the leave accrual customization developed online page for vacation requests. Developed an App Engine program that sends vacation hours to Payroll and e-mail about the request to the manager. eProfile -Added workflowso that whenever a user changes his/her name or address, a work list is created for his/her supervisor’s approval and once approved, an email notification is sent to both, the user and the supervisor.
• Created newApplication Engine & Component Interfaceprogram to move employees from some of the Job codes to another Job codes to make them qualify for new Pay Rate increase.
• Developed new Application Engine programs and also customized existing Application Engine programs forTIME REPORTCODE for TIME&LABOUR (PS TCD INTERFACE).
• Identified the new functionalities introduced in HCM 9.1 which has impact with the current functionalities used in HCM 8.9. Hence created new processes to in corporate the new functionalities into the old competency process without any data loss.
• UsedSTATfor all versions of your PeopleSoft objects (including non-application designer objects) AND flat files (including COBOL, SQR, SQL, nvision, Crystal, SQL scripts, etc.,) are versioned and stored indefinitely in theStatrepository.
• Involved inData Conversionfor payroll from external system using SQR and Application Engine.
• Fixed any inconsistencies among the database objects before initiating the upgrade process using the initial Audit Reports.
• Created SQR reports likeService Award Report, Special Income Reports, Applicant Data Flow Report, Audit for FSA Deduction Reportfor HR, Benefits and Payroll.
• DevelopedSQRprograms to synchronize vendors between the PeopleSoft HRMS payroll system and the PeopleSoft AP system.
• UsedProcess Schedulerto schedule various SQR’s programs.
• Developed theApplication messageto be triggered to update the tables in HRMS, when there is a change made to Financials Business unit data.
• Designed and DevelopedInbound Interfacesand processing procedures for processing and Loading Employee Benefits, Deferred Compensation, Loan and 401K Contributions and Vacation Buy and Health & Welfare information into PeopleSoft Tables.
• Involved in Unit Testing for all upgraded SQR programs and tuned them to resolve performance base issues related to them.

Environment: PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9/9.1, PeopleTools 8.42/8.48, SQR, PeopleSoft HCM 8.9, TOAD, ORACLE 10g,STAT 5.3, SQL PLUS 9.0.1

Confidential

Sr. Peoplesoft HRMS Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed functional analysis and gather business requirements
• Analyzed requirements to apply system solutions to business problems
• Created prototypes for new designs and walk through with business owners
• Developed functional specs for special projects, data flow diagrams flow charts and functional mapping for automated solutions in support of business process operations and functions
• Documented system enhancement proposals, outline issues, alternatives and provide recommendations detailing performance, costs, scheduling, time and benefits
• Reviewed functional specs with business sponsors for approval.
• Developed configuration design documents for all the special projects.
• Developed migration scripts for the configuration data.
• Spearheaded unit and system testing of special projects.
• Developed test plans for system and User Acceptance testing.
• Established test entrance/exit criteria.
• Executed system and integration testing of all the special projects.
• Prepared test completion report.
• Interfaced regularly with customers at various levels.
• Trained business users and provide go-live support.

Confidential

Functional Consultant(PeopleSoft)

Responsibilities:

• Captured prioritized business requirements from business process owners.
• Working sessions with business process owners to demonstrate application capabilities related to Talent Acquisition Manager and Candidate Gateway.
• Carried out fit-gap analysis based on the business requirements gathered
• Reviewed fit-gap document with business process owners.
• Developed functional specifications based on the gaps identified.
• Integrating Talent Acquisition Manager with Payroll for North America for Employee Referral Program.
• Analyzed impact of custom process for job opening and offer approval processes, new hire contract administration, absence recording & racking, car management among others.
• Prepared data conversion plans and developing data maps for conversion into 8.9 systems.
• Prepared the configuration design document and completing configuration of the systems.
• Lead testing efforts for all the systems being rolled out by developing comprehensive test plans, test scripts and test cases
• Carried out functional testing of all delivered and custom functionality
• Tracked defects and retesting following resolution.
• Prepared test completion report.
• Setting up user security profiles for the merged entity.
• Gathered functional requirements and prioritized for application enhancements.
• Acted as a liaison between the business community and PeopleSoft Support Team
• Study of different interfaces.
• Documented, tested, and oversee all business processes within the modules.
• Prepared and executed test scripts and sign off on changes to production environment.
• Interacted and assisted Tech Team to modify interfaces to convert legacy Asset data to PeopleSoft Asset Management.
• Designed Purchasing workflow process.
• Troubleshoot GL Journal Edit issues.
• Worked with Business unit, setup Ledger.

Confidential

Process Associate

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and researched the legacy systems for SAP implementation
• Gathered business requirements, designed business processes diagrams
• Conducted stakeholder’s meetings to identify AS-IS and TO-BE business processes
• Analyzed the business processes and mapped to SAP functionality
• Configured and implemented SAP system
• Organized data migration, testing processes and provided training
• Conducted SAP HR training and post implementation support
• Worked closely with the technical teams and delivered technical solutions
• Worked and improved manual and automated processes.