SUMMARY:

• Nine years of extensive experience in coordinating and leading different Teams (Support and Implementations).
• More than Seventeen years of extensive experience in software engineering. Manage Off - shore as well as On-Shore Teams.
• Ability to interact with End users, Managers and other Teams.
• Self-motivated, quick learner and team player with excellent verbal and written skills.
• Experienced in working with Matrix and non-Matrix set-ups.
• Proven leadership and problem solving skills with diverse computer science experience and involved in all parts of the SDLC.
• Conduct business requirements Fit-Gap Analysis and develop Configuration and RICEFW requirements inventory.
• Develop project plan, RTM and manage teams for developing functional, technical designs and build documents for RICEFW objects.
• Analyze Legacy systems and design optimal solutions (No Action, Disposition, Convert, Interface, and Partial Conversion/Interface).
• Manage Build teams and manage Design/Code reviews.
• Plan resource utilization and estimate work efforts (Implementation and Post Go-Live Support)
• Manage Performance Testing and Batch Scheduling teams.
• Develop Cut Over plans and manage Deployment teams.
• Manage large and geographically dispersed teams (on-shore, on-shore/off-shore mix, third-party vendors).

JOB EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richmond

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Application Lead and Project Management and provided functional and technical expertise to plan, analyze, define, design, develop, test and support the delivery of Statewide PeopleSoft Financials application.
• Overall manager for Interfaces, Conversions, and Development Activities.
• Managed Interface Team.
• Prepared Interface Approach, Conversion Approach.
• Managed Conversion Team.
• Prepared Interface and Conversion Test Plans.
• Presented all plans to project management and updated based on feedback.
• Coordinated/Presented/Attended Interface kickoff sessions and monthly meetings.
• Coordinated/Presented/Attended Conversion meetings.
• Provided oversight to Technical Design and Build activities.
• Reviewed Technical Design Documents and provided feedback to the Development Manager to set/improvise standards.
• Reviewed Interface/Conversion Design Documents.
• Provided recommendation for Vendor Conversion modifications and helped in analyze, plan, estimate the effort.

Environment: PeopleSoft 9.1, Oracle 11.

Confidential

Deployment Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the planning and execution of the Release 1 for statewide PeopleSoft financials deployment.
• Reviewed available, related documents to plan for deployment
• Met with all functional/module leads to understand the scope of project
• Prepared initial draft of deployment plan for Wisconsin project
• Presented deployment plan to project management and made updates to reflect the feedback

Environment: PeopleSoft 9.1, Oracle 11.

Confidential, Chicago

Deployment Manager and PMO Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Manage all Deployment activities and coordinate all PMO related activities for PeopleSoft HCM Merger Project. Worked closely with PMO, Development, Functional, Business and Technical Architecture Teams to complete assigned tasks on time to complete the successful deployment of Merger Project.
• Prepared various deliverables and submitted and managed approvals.
• Coordinated with project management to get the deliverables signed off on - time.
• Prepared detailed Deployment Approach and presented to client.
• Managed Interface Testing/coordination with few vendors.
• Prepared detailed deployment checklist by meeting with each and every team on the project.
• Finalized all dependencies and execution sequence for deployment.
• Managed dry run/dress rehearsal activity for deployment and estimated time for deployment.
• Updated Deployment plan based on facts from dress rehearsal
• Managed all Deployment activities

Environment: PeopleSoft 9.1, Oracle 11.

Confidential, Sacramento

Responsibilities:

• Provided industry best practice design solutions to improve and enhance the existing system.
• Supported deployment of the solution to pre - production and production environments.
• Supported performance test of the solution.
• Assisted with necessary migrations and data moves.
• Acted as PeopleSoft SME for Technical Team.
• Helped answering questions related to Interfaces, Conversions, Legacy Data, and RICEFWs.
• Performed as LSDA Manager.
• Reviewed departmental systems and provided analysis along with disposition recommendation.
• Coordinated with Off-Shore for Design, Development, Unit Testing, Bug Fixing activities.
• Responsible for various deliverables.
• Responsible for Pre-Wave Conversion activities.
• Responsible for Wave 1 Conversion activities.
• Prepared and presented layouts to the client.
• Met departments involved in each wave and answered their questions.
• Responsible for all Mock Tests. Planned and executed activities for each Mock Test.
• Responsible for Mock 1 Dry Run and Dress Rehearsal activities.

Confidential

Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Confidential management consulting counterparts and client business/IT leads, developed the technical strategy and implementation plan to stand up the technology infrastructure needed for a key client strategic objective to create an in - house financial services division with an aggressive timeline.
• Key participant in development and analysis of business requirements. Led workshop sessions related to integration, testing and deployment.
• Responsible for all integrations between PeopleSoft and AS400, CCDB, IVR, D&B, SalesForce, Documentum and PeopleSoft 8.9.
• Responsible for Performance Testing (Load Runner) for AR, Billing, eBilling Modules.
• Managed the development of Functional and Technical designs for all RICEFW objects. Led the development and integration work streams (10+ resources with a mix of on-shore/off-shore).
• Assisted the client in evaluation and selection of a third party vendor for development.
• Acted as Functional Manager for 6 weeks and completed & obtained signoff for more than 50% of functional designs (30 designs).
• Developed solutions to complex business requirements not supported by out of the box functionalities and address various integration challenges.
• Responsible for Batch scheduling and Batch testing.
• Helped Test Manager with recruiting, interviewing testing team. Helped Integration Testing and UAT with defect fixing.
• Project management responsibilities included developing detailed task plan to track to project plan and providing weekly status updates to PMO.

Environment: PeopleSoft 9.1, PeopleSoft 8.9, Salesforce, AS400, Oracle 11, D&B credit check engine, Documentum, IVR integration, CCDB (Custom developed Customer Master), and Customer portals.

Confidential

Development Team Manager

Responsibilities:

• Development Manager experienced in PeopleSoft HCM/Payroll upgrades, working with offshore counterpart to drive the RICEFW and Upgrade/Change Assistant process.
• Extensive RICEFW (including pure bolt - ons) to retrofit using traditional SQR, App Engine, CI, Queries, PeopleCode and App Designer.
• PeopleSoft HCM Upgrade Project - Development Manager, Off-Shore Coordinator
• Responsible for reviewing all compare reports, making decision on retro-fitting, copy/ignore new/old code.
• Responsible for all Technical Designs, Build, Unit Tests.
• Responsible for all off-shore work (compare reports, retrofitting, Technical Designs, Build, Unit Tests).
• Defect coordination and supporting test/business teams during test phase.
• Responsible for Batch schedule review.

Environment: PeopleSoft 9.1, Oracle 11.

Confidential

Development Team Manager

Responsibilities:

• Estimated various Work Units and reviewed design, build documents.
• Responsible for all development activities for the project.
• Supervised a team of 20 people and completed all the tasks in given timelines.
• Coordinated with functional teams to complete the work on-time and get and meet their expectations.
• Recruited GCP resources to project from IDC to keep the project costs low and developed skills for the internal resources.
• Provided timely status updates to management and escalated issues to minimize the impact. Worked as a Configuration Management Lead and Data Privacy Liaison.
• Worked as Batch Set-up Lead and gathered the entire batch (from the functional teams) info on the jobs that need to be run on Nightly/Day Time/Weekly/Monthly/Ad-hoc and Hourly.

Environment: PeopleSoft 9.0, Oracle 11.

Confidential, Columbus

Development Team Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of 20+ Developers, Defect Coordinators, and team leads.
• Assigned work, coordinated with functional teams, estimated enhancements and track their status.
• Provided status updates to management and client leads.
• Stabilized the production support with new releases.
• Reviewed documentation for either defects or enhancements to make sure they are adhering to the OAKS standards.
• Performed Code Reviews to make sure written code actually fixes the issue, followed coding standards and naming convention for new objects.
• Prioritized and assigned defects/enhancement to Confidential, State and Sub - contractors and set the completion dates and follow-up on the statuses.
• Estimated the Change Requests. Estimated and balanced the work load for development teams.
• Updated the Design, Build Trackers and provided status updates to all leads.
• Conducted the meeting with functional and development teams to go over the issues and tasks and understand the revised plans and take actions accordingly.
• Worked with Client people to do the Knowledge Transfer and coordinated Lunch and Learn Sessions and other meetings.
• Oversaw the migration process and getting approvals for the migrations.
• Allocated and re-arranged all available resources across all the projects (Development, Production Support).
• Oversaw the nightly production batch runs.
• Coordinated the bundle/Patch applying process.

Environment: PeopleSoft 8.8, Oracle 11.

Confidential, Columbus

PeopleSoft Financials SIR Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Assigned and tracked all SIRs in the system and provided status to the management on a daily basis.
• Coordinated with all teams to minimize issues with defects.
• Provided support to all testing teams to resolve their defects within given time.
• Reviewed/validated the new SIRs to make sure they are valid defects or enhancements.
• Assigned defects to the appropriate teams and tracked the status on the Defects.
• Coordinated with Functional, Technical and Security teams to prioritize and resolve issues.
• Worked closely with SAT, UAT, Regression testing teams and help resolve their issues (Either defects or System related issues).

Environment: PeopleSoft 8.8, PeopleSoft 8.9, Oracle 11.