Summary I have been working as a Time & Labor and Absence Management Lead (HR, Labor Administration, Self Service, Compensation, Absence Management, Benefits Administration, Time and Labor and Payroll)/Project Manager for 10+ years with strong end-to-end capabilities in designing, implementing and measuring large-scale organizational PeopleSoft (Update and implementation) Solutions.

• Using PMBOK Best Practices to define project scope, test, integrate, identify and manage risk, cost, and schedule issues.
• Outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure.
• Develop the Project Charter, WBS and Grantt Charts, Project Schedule and all management plans.
• Excel at communicating with stakeholders to provide accurate reporting and information regarding the ongoing projects and initiatives.
• Experienced in coordinating, negotiating and motivating outside vendors and off-shore resources in support of timeline and IT project deliverables.
• Effectively training, motivating and mentoring onsite and offshore junior managers, engineers, developers and technicians.
• Thorough understanding of the Delta among vanilla PS HCM 7.5, HCM 8.3, HCM 8.8, HCM 9.0 and HCM 9.1.

SKILLS PROFILE:

PeopleSoft Products PeopleSoft Compass Methodology, Human Resources, Application Security, Labor Administration, Talent Management, Base Benefits, Benefits Administration, Time and Labor, Payroll for North America, Global Payroll, Absence Management, General Ledger, ESS and MSS Project Management Project Management Institute, System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) management, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), MS Project, PlanView Technical SQR, SQL, COBOL, C++, VC++, Visual Basic, .NET, DirectX, PeopleTools/Application Designer, Workflow, Outlook, Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Query/Crystal, UPK, XMLP, MS Project

Work Experience

Feb 2011 - Till Date Confidential PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Time&Labor and Absence Management Lead

PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Implementation:

• Lead and facilitate business process improvement change. Provide business expertise and input to the design, improvement and overall solution architecture of the Time & Labor, Absence Management and Payroll systems.
• Analyzed business needs and work with technical resources to develop, design and test the solution for customizations, interfaces, and reports.
• Analyzed Human Resources/ Time & Labor/ Payroll/Benefits/ Time Capture business processes; work with business owners to achieve consensus for business process changes,and facilitate transition to best practices as supported by PeopleSoft HCM 9.1.
• Defined functional specifications and technical requirements.
• Developed and implemented plans to assist in legacy system data clean up and data mapping.
• Defined user roles, responsibilities and security.
• Configured Take elements and calculation rules for Vacation, Sick, Paid Time Off, Extended Leaves, Bereavement, Jury Duty, Office Closed etc.
• Configured absence accrual and leave request processing functionality, including a rules engine to compute the most complex accrual, consumption, payout and carryover logic.
• Setups of Extended Leave Templates and configuration of extended leave calculation rules for client's FMLA, Maternity, Worker's Compensation and Infant Care leave types.
• Configured request approval functionality, including multilevel approvals and alternate approvers using Employee Self Service, Manager Self Service and Approval Workflow Engine.
• Utilized the attachments setup functionality and integrated the attachments definitions with FMLA templates to reduce the risk of compliance.
• Automated Leave Donation, Leave Receipt, and Leave Return administration processes.
• Created custom Workgroups, Schedules, template-built Rules and Rules Programs.
• Configured rules for Overtime, California Overtime, Additional Straight time, Holiday for FT and PT, Comp time and Meals.
• Created custom exceptions for hours over or below scheduled hours, meal break, and overtime in Time and Labor.
• Created business process documentation and write configuration and system data documentation.
• Designed test plans and approach to validate complex Time and Labor, Absence Management business rules.
• Conducted system functionality testing, document and work to resolve Time & Labor functional gaps identified during Time & Labor fit/gap sessions
• Troubleshootand resolve business process and system issues.
• Integration of AM to Time and Labor to enable the processing of time information and to generate payable time data that is subsequently loaded into Payroll for North America and third party payroll interface.

July 2010 - Feb 2011 Confidential PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Time&Labor and Absence Management Lead

PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Upgrade/Implementation:

• Implementation of modules HR-Position Management, Commitment accounting, Contract Pay, Base Benefits, Benefits Administration, eBenefits, Absence Management, Time & Labor, ESS, MSS, eProfile, eProfile Manager Desktop, Payroll and ePay.
• Best utilize the functional expertise with Benefits Administration, Payroll for North America, Time & Labor and Absence Management modules.
• Performed Fit/Gap analysis and building functional design documentation of the customizations.
• Reduced the customizations and manual work-around by maximizing the usage of delivered business processes.
• Accelerated the delivered processes by utilizing the best practices of the PeopleSoft/ERP industry.
• Provide subject matter expertise for the implementation and integration of Self-Service, Benefits, Payroll, Time and Labor and Absence Management modules.
• Setup of full position management to allow flexibility for client's Budget Management and Fiscal Services Office to allocate and track monies based on the position vs. the employee or department level in commitment accounting.
• Setup Time and labor rules for Overtime, CompTime, HolidayCompTime etc.
• Configure Absence Management module for various leave accrual, consumption, payout and carryover logic.
• Setups of various Extended Leave Templates, attachment definitions, processing rules for client's FMLA leave types to administer Family Medical Leave Act leaves.
• Utilized the attachments setup functionality and integrated the attachments definitions with FMLA templates to reduce the risk of compliance.
• Setup of Leave donations for shared leaves and donating vacation and sick balances for employees' emergencies.
• Automated Leave Donation, Leave Receipt, and Leave Return administration processes.
• Configured request approval functionality, including multilevel approvals and alternate approvers using Employee Self Service, Manager Self Service and Approval Workflow Engine.
• Integration of Absence Management to Time and Labor to enable the processing of time information and to generate payable time data that is subsequently loaded into Payroll for North America.
• Coordinating with the team, the plan and key activities during the SIT, UAT and Parallel Testing.

December 2007 - July 2010 Confidential, PeopleSoft HCM 9.0 Functional/Absence Management Lead

Pleasanton, CA,USA

1. Upgrade of PeopleSoft HCM 8.8 to HCM 9.1 for Enterprise. 2. PeopleSoft HCM 9.0 Implementation.

• Provide subject matter expertise for the implementation and integration of all Modules (HR, Labor Administration, Base Benefits, Benefits Administration, Payroll for North America, Absence Management, Disability Tracking System, ePay, eBenefits, eProfile, ePerformance, eCompensation and Training Administration).
• Guide the team to maintain all up to date Setup Templates, Functional Design Specifications, Technical Design specifications, and SIT Scripts.
• Making sure that all design specifications are with high standards.
• Provide stream direction in accordance with project deliverables and timelines.
• Maintain close communication and coordination of activities with all stakeholders to ensure adequate analysis and understanding of cross-functional issues
• Analysis of 25 collective Bargaining Units Absence/Leave Management requirements.
• Configuring Absence Management system for all required Collective Bargaining Agreement Accrual, Eligibility, Leave validation and pay calculation rules with no customizations.
• Best utilizing the Leave Donations feature along with PeopleSoft Approvals Workflow Engine.
• Loading the Leave request information from WorkBrain (Time and Labor) system to Absence Management Absence Event entries component through Component Interfaces.
• Designing and integrating interfaces between PeopleSoft Absence Management and WorkBrain(T&A).
• Design and Configuration of Time & Labor workflow.
• Configuration of complex rules based time entry system of Time and Labor including STAT pay and PT pay hours.
• Best utilizing the Vanilla Bracket, Writable Array, Date, Array, Formula and other supporting elements to automate the complex CBA Leave rules.
• Proving that the Vanilla Absence Management is robust to all CBAs' rules configuration and automation without any customizations or custom processes.
• Designing a custom process to force the employees, who are on Leave Status (EMPL_STATUS='L') to be processed by the delivered calc (GPPDPRUN).
• Configuring the Vacation, Sick and ATO Entitlement Rules for various CBA eligibility and accrual rules.
• Configuring Vacation forecasting rules.
• Utilizing delivered Advances Calculation Process (Off-cycle calc) to pay the employee's vacation in advance with a custom process built to generate the off cycle group and attach the employees and calendars to be processed.
• Expanding the usage of delivered calc and cancel processes to generate forecasting reports for facilities.
• Reusing the elements to calculate Pay, Payouts and Liability for Sick, ATO and Vacation.
• Administering the mapping of Earnings between Absence Management and Payroll for North America.
• Setting up the Eligibility, day formula and Pay calculation rules for Absence Takes (Vacation, Sick, Bereavement, Union Business, Jury Duty, Birth Day etc) as per the CBA Rules.
• Defining the Retro for Job and Absence Event changes.
• Simplifying and automating all business processes.
• Mentoring Labor Administration configuration team in defining the Labor Agreements for various rates, wage progression, benefits and leave calculation rules.
• Inventing a custom module called SLIM to integrate the labor admin and other modules calculation rules.
• Integrating Absence Management with Payroll for North America.
• Participate in the design of the solutions to ensure business processes integrity for delivery to the organization.

April 2007 - December 2007 Confidential, - PeopleSoft HCM 9.0 Functional Lead Roanoke, VA, USA

• Evaluating and recommending the use of new technologies and systems to support the human resources division's initiatives based on needs and divisional objectives
• Ensuring the documentation of the human resources system is comprehensive and up to date.
• Actively mentor and coach team members to their highest potential.
• Project Manager for PeopleSoft 9.0 HR, Benefits Administrations, NA Payroll, ESS, MSS and Security modules. .
• Managed team of client and consulting resources to deliver the components to meat the timelines.
• Review and approval of Functional Design Documents, Business Process Diagrams, Unit Test Plans and Migration Documents.
• Involved in system feasibility analysis.
• Creating and managing the project plan with updates to the Project Management Office.
• Integrate and streamline the processes for all PepleSoft Modules.

Sep 2005 - March 2007- Confidential - PeopleSoft HCM 8.9 Functional Lead

St Louis, MO, USA

• Played key role in the Fit-Gap analysis.
• Led the business requirements and functional design documentation phase.
• Establish and manage multiple employee benefits programs, including flexible spending accounts, as well as leave accruals for sick, vacation, or personal time off (PTO) plans.
• Defining providers, rates, and beneficiaries, including spouses, domestic partners, and dependents, and calculate coverages and premiums for employees who have multiple jobs.
• Establish and administering plans for FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act), COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act), health and life insurance, savings (including 401(k) and 403(b) plans), Section 129 dependent care reimbursement, and Section 457 savings plans.
• Lead the team during the designs of custom applications FMLA Eligibility rules, GDIM, DMS, Manager Desktop and Business workflow management for Global HR application.
• Establish Pension plan rules for eligibility, participation, compensation, vesting, contributions, optional forms of payment, and early retirement factors.
• Set up rules for special plan provisions, including grandfathered benefits, early retirement window benefits, minimum benefit formulas, and breaks in service.
• Calculate service by using elapsed time, hours counting, or hours equivalency methods, which you can establish independently for each plan.
• Administered the alignment of Action/Action_Reason, JobCodes, Employee Class, Job Family, Job Function, Salary Plan and Grades.
• Enforced Global Data Structure & Standards.
• Initiated the process ‘Inactivation of Unassigned HRMS Roles'.
• Streamlined the core and complex modules Planning Tree and Compensation Planning.
• Defined eligibility rules for Merit Increases, Annual Incentive Plan and Long Term Incentive Stock awards.
• Integrated interfaces between HR, Benefits, Payroll and Performance Management systems.

Mar 2003 - Sep 2005 - Confidential- PeopleSoft HRMS 8.3 Functional Lead/Global Payroll Expert Bentonville, AR, USA

• Analysis, Conversion, Design, Development and Implementation of HR, Base Benefits and Global Payroll system for Wal-Mart Stores Inc.,
• Worked extensively in Fit/Gap analysis and Fit/Gap test.
• Configuring various Earnings, Deduction, Calculation rules.
• Configuring Leave accrual rules for Vacation and PTO.
• Managed the core setup of HR, Benefits Administration and Payroll Applications. ( Business Units, Departments, SETID, Benefit Programs, Eligibility Rules, Event Rules, Paygroups, Calendars, Calendar Groups, Absence Take, Accumulators and all payroll special elements).
• Defining providers, rates, and beneficiaries, and calculate coverage and premiums for employees.
• Configuration to automatically enroll participants and dependents in a variety of benefit options.
• Created data mapping documents and data conversion tests for Data conversion of PeopleSoft 7.0(Informix) system to PeopleSoft 8.3(DB2) system.
• Designed SQLs, SQRs, COBOLs, Component interfaces and Application Engine programs for Data conversion. Extensively used Import manager, Data mover, SQL Loader and DB2 load utilities for the Data Conversion.
• Created multi step JCLs for SQR and COBOL batch processes.
• Analyzed and designed the customizations of delivered Global Absence management for Vacations and Work Risk leaves for Wal-Mart.
• Integrated new and custom interfaces among HR, SMART/SPOC Time & Labor, SICI/SICBA/SICOCHE Accounting and Cash Savings Systems.
• Troubleshoot the delivered SDI variable and SDI fixed processes.
• Changed WORKFORCE_SYNC application message for JOB actions.
• Created and maintained Benefit programs, Earnings, Deductions, Absence Take and Accumulator elements and calculation rules configurations.
• Customized SQLs used in COBOL Payroll processes for better performance and maintained them in database using DMS scripts.
• Designed and configured EDI interfaces among Ben Admin, Payroll, Mexico Social Security (IMSS) and SUA.

Jan 1999 - Mar 2003- Confidential- HRMS Functional Consultant Boca Raton, FL, USA

• Analysis, Upgrade, Design and customizing phases while implementing PeopleSoft HR applications for Global Payroll, Benefits and HR modules.
• Creating and maintaining the application security for new modules including managing the portal integration.
• Identified and fixed issues with Self Service and delivered Workflow.
• Recommended and tested patches and fixes including applying five bundles.
• Setup of Payroll elements and calculation rules.
• Designed workflow application for benefits enrollment and status changes.
• Streamlined the third party inbound and outbound interfaces.
• Contribute to work planning and status reporting.

Confidential Dallas, TX, USA

• Involved in Functional analysis and Gap-fit analysis for customization and implementation of the application.
• Responsible for working with business leaders to gather business requirements and ‘nice to have' functionality.
• Created specs and assist with development of customizations and setup of module.
• Built test plans and training materials/programs for roll out of module.
• Designed and integrated custom SQR programs to transfer employees, create pay sheets and insert employee tax records, involved in updating tax balances, earnings balances and deduction balances.
• Analyzed and streamlined the process Supplementary LTD deduction calculation for the highly paid employees.

Confidential Dallas, TX, USA

• Performed conversion analysis by mapping existing system elements to PeopleSoft
• Resolved inconsistencies between current processes and PeopleSoft software through gap analysis.
• Worked with the business line to develop business process maps with to-be and existing flows.
• Modified the system to meet unique requirements needed for salary administration.
• Recommended changes to business processes and built testing/training scripts for the HR and Management group. Assisted in the setup and testing of Time and Labor, Benefits Administration and Payroll.
• Created the Human Resources project plan and test scripts.
• Assisted end-user training and developed At-a-Glances to ease the transition from one system to another.

Aug 1998 - Jan 1999 - Confidential- Project Lead

• Worked as a QA Engineer at GE(GEC GCF EUROPE) Portugal for the Global finance. The goal of the Dealer.com site is to speed up the process of communication between the dealers and GEC GCF to ensure that the customers select GEC GCF as their Financier for new and used vehicles.

Jan 1997 - Jul 1998 - Confidential - Project Coordinator

• An intranet application, which allows each department to maintain and schedule their daily duties through an interface, developed using Servlets. Extensively used applets, frames, dialogs, multi list controls and tree control.