Meghendra Kumar Singh has over 10 years of experience leading PeopleSoft implementation, upgrade, and support projects across multiple countries. He currently serves as both the System Architect and Project Manager for Hays, a UK-based recruitment company, leading selective adoption projects involving their PeopleSoft HRMS, ELM, Portal, and CRM systems. Prior projects include implementations, upgrades, custom developments, and ongoing support for various clients across multiple PeopleSoft modules.
PeopleSoft Architect 10+ Years Experience HRMS ELM Portal
1. Meghendra Kumar Singh
361 Divyajyoti Apartments, Pocket C, Rohini Sector 19, Delhi - 110089, India
Mobile No: 9654414483.
Email: mks.pserp@gmail.com,
Date of Birth: 6th
September 1983
Experience Summary
More than10 years of PeopleSoft experience in multiple Development & Support,
Upgrade, Implementation and Product Development projects for Multiple Countries across
PeopleSoft HRMS, ELM & Portal products.
The current role is a dual role of System Architect & Project Manager, whereby I lead
special projects post 9.2 upgrade; managing various teams in a DevOps structure.
Education
Class/Degree Year of
Passing
University/Board School/College Marks
B.Tech
(Electronics
&
Communication
)
2005 Guru Gobind Singh
Indraprastha University
Maharaja Agrasen
Institute of Technology
73.22%
(Average)
12th
Standard 2001 CBSE, Delhi Bluebells School 85.00%
10th
Standard 1999 CBSE, Delhi Bluebells School 81.80%
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3. Projects Particiapted
Currently leading Selective Adoption
Projects (HR, Portal, ELM & CRM)
End to End PeopleSoft HR Implementation
End to End PeopleSoft Portal
Implementation
End to End PeopleSoft Module
Implementations
End to End Bolt On Module Developments
Re-Implementation of PeopleSoft ELM
Re-Implementation of PeopleSoft Portal
Multi Country Roll Outs
PeopleTools Upgrades
End to End PeopleSoft HR Upgrade
End to End PeopleSoft ELM Upgrade
End to End PeopleSoft Portal Upgrade
Numerous Support/Maintenance Projects
Methodology
Waterfall
Agile
DevOps
Project Activities Feasibility Study
Define
Scope/Resources/Deliverables/Measures &
Milestones
Develop detailed Project Plan to monitor and
track progress
As Is study for requirements gathering and
analysis.
To Be & Fit Gap to map client requirements
and PeopleSoft delivered functionality;
propose work-around / customisations to
enhance PeopleSoft’s delivered functionality.
Design of new functionalities and analysis of
existing functionality for enhancement.
Support & Incident Management.
Configuration of PeopleSoft delivered
functionality to suit business requirements.
Code development using PeopleTools,
PeopleCode, SQL, SQR, and XML.
Test case preparation and manual testing.
Process Improvement
Change Management.
Review of project deliverables.
Create/Maintain Project Documentation
Migration of project deliverables from
development up to production environment.
Data Migration as per project requirements.
Training of end users and team members.
People Management
Onsite-Offshore Coordination
Coordibation of internal resources and/or
third parties/vendors
Execution & Monitoring
Stakeholder Communication
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4. Control in terms of evaluation of
time/budget/quality; communication and risk
mitigation
Project Closure with Benefits
Realisation/Stakeholder Feedback &
Lessons Learnt
Project Audits
Represent Hays (India) in Focus Groups for
HR/ELM/Portal & PeopleTools
PeopleSoft TechnoFunctional Skills
PeopleSoft HRMS Experience
Workforce Administration – Setup of Core HR –
SetID, BU, Company, Establishment, Location,
Departments, Job Codes, Positions - Position
Management, Compensation Rates and
Security. Company Directory & Organizational
Hierarchy.
Monitor Absence – Setup of various Absence
Parameters, Work – Holiday Schedules and
Absence Reporting.
Talent Acquisition Manager – Setup of Job
Openings, Screening Criteria, Interview
Evaluations, Closure of Job Opening etc
Candidate Gateway – Configuration for online
Job Applications.
ePerformance – Configuration of Performance
Sections, Templates, Documents, Roles and
Evaluation.
eDevelopment - Configuration of Development
Sections, Templates, Documents, Roles and
Evaluation.
Profile Management – Set up of content types
and items, self service & workflow configuration.
HRMS Portal Pack – Setup of pagelets for
Absence, Payslips and reports.
Absence Management – Configuration of
Supporting Elements, Absence Entitlements –
Take, Framework and Security.
Tree Manger
Global Payroll – Configuration of Earnings /
Deductions using Arrays/Formulas/Proration
Rules/Accumulators. Setup of Global payroll
Framework. Payroll Processing.
Manage Base Benefits, Health & Safety
(overview).
PeopleSoft Portal Experience
Site Management
Branding
Dashboards/Workcenters
Pagelets
WSRP Production and Consumption
Setup of Collaborative WorkSpace, Polls,
Surveys, Discussion Forums, & Company News.
Stylesheets
Navigation Collections
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5. Single Sign On and Single Sign Off Setup.
PKI based authentication with PeopleSoft.
PeopleSoft ELM Experience
Creation of Learning Environment,
Catalog/Categories/Items/Activities/Components
and Courses. Maintainenace of Enrollments,
Notification, Approvals, Integrations and
Security.
PeopleSoft Technical Experience
PeopleTools
PeopleCode (including SignOn PeopleCode,
Web Libraries & Internet Scripts, Application
Packages)
Application Engines, Process Scheduler
Component Interface
Workflow, ARS & Virtual Approver, AWE
PeopleSoft Integration Experience
Integration Broker – Configuration and
Asynchronous/Synchronous Messaging on
PeopleTools 8.49 with PeopleSoft/Third
Party(HTTP)/FTP sites.
Component Interface
File Layouts
Message and CI based WSDL
Enterprise Components Batch/Full Data/EFFDT
messaging.
DBLink SQL
PeopleSoft Data Migration Experience
Component Interface and ExcelToCI
Integration Broker Full Sync Messages
Application Engine/File Layout/CSV Files
DataMover Scripts
Enterprise Components Inbound Flat File Utility
PeopleSoft Reporting Tools Experience
SQR
PS Query
XML Publisher
PS nVision with PS Query
Crystal Reports with PS Query
PeopleSoft Security Experience
Experience in implementing security in
PeopleSoft (via User Profiles/Roles/Permission
Lists, Dynamic Roles, Definition Security, Query
Security, Row Level Security and Field Level
Security). Implemented Single SignOn and
Single SignOff. Implemented PKI based user
authentication with PeopleSoft.
PeopleSoft Installation Experience
Demo installation of PeopleSoft HRMS
9.0/PeopleTools 8.49/Oracle 10g/BEA Tuxedo
9.1/BEA Weblogic 9.2 and HRMS
9.1/PeopleTools 8.50/Oracle 10g/Tuxedo
10gR3/Weblogic 11gR1 on Windows XP.
Affiliations/ Certification
Technical Certifications: Brainbench Tests for PeopleTools, SQL, XML, Software Testing
and Software Business Analysis.
Functional Certifications: TCS Certification Program in Banking Competency.
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6. Operating System
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Languages
PeopleCode, SQL, SQR, HTML, XML, JavaScript, Java, C, C++
Special Software
PeopleSoft HRMS 9.0/9.1/9.2, PeopleSoft Portal 9.0/9.1, PeopleSoft ELM 9.1/9.2,
PeopleTools 8.49/50/51/52/53/54, Oracle 10g, BEA WebLogic 9.2, BEA Tuxedo 9.1,
SQLPlus, Toad 8.0, SQL Developer, SendMaster, XML Marker 1.1, UltraEdit, ZapGrab,
ExamDiff, SQRW, XML Publisher, Crystal Reports 9, VSS, MS Visio, MS Office, MS
Project, WinSCP, Putty, ScreenRecorder, SVGView, ColorPic v41, SharePoint.
Career Profile/Projects
PPMM Development/Maintenance/Upgrade – Hays is one of the leading Recruitment
Companies of UK. Its PPMM (PeopleSoft People Management Modules) are based on
HRMS 9.2/ELM 9.2/Portal Interaction Hub 9.1/CRM 9.2/FSCM 9.2 – PeopleTools 8.53 –
Oracle 11g
Nature of Project Worked on HRMS/ELM/Portal parts in following projects
• Development/Maintenance
• PeopleTools Upgrade from PeopleTools 8.49 to 8.52
• ELM Upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2
• Portal upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1
• HRMS upgrade from 9.0 to 9.2
• Exploit projects to leverage enhanced features
• Selective Adoption
Duration 05 June 2012 – Till Date
Client Hays
Company Hays
Role &
Responsibilities
Currently performing dual roles of System Architect & Project
Manager in DevOps structure.
1. Feasibility Study
2. Define Scope/Resources/Deliverables/Measures &
Milestones
3. Develop detailed Project Plan to monitor and track
progress
4. As Is study for requirements gathering and analysis.
5. To Be & Fit Gap to map client requirements and
PeopleSoft delivered functionality; propose work-
around / customisations to enhance PeopleSoft’s
delivered functionality.
6. Design of new functionalities and analysis of existing
functionality for enhancement.
7. Support & Incident Management.
8. Process Improvement & Change Management.
9. Configuration of PeopleSoft delivered functionality to suit
business requirements.
10. Code development using PeopleTools, PeopleCode,
SQL, SQR, and XML.
11. Test case preparation and manual testing.
12. Review of project deliverables.
13. Create/Maintain Project Documentation
14. Migration of project deliverables from development up to
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7. production environment.
15. Data Migration as per project requirements.
16. Training of end users and team members.
17. People Management
18. Onsite-Offshore Coordination
19. Coordibation of internal resources and/or third
parties/vendors
20. Execution & Monitoring
21. Stakeholder Communication
22. Control in terms of evaluation of time/budget/quality;
communication and risk mitigation
23. Project Closure with Benefits Realisation/Stakeholder
Feedback & Lessons Learnt
24. Project Audit
25. Participate in Oracle Focus Groups for PeopleSoft HR,
ELM, Portal & PeopleTools
PeopleOne Development/Maintenance – Steria is one of the leading providers of IT
driven business services in Europe. Its HR system – PeopleOne is based on PeopleSoft
HRMS 9.1/PeopleTools 8.51 based on Oracle 11g.
Nature of Project This is a Development & Support project where modules of the
legacy application are being developed/rolled out in PeopleOne.
Multi Country roll out of functionality also happens time to time.
Duration 08 Aug 2011 – 04 June 2012
Client Steria
Company Steria
Role &
Responsibilities
1. Team Management as Functional Lead. Work
Assignment, Effort Estimation, Status Calls, Risk
Mitigation and Delivery.
2. Design of new functionalities and analysis of existing
functionality for enhancement.
3. Support & Incident Management.
4. Process Improvement & Change Management.
5. Configuration of PeopleSoft delivered functionality to suit
business requirements.
6. Code development using PeopleTools, PeopleCode,
SQL, SQR, and XML.
7. Test case preparation and manual testing.
8. Review of project deliverables.
9. Documentation about project deliverables.
10. Migration of project deliverables from development to
testing environment and then to production environment.
11. Data Migration as per project requirements.
12. Training of end users and team members.
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8. Meidas/GHRMS Support – Agilent is a premier measurement company. Meidas is its
HRMS system (whose front end is primarily in Java) based on PeopleSoft HRMS
8.3/PeopleTools 8.15 supported on Oracle 9g. Moreover there is another PeopleSoft
instance TAL – to record timesheets for European employees of Agilent and it is based on
PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9/PeopleTools 8.45
Nature of Project This was primarily Support & Maintenance project.
Duration 01 June 2011 – 05 Aug 2011
Client Agilent
Company TCS
Role &
Responsibilities
1. Support Activities/Incident Resolution.
2. Process Improvement & Change Management.
3. Onsite-Offshore Coordination
4. Design of new functionalities and analysis of existing
functionality for enhancement.
5. Configuration of PeopleSoft delivered functionality to suit
business requirements of client.
6. Code development using PeopleTools, PeopleCode,
SQL, SQR, and XML.
7. Test case preparation and manual testing.
8. Review of project deliverables.
9. Documentation about project deliverables.
10. Migration of project deliverables from development to
testing environment and then to production environment.
11. Data Migration as per project requirements.
12. Training of end users and team members.
Self Service & Multi Country Rollout for BCP – Millenium BCP is one of the biggest
private banking groups of Portugal. Its has PeopleSoft HRMS 9.0, FSCM 8.9, EPM 8.9,
PeopleTools 8.49; supported on Mainframes and DB2 8.1.
Nature of Project This was primarily an implementation project for Self Service
functionalities.
Later the multi country roll out was done for all PeopleSoft
HRMS system.
Currently the project is in Support & Maintenance phase.
Duration 01 March 2010 – 28 Feb 2011
Client Millennium BCP
Company TCS
Role &
Responsibilities
1. As – Is study – requirements gathering and analysis.
2. To – Be and Fit Gap – mapping client requirements and
PeopleSoft delivered functionality and proposing work-
around / customisations to enhance PeopleSoft’s
delivered functionality.
3. Design of new functionalities and analysis of existing
functionality for enhancement.
4. Configuration of PeopleSoft delivered functionality to suit
business requirements of client.
5. Code development using PeopleTools, PeopleCode,
SQL, SQR, and XML.
6. Test case preparation and manual testing.
7. Review of project deliverables.
8. Documentation about project deliverables.
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9. 9. Migration of project deliverables from development to
testing environment and then to production environment.
10. Data Migration as per project requirements.
11. Training of end users and team members.
12. Did configuration, set up & customisations for ESS,
MSS, Manage Profiles and bolt on functionalities.
OIM – Oracle Identity Management is an identity management solution from Oracle. This
product maintains user profiles for different systems like PeopleSoft, Oracle Apps, SAP
etc; by way of reconciliation from a trusted source of personal-job information and then
provisioning the user profile information across target systems.
Nature of Project This is a product development project.
Duration 6 Jul 2009 – 28 Feb 2010
Client Oracle
Company TCS
Role &
Responsibilities
1. Creation of Functional Specifications as per
requirements.
2. Creation of Design Specifications based on Functional
Specifications.
3. Development and Configuration – at PeopleSoft end.
Integration Broker was configured to send information
to third party (OIM). Messages were configured for
batch-publish for initial Reconciliation. Thereafter
messages were configured for Incremental
Reconciliation. Moreover CI/Message based Web
Services were set up for Provisioning. (at OIM end Java
based connectors were written by a separate team)
4. Testing and Review.
5. Packaging and Release.
IMS for IGNOU - Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is one of the world’s
foremost universities in distance education. Its ERP system ‘IMS for IGNOU or ODLSoft’,
is based on PeopleSoft HRMS 9.0, FSCM 9.0, EPM 9.0, Portal 9.0, PeopleTools 8.49;
supported on Linux and Oracle 10g.
Nature of Project This is an implementation project and it is being rolled out in
phases, from IGNOU (Delhi).
Currently the project is in Support & Maintenance phase.
Duration 16 Aug 2007 – 26 Jun 2009
Client IGNOU
Company TCS
Role &
Responsibilities
1. As – Is study – requirements gathering and analysis.
2. To – Be and Fit Gap – mapping client requirements and
PeopleSoft delivered functionality and proposing work-
around / customisations to enhance PeopleSoft’s
delivered functionality.
3. Design of new functionalities and analysis of existing
functionality for enhancement.
4. Establishing standards for
documentation/development/configuration/migration.
5. Estimation of software development effort.
6. Configuration of PeopleSoft delivered functionality to suit
business requirements of client.
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10. 7. Code development using PeopleTools, PeopleCode,
SQL, SQR, and XML.
8. Test case preparation and manual testing.
9. Review of project deliverables.
10. Documentation about project deliverables.
11. Migration of project deliverables from development to
testing environment and then to production environment.
12. Data Migration as per project requirements.
13. Training of end users and team members.
14. Did configuration, set up & customisations for WFA,
ePerformance, eDevelopment, Talent Acquisition
Manager and Candidate Gateway modules. Developed
bolt on modules for Transport, Medical Reimbursement
and Space Management. Helped in customizations of
Provident Fund, Loans & Advances, Pension, Absence
Management & Global Payroll modules. Implemented
Portal and Single Sign On. Implemented PKI based
authentication with PeopleSoft.
15. Use of TCS tool called iPMS for effort tracking, quality
assurance and defect prevention.
16. To maintain & promote team objectives among team
members.
Maximus Upgrade - Women & Co is a Citi (formerly CitiGroup) company. Its highly
customized system ‘Maximus’ was upgraded.
Nature of Project This was an upgrade project. ‘Maximus’ was based on
PeopleSoft CRM 8.8, PeopleTools 8.44, Linux and Oracle 9g
database. This was subsequently upgraded to CRM 9.0 and
PeopleTools 8.48; supported on Linux and Oracle 10g.
Duration 1 Jul 2007 - 3 Aug 2007. I was transferred to Delhi when it was
just 1 month the project started.
Client Citi - Women & Co
Company TCS
Role &
Responsibilities
1. Analysis of copy of Production environment with respect
to vanilla version installation (PeopleSoft CRM 8.8 &
PeopleTools 8.44) to find out customisations.
2. Analysis of copy of Production environment with respect
to vanilla version installation (PeopleSoft CRM 9.0,
PeopleTools 8.48).
3. Estimation of software development effort.
4. Code development using PeopleTools, PeopleCode,
SQL, SQR, and XML.
5. Test case preparation and manual testing.
6. Review of project deliverables.
7. Documentation about project deliverables.
8. Migration of project deliverables from development to
testing environment
9. Use of TCS tool called iPMS for effort tracking, quality
assurance and defect prevention.
10. To maintain & promote team objectives among team
members.
Maximus Development & Support - Women & Co is a Citi (formerly CitiGroup)
company. Its highly customized system ‘Maximus’ was maintained by us.
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11. Nature of Project This was a Development & Support project. Its highly
customized system ‘Maximus’ was based on PeopleSoft CRM
8.8, PeopleTools 8.44, Linux and Oracle 9g database.
Duration 20 Feb 2006 – 30 Jun 2007
Client CitiGroup - Women & Co
Company TCS
Role &
Responsibilities
1. Design of new functionalities and analysis of existing
functionality for enhancement.
2. Estimation of software development effort.
3. Code development using PeopleTools, PeopleCode,
SQL, SQR, and XML.
4. Test case preparation and manual testing.
5. Review of project deliverables.
6. Documentation about project deliverables.
7. Migration of project deliverables from development to
testing environment
8. Use of TCS tool called iPMS for effort tracking, quality
assurance and defect prevention.
9. To maintain & promote team objectives among team
members.
ILP (Initial Learning Program) - ILP is TCS’s learning programme, compulsory for all
fresh recruits (except lateral hires).
Nature of Project Training
Duration 19 Dec 2005–15 Feb 2006
Client TCS
Company TCS
Role &
Responsibilities
As part of ILP, we were trained in Software Development Life
Cycle, Requirement Engineering, System Engineering, System
Design, Testing, C, Java, I18N, Unix, System Testing, Object
Oriented Methodologies and Quality Assurance.
Extra Curricular Activities & Achievements
• Represented Hays (HBS) in Oracle Event – SIG 2016
• Presented in OUG-India, Sangam 2015 (http://www.sangam15.com/)
• Hays India – Employee of the Year – 2014-15
• Hays UK – Employee of the Month – in Sept 2014
• Leader (project) Fun@Work committee.
• Member of Information Security committee.
• Won 1st
prize in an Interschool Debate Competition organized by LION’S CLUB.
• Won 1st
prize in a National Essay Writing Competition organized by MNES.
• Won 1st
prize in an Intraschool Essay Writing Competition organized by MNES.
• Editor of school magazine for 3 years.
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