SURESH R. MALE

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Ph.: 919-***-****

Morrisville, NC 27560 Email:

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Professional Summary:

. Over fifteen (15) years of experience as an IT professional in various

project implementations. Performed several tasks in

management/leadership, analysis, design, configuration, development,

training and testing roles.

. Lead several Oracle implementations, which include full-cycle

implementations; as well provided support during go live critical times

and post-production maintenance phase.

. Over eleven (12) years of experience and expertise knowledge in Oracle

ERP implementations; including three years of experience with Oracle

Corporation.

. Proven track record of successful project management and execution skills

with over-achieving results. Highly experienced with project resource

management skills such as resources planning, resource screening,

identifying internal roles and responsibilities with project deployment,

rolling out projects successfully with customer and business needs as

primary focus.

. Complete overall project management experience from Scoping, Budgeting,

Developing project schedules and managing risks and changes to the

overall project. Always delivered implementations with maximum value for

business as well executed projects with cost effective approaches and

models that work based on organizational strengths.

. Handled team sizes varying from 2 to 8; effectively developing the skill

set for Organization needs with proper mentoring and assessment process.

. Experience with vendor selection and governance process; including

evaluation of vendor services/products and contract negotiations by

partnering with procurement department. Effectively partner and manage

with external vendors so that vendor goals are aligned with organization

goals with focus on customer needs.

. Guide and mentor resources not only from people management perspective;

but also effectively motivating the teams on working goals perspective.

Provide direct guidance and help with technical aspects of the projects

with long acquired knowledge and motivate employees on day to day

challenges with respect to requirements gathering, systems configuration,

programs development and testing methods.

. Global Oracle Financials and HRMS applications implementation experience

with Canada, Mexico, EMEA (France, Italy, UK, Netherlands, and Germany

etc), LA (Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay), APAC (Singapore, India etc)

and US implementations.

. Strong GLOBAL experience with Oracle HRMS Functional Setups experience

and knowledge; which includes defining Business groups,

Organizations/GRE's, Key Flexfields, Descriptive Flexfields, EITs (extra

information types), SITs (Special Information Types), Locations

requirements, legislation requirements, Jobs, Positions, Grades and

creating value sets, Context sensitive Flexfields, defining lookup codes,

quick codes, User tables and values, Salary basis, Payrolls, Payroll

Calendars, Various elements (earnings and deductions), Consolidation

sets, Assignment sets and etc.

. Expertise knowledge in Oracle implementations technical aspects such as

Data Conversions, Interfaces, Custom processes, Fast Formula's, Alerts,

Reports, Forms Customizations using Custom PLL and Forms

personalizations.

. Strong knowledge and experience with Oracle System Administration and

Application Developer functionality such as registering Concurrent

Programs, Executables, Form Functions, defining users, administer

responsibilities, adding custom reports/processes to request groups and

several other related tasks. Also performed security setups functionality

such as creating task flow nodes and defining task flows and managing

context level security with in Oracle HRMS applications.

. Trained business users and developers also mentor and manage functional

analysts and developers during several phases of project implementation.

Provided guidance in decision making process, make recommendations and

help to set the goals, key milestones and priorities during project

implementation cycle. Very much familiar with AIM methodology and process

to deliver successful implementations to clients.

. Experience in Performing requirements gathering from users, defining

project scope and timelines. Also performed gap analysis by studying both

the existing systems and new systems and mapping the requirements to new

systems for different clients.

. As a functional business analyst experience in writing Test Plans, Test

Scripts and Test Cases as well as executing them. Performed Documenting

business requirements and business flow. Also created functional and

technical design documents. Used AIM methodology extensively in Oracle

implementations.

. Developed API's and performed Data Conversions for HR, Payroll, Advanced

Benefits, Payroll Tax balances, element balances, Work structures,

history data from legacy to Oracle HRMS systems as well as from Oracle

10.7/11.0.3 to Oracle 11i during the upgrade/re-implementation Scenarios.

. Experience with implementations in several vertical industries like

Manufacturing, Government, HealthCare, Education, Retail and Services

Oriented etc.

Technical Skills/Capabilities

Oracle ERP Experience: Oracle RDBMS/Tools:

Oracle R12/11i, 11.x, 10.7 NCA, Oracle 9i/8i/8.x/7.x/6.0, Developer

10.7SC - HRMS (HR, Payroll, Advanced 6i/2000 (Forms and Reports), Oracle

Benefits, OTL, CWB, OLM), Financials JDeveloper 3.2, Discoverer 2000,

(AR, GL, AP, Projects), Oracle SSHR SQL *Plus, PL/SQL, SQL *Loader, and

and Workflow. Pro*C.

Other Tools/Languages: E-Commerce/Internet:

SQL Navigator, TOAD, SQR reports, MS Apache Jserv 1.1, JDK 1.2.x, HTML,

Project 4.0, C++, C, and COBOL. Java, Java Script and Knowledge of

XML.

Operating Systems: Hardware Platforms:

AIX, Solaris, HP-UX 9.x, SunOS 4.1.x, IBM RS 6000, IBM PC and Compatibles,

Dos, Unix SVR4, Sun Sparc/Solaris, HP, and Macintosh.

MS Windows XP/2000/98/95/3.1 and

WinNT 4.0 Workstation/Server

Other RDBMS: SCCS & Test Tools:

MS - Access 8, FoxPro, Sybase, MS-SQL PVCS, Sablime, Winrunner

Server 5

PeopleSoft ERP Experience:

PeopleSoft HRMS (Variable

Compensation) 6.0/5.1 and Sales and

Distribution Modules.

Oracle ERP Modules Experience

Core HR (Global) Payroll (US and Canada OAB (Advanced Benefits)

Legislation)

Core Financials (AP, Manager Self Service Compensation Work Bench

AR, GL) (CWB)

iRecruitment Employee Self Service Oracle Time and Labor

(Global) (Global)

Oracle Learning Projects Costing Project Billing

Management

Professional Experience:

( Polaris Associates (Jul'07 - Current)

Managing Principal, Global Oracle ERP Solutions

Primary responsibilities:

. Manage and deploy Oracle HRMS Projects for multiple accounts,

including new implementations and upgrades to R12.

. As an implementations lead; manage resources, budgets and contract

negotiations and successfully deliver value added services to end

clients.

. Responsible for supervision of project plans and execution of

projects.

. My responsibility requires extensive communications with IS teams in

other regions of the world and with diverse individuals. It also

requires periodic international travel including visits with customers

and MIS team members in different regions in Asia, Europe and South

America in addition to North American region.

. Effectively build and maintain positive relations with all stake

holders of the projects; this including VP and Executive Director

levels from various departments such as IT, HR, Benefits,

Compensation, Payroll and Finance.

. Partner with Sales to win the projects for global Oracle HRMS

implementations and production support services.

. Provide guidance and coaching as necessary to individual team players

to obtain best possible results. Also identify high achievers among

individuals, recognize the individuals and help them grow in the

organization.

. Keep teams motivated and work towards the completion of the tasks with

proper ownership of the tasks and deliverables.

. Provide project budget estimates, timeline estimates to higher

management and business executives. Provide Executive summary briefs

as and when necessary.

. Help train end users of the system and also provided business with

appropriate direction to maintain systems effectively from end user

perspective.

( Merial Limited (Oct'05 - Jul'07)

Lead Business Analyst; Global HRMS

Environment: Oracle HRMS 11.5.10; modules include HR, OAB, Payroll, CWB,

Manager SS, Employee SS with Global scope.

Global Footprint: US, UK, France, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, Australia

and several other countries in EMEA, APAC, LA regions.

Primary responsibility is to manage and lead Oracle HRMS projects for

Merial HR/Benefits/Payroll departments. Key responsibility is to provide

subject matter expert knowledge for Oracle HRMS suite of application

modules. Following are the details of my responsibilities and

achievements.

. Day to day support of existing Oracle HRMS modules including OAB and

Payroll.

. Implementation of additional HR functionality/modules in Oracle such

as Compensation Work Bench, Manager Self Service and Employee Self

Service.

. Global rollout of core HR in APAC and LA regions with appropriate

localization changes for country specific needs.

. Conduct regular meetings with internal customers to identify and

resolve issues as well to provide regular updates from IS on tasks

that are being worked-on as well planned.

. Manage small tasks to medium size projects (such as global grading,

compensation work bench, HR Self Service functions and implementation

of core HR for international regions).

. Manage resources including internal employees and external consultants

during projects implementation phases.

. Identifying roles and responsibilities for projects, staffing projects

with appropriate resources, manage project plan and deployment of

projects. Gather user requirements; identify functional GAPS,

configuration of functional setups.

. Coordinate patches timeline, patch testing, new functionality testing,

and rolling out in global environment.

. Provide product demos and user training sessions.

( KPIT Cummins Infosystems. (June'03 - Oct'05)

( Cummins Inc., Columbus, IN

Oracle HRMS Lead Systems Analyst. (Onsite/Offshore implementation

model)

Project Scope: Global Implementation of Oracle HRMS 11i (Ver 11.5.7,

HR, OAB, SSHR v5.2) including

Oracle advance benefits and Oracle self service and MLS. (Currently

UK, US and Mexico implementations)

Roles/Responsibilities: As an onsite lead responsible for managing team

of six to nine analysts and developers in the project. Also perform

functional and technical requirements gathering, prepare solution design

documents and coordinate with offshore team for development effort.

Provide development time estimates to client based on the task and help

with project planning. Responsible for delivering tasks to client from

offshore team and coordinate any issues with customer. Conduct and

coordinate timely meetings (Design review, Code review, Project Plan

review) with team and client as per the requirements. Guide the

development team for developing interfaces, data conversion programs,

reports and other tasks related to implementation. Provide required

technical and functional guidance and knowledge to the team for

identified tasks and deliverables.

( Surya Systems Inc., (Dec'01 -May'03)

Lead/Senior Consultant, Oracle HRMS 11i.

( ITT Educational Services Inc., Indianapolis, IN (Dec'02 - May'03)

Project Scope: Upgrade/Re-install from Oracle 11.0.3 to Oracle 11i (HR,

Payroll with Multi GRE setups)

Roles/Responsibilities: Techno-Functional Consultant. Responsible for

data extraction from 11.0.3, for assignment and balances data and data

conversion into 11i. Build Mapping/Translation for data including Jobs,

Grades, Organizations, GRE, Locations, Positions and Elements from 11.0.3

to 11i. The data scope includes history data from Oracle 11.0.3 version.

Design and Develop programs for Data extraction as well as for Data

conversions for these two entities. Assist the team in defining new

setups in Oracle 11i for Grades and Positions by studying client specific

workflow requirements. Provided help in setting up element links with

respect to the costing requirements.

( CGE&Y - Bimbo Bakeries, Dallas, TX (Sep'02 - Dec'02)

Project Scope: Oracle HRMS 11i with Advanced Benefits and Multi Org

Setups.

Roles/Responsibilities: Techno-Functional Consultant. Responsible for

developing Fast Formula's for several payroll element calculations. Fast

Formula's including Union Dues deductions based on User Tables,

calculations for 401k EE and ER match elements based on Global values,

user tables. Handling local employer tax deductions (Like Transportation

ER tax subject to Jurisdiction) setups using FF calculations, setting up

cross-validations and dependent value sets for Flex fields. Assist and

Train HR/Payroll user community to Oracle HRMS payroll system with

respect to the payroll processing, HRMS setups/reporting by developing

short user training sessions focused on several individual topics like HR

Setups, Employee administration, Payroll processing, Balance adjustments

etc.

( tmp.worldwide (Monster.com) Inc, Pittsburgh, PA (Mar'02 - July'02)

Project Scope: Oracle HRMS and Oracle Financials R11 with Multi Org.

Roles/Responsibilities: Technical team member. As technical team member

of the project my responsibilities include design, plan and implement

payroll balance conversion task in six weeks time frame. Successfully

delivered this task to client by identifying all the Oracle HRMS balances

(Tax Balances as well as Earnings/Deduction balances) that needs to be

converted. Performed data mapping with the help of client, and developed

balance conversion programs, tested by comparing SOE results, view tax

balance screens and by running w2 process for w2-box balances.

Also responsible for converting Open Invoice balances in AR module. This

includes getting customer id based on customer name and address. Invoice

balance amounts are converted using the delivered process which populates

the required interface tables and Invoice line items programmatically.

Successfully completed conversion for this open invoice balances and also

coordinated with GL team to provide consolidated amount for the manual GL

account postings.

( The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P Stores), Montvale, NJ

(Dec'01 - Mar'02)

Project Scope: Oracle HR/Payroll 11i (11.5.5) with Advanced

benefits. Global (US and Canada

Implementation. Multiple Business Units

and Multi Org structure.

Roles/Responsibilities: Technical Lead for IBM, as a technical

lead responsibilities include:

With the expertise knowledge of both Functional and technical areas,

responsible for communicating with Users, Functional team and

provide guidance in decision making process with respect to Oracle

setups, provide solutions for identified gaps during the setups phase.

Examples like how to transform the existing Orgs and Jobs to new Oracle

Implementation, what information needs to be maintained at segments level

and attributes level? And with Advanced benefits being part of

implementation involved in identifying plans, lifetime events setups, and

enrollment process. Gather user requirements for all the technical

development work and develop timeline and resource planning for client.

Also personally involved with development of Advanced benefits conversion

API's, Assist and help the team with code development problems for

Conversions, Interfaces and Reports. Established standards for

documentation of setups, coding standards and help regarding database

instances planning.

. Rapidigm Inc., (Sep'00- Dec'01)

Lead Consultant, Oracle HRMS.

( Flextronics Inc., San Jose, CA (Aug'01-Dec'01)

Project Scope: Oracle HR 11.0.3, SSHR 3.0, ProBusiness Payroll.

Global (Multi National HR

implementation) Multiple Business Units and Multi Org structure.

Roles/Responsibilities: Involved with configuration of SSHR 3.0.

Customized Oracle Self Service Human Resources module according to

clients business needs. Completed mandatory setup tasks in workflow

setups. Extended base functionality by implementing various optional

workflow features and modifying source HTML within the application. Added

client related links to SSHR home page. Created custom tables to support

client extensions to the base application. Employee History converted in

to temp tables. Created a custom function, which will show the employee

history for supervisors in SSHR. Added following fields to Personal

Information Page. Alternate Email Address, Mail Drop, Seat Location, Work

Location, NT UserID, Preferred Email Name, Admin Assistant, Preferred

Phone Name.

Worked on the ProBusiness payroll interface to extract information from

Oracle HR and send it to ProBusiness Payroll system. Modified the

existing ProBusiness payroll interface to increase the performance of the

process by changing the design of the interface coding and tuning sql as

well as used Multi-threading concept to increase the CPU performance.

( Ohio University, Athens, OH. (Sep'00- Aug'01)

Project Scope: Oracle HRMS 11i. (HR/Payroll with Basic benefits)

Roles/Responsibilities: Lead techno-functional consultant.

Performed functional system setups/configurations for Oracle HR and

Payroll modules.

Assist client with technical staffing/interview process and

preparing time lines for data conversions. Responsible to over-see data

conversion process.

Responsible for taking requirements from users for data conversions and

mapping process. Successfully performed several responsibilities by

preparing project plan for data conversions and technical aspects of the

project and delivering results on time. Also personally responsible for

Coding Conversion API's and performing conversion for all HR/Payroll and

Payroll balances data. Assist team members in design and development of

several tasks like writing Interfaces, Developing Reports, Creating

alerts using Oracle Alerts Manager, trouble shooting Payroll Fast

Formula's. Also developed custom application that is Web based element

entry screen using JDeveloper and servlets and integrating that

application to Oracle self-service HR application. Major accomplishment

in the project is Successful completion of Data Conversions for about

15,000 Employees including Balances in Two Months time frame with two

resources including myself from mapping, API coding and successful run of

conversions. Responsible for conducting meetings with other technical

team and monitor the progress of team/tasks on weekly basis. Help with

Security setups and System administration functions like registering

custom processes. Also prepared Technical Mapping, Design, Development

and Requirement Documents (Used Oracle AIM docs, MD's and CV's).

Oracle Corporation, Atlanta, GA. (Mar'98 - Aug'00)

Senior Consultant, East HR/Payroll Practice.

Involved in Various Successful Oracle HR/Payroll project

implementations and have been through full implementation cycles.

Provided Intelligent business solutions for clients during the process of

project implementation. Acquired expertise knowledge in Data Conversions

including HR/Payroll data and Payroll Balances data, Developing

Interfaces and custom Processes. Also acted as Mentor/Lead to technical

groups during Project implementations. Provided last minute assistance to

several clients during go live critical stages and also during production

maintenance phase by trouble-shooting problems and fixing them quickly.

Trained end users and developers at different clients to Oracle

Applications technically and functionally in Oracle HR/Payroll Module.

Created custom views for reporting and interfaces purpose. Used HR Noetix

views and modified delivered Noetix views according to client

requirements.

Client: Estee Lauder, Melville, NY - Developed custom program for

balance adjustments to correct balance values of several element balances

during post-production maintenance for year-end process. Also developed

interfaces for benefit providers for Cigna health care and other benefit

plans. Help team members with Development of HRMS custom reports,

interfaces.

Client: Central Planes Clinic, Sioux Falls, SD -- Developed a custom

costing correction process for GL

adjustments by taking costing at PayMix entries and also looking at

element links costing. Help client to modify

setups for ongoing costing transfer accurately. Also designed and

developed solution for PTO accrual processes

as per client requirements.

Client: Wake County Public School System, Raleigh, NC -- HR/Payroll

team technical member, responsibilities include conversions of all master

HR/Payroll data including Balances. Also responsible in conducting

meetings with client piers to establish/redefine business rules during

the implementation and provide the knowledge of new system. Involved with

development of costing customization to the Clients budgeting

requirements based on positions in Oracle HRMS. Also performed/assisted

HR functional setups during early phases of project.

Client: LifeStyles Furniture International, Highpoint, NC - Perform

HR functional setups and also provided

support for Conversions, developed Conversion API's for Tax

Information and the Solution Design and

mapping Documents for the Balance Conversions. Provided support

during the upgrade cycle for Oracle HRMS

system from R10.7 to R11. Worked on the System delivered HR reports

to fix the bugs in the reports.

Client: Gaylord Entertainment Company, Nashville, TN - Developed

Custom Processes for PTO Accruals,

which includes Sick and Vacation Accrual Plans as per the client

requirements. Provided Support for Data

Conversions process and also Performed Data Conversions for payroll

balances data. Developed interface to

Oracle HRMS System to transfer the Benefit entries, and developed

Custom PLL code to Customize Oracle

Forms. Also Involved in writing Alerts using Oracle Alert Manager

for Oracle Training Module.

Client: Buffalo Rock Company, Birmingham, AL - Performed technical

support to meet GO-LIVE critical

dates remotely and also on site with many benefit interfaces, and

customizations. Provided solution to fellow consultants for balance data

conversions. Interface developed for Aetna Medical and Dental benefit

carrier.

Client: Impac Hotel Group(Lodgian), Atlanta, GA -- Performed Data

Conversions including HR/Payroll and Balances data independently which

includes coding all the related conversion API's. Also worked on the

custom time entry process that takes the hours from third party time

keeping system (Kronos) and passes to Oracle Payroll. Has been through

the full implementation cycle of the project provided technical solutions

for client during post-production support.

Implemented ADP Connections for several clients including e-loyalty

in Chicago, Loyola Marymount

University (LMU) in Los Angeles, CA by modifying Oracle delivered

ADP views to client specific requirements.

Provided Go live Support for client --Transworld, Tampa, FL with

Payroll Balances conversion Task.

Provided Postproduction support for Char-Broil, Columbus, GA with

Ceridian Payroll Interface and developed custom reports using custom

views and discoverer reports.

( The America's Registry Inc., (June' 96 - Mar'98).

Client: Lucent Technologies Inc., Greensboro, NC. (May'97 - Mar'98).

As a member of the Lucent Initiative GPS - HR (Global PeopleSoft

Solutions for Human Resources), project team, my responsibilities include

mapping Lucent's current HR/Compensation process flow to PeopleSoft 6.0

in Administer Variable Compensation. Involved in gathering business

requirements, perform gap analysis, and resolutions recommendation to

ensure integration with GPS-HR Project. Created/Modified Panels and

tested for the add-on functionality. Assembled Variable Compensation

Programs to the business process needs. Established eligibility rules in

Variable Compensation by setting up the criteria group members to include

in Award calculation and Incentive Pay Out. Worked extensively with

People Tools like Data Designer, Panel

Designer, Menu Designer and have acquired expertise in People Code.

(Environment: PeopleSoft 6.0/5.1, Oracle 7.3, Windows NT 4.0, SQR

report writer, UNIX SVR4)

* Client: AT & T HRISO, Greensboro, NC. (June' 96 - April'97).

Involved in the development, maintenance and analysis of application

COMP21 (Compensation Management for the 21st century).

COMP21 is a state-of-the art compensation management system that:

calculates employee contributions, allows payment of special awards,

calculates and creates Time-dependent Award records, and manage

organizational budget needs on-line. Responsibilities include the

generation of reports using C, C++ and Oracle PL/SQL, testing and

performance enhancement by tuning SQL, Unit testing the reports

generated, and system design documentation. Also assisted in writing the

shell scripts to use the source code control system effectively. Involved

in conducting walkthroughs with users and business analysts and

documenting the walkthroughs. Provided customer-support during the period

of merit-review pass and helped users how to use the system and trouble-

shooting the problems occurred. Represented the team on the study of the

degree of fit between the existing management compensation system and

PeopleSoft 6.0.

(Environment: Windows NT 4.0, Windows Telnet, X-Win32 V3.3, Unix SVR4,

Oracle 7.1, Pro *C, C++,

PL/SQL, SQL * Plus, SQL *Loader, Sablime-

Product Administration Tool, Remedy 2.0.)

Education:

. B.E. in Computer Enginering.

Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, INDIA.

Awards:

. Premier Recognition Award (Merial Highest achievement award in IS), in

recognition of outstanding contribution, commitment to Merial's values

and vision and have created a significant positive impact on the

company's ability to achieve its goals.

. Two Vital difference awards from internal customers (From Compensation

Team and IS Global Applications Leadership team) with Merial Limited.

. Leadership skills recognition award with Cummins Inc.

. Best performer award from KPIT Cummins for innovating new ideas to

improve quality and managing projects successfully with onsite-offshore

model.

Personal:

. Excellent written and oral communication skills.

. US citizen.

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