SUMMARY:

• Over 14 years of PeopleSoft: Involved in various PeopleSoft implementations as technical and functional lead including: PeopleSoft PO, eProcurement, Strategic Sourcing, Catalog Management, Supplier Contract Management, Services Procurement, eExpense, eSettlements, eSupplier Connection, INV, and AP modules
• Over 16 years of development, consulting,, testing and management experience having expertise in system (functional and technical) analysis, designing, coding, testing and and implementation of various Client/Server, database applications and ERP systems, in the verticals of Government, Financial Services, Utilities, Manufacturing and Health Care and Banking industries
• Worked as a functional lead and project manager for procure - to-pay processes and PeopleSoft products with procurement departments of various organizations helping buyers on day-to-day operations and helping procurement management in their strategic planning and process performance
• Helped clients with WorkFlow redesign and implementation, PunchOut and few other SCM functions and initiatives
• Trained Purchasing, IT and End-users on PeopleSoft FSCM products.
• Performed in a functional lead, technical and management roles implementing/supporting, upgrading and enhancing PeopleSoft eProcurement, sProcurement, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Contract Management, eSupplierConnection, Catalog Management and Purchasing modules
• Involved in analyzing and assessing company’s’ procurement practices and streamlined their business processes, worked closely with purchasing department and imparted system to users
• Conducted meetings and worshops for business requirement gathering, fit-gap sessions and team management
• Performed upgrade of eProcurement, AP, and PO modules
• Equally competent at Technical, Functional and Project Management tasks.
• Created test plans and scripts on all implementation projects and functionalities enabled.
• Solid functional and technical knowledge in PeopleSoft AP, PO, eProcurement, Strategic Sourcing, Catalog Management, Supplier Contract Management, Services Procurement, eSettlements, eSupplier Connection, INV modules and test and train users in efficient usage of the system.
• Extensive experience with PeopleSoft eProcurement: have been with the product from its very first version and even before the first version was released when PeopleSoft was partnering with CommerceOne to use their ePro. product

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application/Databases: PeopleSoft 7.0,7.5,8.x, 9.1, 9.2 (FSCM), Oracle 7.x & 8.x, 10.x, Progress 7.x & 8.x, Access, MS SQL Server 7, DB2

Languages: PeopleCode, SQR, Crystal RW, SQL, Visual Basic, Progress 4GL, PL/SQL, Prolog

Hardware/Platforms: IBM PC, UNIX, MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows NT

Tools: /Utilities: Integration Broker, Application Messaging, Business Interlinks, Component Interfaces, Application Engine, Crystal Reports, nVision, PS/Query, Application Engine, Security Administrator, Oracle and Progress DBA toolPeopleTools up to 8.54

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead implementation of PeopleSoft Supplier Contracts Management 9.2 using Agile methodology
• Support another functional lead to implement following modules and business functions
• Strategic Sourcing, and eSupplier Connection eProcurement and Inventory efficiencies
• AP integrations
• HR Hierarchy & Cost Center integrations

Confidential, MN

Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• End User support
• Issue resolution
• Completion of report requirement development, functional design updates and testing
• End of project documentationMaintenance Pack and Tools Upgrade
• Compare report review
• Design doc updates
• Unit testing
• System testing

Confidential, NY

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• ePro/Purchasing/PCards
• Supplier Contracts Management
• Strategic Sourcing (SS) eSupplier Connection eSettlements

Confidential, NY

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved all facets of Implementation and build of the Supplier Relationship management applications
• Discovery: Gather and validate information required to determine Nassau and Confidential ’s’ business processes, applications, and technology needs. Conduct user sessions to understand their current business processes and systems by sending them questionnaires, conducting workshops and individual and group meetings. The documents that include as deliverables for this phase are: Business Process Overview document, Preliminary fit-gap document, Business Requirements checklist, Strategy and Plan, Schedule (development and Delivery), etc.
• Analyze & Design- Analyze requirements and identify fits and gaps, Interactive Design & Prototyping (IDP) including the inventory of conversions, interfaces, modifications, reports and workflow. The documents that include as deliverables for this phase are: Business Process Guide, Prelim. Configuration guide, Scope Confirmation Report, Preliminary User Procedures and forms, Risks/Issues/Decisions log etc.
• Configure & Develop- Focus on creating functional and technical specifications and required programs to support conversions, interfaces, modifications, reports and workflow. Also, addresses processes and procedures of the application. The documents and work products that include as deliverables for this phase are: Config. Guide, Approved Business Process Guide, Functional and Technical Specifications, etc.
• Test & Train- Ensures system is thoroughly tested to meet documented business requirements as well as prepare the end user community for deployment through . The documents that include as deliverables for this phase are: Testing Strategy and Plan, Test Scripts, Updated Strategy and Plan, Schedule (Delivery), etc.
• Deploy & Optimize- Final phase includes three major activities required to support the project; Planning and Preparation of Production Cutover, Cutover to Production and Production Support Services as well as identifying future enhancements.

Confidential, NYC

Techno-Functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Evaluating current ePro/Purchasing environment for optimal configuration
• Redesign and re-build Workflow and Matching
• Enhance the application with advanced features of PeopleSoft to facilitate more efficient business process
• Production Support

Confidential

Lead Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Upgrade to 9.1
• Fit-gap analysis for eProcurement, Procurement Contracts and Purchasing

Confidential

Specialist, PeopleSoft 8.9

Responsibilities:

• Create material using UPK Toolkit for eProcurement, Purchasing and Inventory modules
• Setup data and regression test system as the changes are implemented or upgraded
• Conduct and provide class-room

Confidential

Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Support Purchasing Department’s supply chain management initiatives such as sourcing (Reverse Auctioning system) and contract management implementation as well as PeopleSoft procure-to-pay system (ePro, Purchasing, AP and Inventory modules)
• Identify and recommend system shortfalls and system improvement opportunities
• Support day-to-day operations & system usage and train business users
• Implement, Test and Train on EDI 832
• Prepare for 9.1 Upgrade

Confidential, Fort Myers, FL

SCM Specialist, PeopleSoft 9.0

Responsibilities:

• Create material using UPK Toolkit for eProcurement, Purchasing, Inventory, Project Costing, Deal management, Cash management and Grants modules
• Conduct and provide class-room

Confidential, CA

Techno-Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Implemented PunchOut with Confidential ’s suppliers using cXML and App. Messaging technologies.
• Test Plans and conducted system testing from ePro-AP-PC-AM-GL
• Evaluated eSupplier Connection for the implementation
• Worked on integration design between the third party PunchOut system and supplier’s SAP ordering system
• Documented and provided on the configuration and usage of PunchOut technology and underlying tools such as App Messaging, XML

Confidential, PA

Implementation Lead

Responsibilities:

• This project is implementation of PeopleSoft Financial applications version 9.0.
• Created Project Plans
• The modules being implemented for which I am responsible are:
• PeopleSoft ePro/sPro/Purchasing, Inventory 9.0,
• Supported PeopleSoft AP implementation and
• Design and Support integration testing among ePro-AP-PC-AM-GL modules
• Actively involved and helped with configuring and testing Inventory module
• My role, apart from helping with Project Management, involved with fit-gap, user requirement gathering, designing, configuring, and system testing of ePro/Purchasing and AP modules
• Configured PeopleSoft technology platform to work with GHX for 810 and 850 transactions
• Worked with a third party company in cleaning up and standardizing on vendor and Items data
• Prepared the vendor and Item data and loaded into PeopleSoft using Item Loader and Component Interface
• Integration testing between ePro -PO-AP-PC-AM-INV-GL modules
• Designed and developed new Reports
• Worked with Purchasing, Accounts department business users and client IT team in all aspects of the project towards achieving the go-live in the month of April, 2008.
• Configured contracts (Supplier Contract Management) module as part of eProcurement implementation
• Provided to users groups of end-users on a scheduled-basis and on on-going basis by working closely with the purchasing users
• Prototyped Services Procurement module to demonstrate functionality

Confidential, Concord, CA

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led a procurement process SOX compliance and rollout of eProcurement
• Defining roles and responsibilities system admin, buyers, developers etc as per SOX compliance
• Process and system evaluation for best practices and documentation
• System support, buyers and system testing from ePro-to-AP-to-AM-to-GL
• Worked closely with Purchasing and AP department business users during and system testing
• Spend Analytics reports and custom queries
• Showed client users on eSupplier Connection functionality

Confidential

SME

Responsibilities:

• Implemented PunchOut solution with the client’s eProcurement system and Dell’s online system.
• Provided design and development of workflow for their requisitioning process
• Provided recommendations on Best-Practices of managing their installed PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management products.
• Trained technical users on PunchOut setup and eSupplier Connection functionality

Confidential, Horsham, PA

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a process System Admin. for procurement modules (8.8 SP1) with Strategic Sourcing department helping buyers on day-to-day operations and helping procurement management in their strategic planning and process performance. Tasks include
• Defining roles and responsibilities system admin, buyers, developers etc as per SOX compliance
• Catalog Management strategy and PCard implementation evaluation
• Process and system evaluation for best practices and documentation
• System support, buyer and system testing from ePro-to-AP-GL
• Integration testing between ePro/sPro-PO-AP-PC-AM-GL modules
• Spend Analytics

Confidential, Ocean Port, NJ

Techno-Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Helped with WorkFlow redesign and implementation, PunchOut and few other SCM initiatives for PeopleSoft eProcurement 8.8SP1/Oracle/Unix.
• Tweaked cXML templates and PeopleSoft system to enable custom field transactions
• System Test from Req-to-Check
• Integration testing between ePro/sPro-PO-AP-PC-AM-GL modules
• Provided documentation and on WorkFlow and PunchOut
• Designed and developed reports showing workflow set up and routings

Confidential, PA

Techno-Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementing PeopleSoft (Version 8.4) purchasing workflow. Includes fit-gap, business requirement gathering and workflow design and implementation.
• Provided documentation and on WorkFlow
• Demonstrated PeopleSoft eProcurement 8.9
• Debug nVision reports

Confidential, Chicago

SME

• Evaluating Sidley’s current procurement system and practices for fit-gap and providing them with strategy, design and analysis of enhancements to the existing system and business process improvements. Also providing them with cost estimation of implementing recommended solutions.
• Supporting the current production system. Client has implemented requisition and Purchase order approvals as well. Currently redesigning approvals to suit to client’s changed business needs.
• Working in conjunction with another BPR team who is focusing purely from business process stand point. My role is to assess the feasibility of enabling BPR teams’ best practice recommendations in the system.
• Provided documentation and and reports to query the system on the data that’s not provided in the delivered reports

Confidential, Golden, CO

SME

Responsibilities:

• Designs include detailed design (functional and technical) documentation and prototyping of each functionality
• Recommendations based on best practices in the eProcurement area and demonstrated eSupplier Connection as a solution for some of the functionalities they are looking for such eRFx, eInvoices, ASN, PO Acknowledgements
• Provided queries and reports on obtaining spend analytics

Confidential, Reston, VA

Techno-Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of the team implementing Services Procurement. Involved in business requirement gathering and fit-gap sessions
• Enabling supplier connection with sPro so suppliers can communicate with the buyers online for candidates bids and resume submissions
• Written an App Engine program to mass update work orders in sPro.
• Modifying existing PO Dispatch with punch-out vendor, “Staples” to capture error codes in the log file
• Providing enhancements to PeopleSoft ePro/Purchasing /AP and sPro 8.4 SP1 modules
• Production support to ePro/Purchasing, sPro 8.4, PO, AP, AM and GL modules
• Modifying existing PO Dispatch with punch-out vendor, “Staples” to capture error codes in the log file
• Resolved issues with Matching process
• Implemented eSupplierConnection for supplier access and RFx communication
• BA, User Requirements, Design and development, and reports
• Preparing for version 8.8 upgrade

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Techno-Functional Lead/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented eProcurement ((Version 8.4 SP2) at Confidential as a Techno-Functional lead consultant and managed the whole initiative along with client PMs
• Configured Purchasing to make it work with eProcurement module
• Business Analysis, User Requirements, Design and development
• Custom coding, configuration and problem/issue resolution
• User and Testing of eProcurement and it’s integration with Purchasing,
• Integration testing between ePro/sPro-PO-AP-PC-AM-GL modules
• Accounts Payables and Inventory
• User and Supplier adoption: enabled punch-out connection with DELL
• Direct Connect/ Punchout enablement
• Patch/Bundle analysis and testing
• HR to Finance interface App. Engine development

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Techno-Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team for Phase 2 implementation of eProcurement/Purchasing. Phase II implementation. Also, involved in customization of eProcurement, interface with eLance( Services Procurement third party application), and interface with custom made eInvoicing application. Involved with eLance (services procurement) configuration of the product in the process of integrating PeopleSoft and eLance.
• Enabled punch-out with Boise, eLance and Ketera
• Lead testing of PeopleSoft Deal management, Cash management Payables, Purchasing, Asset Management and Project Costing modules
• Performed fit-gap analysis of PeopleSoft 8.8 SCM (ePro, Purchasing and AP) modules as part of upgrade project
• Involved in testing eExpenses module
• Integration testing between ePro/sPro-PO-AP-PC-AM-GL modules
• Worked closely with eExpenses team in building and testing barcode scanning and imaging solution using CYLEX imaging system. Documented solution and the resource contacts are available to implement this solution.
• Assisted users in completing the UAT and

Confidential, Indianapolis

Techno-Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Organization’s procurement business process analysis and documentation
• Design of eProcurement, Workflow, procurement contracts, Catalog Management, supplier adoption, punchout, partner registration and recruitment (Version 8.4 SP2)
• Strategic Sourcing/eSupplier Connection: Confidential deals with large number vendors for the State’s purchasing needs of more than $1B. The bidding process that was done manually at the State was an ideal candidate for automating using PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing. The implementation is being carried out in phased approach. For Phase - I implemented reverse auctioning with Sealed Blind Bids. Phase II implementation includes Forward Auctions (Sell Events). Specific tasks that I was involved in Design and implementation of the Strategic Sourcing
• Created set of questions directed towards understanding the state’s business processes in relation to Strategic Sourcing
• Participated in fit-gap sessions
• Documented various design decisions and possible options for those decisions points. Recommended suitable option for each decisions point based on industry best practices
• Configured the system with the State’s specific rules and policies: Bid factors, Bid Evaluation Criteria, Terms and Conditions, Standard Comments, Registration Home Page
• Designed and developed express forms, catalog and vendor management
• Data clean up and loading of Items and Vendors using Item Loader.
• Enabled punch-out with Boise and Dell
• Design and setup of Strategic Sourcing
• Initial assessment of eSettlements module implementation/product demo
• Involved in integration testing of PeopleSoft Deal management, Cash management Payables, Purchasing, Asset Management and Project Costing modules
• Delivered to power users
• System and Integration among all financial modules
• Conducted sessions to various agencies in room environment on schedule-basis rolling out to groups of users

Confidential

Techno-Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Helped with upgrade of PeopleSoft 7.5 to 8.4 for Purchasing module
• Configured and resolved issues with Purchase Order Approvals.
• Developed scripts for system testing, integration testing and regression testing of PeopleSoft Payables and Purchasing modules
• Conducted on purchasing module functionality
• Integration testing between ePro/sPro-PO-AP-AM-GL modules

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Techno-Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Helped Confidential implementing PeopleSoft eProcurement 8.0 SP3, AP, and PO on tools 8.4
• Configured the eProcurement application with company specific data
• Gathered business requirements for customizing the application to suit to the client business need
• Conducted Fit-Gap analysis
• Analyzed the feasibility of achieving the business requirements either through custom code or configuration
• Designed and modified the delivered Workforce Sync process to suit client business requirements.
• Modified the delivered CUP process, to ensure that the same process can be utilized for uploading catalogs, both for MarketSite and Non-MarketSite transactions.
• Customized the existing PunchOut Process such that it can support multiple vendors for a single direct merchant. The Vendor information sent in the cXML file is parsed and based on that, Vendor information is populated in requisition line.
• Created a new custom process to upload UNSPSC codes.
• Custom code was developed to ensure reviewer also receives a worklist when a requisition has been made on behalf of him.
• Developed Scripts for Unit, System, Integration Testing and UAT for eProcurement, Purchasing and AP modules
• Integration testing between ePro/sPro-PO-AP-PC-AM-GL modules
• Assisted users in completing the UAT and

Confidential, St. Louis, MS

Techno-Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Helped the client with workflow problems with PeopleSoft eProcurement 8.0 SP2.
• Corrected routing problems.
• Set up new approval rules, roles, steps, and criteria
• Trained functional users on WF configuration

Confidential,, Oradell, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Configured eProcurement 8.4 module with basic company data to demonstrate round-trip integration with MarketPlace and punch out
• Managed PeopleSoft team to support the company’s PeopleSoft Financial system with following modules: Purchasing, Inventory, Accounts Payables, Asset Management, GL, Project Costing, Budgets and custom made Time and Expense module
• Handled projects related to enhancing existing business functionality using PeopleSoft and support users for any technical and functional problems and issues in all of the modules mentioned above
• Implemented Inventory and Purchasing modules to one of the business units
• Working with hands on system enhancements experience in terms of customizing, business process improvement and implementation using PeopleCode; reports/Query creation and modifications using nVision/PSQuery/SQR/Crystal and various other PeopleSoft tools
• Worked as user support and as well as running processes and applying patches and fixes and PeopleSoft object upgrades. Also, performed as Security Administrator
• Conducted Corporate-wide initiative on Procurement Performance Improvement
• Identifying company’s procurement business process improvement areas, analyzed corporate spend and identifying spend areas to control, involved in vendor re-negotiation
• Revamped the PeopleSoft workflow and rebuilt workflow according to the new policies as company changed requisition approval policies
• Analyzed procurement practices and streamlined the processes including p-cards
• Performed feasibility study of implementing PeopleSoft eProcurement and installed pilot application for review by business process owners

Confidential, PA

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented eProcurement 8.0 SP1 to improve Purchasing functionality
• Worked with change management team coordinating between technical and change management teams, Supplier Adoption, User Adoption and user manual creation
• Conducted impact analysis of upgrades and analyze and recommend best possible solution that satisfies client's business requirements
• Performed fit-gap analysis for Purchasing module including eProcurement
• Configured eProcurement module with client specific data
• Created custom reports
• Installed the eProcurement 2.0 software and lead the team for customizing and integrating BuySite with existing PeopleSoft applicationCustomized and rebuilt the Commerce One’s Integration platform to suit to the client specific integration needs
• Customized PeopleSoft Purchasing and eProcurement product. Commerce One products were Microsoft-technology-based and the tools we used were HML, XML, ASP and VB
• Coordinated between the Functional team in Mexico and Technical team in California to obtain the functional requirements and implement them in customizing the Commerce One’s integration tool

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, redesigned and replaced older materials management systems with PeopleSoft products
• Performed design and execution of data conversion activities
• Designed and documented conversion strategies, Field mapping and conversion technical specifications
• Modified the PeopleSoft supplied reports to customize them to the client needs and country specific features
• Integration testing between ePro/sPro-PO-AP -GL module