AIM Management
Analyst/Developer with Corporate Services Department — Apr. ‘96 to Sep ‘96
I was initially brought on to build a Lotus Notes user interface to the newly purchased PeopleSoft HR application. AIM Management had a dozen consultants working on the PeopleSoft implementation but brought in only one guy to design and build the entire user interface along with the middle tier connectors to move the data between the SQL PeopleSoft data store and the Lotus Notes user application.
Whatever. No biggie. Bring it on. I was working for Groupware Innovations at the time and had the owners of that small consulting outfit been as good at selling their services as the PeopleSoft people were, they would have had more than one guy in there.
After weeks and weeks of grueling eight hour meetings in a huge stuffy conference room with about a dozen other project leads, hammering out the detail of every screen for the HR workflow processes and how every field correlates to the PeopleSoft data structure, along with validations and constraints for every little thing… the entire project was cancelled by corporate management at the highest levels. A strategic decision. No comments. Ahh, corporate America.
The good news is that the IT group liked me and kept me on for the balance of the contract, which they didn’t technically have to do. They gave me a few odd jobs that I happily knocked out for them.
Here is what I did:
- Primary role was to interface a Lotus Notes front-end with PeopleSoft as member of HR automation project team
- Participated in process analysis and detail design of HR Project
- Designed check authorization and funds allocation system in Notes v4.0 in compliance with ‘Blue Sky’ regulations
- Wrote a Candidate Tracking System in MS Access using Visual Basic.
