Karunagaran Ulaganathan

503-***-**** adk6th@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Domain expert in Hiring Solutions and TimeKeeper solutions.

Worked on multiple business and country launches.

Skilled at translating non-technical customer requests into precise development.

Designed global solutions for various types of Premiums, Allowances, etc., which reduced 75% of development effort for future implementations.

Designed a global People Data Import to process a large volume of data with less latency for different regions. Additionally, the new design helped the business to implement new regions and countries faster and saved the development effort of 90% for each country and region launch.

Worked on HyperFind Queries, Function Access Profiles, Display Profiles, Workforce Genies, Labor Levels, Pay codes, Shift Templates, Pattern Templates, Wage Calculations, Holiday, Overtime Rules, Email and Work flow Notifications

Configured Pay rules, Work rules, Access Profiles, etc.,

Created the custom program using AWS tools to extract the policy information from Kronos configuration. This enables the Product and Policy teams to view the policy information in a user-readable format, without the development team's support.

Designed and developed the accrual prorated interface to address the non-configurable uses case in Kronos.

Analysis and system updates (via custom WIM)– Labor Level entries, Organizational maps, Employee group, Profiles (FAP, GDAP, Shift profiles, Employee groups, etc.)

Supported Kronos migration from 6.x to 7 and 6.3 to 8.1.

Experience in Kronos Attendance module.

Over 10 Years of experience in leading teams.

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and having expertise in Agile/Scrum.

Skills

Kronos WFC 6.3,7.0 and 8.1

Workforce Integration Manager

ETL

SQL (Oracle, SQL Server)

Python

Node JS

VB.NET, ASP.NET

Engineering standards

Global implementations

Work History

Application Engineer/Data Engineer, 02/2017 to Current

Amazon – Seattle, WA

Exhibited strong technical aptitude and application expertise resulting in optimized performance, continuous improvement recommendations and product innovation in Amazon Time and Attendance team.

Worked with customers and product team for requirement analysis, estimates, design and development.

Worked as Lead Data Engineer on multiple countries launches

Created over 11 reusable WIM interfaces in past two years

Created reusable design to provide Time-off to amazon part-time employees and the same design has been reused by multiple other projects.

Optimized number of Pay policies and accrual profile creation in the system to implement personal time off for large volume of employees.

Worked on optimizing the Payroll extract for amazon.

Configured new Pay rules, Work rules, Time-cards, Schedules, Access Profiles, Security Setup etc., based on business needs.

Supported Kronos Version upgrade from 6.1 to 8.1.1

Worked on multiple countries' holiday configurations using the employment terms and Holiday profiles.

Solved non-punched employees' worked hours problem by duration pay code and customs interface.

Solved the state-specific premium pays by using pay rules and employment terms.

Designed global solution for Night Shift Premium and it helped multiple countries to solve NSP use case quickly.

Built 5+ global custom solutions which were reused with 20% of code changes when extended for an additional population.

Worked on the BI-weekly to Weekly Payroll conversion and solved pay period lock issues.

Worked on Customizations & Process Automations by using Kronos XML API.

Fixed several payroll issues and Vacation Accruals policies, Employee import errors, prod issues. Employee profiles and applied hotfixes to WIM/interfaces and deployed to prod thru emergency CMs.

Built multiple solutions for Premium payment calculation for certain regions based on their employee classification.

Solved multiple Break policies using Assignment rules

Programmar Analyst, 05/2016 to 02/2017

PeopleTech Group – Seattle, WA

Developed custom Kronos interfaces for new country implementation

Designed multiple custom reports for multi country

Technical Lead, 09/2007 to 04/2016

Alten Calsoft Labs, Kronos Inc – Tigard, OR

Led technical teams

Release management.

Requirements gathering from end clients

Business system analysis and design

Integration testing with vendors

Troubleshooting issues in UAT and Production environments

System integration testing with vendors

# Workforce Talent Acquisition – Hiring Solution Version 9.0

Client : Kronos Inc., Tigard OR

Talent Acquisition Solutions to improve the way to Hire. Using hiring automation software to replace manual, time-consuming, and error-prone processes wherever possible is critical to success. Eliminate the administrative costs, delays, and errors associated with manual rekeying and paper-based processes. Allow your recruiters to be as effective as possible and onboard the right people who will begin producing for you much faster. Workforce Talent Acquisition™ delivers industry-leading solutions for both high-volume distributed hiring and centralized requisition-based recruiting on a single platform, including

· A friendly user interface

· Integrated Role-based dashboards

· Social networking

· Advanced hiring analytics

· Third-Party Integrations for various clients hiring basic functions like WOTC, Background Check, Drug check and Employment related Assessments (ADP, FADV, CP, Sterling, Assess Systems, GIS, Accurate, Pre-Employee, Talx WOTC etc.,)

Third-Party integrations with other vendors helps the customers to do a seamless transition in the hiring process.

# Kronos WFC integrations

Client : Kronos Inc., Tigard OR

Kronos HRMS product helps the clients to maintain their Time & Attendance, Scheduling, Absence Management, HR and Payroll. Kronos Talent Acquisition helps them to hire applicants with required workflow steps as per the Federal and State specific laws.

Talent Acquisition sends hire information to the HRMS system and expects Employee information, Position information, Employee activity data. Various integrations between these two systems helps the customers to track applicants from initial application till hire and continue the payroll as employees. Employee information data sent in the feed from HRMS updates the roles in Talent Acquisition system and helps the Corporate to restrict the roles and responsibilities of Hiring Managers.

Associate Project Manager / Project Leader, 09/2004 to 08/2007

ALTEN Calsoft Labs – Chennai, India, India

Led multiple development and QA Teams

Interaction with clients/vendors during development/implementation

Business analysis and design

Communicating with end clients during deployment and support

Estimation and scheduling

Process improvements - Task force member in CMMi certification of organization

Developed and initiated internal process tools to streamline the delivery of projects

Education

Master of Computer Applications

Bachelor of Science: Computer Science

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