Project Management

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

. **+ years of experience in PeopleSoft HCM (8.3/8.9/9.0/9.1/9.2) modules:

Core HR, Time and labor, Global Payroll & Absence Management, NA Payroll

and hands on Base Benefits, Position Control, Compensation planning,

Performance Management. Rich experience in multiple implementations,

upgrades and support engagements as Project/HCM Lead with multiple Media,

Finance & higher education's clients.

. Possesses strong functional experience in PeopleSoft Core HR, Time and

Labor, NA Payroll and absence management.

. Command over People Tools v8.4x and 8.5x, PeopleCode, Process scheduler,

Application Designer, Application Engine and Workflow

. Presented Implementation & Upgrade Tools and techniques of Time and Labor

at Collaborate in Las Vegas.

. Successfully completed HR Oracle Fusion Applications 11g Release 7

(11.1.7) training provided by Oracle University.

. Strong foundation knowledge of Workday and Oracle Fusion with Deloitte

internal training on Workday and Oracle Fusion application.

. Consulting and Project Management experience with multiple clients on

product evaluation, new version fit gaps, upgrade evaluation.

. Managing the delivery of multiple projects covering geography across the

world, building capabilities and managing distributed vendor resources.

. Solution proposal for Higher Education Sector - PeopleSoft HCM

Application.

. Architecting and implementing Project solutions, understanding abstract

business concepts and providing reusable and comprehensive solutions.

Creating and managing onsite / offshore teams, delivering within budget

and with high quality on time.

. Planning and leading many projects in Higher Education, Insurance,

banking, finance and human capital management domains

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

University of Minnesota - Lead Functional consultant

01/14 - Present

PeopleSoft Enterprise Split HCM & CS, Upgrade HCM and FIN from 8.9 to 9.2

and along with upgrade Implementation of PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 Time and Labor

and Absence Management. UMN have payroll system which generates about 40K

pay checks each biweekly pay cycle. I am involved mainly in to Payroll and

Time and Labor module.

. Conduction business process Overviews,

. Task status Reporting

. Design & test the T&L auto enrollment process

. Gather requirement T&L Rules and writing Time and Labor rules.

. Configure new earning and TRC code as required to fit T&L implementation.

. Configure Integration of Absence management to Time and Labor.

. Configure T&L AWE (Approval Workflow engine).

. Coordinating testing functions and integration testing with the Payroll

team

. Troubleshoot T&L issues discovered in testing.

. Write PS Queries & SQL's to support reporting needs.

. Prepare Payroll Parallel Plan, execute payroll after upgrade and compare

results.

. Explain the difference in Payroll Gross, Deductions and Nets.

. Review and Writing test cases for T&L business processes

. Utilizing HP's Quality Center to document and track the status of test

execution, and report defects

. Developing Business Process Guides for T&L business processes

. Defining the batch cycle for T&L business processes

Seneca College - Time and Labor and Absence Management Functional Lead

07/13 - 12/14

PeopleSoft Enterprise Implementation: PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 Implementation:

Seneca HCM and Campus Solution implementation of PeopleSoft HCM. The

implementation of HR modules includes HR, Base Benefits, Payroll, Time and

Labor, and Absence Management.

. Facilitate Design and configuration Workshops with Business Process

Owners (BPO).

. Understand current pain areas and recommend solutions in versions 9.2.

. Prepare the fit gap for Time and Labor and Absence Management and discuss

with BPO.

. Conduct detail requirement workshops for gaps identified and prepare

functional requirement documents for all gaps.

. Prepare configuration workbook for all configuration items, TRC, TRC

Program, Rules. Work Group, Security, Approval workflow, Absence

entitlement and takes element, Element Groups and Eligibility groups,

Process List, Run Types, Periods, Calendar, Calendar Groups etc.

. Configure the system as identified in workbook and perform unit test,

system test.

. Create PS Queries for reporting needs, etc.

. Create test script and test Integration testing between Absence

Management, Time and Labor and Payroll.

Government of Newfoundland - HR & Absence Management Functional Lead

05/12 - 07/13

Project: PeopleSoft HCM Implementation

While engaged on Phase II of the PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Implementation from

11/12 to 07/13:

Phase II - Project: PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Implementation: Province-wide

implementation of PeopleSoft HCM for 10,000 Teachers. The implementation

includes Core HR, Benefits Administration, Payroll, Time and Labor,

Commitment accounting and Absence Management. Second phase involves

teachers.

. Responsible for facilitating configuration workshops and requirement

discussions.

. Conducted fit gap session to identify gap and gaps related customization.

. Helped client to create to be process documents.

. Trained users in the configuration of the Core HR and Absence Management

modules.

. Identified Actions, Action Reasons, Job Code, Positions, Salary steps,

Grade and plans and configuration of identified items.

. Configured Union Code, Rate Code, Job Code, Salary Plan, Step and grade

in PeopleSoft Application.

. Configured salary step progression process.

. Created department tree and location tree.

. Facilitated enhancement workshops, and supported interface and conversion

workshops.

. Planned and created test scenarios, scripts for various stages of testing

including regressive unit testing, systems integration testing, user

testing, and parallel testing.

. Integrated Core HR and Commitment accounting wrote integration script and

tested the integration.

. Drafted functional specifications for enhancements, interfaces and

conversions.

. Responsible for product configuration for Core HR and Absence Management.

While engaged on Phase I of the PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Implementation from

05/12 to 11/12:

Phase I - Project Name: PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Implementation: Province-wide

implementation of PeopleSoft HCM for 7,000 Civil Service Employees and

7,000 Civil employees. The implementation includes Core HR, Benefits

Administration, Payroll, Time and Labor, Commitment accounting and Absence

Management. First phase involves only Civil service employees.

. Responsible for facilitating configuration workshops and providing proof

of concept presentations for potential configuration options.

. Performed requirement gathering for absence entitlement and took rules

and documented the requirement for approval and sign-offs.

. Performed workshops to identify all required eligibility groups for Civil

Service employees.

. Trained users in the configuration of Core HR and Absence Management

modules.

. Configured entitlements elements and takes elements.

. Facilitated enhancement workshops, and supported interface and conversion

workshops.

. Planned and created test scenarios, scripts for various stages of testing

including regressive unit testing, systems integration testing, user

testing, and parallel testing.

Solar Turbines, USA - Project Manager

09/11 - 05/12

Project: PeopleSoft HCM upgrade from 8.8 to 9.1 Core HR, NA Payroll, Time

and Labor, Base Benefits and Recruiting.

. Responsible for updating status to project steering committee.

. Conducted demo of PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 to business team.

. Responsible for project planning and tracking project.

. Tracked project tasks and reported project status to higher management.

. Reviewed As-Is document, functional design document, and fit gap

document.

. Involved in requirement gathering with team and finalization of

requirement with business team for NA Payroll and Time and Labor.

. Conducted system test and system integration testing along with team.

. Involved in upgrade environment planning and cutover planning.

. Responsible for application of tax updates, testing and comparing result.

Medtronic, France - Project Manager

04/11 - 11/11

Project: PeopleSoft HCM 9.0 Absence Management Implementation.

. Responsible for project planning and project tracking.

. Accountable for project status reporting.

. Review Design documents such as balance conversion process.

. Review of functional design document, fit gap document.

. Responsible for requirement gathering and finalization of requirement

with business team.

. Conducted demo of PeopleSoft Absence Management to business team.

. Configured and tested Absence Management module.

Viacom, BET and MTV- Lead Functional Consultant

01/10 - 02/11

Time and Labor and TCD clock Implementations: PeopleSoft HCM 8.9 Time and

Labor Implementation for Viacom, BET and MTV.

. Task Planning, Task allocation and status tracking.

. Coordination with teams in project deadlock issue resolution.

. Managing client relationship and setting up expectation on delivery.

. Project status reporting to client and senior management.

. Worked as Time and Labor functional consultant and responsible for

requirement gathering and solution design.

. Prepared and review of functional design document, fit gap document.

. Responsible for preparation configuring document and configuring the

system for TRC, TRC program, Security groups, Shift, Schedule, Time

Period, Time reporting template, Rules, Rule Programs, Workgroup.

. Prepared functional document for automatic enrollment, Employee Self

Service, Manager Self Service and Dynamic group Security Requirement.

. Involved in report requirement gathering and preparation of functional

design document for report

. Involved in integration of TCD clocks to Time and Labor.

. Created custom rules as per business process followed by the client.

. Worked on creating and customizing template based rules as per business

process followed by the client.

Ernst and Young, USA - Project Lead 10/08

- 12/09

Project: PeopleSoft HCM Upgrade from 8.8 to 9.0 Core HR, NA Payroll, Self

Service ESS, MSS and Implementation of Profile Management.

. Performed the role of project planning and coordinator.

. Managing client relationship and setting up expectation on delivery.

. Drive the study of existing system and prepare of as-Is document.

. Drive fit gap sessions and responsible for preparing fit gap

documentation.

. Understood client requirement and prepared requirement docs.

. Responsible for process design in 9.0.

. Task Planning, Task allocation and monitoring a task status.

. Responsible for client meeting and status reporting.

. Drive demos for end user training.

. Drive testing phase as per the requirement.

. Drive parallel testing and help in comparing result of 8.8 and 9.0 after

upgrade and explained/resolved the differences.

GSK, Mexico, Techno Functional Consultant

05/08 - 09/08

Project: PeopleSoft HCM Upgrade and Consolidation

. Designed the strategy for consolidation of Latina and GPS application.

. Analyzed the impact of consolidation of component and tables.

. Created consolidation script.

. Validated and tested the consolidation.

. Performed review of consolidation approach.

OECD - Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development for G8

countries

Functional Consultant

11/07 - 05/08

Project: PeopleSoft HCM Upgrade

. Performed as functional owner for Global Payroll.

. Revised the earning and deductions elements as retrofitting in PS 8.9

from 8.3.

. Responsible for all payroll related issues.

. Defined the payroll testing detail plan along with the client business

super users in Paris.

. Responsible for parallel run result reconciliation between PeopleSoft 8.3

and 8.9.

. Assisted in Detail for Payroll core commercial bundle #1 to #11 patches.

. Responsible for functional testing for the patch impact.

ANZ-Australian New Zealand Bank, Australia - Functional Consultant

06/07 - 09/07

Project: PeopleSoft HCM Upgrade, Consolidation and Implementation.

. Involved in requirement analysis, task and testing planning at onsite

(Australia) and closely worked with client Business Analyst.

. Independently handled the business process study for India and New

Zealand.

. Involved in the preparation of detail plan for PeopleSoft Payroll

testing.

. Performed the parallel testing for India Instance with Legacy system.

. Performed the parallel testing for New Zealand PeopleSoft 8.9 Instance

with People.

ISO - Healthcare Firm, USA - Functional Consultant

01/07 - 04/07

Project: PeopleSoft HCM Upgrade from 8.3 to 8.9 - Core HR, NA Payroll, Time

and Labor & Base Benefits.

. Studied the existing business process.

. Involved in the PeopleSoft fit gap analysis of Core HR, North American

Payroll, Base benefit and Benefit Administration.

. Involved in the preparation of detail plan for PeopleSoft Payroll

testing.

. Provided the user training on Core HR and NA Payroll for UAT.

. Involved actively in Time and Labor and NA Payroll test case preparation

and review.

CBA-Commonwealth Bank of Australia - Techno Functional Consultant

08/05 - 10/06

Project: PeopleSoft HCM 8.3 - Core HR, Recruitment, Time and Labor,

Absences Management and Global Payroll Australia modules

. Provided general support and troubleshooting for PeopleSoft Global

Payroll and Finance.

. Troubleshot elements like Earning Deduction etc. in GP and verified the

pay roll run.

. Resolved setup related issues in the running application.

. Tested issues related to payment of element.

. Resolved problem of absence processing.

. Had full understanding of core engine of global payroll.

. Effectively involved in the requirement gathering of Time and Labor.

. Created time and labor configuration like TRC, TRC program, workgroup,

Time Admin rule configuration, etc.

. Involved in the configuration of Time and Labor rules.

. Responsible for test plan/ script preparation for unit testing.

. Developed Data Scrambling SQR for HCM application.

. Developed application engine to purge data from Payroll tables.

. Actively participated in team meetings as well as the meeting with the

other teams in Australia and India.

. Responsible for preparation of TDD, process document.

. Assisted the end users with queries in unit testing Using Test

Environment.

FTE - France Telecom - Techno Functional Consultant

06/06 - 08/06

Project: PeopleSoft HCM 8.9 Implementation - Core HR, Absences, Global

Payroll, Time and Labor.

. Responsible for preparation of presentation on Absence Management and

Time and Labor and conducted presentation to customer.

. Reviewed functional document related to HCM.

. Prepared requirement gathering checklist for onsite visit of the team.

. Verified the document in ordered to check for the language issue.

. Maintained all project communications and status documentation.

. Extensively involved in Absence Management configuration activity.

Circuit City, USA - Functional Consultant

10/04 - 07/05

Project: Re-hosting PS-Informix to PS-oracle of PeopleSoft HCM 7.5.

. Set up the payroll table, run the payroll, and verify the payroll run for

newly hired employees and an old too.

. Reviewed and prepared test script for SQR interface, SQR Batch program,

and application and fixed the code.

. Provided suggestion to onsite on data preparation and performance point

of view.

. Created and modified PS Query for reporting purposes.

. Resolved the security issue of the access profile of user. Modification

involved in changing search records to establish row level security.

. Maintained all project communications and status documentation.

. Ensured quality compliances and timely delivery project.

. Responsible for time escalation of quality /project issues to supervisor

and senior management.

. Managed the projects issue and resolve to the satisfaction of customer.

Enterprise Technologies Solution - PeopleSoft Trainer

03/03 - 10/04

. Conducted professional corporate training for multiple organizations.

This training consists of People Tools 8.X, PS Query, and PS Security.

. Provided consulting advisory services for in projects.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

. Master in Computer Management: University of Pune; India, 2001 to 2003

. Bachelor of Science: University of Goa; India 1998 to 2001

Ajit Sawant - Lead HCM Consultant E-mail:

**********@*****.***

Cell Phone: 551-***-****

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