Profile

• Oracle EBS HCM (HRMS) specialist and Development Manager with sound functional knowledge and technical expertise
• 10 years of industry experience and 9 years of experience in Oracle HR and Oracle Payroll products
• Specialized experience in customizing the core Oracle Apps products to suit legislative needs and in enhancing the product to provide country-specific extensions
• Skilled in SQL, PL/SQL, Forms and Reports
• Hands on experience with reporting tools like BI Publisher and interfacing tools like Data Pumps and Web ADI
• Experience in leading and managing development teams to deliver critical high quality statutory updates in challenging time frames
• High customer focus to ensure smooth go-live including daily customer interaction for production support
• Strong people mentoring skills with a passion to teach and demonstrate concepts and functionality

Technical Skills

Oracle E-Business Suite General Skills (R12 and 11i)

• Oracle EBS concepts, rules and standards
• Application objects like Flexfields, Lookups, Profiles, Concurrent Programs
• System Administration related functions
• OA Framework

Oracle Payroll (R12 and 11i)

• Oracle Payroll processing architecture
• Fast Formulas
• Advanced payroll concepts like Balance Architecture, Retropay and Proration
• Payroll Archiving and Reporting
• Familiarity of the Payroll Engine (PYUGEN)
• Element Template Engine
• System Extracts and public sector reporting

Oracle HR (R12 and 11i)

• Oracle HR Modules, Forms, Flexfields and Taskflows
• APIs and user hooks
• Localizing and customizing of HR forms
• Use of Flexfields and other tools to fit existing HR solution to various business scenarios
• Work Structures and Security
• Self Service Personalization

Reporting and Customizing Tools

• BI Publisher
• Data Pumps
• Web ADI

Programming

• SQL, PL/SQL, Performance Tuning
• Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports
• Java, JSP, Servlets
• C, C++
• Visual Basic, Visual C++, MFC
• ASP

Experience Summary

Organization: Confidential,

Role: Development Manager

Period: Jan 2010 - Feb 2013

• Product owner and development head for Oracle HR and Payroll in the Asia Pacific region (July 2011 – Feb 2013) and in the European regions (Jan 2010 – Jun 2011). Primary responsibilities included:
• delivery of statutory updates and legislative enhancements impacting 200+ customers
• designing and developing the solution and architecture of legislative enhancements and updates
• hand on troubleshooting and fixing of customer issues
• managing the development team and ensuring that statutory deadlines are met
• handling critical customer escalations and go-live
• envisioning potential enhancements in the products and planning the delivery
• arriving at best fit solutions for complex functional requirements
• performing design reviews for medium and large deliverables in the team
• co-ordination with the functional, testing, documentation and support teams so that Requirements Analysis, Development and Quality Control are in synchrony to meet the desired deadlines and standards
• ensuring that the team and its deliverables are in line with Oracle’s latest standards and practices; co-ordination with process teams to be up-to-date
• mentoring and managing the career of team members
• Key Accomplishments during this period:
• Designed the architecture of a payroll simulation engine that performs mock payroll runs for what-if analysis without impacting the live payroll data.
• Successful crackdown of all major performance and implementation issues faced by key Australian banking customer with a high employee data volume well before the deadline of 2011-2012 year end.

Organization: Confidential,

Role: Project Lead

Period: Sep 2007– Dec 2009

• Key member of the payroll team for Netherlands, Ireland and the Scandinavian countries. My responsibilities were:
• requirements gathering and analysis for medium and large legislative updates and enhancements
• arriving at functional and technical design solutions for medium and large deliverables
• reviewing the designs and code written by the development team
• coding and Unit testing
• resolution of all bugs and issues raised by customers and QA team
• collaboration with customers using Oracle tools for online analysis and resolution of critical and complex issues
• documentation and documentation reviews
• mentoring of new recruits
• Key Accomplishments during this period:
• During this period, a Netherlands customer faced huge data corruption issues due to improper application use, leading to discrepancies in the complex Retropay calculations. I was responsible for the complete root cause analysis and identification of the correct way forward, which saved the entire implementation.

Organization: Confidential,

Role: Senior Applications Engineer

Period: Sep 2005 – Aug 2007

• Senior member of the payroll team for Netherlands, Ireland and the Scandinavian countries. My work included:
• implementation of the HR module of the Russia localization, which involved requirements gathering, analysis, design, coding and unit testing
• enhancing the public sector reporting functionality of the Netherlands localization for better performance and quality
• delivering the year end statutory updates for Ireland and Netherlands localizations
• trouble-shooting and fixing customer issues for the European product extensions, which included online collaboration using Oracle tools
• peer code review
• Key Accomplishments during this period:
• Two key customer go-lives made possible with no delays under challenging timeframes for issue resolution and show stopper enhancements.

Organization: Confidential,

Role: Applications Engineer

Period: Oct 2003 – Aug 2005

• Developer in the EMEA localization team of Oracle EBS HCM product. My tasks were:
• fixing internal and customer raised bugs in the localization functionality
• coding and unit testing of simple and moderately complex legislative updates
• minor enhancement design
• documentation and ensuring of process standards

Organization: Confidential,

Role: Programmer Analyst

Period: Oct 2002 – Oct 2003

• I was involved in the design, development and maintenance of web applications for the internal use of the company, which is the India software division of Bank of New York (then part of Credit Suisse First Boston). My contributions were:
• Design and development of Project Central, a management dashboard
• Design and development of the Work Effort Feedback application
• Development and maintenance of the Automated Leave Management System
• Maintenance of the Employee Portal

Education

• Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
• Bachelor of Science (B.SC Physics)
• Diploma in Computers