lokanadha mannem

End-to-end go-live for Cloud Time & Labor, Absences, and ADP Payroll. Integrated time from NICE and AccuTime into Oracle; configured complex calculation rules based on work schedules and meal deductions.

Configured and tested Vertex to USOPTE payroll tax engine migration. Implemented Redwood pages via HCM Experience Design Studio, VBS, and profile options; authored Expression Language for page structure.

Aligned multiple market payrolls into a single biweekly model; supported Absence decommission (Oracle → Symplr). Created new payroll definition; moved team members from monthly to biweekly; end-dated element eligibility; moved TRUs; created new salary basis.

Led SIT and UAT/parallel payrolls using DevOps for issue tracking; prepared cutover plan; rationalized element inventory. Integrated time from HASTUS via HDL transformation Fast Formula; configured involuntary deductions; tested year-end processing.

Gathered requirements and built RTM; imported Sheriff Dept time from Intime using Python; created costing overrides via dependent fields. Designed solutions for out-of-class equipment use; created time factors for OT/holiday worked; derived rates for unit-based elements.

System health check across Payroll, Core HR, Absences, and security (SoD); FLSA hours/earnings implementation. Analyzed ADP tax filing vs. in-house; mapped PeopleSoft Component Interface / Time Admin and custom online rules to Cloud T&L design.

End-to-end ownership: requirements, fit-gap, bolt-ons, CRP, SIT, UAT, and production cutover. Recommended Cloud Projects (lite) for project/task; rationalized PeopleSoft elements; mapped user fields to Person EITs; HCM Groups by TRC program/workgroup.

Discovery, fit-gap, and sprint reviews; configured PSUs, legal employers, and TRUs; province-based overtime rules. Configured tax credit calculation cards (TD1, TD1x, TP-105, etc.) and Canadian involuntary deductions (maintenance, child support, RTP, protective pay, etc.).

Supported element redesign for additional pays (shifts, in-lieu); costing validation; SIT; PA local tax remediation; garnishment setups. Fixed TRU/legal employer setup and mass legal employer updates; year-end corrections via balance adjustments; element eligibility and costing defect root-cause analysis; payslip updates.

Requirements and fit-gap; derived factors and eligibility profiles; Kronos-to-Payroll integration design. Designed stock option, gross-up, and imputed gross-up elements; US–Canada cross-border scenarios; involuntary deductions (multiple orders).

Requirements matrix, process flows, fit-gap, full payroll configuration and payroll runs; silo/SIT and mini parallels. Kronos-to-payroll design; retirement match Fast Formulas with UDTs; PBL for elements/eligibility/costing/third-party payees; HDL for costing.

Complex overtime Fast Formulas across unions and rotating shifts; performance testing; dual layouts (union/non-union); ~20 HCM Groups; Global Values for rates; Time Entry and Calculation rules.

End-to-end T&L: requirements, fit-gap, unit/SIT; layouts for Salaried, Craft, and Admin (WE code, lump sum, job location; hide reported/absence hours as needed). Time Entry, Calculation, and Device rules; HCM Groups; worker time entry/processing profiles; schedules for time card pre-population.

Work schedules, Absence plans/types, eligibility, derived factors; Absence Fast Formula updates; mid-year balance conversion and additional group go-live. Custom payroll flow for checks without check numbers; Fast Formulas for ER liabilities with no gross; FLSA OT; federal tax cards via PBL; parallels; positive pay/NACHA; community-based security profiles; Workers’ Comp Fast Formulas.

Payroll cycle support; retro/salary proration; time card transfer flows; flow patterns by location/TRU; object groups; element links via PBL. Custom security for report-only payroll access; data/duty/job roles; sandbox page personalizations; R11 upgrade; LDAP sync; HCM Extracts to TPAs; Fidelity and 401(k) reporting.

Upgrade project implementing OTL–Payroll–Project actual costing; alternate names, TERs, preferences, Fast Formulas, retrieval rules/groups. Customized work-based time card (process, department, comment); pay element distribution; CRP/SFT; custom cleanup for OTL costing data; payroll costing at link level and new costing key flex segments.

End-to-end Fusion HCM implementation through go-live and post-production; trained HRBPs and HR Specialists. Talent: Goals, Profiles, Talent Review, Performance; rating models, goal library, process notifications.

Full OTL setup through CRP/UAT/production; dynamic earning policies by time card location; Alaska location premiums; custom OTL→BEE transfer; validation Fast Formulas; vacation/sick accruals. Advanced Benefits: enrollments, Benefits Service Center, life events, participation processing, ESS; variable rate profiles; GTL; Medical/Dental/Life/AD&D plan types; Benefits Fast Formulas.

AS-IS/TO-BE and fit-gap for CWB/OAB; annual merit and one-time payment plans; TE40 scripts; ADP interface for ratings/increases. Dynamic worksheet columns (new base salary, errors, calculations); four OAB programs (Regular, Union, COBRA, Non-union); CWB/OAB Fast Formulas including vacant-position eligible salary and union eligibility; HIPAA considerations.

Customized Projects/Payroll time card; TERs and preferences; earning policies and element time information. End-to-end OAB: 20 plan types / 50 plans under one program; life events and collapsing rules; designation/action items; BR100, RD70, MD50; System Extract to TPAs; Self-Service Benefits OE support.

Project-centric OTL with dive-depth customizations and time explosion; structures and element time info; validation Fast Formulas; vacation/sick accruals; third-party payroll. OLM: courses/classes, responsibilities, UPK content, resources/lookups, attendance reporting.

OTL BR100; alternate names/expenditure types; full time management structures; Projects time card customization; layout demos. SSHR/OAB BR100; workflow and page customizations; CRP/UAT; Open Enrollment; Benefits interface design.

FSP elements; Fast Formula updates; parallels into production and post-go-live support; validation reports; garnishments conversion; third-party payments and BEE; 409A interface; ADP HR Enterprise/Smith Reports; balance adjustment elements; year-end patch testing and diagnostics.

Consulting engagement for Oracle OTL/OLM implementation.

Full OTL for project-centric client: holiday calendar, rotation plans, shifts, Projects time card; OLM structure with UPK/SCORM, catalogues, learner access by job/org, enrollment design, legacy course conversion.

Complex bargaining-unit payroll via Collective Agreements; longevity bonus Fast Formulas; dual-title/out-of-class solution without multiple assignments; CRPs. Compensation Workbench for merit and longevity: requirements, fit-gap, budgeting/ratings process, Fast Formula specs, confirmation statements, pilots, production cutover.

Consulting engagement for Oracle HRMS/OAB implementation.

Consulting engagement for Oracle HR/Payroll/OLM implementation.

Consulting engagement for Oracle Time & Labor implementation.

Functional lead for CWB and OAB implementation.

Oracle Certified Professional in Oracle Absence Management Cloud, achieved in 2025.

Oracle Certified Professional in Oracle Payroll Cloud, achieved in 2024.

Oracle Certified Professional in Oracle Time and Labor Cloud, achieved in 2024.

Activities and societies: Research publications in Applied Geophysics, Geophysics, and Computers & Geosciences.

Ph.D. in Geophysics from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, completed in 1995.

M.Sc. (Tech) in Geophysics from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, completed in 1991.

B.S. in Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry from Hindu College, Guntur, India, completed in 1988.