Daniel Thiel Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

Involved in PeopleSoft Upgrades to 7.51, 8.01, 8.9, and 9.2 – this included analysis of PeopleSoft changes, client requirements gathering, design, and reapplying of customizations.Designed, created, coded, and maintained changes for - Benefits, interfaces, Merit and General Increases, Variable Compensation, Tax Updates, and Payroll Time System (PTS). PTS was a time reporting system, written in-house using SQL Server, stored procedures, VBScript, and Windows Scripting Host, that fed all of the company’s employees’ time into PeopleSoft.One of the Leaders on the Benefits and the Compensation Work Streams and worked on the Pension Work Stream in the Consolidation and Merger Upgrade Project – the project that combined ERP systems after the company acquisition.Designed, programmed and implemented a new way of managing and processing the company’s Annual Incentive Awards to replace the existing Authoria’s Performance Mangement and Compensation Software. The project involved creating new and customizing existing PeopleSoft pages, writing new Application Engine programs, writing and modifying various forms of PeopleCode, writing several Component Interfaces, and creating multiple XML Publisher Reports. This was all done to allow for the setup and maintenance of plans, the determination of eligibility and assignment of employees to plans, the calculation and management of the awards, and the roll-out of the awards to Self Service and Manager Summary.

Greater Chicago Area

Lead, analyst, and programmer on the New Gas Bill Project – the conversion of the original post card bill into a full page statement that incorporated graphs and messaging. The project involved vendor software evaluation and implementation of the chosen software - Custom Statement Formatter (CSF) by M and I Data Services. The project also corresponded with other bill changes due to Tax Projects and a Gas Transportation Rate Case.Lead of the Legacy System Maintenance Support Improvement Project – responsible for the oversight, training, assessment of contractors brought in to maintain the legacy Customer Information System during the upgrade to Customer First System (CFirst). Installation and configuration of CSF for new CFirst System – including creation of CFirst Retail and Gas Transportation bills and statements and CFirst Batch Letters; also, Xerox form changes and the implementation of the postal software – Mail-Stream Plus.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for Bill Edit and Bill Print Processes, including the design and implementation of Braille and large font bills for Horizons for the Blind, adding address barcoding, and implementing barcoding for bill insert equipment. Designed and programmed in Phase 1 of Customer Information System upgrade, moving the financial data off of VSAM files to IBM DB2 databases.

Greater Chicago Area

Worked on the Customer Information System where key job functions were the application development, maintenance, and support for the Total Meter System, Teller Terminal System, Online Letter Generation System, and the Customer Periodic Reporting System.

Chicago, Illinois

Consulted and worked with village and city leaders to determine feasibility and logistics of having a Special Census in their town. If the decision were made to have one, oversaw, coordinated, and managed the Special Census Process from beginning to end. Maintained and supported the Census Bureau’s Chicago Regional Office PCs. Updated the various areas’ National Survey software and trained the Regional Office Staff on the software.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mathematics And Computer Science

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