SUMMARY

• Seeking a challenging role as Program Manager \ Director for Workday HCM where I can leverage my well - developed functional, technical skills and expert in Program and Project management abilities to deliver projects successfully for the organization.
• 15 Plus years of global MNC’s experience in Workday and PeopleSoft HCM both US and India, performing activities like implementation, pre-sales, estimation, planning, capacity planning, design, development, testing and client interaction which includes 6 Plus Years of Program and Project Management Experience in managing a 5 plus Million USD.
• Workday HCM Modules includes Core HR, Recruiting, Time Management, Absence Management Payroll, Talent Management and Advance Compensation.
• Expert in Agile and waterfall Project Management methodology which produces high quality of deliverables that meets the schedule and cost of the project.
• Worked across various verticals including Retail, Financial, Banking, Insurance, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and much more for Fortune 500 clients in a consulting capacity. Managed large-scale programs aligned to meet an organization's strategic objectives following Agile and waterfall model for project delivery approaches.
• Strong communication, presentation, organizational, inter-personal skills reporting to C level executives with strong business acumen sets my apart from contemporaries to deliver the results while maintaining a cohesive team globally.
• Excellent customer focus, adept at providing direction to project deliverables and extensive experience handling a team for delivery, building consensus among stakeholders for implementation.
• Managed Projects with team composition of direct reports, client-side employees and third-party consultants with team size of more than 35, while applying effective leadership skills to drive higher performance by appropriate mentoring and performance reviews.
• Worked with Business Proposals and also of responding to Request for Proposals (RFP), preparing effort and resource estimation, tracking and utilization, delivery schedule finalization, the feasibility study of the project, revenue estimation and forecasting, evaluating the client’s existing Workday and other interlinked systems, preparing the SOW, MSA, Change Control, Risk Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: SQR, People Code,XML,XSLT, SOAP

Databases: Oracle & DB2

Tools: Toad, STAT, HP Open View, Microsoft Project Visio, Star Team, report writer or XpressO, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Workday Studio, Core Connector, SharePoint, Service Now, STAT, JIRA, Microsoft Project Planning and Smartsheet

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows

Development Methodologies: Waterfall & Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Project Manager\Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing Workday HCM Merger project for Providence and St Joseph Health
• Responsible for Merging the two systems from Providence and St Joseph Health
• Managing Workday modules Core HCM, Payroll, absence, recruiting, and Advance compensation.
• Responsible for the Project plan, Scope, budget and quality of the project.
• Developing the stage gate entry and exit points which includes Planning, Architect, configure prototype of End to end testing
• Managing the implementation partners and tracking the delivery issues.
• Program strategies and stake holder, sponsorship defined and their corresponding approvals.
• Developing the Project plan and Project governance matrix are established.
• Managing Data conversion, integration and functional business process corresponding to the Payroll and Benefits to vendor third party inbound and out bound.
• Working with various work stream for building the configuration templates and workbook.
• Accountable for the data mapping strategies and configuration in the workday HCM.
• Responsible for analyzing the RAID - risk, issues and mitigation plans.
• Responsible for achieving the milestone for the project from the different work steams.
• Responsible for stakeholder analysis and sharing the milestone to them on periodic basis.
• Defining the conversion, Integration and Test Management strategies / approaches
• Responsible for the cutover plan and go live strategies for the various work steam
• Working with Workday for the tenant setup and refresh based on the tenant management plan
• Responsible for Payroll/Compensation/benefits configurations and working with COE teams
• Responsible for the Kronos accrual balance transfers and new PTO plans in their systems
• Responsible for the Kronos integration to Workday and payroll systems.
• Working with testing team for laying out the Test management strategies and Plan
• Preparing the cutover plan and defining the entry and exit criteria
• Reviewing the Critical / High defects and resolutions and providing the recommendations
• Working with CCB, reviewing the requirements and approval process.

Confidential

Sr. Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing Workday HCM transformation and separation project for Gap Inc and Old Navy, Managing the Implementation Partner.
• Managing discovery analysis from existing HCM PS 9.2 to Workday and module includes Core HCM, Payroll, time, absence, recruiting, Advance compensation and talent performance.
• Program strategies and stake holder sponsorship defined and their corresponding approvals.
• Developing the Project plan and Project governance matrix are established.
• Managing discovery of Data conversion, integration and functional business process corresponding to the above modules.
• Engaging the business owners for the change management reviews for the new business process.
• Developing the budget management plan and forecast based on the planned activities of phase 1
• Developing the stage gate entry and exit points which includes Planning, Architect, configure prototype 1 & 2 and End to end testing
• Global change management plan strategies across the regional and country leads
• Engaging the vendor strategies for the integrations list and align with internal and external partners
• Working with the SI partner defining the Workday business process and inventory signed off.
• Defining the conversion, Integration and Test Management strategies / approaches.
• Working with configuration team for the data mapping for all modules
• Working with Functional and technical leads for the discovery of fit analysis HCM modules like - Core HR, Payroll, Recruiting compensation, Absence and time tracking.
• Responsible for the Project status reports sharing with steering committee and Project leadership committee
• Responsible for the all the functional and technical design signoff from discovery to design, architect, prototype and end to end testing.
• Setting up the tenant management strategies for the architect and build phase of the project.
• Working with different HR business partner for the design phase of the project.
• Managing the testing team for the test plan for the end to end testing and tracking corresponding defects
• Running the PLC and Standup meeting, reviewing the weekly status meeting with vendor and stakeholders.

Confidential

Project Manager\Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managing PeopleSoft to Workday HCM Conversion project for Safeway projects.
• Managing Business Fit-Gap analysis from existing HCM 9.2 to Workday Implementation.
• Responsible for Fit-Gap analysis of interface and reports and evaluating the business requirements converted to and system deliverables.
• Responsible for the Preparation of the Project Plan and metrics.
• Implementation of Workday HCM modules like Core HR, Recruiting, Payroll, Absence Management, Talent management and Advance compensation strong functional knowledge of this modules
• Partnering with business and IT stakeholders for the scope, Cost and schedule. Also involved in strategy decisions and providing directions to the leadership team.
• Building the road map for the leadership and establishing the organization goals
• Driving the Workday new business process and policies, collaboration with Users, IT, HR business partners and SME’s.
• Accountable for Effort estimation for data conversion, configurations and integrations for the above modules
• Accountable for building various stages of the project like project Planning, Architect, Prototype and end-to-end testing.
• Performing the budget and resource planning for the implementation.
• Monitoring the Progress of the project conducting the weekly meetings with teams
• Demo to the customer based on the new Workday functionality released in Sandbox tenants
• Working with Workday Implementation partners for the configurations prototype.
• Accountable for the test scenarios running the testing cycle.
• Working with implementation partners to build the prototypes in P1 and P2 tenants
• Running the end to end test cycle 1 and 2 in the test tenants and defects solutions
• Working with functional team for the configuration of data setup and partnering with HRIS team
• Workbrain and Kronos (time system) to Workday integration to the payroll time load.
• Accountable for the new business process and security policies for their groups.
• Preparing the Weekly meetings and preparation of matrices, milestones and project tracker and defect tracker.etc
• Workday Integration and their third parties by using the Enterprise Interface builder (EIB), core connectors’ connector and Workday studio.
• Data conversion process by using the EIB and resolving their data mapping issues
• Accountable for the Workday Inbound & Outbound (Payroll) Interfaces.
• Custom reports by using report writer and tracking their migrations
• Preparing the cutover plan and working with Vendors, HRIS and IT teams.
• Working with integration team and understanding of PICOF PECI, XML, XSLT, SOAP, etc.
• Workday release strategy testing and applying to system
• Change management of the new system and training plans to the leadership team
• Running the biweekly iterations as part of the Agile methodology and discussing with product owners
• Conducting the standup meeting and discussing about the daily issues and solutions
• Performing the Risk assessment analysis and their mitigation plans
• Working with Audit team for the Quality check audits process