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New Jersey, NJ

Objective: To work for a growing company as a Sr. Consultant where I can use my PeopleSoft background, functional and
technical knowledge, leadership skills and 20 years of experience in HRIS providing world-class service.

Career Summary: Senior HRIS resource with solid understanding of PeopleSoft Human Resources, Benefits Administration,
Compensation, Payroll, Enterprise Learning, Recruitment, Self-Service, and Security with over thirteen years of Functional,
Technical, and Project Management experience on twelve separate projects, utilizing PeopleSoft HRMS versions 4 through 9.
Strong background in gathering and documenting business requirements, current and future state process flows, Fit Gap Analysis,
writing functional and technical design specs, and configuration. Conducts analysis of project documentation to design and develop
detailed test plans, cycles, cases and scripts. Coordinates user acceptance testing managing incidents and defects, ensuring the
project team is informed and adheres to the developed testing procedures, recommends and develops metrics in support of QA
testing initiatives. Collaborates with developers to resolve software defects and incorrect test results. Works with Quality Assurance
and Client teams to facilitate the completion of various test phases including System Integration, Simulated Production Testing, and
provides Post Implementation Production Support. Effectively manages all aspects of client interaction to ensure business
requirements are met while maintaining scope control and SDLC requirements. Experience testing PeopleSoft HRMS interfaces
with Third Party Systems, Self-Service, Team Building, Technology Integration, Budgetary and Planning Process, and Change
Management. In-depth knowledge of PS Query, Crystal, SQR, MS Access, and Excel to support complex reporting requirements.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


Confidential, September 2002 – Present

Project Manager for a Global Consulting Organization, leading a team of 5 reporting to the Manager of HRSD.

Responsibilities: Provided functional and operational support for the execution of HR processes, reporting, interfaces, and maintenance of foundation tables including HR, Benefits, Enterprise Learning, and Recruitment. Managed system security access and audits of HR systems and processes. Developed Adhoc reports utilizing PS Query, and MS Access.

Major Accomplishments: Developed the HRSD Annual Project Plan for Global HR Initiatives. Generated ad hoc PeopleSoft reports, and developed functional specifications for systems maintenance initiatives. Provided support to Annual Benefits Open Enrollment process on PeopleSoft 9.0. Collected and loaded plan design specifications, Configured Benefit Plans, Costs and Credits, Eligibility, and Event Processing Rules, attached them to Automated Benefit Programs, performed testing through payroll, Verified employee populations, worked with vendors to resolve issues.

Confidential, August 2008 – October 2008
Sr. Techno Functional Consultant on a team of seven reporting to the Director of Applications.
Responsibilities: Technical support for Benefits year-end, utilized MS Access, PS HCM 8.9, PeopleTools, and SQR on Unix DB2.

Major Accomplishments: Created an email notification process from contact data stored in PS downloaded to MS Access. This provided the Board with the ability to communicate efficiently with it members.

Confidential, June 2005 – July 2008

Payroll Manager for a Newspaper Shared Service organization in a department of fifteen reporting to the Dir. of HRIS.

Responsibilities: Directed and managed a payroll staffof eight employees and consultants for amulti-state, nationwide shared service organization supporting twenty six distinct companies with a total of twenty thousand employees. In this role was ultimately responsible for all Payroll Processes, including our Payroll Year End, Time and Labor, and GL interfaces on PeopleSoft HCM. I also served as the liaison with our bank JP Morgan Chase for Positive Pay, Direct Deposits, Wire Transfers, Tax Deposits. Major

Accomplishments: My group supported the newspapers implementation and ongoing support of PeopleSoft 8.8 in six waves for 26 distinct companies, utilized CRM to monitor newspaper requests for Query Writing, Reporting, Security, Reconciliation, and Data Integrity, New codes for Accumulators, Earning, Deductions and GL mapping requests. I accomplished payroll objectives by selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising job contributions; recommending compensation actions; adhering to policies and procedures by developing SOP’s, writing technical specs, and issue resolution.

Senior HR / Benefits Consultant on a team of seven reporting to the Manager of HR / Benefits.

Responsibilities: Provided the operating unit’s expertise on PeopleSoft 8.8 HR /Benefits and offered resolutions and guidance on arising HR/Benefits issues. Provided back up for the HR / Benefits Manager, who traveled extensively to the operating units.

Major Accomplishments: Designed enhancements to operating processes, wrote technical specifications, complex queries, process changes. Facilitated the coordination of Annual Benefits Open Enrollment process on PeopleSoft 8.8.collected and loaded rates, plan design specifications, Configured Benefit Plans, Costs and Credits and Attached them to Automated Benefit Programs, open enrollment and event maintenance preparation, and execution. Verified employee populations, worked with vendors to resolve issues. Assisted with the implementation of patches/fixes, tax updates, and year-end processing. Facilitation of standards on HR/Benefits data across operating units.

Confidential, February 2005 – June 2005
Functional Lead on a team of ten reporting to the Director of Benefits.

Responsibilities: As a functional lead provided support and direction for the HRMS PeopleSoft eProfile Manager Desktop, and eCompensation Manager Desk top implementation which supports an organization of approximately 900 managers.

Major Accomplishments: Developed the Project Plan, Facilitated the Fit Gap Sessions, developed Current, and Future State Process Flows and associated Workflow, wrote the Functional and Technical Designs, developed Security Roles, and Permission Lists, wrote the Communication Plan and presented it to the Corporate Communication’s department. Developed training exercises in support of train the trainer sessions. Wrote the Test Plan, documented the results including the satisfaction ratings, and was the primary interface to the PMO for HRIS.

Confidential, September 2004 – January 2005
Sr. Consultant on a team of fifteen reporting to the PMO Director

Responsibilities: Coordinated testing for an implementation of PeopleSoft 8.8 HRMS. Managed incidents and defects, ensured
the project team was informed and followed developed testing procedures.

Major Accomplishments: Developed the Integration, Parallel, and User Acceptance test plans for a PeopleSoft 8.8 HRMS
implementation for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. The plans tested Payroll, Benefits, Time and Labor, Recruitment, Position
Management, e-Pay, e-Profile, Compensation, Performance Management, Enterprise Learning, and Health and Safety functionality
for 3,000 employees. Developed training exercises in support of train the trainer sessions, and provided support to the trainers.
Defined T&L security.

Confidential, July 2004 – September 2004
Project Manager on a team of five reporting to the Enterprise Account Manager.

Responsibilities: Participated on the proposal team to outline the project definition of system integration services for the emergency communication transformation program, (ECTP) for the City of New York. The ECTP will oversee the integration of NYPD, FDNY, and EMS services into a unified computer assisted dispatch system. The goal of my team was to demonstrate that HP, in collaboration with its selected Business Partners, are qualified and prepared to meet the requirements of the
Emergency ECTP initiative in a competent, timely, and cost-effective manner.

Major Accomplishments: Delivered the 200 page response to the RFP to the City of New York

Confidential, February 2004 - June 2004
Sr. Consultant on a team of four reporting to the Sr. VP of HR
Responsibilities: Conducted feasibility study and vendor assessment.

Major Accomplishments: A review and assessment of Pathmark\'s user requirements, and wrote the RFP. Standardized the vendor assessment process and analyzed vendor’s responses to the RFP. Conducted the Gap/Fit analysis comparing user requirements including self service delivery to delivered functions by the ERP solution providers. Standardized vendor demonstration criteria and wrote scripted demo. Identified major customizations/modifications required for mission critical business processes. Recommendation of vendor to provide ERP solution and the Go-Forward project implementation plan.

Confidential, January 2004 – February 2004
Sr. Consultant working independently reporting to the Vice President of HR Process.
Responsibilities: Provided organizational expertise to Johnson & Johnson.

Major Accomplishments: Conducted a review of existing HRIS processes, standards, strategies and methodologies. Analyzed materials collected and developed a consolidated Software Solution Process, and supporting methodology guide fully integrated with CIM life cycle methodology, and J&J’s Project Excellence.

Confidential, October 2003 – December 2003
Sr. Consultant on a team of seven reporting to the Payroll Lead.
Responsibilities: Provided functional, and technical expertise on PS 8.3 Payroll, ePay & Payroll Operation.

Major Accomplishments: Provided analysis to ensure that payroll business functional requirements were well defined and
successfully delivered in the PeopleSoft application. Updated application with appropriate business requirements for meeting the
system configuration needs, and reviewed all payroll output reports. Balanced the delivered PeopleSoft Payroll Summary with the
General Ledger Interface, and the Monthly Recap of Allocations Financial Reporting System. Assisted with payroll application
testing, as required. Documented and executed Payroll System functional test scripts, ran Payroll processes in PeopleSoft 8.3, and
ad hoc reports as required. Collaborated with Benefits and HRIS Business Analysts and System Developers to ensure that
PeopleSoft application integration points were identified and successfully managed.

Confidential, September 2003 - October 2003
Sr. Technical Consultant on a team of five reporting to the Head of HCM Systems, for a global Law firm.
Responsibilities: Provided technical support for an upgrade to 8.8. Utilized PeopleTools, PeopleCode, App engine, Component Interface and SQR for the following modules: eBenefits, ePay, eProfile, ePerformance, eDevelopment, and eRecruit and eRecruit Manager Desktop.

Major Accomplishments: Reviewed functional design, created test scripts, entered transactions, developed People Code, App Engines, SQR’s, Component Interfaces, and made work flow revisions on Micro Soft SQL Server.

Confidential, September 2002 – September 2003
Sr. Consultant on a team of seven reporting the Global Director of HRIS.
Responsibilities: Provide technical and functional assistance for a global compensation department establishing self-service delivery of salary planning and variable compensation on PS 8.16, eCompensation, eCompensation Manager Desktop, Performance Management.

Major Accomplishments: Established scope and requirements definition with the Director of Global Compensation, conducted fit gap analysis, wrote functional and technical specifications, established all setup tables for salary planning, variable compensation, including the variable compensation security tree, user groups relating to each business unit, and identification of included components. Participated in training sessions with HR business leaders. Established departmental budgets and variable compensation allocations, goal attainment, and awards. Created customizations enabling the delivery of self-service employee review, salary planning, and incentive processing utilizing PeopleTools, PeopleCode, App Engine, Component Interface, Nvision, and SQR. Wrote time entry interface to PeopleSoft GL Provide ongoing functional and technical support to the Benefits, and Payroll departments, utilizing PS Benefits, eBenefits, Benefits Administration, ePay and Payroll Interface to ADP Payroll.

Confidential, January 2001 – July 2002
Sr. Project Manager on a team of fifteen reporting to the Global Director of HRIS.

Responsibilities: Lead a team of fifteen functional and technical resources supporting a global population of 61,000 employees. On three instances of PeopleSoft, Member of the HRIS Leadership team managing all global aspects of human resource systems including compensation, benefits, health and safety, human resource, payroll, and security for a global population of 61,000 employees.

Major Accomplishments: Upgrade of PS 7.5 to 8.12, performed fit-gap analysis, reviewed PeopleCode, Pages, Components, SQR’s, and PS Queries to identify which 7.5 customizations were included in the “vanilla” 8.12 version, eliminating them and developing the
code retaining required functionality. Defined roles and permission lists to provide self-service access to PeopleSoft, converted SQR’s to version 8, and reviewed and tested upgrade scripts used as input to the upgrade.

Confidential, March 1998 – January 2001
Senior Consultant reporting to the Practice Lead.
Responsibilities: Led and Managed teams of developers engaged in the implementation and maintenance of the PeopleSoft HRMS product suite, including; requirements identification, specifications, functional and technical analysis, modifications, enhancements, interfaces, reporting, testing, trouble-shooting, cost estimates, and upgrades. Mentored less experienced developers.

EDUCATION - BBA, Business

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION - PeopleSoft People Tools 8 Delta, App Engine 8.0, PS 8.0 Security, Process Scheduler 8.0, Delphi, PeopleSoft, Functional Payroll, Hunter Group; Advanced Functional Payroll, Software AG, Natural 2.1, IMI Systems, Visual Basic 4.0, Zenger Miller, Front Line Leadership

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS/LANGUAGES, UTILITIES, OPERATING SYSTEMS, AND ENVIRONMENTS
Oracle, DB2, Adabas, MS Access/Windows, UNIX, OS 390, Mac OS X, SQR, Peopletools 8.49, PeopleSoft Query, PeopleCode 8.8, COBOL 2, CICS, QMF, Natural 2,Visual Basic, SAS, FORTRAN, PL/SQL PeopleSoft HRMS 4.0 – 9.0, CMS 3.71, Front Page 2000, Adobe Photoshop 5.5, Visio, Microsoft Office Products, MS Project, WordPerfect, iworks08.

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