SUMMARY

• 6 years of Experience as a Kronos Consultant & Analyst and specializing in Kronos Workforce Central for Many Clients.
• Have strong domain knowledge, understanding, experience and background in Public, Retail and Healthcare Services.
• Payroll processing for large Clients and serve as Kronos timekeeper administrator. Set - up of new user access in Kronos Timekeeping system. Provide payroll analysis of trend-based data.
• Responsible for Identifying required pay code Profiles, work rule Profiles and Labor Level Sets.
• Installed, configured, and test KRONOS Workforce Central 7.0- 8.x which includes expertise in Workforce Forecasting, Scheduling, & Time Capture, Workforce Timekeeper, Workforce Accrual, assignment rules etc.
• Expertise knowledge of the product with various configurations and Pay Rules, System Settings and tuning, Pay Rules and work rules configuration, Hyper Find Queries, configuration and performance tuning, Creating and troubleshooting Genies, Event Manager, Crystal Reports, Pay Codes, Holiday Credit Rules and Workforce Schedule Editor in Workforce Timekeeper.
• Maintained Kronos Pay Codes, Work Rules, Wage Profiles, Labor Levels, Schedules and Shifts as required by HR/PR.
• Comprehensive knowledge on SQL Queries/Scripts, PL/SQL Procedures, Functions & Packages using Oracle and MS SQL Server.
• Performed analysis work within Workforce Absence manager), WIM interfaces inbound (employee data) and outbound (payroll hours/wage), pay rules, accruals, reports, wage profiles, etc.
• Experience including implementation of Kronos Workforce Center Timekeeper, Scheduler, Connect/Workforce Integration Manager, Data Collection Manager/Workforce Device Manager, Kronos terminals.
• Accountable for gathering new Kronos business requirements, developing and testing Kronos pay rules, pay codes, work rules, Function Access Profiles, Data Access Profiles, Labor Level Sets, Shift Guarantee's Holiday Rules and much more.
• Knowledge of full Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) of a project that includes gathering detailed business requirements, translating requirements into technical specifications, developing system design, building and testing of a design to deliver solution to the client.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Kronos Consultant

Confidential - Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Extensive Experience on various Kronos modules like workforce timekeeper, accruals, activities, advanced scheduler, forecasting, attendance and Kronos workforce central upgrade.
• Performed analysis work within Workforce Absence manager), WIM interfaces inbound (employee data) and outbound (payroll hours/wage), pay rules, accruals, reports, wage profiles, etc.
• Created and modified configuration setup including but not limited to Access Profile, Pay rules, Scheduler and Advanced Scheduler.
• Researched, wrote, and edited test procedures used for upgrades; Modules includeHR/Payroll, Timekeeper, Leave, Attendance, DCM, Connect, WIM, Scheduler, and Analytics.
• Configure new functionality within Kronos to support changing business needs such as pay rules, customer reporting, attendance rules, and automated alerts.
• Strong knowledge of Work Rules, Labor Forecasting, HRMS, Workforce Integration Manager and Workforce Scheduler.
• Directly support all platform and infrastructure components related to Workforce Dimensions engineering group utilizing Right Scale cloud management and Google cloud management.
• Production support of Kronos included analysis work of Workforce Device Manager (time clocks), WIM interfaces inbound (employee data) and outbound (payroll hours/wage), pay rules, accruals, reports, wage profiles, etc.
• Familiar with WFM solution concepts such as Benefits, Time & Attendance, Entitlements, accruals and employee scheduling.
• Worked with internal Kronos and UltiPro conversion teams to ensure data accuracy and delivery of all legacy data for WFM.
• Programming and development on iSeries utilizing RPG IV/ILE, RPG-Free, SQLRPGLE, SQL.
• Worked on conversion of Lawson Payroll on iSeries to Lawson Client Server Payroll.
• Performed iSeries system engineering tasks and managed daily system status.
• Engaged with requirements gathering, assessments, interfaces, application configuration and support for Kronos Workforce Management ( WFM) Systems Conducted user interviews with various stakeholders and documented business (BRD) and functional requirements (FRD).
• Working with Kronos Workforce Scheduler, Timekeeper and Analytics for preparing dashboards, cubes, e-form etc. for store systems and operation division.
• Analysing work of Workforce Device Manager (time clocks), WIM interfaces inbound (employee data) and outbound (payroll hours/wage), pay rules, accruals, reports, wage profiles, etc.
• Utilized technical ability to create, maintain, and support Kronos WIM Interfaces, advanced Crystal Reports, and stored procedures.
• Worked with WFM solution concepts such as Benefits, T&A, Entitlements, accruals and employee scheduling.
• Worked on Various Issues related to products such as Kronos Core Concepts, WIM, Navigator and Workflow Notifications.
• Kronos 8.0 implementation and configuration for Timekeeping, Forecast Manager, Navigator, Scheduler, Devices, Interfaces.
• Manage Jenkins servers and build jobs. Support, manage and configure OpenAM, OpenDJ, RabbitMQ and Redis applications utilized by Workforce Dimensions Suite. Develop and create Runbooks for automation with Chef Automation software.
• Maintained Kronos issues log pre-implementation and parallel testing of Kronos Timekeeping, Payroll and Basic Scheduler.
• Responsible for developing Kronos Payrules, Workrules, Paycode Profiles, Paycodes, Wage Profiles, FAP's, Schedules, Labor Levels, Labor Level sets, and configuring Kronos 4500 and 480 devices utilizing WDM and DCM.
• Configure all required hyperfind queries, shift and pattern templates, updated Holiday table and Function Access Profiles.
• Worked on data modeling and produced data mapping and data definition documentation.
• Involved in generation and execution of SQL queries with the Payroll coordinators to gather the requirements and implement them in the Kronos.
• Led staff trainings on payroll and HR systems, initiated system setup and implementation, and provided payroll processing and HR administration.
• Configured Leave of absence, reasons, eligibility, documents, and Leave rules from HR practices, making recommendations for Kronos Timekeeping system best practices.
• Worked on the Work Force Dimensions(WFD) and Work Force Central(WFC) product. Work Force suite provides labor management solutions in four key areas Time and attendance, Scheduling, Human Resource management and Payroll.
• Retrieved data from the server and transferred it into the Kronos system to update personal data (employee name, number, etc.) using SQL.
• Directly support all platform and infrastructure components related to Workforce Dimensions engineering group utilizing Right Scale cloud management and Google cloud management.
• Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data within the Oracle database.
• Created complex Stored Procedures, Triggers, Functions (UDF), Indexes, Tables, Views and other T-SQL code and SQL joins for applications following SQL code standards.
• Configuration of Workforce Timekeeper Pay Rules, Accruals, Wage Profile, Schedule Rules and Adjustment Rule, per DSR, in Kronos WFC v 6.3 and currently 7.0.
• Configure new functionality within Kronos to support changing business needs such as Pay Rules, Customer Reporting, Attendance Rules and Automated Alerts.
• Researched, wrote, and edited test procedures used for upgrades; Modules include HR/Payroll, Timekeeper, Leave, Attendance, DCM, Connect, WIM, Scheduler, and Analytics.
• Experience including implementation of Kronos Workforce Center Timekeeper, Workforce Scheduler, Connect/Workforce Integration Manager, Data Collection Manager/Workforce Device Manager, Kronos Terminals.
• Developed designed documentation for the configuration of the software based on discovery and union contracts.
• People Import update and Timecard/Schedule Inquiry (iSeries MQ web-service XML calls to KRONOS WFC).

Kronos Functional & Technical Consultant

Confidential - Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Utilized technical ability to create, maintain, and support Kronos WIM Interfaces, advanced Crystal Reports, and stored procedures.
• Worked on Kronos Workforce Central, Workforce Ready, WFC, Workforce Integration Manager (WIM), Accruals, Advanced Scheduler, Activities, Clock (4500, 9000 In Touch).
• Attendance Open-air, Kronos WFC 6.0, 6.2, 6.3 and Leave module, Workforce Integration Manager (WIM).
• Extensive Experience on various Kronos modules like Workforce Timekeeper, Accruals, Activities, Advanced Scheduler, forecasting, Attendance and Kronos Workforce Central upgrade.
• Utilized technical ability to create, maintain, and support Kronos WIM Interfaces, advanced Crystal Reports, and stored procedures.
• Prepared Technical Design Docs for Dell Boomi Interfaces.
• Worked on the Work Force Dimensions(WFD) and Work Force Central(WFC) product. Work Force suite provides labor management solutions in four key areas Time and attendance, Scheduling, Human Resource management and Payroll.
• Good exposure to SQL performance tuning, Data Analysis and modeling, Data mapping and conversion.
• Expert in Workforce Connect/Integration Manager, Time & Attendance, Activities implementation, Setup Data Manager, Advanced Reporting and Forecasting.
• Configured and tested Pay codes, pay code Profiles, pay rules, Work rules, Combination Rules, Combined Pay codes, Pay code Distribution, Labor Levels, Labor Level Entries, Labor Level Sets, Wage Profiles, Hyperfind, Query Manager, Navigator, GDAP's, Accrual and Accrual profiles, Holiday table, Schedule templates and much more.
• Serves as front line point of contact for agents and team leads for all WFM needs.
• Worked with WFM solution concepts such as Benefits, Time & Attendance, Entitlements, accruals and employee scheduling.
• Worked on full lifecycle, client implementations for Huron with WFM Time & Attendance software.
• Responsible for all functional and technical support of Kronos ERP software including current live products (Kronos Workforce Timekeeper and HR/Payroll 6.3.
• Performs Kronos upgrades, tests on newly developed pay rules, troubleshoots existing pay rule configurations.
• Heavy involvement in configuration & customizations, including WIM, Navigator processes, Attestation, Global Time-Off Requests, Delegation, Advanced Scheduling, SDM (Record Manager), Accruals, Cutover Plans, System documentation.
• Troubleshot and solved all problems in software and configuration in WFC suite specializing in Workforce Scheduler (WFS) in addition to Workforce Time Keeper.
• Installed Kronos Workforce Central v6.3, Kronos WIM v6.3, DCM and Process manager on client servers.
• Configured Leave of absence, reasons, eligibility, documents, and Leave rules from HR practices, making recommendations for Kronos Timekeeping system best practices. Maintain the flow of data between WDM and Workforce Central.
• Communicated with operations leadership, payroll, human resources, and Kronos end users to resolve Kronos timekeeping and scheduling problems.
• Reporting for HR, Payroll and Finance data; ensuring data integrity within Timekeeper and HR/Payroll System.
• Audited, validated and corrected data to maintain data integrity and ensured that system controls and processes met all requirements.
• Acted as project manager overseeing migration from ADP Workforce Now to KronosWorkforce Dimensions.
• Involved in planning and defining the system requirements to Wire Frame with Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.
• Served as data management expert in data migrations from Peoplesoft to Kronos and delivered data mapping and transformation documents.
• Involved in generation and execution of SQL queries with the Payroll coordinators to gather the requirements and implement them in the Kronos.
• Analyzed and documented all business needs, work and pay policies for Kronos WFC software suite and played key role in subsequent configuration and testing.
• Create technical design documentation for the data models, data flow control process, metadata management.
• Working in documents management system to track and store images of paper documents and responsible for Identifying required pay code Profiles, work rule profiles and labor level sets.
• Working with Kronos Workforce Scheduler, Timekeeper and Analytics for preparing dashboards, cubes, e-form etc. for store systems and operation division.
• Involved in generation and execution of SQL queries with the Payroll coordinators to gather the requirements and implement them in the Kronos.

Kronos Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experience in all phases of SDLC, including requirements gathering, designing, coding, testing, and deployment.
• Expertise in performing Business analysis, Data analysis, Data manipulation, Data validation and Resource planning.
• Work with cross functions to maintain Business Continuity Plan to set out the Kronos teams' approach to responding, recovering, resuming and restoring business operations to a pre-defined level of operation following a business disruption. This BCP supports the recovery of critical activities contained within the Workforce Dimensions process.
• Outstanding technical and analytical skills, with proficiency in Microsoft Excel and writing complex SQL queries.
• Expertise in developing, designing and implementing statistical/predictive models.
• Analysis of functional and non-functional categorized data elements for data profiling and mapping from source to target data environment.
• Installed, configured and upgraded Workforce Force Central, Workforce Accruals, Workforce Scheduling, Workforce Advanced Scheduling, KRONOS Connect, later title Workforce Integration Manager, Workforce Data manager.
• Working on the WFM solutions concepts such as Time & Attendance, Accruals and Employee Scheduling
• Involved in working on the WFM solutions concepts such as Time & Attendance, Accruals and Employee Scheduling.
• Developed working documents to support findings and assign specific tasks.
• Manage strategic themes for the Workforce Dimensions product suite to deliver agreed upon capabilities meeting quality standards within the established budget and timeline.
• Defined data migration requirements, gathering, validating and documenting data requirements.
• Designed and developed database models for the operational data store, data warehouse, and federated databases to support client enterprise Information Management Strategy.
• Extensively used MS Access to pull the data from various data bases and integrate the data.
• Involved in extensive Data validation by writing several complex SQL queries and Involved in back-end testing and worked with data quality issues.
• Designed and Developed Complex Active reports and Dashboards with different data visualizations using Tableau desktop on customer data.

Kronos Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on environment configurations necessary to successfully develop, deploy and maintain Kronos interfaces integrating HRMS (PeopleSoft), and Clocks like Kronos 4500.
• Responsible for full cycle implementation of Kronos v 7.0.
• Implemented Kronos applications on various mobile platforms and worked with Work Force Device Mnager (WDM).
• Configured and supported WFC, WFS, WDM, SDM, WIM, WFAN with resolutions provided within very limited time frame.
• Heavy involvement in configuration & customizations of Workforce Connect, Navigator processes, Attestation, Time-Off Requests, Delegation, Advanced Scheduling, SDM (Record Manager), Accruals, Cutover Plans, System documentation.
• Begin standardizing Pay Rules, Work Rules, Accruals, Schedules, Access Profile, Pay Codes in preparation for a complete reconfiguration of WFC
• Researched, wrote, and edited test procedures used for upgrades; Modules include HR/Payroll, Timekeeper, Leave, Attendance, DCM, Connect, Scheduler, and Analytics.
• Created and modified configuration setup including but not limited to Access Profile, Payrules, Scheduler and Advanced Scheduler.
• Partnered with management and ETime/Kronos Administrators to reduce issues from the Kronos timekeeping system and to improve interfaces with ongoing assessments.
• Have worked on HR Employee information maintenance from Oracle PeopleSoft to Kronos.
• Responsible for all functional and technical support of Kronos ERP software including current live products (Kronos Workforce Timekeeper and HR/Payroll 7.0.
• Incident requests include creating/modifying access, accruals, cross punching, employee groups, primary labor accounts, pay codes, pay rules, work rules, percent allocation rules.
• Add Managers in Kronos and configure Manager Access and respond to emails and voice mails resolving Kronos issues.
• Handled Remedy tickets regarding anything on the Kronos cloud server.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues using Remedy Ticket system.

Kronos Consultant/Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installing, tuning, troubleshooting and patching of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.
• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of web servers, application servers, and database servers on Linux Servers.
• Implemented Bash, Perl, Python Scripting.
• Scheduled various regular, periodic, future and queue tasks by using crontab.
• Processes administration and management like monitoring, start/stop/kill various processes/sub processes.
• Used Ansible server and workstation to manage and configure nodes.
• Developed automation scripting in Python (core) using Ansible to deploy and manage Java.
• Created and updated Ansible playbooks and files, and packages stored in the GIT repository.
• Connected continuous integration system with GIT version control repository and continually build as the check-in's come from the developer.
• Provisioned and build CHP (compute host platform) Red hat Linux 6.1 virtual machines, these servers based cloud computing.
• Automated Build and deployment to Wildly server using Jenkins and Rundeck.
• Utilized Amazon Web Service (AWS) including EC2 in order to maintain, configure, and install/scale servers and systems in the Amazon Cloud - Datapipe Managed AWS.
• Installed and configured application like NFS under VCS control for HA capability
• Expanded file system using Logical Volume Manager.
• Performed Disk Mirrors and RAID 0, 1 and 5 levels on several Linux servers.
• File System Management on Sun Solaris & Linux environments
• EMC disk configuration for Web, Application and Database servers
• Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting Web/Application/Database Servers
• Planned, scheduled and Implemented OS patches on both Solaris & Linux boxes as a part of proactive maintenance.