Peoplesoft System Administrator Resume
Houston, TX
SUMMARY
- Over 10 years of result oriented professional experience in Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment, Implementation, System Administration, Application Security and Production Support.
- 7+ years of extensive experience as a PeopleSoft System Administrator supporting mainly PeopleSoft Financials, HRMS, ELM, Student Administration and Portal applications on Oracle and MS SQL Server databases in a UNIX, LINUX and Windows Environments.
- Performed multiple full life cycle implementations, transition from the legacy system to the PeopleSoft ERP.
- Successfully performed PeopleSoft PeopleTools upgrades, most recently .
- Successfully completed PeopleSoft Application upgrades version 9.0 to 9.1.
- PeopleSoft Server Administration PeopleTools v 8.52/8.4x - Expertise in installation, configuration, setup, security and management of the PeopleSoft Internet Architecture (PIA) environment and relevant objects.
- Comprehensive experience in setting up security in HRMS, Student Administration, Financials and Portal environments.
- Successfully installed and setup Integration Broker for application messaging between PeopleSoft Portal, HRMS, Financials and EPM applications.
- Successfully installed and configured Oracle WebLogic Server 11gR2, Tuxedo 11gR1, Application Server, Batch Server environment and File Server.
- Ensured system availability by implementing failover by spreading multiple WebLogic Web Server domains across multiple hosts, where environment continues operating after a web server host goes down.
- Used BIG IP (F5), Foundry tools for Load Balancing and Failover.
- Created multiple Application Server domains on separate host systems to access one database, an effective strategy for performance and tuning.
- Extensive experience in refreshing development and QA from Production database.
- Evaluated the required patches and applied them to the PeopleSoft system on a timely basis.
- Comprehensive experience in performance tuning all the Server Components in the PeopleSoft Internet Architecture - Web Server Tier, Application Server Tier, Process Scheduler, Database Server Tier, Network layer and Operating System Resource availability/usage and kernel settings.
- Experienced in PeopleSoft Applications administration including performance issues with SQR reports, App Engine, index creation, working with DBA to tune the Database configuration parameters.
- Data Migration between PeopleSoft Environments, Development to Test and Production, version control and change management.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: C#, Visual basic 6.0, JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL
ERP: PeopleSoft PeopleTools - 8.51/ /8.1 x, PeopleSoft HR Application 9.1/9.0/8.9; PeopleSoft Financials 9.1/9.0/8.9; PeopleSoft Portal 9.1/9.0/8.8
Administration Tools: Data Mover, Configuration Manager, PeopleSoft Command-line Utilities
Development Tools: Application Designer, PeopleCode and Application Engine
Integration Tools: App Messaging/Integration Broker, Component Interface, Business Interlinks
Upgrade Tools: Upgrade Assistant, Change Assistant
Security Tools: PS Object Security, Query Security and Tree Manager
Reporting Tools: SQR, Crystal Reports, nVision Reports
End User Tools: PS Query Tool
RDBMS: Oracle 11g/10g/9i//8i, MS SQL Server 2008/2005
Internet Technologies: IIS, ASP.NET 2.0/3.0/3.5, ASP, MVC, AJAX
Web Designing Tools: Visual Studio 2012/2010/2008 , ASP.NET, Front Page
Tools: & Technologies: ADO, ADO.NET, HTML, DHTML, XML, Source Gear, CSS
Microsoft Testing Tools: Product studio, Bugger, Source depot
Operating System: Windows XP/Vista, Windows NT, Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Houston, TX
PeopleSoft System Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Worked as a PeopleSoft Administrator on a new implementation of HRMS 9.1, and Finance Supply Chain Management 9.1 and Enterprise Portal 9.1 applications running on PeopleTools 8.52.
- Create multiple Application Server, Process Scheduler and PIA domains.
- Install and setup Application Portal Solution 9.1 Feature pack 1 and configured, setup Single Sign On with Unified Navigation WorkCentre.
- Setup Performance Monitor by configuring Monitoring System with multiple Monitored systems.
- Performed pre and post database refresh task by coordinating and scheduling with DBA team.
- Setup email notification on Monitoring Message Queues using PeopleSoft delivered Monitoring for Integration Broker notification when message goes to Error.
- Applied multiple required Bundles, Maintenance Packs and Tax updates with prerequisite patches using Change Assistant.
- Configured SMTP settings for Process Scheduler and Application Server via their configuration files.
- Installed PeopleTools 8.52.07 and applied 8.52.12 patch on all the environments.
- Performed migrations of PeopleSoft Projects and other File Objects.
- Compiled and Relinked COBOL programs.
- Troubleshoot Report posting issues and Integration Broker messaging issues.
Confidential, Miami, FL
PeopleSoft System Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Worked as a PeopleSoft Administrator to support HRMS 9.1, Campus Solutions 9.1, and Finance 9.1 applications running on PeopleTools 8.52.
- Worked as primary and only resource for hardware and Database upgrade from Oracle 10g to 11g, HP-UX to Linux with storage from NETAPPS to Hitachi and Windows 2003 to Windows 2008.
- Created, configured and tuned all PeopleSoft components namely WebLogic Web Servers, Application Servers, Process Scheduler Servers.
- Served as primary on-call resource for production support pertaining to any after hour issues on 24/7 support schedule.
- Performed PeopleSoft Project Migrations using Application Designer and other Change Management Tools.
- Successfully implemented and configured Single Sign-On, LDAP on multiple environments.
- Responsible for applying updates and fixes, bundles and maintenance packs to the PeopleSoft environments on a scheduled basis including Tax updates as and when released.
- Worked with Development Teams to resolve issues with Application Engine, SQR, PeopleCode, Crystal and nVision.
- Successfully performed monitoring and was responsible in tuning all the tiers of PeopleSoft Internet Architecture - Web, App, and Batch layers.
- Performed weekly database refresh of HR and Financials environments.
- Migrated Security related objects of the application from development database to Unit testing and System testing and then finally to the production database during rollout. This included keeping all the databases consistent and in sync with PVCS version control tool
- Resolved issues with respect to Reports Posting to Report Repository and Messages being queued in the Integration Broker.
- Created company specific PS Signon pages and splash pages also applied Foundary load balancer to distribute load among multiple application and web servers.
Confidential, Minneapolis, MN
Sr. PeopleSoft Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Worked as a primary resource of PeopleSoft production support for several applications Financials SCM, Finance, HR, & ELM.
- Applied PeopleSoft Maintenance Packs and various Bundles and Patches as needed to fix problems with the application.
- Performed PeopleSoft Project Migration using Application Designer
- Created and configured Application Server Domain templates and modify the App Server parameters that affect the system performance for Dev, QA and Prod environments.
- Installed the PeopleSoft Internet Architecture on Unix, LINUX, Windows platforms.
- Configured and used Change Assistant for applying Tax Updates, patches, bundles and Maintenance Packs.
- Configured Application Server Load balancing, and Web Server Load balancing.
- Applied Tax Updates to all the environments from 11-C through 11-F as and when released by PeopleSoft for the year 2011.
- Daily tasks like running SQR’s, Application Engine Programs, scripts, custom conversions and Change Controls.
- Extensively worked on Performance Tuning of Web Servers, Application Servers, Process Schedulers and Databases in coordination with the respective teams.
- Created Shell Scripts on UNIX servers to monitor various PeopleSoft Processes on Application Servers and Batch Servers in order to maintain smoothly running environments without unexpected outages.
- Worked with Data migration team and Business Intelligence team to coordinate OLAP Application.
- Configured PeopleSoft Adaptors to be used by third party Software Applications like Informatica for building Data warehouse for OBIEE.
Confidential, New York, NY
Sr. PeopleSoft Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Worked as a primary resource towards the HCM 8.8 to HCM 9.1 upgrade with PeopleTools upgrade.
- PeopleSoft upgrade is performed via PeopleSoft Change Assistant. Data conversion scripts for Application Engine and Change Assistant templates are needed to perform the upgrade.
- Configured and used Change Assistant for the Upgrade.
- Worked with Techno-functional and conversion teams to accomplish all the Upgrade steps properly.
- Migrated Projects ran compare reports to determine collusions and executed all relevant scripts during the Upgrade process.
- Coordinated with TECH-ARCH (Technical/Architecture) team in creating Logical and Physical diagrams of the whole project life cycle until go live.
- Participated in feasibility study with the Functional Team for Conversion and Retro-fit analysis.
- Knowledge of Mount Points, Functional ID’s, User ID’s in UNIX servers, Performance parameters and Shell scripting.
- Installed People Tools and Application for DEMO Environment with the support from DBA team for Oracle Installation.
- Installed and build multiple environments in multiple UNIX and NT servers across the architecture as per the approved Design.
- Engaged in Performance tuning after the go-live for the smooth transition all the processes, reports and workflows from old version to newly upgraded version.
- Apart from the Upgrade, as a member of PeopleSoft Infrastructure Team, shared other responsibilities towards Production maintenance of Financials 9.0 and Portal applications on daily basis.
- Worked with Seibel team for the for the Architecture administration for the new Order to Cash module implementation.
- Applied PeopleSoft Maintenance Packs and various Bundles and Patches as needed to fix problems with the application.
- Applied Tax Updates to all the environments from 10-A through 10-F and post 10-F as and when released by Peoplesoft for the year 2010.
- Migrated Security related objects of the application from development database to Unit testing and System testing and then finally to the production database during rollout. This included keeping all the databases consistent and in sync.
- Migrated PS and Non-PS objects using STAT.
- Created Shell Scripts on UNIX servers to monitor various PeopleSoft Processes on Application Servers and Batch Servers in order to maintain smoothly running environments without unexpected outages.
- Addressed and troubleshooted various issues on daily basis during the project life-cycle like, Single Sign-On, LDAP, Clustering, HACMP, Fail-Over/Load Balancing etc.
Confidential, Vienna, VA
Sr. PeopleSoft Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Application Team Lead/coordinator for FRS Financials Reporting System, PeopleSoft EPM and Financials 9.0 Environment.
- Extensively supported other applications involved with Shared Application Environment as per the client standards, such as BIC (Best IN Class), NAPSGL (North America PS General Ledger), ECDW (Equity Comp Data Warehousing), LEA (Legal Entity Aggregator), BAW (Business Activity Warehouse) and etc.
- Performed Production support activities 24/7.
- Upgraded PeopleTools from 8.4 for all Application environments.
- Installed Tuxedo 9.1, WebLogic 9.2 to support 8.49 Application Servers and Web Servers.
- Setup to run two smaller, independent instances of WebLogic than one big one due to “garbage collection of the java server (JVM) heap”. When garbage collection happens, throughput suffers.
- Setup Single Sign on, LDAP Authentication, and Integration Broker.
- Troubleshoot issues leading to Application Server and Process Scheduler problems.
- Meticulous in creating documentation for business to understand the process on any scheduled green zone activity.
- Registered XML Link Function Registry for services and setup Resume Processing Incoming Business Interlink.
- Performed PeopleSoft Project Migration using Application Designer and Quest STAT Change Management Tool.
- Generated the SSH/public/private keys and exchanged the public keys with target Applications/Servers to establish connectivity.