Chandra R Sekhar

Carrollton, TX *****

714-***-****(M)

acn0ut@r.postjobfree.com

. Over 25 years of functional & Technical experience on Information systems

and ERP Applications.

. Global Functional skills include Analysis, Configuration, Implementation

and Upgrade includes requirements planning, Fit-Gap analysis and

demonstrating the new functionality and features of the new release.

. Over 14+ years of PeopleSoft experience in Analysis, Implementation,

Upgrades, operation, maintenance and enhancement of the PeopleSoft Human

Capital Management (HCM) system and supervise resources assigned in

global operations.

. Partnering with Function Team Leader to develop overall strategies of

design and implementation to meet business requirements.

. Working with end users and other stakeholders to define HCM requirements,

workflow, and reporting needs.

. Can make complex technical decisions with significant impact on the

business function. Works closely with Project Manager, Functional Team

Leaders, and other Technical Team Leaders to solve issues and maximize

use of the system.

. Participate in continuous process improvement efforts in end-user

departments to leverage the value of the HCM implementation.

. Providing technical understanding of the capabilities, functionality, and

configuration during implementation.

. Working in partnership with Functional Team Leaders to identify areas of

opportunity for improvement in system performance, features, or

functionality.

. Developing and documenting the strategies, processes, and procedures for

technical components of the HRS module(s).

. Analyze design, developing, and implementing the solutions including but

not limited to customization, interfaces, integration points, bolt-ons,

and reports. In consultation with the Project Manager and the

Infrastructure Team Lead, determines the appropriate toolset to employ

for conversion, interfaces, reports, bolt-ons and customizations.

. Closely working with the Infrastructure Team (data conversion,

integration, reporting, testing) and provides the conduit from the

functional team to the Infrastructure Team.

. Anticipates system and business process problems and makes

recommendations for resolution in proactive manner. Analyze the requests

for design changes and recommends appropriate actions to Project Manager

and Function Team Leader.

. Assumes responsibility for the quality of the configuration,

customizations, interfaces, integration points, bolt-ons in the

particular functional area

. Performing reviews, systems development requirements, feasibility studies

and prepare project proposals; specifications and develop timetables;

develop and monitor system implementation plans.

. Analyzing business stakeholder requirements and translate into

functional& Technical specifications, verify and correcting data

utilizing (SQL scripting).

. Advanced troubleshooting of application and data conversion issues

. Analyzing business issues and provide recommendations to improve business

performance

. Perform testing, verification, and sign-off process with business

stakeholders

. Assists the support teams in the resolution of business Process questions

and issues.

. Expertise with a variety of business concepts, best PeopleSoft practices

and procedures with strong mathematical, analytical, problem solving

skills and ability to balance multiple tasks simultaneously

. Worked on number of different Projects, Including HR, Benefits, and

Payroll.

. Experience in Upgrading from PeopleSoft 7.5,8.0 to 8.3,8.4, 8.8 &

Implementation of PeopleSoft 8.3,8.8,8.9,9.0 and 9.1

. Possesses Strong Business analytical skill and Strong Techno-Functional

knowledge of HCM skills.

. Expertise in User interface, specification development and

troubleshooting. Excellent skills in GUI, PC based development tools and

client/server databases.

. Specialized in designing and developing customizations of Pages,

Components interfaces, and reports for PeopleSoft Financials

. Proficient in the use of: nVision, SQR, Application Designer, Data Mover,

Import Manager, Maintain Security/ Security Administrator, Query/Crystal,

Application Engine, PeopleCode, Mass Change .

. Production Support, Documentation, End-Users Training and Knowledge

Transfer.

American Express SEP 2010 to

till Date

Lead Developer/ Lead Technical Architect

Re-implementation of PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 from PS8.8, Global HR, Self service

modules & More than 200+ interfaces, GL Interface with Oracle sub-ledger,

Data Warehouse, OBIEE and HR Analytics.

Role: Managing teams (Off-shore/on-shore model) in systems analysis,

database administration, change management, programming functions, and/or

business intelligence environments.

. Providing technical leadership by enforcing the vision of the application

architecture and safeguard the integrity of the application environment,

in alliance with architects and other tech leads, understand and

implement the overall technical vision for the project, program, or

system, keeping in mind its cross-functional impacts, integration across

the organization, and architecture rationalization.

. Providing leadership in the design, development, and support, and

implementation of PeopleSoft HCM environment including installation,

. upgrades, patches, replication, data refreshes, performance tuning, and

monitoring of Web and Application servers.

. Integration to IDM ( Identity Management system),Taleo (Recruiting &

Performance Management), Authoria Compensation system, LMS, Oracle Sub-

ledger, SAP global payroll and OBIEE HRDW etc to name some of the major

system.

. Data analysis, Data mapping & process designed for interface Oracle AP/GL

and PeopleSoft HR data structures and commitment accounting.

. Functioning as a subject matter expert and advocate for the software

applications supported, requiring depth and breadth of the business,

technologies, applications, integration and interfaces.

. Oversee technical deliverables for invest and maintenance projects

through the software development life cycle, including validating the

completeness of estimates, quality and accuracy of technical designs,

build and implementation.

. Proactively address technical issues and risks that could impact project

schedule and/or budget.

. Working closely with stakeholders to design and document automation

solutions that align with the business needs and also consistent with the

architectural vision.

. Mentor and train project team members (including Sourcing Partners) to

enforce development guidelines and best practices.

. Leading change control by influencing and educating Business, IT and

sourcing partners.

. Facilitate continuity between Sourcing Partners, other IT Groups and

Enterprise Architecture and acting as a point of contact for technical

issues.

. Responsible for the quality and completeness of detailed technical

specifications, solution designs, and code reviews as well as adherence

to the non-functional requirements.

. Providing oversight to ensure the proper application of design patterns,

frameworks and services to improve consistency and reduce complexity.

. Assure that technical documentation and technical artefacts are

accurately prepared and maintained and identify and address key project

constraints and requirements such as interfaces to legacy systems or

packaged software.

. Identify opportunities to reuse strategic components and reduce over-

customization by maintaining reference architecture for PeopleSoft.

. Identify opportunities to reduce total cost of ownership in the

operational application support areas.

. Working across the organization to provide business process or design

recommendations consistent with long term business and IT strategy.

. Working with the architecture team to ensure that the technical solution

designs and implementation are consistent with the architectural vision.

. Working with implementation partners (IBM, Syntel) for all phases of the

application development life cycle from identifying system requirements

through system design, development & testing.

. Accountable for the Application Services, On-Shore and Off-Shore ratios,

work ratios.

. Work closely with AMEX business stake holders, program / project

managers, IT Operations and or Service Providers to deliver Applications

Services that meet business needs and adhere to agreed SLA (Service level

Agreements e.g., budget, schedule, quality).

. Make sure all Service Providers should follow AMEX SLDC approach & AMEX

RA (Amex Reference architecture) and design standards.

. Collaborating with business stakeholders on product develop requirements

and collaborating with technical and design teams to define and design

the product with the best customer experience.

. Collaborating with Testing teams in all phase to complete end to end

testing cysle.

. Derive and drive implementation and delivery of products. Collaborate

with engineering and design teams to coordinate, prioritize and deliver

to an aggressive roadmap.

. Supporting and enhancing existing products / processes with thoughtful

and measurable impact. Last Year total cost reduction by process re-

engineering approximately $250K.

. Processes define, design, and deliver business solutions based on a

variety of HR, NA Payroll Global Payroll interfaces (14 Countries) to

SAP.

. Responsible for Business /Technical Requirements gathering, design,

installation of modules, data conversion, interface testing, unit test,

systems test, UAT.

. After go-live (Aug2011), working with off-shore support team to stabilize

& production support.

. Working with all vertical business partners to develop & implement new

enhancements / requirements.

. Responsible for the technical direction of platform(s) PeopleSoft HCM

applications, within a portfolio, providing consulting expertise,

leveraging business and technical knowledge to support business

strategies and deliver business value. Plays an integral role in building

and enhancing the infrastructure required to support the platform(s) or

set of applications, in terms of robustness, scalability, availability

and efficiency.

. Define & communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes

to cross-functional project teams (business Partners).

. Works with Technical and business Architects to ensure developments

support the business and IT strategic plan.

. Working with multiple Directors across multiple business and Technical

Architecture teams to identify technical solutions and business process

improvements in support of the business and IT strategic direction.

. Interacts with business partners to share and direct architecture

practices that may affect business solution delivery.

. Provides program management over all cores HR PeopleSoft projects to meet

quality, schedule, budget and milestone deliverables for both American

express and Vendor-drive technical development projects.

. Enforcing SDLC process and managing the project activities by using

methodologies, so that timely and quality delivery can be achieved.

. Time & labour Implementation for North American in progress and this will

expand to all other countries in-Future.

University of Connecticut (UCONN) APR 2008 to

AUG 2010

Sr. Technical Lead

Project: New Implementation of PeopleSoft HCM 9.0, HR, Ben Admin,

eBenefits, TAM, NA Payroll, ELM & Partial position management

. As HCM Conversion Specialist, design and developed data conversion

strategy and Process (App. Engine Process & SQR) to get legacy data in to

PeopleSoft from Genesis.

. Data conversion process includes JOB Data, Personal Data, & Setup table's

data (Job Code, Department, Pay Group, Salary Plans etc).

. Developed the following interfaces.

o Inbound: Search (Applicant tracking system) to PeopleSoft Candidate

Gate way.

o Inbound: Payroll processing data in to University of Connecticut

PeopleSoft System.

o Inbound: Student Admin System to PS for different Employee Groups

(Students, Grads etc).

o Inbound & Outbound: FRS Finance System.

o Out Bound: Payroll Data to Core CT system.

. Responsible for all phases of the application development life cycle from

identifying system requirements through system design, development &

testing.

. Technical Architecture development for custom (Bolt-on) application,

Interfaces and Data migration Process from Legacy (Genesis) System,

Program design and development using App. Engine, CI, and Pages using

App. Designer.

. Custom Leave Accrual Process Designed & Developed for multi unions.

. Maintaining system requirements, schedules, and planned implementation

strategies, user training on application capabilities and limitations of

data processing.

. Responsible for all phases of the application development life cycle from

identifying system requirements through system design, development &

testing.

. Involved in Application testing for Section 508 Compliance.

. Responsible for Technical Requirements gathering, design, installation of

modules, data conversion, interface testing, unit test, systems test,

UAT.

. Technical Architecture - Analysis, Design, build, Test & Deploy. (Bolt-

on) application, Interfaces and Data migration Process from Legacy

(Genesis) System, Program design and development using App. Engine, CI,

and Pages using App. Designer.

. Design & Supervise the Data conversion process from legacy system

(Genesis) to PeopleSoft 8.9 & all other data conversion Process for

Candidate gateway from RSA & student data conversion from Student

Administration.

. Data mapping & developed data Conversion programs from Legacy system.

. There are total 15 Data Interface proves design & supervise programming

structure and make sure that developers should follow proper Coding

standards through code walk through sessions.

Washington University in St. Louis SEP

07 to APR 2008

Sr. Technical Lead

Project: PeopleSoft Ben Admin & eBenefits Implementation on 8.8 Sp1,

multiple schools and Unions.

. Maintaining system requirements, schedules, and planned implementation

strategies, user training on application capabilities and limitations of

data processing.

. Perform reviews, systems development requirements, feasibility studies

and prepare project proposals; specifications and develop timetables;

develop and monitor system implementation plans.

. Requirement Gathering, Fit /Gap analysis & Documenting by conducting

multiple works Shops and interacting with Business Users.

. Working with the application developers and the application leads in

providing the necessary technical architecture components and applying

all bundles pertain to Ben Admin & eBenefits.

. Setup all Even Class, Event rules. Eligibility rules and Benefit

Programs.

. Manage development schedule, resources, budget, issues, risks,

expectations and weekly status reports.

. Designed and developed custom Program eligibility Process to make use of

custom eligibility fields.

. End-user Training on Ben. Admin setup and daily maintenance.

. Requirements gathering, designing Functional & Technical specification

documentation, co-coordinating with screening committee for approval and

develop and test the process.

. Conducting multiple workshops on Fit/Gap analysis.

. Designating and development new custom Leave Accrual Process. Includes,

functional & Technical design and development, for customized Leave

accrual Process for multiple schools and Unions.

. New Custom Leave Accrual Process Developed as App. Engine Process and as

a scheduled Job.

BroadCom Inc, CA APR 2007 to SEP

2007

Sr. Technical Lead

Project: Upgrade PeopleSoft 8.8 Sp1 to 9.0 HR, Benefits, Ben Admin,

Payroll Interface, ePay and Employee / Manager Self-Service Modules

. Responsible for Technical Requirements gathering, design, installation of

modules, data conversion, interface testing, unit test, systems test,

UAT.

. Review, and be responsible for, the overall development and integration

of technical requirements along with the testing of deliverables being

developed both on and off-shore teams.

. The Upgrade Process includes installing the PeopleSoft Demo database (for

the new release level), creating the upgrade environment and executing

the upgrade passes, using Change Assistant. Compare reports during the

initial upgrade pass and provide critical insight for the Fit/Gap

analysis and determining the effort to re-apply/re-develop

customizations.

. Fit/Gap analysis by conducting multiple business & Technical requirement

workshops to analyze heavily customized system and retrofit analysis.

. Following the technology standards, procedures, and architecture PSFT

developers to make sure they are using a consistent methodology,

framework, standards and procedures.

. Applying all bundles & Updates using Change Assistant.

. All Custom processes & SQR reports changed as the Personal Model Change

in 9.0 versions.

. Security Profiles & security structure changes as per the 9.0

. Expertise in requirements gathering, analysis, design, Development, Unit

& System Integration testing, and final Production deployment.

Secured Funding Inc., CA JAN

2007 to APR 2007

Sr. Technical Lead

PeopleSoft 8.9 HR/Base Benefits/payroll Interface (ADP)/ESS/MSS

Environment: Linux 4.0/Oracle 10g/Winserver 2003, PeopleTools 8.48.05/8.9

MP6, Crystal 9.0, Microfcous COBOL

. Technical architectural design installation and documentation.

. HCM 8.9 Software installation includes all services (Weblogic, Tuxedo,

and Crystal & COBOL) with PeopleSoft multiple instances (DEMO/DEV/TEST).

. Data migration from Legacy systems using component interfaces,

application engine process and file layouts.

. Fit/Gap analysis by conducting multiple business requirement workshops.

. Complete Payroll interface setup to ADP payroll system, includes system

tables, PI records, PI fields and other tables.

. PeopleSoft Security setup include roles/permission lists, password

protection expiration controls, component configuration, infrastructure,

FTP server directory structure security configuration, Business Unit /

Department driven row-level security, and SOX compliance.

. Production on call support, Problem ticket resolution.

. Setting up ESS and MSS and testing.

. Installing UPK (Oracle User productivity Kit), developing training

material and end user training.

. Conducting end user training sessions.

Relevant Career Experience: Duration

Ingram Micro, CA OCT 2006

Sr. Technical Lead - Upgrade : PeopleSoft HCM 8.3 to PeopleSoft HCM To

(Production Support) JAN 20007

Modules: HR/Benefits Administration/ eBenefits /Payroll Interface

(ADP)/ Compensation /ESS / MSS

Neurocrine Biosciences Inc, CA MAY 2006

Sr. Techno-Functional Consultant - PeopleSoft HCM 8.8 To

Modules: Benefits Administration / Payroll interface (ADP)/ Production OCT 20006

support/ HR functions/ Resume Processing /ESS/ eBenefits /eRecurit/

ePay.

Wells Forgo, MN FEB 2006

Sr. Functional Consultant - PeopleSoft 8.3 Medicare D Interface To

MAY 2006

Neurocrine Biosciences Inc, CA SEP 2005

Sr. Techno-Functional Consultant - PeopleSoft HCM 8.8 To

Modules: Benefits Administration /eBenefits - Open Enrolment FEB 2006

Preparation & Support

Norwalk Hospital, CT FEB 2005

Sr. Technical Lead - PeopleSoft HCM 8.8 SP1 New Implementation. To

Modules: HR/NA Payroll/Benefits Administration/ Performance Management, SEP 2005

Custom Vendor Interfaces/Processes, Custom Leave accrual process, ESS

and MSS

American Republic Insurance Company, IA DEC 2004

Sr. Techno - Functional Consultant - PeopleSoft HCM 8.8 SP1 (New To

Modules Implementation). FEB 2005

Modules : ePay, eProfile, eProfile, MSS and Custom applications.

Theravance Inc CA OCT 2004

Sr. Techno - Functional Consultant PeopleSoft HCM 7.5 to 8.8 - Upgrade TO

JAN 2005

Module: Upgrade Payroll Interface with ADP.

McClatchy Inc CA JUN 2004

Sr. Technical Consultant - PeopleSoft HCM 8.3 To

Modules : Benefits Admin Open enrolment Preparation OCT 2004

San Joaquin County, CA AUG 2003

Techno - Functional Consultant PeopleSoft HCM 8.8 New Implementation. To

Modules: HR/Payroll/Benefits Administration/eBenefits eBenefits, MAY 2004

eprofile, & ePay

Placer County, CA MAR 2002

Sr. Technical Consultant - PeopleSoft HCM 8.3 New Implementation. To

Modules: Base Benefits/Benefits Administration/ eBenefits / OCT 2003

eRecruitment.

Memorial Hermann Hospital JAN 2001

Technical Consultant - PeopleSoft HRCM 7.5 to 8.0 (Upgrade) To

Modules: HR/Base Benefits/Benefits Administration/COBRA/FSA FEB 2002

Administration.

Precision Response Corporation JAN 2000

Technical Consultant - PeopleSoft HRMS 7.5 To

Modules : Base Benefits /Benefits Administration DEC 2000

Educational qualification:

. Bachelor of engineering (Mechanical)

. PG Diploma in Marketing

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