Management Real Estate
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Norma J Ashmore
Norma J. Ashmore
SEN IOR PEOPLESOFT CONSULTANT
PROFESSIONAL SU M MARY
Norma has over twenty years of business systems experience, including more than 15 years of
PeopleSoft experience. 10+ years private sector and 5+ years public sector with 10 successful
PeopleSoft implementations. She has specialized in the implementation of full life cycle Financials
solutions and has served in the role lead, team lead, developer and manager. PeopleSoft
i mplementation experience: Treasury, Billing, Accounts Receivable, Projects, Grants, Contracts,
General Ledger, Order Management, Commitment Control, Asset Management, Accounts Payable, and
I nventory. Support in HCM: US and Canadian Payroll systems, Base Benefits, and Time & Labor.
Develops interfaces to integrate external software, financial institutions and remote systems. 5+ years
Public Sector Experience: Higher Education, Healthcare and City Government. 10+ years Private
Sector Experience: Energy, Retail, Hotel/Restaurant, Environmental Services and Real Estate.
SK I L L SUM MARY
Peoplesoft PeopleSoft Asset Management, PeopleSoft Billing, PeopleSoft Contracts,
PeopleSoft Expenses, PeopleSoft General Ledger, PeopleSoft Payables,
PeopleSoft Project Costing,PeopleSoft Purchasing, PeopleSoft Receivables,
PeopleSoft Treasury, PeopleSoft Order Management, PeopleSoft
Commitment Control, PeopleSoft Accounts Payable, PeopleSoft Inventory
Tools SharePoint, Microsoft Project, Visio, Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word,
Excel, PowerPoint) T-SQL, Lotus Notes SQA Robot, Mercury testing suite
(Win-Runner, Load-Runner), MS Test, Quest TOAD, STAT, Oracle PLSQL
PROFESSIONAL EXPER I E NCE
Zanett July, 2012 – Present
Senior PeopleSoft Consultant – Public Sector
• Performing Functional Lead tasks for a PS 9.1 Receivables conversion and enhanced AR Usage
• Lead discussions for design and delivery of modules, prepare configuration and setup, assist in
development of process f low, customizations, conversion, interfaces, functional design, workbooks,
security, job aids, and detailed test scripts
Senior PeopleSoft Consultant – Healthcare / H igher Education Public Sector
• Performing Functional Lead tasks for a PS 9.1 upgrade of Billing and Receivables
• Lead discussions for design and delivery of modules, prepare configuration and setup, assist in
development of documentation, reports, interfaces, functional design with basic technical
specifications and test scripts
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Senior PeopleSoft Consultant – Healthcare
• Performed Functional Lead tasks in initial phase for a PS 9.1 implementation of Projects and
Customer Contracts as well as supporting implementation of Billing and Receivables.
• Lead discussions for design and delivery of modules, prepare configuration and setup, assist in
development of documentation for reports, interfaces, conversion and functional setup
U niversity of Texas Health Science Center – Houston January, 2007 – July 2012
PeopleSoft Systems Analyst – Healthcare / H igher Education Public Sector
• Implementation of new Business Units and creation of Consolidation Processes and Procedures
• Modules responsible for include General Ledger, Billing and Accounts Receivable, customized
G rants/ Contracts/Projects and Treasury Cash Management functionality are areas of support and
enhancements. Tools 8.43- 8.4.9.
• Creation of Billing Invoices from vouchers and journalsfor Federal Grants and other research
f unding to create a bolt-on Grants/Contracts Process.
• Coordinated and solved problems during Oracle database upgrades
• Disaster Recovery Processes for AR, GL, Projects and BI
• Prepared corporate documentation
• Queries, processes, and SQR and Crystal reports created and corrected to support user community
• Developed and enhanced business processes to streamline AR deposits and other financial
t ransactions into PeopleSoft Financials for Banking, Student Loan Collections and Credit Card
Payments.
• Completed Fit/Gap Requirements document for future upgrades
PeopleSoft Systems I T M anager – Envi ronmental Waste Management J uly, 2005 – M a rch,
2006
• Modules included HRMS, FMS, Change Control, patches, tax updates, bundles and fixes
• Reduced costs by over $200,000 through process analysis in Payroll
• Increased billing receipts with Time and Labor data resolution and accepted large customer
formats
• Technical Support maintaining issues with the database and batch control
• Develop reports, queries, etc which provide information requested by controllers and managers and
a llow for review of system integrity
• Deliver accurate data to auditors and tax authorities as well as support for employment insurance
and unions
• Veiola Environmental
P eopleSoft Senior Consultant – City Government, Public Sector September, 2003 –
M a rch 2004
• Financials Lead for eBill/Payment, AR/Billing go-live
• Resolved issues in AR/BI/AP/Contracts implementation and module Commitment Control
p roduction issues
• Tuning SQL
• Implemented Financial Portals
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• Assisted Area leads in development of processes for self sufficiency and data integrity
• Implementation of Commitment Control Reconciliation process
PeopleSoft Systems Consultant - Software Services M a rch, 2003 – June,
2003
• PeopleCode, Crystal, SQR, nVision, Word Basic, DB2, PIA
• Scripting of HRMS and PT 8.18 installation
• Created PeopleSoft HRMS environments to ensure database driver may be compared to IBM’s DB2
• Connect driver using DB2 Mainframe as Database server and NT as Application server, Batch
Server, Report Server, File Server. Replicated work on Unix (AIX)
• Ensure Propietary ODBC driver will work with all delivered PSFT products: PeopleCode, Crystal,
SQR, nVision, Word Basic, etc. Scripting of HRMS and PT 8.18 installation and driver
replacement
• Developed Quality Assurance testing plan to ensure DB2 environment and PIA on platforms
PeopleSoft Systems Consultant – Retail Education/Testing October, 2001 – December,
2002
• Financials and Distribution modules, integrated to Optum Move (WMS)
• Billing, GL, AP, AM, PC, IN and OM
• System Integration Test Coordinator for Financials and Distribution modules, 7.53 integrated to
Optum Move (WMS) prior to go live
• Created unit test scripts for the distribution modules (BI, IN, PO and OM) and Financials modules
• Resolved customization issues in OM and other modules and with WMS, aid setup directly
a ffecting accounting entries
• After go-live Functional/Technical support for Billing, GL, and Functional support in AP, AM, PC,
accounting for I N and OM
• Designed Business Procedures for daily processing and month end
• Sales Reporting development includes training and data cleanup.
BrightSta r / B R Blackma r r & Associates 1998 – September, 2001
F unctional F inancials Team Lead – National Retail
• Resolved $2.3 million dollar audit issue
• Tuned AR system to allow intraday processing with over 1 million open items daily
• Tunning AR payment load process
• Supervise developers on external interfaces and PeopleSoft System Support
• Teaching Query classes, nVision
• Enhanced external Billing System interface to AR on HPUX/Oracle and Sun/Informix platforms
• Provide functional knowledge transfer in Financials modules
• Installed the Budget module with client
• Prepare and review module, integrated testing scripts and results during upgrades
• Subledgers balanced to GL
• Second line support for HRMS
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F unctional Lead – Commercial Real Estate
• Customization strategy for Real Estate
• Supervise developers on external interfaces
• Merged over $2 Billion in private t rusts to the public company
• Upgrade GL, AP, AM, AR, BI, IN, PC, PO including foreign currency
• Prepare and review module, integrated testing scripts and results during upgrades
Functional Lead – Global Manufactu ring
• PeopleSoft Financials, Distribution & Manufacturing - Payables, Order Management and GL
• Payables and Order Management Functional Lead, conversion design
• Provide functional knowledge transfer in Financials modules
Functional Lead – Ma r ine Geophysical Company
• PeopleSoft Financials & Distribution - GL, BD, AR, BI, AP, PO, AM & PC
• Provide implementation guidance with focus on multi-national, multi-currency solutions
• Banking/Treasury/VAT/GST
• Australian & European governmental audit conformance and additional tax enhancements
• Procedures for integrated testing, migration and EU customization and audit reports
• Provided configuration and implementation guidance, technical guidance on patches & tuning
Functional Lead – Oil and Natu ral Gas
• Functional Lead for BARC (Billing, AR Cash) Collections recovered over $21 million
• OM/AM/AR/Billing reconciliation to GL from inception
• Solving issues with AM, AP, AR, BI, OM, GL, AR/Billing
• Resolved issues with Order Management and in support of the Revenue Cycle
• Prepared integrated test scripts (AM, AP, AR, BI, OM, GL) to allow for patch/fix application
• Resolution of subledgers balanced to GL
• Modification/Creation of procedures to halt data mismatch, processes to monitor data integrity for
G L, AM, AP, and AR/Billing
Technical Manager – Nuclear Power
• PeopleSoft HRMS and Financials Government
• Technical Lead on PeopleSoft 6.x HRMS and Financials Government 6/Oracle/Unix/NT project
• Overall technical management for the PeopleSoft system
• Lead planning, implementation of upgrades and service platforms
• Direct day-to-day work efforts
• Advise executive panel on issue resolution
• Oracle 7.3.x/Unix/NT project
T echnical Systems Lead DBA – Oil and Natural Gas
• PeopleSoft Financials, HRMS, Financials and Distribution
• PeopleSoft DBA to t ransition from Oracle to DB2
• Direct Unix and MVS systems support staff in support of the dedicated machines
• Plan and implement software upgrades and service platforms
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• Distribution Oracle/UX migrating to DB2/MVS implementation
• DB2 design for SQL, SQR, PeopleCode and Database essentials migration from Oracle
• DBA services PS 3.x, 5, 5.12 Oracle 7.x, HPUX, MVS DB2, DB2/NT, DDCS
• Provided support in script design and testing of data conversion
PeopleSoft P rincipal, Technical Lead – Global Retail & Hospitality
• PeopleSoft Financials/Informix/HPUX
• Interface and Technical Lead
• Chief technical resource for AR, PO and AP during implementation
• Designed data integrity support for modules within interfaces (64 POS, Mainframe)
• Provided data conversion over 150 scripts : multiple Unix and Database platforms
• Designed and maintained the masterwork plan which replaced Process Monitor, Maestro
• Direct day-to-day work efforts of technical staff, over 22 people
E D UCAT ION AND TRA I N I NG
Education
• M.B.A. Finance and Statistics, Univ. of Texas at Austin
• B.A. Behavioral Genetics, Univ. of Texas at Austin
C ERT I F ICAT IONS AND HO NORS
Certifications
• Masters Certificate Database Administrator in Oracle
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