Human Resources Information Technology

RAHUL KULKARNI

Pleasanton, CA • 925-***-**** • ***************@*****.***• www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-kulkarni-0896783

Hands on Program and Project Management leader, including planning, directing, and monitoring activities of project teams involved in initial analysis, design, development, and successful delivery and implementation of projects and large-scale programs

Skills:

Product and Program Strategy and Development

ERP transformation

API technology and processes

Leadership and Team Management

Program and Project Management

Financial Management and Budgeting

Stakeholder Engagement and Communication

Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

Agile Methodologies and DevOps Practices

Tools and Technologies:

Planning- JIRA, Confluence, Slack

Project Management- MS Plan, Google Smartsheets, Visio, Excel, SharePoint Dashboards

Cloud technologies- OCI and MS Azure

DevOps- Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins

Automation- Appium, Selenium

Reporting- Tableau, Power Bi

Monitoring- Dynatrace, Kibana, Elastic Search, Splunk, Microfocus, Nagios

WORK EXPERIENCE

University of Southern California, School of Medicine- Los Angeles, CA- Sr. Program Manager- Consultant- October 2022–Present

The University of Southern California transformed and migrated the on-prem PeopleSoft Humar Resources and Financial systems to Oracle’s SaaS based Humar Capital Management and the ERP applications on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Key Achievements:

Accountable for end-to-end program implementation that included project planning, program implementation, user training, technical documentation financial management, stakeholder management

Engaged with senior leaders and business stakeholders to assess and understand functional business requirements and ensured the scope of work is approved and frozen

Defined and implemented a 3-year infrastructure and environment management strategy that included Dev, QA, Pre-Prod, Production, DR instances in close partnership with Oracle operational team

Collaborated with the Oracle release management and internal teams for testing and deployment of quarterly releases

Partnered across the IT functional groups including Network Infrastructure, Applications, End User Experience, and Enterprise Security to successfully convert requirements into technical specs, resulting in achievable implementation tasks, timelines, and milestones for solution development and delivery

Led a team of 40+ people that included project managers, developers, architects, designers, technical interface analyst, clinical and business analyst, quality assurance

Committed to fiscal transparency and responsible stewardship to ensure the resources are allocated efficiently

Managed an annual budget of $4M+ with well-defined financial governance plan, backed by frequent audits of planned vs actual costs,

Developed and maintained project management plans using GANTT charts, MS project, risk management plans using RAID methodology

Worked in collaboration with onshore and offshore Core HR, Payroll, and HCM Technical resources to resolve client issues.

Created an incident management process using ServiceNow tool that helped resolve complex technical production issues within the RTO and RSO.

Worked closely with the compliance team and ensured all the HIPPA, SOX, PHI and PCI regulations were followed and approved

Prepared and presented program updates to the steering committee and senior leadership in partnership with the PMO and program sponsors every month

Owned and maintained product backlog using JIRA and Confluence

Demonstrated a strong facilitation and conflict resolution skills throughout the program implementation, that included team conflicts, scope creep, technical limitations of the product

Managed integration of Oracle HCM with existing internal and external vendor applications through a comprehensive Data Warehouse strategy

Oversaw the integration of Oracle ERP financial systems with other applications and data sources to ensure seamless business process flow.

Ensured data integrity, accuracy, consistency, and compliance across integrated systems.

Maintained an up-to-date API catalog, including the development and governance of APIs using CLIENT Apigee and other relevant tools

Strategized an extensive data migration and data conversion strategy using the HCM Data Loader (HDL) tool

Deep technical knowledge of HCM Cloud Applications covering conversion, integrations, customizations, and reports using the OACS platform

Kaiser Permanente- Pleasanton, CA- Director, Application and Program Management January 2018–September 2022

I was accountable and responsible for delivering the transformation of the HR and Finance systems from On-prem to a SaaS product that included product evaluations, program management, interacting extensively with the business stakeholders and users that included labor unions to define and document the business requirements accurately, designing and architect the infrastructure strategy, develop middleware integration hub, vendors selection

Key Achievements:

Accountable for the strategy, planning, roll-out and operational support of the Human Capital Management application from on-Prem Peoplesoft application to a SaaS Oracle HCM and on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure across 8 regions, included data migration for 275000 employees, payroll, and benefits configuration for 52 unions

Contributed towards selection and finalizing the product for HCM implementation that included modules: Core HR, Labor and Time management, Talent Acquisition, Benefits, People Management, Absence

Led a Data Migration and Data load strategy using the Oracle HDL and BOOMI tools for 275,000 employees that included product selection, architecture, design, data fallouts

Defined a comprehensive Datawarehouse strategy and implementation for seamless integration between the existing internal and external applications with Oracle HCM using Apigee and B2B middleware tools

Defined a robust disaster recovery and fail over infrastructure strategy to ensure business continuity and high availability

Implemented the Oracle Analytics services for business reporting and ad-hoc reporting

Led a team of 100+ people in a matrixed organization, managing an annual budget of $18M, interacting closely with the business stakeholders, regional and contractual staff to ensure alignment and accuracy in documentation of business requirements using Waterfall methodology

Automated the entire infrastructure and code deployment using Ansible, JMeter tools and processes accelerating the product development and deployment activities by 40%

Successfully implemented a multi-cloud management strategy between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and MS Azure platforms that provided security against data loss and unplanned downtime

Accountable for defining the program management processes, tools (Jira, Confluence, MS project, PowerPoint, PowerBI etc.), building project team, selection of implementation partner, managing SOWs

Led the development of the business and program scope and strategy and ensured program team understands the key success criteria for the overall program.

Cultivated a deep breadth of team leadership and technical talent to deliver results and support future growth and coach the team to their full potential and develop their personal careers

Put in place repeatable and scalable process structures and reporting mechanisms to run a large portfolio of work in onshore/offshore/nearshore model

Demonstrated strong teamwork, communication, and presentation skills to coordinate with team members and leadership to set expectations, mitigate risks, and resolve issues

Kaiser Permanente- Pleasanton, CA- Senior Manager, Care Delivery Technology Services, June 2011–December 2018

Key Achievements:

Led a team of 100+ software engineers, architects, designers, project managers for digital transformation of 500 + legacy Pharmacies into state-of-art modern application and integrate it with 60+ legacy applications (national and regional) through an in house developed API platform

Designed and delivered a cutting-edge clinical information, workflow, and analytics systems (Telehealth) integrated platform that raised the quality of healthcare by bringing underlying information to light, helped move medicine from reactive to predictive, and helped doctors spend more time with patients and their families

Designed and built an in-house real time API integration hub/platform using SOA architecture, that was scalable to handle 350m web services call, 100m+ pharmacy prescriptions, 190m+ laboratory records annually

Enabled the real time API integration hub for Data Interoperability between Kaiser and other multiple external healthcare providers (UnitedHealth, Mayo Clinic)

Strategized and directed the DEVOPS strategy, SAFe Agile practice, hybrid cloud infrastructure, microservices architecture using emerging technologies and tools

Led and collaborated with a cross-functional technology team to successfully implement and drive adoption of the new pharmacy system to realize business results

Led the mobile development team to develop several mobile applications (for the pharmacy technicians, members, and physicians) using Ionic and G7 frameworks, Cordova platform, and NodeJS, HTML, CSS UI

Provided employee mentoring to fill crucial skill gaps and position team for overall success

Kaiser Permanente- Pleasanton, CA- Manager, Application Development, September 2008–June 2011

Key Achievements:

Conceptualized and implemented an enterprise Digital Center of Excellence to drive innovation and excellence in digital initiatives across the organization.

Successfully led the integration of 15+ mobile applications into one flagship application, streamlining user experience and enhancing efficiency.

Established offshore Application Development teams, reducing personnel costs by $1.4M while maintaining quality and productivity.

Defined and built a robust process for the certification of mobile applications by the Technology Risk Office, ensuring compliance and security.

Achieved a remarkable reduction in staff turnover to less than 2%, down from previously high levels of 23%+, by implementing effective retention strategies and fostering a positive work environment

Kaiser Permanente- Pleasanton, CA -Lead, Integrations, December 2004–September 2008

Key Achievements:

Built integrations for Electronic Medical Record System, Epic, across entire KP enterprise

Led the integration of the EMR software Epic Systems with the legacy Pharmacy application

Build the BRIDGES interface within the Epic application, to enable the integration and data exchange of multiple systems and applications

Deloitte Consulting Services-Palo Alto, CA- Lead / Manager, SAP Implementation, June 1998–December 2001

Implemented ERP software across pharmaceutical and telecom domains

Education

Bachelor of Accounting and Information Systems UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI

Master of Finance UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI

Executive Program: Digital Transformation UNIVERSITY OF BERKLEY

OCI Associate Architect Oracle University

Other Certifications: HIPPA, Agile Scrum Master

Attended several in-house leadership trainings:

Situational Leadership • Managing Teams Virtually • Presenting to Executives

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