Manager Project
Resume:
Experience Summary
Aravind Ramalingom is an IT consultant with 8 years of experience, of which 8 years completely dedicated to ERP consulting.He has performed Consulting roles during his career including Technical and Techno-Functional. He also holds product development experience in Oracle. He has experience in work-flow based business process like Global Payroll, Talent Acquisition Manager and ePerformace 9.0. He is a Peopletools Certified HCM consultant. He has worked at onsite (USA and France) for Healthcare and Banking systems. Specialized in PeopleSoft HRMS 8.3,8.8,8.9, 9.0 and 9.1
Technical Summary
Technologies: PeopleSoft HCM
Operating Systems: Windows 95/98 /NT/XP, MS-DOS.
Tools: Peopletool 8.51, PeopleTools 8.4x, PeopleTools 8.22, TOAD
Databases: Oracle 9i, Microsoft SQL server
PeopleSoft Functional: PeopleSoft HCM 8.8 (Global Payroll India, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan & Australia), Talent Acquisition Manager (PS 9.1), Candidate Gateway (PS 9.1), EPerformance,
PeopleSoft Technical: Applciation Package, Component Interface, Application Engine, Data Mover, Integration Broker, Autosys, IScripts, Workflow, Peoplecode, SQR, PS Query, XML Publisher, PL/SQL, SQL Functions, SQL procedures, ExcelToCI
Reporting Tools: SQR, SQC, Crystal reports
MS Tools: MS Office – Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Outlook and MS Project.
Industries: HCM
Domain: Healthcare, Banking
Languages: C, C++, XML, HTML, Java, SQL, Peoplecode, SQRs, PL\SQL, Javascript, XHTML, CSS, Application Package
Trainings: ITIL, Six Sigma, Oracle ADF
Project Details
Employer/Client: Oracle/Oracle Project: Global Payroll-CE (Country Extension)
Role/Designation: Developer/Software Engineer
Duration June 2004 – February 2007
Project Description:
Development & Enhancements performed for all releases of the Global Payroll for Asia Pacific countries for the below releases: HRMS 8 HRMS 8.3 HRMS 8.8 HRMS 8.9. HRMS 9.0 New and enhanced functionality targeted for delivery via PeopleSoft HCM releases.
Responsibilities:
* Product fixes for Global Payroll for Japan, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, India and New Zealand as part of support.
* Product fixes for Workforce Administration in Peoplesoft 8.3, 8.8, 8.9 and 9.0.
* Preparation of Technical Design documents for new development in Global Payroll country extensions.
* Traditional Upgrades for Global Payroll CEs (India, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and Japan)
* Created new Application Engines for Data conversion.
* Data Analysis and creation of Data loading sequence for Global Payroll products
* Retro fitting fixes/new functionalities to previous releases in Peoplesoft
Functional Areas:
* Workforce Administration (Japan Specific) - Additional Job
* Global Payroll for Japan Dependent Tax Withhold Tax Year End Adjustments Reports for Year end Adjustments
* Global Payroll for Australia Salary Packaging
*Global Payroll for Singapore
* Global Payroll for Malaysia
Technologies Used:
Peoplecode, SQR, Component Interfaces, Application Engine, Data Mover, Change Assistant, Trees
Databases: Microsoft, Oracle, DB2 Unix
Employer/Client: Computer Sciences Corporation/ Pfizer Location: St Louis, USA Project: Peoplesoft Upgrade HRMS 8.3, 8.8, 8.9 to 9.0.
Role/Designation: Team Lead/Senior Software Engineer
Duration: March 2007 – June 2008
Responsibilities:
* Performed fit gap analysis between different release of Peoplesoft HRMS. Versions: 8.3 VS
9.0, 8.8 VS 9.0 and 8.9 VS 9.0
* Identifying common/conflicting objects/data between 3 releases of Peoplesoft HRMS and
merging them to Peoplesoft 9.0 through a Merge process.
* Defined the merge process for Peoplesoft HRMs upgrade
* Created tools to identify common/conflicting objects after every upgrade pass.
* Written technical and functional requirement documents for Core HR, Talent Acquisition
Management, Pension for Peoplesoft upgrade.
* Managed a team of 6 for the entire upgrade project for specific HRMS modules.
* Implement parallel project fixes when the upgrade is being performed to make the upgraded
system to be in sync with the production system.
* Prepared project plan for specific modules of Peoplesoft HRMS for the upgrade.
* Worked on delivery and quality templates to adhere to delivery standard defined by the client.
* Preparation of Daily and monthly status report for the functional modules handled .
* Writing technical design document for re implementation of Peoplesoft Talent Acquisition
Manager and Candidate Gateway systems from 8.3 to 9.0.
* Coordinate with business owners at client site for new business requirements.
Functional Areas:
* Pension Administration
* Global Performance Management
* Total Compensation
* Talent Acquisition Manager
* Candidate Gateway.
Technologies Used:
Peoplecode, SQR, Application Packages, Application Engine, Integration Broker, Configuring
and implementation of Verity Search, IScripts, Data Mover, Component Interface, Workflow,
ExceltoCI, Process Scheduler, Autosys, PL/SQL, SQL Functions, SQL Procedures.
Database: Oracle
Employer/Client: Computer Sciences Corporation/ Pfizer Location: St Louis, USA
Project: Pfizer HRBT - Support and Maintanance
Role/designation: Technical Lead/Programmer Analyst Professional
Duration: July 2008 – May 2010
Project Description: Supporting Pfizer’s Talent Acquisition Manager,Candidate Gateway and Global Performance modules.
The support includes: Ticket Handling Enhancement & Bug Fixes Business Coordination System Configuration Responsibilities: * Track, monitor and resolve tickets raised by end users * Direct communication with end users and resolving system related incidents. * Coordinate and assignment of tasks to offshore * Prepare functional design documents based on business requirement document provided by the business. * Prepare technical design documents for major enhancements as part of support. * Continuous improvement of business transaction to reduce inflow of tickets through six sigma approach. * Prepare monthly status report and update provide monthly dashboard with system issues and ongoing tasks. * Coordinate with Project resources to perform impact analysis and testing for system changes. * Taking ownership of support from Project teams. * Maintain the SLA above 98% every week for the modules handled.
Functional Areas: Talent Acquisition Manager - Opening/Modifying/Posting Job requisitions - Job/Applicant Search - Manage Applicant - Prepare/Send Offer - Manage Hires Candidate Gateway Manager: - Applying for Job Requisitions - Job Search - Employee referral - Accept/Reject Offer - Job search agent Technologies used: Peoplecode, SQR, Application engine, Application Packages, IScripts, Component Interface, Integration Broker, XML publisher Database: Oracle
Employer/Client: Computer Sciences Corporation/ Pfizer Location: St Louis, USA
Project: Applicant Experience
Role/Designation: Technical Lead/Programmer Analyst Professional
Duration: August 2009 – December 2009
Project Description: The project is basically to improve the usability of Peoplesoft Candidate Gateway Manager. ( www.pfizer.com/careers) . Below are some highlights of the project:
Used custom CSS to design the outlook of the pages. Redesigned the Peoplesoft Business process of applying for jobs with more intuitive custom business transactions. Used Javascripts to improve usability in certain transactions. Made the career site global through complex data conversions. Improved Verity job search with improvement in performance.
Responsibilities:
Technical: * Coordinate between business and project resources regarding requirements and provide clarification as needed. * Provide technical solutions for critical requirements. * Writing technical specification for business requirements provided. * Coordinate with testers to prepare the test scripts based on the functional requirements provided. * Fine tuning of system performance by optimizing SQL querying using hints and indexes.
Functional: * Work with the business analysts to draft the functional specifications from the requirements provided. * Perform a feasibility analysis on the requirements. * Performing impact analysis from the functional specifications provided.
Managerial: * Setting up weekly meetings within the team and provide updates to the business owners. * Prepare project plan for the entire project stream. * Monitoring Project progress and update project plan. * Providing weekly status update on the progress of the project. * Responsible for performance and load testing of the system before go live * Work with project stake holders to arrive on project go live dates and go live plan.
Functional Areas: Peoplesoft Candidate Gateway Peoplesoft Talent Acquisition Manager
Technologies used: Peoplecode, Application Engine, Component Interface, JavaScript, CSS, Integration Broker, Verity, XML Publisher
Database: Oracle
Employer/Client: Computer Sciences Corporation/ Pfizer Location: St Louis, USA
Project: Recruiter Usability Interface
Role: Solution Architect/Subject Matter Expert Duration: June 2010– March 2012
Project Description:
Redesigning Peoplesoft Talent Acquisition manager using Adobe Flex as the presentation layer and pushing data through Peoplesoft IScripts. The Objective of this project is to make the Talent Acquisition Manager user friendly by reducing the number of clicks while performing any transaction. The project also focussed on the performance of the system. This project gave the Recruiters in Pfizer a new way to interact with the Peoplesoft system seamlessly. This is a global project and involves rolling down the system to 86 countries across the globe. Responsibilities: Technical: * Design a prototype of the redesigned system to get approval from business owners for the commencement of the project. * Preparing technical design documents based on function specification provided. * Decision making on technologies and tools to be used for requirements provided. * Assign tasks to Technical team based on the functional design documents provided. * Performing feasibility analysis on the functional specification and accordingly make design changes. * Provide estimation on Technical design and build for each functional requirements as per the resources provided. * Preparation of migration and translation plan. Functional: * Worked with business analysts and the business owners to finalize on functional designs based on the business requirement documents provided. * Analyse the requirements and provide design suggestions to improve system performance. * Provide ideas for preparation of test scripts and regression test scripts * Weekly meeting with business owners to get sign off on the functional specifications. Managerial: * Prepare the technical project plan for the entire project stream * Coordinate between the functional and technical team to avoid conflicts between functional and technical requirements. * Assignment of tasks to technical resources based on estimation provided and bandwidth available. * Setting up daily calls with the technical and functional teams to monitor the progress of the project. * Weekly status meetings with the business owners to provide status on the project progress. * Preparation of project go live plan * Listing down change controls to be handled post go live. * Transitioning of the system knowledge to the support team. Functional Areas: Peoplesoft Talent Acquisition Manager - All functional areas Peoplesoft Candidate Gateway - All functional areas Technologies used: Application package, Component Interface, Integration broker, IScripts, Javascripts,Application engine, Data Mover, Load runner, SQL hints/indexes, XML publisher. Database: Oracle Employer/Client: Steria/ Societe Generale Location: Chennai/Toulouse, France
Project: Societe Generale
Role: Transition Manager Duration: August 2012- till date Project Description: The project is to get knowledge transition from Societe Generale on their Global Peoplesoft HR system. This includes their Annual Compensation Review system and MSS systems.
Responsibilities: Managerial: * Prepare High level KT Plan * Hire resources based on their skill sets matching the profile requirements. * Coordination between onshore/offshore teams regarding the KT progress * Coordinate setup of infrastructure and network requirement at offshore.
* Plan for support activities from offshore.
Functional Areas: * Peoplesoft Variable Compensation * Peoplesoft Core HRMS
Technologies used: Peoplecode, ExcelToCI, SQR, Application Engine, Component Interface Database: Microsoft
Education
High School: Adarsh Vidya Kendra : Year 2000: Percentage: 94% Bachelor of Engineering May 2004 Government College of Technology, Coimbatore Specialized in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Grade: First Class with Distinction
Awards & Recognition
Star Performer Award in Oracle
Performer of the month awards in CSC for Pfizer Peoplesoft Upgrade
Accolades for the best performer for Peoplesoft support in Pfizer.
Job Title History
Consultant 6A 13-August-2012 till date
Programmer Analyst Senior Professional 01-July-2011 – 03-August-2012
Programmer Analyst Professional 01-Apr-2010 – 31-June-2011
Senior Software Engineer 22nd Feb 07 – 31-Mar-2010
Applications Engineer 03rd Nov 06 – 16-Feb 2007
Software Engineer 17th June 04 - 02-Nov 2005
Contact Details
Location : Chennai, India Phone No : +919********* Alt Number: : +918********* Mail ID : enxb2y@r.postjobfree.com
Aravind Ramalingom e-Mail: enxb2y@r.postjobfree.com
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