April 2021 to June 2021

Systems Analyst - Digital Delivery Solutions

I was consulting for Accenture working with a government department supporting their Digital Delivery Solutions group.

Some of my major achievements were:

Your Super Your Future

Part of the team that rolled out the Your Super Your Future initiatives.

January 2020 to February 2021

PeopleSoft Consultant - Enterprise Systems Support (CS9.2 FSCM 9.2 8.57.11 8.58.02)

I am part of the team supporting Campus Solutions 9.2 and Finance 9.2.

Some of my major achievements were:

TCSI Project

Part of the team delivering function and technical requirements for the project.

Control-M Monitoring and Configuration

Monitoring and configuration of scheduling system.

May 2018 to Oct 2019

PeopleSoft Consultant - SMS Project (CS9.2 8.57.05)

I am part of the delivery team rolling out a number of Oracle products including PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.2, Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, SOA and OBIEE. My focus was in PeopleSoft and the development of work units and the fixing of defects. I then moved into a release management role handling the weekly code migrations and environment builds.

Some of my major achievements were:

Opal Card Interface

Lead consultant in the build of a configuration driven application to manage the distribution and maintenance of Opal Cards for the student population. Integrations were with the SOA layer which then connected with Transport for NSW.

Training Contract ID Process

This process covers the recording and management of training data held by Training Services NSW. The process would use File Parser to load the file, search match would run to find the person and either an update to person data or the process would produce an error file on certain conditions.

Auto Withdrawal Proces for LOA Students

This application engine process was developed to monitor and manage the program staus of the students currently on Leave of Absence. Communication Generation was used to notify the student of their automatic withdrawal based around a communication schedule driven by configurable rules. Both functional and technical specifications were presented to the client.

Migration (Phire) Administrator

Phire Administrator controlling code migrations and new environment builds using Phire 14.2. Extensive use of the release management features such as scheduled code migrations.

Release Management

For the latter part of the project, I was part of the release team which was responsible for the twice weekly releases into eight development and test environments. The Phire release and migration scheduling features were used extensively to complete these releases during the release window.

Environment Management

I was part of the environment build team tasked with the build of test environments as we moved through the testing cycle.

April 2017 to April 2018

PeopleSoft Consultant - SI-net Upgrade (CS9.2 8.56.04)

I am part of the upgrade team providing skills in the upgrade of the UQ student system. This involved the upgrading and retirement of work units. Some of my major achievements were:

Self Service - Fluid Navigation

Lead consultant in the self service area rolling out Fluid navigation by way of Fluid Homepages and Tiles. Extensive use of Tile Wizard, navigation collections and branding to produce the first cut fluid rollout for UQ. Extensive redesign of self service pages will be rolled out in version 2.

Branding

Lead consultant in the repackaging of the Si-Net Campus Solutions product using the latest branding framework. Extensive use of "javascript injection" to minimise the number of customisations to the delivered product.

August 2016 to March 2017

PeopleSoft Consultant - Enterprise Applications Development

I am part of the technical team providing skills in the customisation of the PeopleSoft system. This scope of work ranged from business as usual issue resolution to large projects. Some of my major achievements were:

HECS Reconciliation Oracle Patch

Implementation of Oracle patch and HECS eligibility status and the downstream impacts to HECS reconciliation process. Modifications to CAF self service processes to meet legislative requirements.

TRIM Integration Project

Integration project to synchronise deferred exam data with the records management software - HP Records Manager (TRIM). Java based REST Web Services were developed to handle the very specific requirements of the target system.

QTAC File Cleaner

From an initial requirement to report on errors in a file, this development progressed to become a configuration driven process that cleans any file based on a given file layout. This allows the functional user to prescribe a list of configurable “cleaning rules” which are then used to clean a file. The process then produces a report and the cleaned file.

Class Profiles

The Class SignOn process was modified to reference new configuration that prescribes class profiles (percentage of male, female, international students etc) for class groups. WAPT performance testing was undertaken to ensure the new configuration did not impact the high load class signon application.

Workcentre Performance Tuning

A rather complex workcentre view was causing some performance issues on load the workcentre. The performance improvements were achieved through a number of means including: - rebuilding the page to remove related displays, addition of indexes of the view, rebuild the view to get it to do more work at the database layer, Oracle Enterprise Manager to enhance performance of the view through the use of SQL Profiles and WAPT testing to measure impacts.

November 2011 to June 2016

PeopleSoft Consultant - Special Projects

I am part of the technical team providing skills in the customisation of the PeopleSoft system. This scope of work ranged from business as usual issue resolution to large projects. Some of my major achievements were:

Online Applications - Scholarships AAWS

Phase II of the AAWS project catered for Scholarship applications. The Phase I code base was extended to cater for Scholarship Applications via the addition of new record keys and new application types. We allow these applications to reach the Admissions Stack but remove them from all our reporting queries since they are not true applications. Portal homepages and pagelets were then used to logically group the presentation of the applications to the user.

Online Applications - AAWS

The Online Applications project was a solution built in PeopleSoft to allow both new and existing USC users to lodge applications via a web based interface. The front end was built in PeopleSoft calling the AAWS web services. This allowed us to leverage the CTM/Entity Registry/Data Update Rule logic when presenting and submitting data. The front end was driven from configuration allowing the administrator to:

• Determine what application types are available and for what period
• Determine Program, Term, Campus, study load data is available for those applications
• Build new Applications (Types) by configuring applications – specifying the pages in an application and the sections on that page (Names, Address etc)

The system was served under its own Portal leveraging the 8.54 branding framework. Phase 2 of the implementation is currently underway which will serve Scholarships Applications using the Prospect web service SOA.

→ View the USC AAWS implementation

Online Payments / OneStop Integration

This project enabled the student user to pay fees and other charges via an online interface. The PeopleSoft customisation involved a solution that leveraged off the External File layouts, the Group Post process and the Credit History process to post the transaction to the student account. The custom process picks files off a network location using external file layouts to process that data. It then used Group Post to post to the student account and finally Credit History was used to remove any service indicators from the student.

TACERT / EvaSys Project

The TACERT project was again a large PeopleSoft customisation that used web services to integrate with the Student Evaluation System called EvaSys. The build, while at first looked simple, involved a number of layers and proved quiet complex once the end to end process was conceived. A self service function was built for the Course Instructor to allow them to compile and submit evaluations for both teaching and course evaluations. Further, an administration section was built to allow the administrator type user to manage these evaluations and finally send them over to the EvaSys system via web services. The whole system was driven from configuration with data, if possible, sourced from the EvaSys system via web service.

Marks and Grades / IRM Project

The IRM system was a custom .NET application that interfaced with PeopleSoft via web services. The web services firstly served Course, Term and Student Grade data to the IRM system so that the student grades could be pushed through a multi step moderation process. Once this was done, PeopleSoft then accepted data back from the IRM system via web services straight into the Grade Roster. Logging and error reporting was provided to reconcile this process.

PeopleSoft Audit Project

Implemented auditing across multiple Campus modules using all the PeopleSoft audit technologies (PSAUDIT, record based audits, Triggers etc).

October 2010 to November 2011

PeopleSoft Consultant

I was part of the technical upgrade team providing technical skills in the upgrade of the PeopleSoft system. This involved the retrofitting of customisations to bring them in line with the version 9 table structures and technologies. This also involved upgrading various reports to version 9. Once customisations were built, it then involved defect resolution. These tasks formed the bulk of my work at RMIT. I was responsible for the administration of the Phire Architect change control system and for the configuration of Integration Broker. In addition I undertook a mentoring role on the development of any customisations that required the use of Integration Broker.

June 2010 to August 2010

PeopleSoft Consultant

I was part of the technical team providing System Administration around the go-live period. This involved troubleshooting system issues and providing a first level support services to the project to remove the load from other team members during the critical go live period. I was responsible for managing the decommissioning of the 76 system through the go live period and beyond. I designed and built the server (NT and UNIX) restart schedule using NT scheduled tasks and Crontab. I designed a JSP probepage (that resides on the PeopleSoft web server) to allow the load balancer to determine if the PeopleSoft stack was available and if not redirect requests to another PeopleSoft stack.

February 2010 to May 2011

PeopleSoft Consultant

I was tasked with reviewing and subsequently standardising the migration procedures and workflow for all development. This then lead me to becoming the migration manager overseeing all migrations across all environments. I was tasked with Integration Broker configuration and the design of scripts for IB configuration after database refreshes. I utilised IB message transformations for WORKFORCE_SYNC and PERSON_BASIC_SYNC due to the differing toolsets (transactional record structure differences) between Finance and HRMS. I was tasked with an XML Publisher report that was required to be outputted in Excel format and encountered the formatting limitations of this output format.

I was exposed to the following Finance modules:

• Asset Management: Disposal Worksheet, Asset Adjustments, Asset MovementReport, Asset Depreciation, Asset Loading, Asset Consolidation and Archiving, Depreciation Reporting.
• Project Costing: Projects and Project Team modifications, PC User Defaults scripting, Project Allocations.
• Accounts Receivables: Split Payments Receipting modification, Debt Management Report.

June 2008 to November 2009

PeopleSoft Consultant

I was a member of the development team undertaking Work Unit Development and retrofitting customisations. I developed a custom "wizard" framework that allowed any number of components to be wrapped in this framework and delivered as part of a multi-step process. This framework is fully customisable and configurable allowing functional users to build multi step processes via a front end.

I was a member of Peer Review team reviewing both onshore and offshore development. Member of the Migration Team responsible for migrating work units via STAT to all target environments. I assisted the MTP Conversion team with script execution troubleshooting (15 MTP cycles). Member of the Security Team responsible for the setup and maintenance of security configuration and the migration of security objects. Integration Broker and Report Manager configuration and setup.

I was also involved in work unit development using IB technologies (Centrelink Validation, Address Validation). I also had exposure to Student Financials through work unit development and defect resolutions: Cashiering (configuration and transactional), Collections (Credit History and Collections), Refunds, GL Interface, Payment Plans (configuration and transactional). Communication Generation (CommGen): I was involved in the setup of CommGen configuration and letter templates and subsequently the transactional use of those communications.

from 2001 to 2004

Various Courses

PeopleSoft University course attendances: PeopleTools I, PeopleTools II, Integration Tools.

from 1979 to 1983

Senior 1983