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Forest, Va, Us

Southfield, Michigan, Us

Project manager for a 20 month integration of Kronos Timekeeping to Cardinal (PeopleSoft) Payroll and Oracle financials for the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services.Tasks include upgrading 14 hospitals and behavioral training centers from Kronos version 6 to Kronos version 8. This will serve 7400 state employees.Leading development effort for interfaces from Kronos to Cardinal.

KRONOSOver the past 20 years, I have implemented and personally hands-on configured the following Kronos Versions & modules: • Kronos Navigator• Kronos in the Cloud• Kronos WTK 7.x, • Kronos WTK 6.x, • Kronos WFC 5.x, • Kronos WFC 4.x, • Kronos TKC/S 3.x, • Created Kronos Work rules, Pay Rules, Accrual Rules, Group Schedules, Access Profiles• Kronos Org Mapping• Kronos Advanced Scheduler, • Kronos HR • Kronos Payroll• Kronos Accruals• Kronos Connect• Kronos WIM• Kronos Time Clocks: 450, 4500, and InTouch Terminals, Biometric, Mag Stripe, Barcode• Kronos Web Punching • Kronos MobileTimeOther Kronos Project work:• Created Kronos Training materials and conducted training classes for over 90,000 employees• Created Project plans for large, multiyear Kronos implementations• Created Change Management Plans for large, multiyear Kronos implementations• Created Testing Plans and conducted User Acceptance testing (UAT) for large, multiyear Kronos implementations• Performed Business Process Evaluation and Product Design Workshops for over 130 facilities• Implemented Kronos for Salaried, Hourly and Union employees• Managed budget, project, and change management plans for multi-million dollar Kronos implementations• Conducted Vendor management• Led Kronos Implementation Teams as large as 12, both in-house and vendor supplied• Implemented Kronos with Manufacturing, Healthcare, Utility and State Government clients

Miami, Florida, Us

• Release manager for a global client to migrate all manufacturing employees onto a single instance of Kronos v8 in the cloud.• Participated in Agile project implementation using Rally tracking tool• Worked with a team of 12 to manage Agile development of user stories, test cases, acceptance criteria, training materials, and cutover checklists• Conducted in-depth requirements gathering meetings with HR SMEs in North America, Canada, China, France, Denmark, Malaysia, Jeddah, Dubai, and Turkey • Wrote payroll interface specifications based on client requirements

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Senior IT Consultant (Consultant to Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL).Served as a general consultant for several initiatives (Kronos 6.3 WTK)• Hands-on configuration of Global Time-Off Requests, Pay Rules, Work Rules, Functional Access Profiles, etc.• Performed unit test and created results documentation

Walland, Tennessee, Us

Consultant to WellStar Medical Group Urgent Care, Marietta, GAConfigure Kronos for 4 acquired hospitals (conversion from Kronos iSeries to Kronos 6.3 WTK)• Worked with colleague to hands-on configure 30 pay rules and 130 work rules (Charge, Preceptor, Callback, etc.) in less than 6 weeks.• Performed unit test and results documentation against actual timesheets.• Provided round-the-clock go-live support during transition

Reston, Va, Us

(Consultant to Blount County, TN), Kronos 7.0 WTK, HR and Payroll InstallationBlount County, TN was upgrading their legacy systems to Kronos for their general county, schools, highway and sheriff’s departments• Developed preliminary plan in MS Project 2010 and SmartSheet for a multi-phase, multi-departmental deployment for 3,300 employees and retirees.• Leaded a team of eight to fully develop, test, and roll out their new HR and payroll system in less than four months.• Assisted in developing materials and conducting training for all managers.• Assisted in evaluating other legacy systems for potential upgrade.

Broomall, Pa, Us

• Senior IT Project Manager (Consultant to American Water Works), built a business case for a Kronos 7.1 time and attendance system installation.• American Water Works is a large water utility with $3.0 billion in Annual Revenue• Created business case and budget. Developed preliminary plan in MS Project 2010, project tracking in EPM, for a multi-phase, multi-state deployment for 5,000 employees.• Managed two SAP upgrades (to EHP7) over 18 months, with an interstate and international team of 21 people.

Mclean, Va, Us

Senior Project Manager (Consultant to Gerdau Ameristeel), Kronos WTK 6.3 InstallationGerdau is the largest producer of long steel in the Americas with 18.5 billion in Annual Revenue• Managed a $3 million Phase 1 implementation of a central Kronos WTK 6.3 enterprise system.• As project manager, developed charter, work breakdown structure, and timetable. Maintained in MS Project 2010.• Led a team of twelve to upgrade 11 facilities and 2,000 employees.

Brentwood, Tennessee, Us

• Managed an $8.7 million implementation to upgrade from distributed legacy Kronos TKC time and attendance systems to central Kronos WTK 6.1 enterprise system with a cost savings of over $1 million per year in maintenance fees.• As project manager, developed charter, work breakdown structure, and timetable. Maintained in MS Project 2007.• Led a team of twelve to consolidate 130 hospitals.• Developed and implemented change control process.• Created video-based training materials in use by 90,000 employees.

Public Safety Industry, 450 employees, privately held • Project manager for system conversion to Kronos WTK 6.1 HR and Payroll with a budget of $2 million.• Developed interfaces between Kronos and Great Plains Payroll software• Gathered requirements from Operations, Finance, Payroll, IT, and HR stakeholders.• Developed charter, requirements, WBS, and project timetable.• Developed functional specs and programmed Kronos Connect interfaces.

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Fortune 100 Healthcare Insurance Industry, 28,900 employees, $29 billion annual revenue• Enterprise Release Manager and Portfolio Manager for 60 IT software development projects on a quarterly basis.• Mentor to twelve junior project managers utilizing .Net development for Web 2.0 and eCommerce projects.• Created Crystal reports to monitor 250,000 test cases per quarter. Ranked by status, rate of completion, and criticality. Reduced manual effort by 80%.• Developed Load Testing initiative, reducing critical risk by 24%.• Led Release Management LEAN redesign effort, incorporating SCRUM/AGILE and ITIL into the SDLC.• Project manager for Certify Test Automation rollout. Spearheaded effort to develop 8000 automated test cases.

Louisville, Ky, Us

Fortune 500 Healthcare Industry, 52,900 employees, Annual Revenue of $4.3 billion• Created design specifications for data extraction from Kronos Workforce Central to SAP Payroll, Financials and Business Warehouse. • Wrote design specifications and created over 150 custom Crystal Reports for use within Kronos. • PM for project to upgrade 300 facilities in 40 states from Kronos TKC to Kronos WFC 5.2 enterprise

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Fortune 500 Wood & Paper Manufacturing, 50,000 employees, Annual Revenue of $19 billion• Managed transition of over 100 lumber facilities from the legacy Kronos Time Keeper Central application to the enterprise edition of Kronos Workforce Central (version 4.3).• Piloted the first Time & Attendance system at a paper mill, with stakeholders as diverse as the plant manager to union stewards. Incorporated the possibility of a strike into risk management plan. Despite a 3-week strike, delivered project on-time. • Created Kronos Connect scripts to interface with SAP. • Responsible for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) system compliance. • Leader of Disaster Recovery initiative.

Houston, Texas, Us

Fortune 500 Oil & Energy, 5,000 employees, Annual Revenue of $8.84 billion• Interpreted Union rules regarding shift differential, shift length, Holidays and other parameters for encoding within Kronos. • Primary liaison between programmers and timekeepers. • Developed Pay & Work Rule building blocks for Kronos WFC 4.0.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Swedish multinational telecommunications company, 9,000 employees, Annual Revenue of $1.7 billion• System Administrator of the Kronos Web-based Time & Attendance system. • Responsible for phased conversion of all Ericsson salaried employees to Kronos Workforce Web • Managed Timekeeper system for all 9,000 of Ericsson's domestic employees. • Developed all training materials and conducted education seminars.• Evaluated add-on modules, including shop-floor tracking and FMLA compliance software.• Designed interfaces between SAP R/3, Kronos TKC/S and Lawson for Payroll processing. • Project Manager of Y2K compliance project for Financial Services in Lynchburg. • Team leader representing Payroll in system-wide Disaster Recovery Planning project; created and tested fail-over plans to geographically remote Disaster Center• Internal Auditor for maintaining ISO 9000 certification standards in Financial services.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Served as an on-site Project Manager at Ericsson, Inc.

Managed a team to integrate the VX-REXX GUI Front end application to 3 legacy systems.

Management Information Systems / Purchasing Created custom inventory tracking and forecasting programs.

• Served as Project Manager and Client Liaison developing custom forecasting systems.• Wrote forecasting and inventory control programs for the IRS, Federal Mogul Co., and Planters Lifesavers Co.

Ba, Architecture

College Prep, College Preparatory

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