PRABHU SANKARAN

7221 Regency Ct

Plano, Texas 75024

214.274.8084

prabhu_sankaran@yahoo.com

Successful program leader and experienced Peoplesoft Consultant with over 22 years of US based professional

experience in program/project management in implementation and support projects, Responsibilities included data

conversions, interface development, customizations, custom report development, cost benefit analysis of business

process transformation, minimizing TCO through re-engineering, and leading global teams in all phases of complex

Peoplesoft ERP implementations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CIBER (Nov 2014 – Present)

Principal Peoplesoft Consultant

Client: San Diego Community College District, Mission Valley, CA

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Summary: Worked as a testing coordinator on a large v9.2/PT8.54 FIN implementation. Offered post-imp support for 3

months, currently focused on design & implementation of HCM security (mass user creation using EXCEL-to-CI,

designing custom roles, permission lists, dynamic role queries, running SJT jobs, portal sync etc.). Worked extensively

with the Portal lead and Network services in re-architecting the IT security infrastructure as a result of Peoplesoft

implementation.

Client: WA State Board of Community & Technical Colleges, Bellevue, WA

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Summary: Working as the Functional Lead for Cash Management implementation. Responsibilities include systems

integration testing, UAT support, functional testing, writing functional design documents, batch process design,

cutover/migration planning, revisiting requirements, testing business processes such as payment dispatch, automatic

recon, semi-manual recon, manual recon, coordination with AP for ACH vendor payments, coordination with EX

module for reimbursement of employee expenses, coordination with Payroll for direct deposit of employee pay thru

ACH transfers, EFT Requests, bank-to-bank transfers, PreNotes, statement accounting and configuration of banks,

layout catalog, integration layouts, financial gateway, settlement instructions, EFT transfer templates, bank transfer

templates, importing BAI2 formatted prior-day statements, EDI822 Fee Statements, Inbound EDI820 AR Receipts,

custom integration of Peoplesoft Payroll module with financial gateway for payment of direct deposits, creation of fee

codes, fee structures, account analysis, cash position analysis and cash forecasting.

PALDER GROUP, Inc. Plano, Texas • Mar 2014 – Nov 2014

Principal Consultant: Peoplesoft Project Planning & Estimation

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Summary: worked on pre-sales 3-months duration 9-module Peoplesoft implementation project estimation for UST

Global, Inc. for their client Overwaitea Food Group, Langley, BC. Led discovery sessions, identified pain points, and

developed a WBS/SOW for implementation of Peoplesoft GL, AM, AP, CM, AR, BI, PO, INV, and PC modules. Client

(name confidential due to agreement with sys integrator) is currently in the evaluation of proposals between MSFT

Dynamics vs Peoplesoft.

ALLIANCEDATA Plano, Texas • May 2013 – Mar 2014

Peoplesoft Advisor: Treasury Module Implementation project

  · Summary: Key team member of the Treasury module implementation team, working with an implementation

partner and responsible for rolling out cash management, deal management and financial gateway on v9.1.

  · Teamed with implementation partner and rolled out Peoplesoft Cash Management v9.1, Phase-1: Oct-2013

o Enabled AP to pay employee expenses (PPD) and vendor invoices (CCD/CTX) as ACH 820 transactions

thru the Financial Gateway.

o Created directory structures in shared drives to process/archive payment files (820), acknowledgements

(824/997) and BAI2 formatted prior-day and current day bank statements. Coordinated tech teams and

banks to deploy PGP keys for encryption and secure transmission. Worked connectivity and

encryption/decryption signature issues.

o Designed cash position trees and migrated the trees from UAT to PROD environment thru’ DMS scripts

  · Worked on enhancements to cash management (International Banking), implementation of Deal Management,

and Risk Management as Phase-2 (Go-Live: Mar-2014)

o Identified compliance requirements covering various aspects of ACH/WIR transaction approvals.

o Audited obsolete EFT transfer templates, cash position trees and eliminated using scripts.

o Developed accounting entry templates, BAI2 statement processing and reconciliation rules.

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  · Developed detailed CM test cases and included those as ‘test labs’ in HP’s ALM Quality Center (QC)

AUTOZONE Memphis, Tennessee • Aug 2012 – Jan 2013 (Systems Integrator: Hexaware Technologies)

Program Director (15-module Peoplesoft FSCM implementation project)

  · Summary: Program Leader for a complex business transformation program (‘AZFIRST’) comprising of around 30

resources onsite and around 125 offshore. The scope of the program includes reengineering AR/BI/GL modules

of Peoplesoft ERP from a prior release to latest release (v9.1) and implementation of 12 additional

Financials/SCM modules of Peoplesoft.

  · Developed and managed the work breakdown structure (WBS) of AZFIRST program. Managed project execution

to ensure adherence to budget, schedule and scope. Prepared project status reports by collecting, analyzing and

summarizing information and trends. Assigned duties, responsibilities and authority to project personnel.

  · Coordinated the recruitment and selection of project personnel.

  · Developed implementation plans that include Net Present Value (NPV) analysis.

  · As a Program Director, mentored Project Managers to direct/coordinate activities of project personnel.

  · Established and executed a strong project communication plan.

  · Communicated with business stakeholders and the offshore Hexaware PMO on a regular basis.

  · AR/Billing: Facilitated, moderated discussions surrounding customer contract and billing interfaces between the

SME’s and the Functional Analysts. Specifically, ALLDATA (a BU of AutoZone) had a requirement to continue to

use their Web ordering system to create new customers and customer contracts which interfaced with

Peoplesoft customer master and contracts module. Facilitated requirements gathering for implementing

condition monitor.

  · Developed/reviewed functional design documents, converted historical data from AutoZone’s mainframe system

into Peoplesoft AP. Conversion included open vouchers, and active vendors. As a related activity, conversion

included all SCM related open purchase orders, quantity on hand of inventory items, and inventory item master.

  · Interfaced AP with Buzon, a 3rd party XML invoice provider. Mexican invoices were routed through EDI batch

interface from Buzon. As an exception, urgent XML invoices were sent as an attachment to email, and a process

was designed using JavaScript to extricate these attachments and load it to the voucher staging tables from

where a voucher load process created open vouchers.

  · Interfaced positive pay and EFT files from Peoplesoft to First Tennessee Bank (AutoZone’s banker). Statements

were received from the bank that were loaded into Peoplesoft for bank statement automatic reconciliation

  · Reengineered current grouping of payment processing in the mainframe to determine the new paygroups that

need to be setup in Peoplesoft for automated execution of pay cycle manager process.

  · Reengineered the home grown imaging application that worked with legacy AP to Documentum (AutoZone’s

new enterprise document management solution). Peoplesoft AP was configured to work with Documentum.

Users clicked on hyperlinks in AP pages that took them to related scanned images of vendor invoices to map with

Peoplesoft vouchers.

  · Developed a PO requisition approval workflow process based on the requisition amount. Different amount

ranges needed different levels of approval.

  · Facilitated, moderated discussions surrounding customer contract and billing interfaces between the SME’s and

the Functional Analysts. Specifically, ALLDATA (a BU of AutoZone) had a requirement to continue to use their

Web ordering system to create new customers and customer contracts which interfaced with Peoplesoft

customer master and contracts module.

  · Shared responsibility with offshore PMO for managing a complex business transformation program comprising of

around 30 resources onsite and around 125 offshore, for AutoZone, Memphis, TN. The scope of the program

includes reengineering AR/BI/GL modules of Peoplesoft ERP from a prior release to latest release (v9.1) and

implementation of 12 additional Financials/SCM modules of Peoplesoft.

RESEARCHNOW Plano, Texas • Aug 2011 – July 2012

Manager, Financial Systems

  · Core responsibilities include staffing, budgeting, long-term planning, project management, and supervision of

direct reports. Concurrently held the role of ERP Data Architect working with consulting architects on FUSION, a

strategic ERP reengineering initiative.

  · Managed a team of five analysts to support the global ERP system. Defined position requirements, worked with

internal HR recruiters and external staffing companies, selected candidates, determined pay scale, and mentored

new hires through the on-boarding process. Performed interim and annual reviews of direct reports for PBIT

(performance-based incentive plan for IT). Set objectives, goals, and development plans for the team and

forecasted manpower requirements every month. Coordinated training for direct reports.

  · Managed consultants to perform maintenance pack upgrades to the current v9.0 Peoplesoft Financial system.

Negotiated rates, roles, and responsibilities between the vendor staff and internal IT employees and managed

vendor deliverables.

  · Managed service delivery to customers in the US and EMEA region. Prioritized service requests and managed the

service queue based on ITIL framework.

  · Worked extensively with The Hackett Group on a $5.4M reengineering project titled ‘FUSION’. A set of 350 pain

points were identified and addressed through the multi-phased project. Facilitated several discussions and

meetings between business users and The Hackett Group to modify the interfaces between COMPASS (a BPM

tool that was used for project execution and control) and Peoplesoft PC/CA/BI modules.

  · Bank interfaces with JP Morgan Chase for US Business Units and Bank of America for the UK business unit. The

APAC division processed their payables through Australia and the Peoplesoft system interfaced with Marquarie.

Assisted the Treasurer in consolidating bank account in order to improve effectiveness in handling free cash.

  · Applied patches for 2011 processing of 1099 vendors. Implemented ePro, a de-centralized buyer portal using

which anyone in the company could place an order using online catalogs stored within ePro.

  · Developed queries that fetched audit data for E&Y from GL summary ledger

PIER 1 IMPORTS Fort Worth, Texas • July 2010 – July 2011

ERP Project Specialist

  · Provided oversight to several ERP project initiatives such as implementation of OFAC in AP, fixed asset

retirements, and LDAP integration using CI, and Integration Broker

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Planned and coordinated resources around ERP (AP, GL, AM, PO, INV), and Vastera Tradesphere applications.

  · Managed reporting requirement definition for the Peoplesoft merchandising conversion project.

  · Coordinated testing Peoplesoft Upgrade (Apps 8.9 à 9.1, and PeopleTools 8.46 à PT 8.5).

  · Implemented OFAC to prevent payables department from cutting check for entities deemed illegal by US Govt.

COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Austin, Texas • Sep 2009 – July 2010

Lead Systems Analyst, Fiscal Projects & Operations (Fiscal Management Division)

  · Facilitated identification of business requirements and was responsible for implementation of Peoplesoft Project

Costing, Grants Management, and Contracts Administration modules for eight state agencies that participated in

the pilot for a statewide ERP implementation.

  · Developed an interface design between e*Grants (used by state agencies for documenting proposals) and

Peoplesoft GM module.

  · Managed two state employees and provided oversight to deliverables from four Deloitte consultants.

  · Led workshops for requirements gathering and analysis, Fit/Gap Analysis, Process Flow Design, Product

Configuration, and Test Planning. Worked with Business Process Improvement team to reengineer business

processes for Human & Health Services, TxDOT (TX Department of Transportation), and DIR (Department of

Information Resources) agencies.

  · Designed Project costing (PC) module to collect cost incurred from (a) AP for goods and services and (b) Time &

Labor for labor hours. Extensive integration was designed for costs to flow from AP to PC.

BOEING CO. • April 2004 - April 2009

Project Manager, Information Technology (Finance Systems)

  · Coordinated internal reporting activities around the Finance Transformation (FT) program and facilitated steering

committee meetings and executive updates (including deep dives).

• Defined, negotiated and coordinated all business activities related to the ERP implementation

  · Planned and moderated the functional discussions for the ERP implementation in coordination with the external

consulting vendors. Incorporated best practices and standard ERP functionality into the design discussions

  · Managed the vendor contracts, including periodic meetings and SLA reviews.

  · Identified issues to be logged into the FT program issues log and reviewed during weekly meetings.

  · Reviewed all work orders for compliance to contract terms and conditions

  · Created periodic status reports for steering committee and senior leadership

  · Acted as an escalation point on all matters affecting the existing and future ERP project goals of Enterprise

Accounting Services (EAS) with the external supplier(s) providing these services

  · Identified opportunities for continuous improvement and assisted with implementation of cost saving initiatives

  · Managed the following projects to successful completion for the $250M Finance Transformation (FT) program,

ensured that local and international resources supported the program in an adequate and timely manner :

  · Global Rollout of GL/PC: Led implementation of Enterprise Accounting Systems (EAS) Peoplesoft-based

General Ledger (GL) and Project Costing (PC) modules to business units in UK, Australia, and India using

Fujitsu’s Macroscope methodology. Applied PMBOK principles, used Primavera P6 project portfolio

management software, and reported EV (SPI, CPI) on a weekly basis to the FT-PMO. Set goals and priorities

and reported team performance at staged gate reviews. Revised project baseline using stakeholder

feedback. Documented project risk events to schedule slippage and cost overrun variances. [8-month project

– 70 person team (30 FTE’s)]

  · EFC User Guide: Planned, initiated, and executed customization of Peoplebooks with content specific to

Enterprise Financial Consolidation (EFC) business processes. [10-month project – 3 person team]

  · Shares Forecast: Led implementation of shares forecast project for the treasury department. Goal is to

forecast stock option value, price points of Boeing stock in the open market and net cash flow impact due to

employees exercising their stock options. [6-month project – 9 person team]

  · Tax Extract: Led this project t for the Corporate Tax department to convert tax reporting processes from a 3rd

party COTS to Boeing’s standard EFC global consolidation system. [6-month project – 8 person team]

  · Quality & Compliance: Developed an EFC initiative level peer review. Worked with internal audit and

Deloitte SOX auditors as EFC’s primary SOX control performer, and led the EFC group to pass design

effectiveness & operation effectiveness audits successfully during 2007 - 2008. Coordinated an EFC effort to

clone an EAS technical performance measure (TPM) reporting utility for EFC’s internal use and FT-PMO

requirements. [4 month project – 15 person team]

  · Peopletools Upgrade: Peopletools upgrade - PT8.41.20 to PT8.45.13 at Boeing’s Richardson, TX based Boeing

Service Co (BSC) subsidiary. [3 month project – 5 person team]

  · Realignment: Enabled BSC to realign their Peoplesoft financials into Boeing’s core enterprise accounting

systems (EAS). Converted GL, PC, and AM data into EAS and AR/BI data into Boeing’s legacy AR system

(CARS). [8 month project – 5 person team]

  · Change management: PM for an initiative to progress from Level 2 to Level 3 on CMMI rating.

DRIVE FINANCIAL SERVICES, Dallas, Texas • June 2002 - April 2004

TECHNICAL MANAGER, IT

  · Managed production support of AP/GL modules of Peoplesoft v7.5 ERP system.

  · Negotiated with Peoplesoft for relicensing that resulted in annual maintenance savings of $200K over a 3-year

period. Managed customer expectations against the SLA. Managed onsite consultants.

  · Led design, development, testing and deployment of an interface between an AS400-based customer servicing

system and PSFT v7.53, using FTP. This effort paid off with an estimated 2.5 FTE headcount savings and

eliminated daily manual creation of roughly 200 one-time vendors and corresponding vouchers.

  · PM for development of business case for Peoplesoft FIN v8.4 upgrade [FIN 7.53 (PT 7.61.09) à FIN 8.4 (PT

8.42.14)]. Evaluated implementation of HCM 8.8 to bring payroll in-house. Assisted outsourcing Peoplesoft

environment to US-Internetworking.

ADDITIONAL IT POSITIONS

Peoplesoft Consultant (worked at Peoplesoft, Inc and Brightstar IT Group, Inc) - 1996 to 2002

Worked as a Consultant for full life-cycle Peoplesoft implementations at Radio Shack, Whole Foods Market, COMPUSA,

Tech Lead at Marketing Specialists (subsidiary of Mary Kay), NEC, and The Men’s Wearhouse. Responsibilities included

development of interfaces, custom reporting, data conversions, assisted clients define their business requirements, and

fit/gap analysis. Led process design sessions using JAD, and established production schedules. Worked for the Professional

Services Group of Peoplesoft, Inc. on projects for Lucent Technologies (PSFT-SAP interface) and Boise Cascade (PSFTMaximo

interface).

Business Programmer/Analyst (1995 - 1996) with Texas Instruments. Customized PeopleSoft HR module to include Total

Compensation and Variable compensation functionality. The process involved extracting (FTP) payroll data from 16

countries, storing the data in Peoplesoft and reporting total compensation through reports and online enquiry panels.

Programmer/Analyst (1992 – 1995) with CompuCom Systems. Entry level Oracle v6.0 DBA, transitioned into Peoplesoft

development and was a core team member of the 3-person IT team that partnered with HR/Payroll and implemented

v3.0 Peoplesoft. Upgraded to v4.0 within 1 year of GO-LIVE. Used PL/SQL, SQL*Loader (equivalent to ODI), SQL*Forms

extensively for supporting pre-Peoplesoft 3rd party EMPIRE/SQL system (vendor: Humanic Design Corp).

EDUCATION

MBA, Finance; Southern Methodist University – Cox School of Business, Dallas, Texas (2008)

MS, Industrial Engineering & Management Science’ University of Texas (1992)

BE, Mechanical Engineering; Anna University, India (1984)

CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management Professional, PMP: Project Management Institute (2005)

ITIL v2 Foundations: Information Technology Service Management Forum (2006)

Certified Manager (CM): National Management Association/Institute of Certified Professional Managers (2006)

SKILLS

ERP (PeopleSoft) Functional Skills: Project Costing (PC) • Grants Management (GM) • Contracts Administration (CA)

• General Ledger (GL) • Global Consolidations (GC) • Accounts Payable (AP) • Accounts Receivable (AR) • Billing (BI)

• Asset Management (AM) • Commitment Control (KK) • Global Consolidations (GC) • Order Management (OM)

• Purchasing (PO) • Cash Management (CM) • Core HR • Base Benefits • Benefits Administration

• Expenses (EX) • North American Payroll

ERP (PeopleSoft) Technical Skills: PeopleSoft FSCM 9.1, HCM 8.9 • PeopleTools 8.50 • Application Designer • Application

Engine • Change Assistant • Component Interface • Data Mover • Integration Broker • Process Definitions • Process

Scheduler Administration • PSAdmin Console Administration • Query Administration • Recurrence Definitions • Workflow

Programming Languages & Databases: PeopleCode • SQL*Loader (ODI) • SQR • ANSI SQL • PL/SQL • Microsoft BizTalk

Server 2010 • VBA for EXCEL • Oracle 11g/MSFT SQL Server 2000

Project Management: MS Project • MS Sharepoint • MS Visio • MS Office • PMBOK • Fujitsu Macroscope

TRAINING HISTORY

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - Global Knowledge (2013)

Accelerated Accounts Receivable/Billing Rel 9.1 (2012)

Oracle OBIEE (2011)

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 – Microsoft University (2011)

Peoplesoft Integration Tools Rel 8.50 Ed1 - Oracle University (2011)

Contracts Administration Rel 8.9 – Oracle University (2010)

Grants Management – Oracle University (2010)

Project Costing Rel 9.0 – Oracle University (2010)

Commitment Control Rel 8.9 – Oracle University (2009)

Tailored Workflow – Oracle University (2009)

Intro to PS for FMS and SCM Rel 8.9 – Oracle University (2009)

Intro to Peoplesoft for HRMS Rel 9.0 – Oracle University (2009)

Program Management Best Practices workshop – Boeing Leadership Center (2009)

First Line Leadership – Boeing Leadership Center (2007)

Transition to Management – Boeing Leadership Center (2006)

nVision for General Ledger Rel 8.8 Ed 1 - Oracle University (2005)

1099 Processing Rel 8.4 – Peoplesoft Education (2004)

Certified Project Manager Bootcamp (Project Management Leadership Group) (2003)

Recruiting Solutions Rel 8.8 – Peoplesoft Education (2003)

Data Management Tools and Upgrade Rel 8.4 – Peoplesoft Education (2003)

Peoplesoft Server Administration Rel 8.4 – Peoplesoft Education (2003)

Workflow – Rel 8.4 – Peoplesoft Education (2003)

Data Management Tools Rel 8.12 – Peoplesoft Education (2002)

Peoplesoft Database Upgrade – Rel 8.12 – Peoplesoft Education (2002)

PeopleTools I 8.1 Delta – Peoplesoft Education (2002)

PeopleTools II 8.1 Delta – Peoplesoft Education (2002)

Business Process Design Rel 6.x – Peoplesoft Education (1997)

PeopleTools I/II Rel 6.x – Peoplesoft Education (1996)

Intro to Benefits Rel 3.0 – Peoplesoft Education (1994)

Benefits Administration Rel 3.0 – Peoplesoft Education (1994)