Parthiban Varadhan

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Professional Summary:

Over 20 years of result oriented professional experience in Managing, Planning, Analysis, Design, Implementation, Development, System Administration, Change Management, Application Security and Production Support.

Experience as a PeopleSoft System Administrator/DBA/Development/Security/Functional/QA supporting mainly PeopleSoft Financials, HRMS, EPM, Student Administration and Portal applications on Oracle, UDB DB2 UNIX and MS SQL Server databases in a Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux and Windows Environments.

Performed 3 full life cycle implementations, transition from the legacy system to the PeopleSoft ERP System.

Successfully performed PeopleSoft People Tools upgrades.

Successfully completed PeopleSoft Application upgrades version 8.8 to 8.9, 8.3 to 9.1 and 9.1 to 9.2

Performed PORTAL Upgrade 8.8 to 8.9 and Implementation from 8.4 to 9.1 Successfully.

PeopleSoft 9.2 Demo Installation, 9.1 to 9.2 Upgrade using PUM Custom CA template.

Comprehensive experience in setting up security in HRMS, Financials, EPM and Portal environments.

Successfully installed and setup Integration Broker for application messaging between PeopleSoft Portal, HRMS, Financials and EPM applications.

Experience in mitigation/remediation of PeopleSoft Infrastructure for SOX compliance.

Established procedures on mitigating risks that (SOX) Auditing found in regards to the PeopleSoft Tools/Application Code, its ownership and the Production Lockdown.

Involved in implementing Segregation of Duties for SOX/PCI/ compliance.

Successfully installed and configured BEA Web Logic Server 12/10R3/9.1/8.1/6.1/5.1 and WebSphere 5.1/5.2/7.1.

Used BIG IP tool for Load Balancing and Failover.

Created multiple Application Server domains on separate host systems to access one database, an effective strategy for performance and tuning.

Evaluating the required patches and applying them to the PeopleSoft system on a timely basis.

Comprehensive experience performance tuning all the Server Components in the PeopleSoft Internet Architecture – Web Server Tier, Application Server Tier, Process Scheduler, Database Server Tier, Network layer and Operating System Resource availability/usage and Kernel Settings.

Experienced PeopleSoft Applications Administrator including performance problems with SQR reports, App Engine, tuning SQL, Index creation, working with DBA to tune the Database configuration parameters.

Well versed with requirement analysis, project planning, and design skills including experience in developing technical specifications from functional requirements, planning technical implementations, customizing projects and upgrades and data conversion exercises.

Technical Skills:

O/S:

UNIX Oracle Solaris, HP, AIX,Red Hat Windows

Software

C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, Java, Java Script, Python, VB, SQR, AE Peoplecode

Code Editor

PyCharm. Jupyter

Web Tools

HTML5, CSS, WordPress

RDBMS:

Oracle 12c,11.1.0.6/10g/9i//8i/7.x, MS SQL Server 2008/2000/7.0/6.5, UDB DB2 8.1/7.1

PeopleSoft Applications

FSCM(AP,AR,GL,P2P,PO,CM,O2C,OM,IN) HCM(ESS, T&L, Benefits, Payroll)

PeopleTools:

Administration Tools: Data Mover, Configuration Manager, Application Server, Process Scheduler, App Messaging/Integration Broker and PeopleSoft Utilities

Development Tools: Application Designer, Peoplecode and Application Engine

Integration Tools: App Messaging/Integration Broker, Component Interface, Business Interlinks

Security Tools: PeopleSoft Security, Object Security, Query Security and Tree Manager

End User Tools: PS Query Tool

Upgrade Tools:

Change Assistant, Upgrade Assistant, PUM

Reporting Tools:

SQR, Crystal Reports, nVision Reports

Web Servers:

BEA Web Logic 9.2/8.1/6.1/5.1, IBM Web Sphere 7.1/5.1/4.0.3, Microsoft IIS 4.0

Data Tools:

Informatica 6.1/5.1,Data Stage

Change Management Tools:

PVCS Workbench v6.5/6.0, SOFTBENCH for Unix, Quest STAT 6.3,5.0.3, Phire,Remedy, CA, Jira, ServiceNow.

ERP/Retail Suite

PeopleSoft, Oracle HCM Fusion, EBS, Oracle Retail

Messaging Tool

IBM Broker 8.1,IIB 9.1 MQ 7.1,7.5

Scheduling/Monitoring Tool

Tidal 5.1, Tivoli, Atomic, TWS, APM, SiteScope, Dyna Trace, Foglight

Hardware/Network Components/Cloud

Acami,Nexus,F5,ODA 5X/Cisco, Splunk, Wireshark, AWS, Azure, IBM, Oracle, Dell EMC, Pure storage

DevOps

Github, Jenkins, Docker, Puppet, Nagios, Kubernetnes, Impala, SafeNet, Axway

AWS Cloud

EC2,S3,BlockChain, Cloud Watch, Route53, EKS, AWS MQ,RDS

Big Data

Hadoop(HDFS),HBASE(No SQL DB),MapReduce, Hive, Pig, R, Zookeeper

Project Experience:

KP CA Infrastructure Tech Lead/Architect

Aug 2020 – Till Date

Worked on Onsite/Offshore model, prepare KPI’s on production issues and resolutions.

Part of Major transition of HCM, Financials and Edge Applications.

Involved in KT and Playback sessions HR, Financials, HCM Fusion, OBIEE

HCM Cframe setup and updates in the production systems.

Worked KP integrations (API and File Based) implementation activities.

Managed ERP HR, Financials, HCM Fusion and Edge Applications.

Performed Stat and Phire Migrations.

OACS Migrations to production.

CI/CD GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA

HR Connect /Cframe/TWS transition and Production Support.

FSCM 9.2 AP, AR, GL, Inventory, Purchase, eProcurement, settlements.

Performed Tax updates for North American Payroll.

Regular Financials/HCM/HR production implementations.

Performed scheduled big fix/server/application patching activities.

Worked on DR activities for HR and Financial application.

Worked on IBM IIB MQ messages, API Connect and Data power.

BNC NJ

PeopleSoft Infrastructure Systems Architect/Admin/DBA/Security July 2012 – July 2020

Planning, Budgeting, Resourcing, Implementation, Upgrade of Small, Medium & Large scale projects.

Performed day-to-day activities on Dev/Test/Production of PeopleSoft FSCM 9.1,HR 8.8,IBM IIB and Non-PeopleSoft Applications

PeopleSoft Financials 9.1 Security not limited to Planning/Designing/ Configuration/Maintenance of PS Security.

Worked on Planning and Setup of PeopleSoft 9.2 Demo installation of PT 8.58 for Upgrade.

Experience on upgrade process from 9.1 to 9.2 upgrade.

Experience in PUM setup, confirmation and generate custom CA template.

Have Planned and Implement MQ migrations from V8 –V9.

Knowledge of JMS interface for MQ managers.

Installed SSL for MQ external SFA.

Deployed IBM IIB production migrations.

Automated the Message monitoring and maintenance activities.

Creation/Update of PL/Roles on PeopleSoft HCM, FSCM, CRM Modules.

Hands on Experience on Query Security, Functional Security, Row Level Security, PT, Definition Security.

Extensive Integration Broker experience in Planning, Configuration, Implementation and Support.

Database Oracle 10G, 11G & 12c Creation, Upgrade, Tuning, Monitoring, Support.

Fixed environments Stability, Availability, Performance and Security related Issues.

Applied Multiple Maintenance Pack and Patches using Change Assistant for HCM/FSCM.

Ability to complete any given task on timely manner within budget.

Co-ordinate with Security, FW, Network and CM groups to complete the high end tasks.

Extensively streamlined the PeopleSoft security issues related to SOD.

Developed scripts for automatic health check for servers and applications.

Worked on setting up the DR Server and documented the procedure.

Supported PeopleSoft environment in offshore model which involves tuning of WS, App Server and Process Scheduler of Test/Prod.

Involved PeopleSoft Oracle 11 G server & client upgrade and relocation.

Managed, Planned PeopleSoft application move to newly built datacenter in Atlanta.

Part of core team for datacenter Design and Move.

Managed, Planned, co-ordinate & executed PeopleSoft Financials 9.1 AP, AR, GL archiving data.

Recommended and Implemented new DR process without production downtime.

Managed Offshore DBA/Production Support team for Database Creation, Upgrade, Tuning and DR.

IBM Messaging broker administration.

PeopleSoft 9.2 Installation and PUM Upgrade 9.1 to 9.2 POC.

Storage/Server planning, sizing, provisioning.

ASM, EMC Storage, Disk provisioning, NFS, ZFS storage pool.

SGA, PGA resource Planning.

Database data encryption and security.

Database MAA, RAC, DR architecture design and implementation.

OEM, Tidal, Tivoli, Fog Light Scheduling & Monitoring Tool.

RMAN backup, Restore, Recovery of data.

DR Replication on DR site using RMAN Data Guard replication.

Database virtualization and snapshots for multiple instances refresh.

Netapps backup and retention policy.

MMC Hoboken NJ April 2007 – April 2012

PeopleSoft Infrastructure Technical Architect

Performed day-to-day activities on Dev/Test/Production of PeopleSoft HCM, Portal and Non-PeopleSoft Applications.

Involved in the People tools and Application Upgrade process of HR 8.3 to HCM 9.1 and Portal 8.4 to Portal 9.1

Worked on several Installation of PT 8.49.19, WS 9.2, 10.3, COBOL, Tuxedo 9.1, Application HR 9.0 and Portal 9.0 for DEMO, SYS and SAND environments.

Applied Multiple Maintenance Pack and Patches using Change Assistant.

Proficient in implementation of SSL certs at timely manner in production Environments.

Worked on SSO between Internal and External Applications.

Implemented the Portal Content display from HR to Portal and implemented RSS Feed in Portal 9.1.

Have also created Self Signed Certs for Dev/Test environments.

Ability to complete any task on timely manner and use to co-ordinate with FC, NOC, DCOPS and CM groups to complete the high end tasks.

Involved in setting up process for SOX compliance.

Scheduled shell scripts to perform various monitoring jobs for Unix Servers and the PeopleSoft tiers, which gave me huge satisfaction the way I’ve intact the servers and application.

Involved in transform of scripts of AWSTAT to get various statistics reports of HR and Portal Applications

Developed AE program to purge the IB messages and Monitor the App Messaging on Error.

Involved in Workflow project which facilitate the User and Security Grantors to get done the security request bypassing the CA ticketing tool.

Worked on setting up the DR Server and documented the procedure.

Extensively worked on the documentation of process and procedure of different activities, Designed UK & US Architecture using VISIO tool.

Supported UK PeopleSoft environment in offshore model which involves tuning of WS, App Server and Process Scheduler of Test/Prod.

Involved in the UK Dev/Test/Production PeopleSoft Servers move to different datacenter.

Extensively worked on Operating System Kernel Parameter tuning in DR Server and UK Production servers.

Architect and implemented IB between HR, Portal and Reporting with Load balancing of gateway and failover of IB.

Automated IB through script during nightly Reporting refresh.

Applied SSL Certs for Production PeopleSoft and Non-PeopleSoft Web applications.

Performed several Database refresh and delivered in timely fashion.

Promptly applied Several HR Payroll for North America Tax Updates on DEMO/DEV/Test/Production environments.

Worked on DDD Audit, System Audit, Alter Audit and Set Space to clean-up the environments.

Trained New Joins to get quickly adapt to the current environment.

Resolved critical and non critical issues in timely manner and in few situations closely worked with Oracle Support.

Proficient in PeopleSoft application security Roles and Responsibilities.

Kaiser CA Dec 2006– April 2007

Sr. ERP Consultant

I was responsible in the PeopleSoft Infrastructure Installation, Configuration, Upgrade, Performance Tuning and Security Administration for PeopleSoft HCM, FSCM, CRM, EPM and Portal environments of PeopleSoft. My roles and responsibilities are briefly mentioned:

Installation of Financial 8.9, Peopletools 8.45.18, Tuxedo 8.1, Websphere 6.1 and DB2 Client 8.1

Successfully Planned and Applied DST Patches for HCM, FSCM, EPM and CRM Non-Prod and PROD

Tuned the WebSphere Web Server, Application Server, Process Scheduler and Database parameters to resolve performance issues.

Created separate Integration Broker/App Messaging App Server domain.

Created Integration Broker Message Nodes for the Source and Target PeopleSoft Applications.

Extensively worked on compliance for changing PeopleSoft UNIX security, PeopleSoft NT Security, PeopleSoft LAN Security, PeopleSoft Application Security and PeopleSoft Database Security.

Configured Application Servers and Process Scheduler Servers with different templates and tuned the configuration parameters based on the type of usage.

Installed WebSphere Server 6.1, service pack 2 on a AIX Server and installed PIA to access PeopleSoft application.

Installed and configured the Budgeting/BAM application in PeopleSoft EPM environment.

Executed special Data Mover scripts to load the Budgeting Data and performed various steps to configure the Budgeting application.

Upgraded WebSphere Server 5.1 to 5.2

Created Automation Scripts in AIX UNIX for Cleaning Logs, Core Files, Cache for Application Server, Web server and Process Scheduler.

Developed Batch script for Client Installations and Import Configuration file.

Created separate MQ Series App Domain and Web Server Client for IB Messaging.

Participated in the UDB DB2 Database upgrade from version 7.1 to 8.1 fixpack 5.

Monitored, Detected, Analyzed, fixed and communicated problems that degrade the predictable delivery of business application services.

Facilitated/Participated in the planning for upgrade projects.

Freddie Mac VA July 2005 – Nov 2006

PeopleSoft Consultant

Designed Project strategy for PeopleSoft Financials 8.8 reconciliation projects.

Prepared project plan with details for stake holder’s approval.

Reviewed Business Requirement Plan for test matrix.

Prepared test cases and test matrix and walkthrough with business and development for further approvals.

Executed the test matrix and logged the defects in test directory for further fix and review for development group and systems groups.

Citi Financials MD Feb 2004 – July 2005

SR. Consultant

Designed Project strategy/plan for Citi Maestro projects.

Reviewed Business Requirement Plan for test matrix.

Prepared test cases and test matrix and walkthrough with business and development for further approvals.

Executed the test matrix and logged the defects in test directory for further fix and review for development group and systems groups.

Engaged daily defects calls and production release.

Developed internal reporting tool for daily/weekly/months reports using Visual Basic.

Standard Chartered Bank UK July 2002 – Jan 2004

IT Consultant

Designed Project strategy/plan for PeopleSoft HR Global Payroll 8.3 reconciliation projects.

Reviewed Business Requirement Plan for test matrix.

Prepared test cases and test matrix and walkthrough with business and development for further approvals.

Executed the test matrix and logged the defects in test directory for further fix and review for development group and systems groups.

NIIT Tech June 2000 – July 2002

Systems Analyst

Handled Microsoft Windows, MS SQL Server 2000 and Red Hat Linux Servers.

Tasks will be performing Installation, Configuration of the servers.

Setup the LAN and inserted the Servers into the network.

Created Domains and Users in the servers.

Involved in system level and application level security.

Have also provided training on Linux, Sql Server and Java at corporate level.

Professional Development

PeopleSoft: PeopleTools1 & 2, Data Management Tools, PeopleSoft Security, PeopleSoft Server Administration v 8.4, IIB9.1

Education:

Bachelors in Computer Science à 1996 University of Madras, India.

Master in Computer Applications à2000 University of Madras, India

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