Leverage a robust Workday and business/technology background to partner in big picture planning, as well as solving defined problems, and implementing solutions for clients. Collaborates with peers across HR, IT, C-suite, and other parts of the business to determine how to best leverage Workday to support HR processes, data and technology. Facilitate customer and relationship management to ensure client expectations are consistently exceeded.o Partner with key client business and IT stakeholders to define business requirements, architect, and provide solution consulting to meet their needs.o Provide functional subject matter expertise on the Workday HCM solution.o Assist with configuration of the Workday application.o Mentor, coach, and ensure knowledge transfer to the clients is happening as part of our internal processo Build and manage a robust and capable team to implement functionality and solution consult for clients.o Manage change activities to ensure business adoption and effective user training.o Identify and manage senior stakeholder expectations .o Manage the end-to-end project lifecycle to deliver client projects or tasks on time.o Lead teams in design and delivery of the Workday solution.o Communication of Workday capabilities through proofs-of-concept and/or demonstrations.

Serve as a subject matter expert in a variety of strategic and high-impact projects for clients, guiding them through both the configuration, as well as the strategic planning post-implementation. Act as a client advocate and trusted adviser. Works with clients to understand strategic objectives related to Workday including employee experience, business processes, data strategy, and service delivery. Lead process re-design efforts, optimization configurations, and new feature implementations by guiding clients and assisting them with planning and building a roadmap for long-term success. Mentor client team members to help them achieve their maximum potential and continue learning Workday and best practice configuration

Responsible for best practice Workday configuration, end-user support, optimization projects, Workday updates, HRIS project portfolio management, annual year-end projects, and mentoring and providing leadership for other team members. o Configuration proficiency in Core HR (ESS/MSS), US Payroll, Compensation, Benefits, Recruiting, Performance & Goal Setting, Talent, Time Tracking, Leave of Absence/Time Off, Custom Reports.o Work proactively and collaboratively with HR and our internal customers to identify areas for process improvement and propose solutions to increase efficiency and effectiveness. o Eliminated the need for professional services consulting by providing in-house expertise for all necessary configurations across functional areas, resulting in a $500K cost savings in the first year of employment. o Year-end projects – both managing as well as configuration - year-end compensation/Merit/Bonus, talent reviews, performance reviews & goal setting, open enrollment.o Optimization projects – executive dashboards, International compensation deployment, total compensation statement, time off plan re-configurations, security group cleanup/re-structure, new feature deployments, business process enhancements (new features), to name a few.o Responsible for the development and management of the new feature adoption blueprint strategy for HRIS, allowing incorporation of new features simultaneous with critical business initiatives.o Workday Mobile Adoption – created and facilitated a project of routine webinars and drove adoption up over 50% in the span of 2 months.o Single point-of-contact with Workday for Mallinckrodt and a very active member of the broader Workday Community. Frequently assist other customers with questions when they need help.

- Hands-on configuration and optimization projects for the client. HCM, Recruiting, and also some reporting and analytics work.- Workday Mobile - Took the existing Mallinckrodt deployment of Workday Mobile and drove adoption around mobile Employee Goal Setting and the Performance process.

- Hands-on Workday configuration and support lead for HRIS on our 58+ country deployment -- Core HR (ESS/MSS), US/Canada Payroll, Performance/Talent, Time Tracking, Leave of Absence, Time Off.- Responsible for all configuration, Workday update planning and deployment, post go-live projects/enhancements, and supporting our internal customers.- Led the HRIS team during the implementation, and played a key role in design sessions, testing, reporting, and mentoring and training team members on Workday and best practices.- Responsible for the deployment and configuration of Workday Mobile. Deployed across the organization months ahead of originally planned timeline.- Liaison with Workday and frequent contributor in the greater Workday Community.- Lead and mentor a small team of enthusiastic and bright future Workday experts.

- Member of the Workday core project team during the 12-month implementation for HRIT- Helped manage and prioritize nearly 100 integrations- Key member of deploying key business process optimizations post go-live, and helped lay the foundation for Workday Mobile at Equifax.- Executed project to migrate production Health and Welfare database to a new database grid (virtualized database) platform. Worked with database center of excellence and several other Equifax and IBM teams to complete on schedule.- Led effort to streamline Annual Enrollment benefits project and related year-end processes – successfully enrolling over 3600 employees worldwide. Managed, developed, tested, and executed all tasks from the HR Technology side to deploy this critical project on time and on schedule.- Created and implemented a demand planning and project prioritization roadmap for HR Technology. - Helped execute Corporate Back Office ADM restructure and played a key role during the transition – heavily relied upon as a SME and mentor to offshore resources. - Developed plan and successfully led organization transformation/restructure project for the HR team. This was a highly visible project with senior leadership and across the organization.

• Managed a small team responsible for the implementation, administration, support, and maintenance of a variety of HR applications – some included modules of the corporate HRIS, learning management system, recruiting management system, health and welfare applications, and others.• Responsible for supporting and extending the functionality of mission critical HR applications and ultimately became the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for many. All enhancement work was done in-house, likely saving the client millions of dollars in development or out-of-the-box systems and implementation/consulting costs.• Led requirements gathering, design, development, and delivery of custom corporate Intranet site(s). Successful implementations delivered previously nonexistent solutions, provided SOX compliance, and gave U.S. and Canadian employees the ability to perform various HR tasks and business processes online.• Successfully managed, implemented, and served as the single-point-of-contact for several critical projects annually, such as: benefits open enrollment, hardware and software upgrades for the HRIS, and the HR Technology year-end processes.

Implemented complex systems in fulfillment of strategic initiatives for one of the largest management and technology-consulting firms in the world.• Team lead responsible for business analysis, project management, and release planning on a $4 million dollar software deployment project to reduce in-house application development, testing, and support costs for AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals.• Managed the design and implementation of a fully functional ecommerce web page during a start-up Internet project. Streamlined payment receipt, and provided a sleek business solution ahead of schedule and above functional expectations for the client.• Performed business analysis, test, and fix functions on the U.S. Air Force’s Integrated Maintenance Data System (IMDS), which was a multi-million dollar application that eliminated the need for the Air Force’s previous six legacy information systems.