Project Management
Resume:
From: PUNEET VARMA
Seeking Position: Project Mgr Application Dev
Job Reference No
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City: TORONTO
Country: CANADA
Telephone (Day): 416-***-****
Telephone (Eve): 416-***-****
Special Instr.:
Hi,
I feel I have a very strong case for the subject position for the following reasons:
1. Out of the total 12 years of technical experience, I have 10 years of experience in IT consultancy 8 years in oracle and unix, 5 years in ERP and 2 years in web technologies.
2. I have diversified experience with very prestigious clients that have successfully implemented and maintained ERP implementations.
3. I have an international Masters degree in business management
4. I am PMP Certified. I have two certifications: I am oracle certified database administrator and SUN certified system administrator.
5. I have sustained experience with a domain of technologies-
Oracle 7.x to 9i; Peopletools: 7.x to 8.4x; Sun Solaris: 6.x to 9.x
PeopleSoft Applications: HCM, HRMS, Financials, CRM, EPM
6. 5 years of quality project management experience in some of best competitive environments.
7. Experience of working with 2 BIG 5- IBM, ERNST & YOUNG.
Enclosed, please find my resume for your perusal for the above position.
Many thanks.
Best regards,
Puneet Varma
Puneet Varma ERP/PeopleSoft/Oracle/Unix/Web
OBJECTIVE:
To work for a caring and professionally competent company which can offer me a friendly and encouraging atmosphere to stay motivated and bring the best out of my skill sets.
SALIENT FEATURES:
- Ex PeopleSoft Employee. Have leaded a team of consultants in PeopleSoft e-center and have
handled 42 clients.
- Operate in all the 5 layers: PeopleSoft, middleware (weblogic, websphere), RDBMS (Oracle),
and platform (UNIX/WINDOWS), Business Intelligence tools.
- Experienced with 5 Implementation projects- 2 of them being IBM Projects.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- Certified: duel certified as Oracle database administrator and sun solaris system
administrator.
- Good contacts: Excellent contacts with PeopleSoft, Oracle, BEA consultants at the support
center.
SUMMARY:
- 10 years experience in IT Industry mainly into PeopleSoft Database Administration,
PeopleSoft Techno-Functional, Oracle Database Administration, UNIX System
Administration, Business Intelligence.
- 12 years of total technical work experience in the field of Information Technology, Access
Network, Manufacturing and Automation, Logistics, and Quality Assurance.
- Sustained experience with a domain of technologies-
Oracle 7.x to 9i; Peopletools: 7.x to 8.4x; Sun Solaris: 6.x to 9.x, AIX, HP-UX
PeopleSoft Applications: Student Admin, HCM, HRMS, Financials, CRM, EPM
PROFESSIONAL IT EXPERIENCE:
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION- ALLEN
-BRADLEY CANADA
Project Lead: PeopleSoft/Oracle
APR 04 ONWARDS
VISTEON/FORD MOTOR CO./IBM GERMANY/UK
Project Lead: PeopleSoft Techno-Functional/DBA
OCT 03
- APR 04
ABN Amro Bank SINGAPORE
Project Lead: PeopleSoft Techno-Functional/DBA
MAY 03
- OCT 03
PEOPLESOFT e-CENTER USA
Team Lead: PeopleSoft Techno-Functional/DBA
AUG 02
- MAY 03
ERNST & YOUNG CANADA
Project Lead - PeopleSoft/ORACLE
JUN 01
- AUG 02University of Michigan
USA
Sr. Consultant
SEP 96
- JUN 01GIBCA GROUP LTD
. U.A.E
Engineer
- Access Network Equipment
DEC 94
- SEP 96
STERLITE IND. (I
) LTD. INDIA
Engineer - Production, Planning & Control
JUN 93
- DEC 94
** Unilever, Visteon/Ford Motor Co., Rockwell Automation were contractual positions through my own incorporated company- Canadian PeopleSoft Consulting. I do not have any specific preferences between permanent positions and contractual positions.
CERTIFICATIONS:
- Oracle Certified Professional Database Administrator
- SUN Solaris System Administration for Solaris Operating Environment
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- ISO 9001 Auditors Certification from AIB Vincotte, Belgium
- Brainbench certification on Peoplesoft Peopletools
ENGAGEMENT OVERVIEW
Project: Rockwell Automation
Role: Project Lead
PeopoleSoft Implementations: 8.4X FINANCIALS, 8.8X HCM, 7.5X HRMS; DATABSE: ORACLE 9I WITH RAC; PLATFORM: SUN SOLARIS 9.X
Project Management:
- Coordinate the organization of project activities ensuring that projects are completed on time
and within budget constraints.
- Successfully managed a number of projects simultaneously.
- Act as the primary liaison between all team members assigned to a project, IT and business
- Coordinated all aspects of project delivery including defining project scope, specifying
deliverables, estimating project duration, effort and cost, managing project budget, creating
detailed project plans and managing change requests.
- Ensure project success by driving day-to-day operations through the application of sound
project management principles and methodologies. Maintain regular communications with
active team and business stakeholders to ensure necessary and appropriate steps are taken
to resolve difficulties, which may impede progress or compromise achievement of projects
objectives.
- Maintain a detailed status, activities and issues reports on each project to present to IT
Managers and major project stakeholders.
- Ensure that each project team has established meaningful, key metrics that properly reflect
the performance of the team and indicates progress towards objectives.
- Make recommendations on project prioritization.
- Provide feedback to IT managers from a post completion analysis of all projects.
- Work with the PM Team to define and update standards and processes and contribute
continuous improvements within the team.
PeopleSoft & Oracle: Resolving the following chronic problems:
- Frequent application server crashes
- Process scheduler crashes
- Contingency management for application server crashes
- Infrastructure auditing
- Performance and tuning of many old processes
- Peopletools I & II certified.
Other PeopleSoft/Oracle Duties:
- Upgrading the PeopleSoft financials Peopletools from 8.1X to 8.44.
- Administration of PeopleSoft Security. Project Migrations
- Applying Patches and Fixes provided by PeopleSoft.
- Administering the Application Server- Tuxedo (8.x), Web Server- Weblogic (8.x)/Websphere
and Process Schedular.
- Database Refreshes, Maintaining Backups (Oracle)
- Unix Shell scrips, Triggers for process automation.
- Performance and Tuning at PeopleSoft, Oracle and Unix level.
- Development work: Application Engine programs, Component Interface, Integration Broker.
- Working with PeopleCode, PeopleTools, AppEngine, SQR, SQL, Crystal Reports
Project: Visteon (Ford Motor Co.)(An IBM Project)
Role: Project Lead
The project (spread around in 5 European countries - Germany, England, France, Spain, and Portugal) is about data conversion, data migration and live interfaces for data exchange. It involves PIA Architecture implementation, transferring data from legacy systems into the new PeopleSoft implementation, building live interfaces with financial (Ceridian) and time-keeping (Kronos) systems.
Project Management:
- Work with stakeholders to document a vision/scope document for use in project kickoff.
- Project Plan & Work Breakdown Structure development and management - work with
stakeholders to build and maintain current task plan and schedule.
- Report schedule issues & risks as they are identified.
- Track project spending and forecast to budget - maintain detailed resource plan.
- Track monthly charges to determine accruals.
- Update and maintain forecast and communicate issues & risks.
- Track issues/risks & drive closure - maintain issues and risks lists with clearly identified
actions/owners/dates.
- Quickly communicate critical path issues/risks and assist with driving closure through the
stakeholder community.
- Establish and manage change control processes.
- Project administration including status reporting, meeting management/minutes, and
documentation publication.
- Business requirements documentation - Working with product managers and key
stakeholders, document systems business requirements.
- Ensure stakeholder engagement in requirements input and review
- Facilitate documentation review sessions with all stakeholders. Capture and resolve inputs
and issues.
- Facilitate documentation signoff by all key stakeholders - identify stakeholders with signoff
authority, establish meetings and facilitate signoff process
Technical Hands-on Involvement: PeopleSoft Development, DBA, & Architect
- Architect for the PIA
- Hardware Design: Capacity of the Servers, Hard disk, Memory, Processors
- OS Design: Kernel parameters- Semaphores, Shared Memory, Message Queues
- Tools used: Peopletools 8.44.05, Oracle 8.1.7
- SQL*Loader, DB Links
- Data Conversion: Using File Layouts, Component Interface, Application Engines, Excel to CI,
SQL Loader, and SQRs
- Application Engine, Component Interface, File Layouts, Application Designer
- Working with PeopleCode, PeopleTools, AppEngine, SQR, SQL, Crystal Reports
- PIA installation for 4 instances.
Project: ABN Amro Bank (An IBM/Price Waterhouse Project)
Role: Project Lead
The project involved Development, Maintenance, enhancement and support of PeopleSoft 7.5 Human Resource module and successful transition to 8.8x version. Job responsibilities include handling the Help Desk for East Asia Pacific Region and PeopleSoft user interaction.
Project Management:
- Produce and communicate development schedule to Central Project management for
different domains
- Manage project to baseline schedule and escalate any scheduling or resource limitations to
stakeholders
- Hiring and staffing of technical team
- Lead development teams
- Work with Analysis, testing, and business owner teams to understand desired system
functionality
- Drive Technology Architecture decisions
- Represent the development team in client meetings and to senior management
- Produce code standards and communicate to development team members
- Escalation point for development issues
- Prepare status documents with team's input
- Communicate development team status to project management, senior management and
other team stakeholders
- Attend triage meetings and assist in bug prioritization
- Work with developers and other members of project team, and program managers, and
vendors in accomplishing objectives
- Participate in code reviews of other developer's work
- Create Presentations outlining project's technical approach
- Provide postmortem feedback on development and system delivery approach
Technical Hands-on Involvement: PeopleSoft Development, DBA, & Architect
- User Requirement Analysis, understanding the systems that are co-existing
- Prepare Functional Specifications and Program specifications
- Production Support, Software Quality Assurance
- Coding of complex enhancement:
Application Engine, Integration Broker, Component Interface, File Layouts,
SQL Loader, Security- Tree manager and Row level security
Customizations - Application Designer, Working with PeopleCode, PeopleTools,
AppEngine, SQR, SQL, Crystal Reports
- Perform testing
- PIA installation, Architect for the PIA and hardware Design
- Review of Deliverables
Project: PeopleSoft e-Center (ASP has 42 PeopleSoft Clients)
Role: Team Lead
PeopleSoft Modules: HCM, CRM, EPM, HRMS, Financials
RDBMS PALTFORMS: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server
PeopleSoft Techno-functional Development:
- Upgrading the PeopleSoft CRM 8.1X to 8.4X om DB2 RDBMS Platform
- Understanding the User Requirements. Design of Technical Document for the programmer,
Consulting on Process Re-engineering and design on new MIS reports. Administration of
PeopleSoft System, and Security Access, to Users.
- Setting up the Setids, Business-Units, Departments, Organizational tree, Control tables,
Master tables, Security profile for each user, data management, performing Upgrades and
Fixes provided by PeopleSoft.
- Addition of new functionalities and modules to have a smooth transition from the existing HR
system to the new PeopleSoft system.
- Development of new Panels and validations as per user requirements.
- Creation and Development of customized Tables, Views, Panels, Panel Groups & Menus.
- Coding of complex enhancement: Application Engine, Component Interface, File Layouts,
SQL Loader, Security- Tree manager, Row level
security
- Supporting the user requirements like training, navigation, troubleshooting, creating adhoc
reports and documentation.
PeopleSoft
DBA:
- Application Management - Applying Fixes, Project Migration across various environments,
and Upgrades.
- Installations - PeopleSoft, Database & Web servers
- Configuration Management - Configuring & Editing Application Servers, Process Scheduler, &
Web Server.
- Performing Database refresh and People soft Environment refresh
- Oracle Database administration: Security, Backups: logical (export/import), physical (cold
and hot back-up), Performance and
Tunining, Space management, User Management
- Process automation through unix shell scripts and oracle program units especially triggers.
- Troubleshooting Oracle and PeopleSoft
- Maintaining Security: Security Tree, Department Tree (Tree manager), permission list, roles
and User profiles, Row-Level security in conjunction with the functional teams and the
stakeholders of the business architecture.
- People Tools Upgrade from 8.14 to 8.17.03 for CRM application on DB2 platform
- Applying Tax updates
Project: Ernst & Young ; Canada
Product Family: Enterprise
Product Lines: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Campus Solutions
Computing Environment:
- Hardware: Hitachi
- Database: IBM DB2, Oracle/AIX (Enterprise Performance Management only)
Responsibilities:
- Manage the continual upgrading of procedures and equipment to maintain currency with technological progress, economic change, and business needs.
- Manage the training and development of staff members to develop their skills and maintain state-of-the-art knowledge in their area of responsibility.
- Prepare the annual budget and manage expenditures in order to operate within approved budget guidelines.
- Directly and indirectly supervise staff members in the development, implementation, and support of applications to meet the clients business requirements.
- Recommend the selection of and be responsible for the performance management of staff members.
- Consult with IT and client management in the development of tactical systems plans and directions to ensure the integration of the overall information security architecture.
- Provide strategic direction regarding network and application-level security, strategy, and tactics.
- Participate in establishing E&Y's strategic information security vision, and develop communications and marketing plans for information security initiatives to raise security awareness.
- Manage the security and connectivity initiatives of internal and external clients, domestically and internationally, and work to architect secure connectivity solutions.
- Provide clients, management, and its staff members with the highest level of technical expertise, guidance, support, and strategic and tactical direction with respect to the physical protection and risk assessment of the firm's information systems and products, implementation of appropriate data security procedures and products, and communication of existing, modified, or new security procedures to users.
- Manage the development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of information security plans, products, controls, standards, policies, and procedures to cost-effectively protect information system assets, such as data systems and databases, from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure, or destruction; and the reporting, investigation, and resolution of data security incidents.
- Lead the monitoring and evaluation of existing systems and procedures, and design/build architectural information security solutions to facilitate the implementation of appropriate security measures into the firm's information systems and databases. Protect such systems and databases from unauthorized users.
- Maintain an awareness of existing and proposed security standard setting groups, and State and Federal legislation and regulations pertaining to information security. Communicate relevant information to appropriate management; identify regulatory changes that will affect information security policy, standards, and procedures; recommend appropriate changes; and communicate existing, proposed, and new security procedures to users.
Project: University of Michigan (An IBM & Peoplesoft Inc Project)
Role: Sr. Consultant
Moving forward, University of Michigan is focused on driving the constituent institutions to operate as a system and providing them with the tools they need to make it easy to educate and administrate effectively. Along these lines, University of Michigan is looking forward to deploying PeopleSoft 8 and taking advantage of its self-service capabilities.
The launch of Peoplesoft will create a network of higher education institutions with a tremendous amount of student processing and transactional activity. University of Michigans decision to implement the PeopleSoft administrative solutions has helped the system facilitate many of the mission-critical administrative and academic tracking and reporting activities.
Industry: Higher Education
Organization Size: 110,000 students
Product Lines: Campus Solutions, Financial Management, Human Capital Management
Product Modules: Contributor Relations, Human Resources, Student Administration
DBA- ERP:
- Install, support and maintain multiple PeopleSoft environments (FSCM, CRM, ELM, HR, EPM,
Portal) based on several platforms (Oracle/Unix as well as MS-SQL/NT). Dev, QA, Production.
- Review and manage environment configurations (including PeopleSoft underlying
components i.e. Weblogic and Tuxedo)
- Patching environments as required, including major PeopleSoft upgrades.
- Migrating new developments to QA and Production environments ('PeopleSoft projects'
migration)
- Monitoring and tuning of PeopleSoft environments
- Setting up and monitoring of PeopleSoft application-level security
- Scheduling and monitoring of PeopleSoft production batches
- Administration and monitoring of Application Messaging
- Troubleshooting of PeopleSoft systems issues
- Rotational on call support as required
Oracle
DBA:
*** --- Similar to Ernst & Young Oracle DBA profile --- ***
OTHER COMPUTER SKILLS
Operating Platform Compatibility: SUN, H.P, IBM UNIX, Windows NT, 2000, Linux
Web Development Skills: HTML, JavaScript, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash,
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Imageready
OTHER SKILLS:
- Excellent communication skills, including outstanding written and spoken English
- Outstanding analytical/problem solving skills and an attitude for attention to details
- Strong ability to handle high pressure, conflicting demands and issues including
"emergencies of the day" like P1 cases.
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with minimal supervision.
- Willing to travel and re-locate. Apart from Canadian citizenship, hold German Green Card
and European Schengen visa.
- Good knowledge of management subjects: Finance and accounting, HRMS, SCM, CRM, HCM,
EPM, TQM, ISO
- Strong presentation and client facing skills
TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT
Hardware: SUN E 10,000, SUN SPARC, SUN UNLTRA
ERP Applications: PeopleSoft
Operating Systems: SUN Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, Windows NT
Databases: ORACLE 8/8i/9i
GUI: Applications made in VB, JAVA, VC++, FORMS6i, D2000
Languages: C, HTML, JavaScript, Dynamic HTML
Packages: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator,
Imageready
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Certifications:
- Oracle Certified Professional Database Administrator
- SUN Solaris System Administration for Solaris Operating Environment
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- ISO 9001 Auditors Certification from AIB Vincotte, Belgium
- Peopletools I & II certified.
- Brainbench certified for peopletools I and II.
Formal Education:
Graduation & Masters
:
Master of Business Administration
University of Bradford,
U.K
1997
1st Division
Bachelor of Technology
S.V. University,
Tirupati, India
1993
Distinction; Rank 2 of 60
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
- Honorarium; Technical Paper Publication; National Productivity Council of India; 1993.
- First prize, technical paper presentation; IEEE INC. Technical Conference; 1993.
- Second prize, technical paper presentation; Technical Conference; REC Trichy; 1993.
- 25 different awards in extra-curricular activities, various national and state level
competitions; 89-93
AFFILIATIONS:
2001 - Present PEOPLESOFT CUSTOMER CONNECTION MEMBER
2001 - Present BEA SUPPORT MEMBER
1996 - Present ORACLE TECHNOLOGY NETWORK MEMBER
1996 - Present ORACLE METALINK MEMBER
1991 - Present GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL MEMBER
1999 - Present TOASTMASTERS MEMBER
SKILL SUMMERY:
Project Management
Expert
Currently Used/5 years
Oracle DBA
Expert
Currently Used/9 years
UNIX System
Administration
Expert
Currently Used/9 years
PL SQL
Expert
Currently Used/9 years
PeopleSoft HRMS, HCM
Financials, EPM, SCM,
CRM- Version 7.x - 8.8
Expert
Currently Used/5 years
Peopletools 7.x - 8.4x
Expert
Currently Used/5 years
Application Server
BEA Weblogic, IBM
Websphere, Tuxedo
Expert
Currently Used/5 years
Security- Oracle and
PeopleSoft
Expert
Currently Used/5 years
SQR
Good
Currently Used/5 years
Peoplecode
Good
Currently Used/5 years
PIA Installation
Expert
Currently Used/5 years
PeopleSoft DBA
Expert
Currently Used/5 years
Business Intelligence
Expert
Currently Used/5 years
PeopleSoft Developmet
Expert
Currently Used/5 years
Upgrade Assistant
Expert
Currently Used/2 years
Business Intelligence
Expert
Currently Used/2 years
CONTACT DETAILS:
Puneet Varma
Cell: 416-***-****
Res : 416-***-****
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