Rahul Shrivastava

Rahul Shrivastava

Functional Manager/Lead

Colorado Springs, CO
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Rahul has 14+ years of the Managerial, Lead, Functional and Technical experience in PeopleSoft ERP Application. He has worked as Project Manager/CS Functional Manager/Reporting lead/SME for Campus Solutions Student Record/ Admissions/reporting/Campus Community/Curriculum management for multiple Higher Education Clients; Also played key role with sales team for higher education prospect clients; He has excellent skills in design, configure and development of PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and HCM. He has strong functional experience and technical background in Oracle PeopleSoft HRMS & Campus Solutions v8.8, 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 suite and PeopleTools 8.46 to 8.56.12. His experience spans across different business domains including especially Higher Education, Banking, Finance Services, Insurance (BFSI), life science and health care, techno-functional trainings and, continuously demonstrates his technical expertise through blogs, user groups and discussion forums.

Experience

2011 Jul - Present
Functional Manager/Reporting Lead
Ciber - US & India / USA and India

Role – Project Manager- GSC India/Functional Manager - Reporting and Campus Solution

Module involved: Student Record, Curriculum Management, Student Admission, Campus Community, Self Service and Reporting from all different modules including 3rd party system.

Functional planning for user account creation, email account creation and account authentication using active directory and mission net

Managing/Maintaining USAFA GSC project using tool like PM Workbook, MPP, PMRx and team size of 19 resource.

Managed resource allocation, work projection and project status, including RYG code.

Involved in Requirement gathering (FGA), Creating Functional and Testing Design Doc (FTDD) for all critical reporting CEMLIs

Providing functional solution/lead for all interface with High Ed multiple 3rd party systems like Blackboard, Infosilem, salesforce, Symplicity system

• PUM8 – PUM15 Functional Planning/Guidance/Coordination with Tech and COMS team.

Managed project life cycle using PMRx for defect log, risk log, issue log, clarification log, Development traceability matrix, development documentary repository, functional specs and many more.

• Managed project life cycle using MPP for project deliverables status/timeline update/go-live projection/milestone projection.

• Managed/planned functional security matrix for all customization/interface

• Managed/planned proper functional transition from PUM8 to PUM15 instance

• Managed project life cycle using Project Management Workbook (Ciber Internal - PMWB) for auto-computation of Quality Index., Org chart maintenance, team structure, internal risk, internal issues, escalation matrix, and efforts tracking.

• Managed required/basic trainings to team to uplift soft skills.

• Managed all reported business specs and provided functional guidance to team

• Managed/organized cross-functional/cross-design training to team.

• Managed different reports as per portal needs.

• Have been active member for CUNY Oral presentation and multiple higher education prospect client Oral and sales discussion/presentation; Have been active member for Adams 12 Five-star school RFP

  • Have experience in PeopleSoft Campus solution delivered modules like Application Entry, Ethnicity, Personal Data, Emergency Contacts, Student Groups, Student Admissions, Academic Structure, Student Records, Curriculum Management and Campus community.
  • Functional/Module/Techno-Functional Lead for multiple projects. Also played the role of CS Student Record and Continuing Education Lead in Higher Ed. Domain; Subject Matter Expert in Banking Domain projects and
  • Have extensive experience in PeopleSoft Campus Solution Feature pack 2 and 3, mainly in area of Hosted Payment and Admission Application Web Services.
  • Have experience in implementing PeopleSoft Campus Solution9.2 with PUM 15
  • Have extensive experience in PeopleSoft HR and Payroll modules mainly in area of Approval Workflow, Employee Self Service, Manager Self Service, Global Payroll, Payroll Element Testing, Payroll Element Migration, Personal data, Job data etc.
  • Have experience in Project planning, Team Management, Resource Management, Project Monitoring, Quality Assurance, Risk Management, Configuration Management, Change Management, Defect Tracking, Issue Tracking Metrics & Statistical Process Control and Management functions, using project management tools like Integrated Project Management System.
  • Have extensive hands on experience and involved in preparing all project related documents like Business Requirement Document (BRD), Change Request (CR), As-Is, To-Be, Functional Design Document (FDD), Technical Design Document (TDD), Unit Test Plan (UTP), Training Manual, Defect Tracking, Effort Estimation, Issue tracking metrics, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Client Profiles, Kickoff meeting presentations, Issue Logs, Minutes of Meeting (MOM), Project Plan, Risks Log and Status Reports
  • Has been involved in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Has been an integral part of End to End Implementation project.
  • Served as Solution Architect/business analyst role in multiple projects.
  • Had trained and experience in Peoplesoft HR, Payroll and Interfacing with third Party.
2010 Jun - 2011 Jul
Team Lead
Keane / Bangalore, India

Role – Team Lead: PeopleSoft Campus Solution Techno-Functional

• Gathered business requirement for Online Application Admission.

• Developed Online Admission Application for US Universities, which provides a single platform to any student to fill Biographical information till student admissions and payment of applied courses.

• Developed new Application Engines for interfacing with various Campus Solutions delivered modules using multiple thread concepts, which reduces the effort of integration by 80%.

• Integrated Online Admission Application with Campus Solutions using both batch and real time integration. Some of the delivered Components involved are: Application Entry, Ethnicity, Academic Interest, Personal Data, Extracurricular Activities, Academic History, Emergency Contacts, Honors and Awards, Relationships, Residency Data, Student Groups, General Materials, Academic Test Results, Work Experience.

• Developed Hosted payment (vendor- TouchNet) using iScript, IB for fee payment, which provides user flexibility for fee payment less than 90 seconds.

• Developed attachment feature for supporting materials using BLOB and CLOB objects.

• Integrated OAA with PS Campus Solutions delivered modules using AAWS, Batch Mode and Real time mode.

• Developed a Dashboard feature to provide all the monitoring and reporting purpose for all the transactions which results in maintaining and monitoring all request.

• Integrated with Nelnet and Sallie Mae payment vendor for Payment facility.

2005 Dec - 2010 Jun
Asst Systems Engg
TCS / Mumbai India

Role – Module Lead: PeopleSoft Techno-Functional

• Worked with PeopleSoft HCM implementation and CRM Support for multiple clients

Functional and Technical Lead for the various modules

• Analyzed Business Requirement Specification, Functional Requirement Specifications

• Effort estimation after preliminary analysis

Quality Assurance using Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCSL) internal Integrated Quality Management System (iQMS) process

• Prepared As-Is, To-Be documents, Test Cases and Training Manual for the above modules.

Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, Issue Tracking Metrics and Unified Metrics using TCSL internal tool Integrated Project Management System (IPMS).

Requirement Gathering, Fit Gap Analysis (FGA), Effort estimation, CR Doc, Development, Migration, Testing, Process Check.

• Prepared Technical design document

• Defect Resolution with the users. Conducted peer reviews during design, coding and testing

• Participated in project status review meetings and report status to the project lead

• Migrated Project using Application designer, Data Mover and Core FTP.

• Conducted unit testing/smoke testing internally.

• UAT, User Training and Postproduction Support

• Prepared guidelines and checklists for the team, tracked the issues to closure

• Conducted knowledge transfer sessions for new joiners in the project team

Education

2001 - 2005
RGPV
Bachelor of Engineering / Electronics, Communication, Computers

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