Christopher Houston Email & Phone Number

Lynnwood, Wa, Us

Incline Village, Nevada, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Strong expert in Workday cross-platform applications including security, reporting, and integrations.• Creating and maintaining security configuration in Workday financial module implementation.• Auditing and synchronizing Workday security configuration across multiple tenants and refreshes.• Developing and documenting complex security analysis and auditing tools and procedures.• Mentoring junior analysts in Workday security, reporting, integrations, and other subjects.• Performing in depth analysis and configuration to bolster security of sensitive finance data.• Coordinating with multiple development teams to design and implement cohesive security model.• Acting as bridge between security and integration teams, performing some integration development.• Managing assignments and tracking deliverables using Jira, SharePoint, and other enterprise tools.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Designed, implemented, maintained, supported, and documented Workday financial integrations.• Configured and tested all integration security for implementation – primary integration security expert.• Organized and facilitated campus outreach to gather and refine financial integration requirements.• Contributed toward ongoing Workday Financials implementation, providing subject matter expertise.• Led sub-teams of engineers, analysts, and consultants focused on process area specific integrations.• Collaborated with internal and external partners, recommended effective integration architecture.• Identified, communicated gaps and trade-offs in designs across technical and non-technical audiences.• Monitoring, troubleshooting, error handling, and improving performance of integrations.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Configured domain and business process security policies in accordance with evolving requirements.• Handled day to day security group and organizational role assignments, ad hoc security requests.• Developed complex security reports, system analysis tools, and process improvement procedures.• Optimized Workday integrations security, analyzed current state and designed improvements.• Created system of complex system filters rationalized Tier 2 Service Partner’s workload.• Prepared, delivered presentations on Workday security model to end-users and business partners.• Stabilized, maintained Kainos security test packs, analyzed results for weekly and biannual updates.• Mentored junior analysts in Workday object structure, data model, and analytical best practices.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Partnered with organizations to understand and interpret requirements.• Identified additional needs based on analysis of requirements.• Educated and promoted self-service reporting functionality with end users by utilizing various communication and training methodologies.• Ran, distributed scheduled reports and supported business requests for ad hoc report generation.• Developed and maintained HR and other business reporting, analytics, and dashboards in areas such as workforce management, talent and performance management, compensation, and absence.• Partnered with HR Technology to support ongoing Workday functionality enhancements.• Ensured dashboard, reporting, and embedded analytics supported HR security and access protocols.• Maintained proper change management documentation to satisfy internal and external audit controls.• Identified and applied reporting improvements in Workday releases.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• AccreditedWorkday Reporting Professional, accreditation effective 5/2018.• Workday Reporting subject matter expert. Ensured functionality of design, development, and launch.• Delivered critical reporting solutions with competing priorities, deadlines.• Configured Workday dashboards, worklets, alerts, and scheduled future processes.• Evaluated processes, conducted system analysis to resolve complex user and stakeholder inquiries.• Supported and trained team members on Workday reporting and UW data structure.• Collaborated with a large team to implement, stabilize, and maintain Workday for UW.• Developed hundreds of Workday custom reports in functional areas including Academic Personnel, Benefits, Compensation & Merit, Human Capital Management, Payroll, Security, and Time & Absence.• Wrote and maintained standards and guidelines, created documentation policies and wiki tool.• Conducted comprehensive regression testing with Kainos SMART automated testing software. • Validated end-user information access and view rights based on security roles and permissions.• Managed assignments and tracked deliverables using Jira and SharePoint enterprise tools.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Designed, built, tested, deployed reports using Workday Enterprise Resource Planning software.• Evaluated report requests and created technical design specifications from business requirements.• Collaborated with subject matter experts, functional analysts, and business leads to analyze and interpret requirements, design and configure custom reports following Workday and UW standards.• Conducted unit and end-to-end testing, assessing and providing solutions to issues.• Worked with team members to troubleshoot IT problems and identify issues for escalation to contribute to key project deliverables and achieve reporting solutions.

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• Geo-Location and GSM theory expert. Special Signals analyst. Airborne ISR. Flight Crew Member.• Airborne tactical signals intelligence operator in Afghanistan (2010 / 2012).• Provided real-time intelligence to ground forces to identify and correlate high value targets• Coordinated tactical-level intelligence networks in high-stakes environment.• Analyzed and disseminated intelligence information obtained from onboard aerial sensors.• Performed R&D on new equipment and produced initial operating procedures for emerging technology.

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Transcriptions and Translations. Airborne ISR. Aircrew Member

Certificate In C# Programming

Certificate In Database Management

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Management Information Systems

Business And Computer Science Prerequisites

Associate Of Arts, Hindi