Project Manager Program

Lorie McDaniels

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Senior Program Manager

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Productive IT Manager with multi-year successful track record.

Expertise in vendor management, risk management and change management.

Strong project Executive Communication, Agile Methodologies and Cyber-Security skills.

Extensive resource onshore and offshore allocation management.

Excellent knowledge of operations and regulatory safety protocols.

Proven leadership skills for driving high quality and on time, on budget deliveries.

Managed major capital programs ranging from 5 million to over 50 million dollars.

Skills:

ERP Applications:

PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, Oracle EBS, HCM Cloud and SAP Employee Central, S Hana and BI/BW

ERP Modules:

Financials, Core HR, Compensation, Benefits Administration, Talent Acquisition, Time and Labor, Absence Management, Payroll, ePerformance and Learning

ERP Tools:

Oracle Workflow, Oracle Discoverer, JIRA, NetSuite, SharePoint, Salesforce, SAP Success Factors

Databases:

Oracle R12, Cube Design, Data Warehouse, Data Mart/Store Strategies

Reporting Tools:

Cognos, BW, Business Objects, OBIEE, Informatica, Data Stage, Data Governance

Other Tools:

Salesforce, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Business Intelligence, Design Specifications Documentation, Data Conversion Mapping, International Project Coordination, End User Training, Offshore Resource Planning, Affordable Health Care Act, HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley Enablement

Certifications:

IT Project Management, Skill Paths, San Diego, CA, 2000

Training:

Amazon Web Service, Self-paced web training – 02/18

AZURE, Self-paced web training – 06/18

Education:

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science; Loyola Marymount University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Donatech

Sr Program/Project Manager

08/222 to Present

Lockheed Martin IT ERP Implementation Project Manager:

Led multiple functional and technical teams with business and operational process improvement efforts

Led project teams in resource allocation, project planning, utilized agile methodologies to capture status, risk management, change management and communication management

NR Consulting

IT HCM Cloud Project Manager

07/22 to 12/22

American Express Senior IT Project Manager:

Implemented several projects in support of Colleague Systems.

Worked closely with HR Business partners to define scope, risk’s and mitigation plans.

Led cross-functional teams that consist of functional and technical resources to deliver on-time and within budget HCM systems, reporting and User Interface deliverables.

BTG Inc.

Senior HR Business Partner

10/21 to 4/22

Crowley Transportation Senior IT Applications Implementation Manager:

Proven experience developing, improving, and streamlining processes to meet established goals and objectives.

Define and document functional and technical business requirements and recommend solutions.

Participate in user system reviews and planning sessions to gain and share knowledge of business requirements.

Participate in creation of test data and scripts along with applicable testing phases.

Disys

Senior HR Business Partner

11/20 to 4/21

Battelle Memorial Institute Corporate IT Support:

Responsible for liaising between technical teams and operational support enterprise wide for both HCM Cloud and PeopleSoft HCM projects; modules Payroll, Benefits, TAM and Performance Management.

oServed as systems/integration analyst for various ServiceNow and SharePoint special project efforts

Responsible for developing detailed technical requirements for changes and enhancements to systems.

Responsible for documenting business processes and RACI reports.

Worked daily with system end users, business users and leaders, developers, and other partners and peers

Led project activities and performed knowledge transfers to Payroll and Benefits subject matter experts

Provided HCM system support, configuration setup, resolved system issues and identifying system changes to support business needs.

Kelly IT

Program Manager

12/19 to 6/30/20

UC Irvine UCPath Module Lead:

HR Business Partner liaison between Operational Information Technology teams responsible for ensuring that the PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 modules that were implemented seamlessly integrated with newly implemented Oracle EBS R12 (AP/AR/GL and Commitment Accounts) to ensure that regulatory compliance audits were fulfilled in addition to supporting enterprise wise reporting.

Utilized Oracle Workflow to ensure that all project SOW’s were operationalized, and ROI’s were attained within the first 3 months after go-live.

CherryRoad Technologies Inc.

Senior Program Manager

11/18 to 7/19

Engaged at Clark County School District HCM Project Manager:

Led PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 modules Oracle R12 Implementation, utilized Oracle EBS for financial fulfillment.

Work closely with county-wide stakeholders and senior executive leaders.

Mange offshore and on shore technical and functional resources

Engaged at Solano County from 11/18 to 12/18:

Led functional and technical implementation teams for both Oracle Financials and PeopleSoft HCM 9.2

Implemented end to end enterprise-wide HR and Financials solutions

Developed PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 solutions portfolio

University California Office of the President

PeopleSoft Workforce Administration Information Technology Shared Services Manager

05/16 to 11/18

Engaged at UC Path Center HCM Manager:

Project: University Office of the President HR Shared Services Implementation

Led operational support team of a multiyear project resulting in a best-of-breed solution and enterprise-wide road map Oracle EBS R12, Oracle PeopleSoft HCM 9.2.

Defined communication plan between universities and production work streams resulted in high quality and customer satisfaction.

Provided functional guidance to achieve effective business processes as well as led technical code reviews to ensure all automated solutions addressed business process gaps.

Worked closely across all university business streams to fulfill regulatory, compliance and academic/staff operational business requirements.

Facilitated weekly meetings with functional and technical teams to ensure that operational support timelines, milestones and deliverables were on time and all issues were identified and resolved.

Fox Entertainment Group, Century City, CA

Affordable Healthcare Act Implementation Project Manager

05/15 to 02/16

Engaged at Fox for ACA Implementation

Project Manager - directing internal/external personnel to properly implement new Financials, Payroll/HR employer related guidelines as they pertain to IRS regulatory mandates as well as technical resources to produce Department of Treasury/IRS compliance corporate and employee reports.

Worked closely with the HR, Accounting and Benefits Administration team to ensure that all domestic and international employees were properly identified based upon their current state PeopleSoft 9.2 HCM and Financials configuration.

Responsible for working with project teams to define data conversion process, meta data, data lineage pertaining to testing results and fully understand the scope of the necessary regulatory employer federal and California state compliances in order to prepare the proper Payroll/HR time critical deliverables.

Health Net, Woodland Hills, CA

HCM 9.2 - SAP (Success Factors)/Salesforce CRM Program Manager

08/14 to 02/15

Engaged at HealthNet in Human Capital Management (SAP Implementation)

Led functional and technical resources through Agile SDLC project management methodologies.

Led liaison role between subject matter experts and technical team to clearly define PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 current state functionality for e-Benefits and Benefits Administration in addition to Workforce Administration, TAM and Position Management to ensure accurate transformation to SAP SuccessFactors.

Responsible for project plans, resource allocations, vendor management, risk mitigations and change management.

Performed PeopleSoft 9.2 HCM upgrade, SAP Success Factors and Salesforce CRM implementation

Oracle, San Diego, CA

Financials and HCM Sr. Technical/Functional Lead

11/11 to 05/14

Engaged at Oracle for implementing Human Capital Management (Higher Ed - Public Sector)

Managed offshore and US resources on various multi-million-dollar projects that consisted of performing PeopleSoft implementations/upgrades modules such as Core HR, TAM, Benefits and (North American Payroll in addition to Global Payroll). Performed system integrations with various enterprise applications such as Salesforce SAP Success Factors

Provided Agile project management methodologies best practices to ensure timely deliverables, proper resource allocations budgetary responsibilities.

Facilitated end users fit/gap sessions which help drive solid functional design specifications, metadata, data mapping, data lineage, data conversion and business rules.

Demonstrated expert level abilities to read/understand complex technical documents in order to leverage conceptual business analysis through to product implementation.

Performed liaison role between end users and technical team to implement, configure and customize Oracle EBS and PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 modules such as Benefits Administration, Workforce Administration, Absence Management, Position Management, Performance Management, ESS and MSS in order to design new business processes and employee dashboards to assist HR Transactions Specialist to more efficiently and effectively perform their duties across various vertical markets.

Project: TAM/Candidate Gateway 9.1 (International Cosmetics Retail) as a Test Data Management Team Lead from 12/11 to 01/12:

The client implemented PeopleSoft 9.1 TAM/Candidate Gateway project to take advantage of attracting and selecting best of breed candidates.

Translated business requirements into effective and efficient test scripts pertaining to recruitment plan hiring processes.

Led to a successful User Acceptance Testing phase and production migration.

Prepared test population data through data mapping task ensuring data lineage which mirrored production environment and performed test data management tasks (i.e. test entrance and exit criteria’s, functional traceability matrix, facilitate UAT sessions and testing status reports).

Project: HCM Upgrade 9.1 (International High-Profile Public Sector Region of the Peel Ontario Canada as an HCM Team Lead in

12/11:

The client implemented PeopleSoft 9.1 HCM upgrade project in order to take advantage of Service Contract support extension and latest version of People Tools 8.5.1 in addition to new functionality in release 9.1. Provided strong leadership for Core HR (Workforce Administration), Payroll and Benefits Administration, Absence Management, Cafeteria Plans and Employee Incentive Indicatives.

Assessed client requirements and translated them into re-creatable benefits plan enrollment processes and led to a successful project deliverable within in the Benefits Administration module.

Prepared test environment to mirror production environment and performed project management tasks (i.e. business requirements gathering, functional design specifications, facilitate functional discovery sessions and project status reports).

Project: HCM Upgrade, 9.1 (Higher Education) as an HCM Team Lead from 01/11 to 11/11:

Reported directly to Vice President of HR operations.

Consulted on Salesforce; Service Cloud as well as PeopleSoft 9.x North American Payroll and HCM functional liaison to technical implementation teams.

Ensured that AWE via ESS and MSS reflected the companies operational and security polices as they pertained to personal data access as well as job data.

Led HR team to generate clear concise business requirements and functional specifications which resulted in effective and efficient workflows (Notifications and Alerts).

Performed SDLC tasks and liaised between functional group and IT.

Generated project plans, business requirements, design specifications, code reviews, test plans, implementation plans, post-production and maintenance plan.

Abbott Vascular Labs

Cognos Business Intelligence Lead

06/10 to 12/10

Engaged at Abbot for Reporting Upgrade, 8.4.1 (Life Sciences and Manufacturing)

Worked as a Technical/Functional Team Lead for Cognos 8.4.1 upgrade through various phases of Software Development Life Cycle.

Performed various project development and implementation team roles such as business analysis using Visio, generated technical design specifications and development Cognos 7/8 Metadata, test plans, training, Technical Lead and Project Manager.

Prepared business requirements, project plans, risk management, costs accounting, project estimates, resource allocations and system integration tasks.

Provided best business practice solutions and provided policies and procedures for troubleshooting tasks.

IBM, San Diego, CA

Application Implementation Project Manager

08/08 to 05/10

Engaged at IBM for Data Archival/Privacy and TDM (Consulting Industry)

Managed a variety of Oracle EBS, SCM, CRM and HCM engagements that installed, customized and trained users interested in archiving their Oracle R12 data as well as performing data masking tasks in addition to establishing test data management policies and procedures via an IBM product Optim.

Led technical development teams within PeopleSoft Sector implementing IBM data management solutions.

American Health Care (AMN), Woodland Hills, CA

HRIT Back Office

01/07 to 08/08

Engaged at AMN as HRIT Manager

Worked as a Technical Lead and Manager to Oracle Financials and PeopleSoft Developers, System Administrators and Business Analyst. The team was responsible for PeopleSoft patch upgrades, application maintenance and full support to Payroll, Benefits, HR, TAM and Finance Departments.

Utilized SOA via SAP financials to ascertain functional business logic via Visio and intergraded third party applications to enable end users to generate weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports for financial metrics, benchmarks, and organizational score cards - Data Warehousing.

BearingPoint, San Diego, CA

Application Implementation

09/05 to 12/06

Engaged as PeopleSoft HCM 8.9 IT Consultant

Data disaster recovery project technical and functional lead for the client for the county of San Diego.

Utilized Cognos 8 as a reporting tool for end users to ensure that proper production tables were included in disaster recovery profile.

Utilized Visio to capture current and future state business processes.

Tasks resource allocation, project budgets, preparing business justification plans, vendor

management and ensuring ROI’s were built into project measurements.

Sempra Energy, San Diego, CA

HRIT Manager

01/01 to 09/05

Engaged at Sempra Energy as HRIT Manager

Led the corporate implementation from PeopleSoft 9.0 to SAP for a major utilities company with 3 large subsidiaries in Southern California.

Managed various enterprise wide financials (GL, AP,AR) and human resources projects related to procurement, payroll, federal, state and local compliance reports as well as audits, compensation, and benefits programs such as HR Replacement project (PeopleSoft), Recruitment, Open Enrollment, Incentive Awards (ICP), Disability Management System, EEO/AAP, Employee Information Management System, Employee Information Update Portal and Pension Administration and 401K.

Performed various levels of project management, risk mitigation tasks as well as mentored developers.

Hunt Wesson, Fullerton, CA

Program Manager

01/98 to 12/99

Engaged at Hunt Wesson to perform Data Warehousing (Professional Consulting)

Managed various organizations within ISS and financials users’ group to design and implement a Decision Support System Application to enable Purchasing Dept and retail/finance/marketing and General Ledger Organizations with the ability to analyze and project marketing and purchasing trends within the financial grocery channels within finance department.

Utilized SAP R/3 BW via Cognos utilities to define metadata, business rules and cube development.

Métier Oracle 8, Downtown LA,

Enterprise Data Modeler (Financial Services)

01/96 to 12/97

Engaged as Business Analyst for many diverse vertical markets

Responsible for development of Enterprise Data Model within an Oracle 8.0 environment utilizing DB2 tables to facilitate data integrity and up-loading source and target tables within production environment.

Prepared project schedules, business analysis and legacy data analysis. Designed conceptual (logical) model, physical model, and Data Dictionary.

Carolco Beverley Hills, CA

Project Manager/Technical Lead

6/94 to 3/95

Engaged as Voice Activated Laptop Application Development Project Manager (Entertainment Insurance)

Responsible for development of voice activated laptops for Sylvester Stallone movie production holdings

Led development team to create voice activated laptops for use by his international sales and distribution team

Mitchel Industries San Diego, CA

Technical Lead

01/94 to 06//94

Engaged as Application Development (Automotive Insurance)

Performed key analysis for senior management pertaining to the probability of automating paper catalogs to electronic data records.

Led the implementation effort to convert the paper catalogs into electronic records for beta insurance site Allstate, the project was exemplary; successfully completed on time and within budget.

Air Quality Management Services, Pomona, CA

Technical Lead

01/93 to 10/93

Engaged as Voice Activated Development (Utilities)

Acted as a liaison between Developers, management, Business Analyst and Quality Assurance.

Worked as a Project Lead on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) project was exemplary; the project successfully completed on time and within budget.

Designed and implemented a Voice Activated Application for internal sales staff that was utilized on a national and international basis.

Prepared project schedules, specification documents, coordinated application deployment, trained end users, and developed user manuals.

American Honda Motors, Torrance, CA

EDI Systems Specialist

01/92 to 10/93

Engaged as Systems Analyst

Worked diligently with a team of dedicated engineers to provide clear cut resolution for employee HR/Financial data sharing throughout the company. The project required effective data manipulation, storage, and reporting.

Assisted with maintaining/enhancing client server and legacy applications within the Human Resources Information Systems department.

Designed/implemented x.400 application for PeopleSoft payroll processing project.

Southern California Edison Production Support Rosemead, CA

Technical Lead

01/90 to 12/91

Engaged as Senior Programmer

Worked diligently with internal senior engineers to revolutionize the Financial Analyst desktop with PC and Mac software residing on the same desktop. Beta implemented “Orange Board,” that was a dual operating system for PC Windows and Macintosh.

Performed troubleshooting tasks, analyzed existing applications, and provided benchmark metrics.

TRW, Redondo Beach, CA

Programmer/Analyst/Project Manager/DoD Developer (Aerospace)

09/82 to 12/89

Engaged as Programmer and Project Manager

Worked as a Programmer performing debugging tasks, defect resolution and conceptual development.

Provided support as final technical point-of-contact within data communication (data packets and TCP/IP) on HP/3000 mainframe division.

Brought in to deliver highly compromised projects that were incomplete, behind schedule and overestimated budget.

Provided software and hardware support, including infrastructure configuration.

Provided support on (TRW’s first midrange) AS400.

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