Lisa Sinyard has over 19 years of experience in human resources technology and strategy. She has managed HRIS implementations and support for global organizations with over 10,000 employees. Her experience includes managing HR, payroll, benefits, talent and learning management systems. She is proficient in various HR technology platforms like PeopleSoft, ADP, Ceridian and has led multiple system migrations. She holds professional certifications in HRIS and has served on boards for HR technology user groups.
1. Lisa R Sinyard
4623 Barkley Drive
Acworth, GA 30101
404.931.5433
lsinyard@comcast.net
Accomplished Human Resources Technology leader with over 19 years of experience in technology
management and strategy, software implementation and process improvement for human resources,
payroll, benefits, talent management and overall HR operations. Talent for quickly mastering new
technologies.
Professional BCD Travel, June 2000 – March 2012
Experience A leading provider of global corporate travel management operating in more than 90 countries, with
$17.2 billion in total sales for US and a combined worldwide workforce of 10,800
Manager, Human Resources Information Systems
June 2002 – March 2012
Managed technologies for the full spectrum of HR services for large, complex organization with 10,800
employees globally. Areas included human resources, benefits, payroll, recruiting, on-boarding,
learning management, time management, employee & manager direct access, employee portal/intranet,
employee recogintion & retention, internal help desk, and vendor management.
• Managed a variety of human resources technology projects, including systems implementations,
deployments, upgrades, post production support, training, enhancements, technology, security,
strategy and shared services
• Development and support for numerous interfaces to internal and external systems: Recognition
system, learning management system, recruiting system, time and labor system, benefits
administrations vendor systems, and other internal systems such as Active Directory
• Production support activities included: break/fix troubleshooting and issue resolution, end user
support, table maintenance, transaction support for all HR/Payroll entry, liaison to vendors for
outsourced functions of benefits administration and time collection, and on call support for payroll
processing. Received approximately 2,000 cases per year since 2005 via PeopleSoft CRM system
• Project life cycle management including system design, process review and re-design,
configuration, creating and conducting user training, system testing, data conversion, and end user
support
• Designed & developed all End User Training materials for all supported HR systems
• Worked with Security Team to meet SAS70, ISO 9001 & PCI certification requirements surrounding
US Employee PII Data. Additionally worked to comply with ever changing Federal & State Privacy
regulations such as Massachusetts Privacy Law (201 CMR 17)
• HR Lead for migration from MS SharePoint to PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal
• Assisted with annual year end payroll and benefit processes
• Technical Lead for configuration and deployment of Online Peer to Peer Recognition program
• Compiled global employee data for annual Employee Satisifation Survey
• Created secondary HR database to replicate common Employee data fields directly to multiple
internal systems such as PeopleSoft Financials & CRM. Removed all non-essential access to
Master HR database in order to protect highly sensitive Employee data. Controlled access through
secondary database
• Developed integration and real time sync between LDAP and secondary HR SQL database to
ensure Network security controls and access across US network operations
• Lead Global implementation of online Recruiting Management System for US, Canada, Belgium,
The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany. As project manager; led all efforts of the
project team through global design, development, configuration, testing, training, and deployment.
System was translated into French, Dutch & German. Worked within local data privacy regulations
including German Workers Council and European Union for storing candidate data within US
2. Manager, Benefits
June 2000 – June 2002
Managed all Health & Welfare and Retirement Plans for more than 7,200 domestic employees and their
dependents, including managing self-funded medical plan.
• Established and implemented a new benefit package that included vendor change for major medical
from a TPA with over 10 medical networks to a single carrier
• Worked with TPA regarding employee claim resolutions. Reduced rejection claims from over 70% to
less than 5% within 6 months
• Managed benefits staff in daily operations and transactions including employee enrollment, payroll
deductions and Leave of Absence program
• Defined, documented and implemented policies and procedures to support a multi-billion
organization ensuring practices were within Federal and State regulations and guidelines
• Improved communication through the development and implementation of onsite and remote
meetings with key leaders within the organization
• Functional Project Lead implementing PeopleSoft HCM 8.0 from legacy FoxPro HR & DOS Payroll
systems. Project was 80% complete including data conversion, table configuration, custom SQR
and end user training when project was cancelled due to events of 9/11/2001
• Completed integration and data conversion to Ceridian Source 550 (SQL) in 45 days
• Integration and conversion of employee data payroll to support several acquisitions across multiple
states from ADP to Ceridian SQL
• Managed & conducted Annual Employee Open Enrollment meetings and manual paper enrollment
process across 42 states
• Maintained all vendor/carrier relationships and contracts
• Identified and implemented online benefits administration system. First automated system
implemented at BCD. Worked with vendor to design and deploy system, including setting up of
biweekly data feeds for multiple carriers.
Premiere Technologies
Manager, Benefits & HRIS
August 1997 – May 2000
Managed all Benefit and Retirement Plans for more than 2,000 domestic employees and their
dependents, while directing the support and maintenance of PeopleSoft HRMS & Benefits
Administration
• Annual employee Open Enrollment through paper enrollment process
• Maintained all vendor relationships and contracts
• Strategy, management and delivery HRIS systems to support including HR, Payroll and Benefits
Administration
• Management of HRIS data integrity initiatives, PeopleSoft optimization, and functional review
including Tree manager and security administrator
• Key member of Implementation Team for PeopleSoft HRMS (HR, Benefits Administration, Payroll
Interface) version 7 and Open Enrollment initiative
• Supported numerous interfaces to internal and external systems such as biweekly benefit carrier
feeds
• Production support activities included: break/fix troubleshooting and issue resolution, end user
support, table maintenance, transaction support for all HR/Payroll entry and on call support for
payroll processing
• Regulatory reporting (EEO, VETS100), year-end payroll processing support , small functional
enhancements
3. Manpower International, Inc.
Operations Supervisor
January 1996 – August 1997
Recruiting qualified applicants for temporary and permanent positions within Fortune 500
companies, attaining a 97% successful placement rate for over 350 applicants
Managed a staff of 3 Recruiters
Processed weekly timesheets for all contracted Temporary employees
Worked directly with clients to determine workforce need and best candidate fit
Pier One
First Assistant Manager
1994 – 1995
Managed a staff of 10-12 retail associates and all daily store activities
Managed inventory control for thousands of dollars of merchandise
Handled daily cash balancing and bank deposits
Provided superior customer service
Collins Sign Company
HR Generalist
1992 – 1994
All HR activities for local manufacturing company with approx 200 office & warehouse employees
Processed biweekly payroll including maintaining manual accounting expense accrual
Processed and maintained all employee benefit enrollments and records
Set up new benefit plans and conducted employee enrollment meetings
Created & maintained all employee files according to state and federal regulations
Technical Ceridian HR/Payroll Source 550 7.6.7 (SQL)
Skills PeopleSoft Modules: PeopleSoft HRMS (v6.0 – v9.1), Benefits Administration (v6.0), PS Tools I&II
(v7.5, 8.0), Security Administration & Tree Manager (v7.5, 8.0), Payroll Interface (v6.0-9.1), CRM (v8.9),
Enterprise Global Portal (v9.0), Query, SQL/SQR
Other HR systems: iEmployee Time & Labor, ADP VirtualEdge Recruiting Management & On-
boarding, Secova iElect, Element K, ADP PC Payroll for Windows, Symmetry, Aquire
General: NT, Unix, Microsoft Server 2000,2003,2008, SQL Server 2005/2008, Enterprise Manager,
Query Analyzer, SQL, Access, Visual Basic, CSS, HTML, Citrix, MS Terminal Server, MS Query, Adobe
Acrobat Professional, Crystal Reporting, MS Project, Tempo, MS SharePoint
Education Business Administration, George C Wallace Community College, Dothan, AL
Human Resources Management, Troy State University, Dothan, AL
Professional HRIP, Human Resources Information Professional Certification
Certifications, Certified Site Administrator, ADP VirtualEdge
Affiliations Certified HR Systems Pro, PeopleSoft University
IHRIM (International Association for Human Resource Information Management)
Board of Directors, President (2008 & 2009) – Atlanta/SE 2004 – current
Board of Directors, Program Manager – Privacy & Security 2004 – 2008
Ceridian User Group
President, Atlanta District 2003 - 2006
PeopleSoft SRUG (PeopleSoft Southeastern Regional Users Group)
Board of Directors, Program Manager 2003 – 2004
Six Sigma Green Belt
Community Volunteer – Arthritis Foundation, CURE Childhood Cancer, Lauren’s Walk, Quiet Heroes
Industry Speaker – IHRIM, ADP, Ceridian