SUMMARY

Matt is highly experienced (18+ years) and intelligent HCM/PR professional with both strong operational and application technical skills.Over his 18 years, he has a strong track record of completing projects on time and under budget, which he attributes to his attention to detail, hard work (a morning person and planner) which allows him to effectively assess, plan and manage projects.

A majority of his work has been with PeopleSoft, but has recently switched over to Workday, for a project at The Confidential, where is the Manager of Integration, managing the integration of a handful of agencies (with a variety of HCM/PR systems) into workdays HCM solution

In the short time he has earned Workday Certifications that include:  Integration, Report Writer, Calculated Field, Workday Studio and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).   

Matt is very bright, articulate and really seems to know what it takes to drive successful projects, and isn’t afraid to roll up his sleeves and drill into details.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Baltimore MD

Integration Lead - HCM (Workday)

• Designed the communication infrastructure (both inbound and outbound) for all State Universities, Judiciaries, Assemblies, and Department of Transportations and Governor’s Office.
• Worked with agencies in the States and reached an agreeable solution
• Project plan and schedule
• Worked with DBAs and developers in setting up integration database; worked with Workday to finalize all business processes for integration
• Participated in Benefits migration planning
• Certification: Integration, Report Writer, Calculated Field, Workday Studio and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)

Confidential, Washington DC

Responsibilities:

• Leave System re-implementation Architect for evaluating the 14-year old system to identify vulnerable area and revamp it within a very short period. The project encompasses data fixes, bugs identification, new architect and re-builds confidence of stakeholders. Development was completed in a highly pressured, deadline driven agile environment. Users and management chain were highly involved throughout the process. Mandates were clearly understood where no path was given. A small team was formed and knowledge and experiences were shared through daily briefing. Solutions were expressed in diagrams and charts that could be understood by different audience. Incremental processes were made and passed to the clients for feedback continuously.
• Tax reimbursement. Work closely with clients to prepare for 2016 tax regulation changes, accurately calculate tax liability projection, enhance system controls, etc. Change configurations as needed. Resolve any lingering issues with clients. Advice clients on future enhancement, etc.
• Attendance System Reverse engineering of the current system in production. Resolve some of the issues with new hires, transfers, termination and integrate HCM fully. Review and repair the discrepancy between employee self-service, manager self-service and PeopleSoft backend applications. Prepared process design mapping and data flow charts.
• Payroll (N.A.) Assist clients to review the current payroll process (e.g., 21 pages of steps); analyze and provide system comparison for future upgrade (e.g., SAP, Workday vs. PeopleSoft). Provide day to day functional and technical support.
• HR Contractual Conversion. To implement AWE in workflow management; streamline the HR hiring process across the whole organization.
• Review shared service support. In process of review and enhance the flow of resolving production issues per SLA. Eliminate many unnecessary steps in order to improve the overall response time.
• Fit-Gap Analysis for client’s upgrade, from PeopleSoft to Workday HCM

Confidential, Washington DC

Team Lead 

Responsibilities:

• IIC company re-org and merger. It involves define company and compensation framework, transition jobs, provide severance packages, data conversion, etc. (Dec 2015)
• Develop a system to bring consultants into HCM (Dec 2015)
• Global Banking solution (FX4CASH) with Deutsche Bank. To disburse staff payment globally through one private bank. (Late summer 2015)
• Dependency confirmation and verification. (Completed in July 2015)
• Short-term cross border assignment and payments (Completed in Sept. 2015)
• Migrate PeopleSoft Pension System to AON Hewitt (Saas, April 2016)
• Transition LTD staff from outside vendor (AIG) to in-house HCM/Payroll (Completed May 2015)
• Tax reimbursement calculation, i.e., phase out deductions (On going)
• Gather and document function specs of the existing payroll systems in preparation of system re-implementation in SAP (On going)
• Interface with Concur, Taleo, Enterprise Data warehouse (On going)
• Enhancement for Non-Employee Administrative Application (Vendor onboarding)
• Payroll production trouble shooting (North American Payroll & Global Payroll)
• Manage offshore support team to support day-to-day business
• Assist upper management in planning budget, resource and schedule
• Used scrum methodology in an agile environment for all projects with multiple teams at multiple Continents

Confidential, Washington DC

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• PeopleSoft 9.1 Upgrade. Introduced PeopleSoft Global Payroll product to the World Bank. Played key role in convincing stakeholders in selecting this leading-edge solution in the market. Partnered with Comptroller, I formulated the plan, coordinated product demos, prepared cost-benefit analysis, and drafted the business justification and project costing. I acted as technical lead of payroll re-implementation GP 9.1. Hands on the project from design, development, testing and migration. Conducted various training for clients. The upgrade was completed on April 1st, 2014 after two and half years of effort. Recognized individually by HR VP at the Project Celebration Ceremony.
• Payroll Production Support. Lead the technical team to support payroll system since September 2007. Worked closely with clients onshore and offshore. Successfully paying 16,000 staff in over 150 countries on time correctly.
• Team management. Mentored and managed a team of 13 technical staffs in two continents.
• In the past 7 years, I recruited three staff to augment the payroll technical team. In addition, I experienced three vendor companies turnover (and staff), Saytam, TCS and HCL.
• Attended various leadership training/workshop programs. Successfully completed an one-on-one Executive Coach Program with an external coach (Melanie-Anne Taylor) in November 2013.
• Supported Bank Internal Financial Control Reporting (IFCR). . Reviewed and approved staff’s access to our PeopleSoft system monthly. Responsible to support internal and external auditors’ inquiries every six months.
• Led Award Winning Capital Projects
• Staff Merit Increase 2014. HR VPU Award 2014
• PeopleSoft Global Payroll Upgrade 2014. ITS VPU Award 2014
• Staff Loan System. HR VPU Award 2013
• SME of Payroll. Implemented Country Office Cross-Country Assignment Benefits and Dependency Comptroller VPU Award 2013

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• PeopleSoft technical, since version 5.12.
• Certified Oracle DBA 9i
• Developed in one week of an application engine program that compares PS 8.0 to PS 9.1 payroll results during payroll parallel testing before it was used in production. (January 2014)