PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Successfully delivered Work Force Management solutions (New Implementations/ Upgrades & Mergers)
• 18+ years of experience on Project Delivery Management and Management Consulting.
• Experienced in guiding and mentoring Functional and Technical consultants on modules like (Time and Attendance, Absence Management, Core HR, Payroll, Time clock, Benefits & Compensation, Labour budgeting, Forecasting, Scheduling and Mobility.)
• Experienced in leading teams as project manager, scrum master, team facilitator, Servant leader or coach/Mentor/SME. Consultant on HCM products with proven ability, constantly recognized for outstanding functional and technical expertise. Successfully executed $9 million Merger project transforming the Time and Attendance capabilities across all areas of a $60 billion Retail giant.
• Saved 400+ million dollars annually in outsourcing fees with the Merger.

KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• WFM rollouts for Infor’s WFM Cloud Suite/ Workbrain with Master ERP’s like Workday, Infor’s GHR, Infor’s S3 Oracle, SAP, ADP, Ceridian and PeopleSoft
• Executive Leadership Engagement & Stakeholder reporting with Presentations and Graphs.
• Organizing Global rollout with other ERP Projects and teams.
• Multi - tasking, delivering on time with quality.
• PMO Creation & Management.
• Operational Excellence
• Digital Innovation and Solutions
• Project Methodologies used: Hybrid, Predictive, Agile and Incremental.
• Multi-tenant SaaS Implementation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Infor WFM/Kronos: Infor WFM Time and Attendance, Payroll, Time clock, Labor Forecasting, scheduling, Mobility, Absence Management, Core HR, Benefits and compensation. Versions implemented 4.x,5.x, 6.x, 7.0.

Workday Skills: Workday HCM. EIB and Reporting.

Web Integrations: SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT, DT, Calculated fields, Custom reports, Cloud Connects, Core Connectors, EIBs.

Management: Microsoft Project Plan, Microsoft Azure Dev Ops, Microsoft SharePoint, MS Office MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Web, MS Excel.

Quality Management: Test Director, Win\ Load Runner

Methodologies/ Frame work: Rational Unified Process (Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Case, and Clear Quest), Agile, Waterfall, JAD, Data Modelling, Business Modelling, Visual ParadigmData Modelling Visio

ERP Systems: Workday Version R1 2021, PeopleSoft HCM 9.1/8.9/8.1

SAAS Workday: Workday HCM 27/28/29/30/31 , Core Connector Integrations, Report Writer, EIB’sProgramming

Languages: Java, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, XSLT

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, and MySQL, Oracle 10g/11i/11g/12c, DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

PM Workday Integration

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for all technical planning and decisions made on behalf of the client throughout the length of the Project Implementation.
• Point of Contact for any Communication with Samsara on any technical issues in the platform and driver app
• Responsible for working and communicating with Samsara on any integrations and mobile configurations.
• Identified Supporting leads for any Workday integrations or mobility deployments using RI MDM platform (Air watch)
• Project meetings with project team, communicated technical updates
• Attend & administrator training for dashboard and driver app.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

PM Workday & WFM Integration

Responsibilities:

• Upgrade Infor’s WFM Cloud suite 7.0.0 (Including DB & Infra update). Upgrade done in house from version 6.2.0 and then Integrated with Workday 35
• Challenges: The last upgrade version on 6.2.0 from 3.5 was fresh install and customizations ported in.
• Core tables and primary keys manipulated hence compromising the data Integrity.
• Data Issues with external systems as they are directly feeding in Database through stored procedures.
• Current application version has code that is redundant and not used.
• Key Accomplishments /Highlights:
• WFM application called ATA and is linked with external systems like LMS, DIAD and CMI clocks. Driver Punches are updated in database via procedures through CMI Interface, we don’t use the WBCS. Complicated customizations that are brought in from version 3.5 when version was upgraded on 6.2.0 in June 2017.
• Integration with Workday created for the upgraded WFM application.
• Inline upgrade for Database done without any help from vendor (Infor).
• Smooth rollout for current custom requirements, with Benefits & Compensation, project status, conflict resolution, risk mitigation, issue resolution within internal departments, project stakeholders and senior management.
• Data Migration from 6.2.1 to version 7.0.0 using Flyway tool.
• Making application complaint for smoother future upgrades.

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead Implementation and development as per the Confidential requirements.
• Responsible for our business users’ requirements smooth rollout, project status, conflict resolution, risk mitigation, issue resolution within internal departments, project stakeholders and senior management.
• Adherence to contractual Labour agreement(s) for unions and non- unions, analysis of user data and payroll information from our Legacy SAP system.
• Managing the complete testing cycle for Work brain Implementation from IT side Regression Testing-Parallel Testing-End to End Testing-Migration to the Production-Validation-Release users (GO Live)
• Time clocks testing for the Biometric users, also training clock users/clock admins on the Webs 6. 2 before Go Live.
• Developing project plans, managing and tracking project execution, designing prototypes and assisting with usability testing, complying with legal and mandatory requirements.
• Status Reports, Risk Tracking, Budget Tracking using Clarity.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Project Manager/Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead 20+ overlapping projects each with budgets between $500k-$2 million. Partnered IT, offshore, vendors, and business to convert approximately a billion rows of data for over 180k employee’s and more than 600 retail stores and 15 distribution centres from an outsourced vendor to the internal Work brain 6.1.2 system. The transitions were some of the largest in history, smoothest on record, and saved the organization several hundred million dollars in outsourcing fees by being delivered on-time and below budget.
• Project Methodology: Hybrid model: A combination of both predictive and agile approaches for the project to merge different divisions under the Albertson's umbrella
• We used the Agile methodology in the following phases of requirement gathering, Custom Design document configuration and build deployment in QA> black box testing and regression and parallel testing. This was iterative and we delivered small milestones on every cycle of execution. Most of the divisions had 3 parallel cycles.
• We followed the predictive approach in the following phases End to End testing > Migration to Production> validation > release to the users (Go Live)
• End to End testing needed alignment with other systems like accounts payable, Core team, Contracts, People Soft 9.2, Absence Management and making sure they are testing and converting at the same time.
• The process of Migration> Smoke Testing> Go Live was predictive and we used the same for all the divisions.
• Serving as a client’s POC regarding needs definition, project status, conflict resolution, risk mitigation, issue resolution within internal departments, project stakeholders and senior management onshore & offshore.
• Adherence to contractual Labour agreement(s) for unions and non- unions (Distribution centres) and back Office, analysis of user data and payroll information. Complete cycle on merging multiple divisions in parallel on the current Confidential Work brain version 6.1.2
• Agile methodology: Badge validation and Time clocks testing and the users training on the Work brain 6.1.2 before Merger.
• Enhancements converting the legacy data from other HRIS Applications like Kronos and UltiPro. Mapping modules like the UltiPro’s core HR, UTA, Benefits, and Kronos modules.
• Agile methodology: Simple Scheduling LFSO module rollout to ease scheduling.
• Agile methodology: Off Cycle Termination Automation.
• Agile methodology: Addition of seconds to Time clocks with the look back feature. (Rolled out organization wide)
• Develop strategies for managing and deploying personnel data to improve the division’s ability to manage resources.
• Agile methodology: Attendance Control to track the Late, Early out with periodic reporting and historic auditing.
• Hybrid methodology: Successfully meeting project milestones. Providing leadership and direction for team members in areas that affect project tasks and deliverables, as well as in facilitating and supporting the training, mentoring, and career goals of all project team members. Developing project plans, managing and tracking project execution, designing prototypes and assisting with usability testing, complying with legal and mandatory requirements, releasing products to production, and maintaining product releases
• Appreciated numerous times by Leadership for on time delivery with minimum/no defects.
• Manage change requests, deliverables, time, and cost using Clarity & Power BI.

Confidential, Irving, TX

Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Infor’s WFM (Work brain) solution upgraded to release 6.1.6 from 5.0.3.2 for 50000+ users.
• Managed functional/technical teams from different vendors including the product vendor (Infor) making sure the teams deliver on time and with a smaller number of defects requiring re-work.
• Requirement gathering workshops with business users and macro analysis on the time to complete the request, with proper resource allocation.
• Reviewing the estimates on new modules and curtailing the non-essential expenses.
• Making sure all the tracks like data conversion, code conversion, configuration, infrastructure and reporting run seamlessly, and we meet the aggressive timeline.
• Successful implementation with customisations replaced by new core features.
• Managing the support and development team post upgrade.
• Providing the L3 support for the Support team and defining process for known issues or Problem areas.
• Creation/approval of enhancement requests for small implementations after upgrade like: Badge number change, SPS Enhancement (Palladium-Payroll-Interface), IDM/Access LDAP change for peak hiring, Alerts on clock servers going down, Rodhe Island Payroll change and many more.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• We did not start the design phase as District of Columbia did not approve the Merger of PHI with Confidential .

Confidential, Plano, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Rolled out all the 1300 + customizations with the 6.1.4 replacing many customizations with core code.
• Upgrade completed in 5 months with Infrastructure and database upgrades.
• Database conversion, code conversion and Infrastructure changes are done with the upgrade.
• Purging old data and archiving the sensitive data for 8 years.
• New module like Shift bidding and Shift Swapping were also tested and rolled out.
• Employee Transaction Manager (ETM) to be rolled out for the employees.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the client requirements and requirement analysis. New pay rule configuration and testing.
• Web sphere - Monitoring. Custom rule creation and deployment on Dev Instances for Performance Testing. Monitoring and reviewing log files.

Confidential

Application Manager

Responsibilities:

• Kronos Workforce management solution is implemented across all Sainsbury’s stores to forecast, schedule and clock time.
• Deployment of custom reports.
• Scheduling events.
• Production Support

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementation & Support
• Program was aimed at moving from Infor’s WFM (Work brain) to Kronos.
• Providing production support & enhancement to IT applications and infrastructure for enterprise portfolio division. Support and enhancement work assigned to integrate with other upstream systems and third-party vendors.
• Resolving production issues, performing system upgrades and business customer interaction for requirements.