Narayan Donthu Email & Phone Number

Mooresville, Nc, Us

Greenwich, Ct, Us

Currently working as a Senior kronos(Techno/Functional) consultant at XPO Logistics. Kronos implementation(8.1.15) and enhancements, Maintenance and support.

Worked as a Senior kronos(Techno/Functional) consultant at II-VI for Cloud kronos implementation(8.1.11) and On Prem (8.1.11) enhancements, Maintenance and support.Supported the Upgrade from 6.1 to 8.1.1 in On Prem environment.Developed interfaces Person Imort, Labor levels Import, Payroll export, Accruals exportin Cloud environment and configured the pay rules and Accruals for On prem.

New York, New York, Us

Worked as a Data Integration Implementation Consultant (WIM)/Application consultant for Pfizer to develop the Person Imort, Labor levels Import, Payroll export, Accruals export, CallIns, BuildUps and Reverse demographics from kronos 8.0.10(Cloud) to Peoplesoft/ADP and Configure Pay Rules and support existing current 6.1.

Chesapeake, Virginia, Us

Worked as a senior Kronos consultant for FDS Global Kronos (6.1.18 & 7.0.4 Cloud), support for US stores Corp and DCs.Responsibilities included:• Working as a Senior Kronos Application consultant for US Stores and DC/Kronos support and enhancements. On point for any Production issues, payroll issues/Accruals issues, support/on call support and applying the patches in Kronos (6.1) DEV/QA/PROD environment.• Involved in 7.0/Cloud upgrades/Deployments, Firmware Upgrades and IP Address changes.• Implemented and executed the Auto scheduler (Advanced Scheduling)/Batch jobs for 1 week in the future in WFC/6.1.18 and 7.0.4 versions.• Involved in the store re-alignment process and corrected the forecast map and org map setups and moves.• Loaded the POS and POS history data for volume forecast generations.• Added/deleted the batch events for volume forecast/Labor forecast and Auto Scheduler.• Worked with DBA/UNIX team on prod data refresh to QA/Kronos environment..• Corrected the prod interface errors using the transaction assistant.• Used event manager to schedule the new interfaces/Batch events in prod and to stop and create the onetime runs based on the business requirements.• Fixed several US payroll issues and Vacation Accruals policies, Clocks issues, Employee import errors, prod issues. Employee profiles and applied hot fixes to WIM/interfaces and deployed to prod thru emergency tickets.• Recycled DEV/QA/PROD servers as part of applying the hot fixes/patches to all the environments..

Framingham, Ma, Us

Senior Kronos Consultant -Staples, Framingham, MA Sep 2013- PresentCurrently working as a senior Kronos consultant for Staples Global Kronos (6.3 & 5.2), support for US stores, CAN stores and UK (6.3) Deployments.Responsibilities included:• Working as a Senior Kronos Application consultant for US/CAN store/DC/Kronos support and enhancements. On point for any Production issues, payroll issues/Accruals issues, support/on call support and applying the patches in Kronos (6.3) DEV/QA/PROD environment.• Involved in SP 8 upgrades.• Fixed several CAN/US payroll issues and Vacation Accruals policies, Clocks issues, Employee import errors , prod issues. Employee profiles and applied hot fixes to WIM/interfaces and deployed to prod thru emergency tickets.• Recycled DEV/QA/PROD servers as part of applying the hot fixes/patches to all the environments..

Mooresville, Nc, Us

Worked as a SME for the Kronos store implementation Support/Maintenenace/Upgrades Team.• Working as a Kronos technical lead/mentor for store implementations. On point for any production fixes and applying the patches and Upgrades in Kronos environment.• Involved in SP 6.1.13 and 6.1.11 and 6.1.21 and Analytics 6.2 upgrades.• Performed CORE HIST DELTE, CORE HISTORY RELOAD processes to re-load the missing data into Analytics due to re-orgs (store re-alignments).• Performed POS History Reload process to re-load the POS data into Analytics for the Reports.• Involved in PeopleSoft 9.1 upgrade to change the employee/payroll interfaces from Kronos side and performed end to end system testing.• Configured new intel servers and deployed the Analytics reports and Advanced reports.• Applied the advanced reports on UNIX servers and RDLs on windows servers.• Worked with operations team to reboot the servers and validate the application on all the servers at regular maintenance windows.• Loaded all the employees from people soft to Kronos using Kronos person import interfaces • Created and modified the payroll/Accruals interfaces to accommodate the Lowes custom changes using WIM/connect.• Used SDM (set up data manager) to take the backups of configuration changes while prod/QA data refreshes.• Added/deleted the batch events for volume forecast/Labor forecast/WFOP and BALF.• Involved in the store re-alignment process and corrected the forecast map and org map setups and moves.• Worked with DBA/UNIX team on prod data refresh to QA/Kronos environment..• Used event manager to schedule the new interfaces/Batch events in prod and to stop and create the onetime runs based on the business requirements.• Worked with PeopleSoft team to load the payroll files to people soft pay lines to pay the employees on time.• Worked with Kronos Global support to apply any hot patches to Kronos WFC/Analytics.

Worked as a senior programmer/analyst for the HR/Payroll Development and Support group.Projects worked:• Worked as a senior programmer/analyst for the Benefit out Sourcing Project. • Involved in PeopleSoft upgrade from 7.5 to 8.0.• Developed the Sales Payroll Hours Project and maintained.• Developed the Payroll Hours Project and maintained.• Worked for EP stores elimination project to eliminate EP stores from all the databases. • Involved in PeopleSoft upgrade from 6.0 to 7.5.• Worked in transition from IBM to Eckerd and transferred the technical knowledge to new team members.• Worked as a programmer/analyst for Quantum-Leap HR/Payroll/Finance development, support and System Testing support. Fixed the problems of wrapper programs, file comparison and data validations after re-point testing.• Provided maintenance and on-call support for Data warehouse group.• Worked for the Finance/GL-Back feed. Converted the old accounts to new accounts to accommodate new account, store, center, business unit and as well as old store and center. • Provided mainframe support for W-2 processing and printing.• Supported the Point Of Sales group and assisted in testing the IMS modules both batch BMP and on-line programs.• Worked for the ADCAR project to accommodate two new regions New York Metro and Region 11 in all report programs.• Involved in OS/390 conversion, Y2K conversion, VSAM analysis and expansion.

Memphis, Tn, Us

• Worked as a programmer analyst with the US Domestic Accounts Receivable system. Worked in Enhancements and assisted in the Y2K compliance process of various sub-systems.• Converted Y2K database/programs conversions using both windowing and field expansion technique. • Involved in Vs Cobol to Cobol II conversion for various sub-systems. • Involved in code walkthroughs, unit testing, integration testing and system test support using Expeditor, File-Aid and QMF.

Troy, Michigan, Us

• Worked for AT&T Universal Card Services to include a calling card with credit card.• Involved in the analysis of programs, modifications and testing for a mainframe-based product. Modified several COBOL programs and JCL’s.• Involved in the analysis, copying, importing and exporting. Modifying, compiling, debugging and testing of existing MPC programs in DSD. • Ensured that all the MPC screens correctly process year 2000 datesWorked as a programmer for the First Union Bank Y2K project.