Professional Experience:
Highly experienced PeopleSoft Application Developer / Analyst with over 13 years of experience with HCM / Financials / Supply Chain with strong cross-functional skills; have worked as Technical / Functional Module Lead most recently for Purchasing and Billing. Big 4 experience and preferred vendor with Accenture. Strong project life cycle development skills and have worked in all facets of a project from the infant stages to production support after go-live. Well versed in conducting fit / gap analysis and strong client interfacing skills. Worked on 7 implementations, 4 Upgrades, 12+ Conversions. Strong PeopleSoft development integration skills and have worked as a conversion lead. Strong product knowledge across all modules allows me to advise clients on ‘best practices’ in integration.

Product Knowledge:
HRMS (HCM): Global, US and Canadian Payroll systems, Base Benefits, Human Resources (HR), Variable Compensation, Open Enrollment, Education & Government (Public Sector), Time & Labor, Pension Administration, Talent Acquisition Management (TAM), and Stock Administration

Financials: Accounts Payable (AP), Billing, Accounts Receivable (AR), Projects, Budgets, Asset Management (AM), Cash Management (CM), Grants, Treasury, General Ledger (GL), Project Costing (PC), PayBill Management, Contracts, Commitment Control (KK), Staffing Front Office

Supply Chain / Inventory and Distribution (FSCM): Inventory, Order Management (OM), Purchasing/Procurement, and Products

Campus Solutions / Student Admin: Financial Aid, Tracking Attendance, Return to Title IV Funds, and Gradebook

Manufacturing: Production Management, Bills & Routings, and Cost Management

PeopleSoft Versions: Worked in PeopleSoft from Version 6.0 to 9.0 with product knowledge on how data flows through the various modules and how the data is integrated. Most recent modules worked in are: AR, Billing, AP, Payroll, PayBill, Inventory, Purchasing, Financial Aid, and Grants

Functional: Takes assigned project from original concept through final implementation. Defined system requirements, conducts fit gap analysis, identifies feasible alternative solutions, and assists in the scope of modifications. Configured products to meet business requirements and design specifications. Worked as liaison with 3rd party vendors to develop appropriate file structure for information exchange between PeopleSoft and vendor systems and with the information systems staff in resolving configuration and related problems or implementing functionality changes. Evaluated information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.

Technical / Miscellaneous: Strong application development skills using full PeopleSoft application development suite that include SQR, Application Engine, Integration Broker, PeopleCode, and Workflow.

Interfaces: Experience writing numerous interfaces to 3rd party vendors like PeopleSoft to ADP, and PeopleSoft to Banks for (credit cards, imputed income, etc), EDI interfaces, to name a few and internal interfaces like Payroll / General ledger (GL), PeopleSoft to Kronos, Bill interface load to GL, Bill interface load to AR, etc.

Conversions: Worked on numerous conversions such as Payroll, Inventory, AR/Billing, etc from other systems (Legacy, ADP, Ceridian, other PeopleSoft versions, etc)

Education: University of Confidential: BS Electrical Engineering and BS Mathematics

Work Experience:

Confidential, September 2009 to Present

• This was a PeopleSoft Financials 9.0 implementation. After Go-Live (9/1/2009) there were a lot of Chartfield issues.I was brought in to correct all the Chartfield issues. This was a functional role with a concentration in the areas of General Ledger (GL) and Commitment Control (KK), Project Costing (PC), Budgets, Grants, Expenses and Projects. It resulted in me having to setup new Chartfields, Projects, Departments, Accounts, Funds, Events and Programs. Worked on adding and modifying budgets for Projects and Grants,, worked with Awards, Contracts, and Billing. Also, configured the automated AP Pay Cycle Batch process.

Confidential, August 2009 to September 2009

• Did a functional assessment for PeopleSoft 9.0 implementation of Campus Solutions, Financials/Supply Chain and HCM. This included looking at major processes and 3rd party applications/vendor interfaces.
• Performed evaluation on their core business of Campus Solutions, HCM and Financials.
• Evaluated Financial Aid for book purchases which interfaces with Follett and FA~Link, Tracking Attendance, Return to Title IV Funds, Gradebook, data mapping, Emergency Messaging (text), mass Rehire-Term process, paycheck form layout, Single Sign-On, etc.
• Created configuration / setup documents for Campus Solutions (Financial Aid, Attendance and Gradebook), Payroll, Billing, and Security
• Mapped some data from their old system, which was Datatel, to PeopleSoft

Confidential, December 2008 to July 2009

• Created over 20 SQR’s for reporting purposes of archived data. Wrote numerous SQRs for reporting Personal Information, Evaluations, Dependent/Spouse Benefits, Hospital and Dental benefits, Miscellaneous Payroll, Pension, Court Ordered Information and Deductions, Annuities, Leave Balance, Payroll History, Payroll Adjustments, etc.
• Worked with business offices to gather requirements and map them to application designs and functional specifications. Was the point of contact between HR functional and Information Technology.
• The Chicago Public Schools serve graded K through 12. They are currently on PeopleSoft ELM 9.0 and HCM 8.9

Confidential, July 2007 to September 2008

• Was the module functional lead for PeopleSoft Purchasing (Supply Chain implementation version 8.9)
• Responsible for creation and management of client deliverables including fit/gap, configuration and functional design documents for conversions, interfaces, extensions and custom reports.
• Wrote all test scripts for Purchasing and executed all test scripts. Also wrote test scripts for some aspects of Accounts Payable (AP) and General Ledger (GL). Validated all results. Troubleshoot all areas where testing created issues.
• Created all batch run controls for Purchasing and assisted with Billing/AR run controls including documenting batch schedule according to client specifications and created Chartfields.
• Created custom roles and permission list for job responsibilities for Purchasing, Billing, Accounts Receivable (AR), Order Management, and Inventory modules and implemented these into PeopleSoft Security along with setting up user preferences for user’s OperID’s.
• Wrote several SQR’s to interface all Vendors’ items into the PeopleSoft Inventory module. Was able to successfully load over 40,000 items into the system programmatically from various vendors.
• Performed analysis (fit gap) and reviewed/evaluated PeopleSoft 9.0 to determine any enhancement for going from 8.9 to 9.0 for the future to see if there were any major changes functionally for Billing. Also, did an assessment of PeopleSoft Contracts to see if it made sense for the client to implement contracts or hold off for a later time.
• Working directly with developers to ensure that development meets business requirements and performing quality assurance testing.
• Worked with technical team to create appropriate data to test external interfaces with 3rd party systems
• Configured/Setup all catalog management

Confidential, February 2007 to July 2007

• Worked as a functional consultant on K-Force staffing internal PeopleSoft PayBill Management Upgrade to 8.9. RecruitMax was used for assignments and then interfaced into PeopleSoft.
• Wrote numerous queries to validate data and to reconcile various aspects of the upgrade including: PayBill Management, Billing, AP, AR, Expenses, Projects, Contracts, Payroll, Time and Labor etc.
• Gathered requirements and wrote specifications for the development of all aspects of the project and how all the various modules integrate together for PayBill.

Confidential, October 2006 to May 2007

• Wrote SQRs, App Engines, used PeopleCode, Integration Broker, and PeopleTools. Served as a technical lead for approving all customizations that developers were doing, including sign-off on the developer’s code and its functionality in the design / review / migration process. Worked on the Financials / Supply Chain implementation. Gathered requirements, wrote specifications and did development for various customizations. This included working with Projects, Inventory, AP and PayBill Management.
• Defined business process solutions for translation into technical solutions
• Worked initially with the HCM implementation for Payroll and Talent Acquisition Management (TAM). Gathered requirements and wrote functional/technical specifications. Wrote interfaces for inbound/outbound bank interfaces, FSA Conversion SQRs were written, Risk Management and (TAM) interfaces were written. This was a PeopleSoft 8.9 Implementation.

Confidential, February 2006 to September 2006

• Worked on the PeopleSoft upgrade project. The upgrade was from PeopleSoft 7.02 to PeopleSoft 8.8. Worked with AP, AR, Billing, Purchasing/Procurement (PO).
• Performed in-depth analysis and documented approach for massive Customer clean-up, consolidation and conversion.
• Wrote SQRs to perform a conversion for all State of Georgia Agencies, etc. to a single SETID. The conversion took all customers and converted them into a single SETID through the system. This was preformed with the core CUSTOMER tables as well as all the transactional tables.
• Worked with the Cash Management module for Streamline Banking. This involved some work on the Treasury module too. Gathered requirements and fit gap analysis.
• Provide technical application support to business, quality assurance and end-user support teams.

Confidential, May 2005 to January 2006

• Worked on the implementation of PeopleSoft 8.8 for Financials (Staffing/Front Office and Back Office, AP, AR, GL, Billing, Projects, and Contracts, to name a few) HRMS (Payroll, HR, Base Benefits), and Time and Labor. Their Financials and Staffing modules are on and SQL Server and NT, but their HRMS and Time and Labor is on Oracle and UNIX. I served in a Technical/Functional role within these modules.
• Production support of all modules and help ticket resolution including maintenance tasks
• Worked with converting field offices onto PeopleSoft system.
• Wrote Interfaces to/from PeopleSoft and external systems
• Worked with functional leaders to define processes and then translates same into automated solutions in the PeopleSoft system, using existing functionality where possible
• Worked closely with the client and provided input from a functional and technical perspective in problem solving.

Confidential, December 2004 to April 2005

• Worked on the upgrade to PeopleSoft 8.8 for Accounts Payable (AP) and Costing modules.
• Worked as part of a Stabilization Team after the upgrade to work on break/fix issue for the system, these were critical production issues. Worked on Production Support for AP and development of PeopleSoft 8.8 custom AP and Costing modules including SQR’s, PeopleCode and PeopleTools issues.
• Worked with General Ledger (GL) which was responsible for daily journal and ledger adjustments, budget information, banking and cash management and generated revenue and statistical reports, hours and wage data, revenue capture etc. I fully regression tested this entire system including, running reports, queries, entering and processing data on-line such as, configuration of Business Units, entering manual journals, journal edits and journal posts, etc. Also, ran batch jobs created in Tivoli and running them manually through Tivoli Job Scheduling Console (JS Console).

Confidential, June 2003 to December 2004

• Wrote SQRs for Billing, Staffing Front Office, AP, AR, Projects, Contracts, and PayBill.
• Worked closely with the client and provided input for Custom Billing from a functional and technical perspective. Gathered requirements and wrote specifications for billing processes.
• Contributed to all areas of the life cycle including: analysis, design, development and maintenance.
• Provided production support as well as major enhancements responsible for working with the business to identify gaps, design functionality and configuration, and prepare detailed requirements documents, then liaise between business and technical team
• Worked on the Automated Clearing House Network (ACH)
• Also worked with HR/Payroll on development and testing as well as Time and Labor doing things such as: Dynamic Group Refresh for Time Entry, PayBill Rapid Time Entry, Weekly Elapsed Time and Time Card Reporting to name a few. .
• This is a PeopleSoft 8.4 Financials Implementation and 8.3 HRMS Implementation with a UNIX and DB2 environment with PeopleTools 8.42.

Confidential, April 2003 to June 2003

• This was for internal training pertaining to course requirements, required training, prerequisites, scheduled training, etc. Created Custom panels and custom queries. Wrote new SQRs and modified existing SQRs. Wrote technical specs and did reviews with the client.
• Worked with the Training, KSA, Requirements, Population, Courses and Instruction tables
• Acted as the escalation point for complex platform designs, coding, and testing.

Confidential, July 2002 to February 2003

• Worked as a techno / functional consultant writing functional specs for payroll interfaces, as well as, doing the development. Applied functional knowledge and technical expertise in the implementation of changes and maintenance to the system.
• Wrote SQR Interfaces for credit cards, imputed income, inbound and outbound files, etc.
• Responsibilities include detailed technical design, development, testing, deployment, and support of the PeopleSoft HRMS application.

Confidential, February 2002 to June 2002

• This was a PeopleSoft Financials and HRMS project. I worked with Staffing Front Office & Back Office, Billing, AP, PayBill, and AR on the Financial side and HR, Benefits, Global, US and Canadian Payroll on the HRMS side.
• Worked as a functional / technical consultant developing systems from a user perspective according to specifications for Financials and HRMS. Wrote and modified SQR’s for Financials and HRMS.
• Provided support to PM in resolving technical cross-functional issues
• Reviewed and defined feasibility, possible issues, and potential impacts to other processes or systems
• Worked with developing Canadian Payroll System
• This is a Version 7.02 to Version 8 re-implementation HRMS and Financials Version 8.1 Project

Confidential, December 2001 to January 2002

• Worked on a new PeopleSoft tool (Payroll Interface Connector for ADP Connection) from a functional perspective to troubleshoot the tool and fix it.
• Analyzed the product and applied changes to fix the issues found. Problems included: Sequence Numbering, not stopping or changing bank deposits, not passing data from the savings plan tables, on terminations and leaves an auto cancellation was not working and fixes included mapping, set-up and PeopleCode additions