Professional Summary

Shiva has an experience of over 9 years in analysis, development and testing for various PeopleSoft Assignments. He has the proven ability to deliver technical solutions that fully support organization's growth objectives and demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with clients for requirement analysis, designing and develop proactive solutions. His PeopleSoft Experience is with multiple engagements which include maintenance, application support, upgrade, integration and implementations. He has strong experience in Business analysis, requirement gathering, design and development and leading technical Teams.

Skills Profile

Technical

Functional

Professional Experience

The Confidential is responsible for building, maintaining and operating the state's roads, bridges and tunnels and, through the Commonwealth Transportation Board, it provides funding for airports, seaports, rail and public transportation. Virginia has the third-largest state-maintained highway system in the country Confidential. The client is currently operating its HCM systems using PeopleSoft HCM. Currently the project deals with Support and Maintenance of the current system and enhancing the new functionality through customizations.

• Shiva is working as HCM Techno functional for Maintenance Project. His roles and responsibilities include the following:
• Lead developer in the Project.
• Developed complex interfaces from the Legacy systems to PeopleSoft which will feed the entire Core HR in PeopleSoft.
• Technical support of Time and Labor and Absence Management Modules.
• Liaison between Business Users and the technical Team.
• Analysis, requirements gathering and Preparing Functional and Technical Designs for new customizations.
• Development of interfaces and reports using Application Engines and SQR
• Designed and developed a very complex inbound interface to PeopleSoft from legacy systems.

Environment: Oracle 11g, PS 9.1, People Tools 8.51, 8.52

Confidential is the world's leading Health Care Industry. The Human resource management is implemented through PeopleSoft HCM 9.0. The project is to upgrade to 9.1. It is more of a reimplementation than upgrade. Core HR, MSS, ESS, Absence Management, Success factors, Talent Acquisition Profile Management, E- Performance, Career and Succession Planning are being implemented.

• Shiva worked as Techno functional consultant and partly as Business Analyst for 9.1 Upgrade Project. My roles and responsibilities include the following:
• Preparing functional and technical design documentation as part of 9.1 Upgrade.
• Involved in Analysis Phase and Estimation during the time of Upgrade.
• Development of interfaces and reports using Application Engines.
• Customizations to SQR's / Application Engines which should be brought forward / Retired during the Upgrade.
• Modifying Developing the Peoplecode according to the required customizations Standards.
• Development of New Component Interfaces / Using the Existing CI's for loading the data into PS tables.
• Conducted internal sessions on the complex Work Units which helped the team in understanding the functionality.
• Developed XMLP reports for generating the compensation reports.

Lead Role:

• Lead a 5-member technical Team
• Involved in Hiring and complete formation of the team as he was the first resource in the project at Offshore.
• Involved in transitioning the initial 9.0 maintenance project to offshore.
• Mentored the junior resources to get them onboard and conducted technical trainings.

Environment: Oracle 11g, PS 9.1, PS 9.0 People Tools 8.51, 8.52

The Confidential is the world's leading provider of domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bond, equity, fund and derivative transactions. User owned and user governed, the Euroclear group includes Euroclear Bank, based in Brussels, as well as the national central securities depositories Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear Finland, Euroclear France, Euroclear Nederland, Euroclear Sweden and Euroclear Confidential.The Project is to maintain the entire HR systems of Euroclear which are implemented in Peoplesoft 8.9. Enhancements to the current system, Level III, Level II support and Infrastructure maintenance comes under the project scope. Modules include Core HR, E-Performance, Competency Management, Career and Succession Planning, Organizational Structure Position management, Job Structure, Person Model, HR Foundation, Workforce administration, Employee Self-Service, Manager Self Service and Candidate gateway In forecast .

• Shiva worked as onsite coordinator in Belgium for this Project. His roles and responsibilities include the following:
• Development of DBRs, DFDs and DTDs for ECRs. Preparing functional and technical design documentation on customizations and enhancements
• Development of interfaces and reports using Application Engines.
• Mass data upload using ExceltoCI.
• Modifying the Peoplecode according to the required customizations.
• Resolving tickets related to Incidents and Requests.
• Handling periodic Peoplesoft releases to production in coordination with different teams.

Environment: SQL Server, PS 8.9 People Tools 8.48

Confidential a one-stop destination center for all of our customers' home improvement needs. We serve the do-it-yourself, consumer durables, and building contractor businesses. Lowe's operates over four hundred stores in 24 states. The Project is to implement processes, procedures and applications to enhance expense controls and reduce spending on non-trade goods and services. Define and enhance the controls for the purchasing of non-trade goods and services. Provide the ability to categorize and report on all expense spending. Peoplesoft SRM is used and is customized with newly developed Application engines and SQR's. Also the technology involves Mainframes and UNIX servers to run the batch Processes.

• Analyzed functional Specifications.
• Involved in creation of technical design specification
• Developed Interfaces Using Application Engines, App Messaging, Component Interface.
• Developed SQRs for inbound and outbound operations.
• Writing Peoplecode for new development and enhancements.
• Performed Unit Testing System Testing

Environment: OS390, Oracle, PS 8.4, 8.9, Finance People Tools 8.47.

The Confidential Peoplesoft HR system upgrade is one of the largest global HR system upgrades undertaken. The project involves application upgrade from HRMS 8.3 to HCM 8.9 and PeopleTools upgrade from 8.20 to 8.47. My role as developer involved upgrading SQR's, App engines, upgrading online objects, fixing business critical issues in HR 8.9 application and batch payroll processes App engines and SQRs . This project involves upgrade for PeopleSoft HRMS Application from 8.3 to 8.9. The modules involved were CORE HR, Self Service, Manager Self Service., Workforce Administration, and Base Benefits.

• Involving analysis of the customizations which has been done to the existing HCM 8.3 application and reapplying these customizations on HCM 8.9 vanilla database ensuring compatibility to the new functionalities provided in People Soft HCM 8.9
• Involved in upgrading SQR's, App engine, Online objects pages, records, components, peoplecode etc
• Extensively used application designer to create records, design pages, components.
• Involved in data conversion using SQR.
• Involved in solving the defects on priority basis post production.
• Involved in Production Support on 24/7 basis.
• Involved in creation and review of technical specification.
• Using and coordinating the use of Quality center for the support during the testing phase pre go-live.
• Working and coordinating GWI tickets to resolve the online/batch issues.
• Reviews of technical design.
• Setting and Review Unit Test Plans.

Environment: OS390, DB2, PS 8.3 HRMS, PeopleTools 8.21.

As a team lead in the Confidential Production Support Team, Shiva had to supervise all the tasks/tickets assigned to this team are completed on time and co-ordinate work between this team and various other regional teams. Joined this team as a team member and was promoted to Team Lead position based on the knowledge attained and the capability to handle issues. The GHRS Production Support team helps monitor and resolve the issues related to various jobs in COBOL, SQR and Application Engines running in EPM, HR, CRM and Portal Servers. This team also helps monitor system infrastructure of COGNOS, e-Recruit and process schedulers on which different payroll processes run, as well as servers for HR, EPM and Portal into which Users are logged on, thereby ensuring that all the jobs run properly. Took part in Upgrade from Peoplesoft 8.3 to Peoplesoft 8.9

• Documenting new issues and investigating the root cause to avoid future Abends.
• Resolving issues in JCLs running for COBOL and SQRs
• Handling DB2 outages.
• SQL Selects and Updates on the GHRS Production Database PFEs
• Helping team in resolving Job abends and Server Outages as per PLA.
• Creating proper communication channels for the team during crisis time.
• Updating the technical documents.
• Preparing SORs after system outages.
• Ensuring that the user tickets are resolved in the shortest time possible

Environment: OS390, DB2, PS HRMS, PeopleTools 8.21, Application Engine, SQR, PeopleCode, JCL, BMC Patrol, Informatica Power Centre.