Experience

Dream Center Education Holdings, LLC

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Human Resources Information System Analyst II

  • Nov 2017 - Present

  Lead the HRIS team to ensure the performance, maintenance, upgrades, data integrity and support of our ERP system – Infor Lawson. Coordinate with functional areas to resolve data and system issues with HR, Payroll, Benefits, and outside vendors. Identify impacts of system changes or issues to any functional area supported by Lawson, communicate impact, assist in establishing priorities, and ensure all changes or fixes are migrated to production. Manage small to medium size projects and provide project oversight from design through implementation. ● Assisted in the maintenance, upgrades, and data integrity review of the Kronos system. As well as, provided secondary support for daily matters that occurred pertaining to accrual profiles, scheduler, and employee profiles. ● Led project with third party vendor to outsource garnishments through interfaces with Lawson and SFTP file transmissions. ● Utilize Microsoft Excel Add-Ins, Microsoft Access, and Crystal to write, maintain, and support a variety of reports and queries for functional areas. ● Researched, updated, and maintained technical requirement documentation of software and systems. ● Prepare, format, and import mass uploads of personnel data from multiple functional areas to the appropriate system. ● Support internal and external integrations for software and systems; including design, testing. and troubleshooting. Show less



EDMC

• United States
• Education Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Payroll Compliance Specialist

  • Jul 2010 - Aug 2017

  Conduct processing of company’s bi-weekly multi-state payroll; including the time-management interface and the garnishment file. Utilized both Excel Add-ins and Access Database reports to ensure an accurate payroll processing every pay; along with on-demand report creation when needed. ● Successfully led the implementation of the processing of Electronic Income Withholding Support Orders. This included requirements gathering, ensuring the proper system configuration, creating test cases, and testing to ensure the new program was configured accurately. Collaborated effectively across multiple departments to ensure a smooth transition to production.● Lead payroll tester for all implementation and upgrades to the Human Resources systems. Including all updates to the Kronos system; last upgrade involved platform changes.● Developed and maintained 15 short video tutorials utilizing self-taught Camtasia skills to provide end users of Kronos with the support to learn new system, utilizing my creativity and innovation skillset. Recognized with two On-the-Spot Awards for implementation efforts.● Demonstrated leadership through mentorship of new hires, as well as, successfully working with existing staff on professional improvement, and worked to deliver and improve internal training.● Restructured and reformatted, with the use of some HTML knowledge, the payroll department’s Microsoft SharePoint site by adding 7 new pages of easily obtainable information. This enabled employees to access important payroll information more efficiently. Continually update the site with new information. Show less

• Payroll Administrator

  • Jun 2009 - Jul 2010

  While interacting closely and effectively with all levels of the organization, I processed a portion of the company’s multi-state payroll for over 4,200 employees on a bi-weekly basis. ● Support configuration and system use for Kronos WTK implementation; work closely with subject matter experts; which involved helping to create queries and designing the PTO accrual profiles.● Volunteered to be one of three advanced team members to work on a multifaceted tax project. Discovered an error within the payroll system pertaining to employees’ tax withholdings which enabled the company to mitigate penalties and interest. Presented and communicated errors to affected employees to ensure thorough understanding of the issue. Show less



Eat N Park Hospitality Group

• Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Payroll Specialist

  • Dec 2008 - Jun 2009

  Responsible for the management and processing of the company’s salaried payroll for 1,500 employees on a bi-weekly basis. ● Worked alongside the HR Systems Manager, as the Payroll Lead for the implementation and core functionality tester of the Ulti-Pro system. Responsible for the management and processing of the company’s salaried payroll for 1,500 employees on a bi-weekly basis. ● Worked alongside the HR Systems Manager, as the Payroll Lead for the implementation and core functionality tester of the Ulti-Pro system.



EDMC Online Higher Education

• Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Payroll Coordinator

  • Sep 2007 - Nov 2008

  Assisted in the management of the payroll department’s processing of 2,500 employees’ complex payroll on a bi-weekly basis. ● Analyzed existing systems and business processes to guide employees through a seamless transition to eTIME from paper timesheets. Helped to develop and manage training to all end users of the eTIME conversion. ● Delivered weekly On-boarding presentations in a classroom setting to new hires; this included providing all payroll information needed to ensure they would be properly paid. ● Implemented the electronic upload of 1,500 teachers’ payment schedules which reduced manual input time by 96%. This eliminated data entry errors, decreased over-payments, and improved the process timeliness to meet payroll deadlines. Show less