HRIS Analyst/Information Technology Professional

Larry Stern

Information Technology Professional/HRIS Business Analyst Principal

Lehighton, PA 18235

*******@***.*** - 610-***-****

An Information Technology professional with significant experience in many aspects of the industry including: Management; Project Leadership; Project Management; Vendor Management; ERP System Implementation and Administration; Custom Application Development; Systems Analysis and Design; Outsourcing (domestic and international); Budget Management; Compliance and Auditing. Possesses considerable experience in various HCMs including Workday, SAP, and Oracle. Also, experienced in Service Now, Remedy, SuccessFactors/SuccessFactory, Taleo, ADP VirtualEdge and SumTotal. Have managed diverse, integrated, global teams composed of employees and contractors. Have successfully interfaced with all levels of management and have consistently delivered projects on time and within budget. Maintain a proven track record of providing strong leadership for the organization. Dedicate maximum effort and commitment to all activities. Authorized to work in the US for any employer.

Available for immediate employment due to workforce reduction due to position relocation.

Experience:

Human Resources - HRIS Analyst Principal - LSI/Avago Technologies/Broadcom - June 2007 to January 2017

Possesses 3 years of Workday, 7 years SAP HCM/Success Factors/ADP Virtual Edge experience and became the sole Workday System Administrator in the US supporting a 15,000-employee global company. Provided support to the user community as well as change implementation, mass uploads(EIB), data accuracy and reporting. Acquired experience in all HR programs and processes supporting the entire employee life cycle. Administered and developed Talent Acquisition and On-Boarding processes within ADP Virtual Edge. Provided oversight on the requirements, development, testing and deployment of interfaces to various vendors (including 401K, Benefits(Mercer/Aonn), Payroll (ADP), Learning, Travel (Carlson Wagonlit), through times of acquisition and vendor turnover, while adhering to the change control process. Supported Legal and EH&S compliance coursework via a LMS, developed processes in support of a corporate merger with an emphasis on Human Resources. Developed and supported custom HRIS Workforce Management applications, integrating data from an HCM, an ATS and a Data Warehouse. Possess the ability to work with the business community to extract requirements and create custom solutions. Managed and participated in testing for planned system upgrades/enhancements for SAS applications. Provided Tier 3 support for all escalated HRIS issues, documenting the solution and relaying the information to the Service Desk for inclusion in the Knowledge Base. Possesses strong analytical skills and the background to recognize and solve problems across the enterprise. Experienced in data extraction, manipulation and presentation.

Information Technology - Senior Manager, Agere Systems - October 2006 to May 2007

Manager of a 22-member team residing in Allentown and Bangalore. Responsible for the operations, performance and availability of the Business Information Systems in the organization which included multiple 11i Oracle installations as well as support for a wide portfolio of applications supporting many unique platforms and applications. End to end responsibility for the overall health and well-being of portfolio, measured on availability, performance and incident avoidance/resolution. Team resources include Database, Application, Unix Administration, Storage and an application support team. The 7 x 24 application support team responded to all SEV1 incidents within their scope, escalating to SME when necessary to resolve issues within the enterprise. Management of all aspects of change in the environments from Operating System and Technology, to Application and Database upgrades managed by the organization while complying to Sarbanes-Oxley regulations.

Information Technology - Technical Manager, Agere Systems - October 2000 to September 2006

Member of the 11i E-business Suite implementation team where I served as Manager responsible for Application Infrastructure. Areas of focus included delivery of environments, Load and Failure Testing, Release Management and Application availability. The timeline began with the initial installation of the first 11.5.9 VIS environments in April of 2004 commencing with Production cutover utilizing 11.5.10 CU1 release of the Oracle Applications supporting the E-Business Suite and Advanced Supply Chain Planning Modules in October 2005. Technologies applied during the project included NAS, SAN, Alteon Load Balancing, Extended Oracle RAC with private interconnect, Linux, HP-UX and Veritas SFRAC. Areas of responsibility included the management of a team including Oracle Application Administration and Database Administration, Unix System Engineering and Oracle Consulting. Post implementation, retained operational responsibilities for applications 11.5.10 applications base. Completion of Staff Augmentation and Outsourcing models realizing cost savings and service enhancements. By partnering with an outsourcing provider in the Bangalore, India, within my organization a cost savings of approximately a half million dollars was realized. This arrangement required a decrease of domestic based staff and an increase in staff in the India region. By implementing this model, a cost savings of 60% per resource and the ability to provide support in a global fashion while limiting the on call responsibilities of domestic staff. Completion of Server and Storage Consolidation project resulting in a cost savings of 2 cents per share for Agere Systems. This activity required planning and execution of multiple stages in both the server and storage platforms. Included in this project was the migration from EMC Symmetrix to a lower cost Storage Area Network while incurring limited downtime to the production ERP environment and incurring minimal service degradation during the process.

Information Technology - Technical Infrastructure Lead - Lucent Technologies - December 1999 to September 2000

Technical Infrastructure Lead responsible for the availability and performance of the operating environment supporting the Enterprise Applications for Agere Systems. Main responsibilities included the availability and maintenance of the underlying infrastructure of the Oracle 10.7 ERP, Oracle 11i and assorted supporting applications. Responsibilities included availability and management of the entire infrastructure supporting the Business Applications.

Information Technology - Development Manager - AT&T/Lucent Technologies - July 1998 to November 1999

Responsible for the delivery and support of the Supply Chain Planning solution supporting Microelectronics Business Unit. During my tenure, 2 releases deployed on time and within budget. One, a major redesign to support independence from the implementation schedule of the Oracle Application Suite. Initial release was completed to enable the application to move forward, independent of the Oracle deployment timeline and provide new functionality needed by our business partners. Second release supported the total integration of the supply chain planning system and the Oracle ERP, interfacing data on a daily basis with complete dependence, suspending critical processing when information was not provided per schedule.

Information Technology - Software Engineer - AT&T Micro-Electronics - May 1994 to June 1998

Developed and implemented the redesign of the supply chain planning engine. The redesign included improvements in the utilization of system memory and the limiting the database interaction. The end result after modifications was a run time of 2 hours and the removal of the dependency of database availability.

Developed "back end processes" for the Supply Chain Planning application. These processes include networking applications for data collection, DB load utilities, (incremental and full refresh methodology) statistical calculations and interfaces between UNIX and Mainframe systems. Also includes applications to support business decision-making process.

Developed process to perform statistical analysis on product history to calculate yield and cycle times. This process utilized a 5-sigma outlier algorithm to evaluate each step of the bill of material, then integrated the updated values to the shop floor and process control systems. Values where then relayed to the order management system then used to provide reliable order delivery information to end customers.

Information Technology - Software Engineer - Computer Aid, Inc supporting AT&T Micro-Electronics - Reading, PA - June 1989 to April 1994

Designed and developed an automated data collection system. This system involved interfacing to various types of testing equipment along with communicating to a shop floor control system. The purpose of this system is to collect data, enforces testing procedures and to track the movement of product throughout the shop floor. This system is written in the "C" programming language using embedded SQL to interface to a local INFORMIX database as well as using UNIX IPC utilities to interface to a distributed shop floor database.

Information Technology - Software Engineer - Computer Aid, Inc supporting AT&T Micro-Electronic- September 1987 to May 1989

Supported the IMS to UNIX Conversion of an in-house Quality System. Environmental shift from Mainframe IMS to Unix based systems supported by the roll out of the AT&T branded 3B line of microcomputers. Developed user interface, data collection processes and underlying file based database design.

Information Technology - Associate Software Engineer - Atlantic Research Corporation - Alexandria, VA - November 1985 to August 1987

Supported the development of the Telephone switch management system. The system would allow the switch administrator to enter transactions via a “user friendly” environment with the updates being then made to the switch during the overnight. As well, the system provided detailed call detail reporting capabilities, highlighting abuse and allowing “charge back” to the organization for services provided.

Education:

Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Lycoming College - Williamsport, PA

Skills:

Microsoft Office (10+ years), Learning Management Systems (3 years), Project Management (10+ years), Human Resources - Performance/Development/Compensation Management (10+ years), Human Resources - Talent Acquisition and On Boarding (5 years), Workday - Systems Administration (3 years), HRIS (9 years), Workforce Planning (3 years), Supply Chain Management (5 years), IT Management (6 years), SOX Compliance (5 years), Application Development (10+ years), Auditing (5 years), Quality Systems (5 years), Application Security (5 years), Statistical Analysis (10+ years), Business Analysis (10+ years)

GROUPS

Trustee - Lehigh Carbon Community College June 2006 to June 2015 Trustee representing the Lehighton Area School District.

Treasurer June 2006 to Present Treasurer of the Lehighton Sewer Authority, a non-operating authority of the Lehighton Borough.

Board Member December 2007 to Present Member of the Lehighton Area Board of Education. Served four years as Vice President of the Board, supporting 2 Superintendents and 2 Presidents.

Utility Software:

MS Office Suite, MS Project, Visio, MS SQL Server, Cold Fusion

Process and Procedure:

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Employee Life Cycle Management, Order Management, Environment Management and Strategy, Workforce Management Analysis and Reporting

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