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Resume of Chandra Kantha

Senior Workday Techno-Functional Consultant

PERSONAL DETAILS

Certified Consultant (Hana)

Visa Status: US Citizen

Contact Number: 510-***-****

Email Id: *********@*****.***

Professional Summary:

18 years of total IT experience in Requirement Gathering, Design, Configuration, Development, Enhancement, Migration, Conversion, Upgrade, Support and Testing of Workday and SAP ERP Applications.

7+ years of experience on full cycle of Workday HCM Implementation and Production Support.

Worked with client’s implementation team and internal configuration team (cloud deployment

services) to gather functional data requirements needed for a successful workday implementation, vendor releases for the successful implementation and adoption of new feature functionality.

Good working experience on Onshore & Offshore Model projects.

Experience in Workday Payroll Interface PICOF (Payroll Interface Common Output File)

Good functional experience in Workday’s Core HR (HCM), Benefits, Compensation (Basic and Advanced), Talent and Performance Management, Absence, ESS/MSS, Recruiting, Time Tracking, International HR

Specialties: Workday HCM, Cloud Computing, Workday Integrations, Payroll Interface, Connectors, PeopleSoft, SAP ERP, Business Intelligence Reporting, Microsoft Power BI,SaaS, Critical Thinking, Complex Problem Solving, Active Listening

Workday Reporting: Monitor Business Processes (i.e. Hiring), Time Clock Monitoring / Audits, Position Management, Compensation, Time Tracking, Workforce Planning and Labor Analysis.

Good experience on building custom reports like Advanced Reports, Composite, Matrix Reports using Calculated Fields, Conditions and Eligibility Rules.

Experience in using OX(Object Transporter), Configuration Package and Solution migration Tools.

Worked and very good knowledge on all kind of explorers in workday studio: Project

Explorer, Cloud Explorer, Schema Explorer, Xpath Explorer and Navigator.

Hands on experience in inbound/outbound integration Using Core Connector, Workday Studio and EIB.

Extensive iLoad experience, REST API including the creation of an automated, dynamically generated "cleaning" and migration program for client data.

Experience with creating Organization Types, Organization Hierarchies, Staffing models, Reorganizations, and business process frameworks.

Experience with Workday security like Role based security, User based Security and Job based Security and also Functional area, Domain and Business Process Security Policies.

Good experienced in developing technical solutions for the Workday platform using EIB, Cloud Connect, Report Builder, Workday Studio, RaaS and Web Services.

Extensively worked on Workday application in creating reports, calculated fields, integrations, data conversion and Migrations.

Created Upgrade Plans, executed and reviewed Compare Reports, applied Upgrade Application steps, fixes and patches for the upgrade process.

HCM expertise on Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Payroll, Time Management, Learning Solutions, Compensation, Benefits and Recruitment modules.

Good experience on SAP HCM RICEFW (Report, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement, Forms and Workflow) objects developments.

Very Good Knowledge of Mulesoft Middleware

Good experience with Object Orient (OO) programming and ABAP Web dynpro development.

Worked on HPQC/Remedy Tool/HPQC, ITSM, Solutions manager, Service Now, Share point and other tools to collect and track the defects during Integration and pre-production testing.

Strong experience in quality methodologies such as technical specifications, functional specifications, code reviews, and skilled in documenting processes, identifying issues, handling multiple tasks and training end users.

Proficiency in creating various strategy documents such as programming standards, user test reports, integration testing and project implementation – cutover strategy, backup plan, and knowledge transfer plan to enable operations to take over support.

Good working experience using Agile/Scrum/Jira methodologies.

Good Technical, Analytical, interpersonal, problem-solving skills, Presentation and Leadership skills

During the development and testing phase, worked closely with the development team, extensively worked with QA team for designing Test plan and Test cases for the Unit and User acceptance testing.

Involved in training, co-ordination with the offshore development team to provide input, development, code review, test scenarios and test cases.

Technical Skills:

Workday Functional Modules : Core HCM, Benefits, Advanced Compensation, Security Groups, Staffing, Recruiting, Talent and Performance, Payroll interface, Time Tracking and Absence Management

Workday Configuration Tools : Business Process Configurations, Account Posting Rules, Custom Validations, Calculated Fields, Custom Objects, Routing Rules

Workday Technical Tools : EIB’s, Connectors, Workday Studio, REST APIs, XSLT, Integration Services, Workday Web Services and Document Transformations, Prism, Package Configuration OX Migration Tools, XML Spy, Oxygen Editor

Workday Conversion Tools : iLoad’s Validations, EIB’s, Solutions, Object Loader.

Workday Reporting Tools : Advanced Reporting, Matrix, Nbox, Search, Transposed, Trend, Composite.

Reporting Tools : Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, BO,

Language : SAP ABAP/4, C++, Java, SQL, UI5, HTML and XML,web Services SAP HANA

Professional Experience

Senior Workday Techno-Functional Consultant

Gilead Life Science, SFO CA Feb 2020 to Jan 2021

Project Name: Workday Implementation

RESPONSIBILITIES:

•Participated in the design and optimization of all global HR processes.

•Lead team of solution architecture local ERP's (Including International environments)

•Ensured the Workday HCM system is configured and leveraged to support HR business processes.

•Developed EIB Interface from Workday to Mass Mutual Outbound Interface for sending of Disability data to 3rd system.

•Worked for Workday EIB/Core Connector Interface for Outbound/Inbound Interface.

•Worked on Reports to create custom reports using Workday Report Writer to meet the business needs of HR and Payroll application report consumer groups.

•Extensively Advanced/Composite created and used Calculated Fields in reporting and integrations.

•Execution of Test cases in HP ALM tools

Worked on HCM functionalities such as Compensation, Create New Company, Cost Center,

Supervisory Organization, Benefits and Security.

Tested and Validated Payroll process on-cycle and off cycle interfaces.

Crafted Workday feed (Employee, Payroll and other accruals) into downstream ERP's

•Worked as a core member of Workday Update team and providing feedback and documenting the process to help in future updates of the system.

•Implemented inbound and outbound integrations utilizing Workday EIB with XSLT determinations to change the archive arrange into the coveted document configuration, for example, CSV or Excel, Web Services SOAP, REST, XML and XSLT Worked with Workday Studio to fix integration related issues.

•Responsible for data migration from legacy systems to workday systems using EIB's.

•Analyzed complex sets of data to identify quality issues and proactively initiated steps for improvement.

•Responsible for developing test cases for Workday integration testing of 60+ outbound and inbound interfaces to and from Workday and other third-party systems.

•Experience in all phases of the Workday Implementation Lifecycle - Requirement Gathering & Analysis, Design, Build & Code and Testing

•Performed Unit testing and Integration testing. (FUT, Regression Testing, SIT1, SIT2 and SIT3)

•Involved in the meetings with business process owners, SME (subject matter experts), and Security Audit team for requirements gathering and verification stage.

•Provide solution and integration development with Workday including requirements, functional specs, design, custom development, integration, testing, and deployment.

•Understands business requirements, configures the solution, develops prototype systems and assists with testing.

Environment: Workday EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Business Process Framework, Workday Report Writer, Scrum Tools, Prism, Workday Studio and ADP, JIRA, ServiceNow, XML Spy/Ultra Edit and MuleSoft, Model-N system(Pricing)

Senior Workday Techno-Functional Consultant

PNC Financial Bank, Strongsville OH Feb 2019 to Dec 2019

Project Name: Workday Implementation

RESPONSIBILITIES:

•Participated in the design and optimization of all global HR processes.

•Lead team of solution architecture local ERP's (Including International environments)

•Ensured the Workday HCM system is configured and leveraged to support HR business processes.

•Worked for Workday EIB/Core Connector Interface for Outbound/Inbound Interface.

•Worked on Reports to create custom reports using Workday Report Writer to meet the business needs of HR and Payroll application report consumer groups.

•Extensively Advanced/Composite created and used Calculated Fields in reporting and integrations.

•Execution of Test cases in HP ALM tools

Worked on HCM functionalities such as Compensation, Create New Company, Cost Center,

Supervisory Organization, Benefits and Security.

Tested and Validated Payroll process on-cycle and off cycle interfaces.

Crafted Workday feed (Employee, Payroll, and other accruals) into downstream ERP’s.

•Worked as a core member of Workday Update team and providing feedback and documenting the process to help in future updates of the system.

•Implemented inbound and outbound integrations utilizing Workday EIB with XSLT determinations to change the archive arrange into the coveted document configuration, for example, CSV or Excel, Web Services SOAP, REST, XML and XSLT Worked with Workday Studio to fix integration related issues.

•Responsible for data migration from legacy systems to workday systems using EIB's.

•Analyzed complex sets of data to identify quality issues and proactively initiated steps for improvement.

•Responsible for developing test cases for Workday integration testing of 60+ outbound and inbound interfaces to and from Workday and other third-party systems.

•Experience in all phases of the Workday Implementation Lifecycle - Requirement Gathering & Analysis, Design, Build & Code and Testing

•Performed Unit testing and Integration testing. (FUT, Regression Testing, SIT1, SIT2 and SIT3)

•Involved in the meetings with business process owners, SME (subject matter experts), and Security Audit team for requirements gathering and verification stage.

•Provide solution and integration development with Workday including requirements, functional specs, design, custom development, integration, testing, and deployment.

•Understands business requirements, configures the solution, develops prototype systems and assists with testing.

Environment: Workday EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Business Process Framework, Workday Report Writer, Scrum Tools, Prism, Workday Studio and ADP, JIRA, ServiceNow, XML Spy/Ultra Edit and MuleSoft

Senior Workday Techno-Functional Consultant

Stryker Medical Devices, Kalamazoo, MI Feb 2018 to Jan 2019

Project Name: HR Next Generation Technology

Workday implementation

RESPONSIBILITIES:

•Lead team of solution architecture local ERP's (Including International environments)

•Worked for Workday solution on downstream (SAP ERP, Callidus system) and other procurement Pricing systems.

•Ensured the Workday HCM system is configured and leveraged to support HR business processes.

•Developed for Integration Submit Input payroll related to Payroll Integration.

•Developed Interface from workday to SAP System for payroll (EIB) interface.

•Developed Vanguard 401k interface from Workday to Vanguard.

•Worked for Workday EIB/Core Connector Interface for Outbound/Inbound Interface.

•Worked on Reports to create custom reports using Workday Report Writer to meet the business needs of HR and Payroll application report consumer groups.

•Extensively Advanced/Composite Reporting created and used Calculated Fields in reporting and integrations.

•Execution of Test cases in HP ALM tools

•Implementing changes related SOX/Delegation of Authority

Worked on HCM functionalities such as Compensation, Create New Company, Cost Center,

Supervisory Organization, Benefits and Security.

Crafted Workday feed (Employee, Payroll and other accruals) into downstream ERP’s.

•Worked as a core member of Workday Update team and providing feedback and documenting the process to help in future updates of the system.

•Responsible for data migration from legacy systems to workday systems using EIB's.

•Analyzed complex sets of data to identify quality issues and proactively initiated steps for improvement.

•Created new integration to pull the new hires information using Core Connector Worker and Document Transformation which uses connector integrations XML Output as its data source input

•Responsible for developing test cases for Workday integration testing of 60+ outbound and inbound interfaces to and from Workday and other third-party systems

•Experience in all phases of the Workday Implementation Lifecycle - Requirement Gathering & Analysis, Design, Build & Code and Testing

•Performed Unit testing and Integration testing. (FUT, Regression Testing, SIT1, SIT2 and SIT3)

•Involved in the meetings with business process owners, SME (subject matter experts), and Security Audit team for requirements gathering and verification stage.

•Provide solution and integration development with Workday including requirements, functional specs, design, custom development, integration, testing, and deployment.

•Understands business requirements, configures the solution, develops prototype systems, and assists with testing.

Environment: Workday, SAP HR, EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Business Process Framework, Workday Report Writer, Power BI, CMC tools(Appririo), Workday Studio and Callidus, JIRA, ServiceNow, XML Spy/Ultra Edit and MuleSoft, Model-N system(Pricing)

Senior Workday Engineer Support

T Mobile (Seattle WA and Dallas TX) May 2016 to Dec 2017

RESPONSIBILITIES:

•Participated in the design and optimization of all global HR processes.

•Ensured the Workday HCM system is configured and leveraged to support HR business processes.

•Worked for Workday EIB/Core Connector Interface for Outbound/Inbound Interface.

•Worked on Reports to create custom reports using Workday Report Writer to meet the business needs of HR and Payroll application report consumer groups.

•Worked as a core member of Workday Update team and providing feedback and documenting the process to help in future updates of the system.

•Developed simple and secure integrations using Workday Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).

•Worked with Workday Studio to fix integration related issues.

•Build own web services by defining custom reports as web service enabled and providing integration solutions.

•Responsible for data migration from legacy systems to workday systems using EIB's.

•Worked in SAP/Workday Integration Interface for related to 0001(Org M)

•Experience in testing inbound/outbound integrations using Core Connector, Workday Studio and EIB

•Worked in Workday Payroll Interface and ADP Print check

•Analyzed complex sets of data to identify quality issues and proactively initiated steps for improvement.

•Involved in the meetings with business process owners, SME (subject matter experts) and Security Audit team for requirements gathering and verification stage.

•Provide solution and integration development with Workday including requirements, functional specs, design, custom development, integration, testing, and deployment.

•Understands business requirements, configures the solution, develops prototype systems and assists with testing.

Environment: Workday/SAP HR, EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Business Process Framework, Workday Report Writer, Workday Studio.

Sr WORKDAY HCM CONSULTANT

Home Depot Atlanta, GA May 2015 to Apr 2016

RESPONSIBILITIES:

•Worked on post-implementation support and enhancements.

•Participated in the design and optimization of all global HR processes.

•Ensured the Workday HCM system is configured and leveraged to support HR business processes.

•Worked in Workday Payroll Interface

•Analyzed complex sets of data to identify quality issues and proactively initiated steps for improvement.

•Worked for Workday EIB/Core Connector Interface for Outbound/Inbound Interface.

•Worked on Reports to create custom reports using Workday Report Writer to meet the business needs of HR and Payroll application report consumer groups.

•Worked as a core member of Workday Update team and providing feedback and documenting the process to help in future updates of the system.

•Developed simple and secure integrations using Workday Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).

•Worked with Workday Studio to fix integration related issues.

•Build own web services by defining custom reports as web service enabled and providing integration solutions.

•Responsible for data migration from legacy systems to workday systems using EIB's.

•Involved in the meetings with business process owners, SME (subject matter experts), and Security Audit team for requirements gathering and verification stage.

•Provide solution and integration development with Workday including requirements, functional specs, design, custom development, integration, testing, and deployment.

•Understands business requirements, configures the solution, develops prototype systems and assists with testing.

Environment: Workday 26/27/28, EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Business Process Framework, Workday Report Writer, Workday Studio.

Sr Workday Integration/Data Conversion Developer

3M Maple Wood, MN May 2014 to Apr 2015

Responsibilities:

•Analyzed client's HR/Payroll business needs through client working sessions and supported development of new business processes and a future state design.

•Served as a Workday Report Writer and created custom integrations with third party applications using Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) and Workday Cloud Connect.

•Worked on various enhancements related to EIB Integrations, Core Connectors, CCB, Studio Integrations and Custom Reports.

•Created new integration to pull the new hires information using Core Connector Worker and Document Transformation which uses connector integrations XML Output as its data source input.

•Developer in SAP/Workday Integration interface (Info types 0000,0001, 0002, 0008, 0041)

•Integrations are developed using the web services like XSLT, SOAP, WSDL, XML on the Workday cloud platform such as Payroll integration, ADP inbound/outbound, Taleo inbound/outbound, Active Directory inbound, and UDW inbound/outbound.

•Interacted and Coordinated effectively with the HR and Payroll teams to ensure curvature is leveraging the full capabilities of Workday.

•Worked on Reports to create custom reports using Workday Report Writer to meet the business needs of HR and Payroll application report consumer groups.

•Lead activities for retiring old legacy systems supporting compensation/payroll.

•Created Simple and Advance reports in Payroll and Benefits.

•Developed simple and secure integrations using Workday Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).

Used sequence generators, generating templates, and validating inbound integration system results.

•Worked extensively on Payroll Interfaces and have designed and developed integrations in both Workday Studio and EIB

•Responsible for the HR IT systems understanding how they work and the ability to assess integrations and interoperability with other existing and planned systems.

•Understand and document the impact of process handoffs outside of the various work streams like Payroll, Benefits.

Environment: SAP/Workday Integrations, Payroll, Benefits, SOAP, EIB, Core connectors, CCB, HR, WSDL, XML, XSLT, Taleo, Workday studio.

Sr SAP HCM (HR) Consultant

Micron Semiconductor, BOISE, ID Apr 2013 – Mar 2014

Project: SAP HCM implementation

Responsibilities:

Preparation of FS and TS design documents.

Defined attendance, absences, substitutions, overtime and availability as per the requirement.

Responsible for providing Post Go-Live system and process transitional support to users

Assisted in defining complete test scenarios to cover full scope of the business and carry out the unit and integration tests.

Configured Personnel Areas and Personnel Subareas for US and assigned them to the appropriate legal entity (Company Code).

Setup and maintained organizational structure including organizational units, jobs, positions, cost center assignments etc. and their relationships using Simple.

Developed Time payroll report for payroll calculations with information Personnel number, Employee Name, personnel subarea, date of attendance, attendance type, attendance text, overtime, Regular rate, overtime rate, shift rate and amount.

Creation of custom Infotypes related to PA and OM module.

Developed HR function Z451A for processing payroll and Time data.

Developed dynamic search RFC which will display employee and position details based input search criteria.

Developed the editable ALV report to update the payroll table.

Developed programs for SAP HR-payroll to display Payroll-Results for particular country.

Testing and preparing the closing documents for developed objects.

Helping the functional team in testing and fixing the issues.

Carrying out Performance tuning by using Run Time Analysis and SQL Trace Tool.

Leprino Foods, Denver, CO Mar 2011 to Mar 2013

Sr. SAP HCM Techno Functional Consultant

Project: SAP HCM implementation

Responsibilities:

Preparation of FS and TS design documents.

Defined attendance, absences, substitutions, overtime and availability as per the requirement.

Configured Personnel Areas and Personnel Subareas for US and assigned them to the appropriate legal entity (Company Code).

Setup and maintained organizational structure including organizational units, jobs, positions, cost center assignments etc. and their relationships using Simple.

Developed Time payroll report for payroll calculations with information Personnel number, Employee Name, personnel subarea, date of attendance, attendance type, attendance text, overtime, Regular rate, overtime rate, shift rate and amount.

Developed HR function Z451A for processing payroll and Time data.

Developed dynamic search RFC which will display employee and position details based input search criteria.

Developer in SAP HR Infotype Interface (0000,0001 and 0002, 0041)

Developed search/edit RFC to create succession plan and evolution plan with 740 relationships and modify, delete operations on the same.

Worked on inbound interface to receive employee personal and training details from third party system (Inside) and integrated into SAP system (HR4U) based on the business rules provided using ALE/IDOC.

Worked on outbound interface to send org.unit related data, company structure data, position & personal data to Inside system using ALE/IDOC.

Developed programs for SAP HR-payroll to display Payroll-Results for particular country.

Testing and preparing the closing documents for developed objects.

Helping the functional team in testing and fixing the issues.

Pepsico Global Business Solutions, Plano, TX Aug 2009 – Feb 2011

SAP HCM Techno Functional Consultant

Project: SAP implementation and support

Responsibilities:

Interacting with business users to understand the requirements.

Designed and configured info groups for different personnel actions, designed and configured infotype menus also configured Dynamic Actions.

Maintained number ranges and defaulted them using feature NUMKR, Configured Administrator groups and defaulted it using feature PINCH.

Configured Number Range for both OM and PA.

Created payroll areas according to business requirements and defined the period parameters, date modifiers and generated the payroll periods for each payroll area.

Defined the work schedule rules to describe the work schedules that specifies the working times of a group of employees.

Developed an outbound interface which requires data of employees within a specific Personnel area, Employee subgroup. These details are sent on a weekly basis.

Uploaded employee spouse and other dependent data from legacy system to Infotype 0021 using LSMW.

Creation of Enhancements to ADD additional fields in Standard HR Infotypes 0000(Action)

Implementing the BADIs and then adding custom business functionality to implementation class of BADI.

Also took additional responsibility to maintain the transport sequence list for HR deliverables. This helped while moving the transports from one system to other system.

Checking HP QC for any issues reported on daily basis and updated the team regarding the issues.

Developed delegation program to update and add delegated persons in respective table.

Supporting the team in resolving production issues.

NALCO Chemical, Naperville, IL Feb 2008 – May 2009

SAP HCM Technical Consultant

Project: SAP implementation and support

Responsibilities:

Implementation of User Exists, creation and implementation.

Creation of custom infotypes related to PA, OM and Recruitment.

Creation of Enhancements to ADD additional fields in Standard HR Infotypes.

Implemented User Exits and BADIs to set validations for Standard Infotypes of SAP.

BDC/Interface: Vendor employee interface to create and change the vendor details coming from the mainframes.

ALE-IDOC: Configured ALE process across two application servers and sent master data (material master, vendor master) through ALE and IDOCs.

Developed a program to create an ALV report showing person, education, qualifications, and position history. The program will use the PNP logical database and provides the capability to download the report data to an excel file.

Developed reports to read data from infotypes using logical databases, Macros and Function modules.

Developed data conversion program to update the infotypes 0, 1, 2, 6 by using the BDC session method.

Created outbound interface to send out PA data to a third-party system using web methods.

Developed a report to list the contributions of employees on various Savings Plans.

Developed a report for Benefits Module listing the employees who have not elected their benefit plans for the year and sending them reminder emails.

Developed inbound/outbound interfaces to communicate the data with non-SAP systems.

Developing scripts to mass print the data and label. It displays Ship-From, Ship-To details and also display purchase order number, Batch number, Weight, Lot, Material Description / Product Code.

Developed programs for SAP HCM-payroll to display Payroll-Results for particular country.

Developed the report to display the list of materials and prices tracking on Document type.

Supporting the team in issues fixing and understanding.

Preparing project closing documents.

Tyco Electronics, Harrisburg, PA July 2007 – January 2008

Roles: SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

Involved in requirements gathering to prepare the Functional Detail Design Specifications (FDDS) for the global implementation of reports.

Configured the PA info types and subtypes for the Info types.

Configured the custom info types based on the client requirement.

Involved in configuring the Benefits Area (BAREA), Benefit Providers, Plan types, Plan status and other basic settings like Employee Criteria groups.

Configured plans like Health Plan and Savings Plan, Options for the health plans, dependent coverage options, cost variants, cost rules and the health plan attributes based on the requirements.

Configured the Employee and Employer Contribution Variants and Rules for the Savings Plan.

Configured the First Program and Second Program Grouping, Eligibility Groupings and Variants for the Open Enrollment.

Configured the Dependent/Beneficiary Eligibility.

FDDS documents were prepared for the PA/OM/PY/BN/Leaves/Comp reports.

Served as one of the go-to persons in the areas of PA, PY, BN, and OM for the business services team.

Worked closely with other modules to prepare the functional design documents.

Responsible to organize and facilitate problem-solving discussions with the client, internal operations team and project managers to resolve issues.

Worked with the BI and R/3 developers by providing configuration and functional specifications to meet the business requirements.

Worked with the Business Analyst and the client to identify the requirements, design enhancements and resolved gaps to help the users meet the requirement.

Pfizer (Wyeth Pharmaceuticals), Frazer, PA March 2006 – June 2007

Role: Application Programmer

Responsibilities:

Configured plans like Health Plan and Insurance Plan, Options for the health plans, dependent coverage options, cost variants, cost rules and the health plan attributes based on the requirements.

Configured the Coverage variants, Cost rules, Cost Variants, Cost Rules and the plan attributes for the Insurance Plan.

Configured the Administrative parameters, Prerequisite Plans and Co requisite Plans, Adjustment groupings and the reasons, First Program and Second Program Groupings for Open Enrollment.

Configured the Worked with ABAP programmer for designing the spec.

Generation of reports using Ad hoc Query for the vendors.

Involved in open enrollment testing for new hires, marriages, Childbirth and Divorce.

Prepared the functional spec for the inbound and outbound files.

Assisted in answering the service tickets for the issues related with Benefits.

Worked on the data upload through LSMW.

Involved in Unit testing and regression testing and in the integration of Benefits with Payroll.

Compass Group, Charlotte NC Aug 2005 – Jan 2006

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