Process Management
Resume:
KIRAN KAMATH
PeopleSoft FSCM Functional Consultant
PeopleSoft Modules Summary
Experience Over 9+ Years of experience in the IT industry
INV (7.5/ 8.0/ 8.4/ including Fortune 500 and Big 4 Consulting.
8.8/ 8.9/ 9.0) Excellent Functional experience in Customization,
GL (7.5/ 8.0/ 8.4/ Implementation, Upgrade, Interface and administration
8.9/ 9.0) of PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management (OM, Inventory,
AP (7.5/ 8.0/ 8.4/ eProcurement, eSupplier Connection and Purchasing)
8.9/ 9.0) and Financials (AP, AR, BI, AM, GL, PC, Travel &
AR/ BI (7.5/ 8.0/ Expenses).
8.4/8.9/ 9.0) Involved in PS Upgrade team including Configuration,
AM (7.5/ 8.0/ 8.4/ Testing, System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
8.9/ 9.0) Worked with the business team and the development
Travel and Expense team to understand and redefine the needs in the
(8.0/ 8.4) upgrade process.
PO (7.5/ 8.0/ 8.4/ Experience in full life cycle implementations
8.9/ 9.0) (design, build, Configuration, test, implement).
eProcurement (9.0) Hands-On Professional Experience in Customization,
eSupplier Connection Conversion and upgrade of PeopleSoft Applications.
(9.0) Understand and make effective modifications to the
OM (7.5/ 8.4/ 8.8) modules that were affected during the upgrade
PC (8.4/ 8.9/ 9.0) process. Review current configuration and provide
recommendations to support the upgrade.
PeopleSoft Related Developed test plan strategy and test scripts
Experience involving good understanding of business process
Business Requirement flow. Worked with the end users and the technical
team to understand and provide the functional
Assessment expertise to best fit the current system in
Analysis PeopleSoft.
Design Worked with end users in various roles like involved
Configuration with requirements gathering, fit/gap analysis,
Customization configuration, design, software
Implementation customizations/modifications and testing. Strong
Upgrade communication skills, well organized, and able to
Testing work individually as well as in a group.
Support Extensively worked with PeopleTools such as
Training Application Designer, Application Engine, Integration
Maintenance Broker, Component Interface, Process Scheduler and
Query tools and worked on third party applications
Industry like HighJump.
Education Possess excellent communication skills and good zeal
Healthcare in adapting to new technologies.
Financial Services Committed to being an effective team player.
Energy
State Government Education
Services Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from University
Insurance of Bombay (Mumbai)
Advertising
Manufacturing Professional Experience
ERP Tools Corning Inc, Corning, NY
Application Designer Aug 2009 to Present
PeopleSoft FSCM (AP, AR, BI, GL, PO, INV, ePro,
Query (7.5 / 8.0 / eSupplier Connection, EX, AM, PC, OM, eSettlements)
8.9/ 9.0) Lead Functional Consultant for PeopleSoft
Data Mover/ Import Procure-to-Pay modules - INV/PO/AP. Corning
Mgr/ Incorporated, a Fortune 500 company, is a
Message Agent manufacturer of glass, ceramics and related
Workflow (7.5/ 8.0/ materials, primarily for industrial and scientific
8.9/ 9.0) applications. Corning's businesses are broken down
Process Scheduler and focused into five major sectors: Display
Tree Manager Technologies, Environmental Technologies, Life
Application Engine Sciences, Telecommunications and Specialty Materials.
Control M
Involved in system requirement gathering sessions.
Integration Tools Responsible for setting up the Consignment Inventory
Integration Broker Functionality for the various Corning plants in North
Component Interface America (Corning, Wilmington, Concord), France, Japan
Application (Shizuoka and Machida, Tokyo) and Taiwan.
Messaging Setup InterUnit and InterCompany Transfer
Business Interlink Functionality between the North American business
units and between the Japanese business units for
Reporting Tools Consigned Items.
SQR (Advanced) Establish self-service security for vendors in
Crystal Reports eSupplier connection.
PS Queries Created and dispatched the RFQ in PeopleSoft
nVision Purchasing using the eRFQ feature (eSupplier
connection) to facilitate realtime communications
Database between the buyer and supplier.
Oracle 8/ 8i/ 9/ 9i/ Configured the online POA (Purchase Order
10g Acknowledgements) business process in eSupplier
DB2 connection.
SQL Server 7.0/ Created worklist entries for the buyer to specify
2000/ 2003 which POs had not been acknowledged by the supplier
with a POA in eSupplier connection.
Operating System Led Module Design Sessions for Inventory especially
Windows 95/98/2K/XP in the Consignment Inventory functionality area and
Unix its impact on the day-to-day business activities.
Led Module Design Sessions for AP regarding impact of
Others voucher origins on the vouchers created for North
MS Project America, Japan, and Taiwan.
Visio Staged sales orders and intercompany transfers for BI
to account for transfer costs, currency changes,
Third Party taxes, and invoicing for the affected business units.
Applications
Maximo 6.2 Worked on the Voucher Build Process flow for the
source transactions : Quick Invoices and Consigned
Inventory Items.
Wrote queries to :
Mimic the Consigned Inventory report with additional
fields displayed such as Voucher ID, Accounting Date,
Receipt Number, Voucher Source, Vendor ID, and Vendor
Location which are not shown on the PeopleSoft
delivered report.
Mirror an Invoice that would be shared with Corning
suppliers for Consigned Items.
Display the on-hand quantities for both owned and
non-owned items with the storage areas for each item
along with their respective vendors.
Developed test scenarios/scripts and data
requirements for Consigned Inventory and InterUnit /
InterCompany transfers starting from item setup all
the way to confirming entries in GL to ascertain that
the consigned items have been consumed and costed.
Provided training documentation and conducted
intensive training sessions for super-users based in
North America, France, Japan, and Taiwan.
Environment: PeopleSoft 8.8
El Paso Corp., Houston, TX
Jan 2009 to July 2009
PeopleSoft FSCM (AP, AR, BI, GL, PO, INV, ePro,
eSupplier Connection, EX, AM, PC, OM)
Lead Functional Consultant for PeopleSoft modules -
GL/AP. El Paso Corporation, a Fortune 500 company,
provides natural gas and related energy products and
is one of North America's largest independent natural
gas producers.
Fit-Gap analysis of as-is processes.
Involved in defining Business Units for General
Ledger based on the business requirements.
Did the set up of Journal Entries.
Involved in creating Journals from accounting entries
using Journal Generator.
Customized the pages used to create Journal entries
and, Interunit and Intraunit Journal entries.
Defined Standard Journal Entries (SJEs) and involved
in setting up of Schedules.
Did the setting up to import spreadsheet journals.
Did the setup & configuration of Vendor, Items, Item
Category.
Setup AP Matching & tolerances and AP withholdings
for BU specific requirements.
Setup & configuration tax structure & tax
determination rules of BU specific requirements.
Setup & configure Accounts Payable for BU specific
requirements for depreciation.
Setup SETID, Chartfield, Allocations, Business Units,
Locations, Trees etc in GL.
Security Setup of roles, permission list, route
control profiles, user preferences etc.
Created a consolidated ledger that is a full General
Ledger, with all the associated audit and control
features.
Presented consolidated accounts as frequently
as needed depending on business requirement; for
example, monthly, quarterly or annually.
Consolidated transactions as often as needed within
each consolidation period.
Automatically created journals to handle rounding
differences that occured during consolidation.
Checked the status of the consolidation, confirming
which General Ledgers have been consolidated for
which periods.
Made final adjustments to the consolidated accounts
by posting journals to the consolidated General
Ledger.
Environment: PeopleSoft 9.0
JWT, New York, NY
Sep 2008 to Jan 2009
PeopleSoft FSCM (AP, INV, PO, AM, GL, PC, CA, BI, AR,
EX)
JWT is United States' largest and world's fourth
largest advertising agency. With nearly 10,000
employees worldwide and more than 200 offices in over
90 countries, JWT has over 1200 of the world's
popular brands as its clients. While at JWT, I was
assigned as a PeopleSoft Financial Functional Lead
Consultant (Accounts Payable, Inventory, Purchasing).
Central point of contact as the functional liaison
between end users and IT.
Resolution of issues related to configuration, set
up, security, chart fields, customizations,
combination rules, trees, queries, archived data, and
testing.
Coordinated integration setup and testing between the
FSCM modules.
Designed the Fit/Gap Matrix of the INV/PO/AP modules.
Created the functional design documents for the
INV/PO/AP modules.
Setup AP Matching & tolerances and AP withholdings
for BU specific requirements.
Setup & configuration tax structure & tax
determination rules of BU specific requirements.
Setup & configure Accounts Payable for BU specific
requirements for depreciation.
Security Setup of roles, permission list, route
control profiles, user preferences etc.
Established PO business units, approval rules, and
purchasing options.
Prepared PO value-added tax (VAT) environments.
Defined PO item categories and item attributes.
Updated item vendor unit of measure conversion rates.
Captured item miscellaneous charges.
Matched vouchers with all purchase order and receiver
details, and generated payments without waiting for
invoices, using the Evaluated Receipt Settlement
matching process
Responsible for designing the security for the
following functional modules: AP, INV, PO, AM, GL,
PC, CA, BI, AR, and EX.
Designed the Batch Processes Scheduling for the AP,
INV, PO, AM, GL, PC, CA, BI, AR, and EX modules.
Created the test scripts for Functional Unit Testing
of the INV/PO/AP modules.
Responsible for change requests and testing as a
result of changes.
Developed power user group through involvement in
research feedback, training, testing, and by meeting
the IT group.
Wrote and implemented detailed test scripts for
delivered functionality and all customizations
including INV/PO/AP processing.
Coordinated system testing. Tracked and reported
issues discovered in testing and provided hands on
support with trouble shooting of all issues.
Documented issue tracking using customer issue
tracking database and created data conversion
templates for INV/PO/AP tables.
Environment: PeopleSoft 9.0
Holy Redeemer Health System (HRHS), Philadelphia, PA
Mar 2008 to Aug 2008
PeopleSoft FSCM (INV, PO, ePro, AP, AR, GL, BI, AM,
Contracts, Projects)
Working as a Procure to Pay Functional Lead
Consultant on a PeopleSoft 9.0 Implementation team.
Responsible for day-to-day operations of PeopleSoft,
troubleshooting, reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating
the PeopleSoft business systems user needs. Engaged
in systems requirements including customized
elimination, definition testing, implementation,
support and documentation.
Engaged in systems requirements including customized
elimination, definition testing, implementation,
support and documentation.
Developed test scenarios and data requirements for
Inventory, eProcurement / Purchasing, and AP and
coordinated multiple testing iterations to confirm
client's business requirements have been met and
documented the same.
Setup the GHX Dispatch node and added EDX as dispatch
method in Purchasing on GHX Vendors.
Purchase Orders were configured correctly to be
dispatched to supplier using either Print/
Fax/EDX/Phone/Email in Purchasing..
Setup Build Inventory Demand, PO_Calc, PO_Create, and
Sourcing Workbench in Purchasing.
Designed the Budget checking functionality into the
PO system to be run in a "batch" mode via the Process
Scheduler.
Setup Vendor Controls and created Vendor Profiles in
eProcurement.
Responsible for creating/maintaining Item Catalogs
and setup Users for eProcurement.
Setup Workflow Approval in eProcurement for the HRHS
Business Units.
Setup Direct Connect for eProcurement requisition
users to interact directly with supplier (Dell)
website to create requisitions.
Setup and created Change Orders in eProcurement.
Performed a physical inventory of selected fixed
assets and reviewed fixed asset retire/disposal
records to determine whether the fixed asset records
in PeopleSoft were accurate. Findings and
recommendations were then submitted to the client.
Setup Demand Priority Rules and created Item Groups,
Item Families, and Utilization Types for the INV
module. Cost Elements for INV were setup as well.
Determined Replenishment Options and setup the
Fulfillment Engine in INV.
Analyzed, designed and implemented the modifications
for the Replenishment process in Inventory.
Worked on the data validation of the Test Moves for
Inventory team.
Involved in the setting up of the Reason Codes and
Cycle Counts in the Inventory Module.
Reviewed the GHX file with HRHS and involved in
performing Vendor conversion mappings.
Analyzed the ESI-PS data requirements for Items
conversion, par location conversion, inventory
storage location load, and inventory balance
conversion.
Manufacturers & Items were created or updated in
PeopleSoft and published to Maximo via EAI
(Enterprise Application Integration).
Utilized the Materials Management functionality for
recording all transactions, thus allowing for
real-time knowledge of Materials status.
Led Module Design Sessions for Inventory which
included Storage structure design, Par location
maintenance, Stock item receipt and Putaway, Order
entry, Reservations and Order release, Picking and
Confirmations, Inventory replenishment, and Par
counts and Replenishment.
Developed test scenarios and data requirements for
Inventory and eProcurement / Purchasing.
Ran Configuration Load scripts, reviewed/validated
converted data, and performed manual updates to
converted data as required in Deploy phase of the
project.
Coordinated multiple testing iterations to confirm
client's business requirements have been met and
documented the same.
Conducted intensive training sessions for the
Materials Management personnel. Provided training
documentation and classes designed to develop
self-reliance in the use of technology.
Resolved application issues for core Materials
Management business users in Purchasing, Materials
Management Administration, Inventory, Warehouse,
Receiving stations on PeopleSoft Inventory,
Purchasing, eProcurement modules and associated third
party application (Maximo).
Worked with Core materials management users and
technology team in change management of technical and
functional changes/ modifications/ configuration/
set-up of eProcurement, Purchasing and Inventory
modules in PeopleSoft application.
Completion of the tutorial was recorded and user was
granted security access based on satisfactory
completion.
Assisted in Security Administration including
application/ module security validation
Environment: PeopleSoft 9.0
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
May 2007 to Feb 2008
PeopleSoft FSCM (GL, AP, AR, PC, INV, BI, PO)
Assigned as a Sr. Functional consultant during
upgrade from 8.4 to 8.9. Pre-implementation tasks
included business process analysis, requirements
gathering, identifying interfaces and customization
needs, developing project manpower and cost levels,
defining implementation methodology and creating
project plans.
Created user profiles, Roles and permission lists for
security according to requirements. Established row
level and field level security to necessary
components.
Defined core tables, created Accounting Entry
templates and confirmed Vendor Numbering in AP
module.
Set up Sales and Use Tax options in AP module. Also,
responsible for establishing Contract Set controls.
Defined Contract/Vendor control options; Set up
Vendors and Vendor withholding for the AP module.
Utilized Journal Generator to create Journal Entries
from Accounts Payable Accounting Entries.
Created the "MASTER" Business Calendar was created in
AP. The Business Calendar and specific bank holidays
was validated for system check payment.
Used the delivered Match Rules in Match Rule Control
(AP) to support the University's business rules of
3-way matching.
The bank ID, routing numbers, bank account numbers,
payment forms, etc. were populated in the External
Bank Account panel.
Loaded the MICR fonts for the AP Crystal Check. The
font and signature were configured and
tested. Coordinated with Wachovia and Bank of America
regarding the Check Template and check validation/
testing.
AP check printer issues were resolved. Payables BU's
were configured for effective internal control during
the matching process. Created several Pay Cycles for
various banks and BU's
Setup chartfield and depreciation data for leased
assets.
Created the Composite Assets Ids, Composite Member
Ids, and Profile Ids.
Performed inventory reconciliation in PeopleSoft
Asset Management to identify and resolve duplicate
entries (tags and serials).
Extracted data from the PeopleSoft Asset Management
tables to process physical inventory for an asset
using the Physical Inventory process
(Load/Match/Reconcile PI Info).
Loaded composite asset transactions using the
Transaction Loader process.
Retired composite members from their associated
composite assets using the Mass Change Template CR -
Composite Retirement.
Added capital lease assets and updated lease
information.
Updated the contact and vendor information for
operating lease with new lease terms.
Used the Transaction Loader process to integrate
information from PO and AP and populate the AM
tables.
Resolved Inventory module issues related to negative
reserved quantities. Client had ongoing problem with
reserved quantities being negative. Identified source
of this problem and worked with Technical team to
correct it.
Developed and prepared test plan/scripts for Unit
testing, System Testing, Integration Testing and User
Acceptance Testing, Issue Tracking and resolutions.
Conducted System tests for release to production,
code migration between Development, Test and
Production environments.
Resolved all the defects that were opened during
system and user acceptance testing.
Trained the users in PO, INV, and AP modules.
Assisted with troubleshooting issues that occurred
during day to day processing and trained end users.
Environment: PeopleSoft 8.4/8.9
Oceaneering (OII), Houston, Texas
January 2007 to May 2007
PeopleSoft FSCM (GL, AP, AR, BI, PO, ePro, OM, INV,
Travel & Expense)
This project was an Implementation of PeopleSoft 8.9
modules.
Worked with users to identify customizations to
Billing & EDI process and created functional
specifications for the technical team to implement
Designed Billing Business Unit, Configured the System
Setup, Bill Entry types, Generating Invoices, Loading
Receivables, GL Journals, Billing Processes like Non
Consolidated Single Action for Generating Invoices.
Analyzed current Billing system and configured it to
be more efficient for users in processing invoices
using billing default hierarchy and table set
controls.
Extensively involved in setting up Bill entry express
templates, print options to generate Crystal
invoices, and deferred revenue accounting.
Responsible for day-to-day billing issues involving
adjusting bills, copying, generating invoices, and
interfaces.
Set up procedures for change orders, and set up
return to vendor procedures for eProcurement.
Identified the approval workflow process and
configured email approvals for eProcurement.
Used Order Management (OM) to invoice the customer
for the goods received and to retrieve the inventory
shipping information that appears on reports.
Working with Production Support and resolved issues
related to Journals entries, combo edit, Allocations,
commitment control and month end closing.
Involved in developing new combo rules, testing,
migrate to PROD and monitoring any issues during
month end closing.
Worked with Query manager for developing new queries
and customizing delivered queries for Ledger output
account reports.
Worked with Excel upload, Journal creation and
resolved issues on Journal processing.
Prepared Configuration document which includes (EX
Business Unit, Journal generator templates, Expenses
option and expenses definition).
Prepared Expense types chartfield mapping document.
Involved in the configuration of Credit Card
processing in PS EX Module.
Worked with journal approval workflow process and
resolve issues with initiator and approver to ensure
journal approved as per work flow setup.
Developed test cases and scenarios for AR, BI and GL
applications.
Tested converted data and participated in coming up
with the conversion strategy.
Executed unit, integration, system, UAT and
regression testing.
Developed job aids and walked the client through
business processes for AR, BI and AP systems.
Developed reports to track testing progress.
Assisted with troubleshooting issues that occurred
during day to day processing and trained end users.
Provided training documentation and classes designed
to develop self-reliance in the use of technology.
Environment: PeopleSoft 8.9
DowJones, South Brunswick, New Jersey
June 2006 to November 2006
PeopleSoft FSCM (GL, AP, AR, BI, PO, AM )
Dow Jones & Company is an American publishing and
financial information firm primarily catering to
business customers. Its products combine content and
technology tools to help drive decisions. Major
brands include Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones
Factiva, Dow Jones Indexes, Dow Jones Client
Solutions and Dow Jones Financial Information
Services. As a Functional Consultant, I was involved
in an Implementation of PeopleSoft 8.9 on GL, AP, PO,
AR/BI modules
Gathering requirements and creating business process
models based on client requirements.
Completed full life-cycle with Fit Gap analysis,
Business Processes reengineering, Designing,
Developing, Testing and Post Production Support
Worked on the requirements gathering for the
interfaces in GL, AP, AR, PO, AM & BI modules.
Prepared the Detail Design Documents for the
interfaces in GL, AP, AR, AM & BI modules. This
involved mapping the legacy systems values with that
of PeopleSoft system. Also wrote various Test
scenarios for these interfaces in these documents.
ADB Detail Ledgers and Ledger Groups were setup. Also
defined the interrelationship of ledgers and
ChartFields used in ADB to process average balances.
Created and processed Average Daily Balance (ADB).
Configured system Setup and Receivables Processes
like Payment Predictor, AR UPDATE, Aging, Statements,
Condition Monitor and Over due Processing.
Setup & configure Billing & AR for BU specific
requirements of Sales Tax.
Worked with Payment Predictor Processing Options,
Credit Management and Generating Customer Statements.
Setup the full lease management functionality to
calculate and print lease payment schedules, retire
and reinstate leased assets, and track interim rent
payments.
Reviewed and selected retirement transactions in the
Asset Management INTFC_FIN and INTFC_PHY_A tables by
running the AMRETFDA process. The retirement
transaction was then completed using the Transaction
Loader process (AMIF1000).
Cost and Depreciation reports were created using the
Load Depreciation Reporting table process (AMDPREPT)
on a monthly basis.
Worked with enhancements, participate in structured
functional walkthroughs and reviews.
Testing functionality of fixes following the
appropriate migration path from Development to UAT
and then to Production by preparing Migration
Documents and necessary approvals.
Worked with super users, technical analysts, Database
Administrators to identify production issues, trouble
shooting to resolve the issues.
Finalized functional specifications with super users
for customizations and enhancements in the processes.
Worked with super users and technical analysts on
process streamlining and process performance of
ARUPDATE, Condition Monitor, Payment predictor, over
due charge, aging and other processes.
Responsible for submission and tracking issues/cases
logged with users and follow up with support team to
resolve the issue and record the fix.
Developed Queries for customer information reports to
generate for the client and migrated to Production
after approvals.
Coordinated multiple testing iterations to confirm
client's business requirements have been met
Trouble shooting and issue resolutions for post
production support
Worked with go live issues and post production
support issues by optimizing performance,
streamlining processes, providing timely follow-up on
issues.
Environment: PeopleSoft 8.9
Spectra Energy, Houston, Texas
February 2006 to May 2006
PeopleSoft 8.9 (GL, PO, INV, ePro, AM, Cost
Management, Time and Labor)
Spectra Energy is a S&P 500 company headquartered in
Houston, Texas, that operates in three key areas of
the natural gas industry: transmission and storage,
distribution, and gathering and processing. Spectra
owns the Texas Eastern Pipeline (TETCo), a major
natural gas pipeline which brings gas from the Gulf
of Mexico coast in Texas to the New York City area.
It is one of the largest pipeline systems in the
United States. While at Spectra Energy, I was
involved in an Upgrade of PeopleSoft from v8.0 to
v8.9.
Performed the FIT/GAP analysis from PeopleSoft
version 8.0 to 8.9.
Gathered requirements for acquired company and
obtained user sign-off for functional specs.
Loaded results into the PeopleSoft Asset Management
tables using the Transaction Loader process
(AMIF1000) after the Composite Asset mass change
process was run.
Calculated the gain or loss amount by running the
Depreciation Calculation process (AM_DEPR_CALC) for
the retiring asset.
Ran the Asset Restore (AM_CD_RESTO) Application
Engine process to copy data stored in the archive
tables back to the application tables.
Used the Asset Allocation process (AMALLOC) to create
accounting entries (AM_AMAEDIST) and close
depreciation (AM_DPCLOSE).
Setup AM interface for the transaction that are
entered in the PO/AP module and coded to the
inventory account range flagged and routed to the AM
module.
Analyzed designed and modified PO_REQLOAD AppEngine
process to suit the clients requirement.
Suggested and implemented the modifications to the
Express Issue and MSR components to suit the clients
requirement using PeopleCode.
Worked on the data validation of the Test Moves for
Inventory team.
Designed the modifications for the Journal Generator
(AppEngine) to process the Payroll Journals according
to the clients requirement.
Designed the modifications for the Summary Ledger
(AppEngine) process to process period 999 data.
Analyzed and designed the modifications to the
Journal Entry Page and modified the PeopleCode to
suit the clients requirement.
Designed an audit review page where managers can
approve delinquently reported time and after-the-fact
changes to reported time.
Designed custom rules for the Time Administration
process and applied Time and Labor bundles and tax
updates.
Set up Dell and CompuCom as Direct Connect Catalogs
for eProcurement.
Established Users and Roles for eProcurement.
Participated in the Upgrade Assistant process.
Used Quest Stat for Object locking and migration.
Closely involved with the DBAs and the Admin teams in
supporting and maintaining the application.
As a day-to-day routine provided support to the users
and knowledge transfer to users.
Tested custom interfaces and developed test cases and
test plans for system and UAT testing.
Created test scripts in Quality Center (a.k.a Test
Director) and managed testing efforts.
Environment: PeopleSoft 8.9
Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, Ohio
April 2005 to January 2006
PeopleSoft FSCM (GL, AP, AR, BI, PO, OM, PC)
This project was a new implementation. Responsible
for directing the design, requirements gathering,
configuration, testing and support of the GL, BI and
AR modules
Involved in collecting the client requirements,
suggested fit and gaps and documented for the new
implementation. This included a business process
analysis of requirements with respect to
functionality for GL, OM, BI, Project Costing, and
AR.
Managed the implementation of PeopleSoft 8.8 AP, GL,
Project Costing, BI and AR modules. Initial
responsibilities included: analysis of the current
modifications, requirements gathering, and system
re-design.
Designed and successfully completed three integration
cycles between GL, BI, and AR modules.
Created functional design documents for developing
gap solutions and also assisted developers in
building the program logic.
Automated installment billing process from CRM to
FSCM with deferred revenue calculation. Suggested
ORACLE GL feed customization etc.
Configured complete GL module with custom account
numbers, ledger and build the combo data etc.
Configured BI and AR modules.
Developed complex queries to run through Query
Manager for report reconciliation using PS Query and
also to use in Crystal and nVision reports.
Involved in SIT testing and QA testing and involved
in giving user training. This included co-ordination
and execution of test scripts to validate security
setup.
Managed 4 cycles of system testing and prepared a
detailed cutover plan.
Environment: PeopleSoft 8.8
Harcourt Inc., Orlando, Florida
September 2004 to March 2005
PeopleSoft FSCM (GL, AP, AR, PO, INV)
This project was a PeopleSoft Upgrade from Version
8.4 to Version 8.8.
Involved in solving commitment control processing
issues.
Actively involved in designing and configuring
Inventory system and resolved major production issues
and batch process problems in inventory module.
Compared report analysis, functional configuration
and fit/gap analysis, conversion, re-applying
customization, running SQL & DMS scripts etc..
For IRS reporting, configured and setup system for
1099 processing.
Designed and developed multi level approval workflow
process for requisitions, purchase order and for
material stock request etc. and suggested
modification for dispatch process(popo005),
requisition print report etc.
Conducted three phases of testing (including
facilitating, creating scenarios, writing test
scripts, guiding and reviewing end-user testing).
Trained SME's, end-users and created training
simulations and documentation.
Provided post implementation support, identified
issues and testing resolutions.
Environment: PeopleSoft 8.4/8.8
Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida
January 2004 to August 2004
PeopleSoft FSCM (GL, AM, AR, BI, INV, PO, OM, Cost
Management)
This project was an upgrade from PeopleSoft Version
7.5 to Version 8.4.
Ran Compare reports, identified gaps, developed
Mapping Documents on Fixes and required
customizations.
Developed functional DDDs on customizations, fixes on
replacing SQR interfaces with App Engine programs for
reading and writing files from different sources like
vendors and Banks.
Developed scripts on data conversion from Informix to
Oracle 9.i and did conversion of data from source to
target database for GL, AR, AM, Inventory, OM and
Cost Management modules.
Did Mapping on 7.5 data fields with 8.4 data fields
and created new data objects where ever is required
and developed detailed mapping document for data
conversion
Worked with Technical team in migration of upgrade
projects from Development to Test environment and
then to Production after UAT
Worked on Documentum, developed and modified
different detailed technical documentation and
involved in implementation of Fixes.
Created several tree structures, trees, matrix
layouts, time spans, tree based scope definitions,
report requests and queries to be used in nVision
layouts and involved in online support in various
stages of development through Production environments
for nVision reporting.
Generated nVision Reports using Matrix and Tabular
Layouts in GL.
Developed Reports per client needs in Inventory and
migrated to 8.4 testing environment.
Environment: PeopleSoft 7.5/8.4
State of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana
August 2002 to October 2003
PeopleSoft FSCM (AR, BI, INV, OM)
This project was a PeopleSoft Upgrade from Version
7.5 to Version 8.0. It also involved designing,
developing, testing and maintaining the Financial
modules (BI, AR, INV, OM)
Configured and tested Order Management- Billing
Interface, requisitions, and purchase orders
functionalities.
Involved in configuring, testing and documenting
various Order Management processes.
Performed fit/gap analysis to identify proper product
pricing structure that worked for the client and was
involved in necessary setups needed to implement
price lists.
Worked extensively with project management team on
Project Scope, Roles and responsibility and
deliverable document and milestone set up for every
stage of project .
Involved in setting up new Inventory warehouses, and
all related setups needed to go live. Developed user
documentation for Stock Request and Putaway process,
designed functional specification for technical
customizations.
Effectively communicated business requirements,
functional designs, conceptual solutions, functional
specifications to PeopleSoft Technical team.
Implemented Buying agreement in Order Management
module. Worked with users to demonstrate this
functionality, document processing steps and
configured OM module for users to start using this
functionality.
Designed and implemented credit card processing for
sales orders and worked with third party merchant
software to integrate with PeopleSoft.
Environment: PeopleSoft 7.5/8.0
Houston Community College, Houston, Texas
April 2002 to July 2002
PeopleSoft FSCM (BI, INV, PO)
Set up & Configured PO, INV Control table data
according to table set-up sequence (Vendors,
Customers, Business unit, Items, etc).
Designed and documented Billing business processes,
established policies and procedures.
Involved in Preparation & refinement of design
documents (Functional Specification and Technical
Specification), preparation of approach documents,
screen content tables, impact analysis reports.
Designed and developed test cases, test plans, test
strategy to perform System, Integration testing and
UAT.
Effectively communicated with Users and development
team. Primary point of contact for business
community, system sponsors and power users.
Provided functional specifications for customized
reports required for the acquired business.
Interacted with application users, gathered
functional requirements during fit/gap analysis and
involved in analyzing organizational concepts and
mapping the existing PO process to PeopleSoft PO.
Environment: PeopleSoft 8.0
SMS Technologies, Mumbai (Bombay), India
August 1999 to March 2002
Involved in Design, Analysis and Development of
People Soft Involved in development of new nVision
and SQR Reports/Processes/Interfaces.
Involved in customization of existing SQR's, Panels,
And Records.
Developed and Modified People Code for various
validations as required by the end user.
Developed new queries using PS/Query to replace some
delivered SQR's.
Modified custom People Code to meet upgrade
requirements.
Created, Modified and tested reports using Crystal
Reports and nVision.
Customized Record definitions, Pages, Components and
Process Definitions for running the SQR's online
through Process Scheduler.
Involved in analyzing end user requirements by
conducting review meetings
Upgraded the system from People Soft 7.0 to People
Soft 7.5. Production Support Activities.
Maintain and trouble shoot People Soft database,
Programming in SQL, SQR and User support
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