Vijaykumar Narayanankutty
Peoplesoft Upgrade Lead at Graviton Consulting Services- Claim this Profile
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Associate
OracleJun, 2021- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Graviton Consulting Services
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United States
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Peoplesoft Upgrade Lead
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Nov 2015 - Present
* Provide consulting services to clients performing Peoplesoft Upgrades to 9.2 . * Working as a Peoplesoft Upgrade Specialist in Sacramento, California for my client and performing the Peopelsoft application upgrade from HCM 9.1 PT8.52 to HCM 9.2 PT8.54 as well as FSCM 9.1 PT8.52 to FSCM 9.2 PT8.54. * Working on PUM(Peoplesoft Update manager) technology and am performing the work of applying the new features/patches and tax updates from PUM to the upgrade systems. * Setting up SES and Peoplesoft Test Framework for the client. * Load balancer setups and exposure of systems to internet * Set up Desktop Single Signon configurations to Peoplesoft. * Installing, configuring and maintaining PeopleSoft Human Resource Management System, PeopleSoft Recruiting, PeopleSoft e-Performance. * Performance tuning of Application Servers, Web Servers and Process Schedulers. * Apply Patches and Fixes in PeopleSoft Application (Web Server, Application Server and Process Scheduler) as recommended by Oracle. * Installing Tax Updates for PeopleSoft North American Payroll in Upgrade environments * Migrating development changes from development environment to test instances and performing Monthly Install in Production environment * Troubleshooting issues with PeopleSoft application and working with different teams towards meeting Client Goals. * Establishing Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals. * Working on regular maintenance like requirement understanding, design, review meeting with client business team, knowledge transition with onshore, configuration testing and go live support. Show less
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IBM
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Lead
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Oct 2012 - Oct 2015
Lead a team of Peoplesoft administrators who provide support, maintenance and enhancements to the customer and make sure the infrastructure has negligible downtime and is performing to the maximum threshold. Design and deliver high quality solutions to client on Peoplesoft Infrastructure. Perform conversion from DB2 to oracle and Peoplesoft upgrade to latest releases. Responsibilities: - Working as a Peoplesoft Infrastructure Lead in Peoria Illinois for my client and maintaining the current Peoplesoft HRMS and Payroll systems which runs on DB2, HRMS8.9. Also responsible for the upgrade of the system to Oracle 12c , Peopletools 8.53.18 and HRMS 9.2. - Working on PUM(Peoplesoft Update manager) technology and am performing the work of applying the new features/patches and tax updates from PUM to the production systems. - Attend various meetings with customer like requirement understanding, design review meetings, End user education, - Develop automation products and solutions for the client. - Baseline tuning and implement high quality performance tuning on the applications. - Apply code fixes, patches and Tax updates to Production and Test environments using latest PUM technology. - Work with external vendors for setting up interfaces. - Involved in planning and implementation for various Software Upgrade tasks. - Create, maintain and review various Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX) documents for GHRMS Application area. - Preparing and setting up tools towards process automation. Specialties: Enterprise Architecture, PeopleSoft ERP Software, Strategic Planning & Execution, Infrastructure Management, IT Virtualization and performance tuning. Show less
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Wipro
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Peoplesoft Upgrade Specialist
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Jun 2007 - Sep 2012
- Worked in New Jersey (US) for 3 months to understand the structure of CITI’s architecture council and worked on the proposal and structure of handling the work efforts from India. - Responsible for standardizing PeopleSoft upgrade methodology.Worked in New Jersey (US) for 3 months to understand the structure of CITI’s architecture & worked on the proposal and structure of handling the work efforts from India - Understand the Vendor delivered upgrade mechanism and then streamline the process so as to meet customers various regions’ requirements. Create cost effective solutions either using custom codes or using vendor delivered codes so as to provide a robust process which can cater to any application module. I held the Upgrade Methodology Lead role for the department on the client side. - Deliver yearly forums to the client architecture group based on lessons learned through the year during various upgrades conducted and provide details on the value add. - Manage the offshore team and interact with the client as well as customers on design, architecture and project plan. - Have been involved in multiple upgrades that were conducted in the customers environments and used to be the Subject matter expertise for all the upgrades conducted within Citigroup.-Have been actively involved in Upgrade of the following applications -People tools 8.49 EPM9.0 to PT8.51 EPM9.1. -People tools 8.49 CRM9.0 to PT8.51 CRM9.1. -People tools 8.21 HRMS8.3 to PT8.51 HRMS9.1. -People tools 8.21 EPM8.3 to PT8.49 EPM8.9. -People tools 8.47 HRMS9.0 to People tools 8.49 HRMS9.0. - Have been involved in the migration of infrastructure from Solaris 8 to AIX 5.3 for all the PeopleSoft applications.-Have performed non-Unicode to Unicode conversion for multiple databases who wanted to implement multi-language.-Involved in COBOL installation and certification across the PeopleSoft shared environment. - Conducted testing, certification & testing of PeopleSoftTestFramework Show less
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Birlasoft
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Feb 2006 - May 2007
• Used to be Point of Contact and was responsible for application support including application servers, web servers and process schedulers for 2 critical work streams . • Used to be responsible for all migrations on the above mentioned work streams including project, flat files and other peoplesoft related objects. Migrations were done using STAT 5.2 as well as on some occasions manually. • Used to be responsible for database refresh activities from Peoplesoft perspective. • Used to be responsible for troubleshooting of issues pertaining to Peoplesoft including Appserver, Webserver, Process Scheduler, NDM, etc. • Used to be responsible for setting up Network Data Mover (NDM) across the above mentioned work streams. Show less
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HCLTech
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer
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Oct 2004 - Jan 2006
- Worked in Frankfurt (Germany) with Deutsche bank’s architecture group for 3 months to under-stand clients global PeopleSoft presence and created proposal to upgrade their current tools to the latest release. • Worked on the People Tools migration from 8.18 to 8.46.04. During this – - Was responsible for the POC (Proof of Concept) for People Tools migration from 8.18 to 8.46.04, which became the basis for the upgrade, which were carried till production. - Was responsible for setting up the entire infrastructure part including the database and PIA for the development and UAT environments. - Performed the People Tools migrations, installations of Tuxedo, Web logic, Crystal and People tools. - Imparted the knowledge transfer of People Tools migration methodology to the team. Created the design documents for the same. - Also worked on development of certain change requests on HRMS module. - Worked on PL/SQL’s for developing employee Progress Report. • Worked on the oracle database migration from 8.0.1.7 to 9.2.0.6.For this – - Was responsible for the DEV and UAT databases migration from 8i to 9i(Using Import/Export Utilities) Show less
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Mphasis
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer
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Nov 2003 - Sep 2004
- Was responsible for the development work of 1 prime module required by customer.(Prospect Deduplication) - Was involved in resolving bugs received during the UAT phase. - Was also involved in design and development of certain ETL functions. - Was responsible for the development work of 4 prime modules in CRM required by Citibank. The four modules were: - Campaign - Financial Accounts - Leads - Worker All the above modules were tested successfully and delivered. - Was responsible for the development work of 1 prime module required by customer.(Prospect Deduplication) - Was involved in resolving bugs received during the UAT phase. - Was also involved in design and development of certain ETL functions. - Was responsible for the development work of 4 prime modules in CRM required by Citibank. The four modules were: - Campaign - Financial Accounts - Leads - Worker All the above modules were tested successfully and delivered.
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Education
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1999 - 2003
Shah And Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics -
1987 - 1999
North Bombay Welfare Society High School, Mumbai
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