HCM Data Integrations 

Workday

• Subject matter expert and Field Readiness Architect responsible for HCM, Payroll, Recruiting, Cloud Connect for Benefits and Credentials integration product sets.
• Create and deliver programs to ensure that the ecosystem has the knowledge, tools, templates and touch-points to deploy Workday integrations in the most effective and efficient manner.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Software Alliances, Support, Development, and Education organizations to ensure that Workday integration toolset is being properly utilized.
• Research, resolve and provide root cause analysis for Service Partner and customer escalations related to Workday integrations.
• Devise and implement new services-facing product release strategies and content.
• Host weekly Knowledge Sharing Sessions with the entire Workday Integrations Ecosystem to educate and inform of new functionality, updates, customer alerts and other integration topics.
• Create, review, prioritize and present content and support the annual Workday Altitude conference.
• Use data driven approach to identify, prioritize, develop and deliver reusable integration assets for maximum implementation cost reduction.

Senior Field Readiness Architect - Integrations

Appirio

• Direct involvement and/or oversight of developing business requirements, specifications, process flows, application design, application configuration, testing and deployment.
• Work directly with clients to lead projects, facilitate business process analysis sessions, develop and deliver key components of technology solution.
• Assist in pre-sales to provide technical options to prospects and help define the statement of work and levels of effort.
• Direct technical decisions and implementation strategy of Appirio project teams including prioritization, dividing up work, assigning to team members, load balancing and monitoring for quality.


Key Accomplishments:

• Leading Claims Management Software Company - Team Lead; Developed a number of highly complex Workday Financials related Studio integrations as well as dozens of other EIB and Cloud Connect integrations to internal and external systems.

• Solo Project - Developed a POC application adding SMS capability to Workday notifications using Meteor JS framework.

• Multinational Communications Corporation - Team Lead; Developed a number of integrations to various internal systems as well as external HCM and Payroll vendors. 

• Leading SaaS Provider - Team Lead; Developed a range of highly complex custom Studio integrations to facilitate data-exchange between Workday Financials module and a various banking, finance and payment processing institutions.

• Leading Semiconductor Manufacturer - Team Lead; Developed a range of EIB, Studio and Cloud Connect integrations to Payroll providers as well as a number of internal and external partner systems.

• International Analytics Software Company - Team Lead; Developed a number of Benefits and Payroll integrations.

• Global Networking Software Company - Team Lead; Designed and developed a range of custom Benefits and Payroll integrations.

• National Insurance Company - Team Lead; Designed and developed several custom Benefits and Payroll integrations.

Principal Consultant - Workday Integrations

Deloitte Consulting

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to sales and scoping process in identifying potential gaps and feature availability in relation with Workday delivered set of capabilities.
• Work directly with both customer and vendor key business and IT stakeholders to confirm requirements, identify gaps and risks, suggest alternatives, advise on best practices, facilitate discussions and ultimately drive requirements to sign-off.
• Create detailed set of interface specifications including the design, mapping and transformation, test scenario and transition documents.
• Develop, test, deploy and support integrations required to meet business requirements.
• Lead a team in Workday implementations as required.
• Track issues and risks, communicate status and escalate concerns to project management.
• Construct & deliver presentations using structure & style appropriate to audience.
• Mentor less experienced team members and lead by example in both business and process aspects of the job.
• Participate in recruiting, team building, methodology improvement, and developing tools.

Accomplishments:

• Using a full range of Workday proprietary tools (Report Writer, Calculated Fields, CCB, EIB, Workday Studio) delivered a wide range of integrations spanning various functional areas including Benefits, Payroll, 401k, Tax Filings, ATS, Provisioning, Payments, Wage Garnishments, Employment Verification, Flexible Spending Accounts and others.
• Clients include: Electronic Arts, Lifetech, Amtrust, Symantec, John Muir Health, Flextronics, Valspar, Mohawk, Carefusion, CitiTrends, DataDomain, IRC, FHI, The ICE, Illumina, Intuit, Savvis, UCB.
• Integrated with: ADP (ProBusiness, Pay@Work, Pay Specialist, Garnishments, Tax Filings, FSA), Taleo, AmeriFlex, Hewitt, Fidelity, Mercer, Towers, ACH, Work Number, Schwab, Aetna, Cigna, Great West, VSP, ICS, Kaiser, Medco, Metlife, Sunlife, UHC, UMR, UNUM, WageWorkds, Conexis, Kaiser, AngelPoints, SelectMinds, Delta Dental, BCBS, Eyemed, Medco, Hartford.

Senior Consultant - Workday Integrations

Aggressor LLC (acquired by Deloitte)

Senior Workday Integration Consultant

Accenture

Projects:

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)
BT SAP Foundational Release Performance Test

• Worked closely with developers and business analysts on defining project scope by assessing critically and risk level of individual transactions.
• Determined performance requirements by consolidating input from design and technical documents, developers and business analyst.
• Developed LoadRunner performance test scripts and input files incorporating testing standards and best practices.
• Developed automation scripts to generate large volumes of test data.
• Recorded problems and issues in accordance with the project’s issue tracking and management plans. 
• Worked with developers on identifying performance bottlenecks and precise causes of issues.
• Validated product fixes.

Bank Of America
Online Banking Application Performance Testing

• Member of the performance testing team for the J2EE Java/JSP eCommerce/OLB web-based application.
• Contributed in the preparation of test plans, specifications and scripts (SilkPerformer, LoadRunner), analyzed test results by monitoring CPU utilization, JVM, internal/external response times (Introscope).
• Created performance model use cases.
• Worked with the client development, testing and production support teams.
• Coordinated the offshore team. 

Consortium-IV
California Statewide Automated Welfare System (“SAWS”) development

• Maintained, debugged and developed new functionality for an automated state welfare application (Java/J2EE).
• Managed the flow of trouble tickets by assigning criticality, distributing them to developers and monitoring progress.
• Communicated with end users to understand the issues and provide support if necessary.
• Worked closely with client business analysts when new functionality was requested and consulted them on complexities and budgeting.
• Wrote test cases and documentation for QA team.
• Participated in design and code reviews.

Senior Programmer/Analyst

• Senior Workday Integrations expert with over 14 years of experience with Workday implementations and maintenance spanning a range of functional areas including HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Financials and Recruiting using both Workday internal toolset (Report Writer, Calculated Fields, CCB, EIB, Workday Studio and Workday Extend) as well as the standard web service technologies and related protocols (XML, XSLT, XPath, Rest, SOAP, WSDL).
• Devised best-practices, tooling, methodologies, recommendations, and training material for both internal Workday Services as well as partner resources throughout the Workday ecosystem.
• Over 250 designed and developed integrations with many other delivered in a lead role. 
• Nearly 20 years of Software Engineering experience spanning the entire development life cycle of enterprise level applications.

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