Sr. Peoplesoft Developer Resume Profile
Seattle, WA
SUMMARY OF SKILLS/EXPERIENCE IN PEOPLESOFT CONSULTING
- Greg is a dual functional/technical expert with 16 years of professional consulting in PeopleSoft, and 23 years of employment in decision support systems and the software development life cycle SDLC . His consulting experience covers implementations and upgrades of PeopleSoft HCM and Campus Solutions since 1999, and several in-production engagements for PeopleSoft HCM, Campus, and Financials. Greg's roles have included Senior Developer, Technical Lead, Functional Lead in HCM modules , and Security Administrator.
- Greg's technical expertise is in online development, PeopleCode, data management, conversions, interfaces, reporting, and Application Engine, across HCM, Campus, and Financials.
- Greg's functional expertise is in HCM, especially HR, Position Management, Recruiting TAM/CG , and Security Administration, including Time Labor Security.
- Greg has alternated between technical, functional, and blended techno-functional roles since 1999. Many customers have found Greg's blend of senior level functional and technical skills t be of great value in achieving project goals. Greg's experience across projects includes the following:
Technical Roles - Senior or Lead current through version indicated :
- Senior Developer: PeopleCode, online pages, SQR, and Application Engine. 7.5 - 9.2, Tools 8.53 .
- Technical Lead on three implementations 7.5, 8.0, and 8.8 , including planning and managing the work of other technical resources.
- Senior Data Conversion/Interface Specialist. 7.5 - 9.2 .
- Data Migration Specialist, primarily using Data Mover, SQL, and database links, t manage data across instances 7.5 t 9.2 .
- HCM Security Administrator application releases 8.4 - 9.1, Tools through 8.53 .
- Administrator for Time Labor dynamic groups and T L security 8.0, 9.0 .
- Functional Roles - Senior or Lead current through version indicated :
- Recruiting/Talent Acquisition Management/Candidate Gateway 8.8 - 9.2 .
- Time Labor 9.0, 8.0 .
- Core HR 7.5 - 9.1 .
- Benefits Administration 7.5 - 9.1 .
- Position Management in public and private sectors 8.8 - 9.1 .
- Leading Fit/Gaps requirements gathering writing Functional Specifications 7.5 -9.1 .
- Developing/delivering in-house training serving as primary trainer 8.0 - 9.1 .
- Test planning/administration, writing and executing test plans/scripts 7.5 - 9.1 .
WORK/PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Sr. peoplesoft developer
Peoplesoft HCM, Financials, and campus solutions 9.0 - 9.2
- University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA: 12/2012 - present contract ending approx. 02/20/15 .
- Greg is a senior developer for PeopleSoft HCM 9.2, Financials 9.1, and Campus Solutions 9.0. Greg developed online and batch customizations using PeopleCode and Application Engine for the following functions:
- Merging of student financial aid awards in Campus Solutions with HCM data T L Payable Time and Payroll Pay Earnings , for computation and complex reporting of work study earnings.
- Online pages for financial administrators t manage earnings and work study awards.
- Self service pages for work study students, enabling them t lookup their own statement of earnings merging payroll and financial aid data.
- A recruiting TAM/CG bolt-on application including both online and batch components written in PeopleCode and Application Engine , that automated collection and storage of Recommendation Letters from the references of applicants t faculty job openings.
- A significant bolt-on t Candidate Gateway that customizes how applicant attachments are uploaded and stored in HCM.
- A complex Student Alert system in Campus Solutions for academic and student life advisors.
- An Application Engine AE program that prepares and transmits State Work Study information t the State of WA, in compliance with state regulations.
- An Application Engine AE program t consolidate and load university bookstore sales transaction data t the General Ledger in PeopleSoft Financials.
- A bolt-on application t manage partial-year benefit deductions and payments, controlled through paysheets and a custom batch program, for part-year nonexempt employees in lieu of benefits billing and arrears.
- Data conversion, using SQR and Data Mover, of student academic data from a non-PeopleSoft legacy system int PeopleSoft Campus Solutions.
Sr. peoplesoft functional analyst Confidential
- Greg filled the highest level non-management PeopleSoft position available at this organization, which has a large, complex, and heavily unionized workforce. Greg provided tier 3 support for production PeopleSoft, with responsibility for the following modules:
- Benefits Administration
- Time Labor
- Pension WA state PERS
- Security Administration.
- This organization has especially complex Time Labor, Pension, and Benefits Administration rule programs due t a wide range of shifts, unions, agencies performing different functions, and workforce characteristics. Greg excelled at administering, planning, supporting, and troubleshooting PeopleSoft in this complex environment. He als coded, using PeopleCode, several PeopleSoft security diagnostic/auditing tools, and served in a primary role on the application security team. In addition t Tier 3 production operations support, Greg also:
- Gathered requirements for system enhancement requests.
- Planned and performed PeopleSoft Security configuration design and change management.
- Wrote data management scripts in SQL and Data Mover.
- Wrote detailed functional specifications.
- Championed user requirements through the change management review/approval process.
- Performed unit, system, and regression/integration testing of patches and new feature roll-outs.
Confidential
Benefits and Recruiting -
- Greg provided production support for Talent Acquisition Management/Candidate Gateway Recruiting and testing support for PeopleSoft Benefits open enrollment. This client was integrating a new hospital from Lawson ERP int an existing six hospital environment on PeopleSoft 9.0, and needed backfill production support during the new hospital project go-live period. Specific duties included:
- Primary functional support of the production TAM/CG Recruiting PeopleSoft environment, including XML recruiting letters for high volume applicant pools, and troubleshooting Integration Broker issues.
- Advising on the use of XML publisher for ePerformance.
- Performed primary testing and configuration for the physicians and clinics division's Benefits open enrollment.
Sr. Consultant
Confidential
- Greg served as lead functional resource implementing Talent Acquisition Management TAM /Candidate Gateway CG and Position Management in 8.9, then upgrading t 9.1. The TAM/CG project went live in 09/2010, and Position Management went live in 03/2011. These projects were on-time and under-budget. Additionally, Greg served as a senior functional member of the upgrade team for the 8.9 t 9.1 upgrade successfully went live 9/6/11 . During the upgrade, Greg served as lead for TAM/CG, senior for Position Management and Core HR, and backup for Ben Admin. In both the implementation and upgrade, Greg performed all lead work for TAM and Position Management, including:
- Conducting fit/gap sessions, performing requirements analysis, writing functional specifications, and making recommendations t senior management.
- Configuring PeopleSoft HCM, including primary configuration of all TAM/CG setup data and supporting application services:
- Integration Broker for Recruiting-to-Hire
- Workflow notifications and XML publisher for Recruiting communications
- AWE configuration and customization for job requisition approval workflow/notifications
- Careers page stylesheet for TAM Careers web deployment
- Applicant and job opening indexing
- Design of conversion and archiving of legacy Tale data int PeopleSoft TAM
- Working with vendors t configure 3rd party job posting web crawls Career Builder, Indeed.com .
- Training Recruiters and Hiring Managers.
- Testing and supporting the pre-go-live and production environments through go-live and post-implementation.
- For Position Management, Greg wrote several programs t convert data and perform initial assignment of positions t 1850 management employees automatically using Component Interface .
Sr. Techno-Functional Consultant
Confidential
For this public sector client, Greg performed a requirements analysis t improve the contents and ease-of-use of a consolidated reporting table integrating PeopleSoft HCM and the client's legacy Financials system data. Greg met with CE office staff t gather requirements and discuss options, and then prepared several detailed reports outlining options, the costs and benefits of each, and making recommendations. This engagement was part-time and overlapped with Greg's full-time engagement at Alaska Airlines.
Sr. Consultant
Confidential
- Greg joined this project team as a senior resource t fill late-in-the-game vacancies resulting from team turnover. He provided senior level guidance and hands-on expertise in the final six months of the implementation-upgrade project, plus one additional month of full-time, on-site, post-go-live support. Greg served as the lead for Candidate Gateway and Talent Acquisition Management, and as the backup consultant for Benefits Administration, HR, and Position Management. His responsibilities included:
- Implementing the client's functional designs.
- Designing business processes.
- Configuring HCM 9.0, particularly core setup information for Recruiting functionality and library of text for job postings and XML generated recruiting communications.
- Modifying and writing functional specs.
- Performing unit, system, integration, and parallel testing.
- Writing training materials.
- Leading end user training and user acceptance testing sessions.
- Providing hands-on support during go-live weekend and one month post-go-live.
Sr. Techno-Functional Consultant
Confidential
- In the functional portion of this assignment, Greg:
- In the testing portion of this assignment, Greg:
- In the technical portion of this assignment, Greg:
- regularly briefed management and the armed services
- led fit/gap and requirements gathering sessions
- monitored problem reporting, tracking, and resolution from Integration and Acceptance tests using Rational ClearQuest and RightNow.
- used STAT t migrate work packages and bug fixes across multiple environments
- managed development work packages through Quality Assurance reviews
- wrote and executed unit and integration test scripts managed in Rational ReqPro
- coded work packages customizations and migrated them int test and production environments.
- presented/defended his designs t design review and quality assurance oversight panels
- developed working prototypes as design proofs-of-concept
- At this very large pre-implementation project for all HCM modules, Greg was the development and testing lead for several HR sub-processes, including a the generation of military orders involving HR and pay transactions for armed services personnel, and b career preferences and succession planning management. Greg was cleared at the Secret level for this project and performed work under DoD security protocols.
- prepared designs for to-be business processes including underlying workflow and customizations .
Functional Team Lead
Confidential
- At this dual implementation converting tw Alaska Air Group subsidiaries from different legacy systems t PeopleSoft HCM 8.9, Greg served as Functional Lead for Human Resources and Benefits Administration, leading a team of six people in accomplishing a number of analysis, design, and configuration tasks on an aggressive timeline.
- Conducted fit-gap analysis.
- Performed data mapping and conversion tasks t transfer large legacy data sets int PeopleSoft.
- Configured HR, Benefits Administration, Health-Safety, Labor Administration, eProfile, and eBenefits in an environment with seven labor unions as well as a large non-union workforce.
- Standardized Benefits and HR business policies across tw divergent subsidiary companies.
- Designed and configured the security architecture, both in terms of setting up PeopleSoft Security and creating improved company policies regarding data security and confidentiality.
- Analyzed and designed interfaces t 3rd party benefits vendors, and interfaces t numerous internal timekeeping, scheduling, aircraft maintenance, and flight operations subsystems.
- Designed a custom Pension solution, built in PeopleTools, for seven thousand pension-eligible employees, t replace the client's legacy pension system.
- Assisted the project manager at both strategic steering committee and tactical levels in various management and leadership responsibilities.
Functional Lead and TECHNICAL LEAD
Confidential
- Clackamas County Government, Oregon City, OR: 08/2004 t 08/2005.
- As functional lead, Greg planned the project timeline and led a small team of analysts from fit/gap through go-live and post-go-live support. Project timeline was met successfully. Greg led the client through fit/gap sessions, procedural changes, policy-change decisions, presentations t county executives and elected officials, classroom training of in-house staff, and implementation/rollout.
- As technical lead, Greg:
- planned the web deployment of eRecruit, including design and security features
- planned/managed the work of other technical resources including developers and DBAs
- setup development, test, and training environments for eRecruit
- as lead developer, designed and coded several major customizations.
- In this implementation, customizations were necessary t make Recruit Workforce and eRecruit's processing of applicants comply with County ordinances. Major customizations included: Letter Management System eligibility and certification lists dual hardcopy/on-line application acceptance new applicant self-service functions screening question analysis test score entry and maintenance scheduling large groups of applicants for tests/interviews.
Senior Functional Analyst and Technical Consultant
Confidential
- Clackamas County Government, Oregon City, OR 01/2004 - 05/2004.
- Greg was the Payroll Functional Lead for year-end processing, balancing, and governmental tax reporting. He exclusively performed these duties while the client's payroll manager was on extended leave.
- Benefits Administration functional and technical consultant, activating COBRA administration and Benefits Billing for COBRA-eligible former employees and retirees. Greg converted data from the client's legacy COBRA system int PeopleSoft, configured and tested PeopleSoft COBRA and Benefits Billing, and provided support for these functions as they were activated in the production environment.
Security Administrator
Confidential
Confidential
- Greg performed all Security Administrator duties for a financial services company implementing PeopleSoft HRMS 8.4. Responsibilities included the following:
- Advised the project manager and steering committee on a weekly basis, and provided options and recommendations t address security concerns unique t this company. This included cost-benefit analyses of options t stay vanilla under various security configurations, versus customizing security with PeopleCode t meet special security requirements.
- Configured all roles, permission lists, and userIDs.
- Department row-level security setup and configuration.
- Audited and documented all aspects of the security configuration, including change control forms and procedures.
- Trained company's staff member wh would be assuming security administrator responsibilities after go-live.
- Updated portal navigation t include new components as new development objects were released.
- Migrated and refreshed the security configuration across multiple database instances throughout the development, testing, and training cycles.
Technical Consultant
Confidential
Confidential
For a Fortune 500 company spanning multiple industries including oil production, refineries, and retail stores , Greg consulted as a senior techno-functional analyst in gathering user requirements, working with benefits vendors, and working with the client's benefits and payroll departments t design, test, and implement several new interfaces t third-party benefits vendors from PeopleSoft Benefits Administration. Greg performed all analysis, design, documentation, and coding tasks associated with these system enhancements, and in doing s met all timeline and budget targets.
Technical Lead
Confidential
- At a large > 95,000 employee customer in the retail industry, Greg was Functional Analyst and Technical Lead for the implementation of HRMS and T L 8.0 sp1. Greg was responsible for the following activities:
- Fit/gap of Health Safety, Recruit Workforce, Payroll, Plan Salaries, Employee Self-Service, Manager Self-Service, and Position Management.
- Design, coding, and testing of a custom HR front-end for all selection and staffing functions at the customer's retail stores, distribution centers, and national offices.
- Implementation of Employee Self-Service and Manager Self-Service with vanilla and customized functionality.
- Design and coding of TCD interfaces between Time Labor 8 and time clocks employee punch in/out , scheduling systems, and Ceridian Payroll system.
- Configuration and tuning of Time Labor rules and Time Administration.
- Building customizations t the on-line system PeopleCode, record and page design, Security, and Process Scheduler definitions plus SQR development.
- Definition and setup of departmental and user-level permission lists, roles, and users security schemas.
- Applying updates and fixes released through Customer Connection during the development cycle.
- Coordinating the work of multiple Technical PeopleSoft consultants.
- Providing oversight and hands-on expertise in the execution conversion programs, database build-out, and data migration.
Technical Lead
Confidential
- As Technical Lead in this implementation of HR, Benefits Administration, and Payroll Interface at a highly diversified Fortune 1000 company, Greg was responsible for the following activities:
- Legacy-to-PeopleSoft data conversion and migration.
- Customizations t the on-line system.
- Technical support and customizations of Benefits Administration.
- Security Administrator.
- Supporting the development environment: database instances and data migration across instances.
- Coding custom reports and interfaces t third-party systems, including outbound Kronos time attendance and T. Rowe Price 401k interfaces.
- Applying updates, patches, and fixes released through Customer Connection during the development cycle.
- Coordinating the work of client staff developers and DBAs in conjunction with the implementation project plan.
Technical Consultant
Confidential
- For the development division of PeopleSoft Inc., Greg coded Tools 8.1 Application Engine programs for release 8 Payroll Interface and the North American Payroll 7.x-to-8 upgrade path.
- Heavy utilization of Tools 8.1 Application Engine, Application Designer, and PeopleCode.
- Covered all PeopleSoft database platforms DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase .
- Wrote platform-independent SQL in App Engine and PeopleCode programs.
TECHNO-FUNCTIONAL Consultant
Confidential
Greg worked as a functional analyst t resolve several post-production issues regarding garnishments and tax withholdings, and as a technical analyst he coded SQR utility programs t migrate earnings, tax, and deduction balance data for employees from the legacy system int PeopleSoft Payroll 7.51. He als developed several custom Payroll and HR reports for the customer using Crystal, SQR, and Query, and performed a technical Fit/Gap analysis of the Position Management and Labor Relations sub-modules.
Functional Consultant
Confidential
- Greg was the primary HR Functional consultant and a Technical consultant for data migration/conversion at this implementation of HR, Benefits Administration, Payroll, and Time Labor at this large financial services company. Greg conducted:
- Fit/gap analysis and specified customizations needed t fill gaps.
- Business process analysis and redesign of numerous HR/Benefits business procedures for greater efficiency and better fit with vanilla PeopleSoft.
- Setup and configuration of HR tables including Business Units and SetIDs and Benefits eligibility rules.
- Data mapping from the legacy system t PeopleSoft.
- Greg als coded conversion/data loading programs using SQR and SQA Robot.
Technical Consultant
Confidential
As part of a larger upgrade project for a software manufacturer's HRIS/Payroll department, Greg coded and tested a custom interface written in SQR t feed employee contribution and tax data from PeopleSoft Payroll 7.00 t a third-party employee savings plan provider, Australian Mutual Provident.