Michael Tash

As part of the Workday Governance Team we do the following:

• We ensure alignment across our 3 domain areas (HCM, Talent/Recruiting, Compensation/Absense) for processes including Change Management, JIRA Management, Quality Control through our review ceremonies, Incident Management and Tenant Management.
• Liaison between our product teams and engineering teams via our Intake Processes.
• Ensure adherence to established standards for our area including SOX compliance.

• Responsible for deploying the Workday platform to our Puerto Rico, India and Supply Chain Hourly populations.
• Functional Lead for the Compensation and HCM domains in Workday.
• Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.
• Collaborated with our product team to define solution requirements.
• Cutover Planning for various Workday deployments.

• Led a team of developers in our People Systems area in the successful completion of large-scale projects, fostering a positive work environment.
• Played a key role in standing up our offshore India engineering team to support our Total Rewards area.
• Diagnosed, troubleshot and resolved system problems.
• Developed customized software applications and worked with several 3rd party companies that were our benefit partners like Merrill Lynch, First Data, JPMorgan Chase and Fidelity.
• Migrated our HR systems off of Peoplesoft over to Lawson including our payroll interfaces to Infor.
• Converted over to digital formats in as many places as possible like our paystubs, payroll registers, sick and vacation listings, etc.

• In January 1999, started working remote in a Supercenter in Joplin, MO.
• Contributed to the development of company-wide best practices for software development, encouraging greater consistency across projects.
• Converted our payroll processes over to interface with JPMorgan Chase including bank reconciliation processes.
• Converted our in house garnishment system over to ADP and handled the system/data interactions between our companies.
• Prior to being in the People area, I worked in our Item File/Pricing Engineering area. Developed a global pricing tool that was used in England, Argentina, Brazil, China, South Korea and Germany.
• Traveled to England, Argentina and Brazil to help facilitate training on the new pricing tool.
• Developed new ways to push items/pricing updates to the stores around the world.
• Developed new ways to push modular changes to the stores with their pricing components.

• Collaborated with other developers to refine software design and implementation.
• After the company purchased McLane company including their grocery distribution centers, was responsible from bringing their software over to the Walmart mainframe environments.
• Transformed and stabilized the grocery distribution software that laid the groundwork for a rapid expansion of the grocery distribution network which led to a rapid expansion of the Supercenters and then Neighborhood Markets.
• Our team also utilized the VoCollect voice technology in our distribution centers and played a key role in the data interfaces between the systems.