Project Manager Management

HIGHLIGHTS

. ABOUT * YEARS OF CONSULTING EXPERIENCE WHICH INCLUDES NEAR TO 7

YEARS OF PEOPLESOFT HRMS EXPERIENCE(INCLUDES 4 PLUS YEARS OF

ONSITE(USA) EXPERIENCE) AND EXPERIENCED IN FULL LIFE CYCLE

IMPLEMENTATIONS (DESIGN, BUILD, CONFIGURATION, TEST, IMPLEMENT).

. Having very good exposure in the areas of Project Charter, RFP, SOW,

estimation, system design, analysis, development and Project

Management activities.

. Areas of expertise include End to end implementation, Configuration,

Functional Setups, Enhancements, Testing and Supporting the PS

application.

. Experienced in leading a team of 2 - 6 functional and technical

consultants.

. Excellent functional knowledge in PeopleSoft HRMS, Business process

knowledge & Configuration for North American Payroll, Administer

Workforce and Benefits modules.

. Technically skilled in People Tools, App Designer, Excel to CI, SQL,

PS Query.

. Very Well experienced in CRP, FIT-GAP analysis, Requirements

gathering, designing Functional Specifications Documents, Creating

Test scripts, and Functional Testing and Project Management

activities.

. Well experienced in utilizing the Microsoft Share Point for Project

Management and change management tools like HP Open View and Bugzilla.

. Have experience working with Wipro PeopleSoft Practice on estimation,

pre-sales, Due-diligence activities.

. Worked as expert on application development for existing or new

applications and also guided and trained the Trainer for key client

project members.

PEOPLESOFT EXPERIENCE and Training

FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

0. CORE HR, NA PAYROLL, BENEFITS (8.8, 8.9, 9.0, 9.1)

0. ePerformance, Plan Career & Succession

0. ELM -Enterprise Learning Management

0. Time & Labor- custom

0. Creating Requirements Spec, Functional Design Docs and Test Plans

0. Creating User Guides

0. Creating templates for loading data into PS tables from legacy system

for new implementations

0. Experience in eModules and ESS and MSS functionality.

0. Experienced in eRecruit, TAM & Candidate Gateway.

Awards

. RECEIVED STAR AWARD AND CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION FROM THE CLIENT

ALBERTSONS AT SALT LAKE CITY, UT.

. Received Excellence award from the client Supervalu.

. Received Outstanding Performance award for Altec Implementation at

AT&T.

Training

. TECHNICAL TRAINING IN PEOPLE TOOLS 8.42 AT COVANSYS (ORACLE

PEOPLESOFT GLOBAL SERVICES CENTRE), BANGALORE.

. Undergone Developer Immersion (DI) Training Program for PeopleSoft

Enterprise One (J.D.Edwards) at PGS, Bangalore.

. Functional Training in PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS, Covansys, Chennai.

PS 8 HCM - Oracle Implementation Champion Certificate from Oracle.

GENERAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE

OPERATING SYSTEMS : WINDOWS XP/2000/ NT 4.0 SERVER.

Software Knowledge : MS-Office, FoxPro, VB and MS-Access.

Databases : Oracle, SQL Server.

Query Tools : SQL plus, Toad, Golden, SQL station.

Professional PEOPLESOFT Accomplishments

AT&T GLOBAL BUSINESS SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED- SENIOR CONSULTANT-

SEPT 2009 TO TILL DATE

St Barnabas- PeopleSoft 9.1 HR, N. A Payroll and Benefits implementation

This is a re-implementation of PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 from an existing

PeopleSoft 7.5 instance. PeopleSoft is one of four databases in production

at Customer from which human resources and payroll data will be migrated.

The implementation of the applications below will occur simultaneously

during an approximate seven (7) month period commencing on or about March

1, 2010 and going into production on or about September 14, 2010.

As a Senior Consultant my role in ths project to lead from offshore

complete deliverables. Working with onsite team to understand overall scope

of the project and plan the offshore deliverables.

. Review the Project plan and Project Charter to consider the scope,

timelines, deliverables and overall project expectation.

. Attend daily calls with core Onsite team in understanding the Project

Status and address any functional issues.

. Plan the offshore contribution according to the onsite expectation.

. Functionally work on specs, requirements, design documents.

. Provide expertise advise in planning and execution of Project

implementation including risks and mitigation advices.

. Address key requirements for the new systems implementation including

the design and delta changes for the existing integrations and

interfaces.

. Interfacing with the client on business case requirements and test

cases comparing the existing business process.

. Building offshore team based on project requirements and providing

functional advice on case to case basis for the offshore deliverables.

. Participate in daily status calls with onsite team and provide the

required suggestions. Also weekly meetings to address any issues with

special focus on driving interfaces which requires remediation-

includes about 25 inbound and outbound interfaces.

. Worked on requirements, design, testing of PSHUP load and Paysheet

Upload for loading hours/ rate for Hourly employees.

. Worked on Excel to CI load for PSHUP loading for loading hours and

amounts.

. Analyzed the payroll setup and fixed many payroll issues during SIT.

. Handled critical Pay calc, Pay Confirm errors which were holding the

system payroll.

. Handled key configuration issues like Setid, Dept, Business Unit

setups.

. Worked on GL interface requirement gathering, fit-gap analysis,

solution design.

. Interact with client - St Barnabas in understanding the requirement

and translate to developers for coding.

. Provided several solutions for the issues during data load like

Balances loads, employee federal, state tax data loads, Garnishments.

. Analyzed key interfaces like Fidelity, Workscape, Kronos, GL, TALX in

identifying GAPs and remediating for effective function in PeopleSoft

9.1 system.

Altec - PeopleSoft 9.0 HR, Payroll and Benefits implementation

Altec is a leading provider of products and services to the electric

utility, telecommunications and contractor markets. It provides products

and services in over 100 countries throughout the world.

Phase 1: Core Implementation

. Human Resources including:

. Workforce Administration

. Health and Safety Administration

. Monitor Absence

. Benefits Administration including:

. eBenefits

. 2010 Open Enrollment elections capture

. North American Payroll for US based employee

population including:

. ePay

. eProfile and eProfile Manager in support of providing

self service capabilities across the enterprise

. Deployment of PeopleSoft HRMS Portal Pack

. Business Process Outsourcing:

. Payroll to be processed by AT&T

. Garnishment checks to be written by AT&T

. Payroll tax returns to be filed by AT&T

As a Senior Consultant I have responsibility of managing the requirements

analysis, FIT-GAP analysis, Spec preparation, working with technical team

in addressing the data points for customizations, working on SOW and effort

estimation for various project requirements.

Worked on setup requirements for Benefit Plan, vendor setups, dependants/

beneficiary data, employee enrollment setup for testing the benefit

deductions.

Supporting onsite team for various Benefit issues related to On Demand,

benefit enrollments like medical, dental, vision, Savings Plan and Benefit

interfaces like Blue Cross Blue shield, Guardian interface analysis and

function design document preparation.

Lead offshore developers in coding and design of technical customizations

regarding system functionalities and interfaces.

Participating in the core team meeting in addressing various project issues

and planning the deliverables from offshore in order to meet the respective

milestones.

Wipro Ltd Project Manager Jul 2009 to Sep 2009

Putnam Investments, Andover, MA- PeopleSoft HRMS 8.3

State Street, Boston, MA- PeopleSoft HRMS 9.0 & ELM 9.0

Putnam offers a range of funds across six investment categories: growth,

blend, value, income, absolute return, and global sector. It has Over 70

years of investment experience.

And State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of

the world's most sophisticated institutions. We offer a flexible suite of

services that spans the investment spectrum, including investment

management, research and trading, and investment servicing.

Role:

. Putnam client had plans to upgrade its existing 8.x PeopleSoft HRMS to

PeopleSoft 9.0.

. As a Project Manager and Functional Lead, my role involved discussing

the client requirements for Upgrade, Closed Room Pilot Sessions for

new PS HCM 9.0 features.

. Modules involved Core HR, eRecruitment which is TAM and Candidate

Gateway.

. Involved in existing System study.

. Giving client presentations, involved in discussions for FIT- GAP

sessions.

. Presented the overall approach for Upgrade methodology along with tech

team.

. With regard to State Street client, it has implemented TAM and

Candidate gateway and ELM along with Core HR 9.0 and requires

enhancements for the issues.

. As a Project Manager, my role was to understand client challenges

faced during implementation and convert them into opportunities as

enhancements.

. Worked on Project Plan preparation, involved in building client

confidence through quick turn around on issue resolution and providing

consulting expertise.

Used to travel between both the clients as a Project manager/ Functional

Lead role in order to engage the work and support the tech team.

Involved in regular meetings with client's Senior management and Wipro

Management in finalizing the requirements, estimation, resource requirement

and pre-sales work.

Toys R Us - PeopleSoft 8.9/9.0 ePerformance and ELM implementation

Wipro Ltd Project Manager Aug 2008 to Jun 2009

Toys R Us - PeopleSoft 8.9/9.0 ePerformance and ELM implementation- Wayne,

NJ

Toys R Us invented the toy superstore concept in 1948 and today is the one

of the world's largest toy retailers. Toys R Us employs over 50,000

associates globally.

Toys R Us is currently running on PS HCM 8.9. This project is to implement

Position Management for Exempt Population and then implement ePerformance

8.9 and ELM 9.0

Role:

. Leading the team and responsible for project mile stones.

. Involved in initial kick off meeting for the project initiation.

. Drafted the Project Plan with overall deliverables for different

phases of the project.

. On boarding the team members for respective modules and getting all

the required access for PeopleSoft/ Oracle/ citrix/ VPN.

. Identifying the risk factors for implementation consider the fixed

time line for deliverables.

. Discussion of infrastructure constraints and proposing contingency

plans.

. Prepared the Risk mitigation document identified for the overall

project implementation.

. Involved in the discussions for discovery phase through As Is Process

study.

. Performed CRP (Conference Room Pilot) for Position management/

ePerformance implementation.

. Delivered FSD (Functional Specification Design) for Position

management/ ePerformance implementation.

. Involved in the Core team meetings with the business users to set the

expectations and discuss the various phases of project and initial

project plan.

. Understanding the As Is Process and involved in design of To be

Process.

. Initiated the design for implementing Position Management considering

the large amount of customizations in the existing system at Toys R

Us.

. Requirements gathering for Performance Management.

. Worked on FIT-GAP analysis, configuration and setup for Position

Management and ePerformance.

. Provided custom solutions for the GAPs identified.

. Involved in providing user training and provided complete Training

manual.

. Working with users for UAT.

. Worked on test scripts for Position management, ePerformance modules.

. Helping users change business process for implementing Partial

Position management for exempt population.

. Successfully completed UAT for Position management and ePerformance

implementation.

. Implementing Position management at TRU was very challenging and

design I provided was very effective for incorporating in their

current customized version of HRMS suite.

. Client has truly gained the utility by implementing Partial Position

management for exempts and management population which helped to have

a stable org hierarchy through Reports To functionality, plus provide

other dependant modules integration for Manager-Employee relationship.

. For the unique requirements of TRU designed extra ordinary design to

have an automatic program which creates, transfers and cancels the

evaluation documents based on HR transactions like Hire/ Rehire/

Termination/ Promotion/ transfer/ demotion.

. Complete end user training for Position Management and ePerformance

modules.

. Provided significant design solutions for the unique problems in ELM

module, one of them being mini admin.

. Prepare deployment plan and go-live task schedule.

. Customer handling role managing the team to achieve each mile stone

successfully.

. Working with infrastructure team on the environmental challenges and

mitigating the risks of the project dependencies.

. Working with Oracle on critical issues which become the show stoppers

of the project implementation like EIPs issues, remote content issues

and resolving them in time.

. Handling client escalations and providing the required assistance and

addressing their concern in time.

. Successfully completed the project delivery from start to end of go-

live and warranty support.

Wipro Ltd Specialist Dec 2007 to July 2008

SUPERVALU - PeopleSoft 8.8 Development/ Conversion of North American

Payroll, Boise, ID

Supervalu is a leader in retail industry and in 2006 SUPERVALU acquires the

premier retail properties of Albertsons. This combination propels the

company to the position of third-largest grocery retailing company in the

U.S.

Currently it has several employees on GEAC system for running the HR and

payroll processes.

All those population is getting converted to PeopleSoft 8.8 application

which is maintained by Albertsons.

Role:

. Functional Engineer managing the Payroll Tower.

. Conduct study of the current application and customer specific

business rules, practices, user requirements and preparing functional

design documents as per client formats.

. Report any functional gaps in existing applications and suggest

business process improvements.

. Preparing ERDs, unit test cases and perform testing and user training.

. Work with onsite/ offshore team for enhancements and development for

the deliverables.

. In general he will be responsible for writing tech/ functional

specifications debugging, analysis, requirements gathering, testing.

. Involved in user requirements and analyze the issue and suggestion of

functional changes with complete testing in lower development

environments.

. Analysing issues related to Payroll processing which garnishment

deduction, benefit deductions, arrears processing, off cycle checks,

check reconciliation, tax deductions.

. Handled issues related to interfaces for payroll earnings, deductions

and taxes.

Wipro Ltd Specialist Mar 2007 to Dec 2007

VIACOM- PeopleSoft 8.9 Implementation of North American Payroll, New York,

NY

Viacom is a media giant which has popular channels like MTV, BET, Spike

etc.

Currently entire population is on Infinium payroll system which is built on

AS 400 platform.

They have both salaried, hourly and Free Lancer population who are paid

through Infinium and are going for PeopleSoft 8.9 implementation for HR,

North American Payroll and Benefits Modules for the first phase.

Role:

. Payroll Functional Lead

. Understanding existing Infinium payroll process.

. Gathering the requirements for HR, Payroll and Benefits table setup.

. Involved in FIT-GAP sessions for Payroll, HR and Benefits business

process.

. Earnings, Deductions and other major Payroll setup tables' templates

are designed to gather the configuration requirements.

. Functional Design involving the design for pay Group based on various

parameters for Viacom.

. Successfully performed CRP (Closed Room Pilot) session to the client

involving complete demonstration and setup for North American payroll

like Earnings, Deductions, Taxes, Setup, Pay Group functionality, Run

Control setup including Pay Calendar and Pay run id.

. Setting up and Maintaining US Payroll Tax Tables -Company State and

Local Tax Tables, Tax Locations tables.

. Involved in creating pay sheets, Calculating and Confirming Payroll,

Off Cycle Payrolls reversing a check, producing on Line Checks.

. Worked with Hewitt team members for stream lining the hr and payroll

process so that industry best practices are to be followed.

. Involved in basic HR table setup including organization setup

requirements.

. Proposed suitable solutions for HR setup issues impacting Payroll

process.

. Discussed the requirement for balance ID setup and its importance

related to Balance capturing for earnings, deductions and taxes.

. Demonstration of complete PeopleSoft payroll process including pay

sheet creation, pay calc and pay confirm process.

. Proposed custom load process for freelancer population for loading

hours/ amounts as they would have variable pay.

. Worked on designing interfaces, reports for HR and Payroll business

users to suit their custom requirements.

. Involved in setting up and show casing the functionality of PeopleSoft

for HR changes which impact payroll like New Hire/ Rehire/ Terminate/

Proration of Earnings/ Leave with out Pay.

. Involved in Payroll parallel testing fixing issues related to Taxes/

employee data and other data migration issues.

. Worked with HR and Benefits users for the issues impacting Payroll.

Wipro Ltd Specialist Dec 2005 to Nov 2007

Albertsons- PeopleSoft 8.8 Support- North American Payroll, Salt Lake City,

Utah

. Role- Functional Lead for payroll module

. Albertsons has around 120,000 associates on PS 8.8 whose payroll is

run on weekly basis. It has very complex payroll system along with

completely customized contract admin module integrated with PeopleSoft

HRMS system. Time entries happen through Kronos and recruiting occurs

through Unicru systems which are also integrated to PS HRMS. There are

enormous reports and interfaces running weekly after the payroll which

requires ongoing support and enhancements.

. Monitor Time Entry Load and fix the errors related to inbound

interface from People Planner and Kronos.

. Worked on TALX interface requirement gathering, functional design

document and complete field mapping as per the social service file

requirement for TALX.

. Worked on garnishment set up issues related to MA, OR states due to

the garnish law source rules id issue.

. PS query development for business users for various payroll and hr

data requests.

. Six sigma data reports requirements understanding and worked on

reports through sql scripts.

. Worked on payroll process involving pay run id creation, pay calendar

building, pay sheet creation, pay calc and pay confirm.

. Verifying the pay roll error messages, fixing the issues related to

Pay Confirm.

. Worked on Single Check creation and verifying the issues related to

off cycle run.

. Fix the production issues, test the resolutions on lower environments

and migrate them to production.

. UTC preparation, function payroll issues analysis, continues payroll

data requests, payroll process monitoring.

. Involved in user requirements and analyze the issue and suggestion of

functional changes with complete testing in lower development

environments.

. Issues with direct deposit, garnishments, pay check, Pay earnings,

time entry, job codes, and changes in pay group.

. Worked on testing the hours paid for each earn code based on the time

entry inbound file which updates the pay line, analysis of the

variance in hours punched and paid.

. Worked on issues with Pay confirm, unique row issues, pre confirm

audits, check reconciliation.

. Generating reports earn code wise for specific periods and requested

contracts, generating the employee payroll data related to federal

tax, state tax for migrating to AHRIS for the particular stores.

. Worked on year end issues like unable to confirm, fixing the balance

id setup, data requests from the business users for pay earnings and

other earnings.

. Report requests from Tax balance tables for various states earn code

wise, company wise for risk management department.

. Worked on the user requirements of ASRE data analysis for savings

plans, benefit plans 401.

. Support also includes Ben Admin job monitoring

DatamanUSA, LLC Functional Analyst Oct 2005 to Dec

2005

Boeing Corporation-- PeopleSoft 8.8 Maintenance- North American Payroll, St

Louis, MO

. Worked on Requirements Management, validate and categorize,

preparation Business Requests, Conversion into Maintenance Requests,

Defects Enhancement.

. Testing on payroll functional issues, pay check reversals, earn code,

deduction codes, taxes setup issues, GL account setup issues.

. Client interaction on the Business Requests raised, validating and

categorizing the requests, working on defects enhancements and

functional document to be delivered for development.

. Understanding the existing BERM (Business Engagement Request

Management) process, client interaction on validating the Maintenance

Requests, Functional analysis and testing.

Hexaware Technologies Ltd. Senior Software Engineer Mar 2005 - Oct

2005

CHUBB Insurance- PeopleSoft 8.8 Implementation(NA Payroll & Admin WF),

Warren, NJ.

. Worked on offshore- onsite model.

. Coordinated offshore team with onsite for payroll requirement

gathering.

. Understanding existing Chubb population life events and its impact on

payroll.

. Requirement gathering for North American Payroll and Administer

Workforce.

. Worked on FIT-GAP Analysis, Conceptual Process Documentation.

. Worked on Payroll Functional Design for Business Users.

. Worked on Payroll configuration and customisations.

. Worked on complete design of HR Table set up and payroll table setup.

. Reviewed technical design for payroll, prepared test cases for System

Integration Tests

Covansys India Pvt Ltd (Oracle PeopleSoft Consulting)

Associate Dec 2003 - Mar 2005

HEWITT - PeopleSoft Implementation Methodology (Documentation)

Hewitt is one of largest HR consulting company partnered with Covansys (I)

Pvt Ltd for PeopleSoft projects. This PeopleSoft implementation methodology

is suggestive for the new and existing client base of Hewitt through which

Covansys caters.

Responsibilities:

. As a consultant my role in the assignment involved building the best

strategy for the PeopleSoft Implementation Methodology.

. Documenting the various Implementation phases and benchmarking the

practices for existing and new client base for the projects.

. The Implementation Methodology discusses the Technical Tasks, Business

Process Analysis, FIT-GAP Analysis, Module Prototyping, Conversions,

Interfaces, Modifications, Reports, Security, End-User Training, Stage

Preparation & Testing, Production Preparation and Cutover, Post-

Production Support, Project Management.

This work is done involving the team members of Technical Analysts,

Business Analysts, Developers, and Testers Consultation.

HEWITT - OLG Workflow- GOLDMANSACHS

This project is for Goldmansachs; templates are created for various flows

like New hire, Termination etc and integrated to PeopleSoft. It is being

done through a freeware called iReport. Because of lack of structured flow,

the project Dvpt team is not able to deliver on time. Proper workflow at

offshore has been suggested which is due to be accepted by the client side.

Responsibilities:

. Understanding the existing flow.

. Analysis and Designing the Project

. Preparing Systems Study documents, Functional Study Documents.

. Finding out the standard checklists for each activity.

. Routing the flow in according to the roles.

. Avoiding the repetition of the work done through review and creating

better interface between Onsite and Offshore through standard

requirement flow.

OLSON Company (Enterprise One)

Olson is a California based company and it is into building homes with

interiors and exteriors developed for world-class status.

Responsibilities:

. Margin Analysis Reports Development.

. The project involved preparation of technical design template,

development of financial reports through Object Management Workbench.

. Creation of report templates involved coding columns and rows, used

the smart fields Period Activity, YTD for current period, coded event

rules.

. Used Business Functions for generating Current Date in according to

the period number given at processing option level dynamically.

. Challenges involved, generating quarter to date values, generating

values for data rows with very large object account range. For these

hidden data rows are created and cell overrides are coded for

calculation rows.

Environment: PeopleSoft Enterprise One Xe, Citrix connectivity.

AVATAR (Enterprise One)

Avatar, a public company listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market (AVTR), is

engaged in diversified real estate operations.

Responsibilities:

. Buffering the technical developer in Reports Migration from World Soft

to Enterprise One.

. The project had many reports converted using FASTR, a report

conversion tool. World Soft reports were on AS 400 plat form.

. Analyzing the World Soft specifications and matching them with the

Enterprise One specifications.

. Coding the Event Rules using Business Functions.

. Testing the reports.

Environment: PeopleSoft Enterprise One Xe, World Soft, AS 400.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DR REDDYS LABORATORIES LTD PROFESSIONAL SERVICE OFFICER AUGUST

2001-DECEMBER 2003

Responsibilities:

. Brand Promotion

. Customer relationship management

. Inventory management

. Achieving Targets

. Developing the business volumes for the assigned area

. Retail and Institutional Sales Order Bookings

. Logistics.

. Monitoring Primary and Secondary Sales.

Achievements:

. Single PSO in entire division of Recura to be short listed for the

post of First Line Manager for the existing division and Second Line

Manager for a new division (Dr Reddys labs) .

. Only PSO to be a participant of the cross functional team for the

relaunch of a product (doxium 500).

. Only PSO from the division Recura to be the participant for the

project implementation of Palm tops integrated to mobile phones for

the removal of documentation reporting.

. Highest sales order achievement at Hyderabad. (Dr Reddys labs-Recura)

along with highest customer coverage.

. Highest sales target achievement at Hyderabad.

. Single PSO to be selected from entire Recura division for specialized

Task Force- Management Team directly reporting to Dy General Manager.

Tata Rallies India Ltd Management Trainee April

2001-Aug 2001

(Campus Recruitment)

Responsibilities:

. Brand Promotion

. Customer relationship management

. Achieving Targets

. Developing the business volumes for the assigned area

. Retail and Institutional Sales Order Bookings

. Monitoring Primary and Secondary Sales.

EDUCATION

. MASTER OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (MIB) 1999-2001

GITAM INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN TRADE (GIFT), VISAKHAPATNAM(A.P).

(IN ACADEMIC COLLABORATION WITH IIFT, MINISTRY OF COMMERCE, NEW DELHI)

Area of Specialization: International Marketing Management.

. Bachelor of Commerce (B Com) 1996-1999

Badruka College of Commerce, Osmania University, Hyderabad.

. Diploma in Information and Systems Management, Aptech Ltd, Hyderabad.

Pavan Akkinepally

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