STRENGTHS/SKILLS:

• Effectively manages and motivates personnel.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to quickly learn new technology.
• Extensive experience in training personnel
• Capable of making responsible and timely decisions.
• Performs well under pressure.
• 21 years of Payroll experience
• 13 years of Management
• 8 years of Consulting
• PeopleSoft Full - Cycle Implementations and Upgrades
• PeopleSoft training in versions 7.5, 8.0, 8.3, 8.4, 8.8 and 8.9.
• Seminars and Courses in Labor Laws, Unemployment, Workman Compensation, etc.
• ADP Courses: Payroll, Personnel, Report Writer and Advance Report Writer
• DOS Computer School Courses: Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect 5.1, Works for Windows

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

HRIS Support

Responsibilities:

• Support Client thru PeopleSoft HRIS Year End Processes and Tax Update 13 - F.

Confidential, Conroe, TX

HRIS Support

Responsibilities:

• Support clients Confidential and Confidential thru PeopleSoft HRIS payroll production issues and tax update 13-D & 13-E.

Confidential, The Woodlands, TX

Director of IT for Practices HR and Financial Systems

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the PeopleSoft HR and Financial Systems for the 37 Practices, 250 locations and 10,000 employees.
• Perform continuous analysis and work with technology and functional contacts to ensure the right applications are being utilized.
• Evaluate and suggest change management processes to Executive and Management teams.
• Liaise for business process owners to include IT, HR, Payroll, Accounting & Finance areas.
• Responsible for keeping projects on time and in scope.
• Project Manager for Workday implementation to replace PeopleSoft HR in 2014
• Lead three weekly update meetings, Executive Steering Committee, Financial Steering Committee and Workday Project Team.
• Accountable for approving Meteorix (Workday's Project Team) time and expenses.
• Accountable for tracking budget of Workday Project.
• Responsible for Production support for HR and Finance systems.
• Manage two HR developers, two Financial developers and three offshore Financial developers.
• Responsible for Mid-Year and Annual Reviews of Team
• Responsible for all SOX controls related to PeopleSoft internal and external.
• Approves security access for IT Roles PeopleSoft systems,
• Maintain/document technical processes and/or customizations.
• General status reporting.
• Systems development/test/production planning.

Confidential, The Woodlands, TX

PeopleSoft Project Manager/HRIS and Payroll Conversions

Responsibilities:

• Leading the Functional side of the conversions of Confidential HRIS and Payroll from their PeopleSoft Systems to Confidential HRIS and Payroll PeopleSoft Systems
• Perform functional analysis and work with technology and functional contacts to gather new requirements and document detailed systems specifications.
• Evaluate and suggest change management processes to Executive and Management teams.
• Liaise for cross functional business process owners to include IT, HR, Payroll, Accounting & Finance areas.
• Responsible for keeping project on time and in scope.
• Hands on user for validation and testing.
• Lead two weekly update meetings. First meeting with Project Team, second meeting with Business Owners and Executives.

Confidential, The Woodlands, TX

Manager, Financial Systems

Responsibilities:

• Financial Systems Manager as part of the Accounting Management Team, HR Management Team and IT Management Team.
• Provide Functional support for PeopleSoft HR and FIN Systems for all Teams.
• Provide Functional support for Tenrox System to all Teams.
• Functional Manager of Financial Systems - PeopleSoft Finance & PeopleSoft HR (Customizations, Payroll, Time & Labor, HR, Expenses, Billing, GL, Set-up Tables, Configurations, and etc.)
• Member of Accounting and FP&A Leadership Board.
• Manager of SME and Payroll Teams.
• Manage Team in Bangalore, India.
• Approve payment of Expenses for areas responsible for.
• Manage functional System Security.
• Manage system Change Control. Prioritize request for IT. Determine if training is needed or ticket request is valid.
• Ensure systems pass functional SOX audits.
• Project Manage all new functional system projects.
• Work with and/or Manage 3rd parties support for functional areas.
• Provide PeopleSoft Accounting, Financial & HR (8.8) production support; hands-on approach and problem Confidential .
• End-User Training and Knowledge Transfer as needed.
• Liaise for cross functional business process owners to include IT, HR, Accounting & Finance areas.
• Perform functional analysis and work with technology contacts to gather new requirements and document detailed systems specifications.
• Recommend and test new process flows to improve accuracy and become more cost effective.
• Hands on processing of PeopleSoft Payroll, AP and Expenses when necessary to assist team in meeting deadlines.
• Responsible for FP&A Journal uploads and posting.
• Responsible for PeopleSoft Tax updates.
• Responsible for PeopleSoft Year-End Processes.
• Function as primary functional contact for system / technical problem analysis and Confidential .
• Maintain/document business process changes and recommended solutions.
• General status reporting and production planning.
• Manager of Payroll Team for North American Payroll and Time & Labor and Canadian Payroll.
• Manager of Accounts Payable Team for USA and International Accounts Payable.
• Manager of Expenses Payable Team for USA and International Expense Payable to include two employees in India.
• Provide PeopleSoft Payroll production support; hands-on approach and problem Confidential .
• End-User Training and Knowledge Transfer as needed.
• Perform functional analysis; work with cross functional business process owners (Payroll, HR, Finance) and technology contacts to gather new requirements and document detailed systems specifications.
• Responsible for PeopleSoft Tax updates.
• Responsible for PeopleSoft Year-End Processes.
• Function as primary functional contact for system / technical problem analysis and Confidential .
• Liaise with the HR dept. on PeopleSoft issues.
• Maintain/document business process changes and recommended solutions.
• General status reporting and production planning,

Project Manager/Senior PeopleSoft Payroll Analyst

Confidential, Galveston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of PeopleSoft 8.9 applications in a web-based environment from Legacy System to include core HRMS, HCM, MSS and ESS.
• Managing/coordinating testing/users to include SIT and UAT.
• Performs fit/gap analysis.
• Managing Testing Department.
• Utilizing Test Director
• Participating in multiple phases of the project and interacting with all team Managers and Associates in an effort to insure a successful upgrade.
• Develop and create test plans and test scripts to test the PeopleSoft v. 8.9 HCM migrations to include Payroll, TAM, Ben Admin, Kronos, Manager Self Serve, Employee Self Serve, Client Set-up, Earnings and Deduction Code Set-up, Garnishments. Off-Cycle Check processing, Manual Check processing, Reversal Check processing and etc.
• Processing Parallel Payrolls in the TEST environment to ensure all processes are running as expected.
• Running Queries and Reports, validating expected results.
• Testing and approving migrations from the TEST environment to the PRODUCTION environment.
• Analyzing all departments’ processes and systems to determine impact of upgrade.

Confidential, Houston, TX

PeopleSoft Upgrade Specialist/Business Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Participating in multiple phases of the project and interacting with all team Managers and Associates in an effort to insure a successful upgrade.
• Coordinating with Payroll Department for implementation of upgrade from PeopleSoft 8.3 to 8.8.
• Working with associates to analyze today's processes and procedures to possibly implement changes along with the upgrade to insure best practices.
• Analyzing and correcting set-up of earnings codes, deduction codes, garnishments, pay groups, pay calendars and etc.
• Creating test scripts to test the PeopleSoft v. 8.8 HRMS migrations to include Payroll, Kronos, Client Set-up, Earnings and Deduction Code Set-up, Garnishments. Off-Cycle Check processing, Manual Check processing, Reversal Check processing and etc.
• Processing Parallel Payrolls in the TEST environment to ensure all processes are running as expected.
• Running Queries and Reports, and then validating expected results.
• Testing and approving migrations from the TEST environment to the PRODUCTION environment.
• Reviewing all payroll processes and systems to determine impact of upgrade.
• Creating test documentation including plans, cases, testing matrix, and reports.
• Working closely with Payroll Department, suggesting changes and resolving issues.
• Training associates to utilize the new system to the best of their abilities as the upgrade is implemented.
• Cleaning up corrupt data in the 8.3 Production environment and training users how to avoid these issues/errors in the future with their 8.8 Production environment.
• Working closely with the IT Department to correct corrupt data that occurred when client upgraded from 7.5 to 8.3 last February to include missing calendars, pay groups, client locations, employees and etc.