Helping clients uplift and re-shift from legacy systems and processes to align with achieving business goals by unlocking the value of cloud technology through the implementation of Workday. Specialized in Grants Management, Customer Accounts and Contracts, and Endowments implementation, remediation and optimization with higher education, non-profit and government organizations.

Demonstrated functional expertise in the following Workday Financials (FIN) work streams: Grants Management, Banking and Settlement, Business Assets and Capital Projects, Endowments, Customer Accounts, Budgets.Participated in four successful Workday implementations for Higher Education customers. My involvement consisted of leading the work streams for Banking and Settlement, Business Assets, Grant Management and Endowments from design through deployment.Created several reusable assets and documentation that have been used on current and future deployment projects that has allowed for increased efficiencies while decreasing project implementation costs.Conduct weekly remote and one-to-one mentoring sessions with new hires.Collaborate effectively with peer consultants to design solutions for specific cross-functional work stream requirements.Currently leading the following work streams on two concurrent, higher education Workday Financials implementations: Grants Management, Endowments, Banking and Settlement, Customer Accounts, Budgets (Financial and Position), and Business Assets which consists of conducting weekly remote and occasional on-site working sessions with clients to gather, understand, and analyze customer business requirements, design and configure Workday solutions, demonstrate configurations through the development of prototype systems, assist in testing Workday solution, complete knowledge transfer to customers and convert legacy data for go-live.Recipient of Outstanding Contributor Award (OCA) for FY21 Q3 for exemplifying the behaviors of company core values (Teammates, Customer Focus, Entrepreneur, Tenacity and Genuine) and for going above and beyond Alchemy's high standards.

The Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) was established in 1865 and is currently comprised of two doctoral-granting universities, a state college, four comprehensive community colleges and one environmental research institute. The public system of higher education in Nevada is governed by the Board of Regents serving over 100,000 students and 15,000 employees.Participated in all phases of deployment of Workday Financials system-wide for a multi-institution implementation of the following FIN functional areas: Grants Management and Effort Reporting, Business Assets, Banking and Settlement, and Budgets.Provide techno-functional post-production support to internal customers within 9 institutions for Workday Financials in complex problem analysis and resolution in the functional areas of Banking and Settlement, Business Assets, Grants and Effort Reporting, and Integrations.Collaborate with subject matter experts and Workday Financials consulting team to design a foundation for Workday Financials configuration to maximize efficiency and standardize business processes across 9 universities and colleges in the state of Nevada.Conduct weekly customer group meetings for each functional area to validate data for conversion and work effectively with remote team members who are internal and external to the organization to discuss best practices, transfer knowledge, gather requirements for configuration changes, and resolve pain points.Work with Workday Customer Support to report Production bugs and issues through resolution.Prepare for Workday feature releases and execute repeatable process for evaluation, testing and deployment in post-production environment.Serve as a liaison between the campus functional, internal and external project team members, and the System Computing Services technical areas.

• Provide ongoing maintenance and enhancement of PeopleSoft Campus Solutions - Admissions, Academic Advising, Campus Community and Student Records modules.• Translate functional needs into configuration settings, develop written specifications and high-level design requirements for the PeopleSoft system and communicate requirements to application developers through the creation of functional documentation.• Evaluate approved functional documentation for effectiveness in addressing functional needs and usability.• Implement business process redesign into efficiencies for administrative offices.• Research and determine the feasibility of various technologies within the PeopleSoft environment for accomplishing functional objectives.• Configure and test newly delivered functionality to evaluate its fit for technological and organizational challenges.• Conduct presentation of ideas and plans and transfer-of-knowledge training sessions with business users.• Test customizations, bundle updates and bug fixes.

SUMMARY:Involved in all phases of the implementation life-cycle to deploy UNLV's PeopleSoft Campus Solutions as a Functional Lead for Curriculum and Business Process Analyst Trainer for the Student Records module. Provide end user support after go-live in the maintenance of PeopleSoft and resolution of issues.FUNCTIONAL LEAD ACTIVITIES• Participate in implementation activities (analyze, design, configure, data conversion, test, implement).• Performed data conversion activities from the legacy system, data validation, and cleanup.• Assist in the planning and coordination of systems rollouts.• Execute go-live activities, post-production troubleshooting, and provide on-going assistance to campus personnel.• Liaison between campus personnel and technical support staff.• Perform maintenance of Student Records application on a scheduled and ad-hoc basis.• Perform system changes to configuration and setup of Student Records application in accordance with business systems needs.• Create and maintain configuration/ setup documentation.• Prepare for and conduct systems testing.• Create and maintain queries and reports in support of division needs and for functional testing.• Manage and maintain relationship between Student Records and external campus constituents.BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYST ACTIVITIES• Served as Business Process Analyst Trainer to conduct end user training for over 700 administrative staff in student records, advising centers and academic departments.• Recommend appropriate systems enhancements and evaluate their requirements, scope, and priority.• Resolve discrepancies with technical and/or business personnel.• Identify and document discrepancies.• Develop and implement test scripts to accurately assess output against expected results.• Suggest appropriate business process changes to minimize required systems customizations and/or configuration effort.

• Responsible for overseeing the curriculum process, the creation and implementation of curriculum at UNLV. • Coordinate catalog content with faculty, staff, catalog production, sales, and distribution. • Managed the production of the registration guide and other registration-related materials including the publication of the academic calendar.

• Responsible for database processing and maintenance in the Academic Scheduling Department, scheduling classrooms for approximately 7,200 classes per semester and processing room requests for campus events. • Provide high-level of customer service to academic department administrative assistants, chairs, deans, recognized student organizations, and off-campus entities.• Train, assign and review work, and supervise student worker on scheduling and event procedures; provide necessary discipline and performance evaluation. • Install Ad Astra 5.0 room scheduling software across campus and conduct on-site end-user training. • Serve on a Staff Satisfaction Committee. The Staff Satisfaction Committee is made up of volunteer representatives from Frazier Hall with a goal of increasing the unity and fun into the workplace.• Serve on the Enrollment Management Move Team. This team will take lead in coordinating the move and serve as liaisons between staff, leadership, UNLV moving services and contractors.• Serve on the Classified Staff Council. The council represents and serves the Classified Employees as an advisory group to the President; receive, consider and make recommendations on matters of personnel of any policies and procedures which might impact classified employees.