Susan Owens Email & Phone Number

Configure global Time Tracking and Absence including design, testing, documentation, and training. Supplement go live with scheduled distributions, alerts, and ongoing reports to ensure that the configuration is working as designed as well as providing timely reminders for direct reports and managers.Creation of custom dashboards providing valuable data to workers and managers.Various technically driven solutions including complex configuration for auto-proration of mid-period transfers, composite reports, security authentication policies and custom data sources.

United States

Remote (Portland, Or)

Provide innovate solutions for complex prospect requirements in the functional areas of payroll, absence and time tracking. Innovation includes supporting sales demo teams, mentoring team members, presenting training sessions including hands on labs during customer and sales conferences and detailed documentation of configuration, specifications and guides.Stage time and times offs, calculate payroll and generate position budgets, grants and year end procedures on a bi-annual basis, including new feature releases.Produce reports and integrations leveraging delivered functionality as well as custom solutions via Workday Studio and BIRT reporting.Represent the solution architecture team on bi-weekly field readiness meetings for absence and time tracking. Liaise with the product team to recommend, design and support new features.

Kelso, Washington

Led the implementation of the Absence Management and Time and Labor Peoplesoft Modules adhering to all union requirements. Converted all legacy time off and leave balances and configured a Time Collection Device integration from a third party application. Created all documentation including functional and technical specifications, configuration guides and system design documents and presented extensive training sessions to transfer knowledge to the Cowlitz team.

Ellensburg, Wa

As Technical and Functional Lead for Absence Management and Time and Labor modules, extensive discovery sessions were held to create accurate functional specifications. Performed functional and parallel testing to include full pay cycle comparison to legacy application. Completed all development and configuration and converted compensatory balances and leave accruals to reflect up to date values. Configured leave donation, extended absences, FMLA and Military leaves. Created comprehensive documentation and knowledge transfer.

Led technical team through 9.1 Time and Labor implementation with heavy customizations to provide the same functionality as provided in their legacy system. Job conversion row insertion via CI to update various fields including earnings distribution rows and business unit values. Implemented all time and labor rules, integration broker between FSCM and HCM including creation of custom messages. Custom work to produce account code (fdm hash) values via peoplecode on incoming FSCM message. Implementation of AWE. Creation of automated enrollment and security processes. Custom process to provide employee approval when their time has been changed by others.

Sacramento, California Area

Functional Lead for the Time and Labor module upgrade from 8.9 to 9.1. Discovery of existing business processes, requirements, issues and fit/gap sessions. Implementation of new 9.1 features including AWE. Creation of all Time and Labor functional and technical specifications and implementation of all customizations including page changes, rule updates/modifications and integration with Absence Management and Payroll modules.As Technical Lead, managed technical staff and assigned tasks; held weekly technical meetings/code review. Maintained issues log, enforced migration path and change management procedures. Technical specification review/sign off and maintained cutover lists for go-live of both Financial and HCM applications.

Portland, Oregon Area

Lead developer for implementation of Health and Safety and ePerformance modules. Duties also include analysis and recommendations of current Time and Labor security and enhancements to include an automated process assigning dynamic TL groups. O&M support as needed including but not limited to troubleshooting of Recruit, Federal Job Data (GVT tables and PAR actions), Integration Broker and resolution of MP upgrade issues .

Spokane, Washington Area

Gathered requirements from union contracts/pay practice and completed all configuration of a 9.1 system including workgroups, rule programs, comp time plans, AWE for reported and payable time and schedules. Created functional specifications and performed development for all custom processes including rules development, TCD interface process and comp balance conversions.

Creation of custom shift premium rules in a 9.1 environment for punch reporters.

Creation of new time and labor rules in Peoplesoft 9.0 environment to correctly process payable time based on various union contracts. Development and design of new custom processes as well as customization of existing code. Projects include customization of the punch and rapid time pages, message peoplecode to manipulate incoming data from EBS system, data conversion applications via application engine and component interface and custom code to restrict the use of specific TRCs given the users role.

Creation of new time and labor rules in Peoplesoft 9.0 environment to correctly process payable time based on various union contracts. Production support and documentation of existing rules.

Directly responsible for all Time and Labor issues and/or enhancements. Primary technical for the implementation of a Peoplesoft custom Manager Self Service application that includes various HCM functions such as transfers, terminations, pay rate and job changes, leave of absence changes, etc. All notifications and updates to base records handled through Integration Broker.

Complete re-implementation of Time and Labor to streamline processes and minimize use of custom SQL rules and maximize use of template built rules. Address the correction of current production bugs and rework rule program logic. Remove hard coding with custom tables manageable via the PIA.

Upgrade of PeopleSoft HRMS from 8.0 to 8.9 including a new implementation of Manager Self Service. Ongoing support for Benefits Administration.

Implemented Time and Labor and Manager Self Service through the full development lifecycle. Provided Production support for the following HCM 8.9 modules: Payroll, Time and Labor, Employee and Manager Self-Service, Benefits Administration, Integration Broker, Workflow.

Technical role which involved development and custom enhancements to Peoplesoft HRMS. Ongoing support and maintenance of HRMS including eRecruit, Self Service, Benefits Administration and Payroll.