SENIOR PEOPLESOFT PROJECT MANAGER

Performance and results-driven IT Project Manager with extensive experience in leading and delivering the full life cycle of key client and corporate projects. Coordinates and drives projects in alignment with organizational goals and objectives. Performs strategic analysis, as well as implementation, evaluation, configuration and design for PeopleSoft functional deployment, system upgrades and technical infrastructure architecture interfaces. Holds full budget accountability Champions full communication between all project parties by leading key meetings, and producing comprehensive project reports. Manages on and off-shore physical and virtual teams in delivering project results on time and within budget.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Leadership IT Project Planning / Implementation / Delivery Budget Control ERP Architecture
• Change Management Disaster Recovery Vendor / Client Relationships Sarbanes Oxley Compliance
• Best Practices Policies / Procedures Six Sigma

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• MS Office: 2003/2007/2010 Word, Excel, Power-Point
• MS Project: 2000/2003/2007/2010 Visio Adobe/Acrobat
• Outlook/Outlook Express Quest/Stat
• COBOL CICS TSO File-Aid VSAM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

• Program Manager for Detroit Public School district. Led and delivered a PeopleSoft HCM/Payroll upgrade/Implementation from 8.8 to 9.2 and a PeopleSoft Upgrade/Implementation of FIN/SCM/GRANTS/EPM sub-systems from 8.4 to 9.2. Managed the full lifecycle of both of these projects simultaneously. HCM project when live in April, 2014 as scheduled and without incident. The Financial leg of the project went live on schedule in July, 2014 without incident. The modules updated or implemented with these two project included Core HR, Time Labor, Payroll, ePay, Employee Self-Service, Manager Self-Service, Recruiting Solutions, Commitment Accounting, ADP Benefits Interfaces, General Ledger, Budgets, Commitment Control, Asset Management, AP, AR, Billing, Grants, Cash Management and Project Costing for Grants, eProcurement, Purchasing, eSupplier Connection and Strategic Sourcing.
• Developed test and implementation plans, delivering results on time and within budget
• Testing phase completed as scheduled

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

• Served as Project Manager for San Diego Unified School District. Led and delivered a PeopleSoft HCM/Payroll upgrade from 8.9 to 9.1. Conducted requirements, evaluation, Fit-Gap, design, unit/system/UAT testing phases, multiple moves to production conversion processes, training and Go Live activities for systems, including HR, Bene Admin, Position Management, Talent Acquisition, Candidate Gateway, Time and Labor, Payroll, eProfile, eProfile Manager Desktop, eBenefits, ePay and various custom applications. Communicated with client management on a daily basis, resolved client and consultant issues and questions, produced weekly status, issue/risk reports. Chaired weekly project team status meetings and participated in monthly steering committee meetings.
• Developed test and implementation plans, delivering results on time and within budget
• Testing phase completed as scheduled

Confidential

Senior Project Manager - Sub-contractor

• Served as Project Manager for a major Texas Based Department of Energy Manufacturing Contractor. Led and delivered the design of a major PeopleSoft 9.1 Financial and Supply Chain Management SCM project with a 4.2M project design budget. Managed requirements, evaluation, configuration and design for systems, including General Ledger, Costing, Billing, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Order Management, Supply Planning, Inventory, Engineering/Manufacturing and the design of 6 major system extensions. Communicated with client management on a daily basis, resolved client and consultant issues and questions, produced weekly status, issue and risk reports, and chaired weekly management and monthly joint team meetings.
• Drove On-time Milestone Delivery that included QA review and document consolidation, developing an estimate of 80K development, test and deployment phase hours, which the client accepted.
• Developed project and implementation plans, delivering results on time and within budget.

• Instituted a SharePoint project document repository in collaboration with client personnel, and maintained all project documents in it.

Confidential

Principal Consultant PeopleSoft Project Manager

• Played a key role as Technical Manager for PeopleSoft 9.1 Financials and SCM implementation for NYU Medical Center. Spearheaded the development, testing and implementation of 90 system interfaces. Monitored daily interface development and testing progress, and communicated with end users to track individual progress, as well as with interface providers and owners to coordinated interface data. Produced weekly oral and written steering committee reports. Organized first month production support after Go-Live.
• Drove the interface technical infrastructure architecture installation.
• Produced interface data exchange procedure documentation.

Project Management Oversight

• Tasked with turning around the National Academy of Sciences' PeopleSoft Financials 9.1 implementation project. Redeveloped the MS Project plan from FS 9.0 to 9.1, identifying project issues, and developing appropriate solutions.
• Successfully, delivered the FS 9.1 project plan.
• Created a scope control process and initiated weekly Project Management Office PMO meetings weekly, as well as bi-weekly steering committee meeting agendas.

Confidential

Functional HCM Analyst

• Conducted human capital management HMC analysis for a Northrup Grumman Electronics Division project. Compiled data, and performed gap analysis for a consolidation from a PeopleSoft HCM sector level SAP Human Resource system to a corporate level Data collection across 13 different locations for union and non-union employees.
• Developed a tracking sheet that gathered required information by location and organization.
• Identified all project locations and unions, including their reporting structures and proper contacts.

Confidential

PeopleSoft Project Manager Sub-contractor

• Served as Technical Manager, iNventive Health Care, for PeopleSoft S 9.0 implementation of Staffing Front Office, HCM, Staffing Time Labor, Payroll Interface, PayBill Billing and Financial Services FS functions. Supervised the on- and off-shore technical development resources, and communicated with them during testing to resolve issues on a daily basis.
• Completed technical development objects on time and in line with the redeveloped timeframe.
• Directed the development of the system infrastructure processes, procedures and daily scheduling.
• Improved off-shore development object quality by changing task assignments, conducting code review, and developing unit testing and off-shore sign-off processes.
• Eliminated infrastructure process issues that affected project team performance through the establishment of a rigorous process to system infrastructure management.

Virtual Project Manager

• Led the PeopleSoft 9.0 implementation of HCM, payroll, staffing time and labor, payroll interface and project costing functions for CareTech Solutions. Oversaw the activities of 3 consulting resources. Communicated with ground consultants on daily status calls.
• Created and presented the project statement of work, the project kick-off presentation and fit-gap analysis.
• Established the project's design, development, testing and deployment budgets in alignment with the approved and required Gap solutions.
• Confidential

PeopleSoft Development Manager / ERP Strategic Planning Manager / Senior Project Manager

• Planned ERP PeopleSoft application and environment development. Instituted and governed the ERP Department systems development life cycle SDLC . Established an end user testing process, and managed the PeopleSoft Development Team for HR, payroll and financial accounting systems. Managed multiple project full life cycles, including a PS Financials upgrade Rel. 7.5 to 8.4, a HRC/Payroll PS upgrade Rel. 7.5 to 8.9, a PS Rel. 8.9 implementation of e-Pay and e-Profile modules and the relocation of the VOLT Data Center from Long Island, New York to Orange, California, as well as a Vista Plus 5.3 document repository upgrade. Monitored daily and weekly progress, and reported weekly and monthly status. Managed 5 to 10 direct reports and led 20 project teams.
• Delivered a 1.5M Data Center relocation under budget by 100K.
• Deployed a successful QA/Testing process.
• Decreased the annual Data Center operational costs by 1.2M.
• Authored an ERP department COTS SDLC lifecycle methodology.

MAJOR PROJECTS

Confidential

PeopleSoft Project Manager

• Managed an upgrade to PS HCM 8.8 and Financials upgrade to 8.4 while implementing e-Recruit, e-Development, Commitment Control and Inventory functions.

Confidential

PeopleSoft Project Manager

• Led a Global 500M Electronics Supply Firm Financials Supply Chain 8.4 Upgrade Solution Assessment.
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Proposal Development

Wrote data interface, data conversion and system extensibility portions for a Personnel Pay and Standardization Project using PeopleSoft HCM 8.x. Received a Department of Defense Secret Clearance in 2002.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Drove a Document Imaging Project utilizing Documentum and Ascent Capture.
• Acted in the roles of Panel Designer, Test Plan Developer and Systems Administrator, as well as Help Desk support and Software Release Control Manager.

Confidential

PeopleSoft Project Manager

• Delivered a consolidation planning project for Kaiser's internal national organization to PeopleSoft HR and Tesser Act payroll systems.
• Created a strategic project plan for Kaiser's HR IT organization as Acting HR IT Director.

Confidential

PeopleSoft System Architect

• Directed internal PS system consolidation in line with an organizational consolidation.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

PeopleSoft Financial Systems Manager

• Held accountability for directing and coordinating a 400K project's organizational coordination.
• Delivered the 13.1M PS Rel. 7.5 Implementation of 15 FS / Supply Chain Modules, leading all project phases from start-up to shut-down.
• Managed a team of 45 employees for a 500M division.

Application Department Manager / Program Manager - Confidential

Played a key role as the functional IT manager of finance and accounting systems.

• Provided program management oversight of all F A System Projects.
• Drove the activities of 2 geographically separate technical application support staffs with 24 members for a group that supported 8 separate nationwide divisions.

Application Department Manager / Program Manager

• Managed the Finance and Accounting systems IT functions.
• Furnished program management selected F A System Project oversight.
• Coordinated and led the activities of a 14-member technical application support staff.
• Group supported 7 separate nationwide divisions.
• Chaired the Quarterly Financial Systems Users Group.