Summary
Business Solutions professional with ** years of experience in Managing and Delivering Implementation, Rollout and Maintenance of PeopleSoft FSCM, HCM, CRM applications and open source systems.
Handled multiple roles – Project Manager, Project Lead, Techno-Functional Consultant and Sr. Application Consultant across various industry verticals.
Having experience in specific modules of PeopleSoft CRM, HCM and FSCM.
Modules FSCM: Billing, AR, AP, GL, RMA, eProcurement & Inventory
Modules HCM: HR Benefits, NA Payroll, Talent Acquisition Management, Base Benefits, Self-service and Time and Labor
Modules CRM: Support, Help Desk, Self Service, Order Capture, Marketing & Sales
Experience in XML Publisher, Crystal, SQR reporting, STAT and HP ALM
Possess excellent communication, client interfacing skills and a very good team player.
Followed CMMI level 5 processes in most of the projects to improve the quality of deliverables.
Extensively worked on PeopleTools 8.42/8.46/8.48/8.5, PeopleCode, Application Designer, Application Package, Workflow, SQR, Data Mover, Process Scheduler, Application Engine, Component Interface, XML, XSLT, Integration Broker, Web Services and Application Messaging.
Skills
Database Knowledge
Oracle, SQL Server, DB2/UDB, AS/400
PeopleSoft Applications & tools
oPeopleSoft – FSCM, HRMS and CRM Suites
oPeople Tools 8.5x: Application Designer, People Code, Application Engine, Process Scheduler, Data Mover, Workflow, AWE, Component Interface, Integration Broker and Ldap
oReporting Tools: SQR, PS-Query and Crystal Reports
Languages
oJ2EE Technology
Java, JDBC, RMI Servlets, JSP, EJB JMS, Struts Framework
oInternet Technology
HTML, CSS, XML XSL, JavaScript, WML
oWeb Services
SOAP
Software, Tools and Utilities
oWebservers
Weblogic, IIS, IBM Websphere, Apache, Tomcat, Sun ONE Application Server, MQ Series
oDevelopment Tools
Jdeveloper, JBuilder, Quest Toad, PL/SQL Developer, MS Visual Interdev 6.0, Adobe Flash, Dreamweaver
Operating Systems and Environments
Windows 3.x – XP, Windows NT Server 3.51/4.0, Terminal Server – 2000 Advanced Server, SUN Solaris, AIX, Red Hat Linux
Professional Experience
Cabela’s From August 2011
Role: Project Lead/Developer
Cabela’s is a leading specialty retailer, and the world's largest direct marketer, of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor merchandise.
As a Project Lead am involved in end-to-end implementation with complex customization and production support of PeopleSoft CRM 9.0, HCM 9.2 and FSCM 9.2 system. This implementation core modules were Order Capture, Accounts Management, Pre and Post Order Process, 360 Degree view and Integration between Provisioning systems.
Implemented major Projects like Bulk Order process, Club card, Drop Ship Project, Outsource Payment Processing, Omni Channel and pricing and T& L application
Impact Analysis on CRM/FSCM application
PeopleSoft Developer – fixing critical issues in PeopleSoft CRM Order Capture
End to end delivery support and Integration management: CRM – Order Capture, Case management, FSCM – Billing, AR, AP, GL, RMA, eProcurement & Inventory.
Implemented Time and Labor for the internal employees to define and establish time admin process, time reporting, absence management, approval and calculate payable time that fit unique business needs
USAA Jan 2010 – Jul 2011
Role: Technical Lead/Developer
United Services Automobile Association (USAA) is a Fortune 500[2] financial services company offering banking, investing, and insurance to people and families that serve, or served, in the United States military.
Managing the delivery of Support Services and enhancements provided for various applications for the banking and insurance group function. Supported Technologies include PeopleSoft HCM, FSCM, EPM and .Net
Responsible for PeopleSoft setup and configuration of Integration Broker, Services, PS security, Service Operations, Data-mapping between PeopleSoft HCM and MySite applications
Developed multiple PeopleSoft Services and Service Operations for transferring MySite legacy application to PeopleSoft HCM
Major Projects are related to Application Engines, CI and SQR
Analysis, Trouble shooting and fixing defects
Customized FSCM applications - Accounts payable (approval workflow process, AWE) and Asset management
Responsible for design review, code reviews, walkthrough, unit testing and integration testing
BlackBoard Nov 2009 to Dec 2009
Role: Technical Lead
Blackboard focuses on creating solutions for Learning Management Tools and contents. PeopleSoft Financials 8.9 was implemented.
Managed the PeopleSoft FSCM 8.9 implementation, end to end.
Performance Tuning
Performed detailed case study & analysis of the existing architecture and recommended Server upgrade.
Worked as part of the Presales team.
Key Accomplishments:
Fixed critical issue in expense integration module within a week’s duration.
NCR Corporation Jul 2009 – Oct 2009
Role: Project Lead
A leading provider of automatic teller machines (ATMs), point-of-sale (POS) terminals and bar code scanners.
PeopleSoft HCM 9.0 Talent Acquisition Management (TAM) was implemented to streamline Talent Acquisition.
Owned the overall implementation and the life cycle of the module.
Performed Requirements gathering and Fit Gap Analysis.
Taleo data migrations from TAM
End User manuals and demos.
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Merck Inc Jun 2007 – Jun 2009
Role: Project Lead
PeopleSoft CRM 8.9 and HCM 8.8, 8.9, 9.0 Implementation and Support
Merck Inc. fundamental responsibility is discovering, developing and delivering innovative medicines and vaccines that can make a difference in people's lives and create a healthier future. Established in 1891, Merck discovers, develops, manufactures and markets vaccines and medicines to address unmet medical needs. One of the largest life science organization.
Merck Inc. had implemented PeopleSoft CRM 8.9 and HCM 9 – CRM Support, Core HR, Payroll, Employee/Manage Self Service, Work Force and Time and labor modules. Present company, provides post implementation production support and helping in new requirements and enhancements related to Corp IT of Merck Inc.
Project Lead - lead a team of 10 consultants
Motivate and manage consultants and the delivery of IT services
Manage the Implementation and Production support team
Onsite offshore coordination
Lead the product fitment analysis team
Requirements gathering
Effort estimation and Work allocation
Conduct demos to elicit user response
Solution and product architecture
Report to Client about the Project status
Provide CRM and HCM expertise to the team
St George Bank, Australia Jan 2006 – Jun 2007
Role: Project Lead
PeopleSoft CRM 8.9 Implementation and Support
St.George is Australia's fifth largest bank and one of the top 15 publicly listed companies in Australia, employing over 8,500 people. Its national operations span all aspects of the financial industry including retail banking, institutional & business banking, and wealth management. At the Bank's core is a close relationship with its customers and this remains the cornerstone of future strategies, an important tradition that distinguishes St. George from other Australian Banks.
St.George bank had implemented PeopleSoft CRM 8.9 - Sales and Marketing modules. Present employer, provides post implementation production support and helped St.George in implementing new requirements and enhancements. The implementation involved complex integrations with different systems and the Group data warehouse..
Project Lead - lead a team of 15 consultants
Motivate and manage consultants
Manage the Implementation and Production support team
Onsite offshore coordination
Lead the product fitment analysis team
Requirements gathering
Effort estimation and Work allocation
Conduct demos to elicit user response
Solution and product architecture
Lead the complex Data Mapping and Data Migration exercise
Architect and deliver the data archival framework
Report to Client about the Project status
Provide CRM expertise to the team
Provide Upgrade Roadmap
Testing CRM application using QTP
8X8 Inc. Jun 2005 – Jan 2006
Role: Lead CRM Consultant/Project Leader
PeopleSoft CRM8.9 Implementation
8x8 Inc. and its subsidiaries develop and market telecommunications products and services for internet protocol (IP) telephony and video applications. Their current flagship service, Packet8 enables anyone with high-speed access to the Internet to sign up for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and videophone communications service at http://www.packet8.net. Packet8 provides various service plans targeted primarily at residential as well as Business Customers.
8x8 uses PeopleSoft CRM 8.9 for Communications to implement an integrated enterprise CRM application. Scope involves Enterprise Portal, Order Capture, Call Center, Multi-Channel interactions, Self service applications and its integration to other related applications.
As a Project Lead and involved in end-to-end implementation with complex customization and production support of PeopleSoft CRM communication system. This implementation core modules were Service Management, Order Capture, Accounts Management, Pre and Post Order Process, 360 Degree view and Integration between Provisioning systems.
Manage the Implementation and Production support teams
Manage the effort and team related aspects
Coordinate steering committee meetings
Onsite offshore coordination
Lead the product fitment analysis team
Preparing Technical Design document from Business Requirements
Prepare functional and fit gap documents
Project tracking and status reporting
Testing
Ensure adherence to quality standards and process compliance rules
Attend status meetings with the client
HCL Technologies, India Jan 2005 – Jun 2005
Role: Lead Developer
PeopleSoft Financials 8.4
In house project: Involved in the Implementation of PeopleSoft Financials 8.4 (GL, AP, AR and Billing Modules) under various Roles: Techno-functional consultant and Security Administrator.
Participated in Requirement Gathering for AP and GL modules.
Designed the Security Matrix for AP, GL, AR and Billing Modules.
Designed the Permissions Lists/Roles based on the Security Matrix.
Designed and Developed the Interfaces to upload COA (Chart-of-Accounts), Vouchers etc.
Designed strategy, approaches, Interfaces for AP, AR and GL Data Conversion and Migration.
Designed AP Cheques in various layouts supported by different Banks.
Designed, Developed and customized various Reports for AP, AR, Billing and GL
Designed and Developed Income Statements & Balance Sheets nVision Reports based on Company’s multi-country & multi-currency reporting requirements
Performed System Integration Testing for AP, GL and AR using Test Cases.
Wells Fargo Nov 2003 – Dec 2004
Role: Lead CRM Consultant/Project Leader
PeopleSoft CRM 8.8 Implementation
Wells Fargo PCS caters to the financial needs of High Net Worth and Mass Affluent clients. It provides Investment, Estate planning products, Mill Credit and Brokerage products. WF PCS has deployed PS CRM to consolidate customer information and provide a complete view of the customer to its Relationship Managers. This assignment was to implement the Sales and Marketing modules of PeopleSoft CRM 8.8 for Wells Fargo Bank. This was a full life cycle implementation project. The scope included Lead Management, Referral Management, Opportunity Management, Marketing module and Interfaces.
Team management – 20 people
Delivery and quality management
Lead Analyst for the Leads and Opportunity Module - Lead the team involved in Configuration and Coding phase of the project
Team up with the Business teams of the bank and conduct focus group sessions, requirements gathering and brain storming sessions
Convert Business Requirements into Technical requirements
Effort estimation
Prepare functional and fit gap documents
Project tracking and status reporting
Adherence to Project standards
Define and Create Optimization Strategy and framework for reports and Queries
Develop PS queries and Application Engine programs
Thomson Financial Oct 2001 – Nov 2003
Role: Team Leader/Techno Functional Consultant
PeopleSoft CRM 8 Sales and Support Implementation (Phase I & II)
Thomson Financial Corporate Group has decided to implement PeopleSoft CRM (Versions 8.0 and 8.4) as its standard CRM application suite. Implementation of this commercial “off-the-shelf” CRM solution is expected to bring many benefits throughout the organization. The PS CRM solution provided TFCG with, a uniform process to update data across sales, service, marketing functions. It provided a robust framework for storing customer and product information, a consolidated view of customer interactions via centralized database and facilitate data sharing across Business Units.
Was involved in system study, analysis of functional and technical feasibilities of Sales and Support modules. He also prepared fit-gap analysis and scope, functional and technical design documents.
Lead a team of 3 developers
Requirement Study
Prepared Functional and technical specifications
Coordinated with the team in terms of making them understand the client’s requirements
Delivery coordination of the project
Ensured process compliance and adherence to quality standards
Analyzed the workflow functionality and documenting the same in the business requirement document
Prepared Configuration templates, Unit test case document
Configuration and customization as per functional and technical specifications
Writing People Code and Application Engine Programs for batch processes
Testing
Analyzed the third party system to integrate with the PeopleSoft CRM
Came up with the solution approach for synchronous integration between the systems and also involved in testing the same with the client team
Developed an Application Engine Program that uploaded Support data from a flat file via a custom Component Interface
Wrote the PS Queries for sales and marketing modules
Others Project Experiences
Application Service Provider May 2001 – Sep 2001
Client: Large Electronic Organization-Toshiba Joho
Role: System Analyst/Developer
Toshiba Joho is a part of Toshiba Corporation, Japan. Toshiba is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and materials, power systems, industrial and social infrastructure systems, and household appliances.
Project - Status21 involved in converting a section of the client’s legacy based system into a web-enabled application using Oracle Internet Application Server and PL/SQL with Oracle 8.16 as back-end.
The Project comprised of the following modules:
Sales Management
Order Management
Master Maintenance
Inquiry Management
Batch module
Interface module
Migration Module
Involved in the Master Maintenance, Interface and the Migration modules. Infront of Pranav don’t wear these kind of dresses… It is so glamor and it may affect him. I never wore this one.. wearing it aft 6 yrs
The Master Maintenance module maintains master data of the system. The Interface module provided an interactive GUI for transferring data between legacy system and Oracle database. The Migration module performed a transformation of legacy data into Oracle database and initialized the application.
Created Technical Design documents
Core development in Pro C, PL/SQL and Stored Procedures
Database administration
HTML layouts and design
CSS, JavaScript
Server side scripts
Unit Test Cases, Test Scripts
Bug fixing
Attended status meetings with the client as well as documentation work like Minutes of Meeting and Status reporting.
Application Service Provider Jun 2000 – Apr 2001
Client: Leading Candidate Supply Chain Management solutions- MrTed
Role: System Analyst/Developer
MrTed Ltd., (France) is a leading-edge recruitment technology company, which designs, hosts and services dedicated to Candidate Supply Chain Management solutions for businesses and major corporations across the world. This system was developed as the world’s first multilingual syndication site to provide businesses with the full benefits of Candidate Supply Chain Management. Using this application the client was able to easily integrate their services into the Candidate Supply Chain Management solutions web site. It helped the candidate find a job and apply for it. If required, they were able to save the search criteria with e-mail address and later on found matches in the system would send e-mail at preset intervals.
System Requirements Study
Technical Design documents
Core development in Coldfusion, ASP, JSP and Dreamweaver
Unit Test Cases, Test Scripts
Developed SQL procedures, SQL Statements
Developed Front End screens and Optimized the entire application
HTML layouts and design
CSS, JavaScript, Server side scripts
Jun 1997 – Mar 2000 Application Service Provider AdWeb.
Chennai Real estate Mar. 1999 – Mar 2000
Role: Web Developer
http://www.chennairealestate.com – Chennai real estate is an agency run by an experienced veteran in the real estate field, whose career in the business spans for more than fifteen years. The Website serves in buying and selling property, or rental and accommodation facilities in Chennai, South India. Chennai Real Estate is an experienced agency, which can solve all real- estate-relevant problems.
Dealing with residential, commercial, rental and industrial property. Also deals with agricultural and seaside property. The goal of the product is to find the suitable apartment, house, rental, or industrial property to buy or sell in all over South India (Online real-estate business). A customized search to enable the visitor to easily locate the suitable properties based on easy to use selection criteria.
Key developer for the entire site development
Involved in requirement gathering
Fit gap analysis
User interface
Development
Testing
Bug fixing, end user training and maintenance work
Tamil Nadu Scientists Oct. 1997 – Mar. 2000
Role: Web Developer
Web site - http://www.tamilnaduscientists.com
Tools Used - Dream weaver 2.0, Adobe Photoshop, ASP
Purpose - The complete lists of all the Institutions within the Science City.
Main Features - Latest news, Updates on the Scientists, Quiz Contests.
JKH Microtech Pte. Ltd Mar. 1997 – Oct. 1999
Role: Web Developer
Web site - http://www.jkhmicrotech.com.sg
Tools Used - JavaScript, ASP, PhotoShop 5
Purpose - Online display of CDROM, Audio, Video and Books of learning
Main Feature - Shopping cart and search
India Naturals Jul. 1997 – Oct. 1999
Role: Web Developer
Web site - http://www.indianaturals.com
Tools Used - Dream weaver Ultra Dev, JavaScript Adobe Photoshop.
Purpose - Health Care Products
Main Features - Online display of Health Care products
Irrigation Products International Jul. 1997 – Oct. 1999
Role: Web Developer
Web site - http://www.ipi-toro.com
Tools Used - JavaScript, Photo Shop 5, Animation Shop
Purpose - To display all the products and services of the company
Main Features - All their products have been categorized based on the applications and displayed
aesthetically with images to enable the visitors to view the products and technical
specifications prior to ordering
IPI - Customer Management Jul. 1997 – Oct. 1999
Role: Web Developer
Tools Used - Dream weaver 2.0, Adobe Photoshop, ASP
Purpose - Customer Management through Intranet
Main Features - Maintaining all the customer details according to the Enquiries and Requirements
education
Bachelors of Science
(More details about the above projects will be provided upon request)