May 2017 – Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Calgary, Canada Area

• Solesto helps organizations through their cloud transformation with strategy, implementation, and managed services.
• Some of Sidd's areas of expertise include:
• Digital & HR Transformation Leader
• Business Transformation Advisor and Program Manager
• Liaise with senior level (C-Level) stakeholders
• Presentations to C-Level executives and Elected Government Official
• Helping organizations manage and deliver large scale, multi-million dollar, complex Business Transformation Programs
• Writing Business Cases, Budgeting, Resource Estimation, Secure funding
• Value Mapping & Benefits Realization Framework
• Identify Strategic Opportunities and Roadmap
• Develop and maintain Project/Program Plans
• Drafting RFx (RFI, RFP, NRFP-BAFO, PQR, etc.) for Business Transformation and ERP/ Software Selection
• Design Procurement Strategy, including Consulting in Public Procurement (Provincial and Municipal)
• Contract Negotiations (System Integrators and Software Contracts - SaaS, Hosted and On-Premise)
• Work with Legal and Procurement experts to execute complex system integrator and software vendor contracts
• Vendor Management (Managing Tier 1 System Integrators and Software Vendors)
• Stakeholder Management, Organization Change Management, and Communications
• Design Operating Model and Service Delivery Design (for core functions of HR, Finance, and SCM)
• Digital Transformation, enable and realize future state operating models for various business areas
• Organization Design to enable Service Delivery Framework
• Design approach for Activity Analysis, FTE Analysis, develop functional org structures and seek executive approvals.
• Business Requirements Gathering
• Future State Business Process Mapping
• Solution Architect for ERP/ Systems Implementation, Integrations, Testing and Data Conversions
• Sustainment and Continous Improvement Strategy

Nov 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Calgary, Canada Area

• As Director of Consulting Services, Sidd leads Promateus's HR Transformation & Technology practice Sidd specializes in helping clients with:
• Developing HR Strategy
• Deriving HRIS Strategy and Roadmaps
• Designing of HR Service Delivery Model
• HR Business Process Optimization, specializing in Energy & Resources & Public Sector Industry
• HR Technology Consulting
• Enterprise Architect for HR and Payroll Technology
• Talent Management Systems and Processes
• Managing HRS Projects and Programs
• HRIS Global Model Design and Delivery
• Business Requirements Gathering for HRIS
• HR Future State Process Design
• Drafting RFIs, RFQs and RFPs for HR Software Selection
• Talent Acquisition
• Organization Change Management
• Specialize in both On-Premise and SaaS based HCM Solutions like: Workday, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Oracle HCM Cloud, SuccessFactors & Taleo

Oct 2011 – Oct 2015 · 4 yrs · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Senior Manager in HR Transformation and Technology practice responsible for sales and delivery of Technology & HR Transformation services for Western Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba). Consulting in ERP and Human Capital Management (HCM) Solutions for Western Canada for Deloitte's Strategic accounts with a focus on Cloud-based ERP/HCM solutions (Oracle, Workday, SAP-SuccessFactors and Cornerstone Ondemand).
• Leading and Delivering Consulting Services in following areas: HR Strategy & Alignment (to the business), HR Technology Strategy and Road-map development, Organizational Design, Talent Management Strategy, Change Management, HRIS System diagnosis / Health Check, HR Data Privacy, HR Business Process consulting, IT Strategy, IT Governance, ITIL, IT Systems Integration, IT Program & Project Management, Vendor & Contract Management, Project Management.
• Practice Development, Project Management and Implementation of SaaS (Cloud) based and On-Premise ERP/HCM Solutions:
• Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, PeopleSoft
• Oracle HCM Cloud (Fusion)
• Workday HCM
• Taleo Enterprise Cloud Talent Management
• SuccessFactors
• Cornerstone Ondemand
• Strategic HR and Technology Advisory in the following areas:
• HR Service Delivery Design
• IT Operating Models
• HRIS Assessments
• Cloud Strategy& Cloud Readiness Assessments
• Digital/Technology Strategy and Roadmap
• HR/ IT Value Mapping
• Benefits Realization Framework
• CHRO and CIO Scorecards
• Business Intelligence and Analytics

Mar 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos · Calgary, Canada Area

• ERP Implementation & Support
• HCM Business Process consultant
• HR Transformation Consulting
• HR Service Delivery Model Design and Implementation
• Technology Strategy & Architecture
• ITSM & ITIL Consulting
• JD Edwards HR/Payroll service support and delivery
• Resource estimation, Project Management
• Responding to RFPs
• Organization Change Management, Stakeholder Management, and Communications.

Mar 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos · Calgary, Canada Area

• Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 HR/Payroll Implementation / Upgrade
• HRIS Business Process Consulting & Systems Support
• HR, Payroll and Talent Management Systems Support
• Incident and Change Management using ITIL and ITSM tools

Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 · 4 yrs

• ERP Implementations and GLobal Roll-Out
• HR/Payroll Business Process Consultant
• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne HR/ Payroll Functional consultant
• Participated in Designing and evolution of Chevron HR/Payroll Global model for E1 for its Upstream Business.
• ITSM process champion and expert
• Organization Change Management, Stakeholder Management, and Communications.
• Chevron Global Upstream HR/Payroll Support Lead - Managed support for multiple Countries/geographies
• Deployment support for multiple deployments
• Full life cycle implementation of JDE HR/Payroll Global Model at multiple Chevron Upstream Locations: Eurasia (Atyrau, Almaty Kazakhstan), Latin America (Columbia, Brazil, Argentina), Mid-Africa (Nigeria, Angola), Aisa Pac (Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia)

Jan 2004 – Mar 2010 · 6 yrs 2 mos

• Implemented and supported various HCM-ERP (JD Edwards E1) modules like: Employee Life Cycle, Recruitment, Payroll, Position Control, ESS, MSS, Time & Labour, Competency Management, Benefits Administrations
• Involved in the various phases of ERP Project Life Cycle: Requirement gathering, analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation, training content creation, end user training & post GO-LIVE support (Production Support)
• Involved in designing of HR systems like Performance Management Systems, Online Assessment System, eRecruit, Intranet HR site, Employee Engagement Portal, Attrition Analysis & Control and leveraging technologies for HR.
• Member for PCMM core team and played an important role in PCMM initiative.
• Campus recruitments for Software Engineer Trainees (SET) & Graduate Software Trainees (GST) for year 2005

Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

• Experienced in full life cycle recruiting including interfacing with hiring managers to create and review requisitions, sourcing/prescreening candidates, participating in interviews, assisting managers with reference checks, developing competitive job offers and tracking candidates via the various job boards, industry contacts.
• Worked on Overseas recruitments (U.S & U.K) & Resource Management. Experience in full life cycle of U.S recruitments including lead generation, taking client requirements, drafting job descriptions, job postings, database search & sorting, conducting basic technical interview, HR interview, publishing open positions to vendors, vendor management, contract & per hour billing rate negotiations, drafting & formulation of various contract agreements & tracking the recruitment process till consultant is engaged with client.
• Conducting Training Need Identification and Analysis
• Delivery of Soft Skills Training programs
• Strategic Human Resource and Organizational Development Consulting.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2002 · 3 yrs

• Recruitment & Selection
• Training & Organizational Development
• Marketing & Business Development