ELIZABETH M. KENNEDY, PHR
Rutherford N.J. 07070
Hm# 201-***-**** Cell# 201-***-**** Email: **********@***.***
Objective: Secure a position with a company that will utilize all of my
skills while providing me with new learning opportunities.
Experience:
0610 to 06/11 Madison Square Garden
Manager HRMS
. Create data audit reports
. PeopleSoft 8.1
. Developed process to ensure that contract employee were not
overpaid or underpaid on a month to month basis.
. Developed process, forms, tested and documented independent
contractor process on PeopleSoft application.
. Work with Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and IT on various
type of data related issues
. Troubleshoot application
. Setup of all Benefits foundation tables
. Developing all monthly reports used by management
. Answer federal, state, and employment verifications and
inquiries.
. Implement online applicant and requisition solution,
iGreentree
. Developed reports as needed, my HRMS, Benefits,
Compensation, Finance, Generalist teams and business
partners.
. Worked with numerous city and state agencies on employee
cases.
. Maintained vendor relationships with Talxs and iGreentree.
. Assisted employees and HR staff with questions/information
as needed.
04/10 to 06/10 Robert Half Technology, New York, NY
HRIS Contract Employee
. Working with end users defining their needs for PeopleSoft
HRMS customizations
. Researching and documenting business processes
. Writing Requests for changes to PeopleSoft application
. User acceptance testing
03/09 to 08/09 CareOne, Fort Lee, NJ
HRIS Lead
. Managed staff of six
. Supported seventy locations with issues in:
o Routine transactions in Oracle eBusiness
o Benefits guidance/compliance issues
o Routine transactions in Oracle eBusiness Benefits
Service Center
o Train all new team members
o Problem solve all error reports from Benefits
vendors on a weekly basis
o Design and build Access Databases are required
o Reconciling of monthly vendor bills
o Monthly review of benefits eligibility
o Responsible for all tickets in Remedy ticketing
system
o Closings for payroll weekly and bi-weekly
. Worked on developing training documentation and online
webinars for the education of 65 HR/PR Coordinators.
04/08 to 09/08 Continuum Healthcare Partnership, NY, NY
HRIS Lead
. Managed and trained staff of ten
. Developed staff utilizing FYI "For Your Improvement"
methodology
. Responsible for process reengineering and creating new
processes
. Responsible for review and clean-up of ongoing compliance
issues
. Responsible for HR 2009 budgets
. Responsible for records for 17, 000 employees
. Oversaw HR responsibilities to ERP optimization
o Projects so far review of Manager Self Service for
utilization of hierarchy and termination actions.
Currently evaluating transfer action for utilization.
12/00 to 04/08 Liz Claiborne, Inc. North Bergen, NJ
HRIS Manager
. Upon initial hire evaluated current HRIS department for
skills development of current team members and determined
required resources.
. Trained and managed HRIS team for implementation of
PeopleSoft HR module
. Devised strategy to address data inaccuracies in legacy
system and trained team members to execute data cleansing
strategy.
. Determined project selection, specification design and
managed team on development of:
o Reports catalog
o Customized Hire/Rehire Data entry pages
o Customized PeopleSoft lock
o Implementation of PeopleSoft eMgr in over 500 retail
locations
o Implementation of PeopleSoft Training Administration
and Career Planning modules
. Worked on projects for:
. Outsourcing of HR records management
. Implementation of eMgr in corporate
environment
. Developed training manuals for 500 store
Managers, and District Managers
. Designed and administered Webex training
program for retail locations on an ongoing
basis
. HR Scorecards
. Partnering with Recruiting and Talent
Management to select on boarding and talent
management applications
. Through headcount reduction responsible for annual savings
in salary and benefits of $300,000.00 by streamlining,
automating and cross training of HRIS team.
. Interacted with senior management and technical team to
develop short term and long term HRIS strategies.
2/99 to 12/00 AGT, New York, NY
HRIS Analyst
. Responsible for all PeopleSoft Security
. Responsible for all reportwriting and forms development on
Query and Crystal
. Trained all PeopleSoft users
. Responsible for all interface schedules, and or problems.
. Maintained all foundation tables.
. Responsible for Hotline support for all regional users
. Member of upgrade team
6/98 to 2/99 NUI, Union, NJ
HRIS Manager
. Supervised staff of three
. Responsible for Human Resource and payroll data on
PeopleSoft 7.5 for 1500 employees
. Responsible for weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly payrolls
. Initiated projects to clean up HR database, personal data,
and benefit data
. Wrote ad-hoc reports in PeopleSoft Query and Crystal
. Set up additional databases in Access as needed
. Provided upper management with data on technical
environment
. Developed in-house training documentation on various HR
application
. Trained HRIS staff and HR team members on various
applications
. Worked on documenting all HR processes
.
5/96 to 6/98 Lechters, Harrison, NJ
HRIS Manager
. At time of employment responsible for reevaluation of CSS
HRizon implementation in order to put faltering project
back on track
. Developed reports on ReportSmith or SQL*PLUS
. Using CSS HRizon Tools, developed customized panels and
tables for payroll
. Utilized CSS HRizon Tools to installed 7.01C Update and
8.0E Upgrade and numerous patches
. Responsible for implementation of CSS HRizon (ADP) in
eight months
. Responsible for training all Payroll and Human Resource
staff on application
. Responsible for setup and maintenance of Operator and
Database Security,
. Worked on implementation of benefits and compensation
modules
. Developed in-house documentation for CSS Horizon
. Developed and administered training program for fifteen
payroll users
7/95 to 5/96 IBJ Schroder Bank & Trust Company
Database Manager
. Maintained databases for Humanic Design Empire/SQL and
Ceridian Encore Payroll
. Responsible for Annual Salary Budget Process
. Responsible for Annual Officer and Staff Review programs
. Responsible for Bi-weekly payroll closings
. Planned and executed Empire/SQL parallel upgrade
. Responsible for annual, monthly, bi-weekly, and ad-hoc
request reports written in R&R Report Writer
. Researched and recommended software purchases
. Responsible for training and support for all HR users
. Responsible for HRIS Budget
12/94 to 7/95 Temporary and Consulting Assignments,
Held Positions in HRIS in various firms
Set up and maintenance of PeopleSoft foundation tables
. Report writing on, some SQL, Crystal,HR 2000 and R&R report
writer.
. Met semi- monthly payroll deadlines
. Generated ad hoc reports on request, generated monthly org
charts
. Employment verifications
. Input on Spectrum 2000 Human Resource software
12/87 to 4/94 Continental Grain Company, New York, NY
Human Resource Information Systems Administrator
. Developed, implemented and maintained all human resource
information systems for corporation with 4,000 domestic and
international employees.
. Generated monthly, quarterly and annual reports utilizing
Q&A software.
. Oversaw Human Resource and payroll semi-monthly closings.
. Acted as liaison with all levels of management regarding
employee information.
. Coordinated and executed annual benefits upgrades/changes
with Benefits Department.
. Researched and prepared Human Resource Administrators
Handbook; assisted with training of all field
administrators.
. Wrote in-house user manual for HR application and
supporting business processes
. Trained all levels of HR users, Generalists, payroll, HRIS,
regional users and senior management
. Instrumental in coordinating and implementing conversion
from mainframe InSci system to PC-based PeopleSoft; respond
to all user inquiries on PeopleSoft and Q&A.
. Oversaw and directed maintenance of corporate-wide,
international payroll system; supervised all system changes
and verified interface between payroll and human resource
systems.
. Ensured compliance to corporate policies/procedures and
state/federal/local regulations while maintaining system
integrity.
. Administered 1993 Continental Bonus Plan.
10/80 to 12/87 MetPath (division of Corning Glass), Teterboro, NJ
Senior Personnel Systems Technician
. Controlled and administrated the corporate InSci HR system;
supervised staff and daily operations; trained staff in
data entry.
. Maintained and oversaw confidential personnel files of
corporation.
. Researched and resolved inquiries from banks, government
agencies and employment verifications.
Training: PeopleSoft 8.9 Delta, PeopleSoft Workflow. PeopleSoft 8 HR,
PeopleSoft Security 8, PeopleSoft Tools I, Crystal 8,
PeopleSoft Query, PeopleSoft 6.00, 7.00, Oracle SQL/PL, Toad,
CSS Hrizon/ADP, ReportSmith ;Internal Courses; Quality Results;
Personal Dynamics; Franklin Time Management; Choices; Dun &
Bradstreet HR software, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project, MS
Access, Org Plus. Lotus, Ceridian 3.02 HR software, Spectrum
2000 HR software WordPerfect 6.01, R&R report writer, Q&A,
MicroSoft, Visio,
Courses at InSci, Inc. on their HRS and GRS software and
conversion from 9.27 to 10.00.
Education:
. Masters Administrative Science Fairleigh Dickinson
University
. Bachelor's of Arts in Individualized Studies Fairleigh
Dickinson University
Certifications:
. PHR