Manager/Solution Architect

Samir Batta Mobile: 469-***-****~ E-Mail: ******.*****@*****.***

PRINCE2 certified practitioner. Master's in Personnel Management (MPM) with experience in HR shared services and ERP.

PeopleSoft Certified functional consultant

Scrum Master Certification

CAREER ABSTRACT

Experienced in handling multiple projects. Proven capability to handle multi-vendor and multi-million dollar projects with teams located across various geographies. Expert in handling and leading teams and co-coordinating with cross- functional teams to accomplish on time deliveries and within budget. Adept in handling HR shared services and end to end implementations. For ex:PeopleSoft Financials, HR, Moodle, Taleo etc. Experienced in onsite and offshore setup which includes Applications, Infrastructure, Human resources and Financials, Contracts, SLA and complete project management.

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CAREER CONTOUR

Sopra Steria India Assistant Manager/Senior Consultant 10-May2012-Present

Revenue: €3.7B Emp: 38,000

CapitalOne, USA Project Manager/Solution Architect May’10–Oct’11

Employer:Wipro Technologies, India/USA

Revenue: $8.57B Emp: 1,81,482

Numonyx, USA Project Manager/Associate Consultant Nov’07-May’10

Employer: Tata Consultancy Services, India/USA

Revenue: $17.57B Emp: 3,87,223

General Motors, China Regional Project Manager (HR services) Aug’07 -Nov’07

Revenue:$166.3B Emp: 2,15,000

AirCanada, Canada Project Lead Oct’05-July’07

Employer:HCL Technologies, India/Canada

Revenue: $6.74B Emp: 1,15,973

SKILL SET

Project Management

Capable of handling projects across various domains.

Managed multiple projects i.e PeopleSoft HR, Taleo, Financials, Campus Solution, Scientia together.

Experienced in working in Education, Banking, Automotive, Airline and Consulting organisations.

Expert in multi-tasking and providing solutions which includes integrations also.

Experience of working in Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Collaborated with operational teams to update operational processes and procedures

Worked with all stakeholders to rapidly develop multi-prong implementation project plans

Successfully managed and coordinated with all stakeholders, across the enterprise and across regions to ensure that deliverables were delivered on time

Provided regular status updates to C-suite executives to ensure effective dissemination of project information

Successfully implemented the various project phases, including planning, IT build, UAT, and system rollout

Collaborated with client to drive a current state assessment, gap analysis, and remediation phase for the project

Conducted a current state vs. target state gap analysis, and remediation phase for the project

Managed and successfully rolled-out the target state

Coordinated and scheduled joint discovery sessions with over 30 subject matter experts across the enterprise

Developed a comprehensive audit framework to perform current vs. best-in-class gap analysis

Established strategies to maintain effective communications with all key stakeholders

Functional Skills

Expertise in PeopleSoft v9.1, 9.2 HRMS Financials 9.1,

Investigated and identified key regulatory, operational, and reporting requirement

Implemented CoreHR, Talent Management, ePerformance, Career Planning, eDevelopment, Self-Service, Security, Position Management, NA Payroll, Base Benefits and Benefit Administration.

Experienced in complex PeopleSoft upgrades from 7.02 to 8.9 HRMS.

Expert in handling transitions from 7.02 to 8.9 with knowledge of complete process of conversion and identifying all the gaps and retro fitting them in the upgraded system.

Experienced and expert in handling data conversion and existing customization including reports and interfaces.

Identified all the benefits plans and policies concerning benefits plans, enrolments and its coverage and configured them as per the laws and regulations.

Customised ePerformance 8.9 for 360 degree feedback and cross calibration and tested the same

Responsible for drafting communication for the Go-Lives to sent to all the users.

Facilitated steering committee and working sessions, plus provided regular updates to senior executives

Defining roadmap and future lookout

Monitored Change Management and trained users regularly to gain acceptance to the change

Working experience of Agile methodology in a project

Experienced in doing CMMI Level5 audits

Experienced in HR analytical reporting

Experienced in ensuring Data compliance. Expertise in Multiple end to end implementation of PeopleSoft HRMS

Expert in set up of support teams and implementing required processes for smooth execution

Expert in troubleshooting applications and guiding teams to a feasible solution

Experienced in Pre-Sales activities which includes conducting due diligence, designing solution etc.

Testing

Expert in testing multiple applications in cloud and non-cloud environments starting from HR, Financials, OBI or Analytical applications and Web application

Adept in setup of test framework

Experience in creation of Test Strategy, UAT test strategy, Test Plan, Test Scenarios or Use Cases, Test Scripts and test execution results

Extensive and multiple cycles experience in leading and doing testing starting from System testing, regression testing and UAT and procuring sign-off.

Delivered projects with Zero defects in UAT in support and negligible defects in implementations.

Experience Brief:

Steria India Ltd

Role: Manager/Senior Consultant (Functional and Testing)

Experience:

1.HR shared services

PeopleSoft HRMS 9.1, 9.2,Oracle Apps and Obiee HR

Trainings: Workday, Success Factor

Extensive experience of working in Cloud environmets.

Managed a team when implemented OBIEE HR analytics.

Attended trainings on Workday which includes Core HR (Organization setup, Staffing Models etc) Talent Management and Compensation.

Expert in leading teams and Zero defect deliveries as part of testing

Adept in creating testing framework.

Working in HR shared services team and leading HR team for OBIEE analytics for analytics and testing.

Experienced in designing analytical reports for HR users.

Handling multiple countries through HR shared services

Handled business rules of organization for any changes that come in policies

Conducted Demo/Workshops to business users.

Experienced in doing reporting as per GRI standards and measures for workforce analytics .for every country with respect to HR. For ex: Turnover report, Gender ratio, Absence rate, Average age etc.

Gathering analytical requirements from users for HR and guiding team

Automation of the business processes

Initiating and supporting UAT

Training and production support to HR users.

Data Audit and clean-up

Change Management

Experienced in handling Enhancements

Co-coordinating releases every month

Ensuring privacy of data, its compliance and regulations governing them.

Responsible for Integration of PeopleSoft HR and OBIEE workforce analytics

Dashboards designing

Governance related reporting

Metrics designing

Defining UAT strategy and providing support to users during UAT.

2.Client: McDonalds UK

Working on Oracle Apps HRMS for McDonalds

Providing support for the application. Modules Included are :

Core HR

Performance Management

OLM( Oracle Learning Management )

Payroll Interface

Wipro Technologies (2010-2011) and (2003-2005)

Client: Capital One, BITS Pilani, Hitachi

Synopsis: The project involved Implementation of ePerformance and eCompensation in CapitalOne and implementation of Human Resources Financials and Campus Solutions

Implementation of HRMS 9.1, Financials 9.1, Campus Solutions 9.0 and Scientia

Platform: Windows XP, 2007, millennium edition,

Role: Project Manager/Solution Architect

Experience

Followed waterfall and scrum methodology in later stages of the project. Scrum was adopted when users started requesting changes very often.

Setup of entire team to be based at client site. (Including office location and servers setup, system setup etc.)

The modules covered are: Core HR, Global Payroll, Campus Community, Academic Advisement, Student Financials, Admissions etc., GL, AP, AR, Project Costing, Asset Management, Billing, Procurement

Stakeholder Management: Collaborated with the stakeholders and organized and led steering committee meetings

Budgeting and Cost management: created budgets and monitored the expenses i.e. Capex and Opex across the projects

Worked on eperformance and ecompensation at Capital One

Delivered modules at CapitalOne with Zero defects

Trained resources and mentored a team which received great recognition from the cient.

SLA Management: formulated SLA required for support functions

Expert in Base Benefits and Benefit Administration for 401K, Medical, Dental, Life and AD&D FSA, OSHA, Absence rules, FMLA etc.. at Capital One

Responsible for capturing all the requirements for HR, Financials and Campus Solutions

Supported benefits and benefits administration for Capital One in 2003 and did complete testing.

Customised ePerformance in Capital One to enable 360 degree feedback

Responsible for the delivery of entire project and meeting client expectations

Responsible for ensuring compliance as per the regulations

Maintaining quality standards and compliance requirements

Team Management of 23 resources

Maintained quality during entire lifecycle of the project

Converted all the manual processes in to an automation mode.

Devised strategy for Data Migration, Testing, and Security etc.

Organized various demo and workshops for users

Executed all integration tasks successfully

Validated design documents as per the documentation standards published by me for the team.

Test Case and Use Case development

TCS

Client: Numonyx USA, IGNOU

Implementation and Support of HRMS 9.1

Synopsis: The project involved Workforce Administration, Talent Management, Base Benefits, Global Payroll, Compensation, Salary Planning, Absence Management etc. Employee portal

Role: Project Manager/Associate Consultant

Application: HRMS 9.1

Experience

Managed team of 10 resources.

Organized various training programs to ensure employees growth.

End to end implementation experience of PeopleSoft HRMS 9.1

Ensured that all the business rules are specified correctly and implemented in PeopleSoft

Data migration

Designing security and its implementation

Recommendation for improvements

Designing HR system to be implemented in HR PeopleSoft

Customization identification in PeopleSoft

Streamlining business processes

Imparted Training on PeopleSoft.

Ascertained Quality Standards.

Rendered inputs to COE

General Motors

Role: Regional Project Manager in HR shared services or HRIT

Application:HRMS 9.1

Part of HR shared services and led a team spread across China, Korea, Japan, India, Australia etc...

Expert in assessing feasibility of any application to be implemented

Worked extensively on business processes automation and streamlining them accordingly.

SPOC for vendor responsible for implementing in General Motors in HR domain.

Experienced in syncing the project as per an Organization business strategy

Responsible for initiating and finalizing Go-Live of any application in HR

Training and production support to HR users.

Data Audit and clean-up

Experienced in handling Enhancements

Responsible for reporting progress to senior leaders

HCL Technologies

Client: Air Canada

Synopsis: This project dealt with consolidating existing systems and upgrading them to 8.9. This was a 2 step upgrade

Role: Project Lead

Application: PeopleSoft HRMS 7.02 & 8.3 to 8.9 Upgrade

Represented HCL for conducting Due Diligence and provided estimates and timelines along with the solution and approach to be followed for doing the upgrade.

Experienced in working on complex PeopleSoft upgrades from 7.02 to 8.9 HRMS.

Expert in handling transitions from 7.02 to 8.9 with knowledge of complete process of conversion and identifying all the gaps and retro fitting them in the upgraded system.

Expertise in handling Benefits like 401k FMLA OSHA, Medical, Dental plans etc.

Experienced and expert in handling data conversion and existing customization including reports and interfaces.

Developed various strategies for ex: Conversion, Change Management, Security, consolidation

Accountable for providing estimation for enhancements, development and changes which map to the delivered functionality but exist as a customization in present scenario.

Steered efforts for getting the approval for re implementing Benefit Administration existing in v7.02.

Mentored the team to prepare general design documents for new requirements which cannot be mapped to 8.9

Presentations to the client for the customizations and new features in 8.9 as a part of Fit/Gap.

Highlights:

Accredited as the recipient of Feather in my cap award in Wipro.

PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENTS

Wipro Technologies, Project Lead Dec’03–Oct’05

SCHOLASTICS

Master in Personnel Management (MPM) from a Premier University in India in 1999

B.Com. (Hons) from Delhi University in 1994

PERSONAL DOSSIER

Date of Birth : 9th October 1973

Present Address : 2520 sierra drive McKinney Dallas Texas USA, 75234

Languages Known : English and Hindi

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