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Tom Engle

Tom Engle

The Workday HCM Lifecycle
Middleton,USA

Summary

Vast experience with Workday Human Capital Management software, deployment services, and integration, including security. Respected and admired people leader, having managed multiple teams of professionals and non-professionals. Collaborator across multiple stakeholder domains, organizational levels, and technology acumen. A creative process and policy innovator, with an eye toward productivity increases and cost savings via automation. Innovative problem solver of both big and small problems. Initiator and leader of business process, product strategy, and messaging projects. Marketing event session planning, design, and execution. Entrepreneurially minded and accomplished Workday partnership leader, including Workday Ventures, establishing partnership target markets, partner agreements and relationships, aligning technical interoperability including design, execution, marketing, and sales. Expertise & Impact Workday HCM functional expert: Firsthand experience with a variety of Workday Applications: Core HCM, Payroll, Absence Management, Benefits, Compensation, Reporting, Analytics, and Integrations (including EIB, Core Connector, SOAP and REST API, and Workday Studio), including securing those apps or integrations. Implemented Workday functionality firsthand: HCM: Supervisory Organizations, Security, Complex Organization Structure, requiring specialized: Companies, Cost Centers, Custom Organizations (Etablissment & Organization), Locations, Regions, Pay Groups, Complex Job Profiles, requiring specialized: Management Levels, Job Level, Job Category, Job Classification, Positions, Workers, including: Personal Information, Contact Information, National Identifiers, Emergency Contacts, Medical Examinations, Work Contracts, Discipline (Talent) Benefits: Eligibility, Enrollment Event Rules, Benefit Plans, Coverage Levels, Enrollments, Dependents Time Off & Leave: Complex setup including 48 plans, 6 with balances loaded from payroll system, differing request amounts, Complex entry and approval business process, and two years of history, Compensation: Compensation Plans, Compensation Grades, Business Process Framework: Created 46 Workday Business Processes, three with complexity: Hire, Time Off Request, Correct Time Off; Payroll Integrations: Demographic using Payroll Interface and Workday Studio, .txt format, with nearly 600 fields, Time Off & Leave (outbound EIBs), Inbound EIB with Time Off Balances Cross-functional internal-prospect-customer-partner collaborator: Having managed 125+ partner relationships, among all Workday HCM products, adept in establishing marketable product use cases with stakeholders (including startups, unicorns, global multinationals, from C-level to practitioner, Alliances, Sales, Deployment, and Support, technical and non-technical), leading the collaborative partnership use case project and relationship. Meet with prospects and customers regularly.

Overview

35
35
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager, HR Systems Support

The Home Depot Inc
01.2023 - Current
  • Lead a team of 2 managers and 11 analysts in second-level support of Home Depot’s HR Systems including Workday and numerous ancillary HR systems. Last quarter, this team successfully closed 5,581 cases within 3.8 days, on average. Most cases are closed same day (Mode = 0); half of all cases are closed in 1 day (Median = 1).
  • Delivered ongoing organizational and position management initiatives including audits and live training sessions to better maintain Workday data.
  • Drove business process changes to decrease casework including Manager Role Assignment - Automated Notification, Compensation Geo Adder Approval Routing Enhancements, and Wage Theft Notice – Route to Manager as of Effective Date of Job change.
  • Created comprehensive test plan with repeatable test cases to increase consistency and reduce errors in testing.
  • Created and used "demo" data (Store, MET, SC, and SSC) to support live training sessions to HR Partners, Managers, and Admins. Data can be repeatedly loaded onto development or sandbox environments as needed.
  • Successfully tested and supported the Workday deployment of the Global Sourcing Office.
  • Delivered first of many base-level HR Systems Support team member development sessions.

Principal Product Strategist

Workday
01.2021 - 11.2022
  • Set the strategic direction and definition of Workday’s Global Payroll product area, setting the vision for Global Payroll based on research and synthesis of various data inputs
  • Evangelized this vision, the three-year roadmap, and the strategic plan internally and externally, including giving updates to customers, prospects, and partners
  • Product spokesperson, supporting Sales and Marketing through effective positioning, deal advice, and strategy
  • Proposed renaming the Cloud Connect for Third Party Payroll (CCTPP) SKU to “Global Payroll Platform” to better communicate and market the SKU’s features
  • Proposed an API-based third-generation payroll interface
  • Worked on various initiatives with these partners: Alight, CGI, CloudPay, Globalization Partners, Neeyamo, Safeguard, and Zucchetti (7)

Portfolio Experience Manager

Workday Ventures
02.2020 - 08.2021
  • Primary point of contact for Venture partner developers and Venture partner product teams, fostering innovation for both Workday and our Venture partner portfolio.
  • Established viable use cases on a wide variety of Workday products including People Experience, Prism, Credentials, Skills Cloud, HCM, Finance, Technology, and Procurement.
  • Facilitate success for Venture Partners in collaboration with Workday Product, Strategy, Sales/Pre-Sales, Marketing, Support, Services, Alliances, and Business Technology. Work with all levels (CEO to Developer) internally and externally.
  • Incorporate partners into the Workday ecosystem. Promote them, creating marketing content and collateral, providing white glove service.
  • Worked on various initiatives with these partners: Aisera, Auditoria, Automation Anywhere, Beamery, BetterUp, Blink, Clari, data.world, Expent, Flatfile, Guild Education, Integris, Jobcase, Landit, League, Legion, mya, Northstar, PapayaGlobal, Pymetrics (Harver), Scoop, Scout, Securiti.ai, Skyhive, Suplari, Tealbook, Topia, Unbabel, Vida, Voicea, Wellthy, Utmost, workato, Workboard, Zimit. (35)

Partner Integrations Manager, Software Alliances

Workday
02.2017 - 02.2020
  • Created video-based integration security training for new Workday Software Partners.
  • Liaise with Workday Product Management and Strategy in integration design. Lead multiple integration certification/approval projects for Workday Software Partners including Accu-Time Systems, Accurate Background, Achievers, Adaptive Insights, Adobe, ADP, Apttus, Ascend, Avalara, Axion Health, Benevity, Blue Prism, BountyJobs, Broadbean, BSI, Callidus, Capita, care.com, CareerBuilder, Cashnet, Centrify, Ceridian, CIC+, CornerstoneOnDemand, DailyPay, Dell Boomi, Docusign, dormakaba, Dovetail, Etrade, Empower, Entelo, eQuest, even.com, evercheck, fastpath, First Advantage, Geninfo, Glassdoor, Globoforce, Hackerrank, HireRight, HireVue, Humanity, Hyland, IBM, Icertis, Indeed, Intelex, Intuit, JobVite, Kainos, Kenexa, Korn Ferry, KPMG, Lifesite, Madison, matrix, Montage, Neocase, Netspend, NGAHR, OnShift, Outmatch, Phenom, Saba, Salary.com, Seek, ServiceNow, Shaker, ShiftWizard, shl, Smashfly, Sterling/Talentwise, Stripe, SumoLogic, TurboTax, UIPath, UKG, Unistaff, Unum, Virgin Pulse, Wagestream, Workiva, Xactly, ZKTeco. (86)
  • Improve and document Software Alliance’s certification/approval policies and processes.

Workday Reporting and Analytics Lead

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
01.2016 - 02.2017

Product Manager Integrations, Workday Solutions Architect

NGAHR (Alight)
01.2013 - 11.2016
  • Responsible for integration partnerships with HR, Payroll, and Timekeeping system providers including Workday, SAP, and Kronos, meeting with partners regularly to align efforts and roadmaps
  • Established a collaborative partnership with Workday
  • Supported Workday-PEX sales efforts, assisting and advising local NGAHR offices (North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia) with pre-sale questionnaires, documentation, and inquiries
  • Responsible for managing, designing, and successfully integrating all systems with NGAHR Payroll Exchange, including Workday, Success Factors Employee Central, SAP, Oracle Fusion, PeopleSoft, euHReka, ResourceLink, Preceda, Kronos, and various other third-party payroll systems
  • Was personally asked by Workday to present at their bi-annual Global Payroll Advisory Council
  • Prototyped Robotic Process Automation based integration testing tool
  • Designed, built, tested, and certified numerous Workday-NGAHR standard integrations for NGAHR Payroll Exchange including NGAHR’s core integration, time integration, workersync, export payslips, export general ledger, export payroll accounting, and import payslips
  • Designed, built, and tested NGAHR’s Workday data migration process
  • Created an agile and repeatable system/process in which NGAHR’s Workday integrations were certified
  • Grew and managed a team of four Workday consultants on three continents to support NGAHR’s Workday development efforts and support client projects
  • Workday-SAP solution architect for global biopharmaceutical with 50,000 employees in 126 countries, including Workday HCM and SAP payroll, timekeeping, time off/absence, single sign-on, integrations (including security), and SOA infrastructure
  • Global pharmaceutical with 21,000 employees in 80+ countries: Global Workday Data Migration for euHReka payroll implementation: created Workday Custom Reports for repeated use in implementing euHReka global payroll
  • Also assisting with Workday testing and implementation transition to support.

Principal Consultant

Jeitosa Group International
01.2011 - 08.2013
  • Lenovo: Successfully integrated benefits and payroll (including security) for 50 countries within EMEA, Asia, and Latin America
  • Led and managed the project, including integration discovery meetings and the design and deployment of the integrations
  • Collaborated with regional client specialists throughout the world to successfully create each integration
  • Trained client employees to successfully support the integrations post-project
  • Achieved high satisfaction scores from the client
  • Pre-sale: Attended sales call in London, created Workday deployment plan .ppt presentations, in English and French, as part of a pre-sale meeting for Ecore
  • Presented to the CIO and HR Leadership in English but displayed the French translation
  • Secured the project
  • Trafigura, operating in 56 countries: Presale, design, planning, and implementation of Workday for French Subsidiary including HCM, Benefits, Time Off and Leave, Compensation, Business Processes, and Payroll Integrations.

Senior Business Analyst

CUNA Mutual Group
01.2010 - 06.2011

Founder

Triengle Human Resources
01.2008 - 03.2010

Manager, Senior Project Manager, Implementation Consultant

ADP
04.1998 - 09.2008

Aveda Corporation
01.1996 - 04.1998

Guest Services Manager, Team Lead

Walt Disney World, Member
01.1989 - 08.1994

Education

MBA, Graduate Certificate - Human Resources Mgmt

University of St Thomas
Minneapolis, MN

BSBA - Administrative Management

University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas

Skills

Aisera, Auditoria, Automation Anywhere, Beamery, BetterUp, Blink, Clari, dataworld, Expent, Flatfile, Guild Education, Integris, Jobcase, Landit, League, Legion, mya, Northstar, PapayaGlobal, Pymetrics (Harver), Scoop, Scout, Securitiai, Skyhive, Suplari, Tealbook, Topia, Unbabel, Vida, Voicea, Wellthy, Utmost, workato, Workboard, Zimit (35)undefined

Timeline

Senior Manager, HR Systems Support

The Home Depot Inc
01.2023 - Current

Principal Product Strategist

Workday
01.2021 - 11.2022

Portfolio Experience Manager

Workday Ventures
02.2020 - 08.2021

Partner Integrations Manager, Software Alliances

Workday
02.2017 - 02.2020

Workday Reporting and Analytics Lead

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
01.2016 - 02.2017

Product Manager Integrations, Workday Solutions Architect

NGAHR (Alight)
01.2013 - 11.2016

Principal Consultant

Jeitosa Group International
01.2011 - 08.2013

Senior Business Analyst

CUNA Mutual Group
01.2010 - 06.2011

Founder

Triengle Human Resources
01.2008 - 03.2010

Manager, Senior Project Manager, Implementation Consultant

ADP
04.1998 - 09.2008

Aveda Corporation
01.1996 - 04.1998

Guest Services Manager, Team Lead

Walt Disney World, Member
01.1989 - 08.1994

MBA, Graduate Certificate - Human Resources Mgmt

University of St Thomas

BSBA - Administrative Management

University of Arkansas
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