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Sr. Solutions Engineer. Resume

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Charlotte, NC

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

  • Over thirty years of experience in the data processing field
  • Significant broad - based knowledge in application, system development, implementation and management capacities
  • For the last 18 years concentrated in the implementation and support of PeopleSoft Products to include HCM, FCM, Portal and Intgration Technologies as well as Infrastructure and Architecture
  • Broad based knowledge to be a functional resource as well in both the HCM and FCM arenas
  • As a DBA has considerable experience tuning PeopleSoft at the application and process level to provide optimal performance for users
  • Administration abilities to tune at the database, web server and application server layers providing a well-rounded solution to meet or exceed client expectations
  • Responsible for leading and assisting in the security setup, maintenance and configuration of security on both implementations and upgrades
  • Also implemented third party security and LDAP solutions

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PeopleSoft: Application Integration PS Architecture/Infrastructure Web Servers & App Servers Database Tuning Payroll Interface Time & Labor PeopleTools 6.x thru 8.5x Business Interlinks Application Engine Installation/Upgrades Business Processes LDAP & PDI CRM 8.X FCM 9.X Project Management HCM 8.X HCM 9.X WSDL/WSRP Enterprise Portal 8.X, 9.X/IHUB SOA ELM 9.x Eportal 8.x 9.x Change Assistant XML Publisher AWE 8.50 - 8.54

Databases:   Confidential 7/11g SQL Server 7.5, 2005 DB2 OS390/UDB Informix 40/90 Sybase 4/11 Mysql

Operating:  Windows NT Sun Unix DOS Windows 2005 2008 HP - UX 11.11 TSO/TMF Linux Confidential Mainframe AIX

Programming Languages:  Java C & C++ HTML PeopleCode UNIX Cobol SQL/PLUS Stored Procedures Transact SQL PL/SQL SQR TCP/IP Packages TUXEDO XML JDeveloper

Additional Skills:  Fit/Gap Analysis Testing/Quest Stat Version Control Project Management Technical Lead MQ Series Web services/Soap/OAS/WSRP ITIL Certified PUM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

 Sr. Solutions Engineer.

Responsibilities:
  • I was commissioned to help their client with a HCM 9.2 Upgrade with PeopleTools 855.08. In this position I was to deliver a candidate gateway and talent acquisition solution that the candidate gateway was outside the fire wall and the talent acquisition portion was inside the firewal. The solution was to use integration broker which consisted of over 60 messages to support the data needs. I was also involved in the retrofit of customization from the HCM 9.1 to the HCM 9.2. I was also involved in the planning of the infastructure for the new environment as well as security aspects.
Confidential

Sr. Solutions Engineer.

 Responsibilities:
  • I was commissioned to help their client with a integration between several sources of data to complete ACA reporting to Equifax system. This included PeopleSoft, Lawson, ADP and Xerox input data. This involved creating staging tables, file layouts for both inbound and out bound flat file interfaces. The is was completed using application engine and PeopleCode.
  • HS2 Solutions did not have a PeopleSoft environment to develop this solution so I was tasked with building the environment which was based on HCM 9.2 and PeopleTools 8.54 to include application server, web server, process scheduler HCM demo database. I also installed Confidential database 11g on a windows VM 2010.
 Confidential

Sr. Development Solutions Engineer.

 Responsibilities:
  • Currently work as a lead developer and analysis for a major implementation and roll out of PeopleSoft HCM, FSCM and SCM for a 200+ hospital chain. My major focus is on the HCM and payroll practice. Currently working with HCM 9.1 and upgrade to 9.20 PeopleTools 8.5X. This roll out include time and labor, benefit administration and talent acquisition management and candidate gate way, base HCM and Payroll. In this position I was responsible for both programming enhancements as well as production support in a 24X7 environment. Created major customization using application engine, Peoplecode and SQR development using SDLC standards. I also advise the infrastructure team on common and best practices for messaging and other related topics.
 Confidential

Sr. System Engineer

 Responsibilities:
  • Assigned to HR Analytic s group to help trouble shoot implementation issues with benefit administration and PTO. This was a functional task as well as writing technical specifications for the technical team
  • Assigned to develop a strategy for deploying MSS, ESS and Eperformance which included mapping data elements from a functional side and writing the technical specification for deployment of ESS MSS AWE on the enterprise portal. This included the building of a environment as depicted. Install Confidential database on NT 2008 Confidential r11 v201
  • Installed WebLogic server and bea tux
  • Configured web server, peoplesoft app server and process scheduler. Also included ldap and single sign on for PeopleSoft between Portal and the HCM environment
  • Produced a portal demo for the deployment of ESS, MSS and Eperformance
  • Charged with creating a java program for HSA interface to PeopleSoft payroll which included a java to PeopleSoft component interface to exclude the excel2ci functionality

Environment: PS HCM 9.1, PSTools 8.51

Confidential  

  • Assigned to help transition the company from PeopleSoft to Workday HR This assignment was a staged implementation where payroll would be running on PeopleSoft and Workday would be the HR system of record
  • This was carried out by identifying data elements need in PeopleSoft and creating component interfaces to receiving data from Workday on a scheduled bases

Environment: PS HCM 8.9, PSTools 8.49

Confidential

  • Technical resource for a global HCM upgrade and rollout for both North America HCM and payroll and 30 countries worldwide
  • Given the task to lead the upgrade for 47 integration point using PeopleSoft application messaging. The goal was to upgrade this integration point from PeopleTools 8.47 to PeopleTools 8.52
  • Designed best practices for this effort so going forward the business would be able to upgrade without rewriting these integration points. The client had a custom ESS and MSS application at the store level which included both Async and Sync messages using rest services. These were changed to a SOA using part message rowset and component interfaces

Environment: PS HCM 9.1, PSTools 8.52

Confidential  

  • Integration technical lead for a global HCM upgrade and rollout for both North America HCM and payroll and 30 countries worldwide
  • Designed a strategy to interface all non-American payrolls to use PeopleSoft payroll interface to integrate with ADP GlobalView product
  • Responsible for the integration of third party vendors to the PeopleSoft application portal as well as MSS and ESS for a global implementation
  • Designed a strategy for the work flow effort between HR ESS and MSS and third party vendors which required coordination between in house staff and vendor reps from a conceptual view as well as a technical view

Environment: PS HCM 9.1, PS Portal 9.1, PSTools 8.52

Confidential  

  • Technical portal role and to help with the implementation of major functionality to revamp legacy HR, Financial and learning management software for a major insurance company
  • Consultant on infrastructure as well as deployment of said modules through the PeopleSoft Portal as well as interfaces and security setup. This also included XMLP and third party integration for multiple sources. This also included work flow AWE between HR, FCM and third party vendors

Environment: PS HCM 9.1, PS Finance 9.1, PS Portal 9.1, PS Admin 9.1, PSTools 8.51

Confidential

  • Assigned to workout issues with the HCM 8.8 to 9.1 upgrade
  • This included retro fitting customization from the 8.8 version to 9.1
  • Also designed new processes for the 9.1 workflow ie:(AWE), integration broker for time and labor and other functionality that was added on to the 9.1 version

Environment: PS HCM 9.1, PSTools 8.51

Confidential

  • Assigned to upgrade technology from pure SQR reporting and processing to leverage XMLP and Component Interfaces. This position included the technology transfer to the existing staff
  • Involved in the planning and executing of the Taleo to PeopleSoft Integration for the learning management, compensation and recruiting modules
  • Created application engine programs that called component interfaces for integration with MetLife benefits
  • Created SQR to interface with Taleo Learning management system along with recruiting
  • Created CI's for various feeds into PeopleSoft. Upgraded them from PeopleTools 8.50 to 8.51 still in staging. Responsible for all system administration

Environment: PS HCM 9.0, PSTools 8.50

Confidential  

  • Assigned to lead the deployment of the PS 9.1 upgrade from a portal and systems architecture
  • Installed the sandbox system for the 9.1 project for multiple products to include HCM, ELM and EPortal.
  • Assigned to report to management the changes between portal 9.0 and 9.1 and the best way to leverage the new functionality
  • Lead Systems Engineer for SAIC. Commissioned to deploy employee self-service modules eBenefits, eProfile, ePerformance and Enterprise Learning Management via enterprise portal application
  • Modified the delivered PeopleSoft eBenefits module to comply with SAIC business needs
  • Led the performance and infrastructure teams by creating a testing frame work utilizing Load Running and other utilities to track and plot performance matrix
  • Modified the manager self service module to meet the clients business requirements.
  • Led the user session to extract functional requirements and designed technical requirements for the modules
  • Integrated Questionmark and Skillsoft third party learning tools into ELM 9.0 via AICC standards and we services
  • Integrated internally developed course via AICC standards. Implemented HRMS to ELM EIP. Conducted best practices sessions for ELM

Confidential

  • Commissioned to incorporate employee self-service and enterprise learning management into an enterprise portal application. This includes eBenefits, eLearning and eCompensation into an employee portal
  • Developed process to allow third party content access through the enterprise portal
  • Led the content management process for the Portal for this client
  • Lead on the new security setup for the portal content reference strategies

Environment: Portal 8.9 HRMS 8.9, ELM 8.9, PeopleTools 8.48

Confidential

  • Created a web services project to interface between PeopleSoft HCM 8.9 and the department of home land security
  • This interface consisted of handling 15 different messages for the E-Verify system which is an employment verification system which checks for US citizens and foreign nationals employment eligibility
  • This project consisted of application packages, application engine processes and WSDL interfaces using HTTPS. Accomplished this by back porting the I9 component because HR8.9 does not handle I9 processing
  • This also was better choice as the code will work on HR9.X when the customer upgrades

Environment: HCM 8.9, PeopleTools 8.48

Confidential

  • Consulting for the upgrade project from PeopleSoft 8.0 to 9.0
  • First assigned the role of infrastructure to help layout the overall production architecture. This was based on VM ware/Linux and completed bench marking the performance between MS2003 and Linux
  • Completed the install and setup of PeopleSoft system architecture to include Web server Weblogic, application servers and PIA setup for the production environment which included six Redhat Linux VM servers and a load balancer. This also included the integration broker and batch process scheduler setup. Next assigned to the corporate security team to develop a strategy for a single sign on strategy using LDAP and NTLM/PDI
  • Put together a plan and proof of concept to handle the new permission list based security for the organization
  • Created a SOA interface for the HRMS to Sytermic which uses a third party web server to offer PDF services
  • Assigned to the development and deployment of Employee Self Service and Manager Self Service
  • Designed and developed an application package process to automatically create employee security user profiles

Environment:HCM 9.0, PeopleTools 8.49

Confidential

  • First assigned the SME for portal 9.0 As a Team member was assigned several task to prototype and delivery third party integration technology based on PeopleTools Portal SCM SOA, IB, SOAP, WSRP, WSDL and Component Interface
  • Developed solution for both active X third party integration as well as a Java solutions using Confidential Jdeveloper and Confidential Application Server deployment. These applications were plug in for both async and sync capability
  • Also setup and branded the Enterprise Portal. Configured and implemented their LDAP solution and single signon
  • Served as mentor for the company’s team to complete the rest of the deployment of their existing systems which encompassed application package development
  • Also purposed the architecture for the deployment of their production environment
  • Developed a white paper for the setup and implementation for their security requirements and customized the application messaging for the push of security object from the portal to other PS environments
  • Designed and developed a PeopleSoft to Java messaging hub. This was a custom Java application the runs on Confidential Application server and updates third party database tables dynamically

Environment: Portal 9.0/FCM 9.0/SCM 9.0/IB

Confidential

  • Team lead for a Portal 8.9, 90 /FCM 8.9/ EPM 8.9 rollout to production this included the gathering of functional requirements and turning them into technical specifications
  • Developed a platform wide single sign on capability utilizing Java LDAP and PeopleCode to include all third parties messaging on 8.48 Peopletools
  • Responsible for the development and implementation of web services using SOA, Soap and WSDL in PeopleTools 8.48
  • Implemented MQ Series under Websphere. Also running two teams of programmers from Chicago and India for the HRMS 8.9 interface for the above project. This interface will feed HR data to the financial application for further process for approvals and cost center verification
  • Developed single signon for third party application from the enterprise portal. Designed and developed Active X script for Essbase deployment. Single signon for Cognos report tools. Increased availability for application servers by deploying dedicated message servers for the infrastructure team. Setup procedure to use Quality Center software to enter and tract software defects for projects assigned to the team. Created and managed projects using MS Project. Assigned team tasks to complete projects on a follow the sun bases. Consulted on security implementation for all of the above application to include application messaging to implement user profile sync. Mike is also implementing the corporate SSO strategy

Environment: Portal 8.9 9.0/FCM/EPM, PeopleTools 8.47 8.48

Confidential

  • Team lead for a HCM 8.9 Time and Labor with payroll interface upgrade
  • Led the effort to create functional and technical designs for the time and labor system as well as the payroll interface functionality to interface with ADP a third party payroll vendor
  • Created and modified user requirements, designed functional specifications. Interpreted the design specifications into technical specifications. Create change management documentation for process flow
  • Designed workflow and worklist functionality. Consultant on benefit administration as it is concerned with HCM 8.9 verses 8.3. Retooled the Artemis project system to feed HCM 8.9 T&L system with schedules. Rewrote T&L rules to comply with new T&L business processes. Advised on architecture and infrastructure

Environment: HCM 8.9, PeopleTools 8.47

Confidential

  • Technical lead for a HCM 8.9 Global implementation, which is a multi-national financial services company. Assisted in the implementation of HCM for Mexico, Employee Self Service and LDAP Directory Services and Single Sign on from a third party portal solution and Sun One directory services. This project was separated into several strategic parts to include employee self-service

Environment: HCM 8.9, Global PeopleTools 8.46  

Confidential

Database Administrator/PeopleSoft Administrator

Responsibilities:
  • This began as a 7.5 FCM & HCM PeopleSoft Implementation on Informix database
  • Was engaged to be the lead DBA. This transformed into a 3 year assignment which I became the DBA and application support and upgrade specialist. We moved from 7.0 to 7.5 to 8.0. We went from Informix database to Confidential 8.0 database using data mover, SQR scripts and import utilities
 Confidential

Database Administrator / Web Developer and System Admin

Responsibilities:
  • Worked with the Internet Commerce Group. The Internet Commerce Group was responsible for corporate web development and hosting of divisional catalogs and e-commerce enabling them. Major responsibility was DBA for the Confidential Database to include setup and performance tuning at the system level as well as software level
  • Managed the backup and restore process, which utilized Roman and Legato backup management software. Developed the disk layout on an EMC disk array, which included 500-gig disk capacity. Logical to physical data modeling and mapping for an online catalog. Physical database modeling and implementation from a normalized schema
  • Developed UNIX scripts PL/SQL and triggers. Mapped and implemented user accesses. Monitored and estimated database growth for the implementation of 52 locations. The group consisted of six people supporting 20 divisions worldwide so our responsibilities often overlapped. Called upon to develop Java class libraries for Confidential and Informix JDBC Libraries. Developed Netdynamics web based catalogs. Developed Open Markets E-commerce API’s for digital offers and digital certificates. This was done in C++ and Java as well as Netdynamics
  • Configured Netscape and Microsoft web servers for a secure environment as well as NSAPI and ISAPI
  • Configured and administered NT servers for various web and in house systems. Developed white papers for database’s and tools appropriation. As a group we developed and maintained over 50 webservers on multiple platforms. Developed a web based DBA tool for Confidential database utilizing Java and Raptor’s Secure Link API’s
 Confidential

Database Administrator/Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for building and maintaining the NT SQL Server TDO databases. This system enabled Tech Data customers to view products and prices and order them through the Internet. Also tuned stored procedures and triggers for maximum efficiency for Internet access. Converted Sybase Server to MS SQL Server for migrating the database environment from HP UNIX to NT SQL Server. Converted Scripts and programs that resided on the HP system to Visual Basic NT environment. Other duties included data fixes and tuning Sybase Transaction Database, a 50-gig database
 Confidential

Database Administrator/Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:
  • Informix and MS SQL Server. Responsible for cataloging and designing the National Office strategic plan for data warehousing. This included the recommendations for an infrastructure environment to include tool sets, as well as ANSI 92 SQL standards and practices and procedures for the DBA group
 Confidential

Database Administrator

Responsibilities:
  • Informix Database HP environment. Corporate-wide room booking forecast system for all Disney Resorts. Responsibilities included rewriting stored procedures and triggers for maximum efficiency and speed, utilizing Informix utilities for diagnostics. Also responsible for engine tuning for maximum speed, table maintenance and fragmentation strategies as well as data modeling
 Confidential

Database Administrator

Responsibilities:
  • Sybase HP environment utilizing stored procedures, triggers and desktop tools to enhance performance of a Sybase engine. Rewrote several stored procedures for data replication from an Confidential Mainframe environment to a Client Server environment. Converted Sybase applications from HP3000 to NT server environment utilizing C/C++
 Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Developed several GUI applications to include a front-end for the Informix ace product utilizing C and TCL/WISH, as well as an event-driven alarm monitoring system utilizing C++, TCP/IP, SL-GMS, X11, Motif and TCL/WISH. Also developed an on-line graphical query product for Sybase product. These products were all developed on Unix-based platforms (RS6000, SGI). Customized the Draw2 System from SL/GMS to a user-draw package to facilitate the automatic mapping for cellular sites for Sprint, GTE, MobilNet, as well as overseas accounts. Developed data collectors and filters, which were being utilized throughout GTETS.

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