Veda Dunlap

Email: admkhy@r.postjobfree.com

Profile Summary

More than 20 years of Experience in software design, development and implementation for full life cycle projects. Performed multiple roles in various phases of ERP Application like, Production Support, Enhancements, Implementations, Upgrade and conversions.

14 years of experience in in HR, Compensation, US payroll, Base Benefit, Benefit Administration, Candidate Gateway and Talent Acquisition Manager Modules. Has involved in various stages of ERP like implementation, upgrade, enhancement, production support and user support in large Projects

Good knowledge in gathering Functional Requirements, Fit-Gap Analysis, Design, Configuration, Change Management, Risk Assessment, End-User Acceptance Testing, Product Development and Quality Assurance.

Worked on multiple PeopleSoft upgrade projects for different modules: HCM 9.0 to 9.2, Applied patches and bundles using PeopleSoft Update Manager PUM images and installed Oracle Secured Enterprise Search database software and configuring it from within 9.2 applications.

Installed bundles PeopleSoft PUM Images using Oracle Virtual Box and configured and

Executed multiple assignments in Application Implementations, Functional testing, and Process consulting for PeopleSoft suite of products.

Encompass end to end process/systems optimizing expertise's like business and user requirement analysis, process studies and constant improvement of the systems, functional documentations, managing consistency in quality and improvement in the process, production database updates, testing and validation

Project Management / Lead Experience

Waterfall and Agile Methodology

Coordinated with Functional, Technical and Internal Audit teams in the complete rewrite of Security Roles and Permissions.

Prepare and maintain a Project Tracker. Tracker includes Time-line, Tasks, Tables, Business Processes, Action Items, Issues, etc

Prepare Status Reports on a weekly basis; including a status on all project milestones, new issues, updates on current issues, discussion points, work sessions held, scheduled events for the following week. PeopleSoft HCM Security Administrator experience includes the design, fit-gap analysis the documentation during upgrades and a complete rewrite of security roles and permissions. The upgrade from PeopleSoft 8.9 to 9.2 included the move from department security trees to the security by permission methodology. In addition, my duties were to be a liaison between the functional and technical teams on project upgrades and day to day operations.

Setup the PeopleSoft / Network System Users; assigned appropriate access based on functional job requirements. Liaison between technical project teams and end-users to ensure security was assigned properly for new systems. Developed and created quarterly reports of access for system owners to ensure compliance with SOX and Internal Audit guidelines.

Created new Roles and Permission lists.

Tested and reviewed the deployment of new security with system business owners.

Design, create and document PeopleSoft permission lists, roles and User ID’s for PeopleSoft 9.2 utilizing best practices.

Provided technical assistance, testing, guidance, and training to the project team.

Develop and document business case/scope/plan, business/functional requirements

Developed system test plans, executed system test cases.

Coordinated User Acceptance Test (UAT) effort with business groups.

Act as liaison between the customer and the technical team, making teamwork and collaborative skills essential Identify and validate business objectives, and generate solutions that align with Methodist’s technology strategy and standards.

Perform business analysis and document business requirements using easy to understand tools and methodologies

Developed security matrix.

Develop and recommend solutions based on business analysis.

Good functional understanding of modules in PeopleSoft Financials Modules and HCM (Workforce Administration, ESS, MSS, Payroll Interface, North American Payroll, Global Payroll & Absence Management, Talent Acquisition Manager(TAM), Candidate Gateway) Enterprise Portal. Taleo

Experience in Project Management, Support Management & Co-ordination, and Solutions Architecting.

Successful at solving Business obstacles with Technical solutions Coding standards for software development and maintenance.

Proficient in conducting business process analysis and user training, gathering requirements, analyzing them, creating functional & technical design specifications and developing customizations.

Very strong PeopleSoft Integration Broker, Webservices skill integrating PeopleSoft and other 3rd party vendor application.

Good hands on experience in trouble shooting the problems and improving the performance of application processes by Debugging, tuning and tracing.

All phases of project life cycle including initial design, implementation, support, and maintenance.

Testing and piloting applications, including managing business area involvement.

Second and third level support/troubleshooting for existing applications.

Working with third party software suppliers. Security setup, UPK setup and training.

Coordination of other information services groups in areas directly related to own responsibilities.

Job Experience

Employer Grady Health System September 14/Present

PeopleSoft Techno/functional analyst

Modified the check and direct deposit reports, configured Micr font, created several interface reports for payroll and benefits.

Modified the check and direct deposit stub using XML publisher to adopt Grady’s customization,

Developed positive pay interface,

Modified the pay001 ddp001 sqr to remove the leading zeros in bank account and made the employee address to fit the envelope window.

Developed several interface reports to send data from payroll.

Developed custom process for onetime deduction and earning using SQR and Application Engine.

Developed component interface to load payroll data into payroll transaction table.

Involved in Tax Update applied the custom code in tax reports and sqc.

Performed compare reports during PUM update.

Instruct client in use of the PeopleSoft Update manager PUM for their upgraded 9.2

Testing and performing Payroll Testing as part of UAT. Created detailed test cases, executed them and provided results to business for approval.

Involved in Annual and Quarterly tax filing testing and provided results to business.

Co-ordinated with external vendors for various interfaces.

Assisted in Year End processes, Completed W2 Setups and Testing. Involved in Box Information Setup, Print parameter Setup and full cycle of W2 testing and printing, Ran repots for Yearend Error listing, Year End data load and various data reconciliation for Yearend local tax, Yearend state taxes, Federal taxes and the same by companies.

Helped users in UAT and parallel testing.

Co-ordinated with technical team for various technical customizations, solutions and unit testing.

Reconfigured Payroll for North America, Base Benefit and Benefit Administration (to include eBenefits functionality) tables to align with plan redesign

Ensured all Requirements and Design documentation were adequately generated and reflective of the new plan design.

Setup payroll work center, payroll tables and W2 process.

Apply tax update.

Test payroll interface to GL, AP, Garnishments and direct deposit.

Generated PeopleSoft HCM Test Strategy in conjunction with HR, Benefit and Payroll teams (both client and consultant teams)

Created test scripts for payroll, HR, benefits testing and interface transmittal to Health and Welfare vendors, direct deposit, positive pay interface and GL, Garnishment interface.

Participated in Project team status meetings.

Provided updates to Project Management team for status and any issues requiring risk mitigation or escalation

Generate user guides and development/deliver application courseware training

Managed and Created test plans, test scripts, functional specs, and business requirements.

Coordinated and facilitated with development team for change requests and defect fixes.

Managed changes to use cases, and functional design, and business requirements.

Setup navigation collection, setup workflow for HR, Benefits and payroll process like direct deposit, check print and BI template change for payroll checks and advice print setup. Deduction and earning code setup. Tax update test.

Developed and tested custom Payroll interface process to import payroll pay sheet information and benefits accrual balance information from Kronos to PeopleSoft system.

Acting as liaison between the business and technical areas and act as the subject matter expert for the PeopleSoft HRMS application.

Reviewing technical designs to ensure accurate and complete translation of business requirements

To avoid manual data entry work, Implemented automated bulk load interface to load periodic mass data loads. Using App engine, CI, File-layout.

Extensively worked to Convert SQR report to XMLP report using connected query.

Created a custom program to sync up employee's paygroup in ps payroll data from Paysheets, as of the pay period end date. This custom process runs after paysheets are created during payroll processing.

Applying latest bundles using PeopleSoft Upgrade Manager PUM and Virtual Box.

Analyze business requirements independently to be able to propose solutions, identify impacts, risks and issues, and work with business staff to implement proposed

Interacting with users and collecting business requirements and prepared functional and technical specification documents.

Excel to CI (Component Interfaces to import data) for payroll transactions

As part of production support, the work comes in the form of tickets.

Employer: Turner broadcasting system. APR2014/August 14

Consultant:

Workday to PeopleSoft data conversion project.

Member of Workday to PeopleSoft implementation team. Implementing PeopleSoft HRDC from workday ERP system.

Used workday to extract data for data mapping, added users to workday tenant to get access to check the configurations that matches Peoplesoft foundation tables.

Analyzed the custom business object from workday to PeopleSoft.

Involved in analysis, customization and implementation of HR/Benefits/Payroll and Time and Labor modules

Developed functional spec.

Created several ad hoc queries to cross-reference data from workday to PeopleSoft.

Involved in gathering business requirements and finalizing system requirements on a Merger project as client recently merged with another company.

Prepared setup and configuration list within Peoplesoft. Involved in Data conversion from a legacy system to PeopleSoft. Prepared ExceltoCI and loaded and validated various data like Job data, personal data, Address data, and various benefits related Data and payroll data. Involved in testing of balance conversion data by preparing queries and SQL data.

Involved in mapping and designing of various conversion efforts within payroll and benefits earnings, taxes, deductions, garnishments, check YTD, general deductions, 401K loans, Benefit plans, Benefit Programs, FSA contribution .

Created Configurations within PeopleSoft in NA Payroll and Benefit Modules Earnings codes, Deduction Codes, Tax location codes, Eligibility Rules, Event rules, Benefit Programs, Benefit Plans, Schedule IDs, Bas Group Ids etc.

Ran Snapshot in Ben Admin process to validate the newly converted benefit programs, plans, event rules etc. for the employee of acquired company.

Created test scripts for Ben Admin processes and Balance Conversions for the project.

Employer; Pruitt Health OCT: 2006/MAR:2014

Peoplesoft Techno-Functional analyst

Involved in analysis, customization and implementation of HR/Benefits/Payroll modules. Extensively involved in performing customizations to the HR application by creating new fields, pages and components.

Attending high level meetings and providing project plan update and project status update and security matrix for both HR and financials modules. Redesigned security for both HR and financials modules. Maintained user security, created dynamic roles using PeopleSoft query for Peoplesoft self-service, e- compensation, record, field and page level security.

Maintained server and folder level security. Used LDAP authentication for active directory and PeopleSoft access.

Participated in new PeopleSoft implementation full life cycle. Implemented PeopleSoft HRMS, Benefits and Payroll.

Involved in setting up foundation tables, benefits tables, rules, events for open enrollment. Worked with user to setup benefit flat rate tables.

Tested outbound interface file of salary, benefit, vacation accrual entries for input into third party finance General Ledger system.

Involved in testing changes to PeopleSoft benefits system – incorporating new benefit plans, different benefit types, vendor changes and enrolling employees to new plans for test setup to make sure all the way through to the payroll deduction from beginning to end

Modified the check and direct deposit reports, configured Micr font, created several interface reports for payroll and benefits.

Created training documents and created UPK for all the three modules

created functional and technical spec and user acceptant test and test scripts.

Functional and Technical support for HR, Benefits and pay roll.

Functional configuration of payroll, HR and benefits setup tables.

Prepare validations/business rules against legacy data to be loaded into PeopleSoft tables.

Involved in Fit-Gap analysis for HCM such as HR, Succession Planning, Benefits, Open Enrollment, Payroll, Security and E-Apps such as E-Performance, E-Development, E-Comp and E-Comp Manager Desktop, E-Profile, E-Pay, E-Benefits, MSS, ESS, etc.

Prepared documentations – FDD/TDD, Release docs, Installation guides, Test Plans, Test Scripts.

Created interface between TL and GL

Customize Profile pages to support additional search fields

Used Integration broker to interface payroll data to AP, and GL.

Performing production support.

Developed several interfaces from benefits to third party vendor, developed EDI transaction between UHS-Pruitt and Ameritas dental and vision interfaces.

Developed interface from PeopleSoft HR to care2Learn and AIS training project, worker compensation. (external vendors)

Developed interfaces for payroll direct deposit, positive pay.

Developed interface using web services using Biz Talk and PeopleSoft

Setup portal security created permission list, role, row level security, query security, integration between active directory and PeopleSoft single sign on method.

Used integration broker to integrate between PeopleSoft payroll and GL, integrate between PeopleSoft HR and third-party software interface. Scheduled portal sync. Workflow setup, component interface security setup.

Provided production Support and User Support in NA Payroll, Benefits modules.

Involved in Tax Update Testing and performing Payroll Testing as part of UAT. Created detailed test cases, executed them and provided results to business for approval.

Involved in Annual and Quarterly tax filing testing using Ceridian Interface and provided results to business. Involved in testing quarterly interfaces for taxes across all Psd codes and validating the results.

Co-ordinated with external vendors for various interfaces.

Applied patches and custom code during people tools upgrade.

Assisted in Year End processes, Completed W2 Setups and Testing. Involved in Box Information Setup, Print parameter Setup and full cycle of W2 testing and printing, Ran repots for Year end Error listing, Year End data load and various data reconciliation for Yearend local tax, Yearend state taxes, Federal taxes and the same by companies.

Prepared User requested data by creating different Queries in PeopleSoft, helped business understand them and use them. Involved in Security setups Roles, Permission lists etc. when there is a new page/component/reports delivered in PeopleSoft/Customizations.

Created Test scripts and involved in unit testing, system testing and User Acceptance testing throughout the project.

Involved in Change Management as per the SOX procedures and prepared coordinated with all stakeholders in Production roll out plans.

Job Experience

Employer; Accenture Feb: 2005/ OCT 2006

Multiple Clients

Peoplesoft Team Lead

Involved in Tax Update Testing and Payroll Testing

Provided production Support and User Support in NA Payroll, Benefits modules.

Assisted in Year End processes, Completed W2 Setups and Testing. Involved in Box Information Setup, Print parameter Setup and full cycle of W2 testing and printing, Ran repots for Yearend Error listing, Yearend data load and various reports to recon ciliate Year end local tax, yearend state taxes etc..

Involved in Annual and Quarterly tax filing testing using Ceridian Interface and provide results to business. Provided Setup and completed testing as part of Act-32 rule in PA.

Co-ordinated with external vendors for various interfaces.

Created Test scripts and involved in unit testing, system testing and User Acceptance testing throughout the project.

Involved in Change Management as per the SOX procedures and prepared coordinated with all stakeholders in Production roll out plans.

Arthritis Foundation Project: Peoplesoft April 2001 - Dec. 2002

PeopleSoft Software Engineer.

Perform PeopleSoft Database Administration & System Administration functions, including PeopleSoft Database System installation, tuning, backup, disk space usage monitoring and other PeopleSoft DBA jobs.

Support PeopleSoft Financial Database Systems GL/AP/AR/Billing/PO on Oracle/Unix platform, including PeopleSoft Process Scheduler and the entire People Tools suite.

Design PeopleSoft Production Database archiving systems.

Migrate PeopleSoft systems, as needed using PeopleSoft Application Upgrader.

Work as a key technical consultant to support the Production PeopleSoft Financial Systems and first line full production support to accounting users.

Apply PeopleSoft critical fixes, updates, and patches to the financial systems as required.

Investigate, analyze, and modify original PeopleSoft coding for crucial PeopleSoft components, and fix bugs/resolve production problems as needed.

Design and maintain Critical Interface / Data Feed / Data Conversion between PeopleSoft System and client Legacy System.

Perform Impact Analysis, design technical specifications and PeopleSoft system modifications to all PeopleSoft components (tables, panels, menus, reports).

Utilize People Tools (Data Designer, Panel Designer, Menu Designer, Tree Manager, Process Scheduler, Application Upgrader / Data Mover).

Utilize People Code, SQR and Crystal Reports coding, n'Vision reports, and design SQL Scripts

Worked as a people soft software specialist. (Team Lead)

Responsibilities include database administration, system administration, Technical support to AM, AR, AP, Billing, PO, Inventory and GL of financial public sector modules. Upgraded from version 7.01 to 7.5. Used upgrade tools, Data Mover scripts. Production support for all the financial modules. Compiled and set up environment variables for COBOL processing.

Created test script end user testing for the 7.5 upgrade test scripts. Modified Vendor information, voucher processing using COBOL, Set up EDI transaction, Mapping and monitoring EDI Processing.

Took active and important part in 7.5 modifications. Modified the crystal checks and ARUPDATE process Invoice statement customization of the SQR.

Customization of People code, and SQR. Support, Creating crystal, PS'nvison reports

Interacted with the user created functional and technical specification and fixed the problem. Both technically and functionally trained the new user.

Technical and functional support. Create functional and Technical specs and change management

CTG Project: Peoplesoft June 2000 - April 2001

Role Description

Senior system engineer. (Team Lead)

Member of production support coordinated with Upgrade team in identifying the changes in HR, Payroll, Benefits and devised method to carry over from Ver 7.02 to Ver 8 SP1 and developed to the requirements.

Worked in developing a custom Time and Labor TRS Time Reporting System in PeopleSoft and integrated with the HRMS system.

Worked in developing a process to load the timesheet information to payroll, benefit days accrual and employee balances. Created a workflow for timesheet approval.

Generated reports for Weekly employee hours, unpaid days, Timekeepers List, Special Pay Analysis reports.

Customized PayCalc COBOL PSPYRUN to add the rounding logic to meet client's requirement.

Converting the custom Interfaces, SQR, Panels, Panel Groups, People Code, Records into Pages, Components, changing the naming convention as in Ver 8 SP1.

Worked with PeopleSoft delivered conversion scripts for migrating data from Ver 7 to Ver 8 SP1.

Manual Testing, Regression testing, Integration Testing and Unit Testing and performed and documented the results.

Developed conversion scripts in Oracle and UNIX at Parallel testing cycle to ensure the data integrity and validity when converted.

Technical support to the functional users in the parallel and regression testing cycles.

Applying Patches and fixes to Ver 8 SP1.

Documented the customized code for future upgrades.

Lawson Software Project: Lawson HR/Fin Feb. 2000 - May 2000

Role Description

Desktop Integration Consultant. Client American Cancer society

Working as a Desktop integration Consultant with Lawson Software.

Duties include train the programmer in JavaScript, ActiveX control, COM, Implement and customize Lawson web products in HR and Finance, Creating online Report, form, Chart using the JavaScript’s, HTML, AtviceX control, VB scripts, VBA, ASP, Essbase. Creating security in Unix and NT operating system. Responsible for all aspects of the setup of Financial Management Systems. . performed client application setups, data conversion and maintenance functions. Create Project plan and Functional specs; create online reports, forms, Charts using JavaScript’s, OCS for ActiveX control for HR and Financial modules.

Norrell Corporation Project: Peoplesoft/Progress Aug. 1998 - Feb. 2000

Role Description

Programmer/Analyst

Member of the production support team interacted with the user related issues in Billing and AR Modules and solved the problems by doing research and testing of the related modules.

Designed the data mapping and wrote a functional spec for the Asset management conversion project. Worked for the year end project

Conducted training classes for the End users, Business Analyst in creating PS Query. And to use the financial system modules Billing, AR, AP, GL, AM, and PO, SQL, SQR, People Tools, Nvision and Crystal reports. And responsible for Y2K Core system for Year 2000 renovation of the UNIX shell scripts used in a business-critical financial system.

Education; B.A Economics

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