SUMMARY:

• Human Capital Management expert with more than 11 years of experience, for clients in banking, manufacturing, hi - tech and hospitality industries
• Recent experience in Oracle HCM Cloud includes Fusion Global HCM, Talent Management, Performance Management and Compensation and includes skills on customizations, Interfaces and Conversions.
• Extensive functional experience in Oracle PeopleSoft suite in Core HR, Talent Management, Recruitment, Benefits and Payroll
• Expertise across the complete Talent Management suite - Profile Management, Goal and Performance Management, Career Planning and Succession Management
• Expert on all aspects of Recruitment implementation
• Published papers on 9-box talent management model, One-page performance management, HR in recession.
• Expertise in building roadmap for HCM landscape transformation
• Experience across multiple deployment models: On-premise, SaaS and Private Cloud
• Expertise in Taleo Recruitment Solutions
• Expertise in developing targeted business proposals
• Extensive experience in project planning, requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis and creation of robust functional designs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Upgrade of multiple modules of PeopleSoft HCM from 9.1 to 9.2
• Lead the entire 9.2 Assessment and Keep/Drop effort with the client with high presentation standards
• Implementation of the latest 9.2 Core HR features of Manager & Talent Dashboards, Work Centers, Org Chart Viewer and Smart HR
• Configuration of Flexible Hiring and Pivot Grids for Recruitment
• Configuration of Outlook Integration and Checkpoint evaluation for ePerformance
• Configuring AWE for Time and Labor and Manager Self-Service
• Guidance and testing for tools Upgrade from eBenefits 9.2 Implementation and Benefits Administration upgrade
• Absence Management 9.2 configuration and Proof of Concept
• Create functional designs
• Guide and mentor the functional team
• System test lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• HCM Functional lead for the entire engagement
• Conference Room Pilots for all the modules
• Fit gap assessment for all the modules
• Effort estimation for the entire project
• Created the Roadmap for multi-phase implementation using a self-developed framework that used critical program factors and their impact on organizational KPIs

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created prototypes for a pre-configured solution for Global HR, absence Management and Performance Management
• Guided the team in creating templates and artifacts for design, development and testing and integration
• Demo to potential clients on the pre-configured solution
• Pricing estimates for a number of proposals based on the solution
• Designed Roadmap and Solutions for clients wanting to move from on premise to SaaS using a complete migration or co-existence model

Confidential

Functional and Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Transformation lead for moving the client from on premise legacy HR to Oracle HCM Cloud
• Handled the challenges of a new HCM implementation on Private Cloud such as end-user expectations and involving Oracle on solutions, workarounds and fixes
• Requirement gathering from the business users
• Design of the system
• Led Conference Room Pilots with key stakeholders
• Configuration of the system
• System testing and defect resolution
• the end-users

Confidential

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Functional lead for HR implementation across multiple countries
• Configured the core HR processes, both global and country-specific
• Analyze the system for customization feasibility
• Managed functional team and coordinated with technical teams
• Conducted CRP for user groups across various geographies
• Developed CRP framework for use of the organization
• Advised the client on application of patches at critical points
• Managed the System testing effort
• Created complex functional design

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Onsite project management
• Streamlined the support stream for entire HCM application
• Managed third party vendors
• Adhered to stringent requirement for defect resolution
• Managed the patch application and testing
• Advised the client on new features of PeopleSoft releases
• Created the templates for defect reporting
• Designed and tested enhancements

Confidential

Functional and Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led the entire HCM 8.9 to 9.1 Management upgrade
• Analysis and Implementation of 9.1 features
• Configuration of Profile Management and its integration with ePerformance and Recruitment modules
• Integration of TAM with Job boards and Background Check providers
• Design and configuration of Career Planning and Succession Management
• Advised the client of various configuration options and design of customizations
• Analyzed various complex PeopleSoft issues and suggested innovative solutions
• Analyzed the client requirements for development of a profile management framework
• System testing of the upgraded instance

Confidential

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Business process design of the client’s payroll processes
• Configuration of pay entities, pay groups, earning, deduction and calculation elements, process lists and sections, accumulators, on-cycle and off-cycle calendar groups
• Running the payroll on-cycle and off-cycle processes, testing various scenarios and analysis of results and reconfiguration of the system based on results
• System Configuration as defined by the requirements
• Test Script Development and Testing
• Integration with ADP
• Scoping, planning, requirement analysis, feasibility analysis and design of the solutions
• FIT/Gap analysis of current Performance Review process and ePerformance 9.0
• Regular walk-through with the clients to gather feedback and finalize solutions, getting sign-off
• Created prototype of ePerformance in the design phase itself
• Design and configuration of the TAM and Candidate Gateway modules
• Fit-gap analysis and design of customizations
• Analysis of various solutions for effort and complexity
• Led the functional team for detailed and accurate functional designs
• Created highly complex design for mass update of performance ratings
• Guided the team in implementation
• Assist with roll-out and go-live

Confidential

Lead Consultant - PeopleSoft

Responsibilities:

• Implemented the PeopleSoft HCM 9.0 Global Payroll for India including pay-roll set up and running the payroll processes; setting up payroll interface with third party payroll applications.
• Led the marketing initiative for PeopleSoft group creating case studies, credentials and the sales pitch
• Led high-visibility quality initiatives to improve the proposal creation process within the PeopleSoft group
• Creation of proposals for support and implementation engagements

Confidential

Team Lead/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Architecture of the Absence Management module, core HRMS modules
• Planning and implementing the release strategy of multiple work-streams working in Core HRMS modules.
• Analyze technical and functional designs and interact with multiple development teams to minimize their areas of collisions.
• Absence Management Configuration for multiple absence types
• Responsible for coordination amongst all teams such as infrastructure, data conversion, migration, security and development.
• Organized multiple dress rehearsals involving all the teams so that the final migration into the production environment went off smoothly

Confidential

Implementation Lead - PeopleSoft 8.9 CRM

Responsibilities:

• Solution architect for scoping and solution design of a complex and challenging assignment
• Implementation lead for a 30 member CRM team in the project for solution design, delivery, bug-fix and testing and support
• Functional areas included Order Capture, Product and Customer Management within CRM
• Functional and technical lead
• System Testing Lead
• Involvement in people matters included taking the people onboard, induction, development of the people within the project and roll-off.
• Solving people related issues, career counseling and performance appraisal

Confidential

System Testing Lead 

Responsibilities:

• Planned the entire test approach and the test schedule, and ensured onsite-offshore coordination in the testing effort
• Managed the team in script development, execution and defect resolution in a number of key modules of PeopleSoft HRMS including Job Data, Personal Data, Non Regular employees, Disciplinary and Grievance, Benefits,, Leave and Absence HRMS Foundation tables
• Managed Defect Resolution with the technical team
• Implementation consultant for PeopleSoft CRM for a global rollout of its Sales suite, replacing the Vantive and legacy CRM systems of the client and spanning multiple business processes
• Requirement analysis and definition of the scope of the project
• Fit-gap analysis between the client requirements and PeopleSoft CRM
• Created the Business plan for the PeopleSoft CRM team that focused on using the existing capabilities and devising strategies and action plan for the future
• Drafting of the proposal and the cost estimates, staffing the project and plan for the team.
• Configuration of the lead, opportunity and territory management modules and the master data setup for the same
• Configuration of the Report Manager, Query Manager and PeopleSoft work-flows