• Over 20 years experience implementing, upgrading and supporting PeopleSoft HRMS systems through release 9.1.
• 2 years of upgrading and supporting PeopleSoft Financials 8.4 systems.
• 2 years of supporting Student Financials
• Extensive functional knowledge of HR, Payroll, Benefits Administration and Student Financials.
• Effective written and verbal communications with all levels of management, peers and end-users.
• Strong functional, project management, analytical, leadership and technical skills.
• Certified Payroll Professional

Functional: HR, North American Payroll, Payroll Interface, Base Benefits, Benefits Administration, Position Management, eRecruit Talent Acquisition Manager, Pensions, eBenefits, Multi-language implementation, Time Labor, Asset Management, Student Financials .

Technical: PeopleTools, PeopleCode, PeopleSoft Internet Architecture, SQR, Query, Crystal, Application Engine, Workflow, SQL, Application Server, Process Scheduler, PeopleSoft Portal.

• Operating Systems: Windows NT Server, UNIX, MVS/TSO
• Software Products: PeopleSoft, SQL Plus, Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Access,
• PowerPoint , Outlook, Crystal Report Writer, UltraEdit, Quest TOAD, Quest STAT, Test Director, DataMover.
• Languages: SQR, SQL, PeopleCode, COBOL, Visual Basic, Java.
• Databases: Oracle, Informix, DB2, SQL Server.

Confidential

PeopleSoft Applications Consultant

• Configured ePerformance for 360 reviews and demonstrated the process to senior Talent management team members.
• Functional resource for customized annual review process in ePerformance.
• Technical QA for offshore team implementing HRMS/Payroll bundles.
• Functional testing and feedback of Taleo prior to opening the application to recruiters in other countries.
• Requirements gathering from global teams for custom payroll interface.
• Technical review of in-house interfaces.

Confidential

PeopleSoft HR/Payroll/Benefits/Student Financials Functional Lead

• Successfully led the effort to convert the records of 50 of the employee workforce from exempt to non-exempt.
• Led the HR/Payroll/Benefits upgrade from 8.9 to 9.0.
• Led the implementation of Time Labor to provide online time entry for non-exempt employees.
• Led the functional changes required for Benefits Open Enrollment after changes to medical and dental cost sharing formulae.
• Implemented prototype ePerformance.
• Modified Payroll GL Interface setup to improve financial reporting.
• Wrote numerous reports and queries to improve financial and HR reporting.
• Investigated and resolved issues with Student Financials GL interface.
• Set up Student Financials to handle new processes for accepting payments from Graduate students.
• Troubleshooting Student Financial issues.
• Setup 3rd Party Contracts and Payment Plans
• New term setup
• Built subsystem to provide budgeted versus actual headcount numbers.
• Built bolt-on functionality to streamline annual price change process for Campus Solutions.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst

• Assisted in preparation of RFP for upgrade to PeopleSoft 9.1
• Assisted in evaluating vendor responses to RFP.
• Investigated and reported on the scope of work required to upgrade PeopleSoft HR, Benefits Administration, Payroll and Pension Administration from 8.8 to 9.1
• Investigated scope of changes to PeopleSoft that would be required to enhance the company's pension benefits.
• Analyzed problems and coded fixes for ongoing production issues.

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Business Analyst on the User Interface team for the payroll product InView.
• Requirements gathering.
• Writing specifications for several offshore resources.
• Demonstrations to, and feedback gathering from, corporate stakeholders and customer advisory boards.

Confidential

Managing Consultant specializing in PeopleSoft HRMS

• Numerous PeopleSoft engagements covering implementation, enhancement, upgrade and production support of HR, Payroll and Benefits modules.
• Ability to work well with all IT/HR functions from CIO/VP to junior programmer.
• Proven ability to solve problems and increase customer satisfaction with PeopleSoft systems.
• Customer oriented approach to working with end-users to solve business problems.
• Experience managing HR projects and tracking progress.

Detailed engagement listing

Confidential

• Successfully led the effort for acceptance testing and migration to production of a new process for loading bonus and commission data to PeopleSoft. This project had languished in unit testing mode for several weeks until I was assigned to get it back on track.
• Wrote procedures for the new Payroll processes. These procedures also became the basis for an end-user training manual.
• Led the effort to build payroll audit reports to fix discrepancies identified by an internal audit. Worked to an aggressive schedule to get these reports into Production.
• Integral member of the HR team assigned with the task of developing procedures to terminate over 50 of the company's employees. Due to the scope and confidentiality of the restructuring this team had a very tight time frame to develop procedures to terminate large numbers of employees.
• Managed the relationship with a company that had purchased a GMAC subsidiary during conversion of HR, Payroll and Benefits information.
• Investigated and implemented Benefits setup changes in response to the client dropping certain vendors prior to year-end.
• Investigated issues with employee time reported via Kronos.
• Investigated employee disputes regarding 401 k contributions and matching.
• Provided functional production support for PeopleSoft Payroll and HR.
• Wrote change specifications for the development group and coordinated user acceptance testing and migration to production.

Confidential

• Designed and built a Grants Administration application as a custom application within PeopleSoft.
• Defined requirements with end-user representatives.
• Built PeopleSoft objects including employee self-service modules.
• Provided advice and guidance to university employees assisting in this effort.

Confidential

• Cleaned up DDDAUDIT and SYSAUDIT errors in preparation for an upgrade to 9.0
• Investigated issues and potential solutions with Portal Security being out of synchronization with PeopleSoft Security.
• Added a modification to Manager Self Service to prevent certain job actions during the annual employee review process.

Confidential

• Applied Tax Updates.
• Investigated and corrected issues reporting employee time from Kronos using an in-house interface to PeopleSoft.
• Stabilized HR and Payroll processes prior to outsourcing to India.
• Provided production support to PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9.

Confidential

• Investigated the impact of modifying employee benefit options and provided a cost/benefit analysis to decision makers.
• Wrote reports to extract pertinent data and uploaded to United States Census Bureau via software provided by the Census.
• Investigated and corrected problems with COBRA data being sent to third-party vendors.
• Ad hoc queries for both internal and external use.
• Provided production support to PeopleSoft HRMS 8.8.

Confidential

• Was responsible for data audit and cleanup prior to conversion to parent company's HR, Benefits and Payroll systems.
• Provided advice and guidance to offshore resources that were coding conversion programs.
• Managed the triage of conversion issues to ensure the correct resources were assigned to fix problems.
• Enhanced Benefits Administration online edits to prevent data entry errors impacting data conversion timeline.
• Worked with benefits vendors to ensure that year-end conversion activities would not impact the employee population.
• Verified that the benefits-eligible populations from COBRA and Pension databases were converted correctly.
• Provided production support to PeopleSoft HRMS.