Deepak Devanand Email & Phone Number

Ilderton, On, Ca

London, Ontario, Canada

Act as a systems lead/functional analyst with the Human Resources Information Systems team and implements strategic HR IT projects for the staff and faculty members of the university. Supports and maintains the PeopleSoft ERP implementation in HR product areas like Core HR, Payroll, Recruitment and Benefits. Lead the creation of custom application features within the ERP to support business requirements.

Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

Worked as a Senior Product Manager with PeopleSoft HCM product development team. Owned completely or partially; product areas like Core HR, Employee Self Service, Manager Self Service, Guided Self Service, Position Management, US Federal, and Compliance and Regulations.Responsibilities:Answerable for maintaining a healthy product roadmap by identifying scope for new features and enhancements to the product, and validate the requirements with Customers and Partners.- Answerable… Show more Worked as a Senior Product Manager with PeopleSoft HCM product development team. Owned completely or partially; product areas like Core HR, Employee Self Service, Manager Self Service, Guided Self Service, Position Management, US Federal, and Compliance and Regulations.Responsibilities:Answerable for maintaining a healthy product roadmap by identifying scope for new features and enhancements to the product, and validate the requirements with Customers and Partners.- Answerable to ensure the buy-in from Top Management and Strategy, and create User Flows, Wireframes, and High Fidelity MockUps.- Act as the Product Owner, and create User Stories and prioritize them in the product backlog.- Ensure continuous delivery of enhancements and features to the product.- Responsible for creating content to help customers understand new features.Achievements:- Designed a configurable self-service transaction for employees which can be easily deployed by customers without customizations.- Timely delivered a reporting feature for US customers, in spite of dynamic changes to requirements from the Equal Employment Opportunity Council [EEOC] of the USA, to ensure that customers are compliant with EEOC rules.- Uncovered the use cases to display the summary of changes to a guided transaction.- Laid the foundation for an up-to-date search for PeopleSoft components incorporating the benefits of Elastic Search as well as SQL search.Awards/Honors:Outstanding Contributor [Team Award] from SVP of Oracle for delivering the EEOC Component 2 compliance feature for US customers. Show less

Trivandrum

Worked as a Project Lead and a part-time Product Manager with the PeopleSoft HCM application development team. Carried out the additional responsibility of a SCRUM Master.Responsibilities:- Design and Develop complex features in PeopleSoft Application as per the product roadmap.- Identify areas for improvement in the code line and process side, and suggest corrective measures.- Own the responsibility of the project delivery process and ensure successful check-in.- Act as… Show more Worked as a Project Lead and a part-time Product Manager with the PeopleSoft HCM application development team. Carried out the additional responsibility of a SCRUM Master.Responsibilities:- Design and Develop complex features in PeopleSoft Application as per the product roadmap.- Identify areas for improvement in the code line and process side, and suggest corrective measures.- Own the responsibility of the project delivery process and ensure successful check-in.- Act as the SCRUM Master.Achievements:- Tested and fixed pages as part of the Classic Plus project, which was meant for bringing a uniform and seamless visual experience for users navigating through PeopleSoft fluid and classic pages.- Accountable for maintaining the bug queue of the team below the threshold specified by the management.- Answerable for delivering an enhanced user experience for Federal HR Administrators while Correcting or Cancelling a Personnel Action Request.- Uncovered the use cases for a configurable validation framework to be used by US Federal customers to validate Personnel Action data of employees that are reported to the Office of Personnel Management [OPM]. Show less

Trivandrum

Worked as a Senior Application Engineer and a part-time Product Manager with the PeopleSoft Application Development team.Responsibilities:- Collaborate with stakeholders at various levels of the organizational hierarchy to finalize the requirements for an Internal Productivity Enhancement initiative for the product development organization.- Design and Develop a Workcenter for the team, integrating the various tools and systems involved in the life cycle of a Bug Resolution or… Show more Worked as a Senior Application Engineer and a part-time Product Manager with the PeopleSoft Application Development team.Responsibilities:- Collaborate with stakeholders at various levels of the organizational hierarchy to finalize the requirements for an Internal Productivity Enhancement initiative for the product development organization.- Design and Develop a Workcenter for the team, integrating the various tools and systems involved in the life cycle of a Bug Resolution or new feature.- Design and implement workflow for Guided Personnel Action Request transactions in US Federal.Achievements:- Developed a Workcenter for Developers to see Pending Tasklists and Priority work for the day. This saved time, otherwise spent on navigating to different systems to collect this data.- Developed a Workcenter for Managers at various levels to analyze and track the work of their team. - Employed AWK scripts to derive meaningful information from log files generated by change package application, and created audit issues out of the same, thereby automating the entire process of change package application error reporting.- Designed and developed a dashboard, with associated processes and reports, for the release engineering team to streamline the process of PUM delivery.- Designed a configurable transaction summary for the Personnel Action Requests and ensured that the feature was delivered in time.Awards and Honors: - Outstanding Contributor - Team Award from Oracle for the contributions to the Development Workcenter project. Show less

Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Worked as an Application Engineer with the PeopleSoft Application Development team.Responsibilities:- Analyze reported issues in the existing code line and provide a fix.- Prepare the Unit test plan, execute the test cases and document the test results.- Coordinate with the Global Support Centre team for customer reported issues, whenever required.Achievements:- Eliminated the performance issues with the Audit Central tool [an internal tool to ensure coding… Show more Worked as an Application Engineer with the PeopleSoft Application Development team.Responsibilities:- Analyze reported issues in the existing code line and provide a fix.- Prepare the Unit test plan, execute the test cases and document the test results.- Coordinate with the Global Support Centre team for customer reported issues, whenever required.Achievements:- Eliminated the performance issues with the Audit Central tool [an internal tool to ensure coding standards and processes are followed during the delivery of features and solutions.] Show less

Chennai Area, India

After the promotion, Deepak continued to work on the project which maintained/enhanced the PeopleSoft HCM v9.1 application for the same client. He was given ownership of more modules like ePerformance, Succession Planning and Profile Management. He continued to lead the offshore activities for the custom modules EHWA and PTO and, worked on enhancements and change requests for the other modules.Responsibilities:Work on enhancement requests from clientWork on change requests… Show more After the promotion, Deepak continued to work on the project which maintained/enhanced the PeopleSoft HCM v9.1 application for the same client. He was given ownership of more modules like ePerformance, Succession Planning and Profile Management. He continued to lead the offshore activities for the custom modules EHWA and PTO and, worked on enhancements and change requests for the other modules.Responsibilities:Work on enhancement requests from clientWork on change requests [existing issues, in the application, that were identified during the upgrade project]Prepare unit test plan and conduct unit testingCo-ordinate offshore work for PTO and drive client demosMentor new members to the team and take training for knowledge transfers.Major contributions:Implementation of an Offer Letter generation program with dynamic naming using BI Publisher.Implementation of a custom performance document template for a specific population of employees.One among the only 4 persons, out of a group of 30, who completed the Oracle certification.Awards and Honors:SPOT award [Unit level recognition] from Infosys Ltd for contributions to the project.Certifications:Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management 11g Talent Management Certified Implementation Specialist Show less

Chennai Area, India

After having completed training, Deepak joined the PeopleSoft practice of manufacturing unit in Infosys. His first project was an application upgrade from PeopleSoft HRMS v8.8m to PeopleSoft HCM v9.1 for a major aircraft manufacturer in the world. With his quick learning skills and excellent analytical ability, he became an integral part of a team that upgraded two highly complex custom modules, EHWA [Enterprise Hourly Workforce Administration] and PTO [Paid Time Off]. Post the upgrade… Show more After having completed training, Deepak joined the PeopleSoft practice of manufacturing unit in Infosys. His first project was an application upgrade from PeopleSoft HRMS v8.8m to PeopleSoft HCM v9.1 for a major aircraft manufacturer in the world. With his quick learning skills and excellent analytical ability, he became an integral part of a team that upgraded two highly complex custom modules, EHWA [Enterprise Hourly Workforce Administration] and PTO [Paid Time Off]. Post the upgrade project, Deepak moved with the same team to a maintenance project of the same application that got upgraded.Responsibilities: Fit-Gap analysisRetrofit/re-customize objectsWork on change requestsPrepare and update technical documentsPrepare a unit test plan and conduct unit testing.Co-ordinate offshore work for PTO module and drive client demos.Awards and Honors:Two SPOT awards [Unit level recognition] from Infosys Ltd for the contributions to the project.Certifications:PeopleTools 8 Application Developer Certified Expert Show less

Chennai Area, India

Deepak joined Infosys Limited as a Systems Engineer Trainee and completed the training with an overall CGPA of 4.93 out of 5.Over the course of the training period, he was trained in Programming Fundamentals, RDBMS, OOP concepts, C, UNIX and Core JAVA and, various foundation courses to enhance the transition of a college graduate into an industry ready engineer.

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Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Electronics And Communication Engineering, First Class

Activities and Societies: National Service Scheme Volunteer, Basket Ball team, Tournament Secretary for Annual Futsal Football tournament.