Summary:

Seasoned professional with a strong experience in leading and delivering Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations and upgrades for 20 years. Successfully executed client business process transformations, project solution architecture, project solution scope management, and key project risks and resource management services to clients in the HealthCare, Public and State Government, Banking, Insurance and Telecom industries.

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Senior PeopleSoft Functional consultant and lead with 20+ years of experience that includes 18+ yrs extensive experience in PeopleSoft Finance and Supply chain involving analysis, design, development, implementation, customization and upgradation.

Oracle Cloud Certified: Inventory, Procurement, Account Payables & Accounting hub.

Extensive experience in Healthcare provider and State Publlic service.

Expertise in Peoplesoft Record to Report, Procure to Pay Modules.

Experience in leading and managing teams. Handled multiple roles - Project Lead, Business/Functional lead, Tech Lead, and Software Architect & Developer.

Experience in Gap fit, Design, Implementation, post go-live support and end user training.

Project Management using Onsite-Offshore Model, managing all onsite-offshore activities and reporting.

Assisted Client organization in implementing Business process and methodology across all software process lanes.

Strong development skills in Customizations/Enhancements & database skills.

Experience in Fit/Gap analysis and preparing Functional and Technical design documents. Good knowledge of whole PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal functionality to do impact analysis for any customizations.

Proficient in all aspects of Analysis and Design phase - designing business models, creating and transforming business requirements into functional, technical, mapping specifications, implementation and QA phases

Exceptional ability to build productive relationships with colleagues, clients, and vendors across all functional and technical disciplines, providing focused project management, accurate and detailed business and system analysis.

Excellent interpersonal, communication skills, creative problem-solver, excellent at learning new systems and processes, and proven ability to work effectively across departments and verticals.

Experience Summary:

Accenture: Senior Manager, Dallas, TX : Feb 2011 – To Aug 2020.

IBM Global services: Technical Manager, Chicago, IL : Nov 2003 – Feb 2011.

Sasken Communication Pvt LTD: Techno Functional Consultant, Bangalore India : Aug 2002 – Oct 2003.

Melstar Information Technologies Ltd :Techincal developer, Mumbai India : Apr 2000- Jul 2002.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial Engineering & management) ‘99 Bangalore Institute of Engineering College, Bangalore India

Certification

Oracle Inventory Cloud 2019 Certified Implementation Specialist

Oracle Procurement Cloud 2019 Certified Implementation Specialist

Oracle Payables Cloud 2019 Certified implementation specialist

Oracle Accounting hub Cloud 2019 Implementation essential.

Functional/Technical Skills:

ERP: PeopleSoft FSCM 8/8.4/8.9/9.1,9.2, Oracle Cloud Finance and Supply Chain.

Functional Modules: Finance (General ledger, Asset Management, Project Costing, Account Payables, Expenses, Account Receivables and Billing), SCM (Purchasing, eProcurement, Inventory, Strategic sourcing, Supplier Contractor management, eSupplier and Services Procurement module)

Development Tools: People tools 8/8.4x/8.5x (PeopleCode, PeopleTools, Application Designer, Application Engine, PS Query, Workflow, Component Interface, Integration Broker, Webservices)

Databases: Oracle 11g/10i/9i/8i, MS SQL Server 2000, DB2 7.1

Languages: SQL, SQR, JAVA (1.1/1.2), VB Excel macro

Reporting Tools: SQR, Crystal, nvision, XML Publilsher

Scheduling Tools: Autosys, CA 7, Control M

SDLC: Functional/Technical/mapping design, Process, Fit-gap, Requirements analysis, Prototype design

Professional Experience:

Procure to pay and Fixed asset Functional Lead State of Florida Tallahassee, FL PeopleSoft Finance Implementation 10/2018 – 02/2020

The Florida Planning, Accounting, and Ledger Management (PALM) Project is replacing the State of Florida’s current 40-year-old accounting and cash management systems with an integrated, enterprise financial management solution (FMS) that will allow the State to organize, define, and standardize its financial management processes.

Functional Lead PeopleSoft Procure to Pay and Asset Management implementation project for the State of Florida as a subject matter expert in Procurement and finance area with an impact to multi-billion state procurement and disbursement management operation and reporting.

Managing the core functional project team accountable for state defined requirements for new process solution designs to retire a nearly forty-year-old accounting system.

Develop standardized and to-be new business process across all 33 state agencies.

Facilitating requirements gathering, brainstorming and contemplating existing integration impacts, and communicate future process solution designs to statewide agencies and key stakeholders.

Managing project delivery lifecycle involving administering team and leadership statuses, tracking and resolving key decisions, risks, issues, and project schedule milestones.

Procure to Pay and Inventory Functional Lead Trinity Health Detroit, MI PeopleSoft Finance and SCM Implementation 10/2016 – 09/2018

Trinity Health a faith-based catholic organization were looking to transform their Trinity Health and Catholic Health East system to onto a single enterprise operational and reporting solutions with the aim to adhere to industry standard and leading reporting capabilities.

Lead PeopleSoft 9.2 Procure to Pay and inventory implementation project. Responsible to architect and design the Inventory system, procurement business process into the new system. Implemented mobile inventory and re-design GPO contract process to Purchase Order processing.

Design and architect the Inventory setup for 90 + acute health care facilities, implemented low unit of measure, internal warehouse distribution and implemented delivered oracle mobile solution for inventory functions supply chain staff.

Designed and led the complex PO sourcing across the all PO types to ensure the right contract (GPO, Trinity Health contracts) and pricing are reflected on the purchase order.

Managing the core functional project team accountable to define requirement for new process solution designs.

Develop standardized and to-be new business process across all 90 Acute health care system and outpatient facilities

Facilitating requirements Conducted gap-fit analysis and conference pilot session.

Managing project delivery lifecycle involving administering team and leadership statuses, tracking and resolving key decisions, risks, issues, and project schedule milestones.

Procurement and Inventory Functional lead Ascension Health St Louis, MO PeopleSoft Finance and SCM Implementation 02/2011 – 09/2016

Ascension Health the largest Catholic and non-profit health system embarked on a significant business transformation by implementing Peoplesoft enterprise resource planning (ERP) tool to enable an efficient, cost effective shared services environment for Supply Chain, Human Resources, and Finance. The resulting integrated information and business/ clinical intelligence provided improved analytic capability and better decision-making. It empowered the 60 Health Ministries and their associates to advance the core mission: improving patient care.

Responsibilities:

Functional lead responsible for analyzing, designing, building, testing and deploying PeopleSoft 9.1 Source to Pay (Inventory, Purchasing, eProcurement, Contract Management and Cost accounting).

Business transformation and readiness at individual health ministries.

Deployment leads for rollout for individual health ministries.

Design and implemented Consignment inventory.

Lead deployment and conversion activities across 6 deployment phases.

Designed Master data for 2 million+ contracts lines, 400K items and 60k suppliers.

Design and implemented Landed cost.

Design and coordinate eMarketPlace integration for hosted and Punch out Vendors.

Document/Test and review business rules/logic for Contract, Vendor and Item conversion.

Prepare functional design specifications and manage the development & test activities.

Maintaining and setting configuration across all environments.

Coordinated – UAT/SIT and rollout to production environment, system testing and issue tracking/resolution.

Technical, Development & Interface lead Northern Trust – Chicago, IL Peoplesoft Finance implementation 09/2009 – 02/2011

Northern Trust (NT) initiated a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project to implement a centralized systems platform that supports integrated and streamlined processes globally for all core accounting functions. The primary workstream was the design of a Global PeopleSoft General Ledger fully integrated with Accounts Payable, Purchasing and Fixed Assets across multiple geographic regions North America/EMEA/Asia Pac.

Responsibilities:

Technical/Functional Manager acting as liaison between project teams, primarily responsible for project delivery and managing development team of size 20.

Data Team Lead responsible for scoping, designing and finalizing requirements from 50 source systems (Trust fee, banking etc) for interfacing into PS GL.

Plan and architect the technical design for Data stage for GL files into PS.

Defining project scope, coordinating/managing resources, strategy w/key stakeholders and committees.

Evaluate business requirements, perform a Gap analysis, Project work plan management, statuses reporting, prepare functional design specifications and manage the design & analysis activities.

Share the business understanding with Technical Team to ensure flawless design specifications. Creating the High-level Functional Design Documents that would be based on the AS-IS business process & would be used as the basis for the appropriate mapping with their Core Business Application. Reviewing the technical work done by offshore team for any gaps & closing the same by providing the recommendations & changes.

Design and provided latest technology solution using web services for inbound interfaces.

Provide critical evaluation and selection and/or development of the software components and hardware requirements of the applications and data, and the development of the application, including evaluation and selection of development methods, development processes, best practices and tools.

Prepared Peoplesoft environment strategy document, Peoplesoft coding standard documents & batch schedule design template.

Configuration and setting up Punch out with external vendor. Customized punch out for extinct values for certain vendors.

Designed and developed web services for voucher invoices from external vendors and designed EDI invoice files from legacy system.

Designed and prototype web service interface with electronic data management.

Designed and architected Vendor and GL opening balance conversion program.

Design and implemented Business unit row level security.

Finance support lead Ace insurance - Philadelphia, PA PeopleSoft financial system support project 10/2008 – 09/2009

ACE INSURANCE is the USA based division of the ACE Group of Companies®, which provides insurance and reinsurance for a diverse group of clients around the world. PeopleSoft financial system was implemented to support their General Ledger, financial reporting, Accounts Payables and Travel & expense implemented across multiple geographic location North America, United Kingdom, Asia pacific and Japan.

Responsibilities:

On-site Team Lead acting as liaison between the Clients, IBM CA and IBM India development team, primarily responsible for project delivery and managing team.

Provide critical evaluation and selection and/or development of the software components and hardware requirements of the applications and data, and the development of the application, including evaluation and selection of development methods, development processes, best practices and tools.

Implementation of GBS (Global Business services) Onsite-offshore model to deliver results in 24/7 support.

Involved in the implementation and post implementation integrating Combine PeopleSoft 8.9 into ACE PeopleSoft 8.0.

Responsible for overall management of AR, Billing, Asset Management, AP and GL systems.

Managing client applications & addressing various issues in production and providing IT solution for the same. Responsibility to ensure smooth running of production systems and processes. Customizations & new developments as a part of regular maintenance activity based on client request or on a business process change.

Responsible for support, maintain and delegation of the system request across multi geographic locations.

Configuration of multicurrency processing, consolidation, Allocation and summary ledger setup.

Monitoring batch and production support.

Designed and developed batch design for combine implementation project.

PeopleSoft Techno-Functional Consultant and Lead Sprint Nextel Corporation - Overland Park, KS PeopleSoft upgrade & Production Support, 8.9 Implementation & Support 02/2005 – 09/2008

Peoplesoft FSCM 8.9 upgrade involved in merger of legacy Nextel PS8.4 (Solaris, Oracle) and legacy Sprint PS8.4 (DB2 mainframe) and upgrade onto a single instance of PeopleSoft FSCM 8.9 (Solaris /Oracle 10 g).

Responsibilities:

On-site Team Lead acting as liaison between the Sprint FIS, Sprint IT, IBM US and IBM India development team, primarily responsible for project delivery and managing team.

Involved in Analysis of the existing processes in legacy system, conducting fit-gap analysis, preparing design documents, Configuration, System and integration testing, User Acceptance testing support and assisting in the final implementation 8.9 upgrade.

Responsible for analysis & design activities to capture the requirements of the clients and document the same in the form of hig-level technical design & estimation of timelines for developers. It involved extensive interaction with the users and taking them through the UAT and Sign-Off after the implementation of the new deployments.

Conversion of Legacy Custom Batch Process to adhere to PS8.9 environment.

Applying specific legacy customizations in PS 8.9.

Conversion of legacy Mainframe Cobol/SAS programs to SQR’s and applications engines.

Prepared detailed technical designs for the customizations identified in the fit-gap analysis – Commitment Edits in project Costing, GL General Upload and PC journal upload process.

Implemented PC commitment edits via messaging/comp interface to third party system.

Designed, developed project upload functionality (Creating mass projects online).

Designed, developed to interface PO Receipt/SPro/AP accrual entries in PC.

Designed, developed project costing edit interface to validate PC chartfield and commitment check before inserting them into project resource table.

Designed, developed custom project hierarchy structure involving SPA/PA & Project id.

Designed, developed custom project status approval and related workflow.

Designed custom project allocation program to determine capital expenditures associated with capital projects.

Designed custom GL Chartfield Edit AE and implement in various modules PC/AP.

Designed, develop custom GL journal process to upload journals.

Designed several interfaces to project costing from T&E/CTE.

Implementing legacy STS invoice/payment system in AR/BI.

Technical lead involved during SPIN Off of EMBARQ. Identifying and applying customization, post-production support.

Coordinated deliveries, queries, issues between onsite & offshore team and track it to closure.

Managing projects through EDP life cycle in the role of Application Architect and Process SME.

Assigning and managing defect tickets through Change Synergy and HP Service Desk to offshore team.

Production support of PC, AM, ARBI GL & AP issues.

PeopleSoft Techno-Functional Consultant Sprint Nextel Corporation – Bangalore, India PeopleSoft 8.4 offshore transition, maintenance & Production Support 01/2004 – 01/2005

Sprint is the Leading Telecom service provider in Local and Long wire line and personal communication services to the Business, Consumer and residential customers. As it is an imperative need to push the cost structures down in the current competitive market, sprint has implemented People Soft ERP suite to have better Supply chain Insights and Financial analytics in place.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Project Transition and transfer to offshore.

Primary Offshore contact point for Client Interfacing, understanding their requirements, design functional/technical specs & guiding the Development Team in executing work.

Responsible to handle PACS/PC post-production live and warranty.

Managing projects through EDP life cycle in the role of Application Architect and developer.

Attended Priority1, Priority2 AND Priority3 calls and solved production issues on timely basis.

Customization of Online Peoplesoft objects and Batch jobs.

Development of Application Engines, SQR’s and COBOL batch Job.

Monitoring and production support for SLA PO hourly cycle using Mainframe and DB2 utilities tools.

Design develop automated AE to change the project status.

Design; develop automated feed from PC to Project Information Portal.

Developed Summarized MTD/LTD PC- GL Difference report/Overspent projects.

Design AM to PC interface for sending group/non-group rows to PC.

PeopleSoft Techno-Functional Consultant Sasken Communication Pvt LTD - Bangalore, India Bangalore, Indian PeopleSoft FSCM 8.0/ HR 8.3 Post Implementation support and Warranty 08/2002 – 10/2003

PeopleSoft HRMS and Finance has been implemented to support and service the various operations of the organization. The major modules implemented were Procure to Pay, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Account Receivables, Recruitment, Training, Competency Management and Administer Workforce.

Responsibilities:

Developed technical specifications for conversion, interface, and report programs and PeopleCode customizations.

Working with the functional experts, analyze comparison reports and identify customizations that will require rework and which must be reapplied.

Assist functional team with development of test plans and scripts, and respond to all technical issues and queries that arise during the integration testing, UAT and deployment.

Analyzed, designed & developed custom PO Workflow approval.

Atomization of User creation/Client creation in Finance based on the employee data from HR.

Analyze and replicate the India tax localization for 8.4 upgrade.

Reviewed and built customization (form design and workflow).

Design, development, Implementation of Travel Requisition, Advance Claim Form.

Design and development of PeopleSoft Quires.

Design and development of SQR reports and crystal reports.

Upgrade finance 8 SP1 Peopletools 8.13 to finance 8.4 Peopletools 8.42.

Implementation of HRMS Transfer process.

Identification and applying of patches.

Interacting with GSC for technical and functional issues.

Java Architect and Programmer Various Clients: Mumbai India. Java development projects 12/2000 – 07/2002

Responsible for developing and Architect for People’s Association tool for government of Singapore.

Lead designing and development of the service desk tool-The right Desk expert.

Java Programmer responsible for the development of the Bond Trading system for Verticalab Inc USA.

Java architect responsible for the development of the MRO exchange tool for the SIAEC Singapore.

Lead development activities for Doorsonline.com for the B2B website for Bennett Industries, USA.

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