Offshore Project Lead Resume
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- Overall 11 years of experience in ERP PeopleSoft Consulting and Enterprise Automation as a Techno - Functional consultant.
- Good functional knowledge and expertise in PeopleSoft HRMS modules like ESS, MSS, Core HR, eRecruiting, Template Based Hire
- Good functional knowledge in PeopleSoft Finance modules like Contracts, Billing, Projects Costing and Account Receivables.
- I have an extensive exposure to full software development life cycles from Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Design, Development and Deployment under the Onsite-Offshore work model.
- Experience of working in different types of project executions like PeopleSoft Implementation, PeopleSoft Data Conversion, Upgrade, PeopleSoft Re-Implementation and PeopleSoft Support.
- Experience of working in Onsite - Offshore project execution model as Onsite Coordinator.
- Sound knowledge of ERP implementation methodology and relevant associated quality processes
KEY SKILLS:
ERP - PeopleSoft Functional: PeopleSoft HRMS Core HR, ESS,MSS, eRecruiting, Template Based Hire, PeopleSoft Financials Contracts, Billing, Account Receivables
ERP Tools:
Development Tools: People Tools 8.5, People Tools 8.54, People Tools 8.55, Application Designer, People Code, Application Engine and PeopleSoft File Layout, BI Publisher, Fluid UI using CSS 3
Reporting Tools: PS Query, Maintain Query Security, Query Manager, Process Scheduler Manager, SQR, Crystal Reports, BI Publisher
Integration Technologies: Component Interfaces, Integration Broker, Web services
Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2000,DB2, Oracle 10g,11g
Reporting Tools: PS Query, SQR, BI Publisher
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Offshore Project Lead
Responsibilities:
- Identify the scope of the PeopleSoft application to be migrated to Workday
- Drive workshop session with the key stakeholder to create a rationalized list of interfaces.
- Create a strategy to implement the Workday functional gaps outside the PeopleSoft landscape using a middleware solution
- Analyze and prepare functional documents to be used during the Build phase of the project by the Workday teams
Confidential
Offshore Project Lead
Responsibilities:
- Understand the business process for Confidential Mexico and perform fit gap analysis
- Gather requirements and prepare requirement document for the offshore team
- Lead the team towards re-building the data models of the various legacies. Guide them towards mapping various business processes from legacy systems to PeopleSoft 9.0
- Gather issues related to the conversion from offshore team, present it to client and provide resolution for the same
- Design conversion routines and reconciliation strategy
- Design integration broker to integrate Mexico employee data multiple downstream applications
- Coordinate and review project deliverables from offshore before presenting it to client
Confidential
Offshore Delivery Manager
Responsibilities:
- Point of contact for all deliveries from offshore.
- Worked extensively on PeopleSoft HRMS modules like ESS/MSS, Core HR, eRecruiting, Template based hire and other heavily customized complex modules.
- Handled several severity 1 and 2 tickets independently.
- Provide weekly status reports to Confidential and IBM management. Participate in weekly client meetings
- Prioritize work within team based on weekly client meetings
- Handle escalation if any from client
- Considering that this was a new engagement evolve processes with the project. Various processes like SQL reviews, Peer reviews etc. were established to improve the quality of deliverables.
- Act as a SME on various application and guide the team for resolving complex issues
- Support the project management to hire new members with in team. Ensure their smooth onboarding with in team by organizing KT session within the team
- Groom junior team members to take up additional responsibilities
- Initiated the ‘Idea’ program within the project to identify areas of improvement within the application and suggest improvement to client. Some these ideas were ed to IBM as change requests.
- Prepare the project for various process and product reviews conducted quarterly. Ensure that the observations raised by the auditor are addresses in a timely manner
Confidential
Offshore Transition Manager
Responsibilities:
- Prepare the transition plan for the transition of 4 applications of which 1 application (ePeople) is a large complex application using advanced People Tools and in German language
- Coordinate with multiple vendors to organize and execute the knowledge transfer sessions
- Understanding the client’s business processes by studying the applications and being a part of workshops, meeting and discussions
- Encouraging and coordinating all the knowledge activities in the project and mentoring the other team members.
- Preparing documents related to knowledge transfer
- Coordinate and review project deliverables from offshore before presenting it to client
- Handle escalations from the client as well as IBM management.
- Conduct weekly meetings with the client to update them about the progress of knowledge transition.
Confidential
Offshore Technical Lead
Responsibilities:
- Point of contact for all deliveries from offshore.
- Handling a team of 6-8 members.
- Understand the business process and translate it to PeopleSoft 9.0
- Gather requirements, prepare and share the estimates for the requirements with the client.
- Prepare project plan and schedule.
- Co-ordinate with the onsite counterparts for requirement understanding and delivery.
- Prepare design documents for all enhancements
- Coordinate and review project deliverables from offshore before presenting it to client
- Review all deliverables from offshore
Confidential
Onsite Technical Lead
Responsibilities:
- Understand the business process and translate it to PeopleSoft 9.0
- Point of contact for all deliverables from Offshore.
- Gather requirements and prepare requirement document for the offshore team
- Lead the team towards re-building the data models of the various legacies. Guide them towards mapping various business processes from legacy systems to PeopleSoft 9.0
- Gather issues related to the conversion from offshore team, present it to client and provide resolution for the same
- Design conversion routines
- Coordinate and review project deliverables from offshore before presenting it to client
- Creation of test cases for conversion.
- Point of contact for UAT.
Confidential
PeopleSoft Developer
Responsibilities:
- Developed a working prototype by customizing revenue and billing functionality in contracts according to the client requirement.
- Customize the products structure in people soft as per the complex product structure of Confidential .
- Customize the one to one relationship between a product and ship to customer in a contract as per the client requirement. Confidential required that multiple ship to customers be tracked for each product of the contract line and print these on the invoice.
- Design and implement the revenue calculations as per Confidential ’s requirement.
- Retrofitting of AR, BI, GL modules: Lead the 4 member team for AR, BI, GL retrofitting and guide them through the analysis and retrofitting phase for these modules.
- Retrofit the existing billing, accounts receivable and general modules to integrate with the contracts customizations.
- Created Technical Design Documents for all developments handled.
- Actively participated in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase from client location. Conducted sessions for users to get better understanding of system.
- Involved in new team members in various Technical and functional Areas including PeopleSoft 9.0 Accounts Receivables, Contracts and Billing
- Preparation of Unit Test cases and Unit Test Plan for UAT.
Confidential
Onsite Coordinator
Responsibilities:
- Providing support for any process related queries related to the client system from the business user which includes the higher management at the company.
- Understanding and setting up the business process of the acquired company.
- Conducted sessions in various modules like Project Costing, Resource Management, Contracts, and Billing for the Market Rx users including the higher management.
- Successfully handled any process related issues or queries regarding the revenue and billing processes and suggested solutions as to how their process could fit into the client system.
- Provided the initial hand holding support to all users so that they could understand the system and promptly resolved any issues.
- Was the single point of contact for all (Approximately 400) employees to resolve queries and issues related to all modules in the client system.
Confidential
PeopleSoft Techno Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Implementing PeopleSoft 8.9 Accounts Receivables, Contracts and Billing modules and various customizations in these modules.
- Involved in full development life cycle from requirement gathering, analysis, and development and testing.
- Customized PeopleSoft vanilla Billing and Revenue related processes to meet the clients’ business requirements.
- Customized milestone based billing functionality with different levels of approvals for billing considering SOX specifications.
- Designed and developed one of the complex bolt-on Application for Online Invoice creation template with various steps of approval.
- Customized Milestone approval in contracts to change the search criteria and display of milestone details.
- Handled critical production issues related to bolt-on applications and delivered processes.
- Conducted end to end regression testing before 3 critical rollouts for Contracts, Account Receivables and Billing.
- Created Requirements Documents; as well as Functional and Technical Design Documents for all developments handled.
- Independently handled critical production issues as a part of post Go-Live production support from client location.
- Actively participated in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase from client location. Conducted sessions for the business users so that they get a good understanding of the system being implemented.
- Preparation of Unit Test cases and Unit Test Plan for UAT.
- Always ensured Timely and accurate delivery of the assignment deliverables.
- Involved in new team members in various Technical and functional Areas including PeopleSoft 8.9 Accounts Receivables, Contracts and Billing.