VANITHA KHERA, PMP
Great Falls, VA 22066
[Send email to request phone number] 26 7679; [Send email using form at bottom]
SUMMARY:
Talented and accomplished senior IT manager with fourteen years of project
management (PMP), software development and client relationship management
experience in Telecommunications, Financial Services and Multimedia industries.
EMPLOYMENT:
08/00 Present CAPGEMINI (formerly ERNST & YOUNG), Manager
Herndon, VA
Project Manager responsible for ERP implementations (PeopleSoft - HCM, Finance
and SCM). Develop application and technical architecture, interface designs,
detailed acceptance test plan and ensured compliance through the life-cycle of
the program, user training, production support, documentation. Lead delivery
teams of 5 to 20 resources.
PeopleSoft Security through customized user mappings of over 65,000 users;
including Single Sign on(SSO) Portal using Active Directory, LDAP and SiteMinder.
Supported Intranet and Peoplesoft portal authentication setup for SSO.
Roles and Permission Lists/ User Mapping Coordinated end-user focus groups to
map the organizations business processes to security roles and permission lists.
Mapped Self Service roles and Core HR/Finance roles to power users and
established Security guidelines and policies to adhere to satisfy Sarbanes Oxley
requirements for IT Auditing. Developed and coached client team to develop
effective and stream lined Production support processes.
Responsible for PeopleSoft Online Security, PeopleSoft Security Definitions,
PeopleSoft Authorization Ids, PeopleSoft Sign on, and Implementation Options and
worked with Security Interface for Financials, HR and portal systems with LDAP.
Some of the responsibilities as Security lead included:
Identifying and creating Roles based on functional specifications for
Financials, HR and Portal.
Set up Security in order to restrict the number of people who could use the
Process Scheduler.
Creating Permissions Lists, Roles and User Profiles for more than 60,000 end
Users.
Creating and Maintaining the user profiles and mass profile changes and
supported the day to needs of the development and functional teams in different
environments.
Developed Security Load Utilities for Mass User creation using SQR. This was
used to create and loading Permission Lists Definitions, Page Authorizations,
Roles Permission List relationship and User Ids from spreadsheet into the PS.
People Code was used for the implementation of organization rules into the
system.
Responsible for other security like Query security, Tree security, process
groups, Object Security, Tools security and used these in defining the permission
lists.
Bulk permission changes update through Application Engine processes.
Developed multiple Component Interface for Loading bulk User IDs and
permission list in production system
Involved in enabling and updating Security Definitions for Pages, Components
and Menus.
Developed various Security views for the fields in the Pages, which are to be
accessed by High-level users; Implementing Data Permission Security Using Views
for General Ledger.
Coordinated in creation of department trees using Tree Manager and setting up
security.
Used Data Mover to export and import security specific data between PeopleSoft
databases and developed custom DMS scripts for security and other maintenance
scripts.
Used component Peoplecode (Prebuild), Buffer Functions, to implement security
by joining the tables (PSOPRDEFN, PSOPRCLS, and PSAUTHITEM) to hide the panels
from the employee users.
Implemented rules and Peoplecode for automatic Employee Role assignment for
new hires access to Employees Self Service pages and automatic locking of User
accounts on terminations of services.
Expertise in Application Designer, PeopleCode, and assigning security roles
for PS Security, SQR, Crystal Reports, PS/nVision Process Scheduler, PS-Query and
Application Engine.
Proficient in Module Development, Production Support, Upgrade, Interfacing,
Conversion,
Extensive experience in General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR),
Accounts Payable (AP), Purchasing, Billing, Standard Budgets, Project Costing
(PC) Asset Management (AM).
Expertise with HRMS, Payroll (Global & North America), Benefits, Benefits
administration, Time & Labor and Payroll.
05/99 07/00 IN-SYNC, Senior Software Engineer Bethesda, MD
Project Lead of the Design team responsible for developing the user
requirements for professional Digital video editing software, used by Network
Television and Movies, like Sony Motion pictures and NBC.
Developed functional requirements, produced project specifications and
schedules and developed COM objects to integrate new features in MS Visual C++.
Designed the software architecture using Rational Rose.
05/97 - 01/99 FUJITSU Network Software Development Division, Software Engineer
Singapore
Led the User Interface team to design and develop software applications that
provided an efficient Source Code Management, Editing and Compilation environment
in MS Visual C++ /MFC. SingTel, the largest telecom company in Singapore was the
primary user of this software.
Conducted user requirements analysis and produced project specifications and
schedules. Developed a "knowledge-base" for my team that was later made as a
"Template" for all other projects in the division. Appointed as a member of the
"Company User Interface Guide" drafting team
08/96 - 04/97 IMAGINE TECHNOLOGIES, Executive Software Solutions
Chennai
Analyzed the functionality of the company's flagship product - a document
imaging software, used by companies with high paper volumes in banking sector and
insurance and credit card merchants, and identified new features for new releases
of the product by conducting product requirement interviews with clients.
Designed new signature scanning and retrieval software for use at clearing
houses - by largely reusing objects from the earlier product and provided
technical pre-sales support.
01/95 - 05/96 WISHBONE SYSTEMS, Programmer
Bangalore
Designed and developed the prototype of a helpdesk tool - WishDesk, aimed at
scheduling of tasks using genetic algorithm, largely used in customer support for
financial services industry in MS Visual Basic.
Assisted Project Manager in designing software architecture and developed
modules in Visual C++
EDUCATION:
National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT)
Graduate of NIIT, Software export program (GNX), December 1994 Bangalore,
India
Advanced PG Diploma in Systems Management, May 1994 Madras, India
University of Madras, Ethiraj College Madras, India
Bachelor of Science (BS) May 1994
SKILLS:
ERP Packages: Peoplesoft HRMS, PeopleSoft Financial and SCM, Peoplesoft App
Designer
Extensive knowledge in designing, customizing and implementing the following
Modules:
o HRMS: Employee Self Service, Manager Self Service, Payroll, Benefits, Time and
Labor
o Finance: Accounts Payables, Project Costing, Expenses, General Ledger and
Asset Mgmt
o Supply Chain: ePro, sPro, Requisitions, Purchasing, Sourcing, ItemMaster,
Vendor Mgmt
Software: MS Visual C++, MFC, ASP, .Net, Java, HTML, MS Visual Basic
Methodologies: MS .Net, Object Oriented Design and Analysis, UML
Packages: MS Visual Studio, Rational Rose, MS Project, MS Office, Mercury Test
Director
RDBMS: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, Microsoft Access
CERTIFICATIONS/TRAINING:
Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management
Professional (PMP)
PeopleSoft
People Tools I and II 8.8
Introduction to FMS/SCM 8.8
Financials General Ledger, Allocations and Consolidations
Microsoft
Intense Microsoft .Net training
National University of Singapore
Object Oriented Design and Analysis
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:
Area leader for Womens Initiative; Enterprise Application Consultant and
Engagement Manager (EM) certified. Made significant contributions to Capgemini
(formerly Ernst & Young) knowledge base and effectively mentor team members and
direct reports.
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