TIM MCDEARMON, MA

Solutions-driven, thorough SYSTEMS ANALYST with 19 years of IT experience and 10 years of Systems Analysis experience. Experienced in translating business requirements and functional designs into detailed technical design documents that are created and used by off shore development teams. Supports defect resolution and root cause analysis for items coming from QA activities, including unit, internal acceptance, client acceptance, and performance testing. Provides point-of-contact for offshore and virtual development teams. Defines business requirements, determines scope, and identifies technical alternatives and limitations for system enhancements and change requests. Technical subject matter expert to application and architecture functionality and code for client-specific business processes. Provides estimates for work effort duration for change requests and new development efforts. Deep knowledge of HR and Payroll functional areas. Excellent analytical skills, quick learner and quality-focused team player.

TIM MCDEARMON, MA’s Specialties:

PeopleSoft: Payroll, HR, Time & Labor, Benefits
PeopleTools: Application Designer, Application Engine, Security Admin, Query, Process Scheduler, Process Monitor,Import Mgr, SQR, PeopleCode
Languages: SQR, PeopleCode, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL, C/C++
Operating Systems: Windows XP, NOVELL, UNIX
Learning Management: SumTotal LMS
HTML Tools: Dreamweaver

TIM MCDEARMON, MA’s Experience

Learning Management System Systems Analyst

Hewitt Associates

(Public Company; HEW; Human Resources industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

Responsible for the administration, analysis, and technical coordination of the SumTotal Learning Management System
• Technologies used on this job were SumTotal, AQT, Toad, Cognos, Oracle PL/SQL. Seibel, HP Quality Center, Remedy, Excel, Dream Weaver, Beyond Compare.
• Coordinated work of offshore and onshore virtual teams
• Setting up and changing security roles and permissions
• Trouble shooting single sign-on problems
• Testing new Computer Based Training courses, and new features of the Learning Management System
PeopleSoft Systems Analyst for the BP client

Hewitt Associates

(Public Company; HEW; Human Resources industry)

2004 — 2008 (4 years )

Translated business requirements and functional designs into detailed technical design documents that are created and used by off shore development teams. Support defect resolution and root cause analysis for items coming from QA activities, including unit, internal acceptance, client acceptance, and performance testing. Provide point-of-contact for offshore and virtual development teams. Define business requirements, determine scope, and identify technical alternatives and limitations for system enhancements and change requests. Technical subject matter expert to application and architecture functionality and code for client-specific business processes. Provide estimates for work effort duration for change requests and new development efforts.
• Technologies used on this job were PeopleSoft: Payroll, HR, Benefits PeopleTools: Application Designer, Application Engine, Security Admin,Query, Process Scheduler, Process Monitor, Import Mgr, SQR, PeopleCode Languages: SQR, PeopleCode, Oracle PL/SQL. Operating Systems: Windows XP, NOVELL, UNIX
• Coordinated all of the technical projects for the divestiture of one of BP's largest divisions.
• Implemented Roth 401K plans for the BP employees, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley report and data feed for BP's auditors.
• Provided estimates for work effort duration for change requests and new development efforts.
• Managed development priorities for off shore teams.
• Gathered and reported status of development activities.
PeopleSoft Systems Analyst

Sava Senior Care (formerly Mariner Health Care)

(Privately Held; Hospital & Health Care industry)

1996 — 2004 (8 years )

Responsible for the analysis, design, testing,
installation, and maintenance of the company's
PeopleSoft Payroll SQR programs, and pages.
• Technologies used on this job were FoxPro,
PeopleTools: Application Designer, Application
Engine, Security Admin,Query, Process Scheduler,
Process Monitor, Import Mgr, SQR, PeopleCode
Languages: SQR, PeopleCode, Oracle PL/SQL.
Operating Systems: Windows XP, NOVELL, UNIX.
• PeopleSoft modules supported Payroll, HR, Time & Labor, Benefits
• Supported Sava's PeopleSoft HCMS installation, and their clients PeopleSoft HCMS installations.
• Participated in 2 PeopleSoft upgrades.
• Performed Payroll Tax updates.
• Maintained company's legacy Time & Attendance
software.
• Built SQR interface between PeopleSoft Payroll Pay
Sheets and Kronos Workforce Central.
• Led Y2K conversion project of time and attendance
software.
• Built SQR interface between time clock and PeopleSoft
Time and Labor.
Programmer Analyst

KBR, Inc. (formerly Brown & Root)

(Public Company; KBR; Construction industry)

1990 — 1996 (6 years )

• Responsible for the analysis, design, testing,
installation, and maintenance of all the MIS software
developed for largest business unit.
• Technologies used on this job were FoxPro, Oracle,
PeopleSoft, DOS, Windows, Novell Netware.
• Participated in design and development of Brown &
Root’s first distributed system.
• Helped design, develop, and maintain distributed OSHA
record-keeping system that is used by entire
corporation to track several million dollars of
accident claims.
• Designed, developed and maintained system that tracks
training of 20,000 personnel and holds over 1,000,000
training records.

TIM MCDEARMON, MA’s Education

SumTotal, Inc.

Certificate , Advanced SumTotal Training , 2007 — 2007
Kronos, Inc.

Certificate , Kronos, Workforce Central 4 and Administration , 2002 — 2002
PeopleSoft, Inc.

Certificate , People Tools I&II Accelerated , 2002 — 2002
Houston Community College

Certificate , Introduction to Human Resources/PeopleSoft Application I , 2001 — 2001
PeopleSoft Inc.

Certificate , HR/Benefits Combo , 2001 — 2001
Visu ERP Academy

Certificate , SAP Advanced Business Application Programming , 1999 — 1999
CompuLearn

Certificate , SAP ABAP/4 , 1998 — 1998
University of Houston

PhD Candidate , Computer Science

I started this degree but did not complete it.
University of Houston-Clear Lake

MA , Computer Information Systems

Course work:
Computer Languages: ADA, C++, Pascal, DEC Vax Assembly, DBase III+.
Operating Systems: DEC VAX 11/750 and 11/780
Accounting courses,
Business Management courses, and
Computer Architecture courses,
Operating Systems Courses,
Computer Database courses,
Computer Language Courses,
Software Analysis and Design Courses,
Object Oriented Design courses.
Software Engineering courses.

Activities and Societies:

Association of Computing Machinery Member, IEEE Member
University of Houston-Clear Lake

BA , Computer Information Systems

Additional Information

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TIM MCDEARMON, MA’s Interests:

Computer Technology, Software Design & Development, PeopleSoft, HRMS, HCM, ERP, SAP, SQL, Oracle, UNIX, HTML, Project Management

TIM MCDEARMON, MA’s Groups:

American Payroll Association, PeopleSoft Regional Users Group, Houston Area League of PC Users, HR Houston, Toastmasters, International Association for Human Resource Information Management, Oracle HCM Users Group, Houston Oracle Applications Users Group, Society for Human Resource Management.