Kronos Consultant

Nithish Saravanan

857-***-**** **********************@*****.*** Houston TX

Education:

Masters in Analytics-Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA Mar2020 Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering - Anna University, Chennai, TN, India May2015 Summary:

• 5+ years of experience in analysis, design, development, maintenance and support of Kronos Workforce Central Suites(7.0, 6.3, 6.2, 6.1, 6.0& 5.2).

• Experience in configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Workforce Timekeeper, Accruals, Scheduling, Analytics, Workforce Device Manager, and Teletime.

• Experience in Workforce Connect/WIM and Kronos Configuration Manager, Record Manager.

• Experience in configuring and supporting Kronos Timekeeper products for Retail users.

• Strong Experience in supporting customers in creating Schedules, Function Access Profiles, Hyper find queries, Display profiles, Logon profiles, and Workflow Notifications.

• Experience on maintenance and support of Kronos Application servers and performance troubleshooting.

• Experience in Data collection Manager Kronos 4500 Clocks setup and support.

• Experience in Supporting Workforce Analytics and WFSO.

• Hands on professional experience in JAVA, JSP, Servlet, Struts, Tiles, Beans, JDBC and in J2EE applications.

Skills:

Tools : Kronos, Excel, Tableau, Apache Spark, QlikView, RStudio, Jupyter Notebook, Eclipse, IntelliJ, JIRA, VSTS, Postman, SVN, Git

Programming Language : Java, Python, R-Programming, SQL Web Services API’s : REST, SOAP

Data Formatting : JSON, XML, HTML

Professional Experience:

Kronos Consultant- JCPenny (Contract) Sep 2018-Present

• Interacting with the Business Analysts to understand the complete requirement of the new Change Requests.

• Configured new Pay rules, Work rules, Access Profiles, etc. based on business needs. Responsible for monitoring any alerts on Kronos Servers.

• Configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Workforce Timekeeper, Workforce Integration Manager, Accruals, Scheduling, Workforce Device Manager.

• Configured Pay rules, Work rules and accrual policies.

• Worked on HyperFind Queries, Function Access Profiles, Display Profiles, Workforce Genies, Labor Levels, Pay codes, Shift Templates, Pattern Templates, Wage Calculations, Holiday, Overtime Rules.

• Worked on different interfaces with different kinds of file formats to integrate Kronos output with systems like PeopleSoft.

• Worked on Multi Step Interfaces, Variables and Calculations, Lookup Tables and Batch Processing for Output files

• Testing the interface output using different scenarios and target systems

• Creating and maintaining the project documents according to client documentation formats.

• Worked with clients directly on the fixing their production issues.

• Responsible for troubleshooting root/cause analysis, testing of configuration changes, migration of configuration through development, test, production environments, and software configuration management

• Using record manager to move required configuration changes and enhancements to production. Software Engineer- Tech Mahindra Ltd. Jun 2015-Jul 2018

• Experienced in working on the project life cycle right from requirement gathering till go-live and support

• Implemented 3+ T&A Kronos projects across various domains like Retail, Manufacturing

• Analyzed the impact on system integration with enhancements

• Synchronized with other teams to resolve data integration issues

• Worked in integrated Agile development using tools like JIRA, VSTS, TFS

• Strong experience in coordinating with customer, business, vendors and support team

• Extensive experience in testing the Kronos application - Pay rules, Function Access Profiles and Display Profiles.

• Strong Experience in creating Schedules, Function Access Profiles, Hyper find queries, Display profiles, Logon profiles and Configuration Settings

• Sound knowledge of the various workforce management disciplines like Accruals, Attendance Tracking, Compliance monitoring, Employee Self Service, Fatigue Management, Leave Management, Overtime Equalization, Schedule Optimization, Work Authorization, Activity tracking for monitoring idle time, utilization, productivity and incentive pay

• Experienced in Requirement Analysis, Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Gap Analysis, Process Design/Redesign and Business Analytics

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