Aravind Ramalingom

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Senior HCM Consultant

Aravind Ramalingom is a senior Human Resources ERP consultant specialized in HR with over 15 years of experience. He has performed Consulting roles during his career as a Developer, Techno-Functional analyst, Business solutions Analyst and as a Solution Architect. He also has product development experience with Oracle in PeopleSoft Global Payroll country extensions. He has experience in workflow-based business processes in Human Capital Management which primarily includes Recruiting systems in PeopleSoft, Workday, Taleo and Oracle Recruitment Cloud. He has extensive experience in working with the Business owners by providing functional solutions to strategize their HR Transformation projects around the Recruiting and ATS systems.

He has also played an active role in Pre-Sales, design workshops and implementation of various HRIS systems as a Technical solution Architect with full life cycle implementations and upgrades. Implementation experiences include implementations for HR modules in PeopleSoft, Taleo and SuccessFactors. WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer/Client: InfoPro Systems Inc/University of California Project: UCPath TAM and ePerformance deployments

Role/Designation: Technical/Functional Analyst

Duration December 2016 – Present

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Conference Room Pilots to HR teams across 10 UC campuses and Medical centers to demonstrate the technology solution adopted for their Talent Acquisition strategy.

• Worked with business owners from 6 UC locations to understand their Recruiting process and provide solutions to adapt to the new system design.

• Worked with UC Campuses to understand the policies around recruitment to develop strategic business process in adherence to UC’s compliance requirements.

• Developed design documents with approved business process flows for the business requirement provided for the Recruiting business process.

• Assessed integrations with third party vendors like Universal Background check and Talemetry which would bring in value add to the existing applicant tracking and hiring processes.

• Worked with multiple Healthcare assessment vendors to implement assessments as part of the Hiring and On Boarding process.

• Written test scripts for Functional unit tests and System tests.

• Conducted configuration gathering session with all business units, consolidated and configured in the system testing environment.

• Executed Functional and system test scripts and addressed issues with the technical team for an effective resolution.

• Coordinated with the technical team to translate the functional design to technical design through functional walkthrough sessions.

SUMMARY

• Documentation of the change management process for UC Campuses transitioning from legacy Recruiting system to PeopoleSoft TAM

• Prepared Security roles matrix for various components, Search definitions, IScripts, Component interfaces, PS Queries, Service operations in HCM.

• Instrumental in scheduling batch processes using Control M

• Designed future state process design workflows for the various requirements gathered for PeopleSoft Core HR and Talent Acquisition Manager.

Employer/Client: InfoPro Systems Inc/ KPMG

Project: Technical development for PeopleSoft 9.2 Manage Self Service Role/Designation: Technical Analyst

Duration October 2016 – March 2017

Responsibilities:

• Developed Position Management for Manager Self-Service with approvals for Massachusetts Eye and Ear infirmary (Healthcare Unit of Harvard)

• Worked with the functional team and testers to design and develop the Position change process through PeopleSoft Manager Self-Service.

• Worked through the testing and cut over phases by fixing outstanding issues for a successful go live. Employer/Client: InfoPro Systems/Houston Methodist Hospital Project: HR System Upgrade and Implementation (PeopleSoft HCM 9.2) Role/Designation: Programmer Analyst

Duration April 2015 – December 2016

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Third Party vendor Talemetry to understand the out of the box product functionality and provided an impact analysis for a cleaner implementation.

• Conducted requirement gathering sessions and system demonstration for Talent Management suites.

• Coordinated with the business users on new functionality and features available as part of the upgraded system and provided viable business process solutions.

• Written Functional requirement document with approved business process flows to ensure the customer requirements are implemented as part of the system upgrade.

• Underwent training on the Cloud based SuccessFactors system and successfully transitioned the client’s Learning Management system from in premise system to cloud.

• Worked with multiple Healthcare assessment vendors to implement assessments as part of the Hiring and On Boarding process.

• Documentation of implemented processes and maintained other project assets post project go live.

• Support, maintenance and enhancements for the existing HRIS and Learning Management systems.

• Developed multiple Interface programs using Application engine and ExcelToCI to integrate PeopleSoft HRMS system with Third party applications like SuccessFactors.

• Develop integration between PeopleSoft Candidate Gateway system and various Healthcare assessment systems using PeopleSoft IScripts and Integration broker for efficient screening of applicants.

• Developed custom SQRs and batch processes for Payroll Tax reporting and Year end processing.

• Conducted Fit-Gap assessments for existing customizations in PeopleSoft Recruiting solutions to implement Talemetry for Candidate sourcing and Resume parsing.

• Developed and customized Oracle Secured Enterprise Search (SES) for searches in PeopleSoft Recruiting and Profile Management.

• Developed custom Fluid pages for Employee and Manager Self Service modules for Profile management.

• Developed custom Connected Queries to build BI Publisher reports for Career and Succession Planning. Employer/Client: Deloitte/J.D Irving

Project: HCM Cloud Implementation (PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 & Oracle Cloud) Role/Designation: Implementation Specialist/ Senior Consultant Duration October 2014 – Apr 2015

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Workshops with business owners of various departments to streamline their existing HR business processes to ensure out of the box system implementation.

• Business requirement gathering of Client’s Talent Management modules like Taleo Recruiting, ePerformance, Compensation, Succession Planning and Career Planning.

• Conducted demonstrations of Talent management modules with Case Studies to satisfy the Company’s objective to the Organizational chart through exhibiting Succession 360 for Key positions.

• Integration of Taleo Recruiting and Onboarding with PeopleSoft HCM.

• Provided training to key personnel in configuring the system to implement specific rules and templates as per client needs.

• Provided a system to system comparison chart to provide a clear objective as to identify the fits and gaps between the actual business process and the out of the box system processes.

• Documented flow charts and responsibility matrix for each business requirement for procedural sign offs from business owners/entitites.

• Involved in Pre-Sales activities like preparing RFP/RFI with cost estimations for a winning bid.

• Used proprietary cost estimation tools to calculate the overall implementation cost. Employer/Client: InfoPro Systems Inc/St Elizabeth Healthcare Project: PeopleSoft HRMS Upgrade (9.2)

Role/Designation: Functional Lead/ Business Analyst Duration January 2014 – October 2014

Responsibilities:

• Lead a technical team of 6 members to conduct brainstorm technical features, writing technical design documents and process flow diagrams.

• Requirements gathering on new functionalities to be implemented to the HR business processes in PeopleSoft HCM 9.2.

• Performed Impact Analysis to replace custom bolt on functionality and map them to delivered PeopleSoft business process.

• Implement Candidate Gateway and Talent Acquisition Manager from scratch for St Elizabeth Physicians

• Coordination with Business sponsors on approval for the upgrade business processes and providing training on new functionalities.

• Providing solutions to improve their business process by reducing manual effort and performance improvement strategy.

• Business process re-engineering for existing redundant business processes.

• Write functional design document based on requirements gathered without affecting the business process flow.

• Implement two different career sites for St Elizabeth hospitals and St Elizabeth physicians. Employer/Client: InfoPro Systems Inc/ Turner Broadcasting Systems Project: Various HR projects (PeopleSoft HCM 9.1)

Role/Designation: Senior Application specialist

Duration October 2013 – January 2014

Responsibilities:

• Implemented new interface reports in Tax Crediting using SQRs for year-end annual processing.

• Provided assistance in support for Core HR, Time and Labor and NA payroll.

• Enhancements for Approval workflow for Manager Self Service for Position Changes and Transfers.

• Created new Event rules for benefit elections for employees with predefined eligibility rules.

• Providing functional solutions for their Employee Self Service and Manager Self-service applications. Employer/Client: Steria/ Societe Generale

Location: Chennai/Toulouse, France

Project: Societe Generale

Role: Transition Manager

Duration: August 2012 - January 2013

Responsibilities:

• Implemented new interface reports for Tax Crediting using SQRs for year-end annual processing.

• Prepared High level Knowledge transfer plan and executed it between the onsite and offshore teams.

• Hired resources based on their skill sets matching the profile requirements.

• Plan for support activities from offshore developing user manual and appropriate documentation. • Continuous improvement strategies using Six Sigma methodology to reduce cost for on service operations.

Employer/Client: Computer Sciences Corporation/ Pfizer Location: St Louis, USA

Project: Recruiter Usability Interface (PeopleSoft HCM 9.0) Role: Solutions Architect

Duration: February 2007 – August 2012

Responsibilities:

• Designed a prototype of the redesigned PeopleSoft TAM system to get approval from business owners for the commencement of the project.

• Designed and built custom pages using Adobe Flex framework and developed iScripts to populate data from PeopleSoft tables.

• Multiple iterations of page designs with the business owners to finalize the desired system design for their Talent Acquisition and Shared services system.

• Preparing technical design documents based on function specification provided.

• Decision making on technologies and tools to be used for requirements provided.

• Performing feasibility analysis on the functional specification and accordingly make design changes.

• Provide estimation on Technical design and build for each functional requirement as per the resources provided.

• Continuous improvement of business transaction to reduce inflow of issues through six sigma approach.

• Maintain the Service Level agreement above 98% every week for the modules handled.

• Worked with business analysts and the business owners to finalize on functional designs based on the business requirement documents provided.

• Analyze the requirements and provide design suggestions to improve system performance.

• Provide ideas for preparation of test scripts and regression test scripts.

• Weekly meeting with business owners to get sign off on the functional specifications.

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• Prepare the technical project plan for the entire project stream

• Coordinate between the functional and technical team to avoid conflicts between functional and technical requirements.

• Setting up daily calls with the technical and functional teams to monitor the progress of the project.

• Weekly status meetings with the business owners to provide status on the project progress.

• Preparation of project go live plan and coordination of cutover activities with different teams involved.

• Transitioning of the system knowledge to the support team. Employer/Client: Oracle/Oracle

Project: Global Payroll-CE (Country Extension)

Role/Designation: Developer/Software Engineer

Duration June 2004 – February 2007

Responsibilities:

• Product fixes for Global Payroll for Japan, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, India and New Zealand as part of support.

• Product fixes for Workforce Administration in PeopleSoft 8.3, 8.8, 8.9 and 9.0.

• Preparation of Technical Design documents for new development in Global Payroll country extensions.

• Traditional Upgrades for Global Payroll CEs (India, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and Japan)

• Created new Application Engines for Data conversion.

• Data Analysis and creation of Data loading sequence for Global Payroll products Western Governors University, Salt Lake City, Utah Master of Business Administration – Estimated completion March 2019 Specialization in IT Project Management

Government College of Technology, Coimbatore

Specialized in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Grade: First Class with Distinction

High School: Adarsh Vidya Kendra

Year 2000: Percentage: 94% Bachelor of Engineering May 2004 CONTACT DETAILS

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