Project Manager / Peoplesoft senior consultant

8/2011 – 10/2016

• Project Manager for a 30-member core and cross functional team of Developers, Business Analysts and Testers. Responsible for team building, cross functional training and appraisal.
• Managed or Controlled budgets and resources for 3 different streams – Application Development, Maintenance and Support.
• Responsible for any scope, change or release management for the application. Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and customer goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Tracked project deliverables and evaluated project progress for Management Reporting.
• Mitigated risk factors; anticipated and managed change effectively.
• Drove the transformation of the application to ITIL framework - service based delivery and maintenance.
• Managed the large-scale initiative of migrating PeopleSoft LMS to a SaaS based LMS
• Thoroughly involved in requirement analysis, prioritization, completion of feasibility, design, software development and enterprise wide implementation of projects with high quality.
• Managed all phases of the software development lifecycle for several custom solutions.
• Coordinating internal resources and third party vendors like Skillsoft, K-point, EBox, Moodle for flawless integration.
• Involved in coordination with multi-disciplinary project teams for integration projects.
• Managed project communications, checkpoint meetings, project internal meetings and communication plan.
• Responsible for Audits and Project reviews for the team.
• Mentor for 19 direct reports taking responsibility for their career growth, learnings, code of conduct.
• Functional Lead role in ELM Application Upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1.
• Performed Tools upgrade from PeopleSoft 8.51 to 8.52.
• Technical SME for upload of SCORM based elearning courses.
• Involved in building proof of concepts and documentation for any proposals in the organization

IT-Beratung (allg.), Management (allg.), PeopleSoft (Oracle)

12/2005 – 8/2011

Preparation of technical and functional specifications for Peoplesoft CRM and HCM projects for various clients. Was involved in development and testing activities for various peoplesoft projects using Peoplecode.

Oracle Peoplesoft, PeopleSoft (Oracle)