SUMMARY:

• PMP certified with over 8 years of Project and Program Management experience, running full life - cycle of Global IT projects, both as an internal staff and in consulting roles.
• 15 plus years of Multi Industry experience in Auditing, Brokerage, Government Agencies, Pharmaceutical, Insurance, Financial, Transportation, Banking, Educational, and Publishing.
• Worked in several time-critical projects in Project Manager and Lead roles dealing with Stakeholders, Clients, Reporting to higher management, and dealing with global teams. Experienced on large Global projects leading teams working On-site and Off-Shore (virtual teams) resources.
• Experienced in performing various activities in all process groups of Project Management such as Project Charter, Project Scope Statements, Project Proposals, Feasibility studies, Process Specifications, Technical/Functional Specifications, Risks identification, Project planning & Control, Change management, Issues Tracking and Communicating project status to stakeholders, Gap analysis, Budget Management and Team appraisals etc.
• Have very strong Functional &Technical knowledge of PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal/HRMS/ Student Administration/Financials Applications. Extensively worked with People Tools, People Code, SQL, SQR, on PeopleSoft Internet Architecture (PIA), Application Server, Single-Sign on etc in the development, and upgrade projects.
• Working knowledge of SAP ERP, Oracle Financials E-Business Suite and Oracle Products such as Oracle Data warehouse, Oracle Portal etc.
• Experience of liaising with business to define strategic processes and how these would relate to technical solutions

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SOFTWARE: Workday 8/9, PeopleSoft HRMS/Financials/Student Administration 8.8/9.0, PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 8.4/8.8/9.0, SAP HCM ECC 6.0, Oracle Financials 11.5.10, People Tools 8.48, SQL, PL/SQL, SQR, SAP R/3, Erwin, OWB, Developer/Discover2000, Crystal Reports, SQL Loader, PVCS, Macromedia Tools, Visio, Informatics, ETL, Cognos, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), MS Project Manager, MS Office 2000/2003, Artemis Project Management System, Rational Products (Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Test Manager, Robot etc) Working Knowledge of HTML, XML, JavaScript, Visual Basic, C, Java, Perl., Application Servers (Tuxedo, Oracle), and Web servers (Web sphere, Web logic, Apache)

PROJECT MGMT: Project Management activities working with PMO such as Project Charter, Scope Statement, WBS, Project Planning, Scheduling, Estimate & Manage Project BudgetAcquire, and Allocate Resources, Devise & Manage Issue Resolution strategiesManage Change Control Procedures, Vendor Negotiation, Communication Planning, Risk Assessment, and Team Coordination etc

DATABASES: Oracle 10g/11, SQL Server 2003, Sybase 10.x

OS: Windows/Active Directory, UNIX, and Linux (Suse)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conduct workshops with HR Subject Matter Experts (SME) to understand the Future State HR Strategic needs, and to capture HR Business Processes and Functional Requirements.
• Understand and document Current and Future state HR Functional requirements and roadmap for progression in line with existing application program deliverables.
• Perform Gap Analysis between identified future state needs and functionality of existing systems, document business process gaps and assigning priorities to identified functionality needs.
• Wrote Business case to propose new HR System replacing the current legacy system
• Identify and Evaluate Software Packages (Oracle HR, PeopleSoft, Workday, ADP, Ceridian), Compare SCA requirements with HR functionality provided by the evaluated software packages and assist to determine which software is best suited to meet the SCA’s requirements.
• Development of a cost benefit analysis, comparison of the soft ware packages against the current HR system
• Prepare high level and detailed work plans including timeline for project implementation, including phased rollout of application
• Manage HR Workday Project Implementation including Planning, Coordination, and Communication with Vendors, Business Users, Technical Team, and other Stakeholders.
• Coordinate meetings with business users, steering committee team, and project teams for Status Meetings, Milestones, Issue Resolution throughout the Project life cycle
• Liaison with business and IT in order to coordinated all phases of Testing (Prototype, System, UAT) and obtain business sign-off on the final product deliverable
• Worked on various project management aspect such as working on Vendor procurement contracts, Writing Project Charter, Develop Project Plan, Build Project Org Chart, Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM), Risk Management and Communication Plans etc

Environment: Workday HCM SaaS Software V8/V9, IBM Rational Products (Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Test Manager, Robot etc), Oracle 11i, MS Project, Visio, Windows, & UNIX

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Global SAP HR Implementation Blue Print Phase identifying the Global Interfaces scope, Data warehouse needs, and Data flow to all Boundary, and Downstream systems.
• Facilitated Requirements Workshops, Requirements Modeling Techniques such as performing Gap Analysis, Writing of Use Cases, Data Flows diagrams to support software development projects. Verify with stakeholders that use cases and process maps accurately portray specific business processes.
• Define Integration Strategy, Integration design using HR-XML formats, SOA architecture standards working with Architecture team.
• Validation of global PeopleSoft Interfaces with Regional/Country IT leads for the PeopleSoft Payroll, Benefits, T&L, External Vendors and Data warehouse systems.
• Worked with PMO office to determine and standardize Templates for Functional Specifications for Legacy Interfaces to be built from SAP HR, Test Cases, and Technical Documentation
• Act as liaison between SAP process owners and Legacy IT leads to ensure coordination and understanding of Legacy systems data and Process gaps impact expectations.
• Identify and raise issues impacting legacy systems to the SAP Program Office (PMO)
• Conducted virtual workshops to determine the Future State needs, and identify the gaps between the current and future processes.
• Coordination with Business, Technical teams, and other Stakeholders

Environment: SAP HR ECC 6.0, PeopleSoft 8.8/9.0, HR-XML, SQL, MS Project, Visio, Oracle, & UNIX

Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on HR Shared Services Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Project Lead with Subject Matter Expertise on PeopleSoft Security/HRMS Functional role.
• Job responsibility includes handling business change management for PeopleSoft Security, HR, Benefits, Portal, Time & Labor, and Payroll modules processes redesign, perform business analysis, writing process documentation, manage and coordinate development, write Test Scripts, coordinate User acceptance testing, and writing SOPs.
• Effectively evaluate audit results, weighing the relevancy, accuracy, and perspective of conclusions against the accumulated audit evidence. Coordinate development to fix the gap control remediation in a wide variety of PeopleSoft system processes.
• Participated in Re-designing, Development of PeopleSoft HCM & Portal Security Roles, Permissions, Query Trees, PS Queries, Process Groups, Row Security etc for Segregation of Duties compliance.
• Performed business/process analysis, wrote specifications to automate manual date entries into Pay line, Additional Pay and for about 20 North America Payroll Interfaces by enhancing the existing architecture.
• Responsible for the development of customization and integration work associated with the Interfaces.
• Participated in writing test scripts/scenarios, perform Payroll regression testing by building Pay calendars, Pay Sheets, Payroll Calculations, Payroll Confirm, and troubleshooting problems impacting payroll process or downstream interfaces to General Ledger.
• Coordinate and facilitate meetings with KPMG team, HCL IT On-Site/Off-Shore team, and Business Users for the project implementation.
• Assist Program Manager in Project Coordination, Track Project Plan, Management reporting, and communicate project variances using project status reports.
• Ensure the SLC methodology; Best Practices, and Standards are followed by the project team members.
• Interface with domain owners on IT control and risk management practices in support of remediation processes

Environment: PeopleSoft 8.8/9.0 HRMS, People Tools 8.48, Oracle 10g, STATS, DocumentumMS Project, Visio, Power Point, Samba Software, UNIX, and MS Windows

Confidential

PeopleSoft HR/Payroll Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead the HR, Payroll process definition and documentation of business and functional requirements. Conduct user/stakeholder interviews and JAD sessions. Create requirements documentation; review with user representatives, recommends priorities and obtains user signoff.
• Leverage PeopleSoft Payroll/HR expertise and experience to develop and recommend design alternatives and solutions that are effective, efficient and comprehensive.
• Develop and document functional specifications, process flows, test scripts and test plans.
• Lead test planning; perform payroll regression testing, error resolution, and validation efforts.
• Identify areas of process improvement and coordinate implementation of changes.
• Responsible for ensuring that all system changes and business required enhancements are fully tested prior to moving to production. Also responsible for maintaining the quality of data being processed in the payroll system.
• Verify all interface data into the PS payroll System. Liaison with IT and HR for submission & review of Input files, Off-cycle processing, & documentation of existing & new processes.
• Analyze and implement cost & time saving techniques to improve overall process relative to HR & Payroll.
• Research industry level enhancements and determine organizational fit for new software products.
• Create intermediate to expert level Queries using PS Query, SQL as needed for problem resolution or process development
• Perform business analysis and troubleshooting of Payroll related errors during the Payroll on-cycle/off-cycle processing.

Environment: PeopleSoft HR and Payroll, Portal, People Tools, Oracle 10g, MS Project, VisioRemedy, Windows

Confidential

ERP Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Planning, Coordinating, Controlling the team efforts for the development of Oracle Data warehouse project, and enhancement of Oracle Financials Modules.
• Analyze, document and maintain business requirements, reviewing and contributing to the definition of functional requirements.
• Work with cross-functional groups to formalize use of company assets, visuals, forms, and other corporate standards.
• Liaison between the business users and IT project team. Provide expertise in process design and provide leadership clarifying and communicating requirements to product development, testing, documentation and education/training.
• Setting project priorities and determining impact of new projects.
• Establish a new set of business processes to support and increase the efficiency of the on-going business operations.
• Support systems in operational phase being Hands-on technical. Designed and developed data ETL to maintain Kronos Time Keeping processes in Enterprise Data Warehouse.

Environment: Oracle Financials 11.5.10, Oracle Portal, Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g, MS Office 2003MS Project 2003, Oracle 10g database on HP UNIX, and Windows.

Confidential, NJ

PeopleSoft Security/Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Effectively plan, lead and manage efforts in multi platform, multi language environments from design through delivery and implementation as Security lead role for PeopleSoft Global HRMS Employee/Manager Global Self-Service rollout for 10 Countries.
• Architecture, Analysis, Estimation/Planning, Design/Develop Security for US Payroll, US Time and Labor Version 8.8 and Enterprise Portal 8.8.
• Job responsibilities include Creating, maintaining and supporting PeopleSoft Security within a Development, Test, User Acceptance, Training and Production environments.
• Worked extensively using Query Trees, Department Trees, Row Level Security, PeopleSoft Queries, Security tables etc. Created User Profiles using an AE Program, Defined Roles, Permissions for HCM and Portal applications.
• Designed the security Roles/Permissions after reviewing requirements and Created roles, permissions, User Profiles, Audit Trails and maintained/supported of all Portal and HCM Instances on Day-to-day basis.
• Developed detailed security process design incorporating best practices and standards.
• Configuration and maintenance of the Portal Single Sign-on and Integration Broker between Enterprise Portal and HCM instances. Applying Portal packs, customizing portal content references, and Portal security.
• Involved in coordinating/leading the implementation of rollouts and production support with Business stakeholders, IS team members including the implementation partners staff.
• Involved in dealing with Application Security audits (SOX) by internal/external auditors
• Worked extensively and coordinated work with the in-house and outsource teams during Project Life Cycle.

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 8.8/8.9, Enterprise Portal 8.8, People Tools 8.44, Oracle 9i, MS ProjectMS Office2003, UNIX, and Windows.

Confidential

PeopleSoft Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Automate technical processes for Mass Creation of Users, Roles, User Preferences, Users Business units during Global Deployments
• Day-to-support of Production/Non-Production environments of PeopleSoft HRMS, Financials, and Portal applications. Involves troubleshooting end-user issues, and fix security via Permission Lists/Roles/Portal Security.
• Identify and enhance business processes to improve the SLA.
• Document technical/business processes, and business justification documents
• Coordinate security issues with Functional, Development, Product Managers, and End-Users.
• Fix Portal Navigation issues, Portal Design, and Portal Integration
• Create and Maintain PeopleSoft Roles, Permission Lists, User Profiles, and Web Libraries. Definition and administration of row level security, process profiles and query security records
• Definition and administration of query security, query profiles, building of query trees and access group trees
• Extensively working with all technical aspects of PeopleSoft architecture such People Code, Application Engine, Integration Broker, Process Scheduler/Monitor, Portal Security, Directory Server Integration, and Single Sign on etc.
• Providing information and clarification regarding business requirements to the team members, determining impact of new projects rollouts, and plan for deliverables.
• Coordinate user-acceptance testing, and sign-off of deliverables.
• Plan and test the Upgraded environments. Ensure proper functional patches and fixes.
• Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) standards

Environment: PeopleSoft HRMS 8.8, PeopleSoft Financials 8.4, PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 8.8Oracle 9i, MS Office 2003, SQR, Business Objects 6.1, Windows 2000, and HP UNIX.

Confidential

PeopleSoft Security Architect/ Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Project Planning, Analysis, Design, Performance Testing, and Implementation of User Security for PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal, Financials, HRMS and Student Administration Applications. Job included setup of Data Security, Row level security definition for Student Administration/HRMS.
• Successfully designed & implemented the Self-Service feature in Student Administration for Students (Graduate & under Graduate), Faculty, and prototype for Employee SS.
• Responsible for standardized the User ID’s for the entire University, maintained the User Profiles of all Users in LDAP (MS Active Directory). Configured People Soft - MS LDAP Directory Integration, Loaded PeopleSoft User Profiles in to AD by writing custom scripts in specific format accepted by AD etc.
• Involved in complex technical set up of Integration Broker for Application Messaging (User Synch, Role Maintenance etc), Applications Single Sign-On etc. Applied the Financial Portal Registry Pack into Enterprise Portal.
• Review of technical/security fixes, patches before applying the applications. Working knowledge to set up PeopleSoft Workflow and E-pro Workflow.
• Coordinated the design and development of Custom ASP application to Change Password, Forgot Password in MS Active Directory. Wrote a Custom MS SQL Server Function to validate the User Profile parameters.
• Extensively worked with SQL, People Tools such as Security, Integration Broker, Application Engine, Process Scheduler, Process Monitor, Data Mover, Query Manager, Tree Manager, SQL Query Analyzer, SQR etc
• Handled Help-desk coordination and support in the Post-Production go-live. Regular job involves troubleshooting the End-User issues; proactively monitor security in Applications/Active Directory etc.
• Planning of future application requirements in coordination with Business Functional Leads, Communicate Security related information to the User Community, evaluation of software for Identity Management, and various other significant tasks.

Environment: PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 8.4, HRMS/Student Administration 8.1, Financials 8.4People Tools 8.4/8.2, SQL Server 2000, Microsoft 2003 Active Directory Server (LDAP Server), SQRSQL, Crystal, Visio, Microsoft Office Applications and Windows 2000 OS.

Confidential

Consulting Division

Responsibilities:

• Working for PeopleSoft clients in development and maintenance projects using PeopleSoft 8.1/8.4/ 8.8 HRMS, LS, Financial Modules, and EPM modules.

Confidential, NJ

Database developer/Application DBA

Responsibilities:

• Analysis/cleaning/transformation/loading of the data in the existing system and from other external sources.
• Gather other group’s systems requirements to support data feed from the current system, code, and unit test the requirements, and write technical documentation.
• Extensively worked with PL/SQL, Performance tuning, Database Packages, Procedures, Triggers, and writing extracts in Text/XML format to OS using UTL file feature.
• Extensively worked with ETL of data.
• Developed applications using Visual Basic/Access for supporting business users.
• Worked on writing XML parser program using MSXML/SAX/SQLXML 3.0/XML Schema (XSD) for parsing, validating, and Bulk Loading XML data into SQL Server 2000. Also wrote DOM parser program for loading data into Oracle Database.

Environment: SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, XML, MSXML/SAX/DOM XML Parsers, Oracle 8i/9i Database, SQL Server 2000, MS Access, SQL Navigator/Toad, ERWIN, ASP .NET Architecture, VSSShell Scripts, Sun Solaris UNIX, Windows 2000.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsibility included Project Planning/Scheduling, Setting of milestones, Team task coordination, evaluation of software, coordination with ASPs/Vendors, gathering business requirements, writing technical specifications, and Oracle database maintenance.
• Requirements Definition, Business/Systems Analysis, Business System Design (BSD) Documentation, Impact Analysis, Systems Enhancement and Systems & Acceptance Testing.
• Liaise with users and members of IT to facilitate needs, needs analysis, operating procedures and business process improvements.
• Led QA efforts to test data for correctness and data integrity. Also wrote test plans and conducted extensive testing, definition and testing of validation routines, testing of data extraction and transformation logic and applied business rules.
• Delivered periodic project report with time, cost and on-going status to management
• Document and track status meeting minutes and activities
• Coordinate with developers and production support to ensure smooth and error free releases.
• Other duties include actively managing risk, issues and action items to ensure resolution and migration measurements are identified in timely manner to meet projected deadlines.
• Coordinated project closure, post mortem, historical data extraction lessons learned documents, and archiving.

Environment: Oracle 8i/9i database, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Forms 6i, SQL, PL/SQL, Perl, ERWIN, UML, Apache Web server, Tomcat Servlet engine, Crystal reports, Java Servlets/JSP, HTML/JavaScript, Absolute FTP, MS Office, MS Project, Unix, Suse Linux, and Windows 2000.