Marika Chalupa Email & Phone Number

Wayne, Pa

PR consultant/contractor promoting small businesses in multi communication mediums.

Blue Bell, Pa

Senior HR Business ConsultantFunctional Lead supporting and simplifying HR processes for the Global Corporate HR with extensive system knowledge in PeopleSoft HRMS 9.1 and ELM 9.0 application software.SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Documented HR processes to ensure continuity, consistency, and transparency that provided the basis for compliance reporting.• Managed the Unisys Confidentiality and Privacy Policies as they applied to EU directives and dynamic functional roles.• Managed the support effort for PeopleSoft HRMS applications, with strong functional knowledge of Talent Management, Talent Review, Succession Planning, Performance Plans, Security, Self Service, Payroll Interface, and Enterprise Learning Management (ELM), thus meeting user expectations and ensuring productivity.• Executed quality assurance testing using standard test plans, documenting for auditing purposes and signing off on final approvals to meet high quality deployment within scope and schedule.• Created instructional documentation for training, documenting configuration changes, transferring knowledge via software demonstrations and/or presentations to gain community by-in and ultimately managed and implemented process change.• Motivated development team by mentoring, assigning priorities, providing requirement specs, tracking progress, testing updates and providing final approval that ensured productivity and client satisfaction.• Translated business requirements into functional specs by influencing decision stakeholders to utilize standard PeopleSoft configuration options vs. coding that ultimately reduced software maintenance cost.• Served as SME for Global Talent Management group by re-designing the performance plan processes thus saving on software development cost.• Utilized configuration options to customize self-service apps that track employees skills, work experience, languages, goals, areas of expertise to provide data for reporting and tracking for resource managers.

Burlington, Ma / Malvern, Pa

PKI Security ConsultantLed the development of PKI marketing brochure, training services and course design to determine customer need, design solutions, deliver a PKI, and detect progress by monitoring effectiveness.SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Led a team of analysts to deliver a proof of concept for the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicle PKI initiative that affirmed the future need for a secured web based application.• Developed, designed and implemented a PKI prototype using a Unisys web based travel reimbursement application that was used for proof of concept delivery to reinforce sales services and delivery.• Participated in web seminars broadcasted live to customers to promote the Security Practice PKI services, which highlighted the benefits of a secure Internet application.• Designed, developed and delivered the Unisys University's Security Workshop to train sales / technical groups to promote Unisys' security products.• Promoted the biometric line of products at trade shows to educate users on benefits of encryption and biometrics in web-based solutions.• Created the installation guide for the biometric identification demo that was instrumental in the educational course material.• Provided written technical response to the Washington State RFP that was part of a larger solution that would bring in millions of dollars of revenue.• Wrote the Internal Security Group's Certification Authority (CA) that provided issuance of certificates for testing, training and demonstrating the benefits of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).• Developed the Bioware application and Internet Security Solution multimedia demo CD used as promotional collateral.• Researched marketing information and press releases to the Unisys security group to educate management in product development, vertical markets and sales opportunities.• Installed and maintained NT Serve and Oracle Database for the PKI enabled software products for the purpose of demonstration and training.

Mclean, Va

Onsite at the FAA Technical Center in Pomona, NJ as a contracted senior consultant providing pre-sales and post sales technical and maintance support for the Unisys Distritbutive Data Processors and Unisys Mainframe system software installations and upgrades. Project required managing the operations staff and providing 24/7 technical support.

Provided pre-sales and post sales support for the latest technology in distributive networking.

Ms, Technical Communications, 4.0

Highlight of my graduate studies was being invited to lecture to a class of Drexel University MBA students, per the request.

Bs, Computer Science Math Applied

Activities and Societies: President of the Russian ClubCo-oped as a Programmer after my sophmore year of studies at the NY State.