Manager Project

JAMES SCOTT IRWIN

Pen Argyl, PA *****

Phone: 570-***-****

E-mail: **************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Senior HRIS professional with over 14 years of successful, progressive experience as:

~ HRIS application deployment lead

~ Supervisor

~ HRIS security expert

~ Business application owner

~ Work intake lead

~ Project manager and team leader

~ System integration manager

In support of these roles I frequently exercise the following:

Skills (with examples)

- Decision making (including risk analysis and mitigation)

Go/no-go for application project gates and go lives

- Strategy development (especially regarding HRIS landscape and process)

Designed SAP client instance requirements and inbound/outbound interface schematic

- Change management (People and processes impacts)

Facilitated weekly ‘customer feedback’ meetings with HR leads during PeopleSoft deployments

- Team building (partnering across subject matter areas, functional organizations and time-zones)

Development and execution of end-to-end testing (strategy, scripts and defect management)

- Project leadership (with sole responsibility to deliver on time and within budget)

Leading internal and external auditing activities (including SOX, compliance and data privacy)

- Communication (development and delivery…on paper and in-person)

Providing project status to corporate leadership and calibrating plans where necessary

Additional Professional Characteristics:

* Leadership, accountability, problem solving, setting customer expectations, dedication, multi-tasking, analytical and technical thinking. I have excellent process documentation skills. I am results driven. I also have an advanced knowledge of the all major business software packages and development technologies (ASP.NET, VB, C#, Java and SQL)

POSITION HISTORY

7/2009-Present >> HRIS Senior Manager & SAP HCM Techno-Functional Lead

HRIS Landscape:

* HR System of Record – On premise SAP ECC6 with NetWeaver portal (ESS/MSS) for OM/PA/BEN/PY/TM/Reporting

* Payroll – ADP GlobalView

* Reporting - SAP BI

* Recruitment, Talent and Performance – Taleo (SaaS)

* Learning - LMS Saba (SaaS)

Responsibilities:

* Strategy and improvement for HRIS leveraging industry standards and best practices

* Coordinate buy-in from HR leadership

* Supervising support team

* Blueprinting

* RFI/RFP

* Vendor/Consultant selection

* HR process improvement (training, workflow & documentation)

* Development and architecture

* Configure/Develop, Unit test, Transport

* ABAP, LSMW, FM/BAPI, iDocs

* Work intake (manage patches, upgrades, enhancements through SDLC for entire HRIS)

* Security (roles, users, audits and re-auths)

* SOX HRIS compliance lead (for Americas)

* HP relationship management and SLA enforcement

* Project manage the HR consolidation/decommissioning effort

* Expectation setting and change management

7/2008-7/2009 >> HRIS Senior Manager & SAP HCM Implementation Lead & Developer

Responsibilities:

* PMO for SAP pilot and HCM lead for implementation

* Blueprinting, requirements building and functional design

* Facilitating migration from local county HRIS (PeopleSoft, SuccessFactors, homegrown)

* HR process (training, workflow & documentation)

* UAT (HPQC)

* Change management

* End-to-end Integration manager for countries migrating to SAP

* Managed all work intake related to post go-live changes

* SAP security and compliance (designed the auth concept)

* Configure/Develop, Unit test, Transport

6/1998-7/2008 >> HRIS Manager & PeopleSoft Business Application Owner

Responsibilities:

* Managed all enhancement work related to global PeopleSoft (HR system of record)

* Designed work intake program (budget, approvals and SDLC for entire HRIS)

* Designed HR knowledge management system and process

* Cross functional contact for all inbound and outbound systems

* IT relationship manager

* Manage system security for entire HRIS

* Lead “HR M&A Playbook” project

* HR Integration manager for ALU mergers, acquisitions and divestitures

* HR intranet developer

EMPLOYER EXPERIENCE

Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

1998 to Present

Independent consulting

2010 to Present

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

DeVry University

North Brunswick, NJ 08902

2006

Bachelor of Science in Physics

Ellis University

Chicago, IL 60606

2012

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