Pratheepan Ganesan

2268/I, First Floor, 14th A Main Road, HAL Stage II, Indiranagar, Bangalore 560008
Mobile: +91-9886675151 Email: pratheepan.ganesan@gmail.com

To secure a responsible and rewarding position in a world-class organization that provides a challenging
and competitive environment valuing Talent, Dedication, Integrity and Loyalty and one which strongly
enables career growth in terms of learning values while fulfilling organization objectives.

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

• An energetic, self-motivated, dynamic, result-driven and hard working professional over 7 years of
experience in IT Industry.
• Worked in capacities of Onsite Technical Lead, Offshore Team Leader and Project Leader for various
PeopleSoft projects in ERP space.
• Involved in ERP life cycles; implementation, re-implementation, upgrade, development and maintenance of
PeopleSoft applications (FSCM/HRMS).
• Resourceful with ability to plan and complete all projects producing professional results while adhering to rigid
deadlines.
• Excellent people management skills and ability to interact with team members at all levels, build team
cohesion and inspire individuals to strive towards ever higher levels of achievements.
• Expertise in Project Management (Planning, Tracking and Scheduling), Quality Management, Risk
Management and Metrics Collection based on CMMI/ISO concepts.
• Proven ability to work with engagement team and maintain customer relationships to achieve overall business
success.
• Highly process-oriented; driven by new challenges and desire to be successful in all endeavours.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

• PeopleSoft Certified Developer

• Brainbench Certified PeopleTools 8.4
• Higher Diploma in Software Engineering

TRAININGS ATTENDED

• PMP Training (Pmi Bangalore Chapter, Bangalore, India)

• PeopleTools I/II Accelerated and PeopleCode (PeopleSoft Education, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA)
• Software Design for Six Sigma Green Belt Training (Honeywell Technology solutions Lab)

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

• Master of Computer Applications (MCA) - Bharathidasan University, Trichy (1999 – 2002)

• Bachelor of Science-Physics – Bishop Heber College, Trichy (1996-1999)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• BearingPoint Business Consulting Ltd, Bangalore (Sep 2005 – till date)

• Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab, Bangalore (Oct 2001 – Sep 2005)

SKILL SET

PeopleSoft Functional exposures

• Accounts Payable • General Ledger

• Asset Management • Inventory
• Purchasing • Project Costing
• eProcurement • Core HR

PeopleSoft Technical Skills

• Development Tools: Application Designer, PeopleCode and Application Engine

• Data Management Tools: Data Mover, FileLayouts
• Security: Row Level and Object Level
• Batch Processing Tools: Process Scheduler, Process Monitor and Integration Broker Monitor,
• Reporting Tools: SQR, Crystal Reports, and PS/Query.
• Integration Tools: Component Interface, Application Messaging, Integration Broker and WebServices

Other Technical Skills

• Database: Oracle (SQL)

• Operating System: Windows, Unix & MainFrame
• Packages: MS–Office, MS-Visio
 Project Management & Planning
• Feasibility study (cost, time & effort), project planning, estimation, tracking.
• Implementing project plans within set deadlines.
• Delivery Management for technical deliverables of concurrent projects.
• Defining best practices for project support and documentation.
• Recruitment, training and counselling of team members.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Actively participated in proposal preparation for prospective clients.

• Member of interview panel for PeopleSoft Practice.
• Offshore Training Coordinator for PeopleSoft Practice.
• Contributed Best Practices & Case Studies to PeopleSoft Practice.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BearingPoint Business Consulting Pvt. Ltd., (Bangalore) Sep 2005 - till date
Project Lead

BearingPoint is a global management and technology consulting company known for its deep industry experience and
high customer satisfaction; formerly known as KPMG Consulting.

Joined as Consultant and promoted to Project Lead within a span of 3 years

Responsibilities:
• Managing and leading the offshore development team.
• Responsible for delivery and tracking of development tasks assigned to development team.
• Periodic project walk through meetings with clients / engagement team.
• Created complex AE, conversion SQR, reports (crystal & PS Queries).
• Created fit gap analysis, functional and technical requirement documents based on extensive study of user
requirements.
• Created the proof of concept for workflow requirements.
• Expert in creating complex designs for technical requirement (Interfaces / Customizations / Conversions /
Reports)
• Instrumental in creating current state technical documents for One HRIS a strategy projects.
• Created a complete catalogue of custom created reports and interfaces.
• Generated a comprehensive current state interface network diagram.
• Created a HR application matrix which is currently used by all the global regions, other than the main ERP
HRMS and HR4U.
• Coordinated with onsite team for getting the functional design documents, mutually agreeing the deadlines
and updating the work progress to the onsite team.
• Expert level knowledge in running the compare reports between the source and target instances and generate
the customization object report.
• Designed and created several custom AE interfaces and conversion programs for upgrade projects.
• Estimated and designed the customization work involved in converting chartfield values during an upgrade
project according to the new business requirement.
• Applied maintenance pack as part of Post upgrade activity.
• Ensure compliance of project with CMMI standards and facilitate process related issues within the project
• Conduct periodic audits (internal and external)

Awards & Rewards:

Two times winner of Silver Beacon Award
Won a Star performer Award

Projects executed:

Client Projects Duration

Embarq FSCM 9.0 Re-Implementation Jul 08 – Till date
Esurance FSCM 9.0 Implementation Jan 08 – Jun 08
Wells Fargo FSCM 9.0 Upgrade and Implementation Jun 07 – Dec 07
Credit Suisse HRMS – One HRIS Analysis Dec 06 – Mar 07
AOL HRMS 9.0 upgrade May 06 – Dec 06
Per-Se Oracle Financials to PeopleSoft FSCM 8.9 Jan 06 – Sep 06
Sunrise Senior living HRMS 8.8 Support Oct 05 – Dec 05

Visited Overland Park KA, Minneapolis MN, Zurich – Switzerland while executing some of the above projects.
Honeywell Technology Solution Lab (Bangalore) Oct 2001 – Sep 2005
Senior Software Engineer

Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab (HTSL) is a SEI CMMI Level 5 company. Headquartered in Bangalore, HTSL is an
integral corporate arm of Honeywell International providing value to Honeywell's businesses and customers by
providing technology, product and business solutions.

Joined as an Project Trainee and promoted to Senior Software Engineer a span of 4 years

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis with the Functional Team and End-users.

• Preparing the high level and low level technical design documents.
• Created unit test plan documents.
• Created generic interface (SQR process, AE process) to generate the delta changes for external payroll
vendor ADP. The requirement was to generate the output file in XML using AE.
• Design and development of the portal components and templates.
• Design and development of data load sqrs and AE.
• Created DMS scripts for setup data load.
• Developed multi-language PeopleSoft objects.
• Integrated the self service portal with the main LDAP server
• Built generic interface (SQR process) to generate the delta changes for external payroll vendor.
• Created customization of PeopleSoft components required both in English and Japanese languages.
• Developed the integration adapter using jsp to override the PeopleSoft authentication and to leverage
Honeywell authentication engine (myHAE) to validate users against LDAP.
• Built a daily run Application Engine to automate the user account creation/inactivation for newly hired
employees and terminated employees respectively using Component interface.
• Created several SQR reports to send the data changed by employees using Audit Tables.
• Generated impact analysis report for the comparison report given by PeopleSoft Upgrade Labs.
• Actively involved in upgrade activities like running the rel scripts (SQL) and DMS scripts.

Awards & Rewards:

Partner Award
Team Excellence Award
Spot Award
Twice Customer Award
Certificate of Excellence and Appreciation
Individual Excellence Award
Team Premier Achievement Award

Projects executed:

Client Projects Duration

Honeywell Latin America PeopleSoft HRMS Implementation Jan 05 – Sep 05
Honeywell Canada employee Self Service application Nov 04 – Sep 05
Honeywell Mexico PeopleSoft HRMS implementation Nov 03 – Oct 04
Honeywell Asia Pacific employee Self Service application Jan 03 – Oct 03
Honeywell Asia Pacific PeopleSoft HRMS Upgrade 7.5 to 8.3 Jun 02 – Dec 02
Honeywell Asia Pacific PeopleSoft 7.5 support Oct 01 – May 02

Visited Morristown NJ for requirement gathering and training.

PERSONAL PROFILE

• A highly optimistic person, I believe in living every moment of my life and as a result I put 100% of my
efforts in getting the best out of me.
• Always ready to meet challenges head-on.
• Ability to multi task in complex and dynamic environments.
• Strong ethics, very hard working and dedicated towards work.
• Quick learner with a hunger for knowledge and willingness to learn continuously.
• Excellent team player and people person with ability to build good working relationships.

PERSONAL DATA

Date of birth : 20 Apr 1978

Nationality : Indian
Marital Status : Single