Curriculum Vitae (Resumé)

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Technology Consultant CV

Basic French spoken and written, comprehension of written French is acceptable.

Summary:

A highly experienced PeopleSoft consultant with over eight years of PeopleSoft experience and nineteen years of IT experience at the highest level. All experience has been gained in large international organizations.

Strong PeopleSoft experience in HRMS, Financials, Public Sector Financials and Distribution on a wide range of system platforms. I have had exposure, over a long PeopleSoft career, to most modules and technical areas including Global Payroll.

Primarily an analyst programmer, with business analysis skills and have been involved in the development of a new PeopleSoft module for the French market. Well proven in support, performance tuning and system enhancement.

Particularly strong in taking a holistic approach to problem solving, able to deal with all levels of a solution from the high level business requirements and objectives through to how the technical approach can be fine tuned to maximize the business benefits of any given solution.

Key PeopleSoft Skills:

  • PeopleTools 5, 6, 7, 7.57, 8.1x, 8.4
  • Application Designer, PeopleCode (including object peoplecode), SQR, SQL also all supplementary tools including as Data Mover, Config Manager, Security Administration, Crystal, and Application Engine.
  • HRMS and Global Payroll 5, 6, 7.5, 8.3, 8.8 (including: core HRMS, base benefits, training, salary review, etc)
  • Financials 6, 7, 7.5, 8.1 (including: AP, PO, AM, AR, BI, Manufacturing, French Public Sector)
  • Databases: SQL Server 7, 6.5, 6, Sybase, Oracle 7, 8, Adabas.
  • Platforms: XP, 2000, NT4 (server & workstation), Windows 98, 95, Unix, JDS automation.
  • Analysis of issues, functional and business requirements and gap within an HRMS system. Analysis of development issues within all PeopleSoft modules.
  • Report writing, using all the key PeopleSoft tools as well as multi-layer management information reporting (ie using online pages as well as printed reports).


Experience:

Interconnect IT, Liverpool, England

Director

June 2006 Onwards

  • Involved in a new venture, Interconnect IT Ltd, to provide a fully managed range of technical services to the SME sector.
  • Responsibilities include marketing, sales, project management and financial control.
  • As part of the role I also play a major part in steering the technological strategy of the company, researching emerging and established technologies and finding ways to apply these to the company’s benefit.

Major Healthcare Provider, North of England

September 2004 - June 2005

  • Taken on to work within the support team, working on areas including Recruitment, Administer Workforce, Self Service, and Security.
  • Developed tools for data analysis by the HR department.
  • Technical expertise used included PeopleTools 8.3, Application Engine, PeopleCode, Component Interface, and SQR.
  • Carried out many database and system administration in order to maintain system availability and continued high reliability
  • Worked with the HR Charter system, providing support and dealing with problems interfacing with PeopleSoft Application Messaging.

Car Manufacturer, Brussels, Belgium

December 2003 - June 2004

  • Taken on to work within the European support team. Duties included responding to user requirements for support, correction of reports and processing for Time & Labor, new panel development and analysis of technical problems.
  • During the implementation of Time & Labor I was responsible for the analysis of business requirements for reporting of headcounts, utility and leave.
  • Technical expertise used included PeopleTools 8.17, Application Engine, PeopleCode, Crystal Reports, and SQR.

Major Retail/Brewing firm, Central England

August - September 2003

  • Hired on a short-term basis to create reports and interfaces against the Global Payroll and HR (PS 8.8) implementation. These included reporting payroll calculation results with a sophisticated highly parameterised report, interfaces to pension providers, import of historic legacy data. Tools used included SQR, Application Engine, PeopleTools 8.4, and Component Interface.

Computer Peripherals Manufacturer, Hsinchu, Taiwan

July 2003

  • Asked to work again for this project in order to analyse the business requirements for benefits payments and stock purchase requirements within the company’s APAC region. The analysis had to consider requirements for integration within PeopleSoft Global Payroll, external bureau and North American payroll. This short, high pressure piece of consultancy work provided the company with the solutions and advice to move ahead with the implementation of their benefits requirements. I was subsequently asked to return to implement the recommendations but home commitments prevented me returning to Taiwan.

Computer Manufacturer, North France

April 2003

  • A three week contract to provide additional essential support cover over fiscal year end. Involved in investigating and correcting Application Engine programs (payments and matching), SQR performance enhancement and modification within a v8.1x environment.

Major Charity, Central England

January 2003 > February 2003.

  • Returned to this charity to assist in their OPAL project, an in-house project management module being developed in PeopleSoft v8 to provide a flexible method of handling projects in a large multi-national charity.
  • Explained, and offered solutions, to issues relating to accounting for future and past entries in one currency, but reporting them in another.
  • Involved in building budgeting section of project.

Computer Peripherals Manufacturer, Switzerland.

September 2002 > December 2002.

  • Functional analysis and configuration of the core HRMS configuration for this 16 country roll-out.
  • Worked with senior personnel to define a strategy for the use of Base Benefits within a European context.
  • Defined and implemented the security configuration.
  • Developed an interface between Global Payroll and Oracle Financials using SQR.
  • Created a Payroll Provider report, taking data from Variable Compensation and HRMS, suitable for use in 12 countries.
  • Provided end user and technical support for all aspects of the system.

Big Five Consultancy, London, England.

February 2002 > June 2002.

  • Developed an interface with SQR between the PeopleSoft v8 HR system and a new, Excel based Data Modelling System for salary reviews in France.
  • Led the technical team for the French Salary Review in order to ensure that the project matched short and ambitious deadlines.
  • Carried out testing and user liaison in respect of the Excel system.
  • Was involved in steering the design of a similar system for the Netherlands so that the implementation could be even more rapid than for France.
  • Provided end user and technical support for all aspects of the system.

Big Five Consultancy/French Government, Paris, France.

October 2000 > June 2001.

  • Primary role was the development of a new PeopleSoft module - Financials for French Public Sector. Most of my work involved adding functionality to the generic Public Sector AP/PO module. This included adding Differé avec Contra-Passation (ie, refusing a PO, withdrawing the budget impact, and then keeping the PO open for modification and re-submission), Devise (Currency definition), Adding PO style comments management to the Dossier de Liquidation (Voucher) panels, adding a PeopleCode based Voucher Copy process and a number of bug investigations. The work, due to it being a development of PeopleSoft product had to be of a high standard to match PeopleSoft’s more recent development standards, was multi-platform and designed with ultimate flexibility and with a view to future development and customization.
  • Assisted in the implementation of the above system within the Ministry of Finance.
  • Using an advanced style of optimisation, improved the performance of some SQRs to reduce run times by 95%.
  • Most bug reports, specifications and team meetings were held in French - giving me a new challenge of working in a foreign language.

Major Charity, Central England

March 2000 > September 2000.

  • PeopleSoft Financials and Distribution development and support. This system had recently gone live when I started.
  • Debugged, analysed and corrected a range of problems with the in-house developed PeopleSoft module - Shop Accounting System. This module took data from the charity’s 800 shops, processed it, and loaded the General Ledger. Significant levels of analysis were required in order to produce functional documentation and to correct the problems within the system. A re-write of some sections was required. The solution has since worked reliably.
  • Applied patches, carried out performance enhancement, and was involved in critical user support - an important role in an organisation which often has to carry out flexible and difficult distribution projects.
  • Developed a number of data analysis and interfacing SQRs.

Risk Management Consultancy, Belgium.

November 1999 > December 1999.

  • A short contract, and rapid implementation of PeopleSoft HRMS v7.5 across several countries whilst assisting with their Financials implementation.
  • Implemented HR Administer Workforce and Recruitment, adding Business Unit processing to Recruitment Module allowing HR departments to administer their recruitment according to local market requirements.
  • Some involvement in HR gap analysis.
  • Investigated and corrected problems with the implementation on both HR and Financials implementations. Some multi currency work was required.

Credit Bank, Northern England.

February 1999 > October 1999.

  • This site was in the process of exploiting and enhancing their current PeopleSoft HR v6 implementation.
  • A high level of autonomy in this role allowed me to take projects through from inception to completion, including dealing with senior management and users.
  • Created a search panel which allowed the user to find employees with only vague information, for example, a mistyped name, city or address would still produce a match.
  • Carried out the business analysis, design and development, and implementation of a system to manage the bank’s complex benefits packages. This included report production such as P11ds and accounting interfaces.

Distillers, Scotland.

January 1999 > February 1999.

  • A short contract due to having already been booked to work at Capital Bank.
  • The key task involved developing a sophisticated SQR based interface between PeopleSoft Asset Management and Chivas’ own Warehouse Management System. The interface allowed the users full control of data transfers which could be restarted, rerun and rescheduled as necessary without having to manage data files individually. This resulted in a highly robust interface in spite of transferring data over an FTP based system.

Newspaper Publishers, London, England.

June 1998 > December 1998.

  • Provided technical lead to the implementation team, reviewing development specifications and change requests.
  • Development of new panels and customisation, working closely with business analysts.
  • Hired directly by the Finance Department in order to provide a third party between the team of consultants (KPMG) and the internal IT department.
  • Implemented cheque printing and document management system, allowing sophisticated and high quality output from within SQRs. This was a complete role which involved business analysis, product review and finally implementation of document handling software and hardware.
  • PeopleSoft system successfully implemented within six months, and I provided one month of post implementation support.

Investment Bank, Luxembourg.

March 1998 > May 1998.

  • Hired by PeopleSoft Benelux as part of a small team in order to implement PeopleSoft HRMS v6.
  • The system was succesfully implemented within just a few months.
  • Responsible for online development, panel customisation, SQR writing and technical documentation.

Housing Trust, Central England.

September 1997 > February 1998.

  • This charity carried out a major implementation of PeopleSoft Financials encompassing almost every module possible at the time.
  • The experience of working here gave me exposure to complex PeopleCode within an accounting environment.

Chemical Manufacturers, Northern England.

January 1997 > September 1997.

  • Working on the implementation of the company’s PeopleSoft HRMS implementation for some 30,000 employees.
  • Data transfer and loading from the legacy mainframe system into PeopleSoft HRMS v5 system using Adabas Natural and SQR. This included the writing of sophisticated code which could convert date ranged data as stored in the mainframe into effective-dated data as required in PeopleSoft.

Chemical Manufacturers, Northern England.

September 1987 > December 1996.

  • Employed in a wide range of roles over the years, starting as a printer operator, then computer operator before moving into programming in 1988.
  • Worked on the company’s corporation-wide payroll and HR systems, including overseas data, on an IBM MVS mainframe using Adabas Natural, PL/1, JCL and MkIV
  • Learned structured coding practices, and gained a thorough grounding in the systems and procedures required within large corporations.

Interests, hobbies and other information:

  • Sports, including badminton, rollerblading, skiing and motorsport where I compete successfully at a regional level.
  • Mechanical engineering.
  • Photography.
  • Travel.
  • Geographically mobile, flexible and able to mix with people from different backgrounds and cultures.