SUMMARY:

• A Senior IT Professional with over fourteen years of extensive experience in project planning control, IT Design and development management, data conversion techniques, test planning control, business requirements analysis, functional specifications, ERP implementation, system development lifecycle, and contingency planning.
• Experience working consulting companies like Accenture, EY and KPMG.
• Over 10 years of experience in ERP implementations.
• Experience working on large-scale multi-country global ERP implementations. Expert knowledge on global functionalities such as VAT, Multicurrency and Withholding taxes.
• Solid experience developing design specs for technology architecture, estimating, and gathering functional requirements
• Experience managing teams in multiple locations, as well as indirect management responsibilities for project teams.
• solutions across multiple industries in a variety of hardware and software environments.
• Strong experience in Change Control management and Business Process Re-Engineering.
• Professional experience spans several industries, which mostly includes Fortune 500 clients.
• Good understanding of Accounting process and system.
• Experience in staff recruitment, training and management
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. An excellent team player with leadership skills. Detail oriented and highly organized.

KEY ACHIVEMENTS:

• Managed a global rollout of PeopleSoft Accounts Payables for a global investment bank which spanned EMEA Germany, France, Spain, Ireland, Poland, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia and APAC Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia countries. Major achievements were the design of facilitation of business redesign workshops, development of a structured communications program, global cutover planning, and training of multicultural teams on one English language financial system
• Designed and implemented a complex Withholding tax system for Indonesia using PeopleSoft without any customizations.
• Designed QA/Testing strategy for a major public sector client working for a big 5 consulting company
• Managed global rollout of PeopleSoft Financials AM, GL, AR, BI to Canada, Germany, France, and Australia for a global manufacturer of healthcare equipment. The project involved significant and complex procedural as well as IT-based changes which required change management and training of end users across three continents to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Managed a interfaces/conversion team comprised of developers, administrators and functional consultants to convert legacy data to PeopleSoft system.
• Designed and implemented a BI reporting system using Business Objects
• Designed and implemented PeopleSoft security architecture for a major supermarket in the UK and public sector client in the US.
• Participated in the global rollout of PeopleSoft P2P and I2C modules for a major US manufacturer of eye care products.
• Participated in QA/testing effort on a global project for a professional services client

KEY PROJECT SKILLS:

• Over 5 years of end to end project management
• Attended PMI certification course
• Change Control and Communications Experience in designing change control strategies.
• Project Planning - Experience in detailed MS project plans as well as visual representations of time lines.
• Resource Management - Experience in managing matrix teams as well as direct line reports
• Process Mapping and Re-engineering - Excellent experience as business analyst including process mapping, documentation and conducting CRP session.
• Quality Assurance/Management -
• Training - Experience in designing training programs and conducting hands on training and preparing training manuals.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

• Participated in staggered data conversion activities from legacy systems to PeopleSoft 9.1 release for AM, AP and GL modules
• Conducted meetings, updated project plans and provided feedback to the management
• Provided recommendations to automate conversion process and validate data
• Reviewed configuration data and suggested modifications to the design documents
• Participated in testing of converted data for GL, AM, and AP modules for each release
• Prepared documents to reconcile converted data and prepared feedback reports
• Interfaced with the Hyperion team to send/receive data to/from Hyperion Planning
• Coordinated activities of functional and technical teams

Confidential

• Harmonized combo edits across the enterprise. As a result, created new combo edits and modified existing ones
• Reviewed GL allocations. Recommended modifications to existing allocations. Created/modified allocations
• Utilized pivot tables and Vlookup functionality of Excel to trouble-shoot data
• Prepared project plan for the effort
• Evaluated GL data for multicurrency processing issues. Recommended solution for multicurrency issues
• Participated in closing activities

Confidential

• Participated in various ERP implementation projects
• Responsible for staff recruitment and training of personnel
• Participated in sale presentations to prospective clients in the US and Europe for both SAP and PeopleSoft
• Participated in RFP's process and evaluation of vendors
• Established European operations in London, UK. Responsibilities included hiring of personnel, fulfillment of legal requirements of VAT, taxes to start operations, and sales presentations of SAP and PeopleSoft to prospective clients.
• Established back-office for Arthur Lawrence in Asia. Responsibilities included site selection, fulfilling of local legal requirements to establish operations, establishment of infrastructure and hiring and management of personnel

Confidential

Project Manager

• Responsible for rolling out PeopleSoft to Credit Suisse businesses in APAC Indonesia, Malaysia and EMEA Germany, France, Turkey, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Poland, Ireland, Isle of Man countries.
• Prepared project plans for each implementation and provided weekly status reports to the upper management.
• Participated in the acquisition activities of certain branches of ABN AMRO bank in Ireland and Isle of Man
• Coordinated activities of development, DBA and infrastructure teams for each rollout.
• Conducted requirement gathering sessions. Prepared process maps, configuration documents and configured each implementation.
• Worked with GL and AM team to resolve configuration and implementations issues.
• Configured global functionality such as VAT, document sequencing and multicurrency

Confidential

• The main objective of this project OneGL Program was to implement a single General Ledger GL with simplified, harmonized processes, using a global chart of accounts and strategic reporting tools. There were Two separate instances of the General Ledger existing one in Z rich and the other in the US. The primary goal of the OneGL project is to merge these two General Ledgers into a single General Ledger OneGL
• Created project plans for conversion activities
• Conducted weekly meetings
• Participated in conversion design strategies
• Prepared change management impact document
• Used pivot tables extensively to review and trouble-shoot data
• Prepared BRDs and process maps and uses cases of part of BRDs
• Prepared functional specifications for allocations, revaluations and ADB processes
• Configured allocations, revaluations and ADB processes
• Participated in UAT activities.
• Participated in cutover exercises and go-live activities

Confidential

• Lead for global rollout of AP, GL, BI and AR modules to UK, Australia, Canada and Germany.
• Conducted CRP, requirement gatherings and configuration sessions. Prepared functional specifications for customizations from the information gathered.
• Managed efforts of technical/DBA teams to ensure timely completion of change requests.
• Created design documents and configuration checklists for each of the module.
• Configured GL, AP, BI, and AR modules for new the business segments. Modified tableset control for localization.
• Gathered VAT and Multicurrency requirements for each of the country. Configured VAT for Australia, UK and Germany and Vertex for US and Canada.
• Analyzed and implemented upstream/downstream system interfaces.
• Designed bank reconciliation procedures for automatic and semi-automatic reconciliation. Configured Banks, Branches, Bank Statement Import process, Cash Control accounting, and multicurrency tolerances.

Confidential

PeopleSoft 9.0 HRMS/Financials Implementation

• Reviewed results of audit conducted by Deloitte for Financials and provided remediation/feedback on the audit report.
• Reviewed AR, BI and AP configuration as part of the audit review process.
• Reviewed invoice imaging functionality within the AP module and provided recommendations to fix a gap in it.
• Provided recommendations for workflow to automate system access process. The existing process was paper-based and very cumbersome.
• Participated in the cut-over exercises. Conducted cut-over sessions.
• Responsible for implementing PeopleSoft 9.0 security for the client.
• Security architecture included both roles-based and row level security including security sets and security join tables.
• Prepared functional/technical specifications and training material.
• Participated in the identity management program
• Organized and managed penetration/vulnerability testing for the PeopleSoft architecture.

Confidential

PeopleSoft 8.9 Implementation

• Responsible for designing the QA/Testing strategy for the entire PeopleSoft Financials implementation.
• Responsibilities included identifying resources, preparation of project plans and test plans.
• Prepared change control standards and data conversion and interfaces testing standards.
• Prepared QA strategy document. Prepared PeopleSoft environment strategy. Identified processes for manual and automated testing using Mercury suite of testing tools Mercury Quality Center and Quick Test Pro .

Confidential

• Participated in upgrade of internal CRM package integration of it with PeopleSoft
• Designed the strategy of batch testing to/from PeopleSoft
• Served as SME for AP, GL and AR modules. Trouble-shooted production related issues
• Participated in de-coupling of PeopleSoft UK Membership business from rest of the company.
• Coordinated testing activities. Worked with various work stream to resolve defects in a timely manner. Utilized mercury Quality Center to organize defects and keep track of testing.
• Performed hands-on testing

Confidential

• Managed a team of 8 resources comprised of developers, DBA's and architects.
• Responsible for developing a complete strategy to Performance Test Fine tune the Financials, EPM HR applications. Responsibilities included technical and financial management of the project.
• Acted as a Single point of contact between the Executive Management, Senior Management and technical/functional teams.
• Responsibilities included delivery of the Project Plan with total supporting data. This included the status reports, issues log, Performance Testing Matrix, Detailed Testing Reports, Fine tuning Recommendation report to both Executive Management Senior Management.

Participated in the design of a disaster recovery plan for the web and app servers.

• Utilized such tools as Performance monitors, Quest Stats Pack, Quest Fog Light, Quest Spot Light, SQL Plus, and Toad to identify the bottlenecks in the database and client's infrastructure. Proposed remedies to resolve such issues.
• Tested the Ascential ETL interfaces. These interfaces brought extremely large volume of data from several production sources and inserted it into the PeopleSoft Tables.
• Tested Business Objects reports from the data stored into the Data Mart after successfully loading of data in the data marts.

Confidential

This ERP implementation was managed by Bearing Point/Cap Gemini

• Led a team of developers and functional users through the UAT process for PeopleSoft Finance, Supply Chain and EPM data warehouse modules.
• Led a team of developers and functional users through the post-implementation UAT process for AP, PO, AM, GL, Projects, SPro and ELM reports.
• Member of a team responsible for implementing IT control objectives to ensure compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Identified weak controls and suggested remedies.
• Gathered functional requirements and translated them into technical specifications. Coordinated the activities of developers, infrastructure, Business Objects and users teams to manage the scope and timeline of the project.
• Manage object migration request and formulated change control standards.
• This effort resulted in successful development and acceptance of PeopleSoft reports.
• Actively participated in staff recruitment. Interviewed over 50 candidates during the process.