Project Manager

MANOJ KUMAR GUPTA

College: Bhopal University MP

Degree: Masters (Engineering)

Major: Operation Research, Computer Science

Work Status: US citizen

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Summary:

More than 22 years of Information Technology experience with nine+ years

of experience in manage, lead, design and development of full-cycle

implementations of SAP Human Capital Management.

. Strong proficient in SAP HR with experience work for public sector and

large international companies with provincial regulation (both union and

non-union).

1. Understaning of SAP HR system life cycle and change management for new

functionality implementation, support, and development

. Information technology professional for multi million private and

publicly held. 22 years of progressively responsible business and

technical experience. High level of skill in business process re-

engineering, automation, and implementing ERP and IT business solutions,

with a high level of customer satisfaction.

* Program/Project Development

* Risk Management/Security

* Departmental Operations/Budget

* Management of Local/Remote Staff

* Business Direction and Strategy

* IT Standards, Processes/Procedures

* Creating Motivated, Effective Teams

* ASAP and Software Development Methodology

* SAP Human Resource Module (Time, ESS, MSS, ORG Management,

Compensation)

* Full range of management responsibilities including hiring, training,

mentoring, and evaluating staff

* Extensively involved in Functional Testing, System Testing, Data

driven testing, Performance Testing, Regression Testing, Load testing,

User Acceptance testing of multiple applications on various

environments.

. Experience in SAP HR includes Time Management, Gross and Net Payroll,

Benefits and garnishments

. Implementing solutions for a broad range of issues involving all aspect

of SAP HR leveraging SAP functionality and designing advanced

customization to meet the business requirements for various agencies /

clients.

. Ability to contribute at all levels of project life cycle, including

requirements gathering, configuration, testing and post-implementation

support.

. Excellent SAP Lead experience in developing, conducting SAP workshops,

business assessments, technical assessments and project estimates.

. Excellent communication, teamwork and leadership skills with an emphasis

on providing excellent customer support, a commitment to produce high

quality work results.

. Skilled in creating transition documents for use by the end-user and

providing system training to facilitate the transition from

implementation to production with a dedication to best practices.

SAP Area of Experience:

Extensive project experience through several HR Implementations including

project planning, configuration, AS-IS and TO-BE modeling, re-engineering,

prototyping, modifications, interfacing, unit, integration and parallel

testing, assisting in functional and end-user training.

. Expert configuration knowledge of the SAP HR in the following areas:

o Configuring Org Assignment, Positions, Jobs, Time Management,

Payroll, Benefits, garnishments, and US tax models.

o Creating new primary Wage Types and configuring characteristics for

Wage types according to client's requirement for calculating

correct amount of Overtime, On call, Pre or post tax, disposable

net, Cumulating and Posting according to FLSA, State and Union.

o Configuring Earnings, Deduction, Benefits, Garnishment and US tax

wage Types.

o Configuration of ESS/MSS portal.

o Configuring negative and positive Time Schema includes writing PCRs

o Statement form configuration via form editor to display custom

values as required by the client for time and remuneration

statement.

o Configuring US Payroll schema to produce PY results following

overtime rules according to FLSA, State and active Union procedures

includes writing new PCRs

o Payroll results adjustment support includes year-end process,

advances and hiring Employees in mid of tax year from other states.

o Configuring Wage Types characteristics according to client's

Payroll requirements

o Payroll Integration with Time Management, Benefits, Garnishment,

Taxes, Deductions and Payments, and G/L posting run type (PP, PR

and PM).

o Configuring Tax, Benefit and garnishment models and integrating

with 3PR and BSI tax factory.

. Expert configuration knowledge of the Time Management, module in the

following areas:

. Holiday Calendars, Work schedules, Substitutions

o Attendances, Absences

o Availability, Shift Planning

o Absence Quotas

o Time Accounts, Time Statement

o CATS with labor distribution for Single and Multiple time entry

. Conducting Workshops and Training Sessions and developing BPP and

Functional documentation.

. Proficient in Organization Management, Personal Administration and e-

recruitment.

. Configuring different PA, OM, Benefits, Time Services for ESS and MSS.

. Good understanding of SAP system landscape, integration between SAP HR

and FI-CO modules.

. Good understanding organizational structures in SAP HR, infotype

organization.

. Good understanding parts of Payroll business processes and how it

corresponds to SAP HR Payroll include manage payroll related data in

infotype, retroactive payroll accounting, payroll control record

statuses, productive payroll run, data medium exchange of payroll to the

bank, payroll postings.

. Strong working knowledge of HR and Payroll processes including experience

with Payroll runs, Benefits, Personnel Areas, 401K, 457, W-2 processing

and Incentive Compensation.

. Excellent experience in debugging payroll calculation rules. Configured

functionality for prepaid deduction. Configured Outflow processes for

cross year taxable retro calculation.

. Excellent experience in ABAP debugging.

. Conducted SAP HR training workshop and post implementation support 24x7.

Education and Training:

MS (Engineering) in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

HR rules and policies effective in PA State Police for -

. Benefits and leave Administration

. Time Management, Classification

. Travel Allowances and expenses

. Workplace Violence, Performance Management/Labor Relations

. SEAP, Interviewing Tips and Techniques

SAP HR Configuration, Evaluation and Integration -

. OM and PA

. Time Management

. Gross Payroll

. Net payroll (Benefits, Garnishments, Recurring and Additional)

. ESS/MSS Portal

Comprehend client objectives, set targets and deadlines and deliver the

project on time within or below budget with highest quality.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions (Computer Consulting industry)

Consulting Manager - Global SAP/HCM

July 2010 - present (2 months)

TMR Management Group, Inc. (Privately Held; Computer Consulting

industry) Sr. Functional Consultant - SAP/HR

July 2002 - Jun 2010 (8 years)

Fortune 500 Systems Ltd (Privately Held; Computer

Consulting industry)

Sr. Software Engineer May 1999

- Jun 2002 (3 Years 2 months)

RapidIgm Inc ( Computer Consulting industry)

Sr. Software Engineer April 1997 - Apr

1999 (2 Years1 month)

Rose International (Privately Held; Computer

Consulting industry)

Sr. Analyst December 1996 - Mar 1997

(4 months)

UPDESCO Ltd., India (UP State Consulting

Corporation, India)

Jr. Manager (Systems) August 1987 - December 1996

(8 Years 5 months)

Project: Mentor Graphics, Wilsonville, OR Jul 2010 - Cont...

Description: Mentor Graphics has their offices in 31 countries and 21

States in USA. PA/OM/Benefits, ESS and MSS has been implemented

in SAP ECC 6.0 and Payroll is being processed thru ADP. Mentor

Graphics planned to implement PT module globally.

Implementation of SAP PT module is scheduled in phases for the

countries.

As a Consulting Manager - Global SAP - HCM, major

responsibilities are -

. Gathering daily work schedule, OT rules and absence quota

accrual rules from each office of Mentor Graphics.

. Preparing global blueprint includes current process, Gaps and

solutions to map all the different DWS, OT and accrual rules.

. Configuration to ensure approach to layout is logical to

support their Overtime determination rules, abs quota auto and

pro-rata rules, and defining OM-PA relationship. Defining HR

profiles and roles to pack security and authorization for users

and Managers to differentiate for each office.

. Customizing default values for HR features and customization of

Info Type menu

. Time entry on ESS thru CATS

. Time entry approval thru MSS

. Configuring Overtime generation rules for Saturday, Sunday and

Holiday premium, straight OT, 1.5 times, double OT and no OT by

splitting time entry into corresponding process type and

dropping them into corresponding column to map ADP interface

document.

. Including overtime rules per FLSA and depending on State CA,

and CO and country US and Canada OT rules.

. Configuring FTO Carryover and designing TE Schema and Rules for

Absence quota accrual and transfer.

. Configuration of default CATS entry and recommending

customization for Team calendar.

. Providing solutions for PA/OM/Benefits/ESS/MSS issues.

. Distributing HR issues to offshore team (Banglore, India),

suggesting solution process, verifying new configuration with

possible scenarios.

. Assisting ABAP consultants to customize HR reports and

interfaces.

Project: ConverTeam - RM, Minneapolis, MN Feb 2010 - May 2010

Description: Conver Team - RM, Minneapolis MN is a unit of ConverTeam,

Paris, France. This unit is involved in manufacturing devices

and motors for Power Conversion projects. After implementing SAP

- HR module successfully in their Pittsburgh and Canada units

they hired Manoj to Go-Live, HR module implementation for

Minneapolis, MN unit. HR module includes PA/OM/PT and CATS.

Manoj Successfully implemented SAP - HR modules Go-live on Mar

18, 2010.

As a Global SAP - HR consultant for Union and Non-Union payroll,

major responsibilities are -

. Gathering Enterprise, Payroll and Personnel structure for

Converteam -RM.

. Configuring Global OM/PA structure to avoid overlapping of

Projects existing for Pittsburg and Canada unit.

. Prepare new blueprint includes Gaps and solutions to map Union

and Non-union rules.

. Configuration to ensure approach to layout is logical to

support their Overtime determination rules, abs quota auto and

pro-rata rules, and defining OM-PA relationship to map

different rules for each office (Minneapolis, Pittsburgh and

Canada).

. Defining HR profiles and roles to pack security and

authorization for users and Managers to differentiate for each

office (Minneapolis, Pittsburgh and Canada).

. Customizing default values for HR features and customization of

Info Type menu

. Customizing RH_GET_MANAGER_ASSIGNMENT function and evaluation

path.

. Configuring Overtime generation rules for Saturday, Sunday and

Holiday premium, straight OT, 1.5 times, double OT and no OT by

splitting time entry into corresponding process type and

dropping them into corresponding column to map ADP interface

document.

. Configuring Vacation Carryover and Negotiated absence types and

designing TE Schema and Rules for Absence quota accrual and

transfer.

. Writing auto abs quota generation rules on 1st day of each year

following company policy based on seniority and to CAP maximum

200 hours.

. Writing pro-rata rules for ABS quota generation for new hire.

. Customizing additional extra vacation (Negotiated vacation)

process in hiring action and configuring generation and

deduction rules.

. Configuring On call / Payouts per incident in terms of amount

not in hour.

. Managing issues work progress thru Solution manager and writing

functional and technical specifications.

. Configuring default CATS entry and recommending customization

of CO 11 to Production orders with time hours.

. Distributing HR issues to offshore team (Chennai, India),

suggesting solution process, verifying new configuration with

possible scenarios.

. Assisting ABAP consultants to customize HR reports and

interfaces.

. Supporting ADP interface of uploading G/L data into SAP and

reversal when required.

. Making changes in training documents and imparting trainings to

Users.

Project: ConverTeam, Pittsburgh & Canada, PA Apr 2010 - Jan 2010

Description: Conver Team, Pittsburg PA implemented SAP 6.0 HR-

OM/PA/PT/CATS, FI, CO, PS, PM for managing Power Conversion

projects. After Go-Live, HR module implementation was not

successful. Manoj is hired to cleanup and reconfigure Converteam

- Pittsburg, US and Canada SAP HR module includes PA/OM/PT and

CATS.

As a Sr. SAP - HR consultant for US and Canada payroll, major

responsibilities are -

. Reviewing implemented HR configuration for US and Canada

office.

. Gathering Enterprise, Payroll and Personnel structure of

Converteam US and Canada.

. Prepare new blueprint includes Gaps and solutions.

. Configuration to ensure approach to layout is logical to

support their Overtime determination rules, abs quota auto and

pro-rata rules and defining OM-PA relationship.

. Defining HR profiles and roles to pack security and

authorization for users and Managers,

. Customizing default values for HR features and customization

Info Type menu

. Customizing RH_GET_MANAGER_ASSIGNMENT function and evaluation

path.

. Configuring Overtime generation rules for Sunday and Holiday

premium, straight OT, 1.5 times, double OT and no OT by

splitting time entry into corresponding process type and

dropping them into corresponding column of ADP interface

document.

. Configuring Vacation Carryover and Negotiated absence types and

designing TE Schema and Rules for Absence quota accrual and

transfer.

. Writing auto abs quota generation rules on 1st day of each year

following company policy to increment 4 hrs each year and to

CAP maximum 240 or 200 hours.

. Writing pro-rata rules for ABS quota generation on new hiring

process.

. Customizing additional extra vacation (Negotiated vacation)

process in hiring action and configuring generation and

deduction rules.

. Configuring On call / Payouts per incident in terms of amount

not in hour.

. Managing issues work progress thru Solution manager and writing

functional and technical specifications.

. Configuring default CATS entry and recommending customization

of CO to interfacing US and CANADA time hours.

. Distributing HR issues to offshore team (Chennai, India),

suggesting solution process, verifying new configuration with

possible scenarios.

. Supporting ADP interface of uploading G/L data into SAP and

reversal when required.

. Making changes in training documents and imparting trainings to

Users.

Project: Integrated Personnel System Sep 2008 - Mar 2009

Client: PA State Police (PSP)

Description: Currently HR system is designed on different environments

as selection process for Cadet/LEOT in Mapper and SQL server,

payroll in SAP 6.0 CWOPA ImaginePA and Transfer/posting in SQL

Server for managing the Employees in entire locations across

Pennsylvania. State Police agency is having problems to mange HR

system effectively in time due to scattered modules of HR on

different systems. To overcome the issues IPS project is

launched to integrate e-Recruitment and HR system to interface

with CWOPA ImaginePA. Special agency rules and policies are to

be processed prior interfacing data with state payroll system

ImaginePA to avoid delays in issuing correct salary in

employee's pay slip.

As a Sr. SAP HR - consultant, major responsibilities are:

. Review available schemas, subschemas and database modeling to

ensure approach to layout is logical to support IPS

Requirements.

. Evaluating AS-IS business processes of HR modules-Recruitment

and Personnel system in configuration to address the

requirements and to prepare proposed TO-BE process.

. Assists fellow IT technical team in defining business needs,

including application architecture and knowledge transfer as

required.

. Designing "TO-BE" documentation with ASAP methodology, business

process development, process flow charting and configuration

using MS Visio and project management using Aqua Logic.

. Quality Assurance review and/or new and existing product

evaluation responsibilities.

. Conducts research on best practices and industry/functional

trends as required.

. Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with

business contacts, IT departments, and vendors.

. Organizes and facilitates meetings/workshops where business

requirements and application objectives are articulated,

accurately captured and maintained/ distributed appropriately.

. Presenting project reviews with business sponsors at all phases

of a project to ensure project is on-track and to aid in

maintaining business support, involvement and acceptance.

. Prepares status reports and presentations for various types of

audiences and levels of management as required.

. Assesses complete project work schedule down to a detailed task

level and execute assigned tasks/ deliverables according to

defined timetable in a quality, detailed and timely fashion.

. Reviewing SAP HR nodes and process of ImaginePA to interface

with e-Recruitment and HR models of proposed IPS HR system with

the state payroll system ImaginePA ECC 6.0.

. Configuration to support the IPS HR System for new positions,

transfers and promotions, overtime, Worker's compensation,

death and benefits, and employment separation.

. Mapping of Special agency rules and policies are to be

processed prior interfacing data with state payroll system

ImaginePA to avoid delays in travel management.

Project: Atlas HR/PR March 2008 - Sep 2008

Client: Freemanco

Description: Freemanco is implementing SAP 6.0 HR, FI for managing the

Employees for 60 locations across US. As a part of

implementation project has been divided in Financial Accounting

in Release I go-live. For Release 2 Go-Live for HR including

Payroll, Time, Benefits, ESS, MSS. SAP Portal is being used as

front-end and XI is used for interfacing with various external

vendors and with Legacy systems. Freemanco has employee strength

of approximate 8000 employees in all the locations.

As a SAP - HR consultant, Major responsibilities are covered as

defined below -

. Customizing Payroll Schema to ensure approach to layout is

logical to support our Union and Non Union Requirements

. Provide feedback on complexity of maintenance going forward

. Defining Personnel Subareas (union contracts) covered in the

Payroll schema for payroll and union benefits

. Configure Benefit Area, open enrollment, default benefits

category and plan per union and FreemanCO benefit policies

. Review the configuration to support the payroll schema such as

T510. Working with payroll for Accruals, NRA, Benefits and

Garnishment Processing, and Posting to accounting process.

. Designed RPCIPE00 run thru splitter program RPCS000 and to

schedule RPCIPDEL on a regular basis to reduce the size of the

PPOIX table and to schedule RPCIPQ00 to reorganize the tables

PPOIX and PPOPX.

. Lead the team during business blue printing processes and

configure the system to address the requirements

. Conducted various internal trainings for SAP users

. Assist teams on other CCE projects in order to ensure

successful integration of SAP and non-SAP functionality

. Designing iViews and assistance in ESS/MSS process testing.

Project: lmaginePA - SAP HR Payroll

Managed Care module of Integrated Client Information System (iCIS)

Jul 2005 - Aug 2008

May 1999 - Jun 2004

Client: DPW (Dept of Public Welfare), Harrisburg, PA.

Description: Imagine PA is a centralized SAP HR/Payroll implementation

of CWOPA (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania). This is a public sector

project that covers HR system of all the 53 different agencies,

boards and commissions. As a functional consultant, configured

net payroll, Benefits, Garnishment and Taxes sub modules of HR-

Payroll system to include Union, State and Federal rules and

Policies.

iCIS is a state welfare system designed to provide TANF, GA,

CASH, Medical, LIHEAP and FS assistance to the eligible PA state

welfare residents. Healthcare module of iCIS covers Medicaid,

Medicare, Health Insurance Premium Payment Plan, AccessPlus,

Long Term Care, Facility Institution, Medical waiver and Third

party liabilities to provide food stamp, cash and medical

assistance to eligible PA residents per state and federal

welfare programs.

Role: As a Senior Consultant in SAP HR and State Managed Care

system

. Analyzed collective agreement related to time management

schedules, absences, presents, and quota vacations.

. Configured Payroll salary structures data, payroll grade system.

. Configured Benefit area, plan, type, cost evaluation, FSA

includes open, adjustment, auto and default enrollment, Catch

for 401K, Worker's compensation.

. Configured time schedules, absences, presents, and quota

deductions.

. Restructured Time Evaluation schema to better and more

efficiently handle quota rules for different divisions. These

changes also made it easier to identify processing in the Time

Evaluation Log.

. Configuration of ESS/MSS portal includes time entry, benefits,

personnel info types, T&E and remuneration statement.

. Configured time evaluation schema, created new time rules.

. Debugged Time Evaluation to determine the source of some unusual

errors.

. Analyzed collective agreement related to payroll accounting,

developed common specifications for payroll customization in

order to have one standard payroll schema to all other agencies

in Pennsylvania.

. Configured wage types, processing and evaluation classes, and

commutations.

. Configured payroll schema according to specifications.

. Configured periodic payroll run, bank transfer, posting to G/L,

3PR remittance and posting to payment.

. Provided post implementation supports include payroll schema

modifications, created new rules, key users support.

. Support agencies in test script development and in testing

requirements using UPERFORM tool to debug the test results and

verifying Schemas and PCRs.

. Worked cross-functionally with internal team as well as client

leads.

. Identify opportunities for process optimization and manage

resolution.

. Maintain documentation regarding potential anomalies and manage

resolution of production support issues.

. Facilitating problem-solving discussions with the HR and Managed

Care sections to determine the issues analyzing current business

processes and make recommendations as well as identifying

solution possibilities to resolve customer problems and satisfy

customer requirements.

. Strategic and tactical decision making in conjunction with the

State and County management.

. Communicating project status and issues at weekly status

meetings and monthly Executive Briefings.

. Systemized the findings based on technical and business

analysis.

. Conducting design reviews of major enhancements and quality

assurance reviews of project deliverables to enforce established

standards.

. Participate in feasibility analysis of new projects and

requirements; interpretation of State/Federal program and policy

regulations and arranging workshop to describe change management

system.

. Reviewed test results and report testing outcomes to management.

Project: Project Express (Remote) Sep 2004 - Apr '05

Client: NIIT

Description: NIIT is a US$ 270 million, SEI-CMM Level 5 global IT

Corporation actively involved in creating Software Solutions and

Learning Solutions for markets worldwide. NIIT has partnered

with Microsoft, Computer Associates, Red Hat, Oracle and Sun

Microsystems. It has trusted customers like British Airways,

Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft,

Macmillan, Oracle, Reuters, Sony, World Bank, Sun Microsystems

and Toshiba

As a SAP - HR functional consultant, Manoj is responsible for:

. Responsible for completing the SAP 4.5B HR implementation in

phase II for Express Project for configuration, interfaces, and

Reports.

. Configured tables, schemas, rules, and features for SAP HR

Payroll.

. Configured wage types, processing and evaluation classes, and

commutations.

. Configured valuating absences by averages.

. Configure and maintain settings in SAP R/3 for HCM, including

payroll processes such as garnishments, posting to G/L, third

party remittances, and taxes.

. Document applicable business processes and procedures in the

assigned areas.

. Develop end-user documentation and training materials.

. Develop detailed functional specifications for FRICE objects and

perform functional unit testing.

. Create test scripts and participate in integration testing with

appropriate end-user and technical groups.

. Manage and ensure comprehensive knowledge transfer of SAP skills

in the assigned area.

Project: Cardholder Management System. Apr 1997 - May 1999

Client: USSI, Carter Lake, IA.

Description: This project was involved in the customization of CMS

module of ATM software "TRANS/BASE-24" based on Bank's

requirements (First American Bank, Chicago, IL and AmSouth Bank,

Birmingham, AL).

Role: As a Global functional analyst was responsible to understand

business policies of the Bank to customize FI module per

customer's requirements, mapping databases and designing "TO BE"

process. Delivered the optimized system and conducting user's

training and providing 24/7 system support.

Project: Warehouse Management Dec 1996 - Mar 1997

Client: ANHEUSER BUSCH, MO

Platform: Visual Basic, MS-Access, Windows 95.

Description: The application shows current wholesaler warehouse

utilization and allows calculation of warehouse utilization

based on projected sales.

Role: Involved in system testing and modification of a Controlled

Environment Warehouse System for Anheuser-Busch.

Project: Computerization of the State Departments for HR Aug 1987 -

Dec 1996

Client: State agencies of India, UP, India.

Description: As a Technical advisor to State Government Manoj was

responsible to assist HR team in designing, development, testing,

and deployment and support to computer application system for

various state agencies.

Role: Responsible for system study, analysis and designing, configuring the

system, testing, and imparting training to the users and post

implementation maintenance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: UNISYS 2200/1100, IBM 3090, and Client-Server

Operating System: WINDOWS-98/2000/XP/NT, z/OS, 47R2, MVS-ESA 4.2,

UNIX, MS-DOS

DATABASES: Oracle, SQL Server 2000/2005, MS Access, DMS-2200 / RDMS,

MASM, DB2, IMS, VSAM.

Language: ABAP/4, SQL, PL/SQL, C, ESQL, Java, HTML, ACOB/UCOB,

TIP, SSG, ECL, JCL, QLP, COBOL (74, 84 and MF), ED/IPF/CFD,

Rlist, TSO/ISPF, ORACLE, FORTRAN, BASIC, Visual basic, DPS-

1100, Formgn, TIP, CICS, UniKix

SOFTWARE: SAP - HR ECC 6.0, Solution Manager, PASSPORT, TRANS24 / BASE

-24

CROSS APPLICATIONs: ALE, iDOCS, BDC, BDT, BAPI, LSMW, FTP and EDI.

GUI Tools/ SQL*PLUS, MySQL, Developer-2000, Sybase, Reports

2.5, Net Express, MS Office,

Utilities: FTP, TCP/IP, Aqua Logic, MS Project Manager, Visio, ATS, PCR

WEB: DHTML, ASP, PHP, VBScript, Jscript, IIS, XML

Other Tools: UPerform, EPI-USE, Photo Shop 5.5, Corel Draw 9.0,

GIF Animation, Expeditor, File-Aid, Endeavor, IQU+, PVCS

Version manager, Workbench, ODBC, OLTP

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