SUMMARY

• Senior Peoplesoft Consultant with more than 7 years of in - depth experience in PeopleSoft design, implementation and Learning management experience. Having technical and functional knowledge in the implementation of PeopleSoft Campus Solutions (8x, 9x), HCM and CRM.
• Responsible for all phases of PeopleSoft implementations and upgrades, including project planning, fit/gap analysis, design, construction, deployment and maintenance.
• Worked on PeopleSoft 9.2 Campus Self-Service, Financial Aid, Gradebook, Recruiting and Admissions, Student Administration, Student Financials, Student Records.
• Knowledge of various Campus solution modules such as Campus Community, Recruiting and Admissions, Student Records, Curriculum Management. Worked on various data conversion like Financial Aid data, course catalog, schedule of classes, service indicator, test credits, test scores, student groups, academic standing and student program plan to load data from third party system to PeopleSoft system.
• Strong implementation/upgrade skills and high level of business process knowledge starting with version PeopleSoft 8.x, 9.x. The most recent experience includes 9.2 on PeopleTools 8.54.
• Extensively worked with People Tools such as Application Designer, Application Engine, Process Scheduler, Data Mover, Maintain security, People code, Workflow, Component Interface, File Layout, XL to CI, Approval Workflow Engine, Application Packages, Integration Broker, PeopleSoft security, HTML, project migrations, Update Manager and Unix Scripts.
• Proficient in analyzing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Design Documents and FRD (Functional Requirement Document) to formulate Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Expertise in techno-functional aspects of PeopleSoft financials modules: P2P, Contract Management system(CA), Billing (BI), Account Payable (AP), Travel & Expense, General Ledger(GL), Project Costing, Commitment Control, Account Receivable (AR) PeopleSoft HRMS, Workforce Admin, Manager and employee self-service modules and Time and Labor, vacation leave tracker.
• Expertise in broad range of technologies, including business process tools such as Microsoft Project, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Visio, technical assessment tools, Micro Strategy Data Warehouse Data Modeling and Design.
• Extensive experience in PeopleSoft HCM solutions, Higher education product ( PeopleSoft Campus Solution) and PeopleSoft CRM suites.
• Strong in SQL. Extensively worked with SQR, PeopleSoft Query, Connected Query in creation and generation of organizational reports.
• Worked extensively on PeopleSoft tools like SQRs and Application Engines for reporting, Mass uploads, Outbound and Inbound Interfaces, Email messaging and Data Processing programs.
• Expertise in application software development in using PeopleSoft with progressive technical experience in Customization, Implementation and Development of PeopleSoft CRM Field Service, Sales, Support and Campus Solutions Student Administration.
• Strong business analysis skills and a sound understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) utilizing Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology.
• Worked with Waterfall and Agile SCRUM Methodologies using Version One, Behavior driven development (BDD) and Test-driven development (TDD).
• Experience in facilitating Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with Business User Groups, conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with IT Groups and Conflict Management with Project team members.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Sr. PeopleSoft Campus Solution Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided software development, maintenance and analysis for PeopleSoft Campus Solution 9.2.
• Understanding the functional design documents received from Montclair State University for the HCM and Campus Solutions.
• Assisted technical staff with their People Tools 8.5 upgrade to their Campus Solutions 9.2 environments.
• Defined the business processes in PeopleSoft, conducted extensive gap analysis, reviewed extensive customizations, led data conversion efforts, led reports development, conducted user training, implementation and post implementation support.
• Involved in developing and customizing the reports using the tools PS Query and SQR. Creating complex SQL to retrieve the data from PS.
• Worked with Integration Broker to send a XML document across databases and schemas to synchronize data for members such as personal information, contract data, and dependency data.
• Led Student Financials delta sessions to identify new and changed functionality. Researched options to eliminate or modify existing modifications using delivered functionality.
• Responsible for the set-up, data-mapping and configuration in support of out of the box functionality of the Academic Advisement, Campus Self-Service, Financial Aid, Gradebook, Recruiting and Admissions, Student Administration, Student Financials, Student Records and Campus Community modules within the Campus Solutions application suite.
• Monitored and participated in all departmental activities to ensure personnel are operating within and following the policies and procedures of the university.
• Processed all financial aid, cash, direct bill and corporate deferral paperwork for student accounts.
• Modified People Code and made online modifications to pages, components etc. in Academic Structure, Campus Community, Student Records and Academic Advisement modules.
• Provided on-site university management with direction and professional development designed to increase their management effectiveness, reduce turnover and decrease liabilities.
• Developed and monitored the fiscal campus budget to ensure the campus can continue to achieve its mission and objectives and achieve corporate goals.
• Participated in multiple training sessions, including Academic Structure, Student Financials, Financial Aid, Equation Engine, PS Query and PeopleSoft Test Framework.
• Developed Technical design specs, program coding/debugging, unit testing, system testing, user acceptance testing in Financial Aid, Student Records, and Student Financials, Admissions, Campus Community modules.
• Designed and produced gradebook reports; work in conjunction with district IT department to create computer generated report cards via gradebook software.
• Performed routine administrative services including admission status, financial aid student records, and student accounts, handles routine customer complaints, and coordinates solutions.

Confidential, Long Beach, CA

PeopleSoft Campus Solutions

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated college transcripts for transfer hours through PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Admission & Student Records module.
• Configured and successfully set up the PeopleSoft Auto Enrollment functionality and Involved in the reviewing, writing & execution of Test cases pertaining to Time and Labor, Core HR and Payroll & Completed in depth performance testing of new functionality implemented using core HRIS module.
• Provided production support services primarily to users of the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Student Financials module.
• Used SQL Profiler for troubleshooting, monitoring, and optimization of SQL Server and non-production database code as well as T-SQL code from developers and QA.
• Responsible for BRD walk through sessions with various business customer, Contacts unit leaders, IT Quality Assurance teams and coordinated the system testing and UAT of the various projects delivered as part of the various Sprints.
• Design and developed the technical specification for any modification to the existing PeopleSoft object (SQR report, People code, application engine etc.) or to create any new object in PeopleSoft for any customization.
• Responsible for the maintenance, support and tuning of the PeopleSoft Campus Solution, Portal application environments including Demo, Development, QA, Training, and Production
• Created multiple interfaces for the Student Campus Solution Modules including (Student Records, Financial Aid, Admissions and Student Finance).
• Merged student financial aid awards in Campus Solutions with HCM data T L Payable Time and Payroll Pay Earnings, for computation and complex reporting of work study earnings.
• Concentrated on Campus Solution Modules Financial Aid, Student Administration, Campus Self Service, Student Financials, Academic Advising, Student Records, Contributor Relations, and Gradebook.
• Involved in developing a notification to the students regarding their drop implications via email to direct them to the student center through a generic message to check their student account record.
• Set-up, data-mapped and configured in support of out of the box functionality of the Academic Advisement, Campus Self-Service, Financial Aid, Gradebook, Recruiting and Admissions, Student Administration, Student Financials, Student Records and Campus Community modules within the Campus Solutions application suite.
• Assisted with many issues related to PeopleSoft 9.0 Student Financials that had gone unresolved for many years. Helped build a number of course/class fee scenario. Helped configure and learn how to use external file load, group post functionality which was a huge help in reducing manual workload. Created many queries to help in everyday business processes.
• Tracked student disbursements, charges and payments---including third party payments and collections, with comprehensive refund calculation rules based on both local and government refund policies.
• Supported the automation of the student records maintenance process, beginning with comprehensive definitions of the course catalog and schedule of classes. Enables the creation of enrolment controls and the generation of grade rosters and transcripts.
• Performed routine administrative services including admission status, financial aid student records, and student accounts, handles routine customer complaints, and coordinates solutions.
• Involved in customizing Student Records application by creating Records, Panels, panel groups, attached them to required menus through Application Designer and made them available to various operators and Operator Class through Security Administrator
• Prepared each campus to successfully implement all of the latest PeopleSoft 9.0 Student Financials functionality. Implementation tasks included legacy system assessment, fit/ gap analysis, prototyping, design, configuration, testing, business process engineering/ re-engineering, documentation, knowledge transfer, training, and go-live/production support.

Confidential, Austin, TX

PeopleSoft HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Being a part of the team, involved in the production & support and upgrade of the PeopleSoft HCM (HR, Benefits and Benefits Administration, Payroll and Time & Labor) modules based on organizational needs and requirements & Performed the Fit -Gap analysis and the Upgrade lab sessions to sort out the new functionalities to be added to the existing system.
• Responsible for implementing Position Data Pages in MSS by creating departmental budgets, Defined budget period calendars and source transactions & experienced PeopleSoftHRMS applications with Modules such as HR, Payroll, Benefits, Benefits Administration, Time and Labor, Absence Management, ESS and MSS. worked on People Tools such as People Code, Application Engine, Maintain Security, Query and File Layout, Process scheduler, Data Mover, Component Interface, Integration Broker, Application Messaging, XML Publisher and Reporting tools (SQR and Crystal Reports)
• Worked closely with Installation, administration and upgrades of PeopleSoft environments on an Oracle/Solaris, PeopleSoft application architecture including the table structure, delivered objects, design standards, protocols and Involved in various PeopleSoft Applications Up gradation using Upgrade/ Change Assistant.
• Involved in maintaining and production support of PeopleSoft HRMS (Core HR, Workforce Administration, Performance) & Analyzed Human Resources/ Time & Labor/ Payroll/Benefits/ Time Capture business processes; work with business owners to achieve consensus for business process changes and facilitate transition to best practices as supported by PeopleSoft HCM.
• Customized and the integrates efforts on the upgrade of Payroll, Core HR, Benefits and other self-service modules and parallelly Performed detailed gap analysis with a review of delivered functionalities compared to the business requirements.
• Configured the Pay check modeler, Online rule processing in PeopleSoft and Set Up and Configured WorkCentre and Dashboards in PeopleSoft & Set up Earnings codes, Earnings Programs, Pay Groups, Deduction Codes and Garnishments
• Configured PeopleSoft Template based Time and Labor rules using Period Threshold, Holiday, Accumulator, Shift Premium templates & Perform Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, Backend Testing and Functional testing for upgrade.
• Created and Used Application Packages, Application engine programs, SQR Batch Programs, Menus, Components, Pages, Records, Fields and several complex SQL Definitions in order to achieve functionality.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented different phases of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) including Strategic Systems Planning, Designing, Programming, Testing, Documentation, and presentation to clients and preparing customer specifications as part of software technical requirements and Customer support
• Worked in diversified business domains including external clients and cross functionally with finance, sales, marketing, human resource, and payroll.
• Produced various business documents such as business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD), and Non-Functional Requirements Document (NFRD), business Process Documents, business Flow Documents, User Training Manuals, User Interface Specifications.
• Updated requirement document as per business user's feedback and changes in functionality of the applications.
• Used Jira and Confluence to apply critical thinking skills and a logic-based approach to problem solving. And Facilitated JAD session and one to one interview to understand and analyses the requirements.
• Updated requirements as per business user's feedback and changes in functionality of the applications and involved in PeopleSoft Application Security Design in Accounts Payable, Purchasing and Custom applications.