Selected work · Case studies

Better systems start with better questions.

A closer look at how I approach complex work across HR technology, data, integrations, AI product thinking and operations. The details here are intentionally generalized to respect client and employer confidentiality.

SYSTEMS & AI / LIVE PRODUCT↑ Back to top

Building an AI-powered portfolio that people can actually use

I turned my personal website from a static online introduction into an interactive demonstration of how I approach systems: learn what visitors need, design useful workflows, implement them, test them, and improve them.

2purpose-built AI assistants
40+searchable project entries
Livedeployed on Cloudflare Workers

The challenge

A typical portfolio asks recruiters, potential collaborators, and hiring managers to read pages of background and decide whether the experience fits. I wanted to reduce that friction and show the kind of practical software and systems thinking I talk about.

Visitors need different things: a short introduction, proof of technical work, a way to evaluate a specific position, or access to a tool they can try.

My approach

  • Started with a lean static HTML/CSS/JavaScript portfolio and responsive, mobile-first design.
  • Built Ask Mike AI around an approved professional profile and project knowledge so visitors can ask about experience instead of searching manually.
  • Added a recruiter workflow for pasting or attaching a job description and receiving a grounded fit discussion that names strengths, gaps, and follow-up questions.
  • Created Workday Field Notes (Beta) to explore Workday concepts and troubleshooting; iterated its answer rules when document-grounding became too restrictive.
  • Developed a searchable project library, mobile navigation, keyboard submission, voice dictation where browser-supported, and an opt-in introduction form.
  • Deployed the site through Cloudflare Workers with Workers AI, then used live testing and bug reports to refine behavior and presentation.

What I learned and delivered

The result is a live, working portfolio that doubles as a product demonstration. The biggest lessons were about designing useful guardrails without sacrificing answer quality, grounding claims in verified experience, handling recruiter-submitted content carefully, and continuously improving usability across devices.

How I built it: I acted as product owner and hands-on tester, defining requirements, directing design and behavior, reviewing outputs, debugging deployment problems, and iterating the experience. AI-assisted tools generated and refined substantial portions of the implementation code; this is not a claim that I independently hand-coded the entire platform.

Scope note: Field Notes is a beta reference assistant, not an authoritative replacement for Workday tenant documentation. Recruiter fit reviews are informational, not automatic hiring decisions. The site does not claim large-scale production adoption or measured business impact.

Explore the live website →   Try Workday Field Notes (Beta) →

Stack & practices: Cloudflare Workers · Workers AI · JavaScript · HTML/CSS · Responsive design · Prompt engineering · AI-assisted development · Document processing · Product QA

WORKDAY / GLOBAL OPERATIONS↑ Back to top

Making global absence work across local rules

Supported global absence work spanning 26 countries, with roughly 80 leave plans and more than 20 holiday calendars.

26countries
~80leave plans
20+holiday calendars

The challenge

Global absence management is not a configuration that can be copied country to country. Rules, eligibility, entitlements and holiday calendars need to work for local employees without creating unmanageable administration.

My approach

  • Reviewed and worked through plan structures, localized requirements and eligibility behavior across a large multinational footprint.
  • Approached configuration and testing by separating global patterns from local exceptions and paying attention to the employee and administrator experience.
  • Worked with cross-functional stakeholders on validation, rollout readiness and ongoing support.

What the work established

Supported a rapid, multi-country rollout and established a stronger foundation for understanding and supporting complex absence configuration. The numbers describe project scope, not claims of quantified savings.

Focus areas: Workday Absence · Localization · Configuration · Testing · Stakeholders

HRIS / DATA QUALITY↑ Back to top

Finding 57 people missing from an enrollment file

Reconciled approximately 750 benefits records and identified 57 people absent from an enrollment file, then built a revised file that passed structural validation.

~750records reviewed
57people identified
3expected validation flags

The challenge

An enrollment file and the source HR system represented people and coverage differently. Missing identifiers, duplicate roles and separate source reports made an apparently straightforward comparison unreliable.

My approach

  • Established the HR system as the comparison source, distinguishing missing rows, unexpected rows and mismatched rows.
  • Consolidated multiple reports and built a repeatable Excel reconciliation using normalized identifiers, fallback matching and diagnostic checks.
  • Mapped the missing population into the carrier file format and checked the revised file with the carrier-provided validator. Sensitive person-level data stayed outside AI tools.

What the work established

Identified 57 people missing from the file and produced a revised file that passed the carrier validator with three expected flags. Final carrier acceptance and individual coverage outcomes are not claimed.

Focus areas: HRIS Reconciliation · Excel · Benefits Data · Privacy-Aware Workflows

SYSTEMS / AI PRODUCT DESIGN↑ Back to top

Designing HR workflows for an AI-native system

Translated complex HR processes into structured employee journeys, role boundaries, policy rules and testable product scenarios.

Policydesign
Roleboundaries
Scenariotesting

The challenge

A natural-language HR experience still needs predictable underlying rules. If a conversational interface sounds correct but cannot enforce permissions or finish a workflow, it has not solved the operational problem.

My approach

  • Structured employee lifecycle scenarios around explicit policies and actions rather than free-form responses alone.
  • Worked through permissions for employees, managers, HR and administrative functions to make appropriate access boundaries visible in the design.
  • Developed synthetic testing scenarios and expected results to distinguish plausible-sounding output from complete, accurate behavior.

What the work established

Produced structured design and test artifacts and surfaced gaps between conversational behavior and underlying system actions. This work represents product development and testing, not a claim of production release or customer adoption.

Focus areas: HRIS Product Design · Workflow Mapping · Role-Based Access · AI QA

WORKDAY / DATA CONVERSION↑ Back to top

Bridging a legacy HRIS and a Workday implementation

Provided client-side technical support during a legacy HRIS-to-Workday migration, focusing on conversion, integrations, security and dependencies.

TwoHRIS platforms
Loadsequencing
Riskvisibility

The challenge

A migration involves more than moving columns. Supervisory organizations, job structures, positions and workers have dependencies, while incomplete source data and unclear security ownership can create problems late in the project.

My approach

  • Reviewed source-to-target conversion dependencies and the order required for Workday data loads.
  • Compared source reports against conversion needs and called out missing fields and unresolved data ownership.
  • Supported integration troubleshooting and security review while coordinating questions with implementation partners.

What the work established

Documented conversion risks and dependencies before the affected loads. Implementation and go-live outcomes remain outside the claims made here.

Focus areas: Workday · Legacy HRIS · EIB · Data Conversion · Security Review

INTEGRATIONS / ROOT CAUSE↑ Back to top

Making enterprise integrations work end to end

Built, enhanced, tested, deployed, and troubleshot interfaces connecting Workday and other HR platforms to identity, recruiting, benefits, service delivery, and enterprise data systems. Hands-on involvement spans an estimated 50+ distinct integrations; the broader governed environment contained 140+ active interfaces.

50+hands-on integrations (estimate)
140+active ecosystem integrations
300+integration artifacts reviewed

The challenge

After an enterprise separation, Workday sat at the center of a large web of downstream systems. The work was broader than monitoring whether a file ran: integrations needed the correct worker populations, secure authentication, accurate transformations, stable handoffs, and clear support ownership. Roughly 20–30 integration issues arose around the initial transition.

What I built and changed

  • Identity: Helped build, test, validate, and deploy integrations involving Saviynt and SailPoint; worked on Azure AD downstream behavior.
  • Recruiting: Worked on connections to LinkedIn and Indeed, including API and candidate-facing career-site data, along with scheduling, offers, and background-check handoffs.
  • Service delivery: Played a lead role in a Workday–ServiceNow HRSD integration and subsequently investigated hire-rescind behavior.
  • International employee lifecycle: Built five India joiner/leaver integrations and worked on other country-specific worker feeds.
  • Benefits and retirement: Enhanced or troubleshot interfaces involving Fidelity, Bupa, Mercer, and other vendors.
  • Reporting and data: Built or supported RaaS feeds for CIO workforce planning and interfaces to enterprise data consumers, including warehouses.

How I troubleshoot

Trace the business event through source data, effective dating, Workday reports and security, transformations, encryption/transport, vendor requirements, and downstream processing. The goal is to determine where actual behavior diverges from expected behavior, then test and validate the correction.

What this demonstrates

Functional knowledge of HR events, enough technical depth to work through integrations, and an operator's focus on downstream impact. The 50+ count is a self-reported estimate covering different forms of hands-on involvement, not a claim of 50 solo builds. The 140+ figure refers to the active environment, not personally developed integrations.

Focus areas: Workday · ServiceNow · Saviynt · SailPoint · Azure AD · LinkedIn · Indeed · Fidelity · Bupa · Mercer · RaaS · EIB · SFTP/PGP

SYSTEMS / OPERATIONS↑ Back to top

Building systems a growing team can run

Helped a rapidly growing organization establish repeatable collaboration, onboarding, support and internal technology practices.

Cloudmigration
Sharedknowledge
Repeatableprocesses

The challenge

When an organization grows quickly, important work tends to live in inboxes, informal habits and a handful of people. The resulting risk is not just inefficient tooling, but unclear ownership and difficult handoffs.

My approach

  • Supported a company-wide collaboration-platform transition, including planning, information organization and employee guidance.
  • Helped structure shared knowledge, onboarding, procurement and service workflows with practical owners and reusable documentation.
  • Reviewed operational and vendor decisions through the lenses of access, cost, support continuity and day-to-day usability.

What the work established

Created and supported foundational operating processes and documentation. The case focuses on delivered structures and contributions, without claiming unverified adoption rates or savings.

Focus areas: Microsoft 365 · SharePoint · Operations · Enablement · Change Management

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Search across the practical work, from Workday configuration and data reconciliation to product design and operational systems. The six flagship studies above go deeper; the other entries summarize a specific contribution.

Workday & HRIS · Featured

Global Workday Absence Transformation

Enterprise Workday Absence · 26-country scope

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Integrations & Data · Featured

Benefits Enrollment Reconciliation

Reconciled approximately 750 records and identified 57 missing people

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Systems & AI · Featured

AI-Native HRIS Product Design

Policy-driven journeys, permissions and synthetic QA

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Workday & HRIS · Featured

Dayforce-to-Workday Migration Oversight

Conversion dependencies, data quality and security review

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Integrations & Data · Featured

Integration Governance & Troubleshooting

140+ integrations in scope with an emphasis on ownership and root cause

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Leadership & Operations · Featured

Operational Infrastructure & Leadership

Collaboration, enablement and repeatable team processes

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Workday & HRIS

UK Benefits Open Enrollment

Supported Workday benefits enrollment activity for a UK population of more than 3,000 employees.

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The situation

Annual enrollment for a workforce of more than 3,000 meant coordinating configuration, eligibility, testing, and downstream carrier timing rather than simply opening an enrollment window.

What I did

Supported Workday Benefits eligibility and plan configuration checks, tested scenarios across employee populations, and worked through integration and operational dependencies with benefits partners.

Why it matters

Shows how HRIS configuration, employee experience, and carrier delivery must be validated as one end-to-end process. I am not claiming a measured reduction in enrollment errors.

Workday Benefits · Eligibility · Testing
Workday & HRIS

I-9 Records Reconciliation

Investigated exceptions across more than 3,600 employment-verification records.

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The situation

Employment-verification records were spread across populations that did not reconcile cleanly, with more than 3,600 records requiring systematic comparison.

What I did

Compared extract populations and identifier relationships, separated missing records from formatting differences, documented exception categories, and supported a traceable follow-up list.

Why it matters

The value was making exceptions visible and actionable rather than treating a mismatch as one large number. This is reconciliation work, not a claim of completed compliance certification.

Compliance Data · Reconciliation
Workday & HRIS

Workday Document Security Diagnosis

Traced unexpected HR document visibility back to document classifications and access rules.

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The situation

HR partners were unexpectedly unable to see worker documents even when their general access appeared appropriate.

What I did

Investigated document-type security and how a restricted classification on an attached document can affect visibility of the surrounding note or transaction. Reviewed the relevant categories, tested access behavior, and narrowed the issue for tenant administrators.

Why it matters

Shows why document access needs to be diagnosed at the classification and security-policy level, not solved by indiscriminately widening HR permissions.

Workday Security · Troubleshooting
Workday & HRIS

Workday Reporting for Workforce Planning

Developed reporting outputs to support executive workforce planning conversations.

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The situation

Workforce planning required reliable employee and organizational data that executives could consume without manually recreating reports.

What I did

Built and adjusted Workday custom reporting and RaaS outputs, considering data source selection, calculated fields, prompts, security context, and the downstream shape of workforce information.

Why it matters

Made the reporting layer usable for planning discussions while preserving the need to validate effective dates, access, and population definitions.

Workday RaaS · Reporting
Workday & HRIS

Global Holiday Calendar Design

Worked with more than 20 holiday calendars as part of multinational absence administration.

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The situation

A multinational absence design depends on both leave-plan rules and correct local holiday calendars; neither can be treated as a universal default.

What I did

Worked with more than 20 holiday calendars and the relationships between geography, working days, plan eligibility, and regional time-off calculation behavior.

Why it matters

This was a supporting component of the broader global absence initiative, and demonstrates why seemingly small calendar choices can change worker balances and requests.

Workday Absence · Calendars
Workday & HRIS

Recruiting Workflow and Career-Site Improvements

Supported recruiting technology improvements, including career-site and offer-process touchpoints.

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The situation

Recruiting journeys cross applicant experience, Workday workflow, external providers, and recruiter handoffs.

What I did

Helped review career-site and recruiting process touchpoints, offer-document routing, integration dependencies, and user-facing points where transactions could stall or become confusing.

Why it matters

Shows cross-functional workflow thinking across recruiting teams and connected systems; no hiring-conversion improvement is asserted.

Workday Recruiting · Operations
Workday & HRIS

HRIS Data Conversion Templates

Normalized legacy employee data for target-system conversion templates.

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The situation

Legacy HRIS exports rarely fit a new system's load templates without translation, especially for contact information and worker relationships.

What I did

Prepared transformations for employee names, contact priority, phone numbers, email, addresses, emergency contacts, and relationship types. Flagged exceptions rather than silently forcing ambiguous records into target values.

Why it matters

Produced more reviewable conversion inputs and clearer issues for the implementation team. Final cutover acceptance is not claimed.

Dayforce · Workday · Excel
Workday & HRIS

Workday Absence Localization

Worked through regional leave-rule differences within a global Workday environment.

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The situation

Global leave designs require country-specific balances, eligibility, timing, and carryover rules within a shared platform.

What I did

Analyzed regional requirements, compared plan structures, reviewed eligibility and effective-dated dependencies, and worked through configuration/testing considerations for local leave administration.

Why it matters

A deeper technical slice of the global absence work: local policy integrity without losing a supportable enterprise design.

Workday Absence · Localization
Integrations & Data

Workday ServiceNow Hire and Rescind

Investigated a lifecycle event that did not translate cleanly into downstream service activity.

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The situation

A rescinded hire can trigger downstream provisioning and service tasks even when the upstream HR event is reversed.

What I did

Traced the hire/rescind event path between Workday and ServiceNow, examined triggering conditions and lifecycle timing, and worked with stakeholders to correct the gap between HR status and downstream workflow behavior.

Why it matters

Illustrates why an HRIS integration fix often requires understanding the business process, not just changing a file or interface.

Workday · ServiceNow · Lifecycle Events
Integrations & Data

SFTP and PGP File Troubleshooting

Investigated secure file-transfer and encryption problems across connected systems.

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The situation

Secure integrations can fail at transport, authentication, or payload encryption, and each has a different owner and remedy.

What I did

Separated SSH/SFTP identity verification from PGP encryption, clarified which party holds public versus private keys, reviewed file-flow direction, and coordinated testing questions without sharing secrets or endpoints.

Why it matters

Demonstrates a repeatable troubleshooting method: identify the failing layer before requesting new credentials or changing a working configuration.

SFTP · PGP · Authentication
Integrations & Data

Inbound Project File Investigation

Diagnosed why an inbound project data feed was not processed as expected.

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The situation

An inbound project file was failing to process, but the error alone did not reveal whether the problem originated in the source, transport, or destination mapping.

What I did

Traced the expected file fields and delivery path, investigated required organization-related data, and collaborated across application and infrastructure teams to locate the upstream dependency.

Why it matters

Narrowed the investigation to actionable checks rather than treating the destination application as the default culprit. No unverified production resolution is claimed.

Inbound Feeds · Root Cause
Integrations & Data

Benefit Carrier File Mapping

Translated source-plan representations into a carrier-specific enrollment layout.

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The situation

Benefits feeds need consistent plan identifiers, effective dates, relationships, and recipient-specific conventions.

What I did

Reviewed and normalized source-to-carrier plan mappings, dependent classifications, and inclusion criteria; compared expected versus actual output before release and identified exceptions for review.

Why it matters

Highlights the difference between generating a valid-looking file and proving its contents meet the recipient's requirements. Carrier acceptance is not assumed.

Benefits · Data Mapping · Validation
Integrations & Data

Identity Integration Authentication Failure

Investigated a business-system connection that failed following an account credential change.

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The situation

A connection between an HR system and a Microsoft identity environment failed after changes to an authorizing account.

What I did

Reconstructed the authentication timeline, identified a credential-reset/token relationship, researched the vendor's reauthorization requirements, and recommended a clearly owned service-account and credential-management model. The managed IT team performed the reconnect.

Why it matters

The technical fix addressed the immediate connection; the longer-term lesson was assigning accountable ownership for reauthorization and ongoing support.

Microsoft 365 · OAuth · Access Governance
Integrations & Data

Multi-Entity HRIS Technology Discovery

Mapped technology dependencies and open ownership questions during a multi-entity HRIS transition.

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The situation

A multi-entity HRIS change created dependencies across identity, payroll, benefits, permissions, and integration ownership.

What I did

Led portions of technology discovery: mapped connected systems, documented missing owners, surfaced data and account dependencies, and prepared handoff questions for vendor and client teams. I did not own the core implementation builds.

Why it matters

Good discovery makes the scope of technology support visible before configuration work begins; go-live success is not claimed here.

HRIS · Identity · Dependencies
Integrations & Data

Payroll Export Filtering and Transformation

Worked on file-generation logic to include only the records a downstream system expected.

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The situation

A downstream financial/operations system required a specific population from an HR/payroll export rather than the full source output.

What I did

Analyzed the source selection criteria and receiver requirements, examined region and record-filtering logic, and considered how to validate that excluded records stayed excluded without dropping intended records.

Why it matters

Shows practical integration work at the boundary between business rules, extract filters, and file validation.

Payroll · Flat Files · Validation
Integrations & Data

Legacy HRIS to Downstream Worker Feed

Reviewed worker attributes and derived mapping rules for downstream employee files.

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The situation

A downstream workforce feed needed employee groups and other attributes derived consistently from legacy HRIS data.

What I did

Examined source job attributes, documented transformation rules, checked exceptions, and identified records where mappings could not be safely inferred without confirmation.

Why it matters

Demonstrates the importance of explicit business rules and exception handling before a recurring employee interface is automated.

HRIS · Employee Files · Mapping
Integrations & Data

Integration Inventory and Ownership Review

Reviewed a large integration ecosystem with emphasis on support clarity and documentation.

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The situation

A large HRIS interface estate becomes difficult to support when each integration has different owners, schedules, destinations, and undocumented exceptions.

What I did

Reviewed an ecosystem of 140+ integrations with attention to inventory accuracy, business ownership, technical accounts, delivery methods, and recurring incident patterns.

Why it matters

This is governance and operational ownership of an existing ecosystem, not a claim of personally building 140 integrations.

HRIS Integrations · Governance
Systems & AI

AI HR Policy Journey Library

Structured employee lifecycle policies into actionable, testable journeys.

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The situation

A conversational HR product needs deterministic, testable rules behind natural-language requests; a fluent chatbot alone cannot complete employee actions.

What I did

Worked on structured employee-lifecycle policy journeys, translating intent into workflow conditions, role expectations, and required system writes. Tested where a conversational flow lacked corresponding backend capability.

Why it matters

Makes the gap between AI conversation quality and actual HR transaction execution visible. This describes design and testing work, not a production product launch.

AI-Native HRIS · Policy · Workflow Design
Systems & AI

Synthetic HRIS Analytics QA Dataset

Designed a fabricated workforce data set with intentionally planted edge cases for analytics testing.

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The situation

An HR analytics assistant can produce convincing answers that omit whole employee populations or mishandle edge cases.

What I did

Designed synthetic workforce test scenarios with deliberate exceptions, expected-answer checks, and questions that distinguish data retrieval accuracy from the model's interpretation of results.

Why it matters

Creates a safer way to evaluate answer quality without exposing real employee information. Specific QA completion and product-launch claims remain outside this example.

Synthetic Data · Product QA
Systems & AI

HRIS Role and Permission Design

Worked through distinct employee, manager and administration permission boundaries for an HR product.

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The situation

An AI-enabled HR product still needs conventional access boundaries: a manager, employee, payroll administrator, and HR administrator should not see the same data by default.

What I did

Compared role definitions with real employee journeys, challenged overly broad permissions, and mapped actions to the least access required. Considered approval, escalation, and tenant administration as distinct responsibilities.

Why it matters

Shows security-by-design thinking while avoiding any assertion that a proposed model is a certified or deployed security implementation.

Security · Roles · Least Privilege
Systems & AI

Practical AI Usage Guardrails

Created internal guidance for responsible AI use around HR and business information.

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The situation

HR teams increasingly want AI assistance with data conversion and analysis, but the underlying information may include sensitive worker records.

What I did

Framed practical governance questions: who has approval, whether a user already has access, the smallest necessary dataset, retention, vendor controls, and an audit trail of the request and outcome.

Why it matters

Turns 'can we upload this?' into an accountable data-handling decision. This is guidance/design work, not a claim of completed compliance certification.

AI Governance · HR Data · Policy
Systems & AI

Household Finance App

Built a working personal budgeting dashboard around transaction tracking and category limits.

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The situation

Household spending data was spread across transactions and categories, making weekly grocery and monthly discretionary decisions harder to evaluate quickly.

What I did

Built a Google Sheets-backed tool using Apps Script, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Implemented category-based budgeting, transaction aggregation, weekly grocery boundaries, and dashboard outputs tailored to real household use.

Why it matters

A functioning personal app built to solve a recurring problem; the public visuals use illustrative numbers rather than actual financial information.

Google Apps Script · HTML · JavaScript · Sheets
Systems & AI

HRIS Knowledge Base Concept

Built a searchable Workday reference and AI prototype with official source links and troubleshooting notes.

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The situation

Useful HRIS knowledge is often buried in long manuals or scattered in support chats, forcing administrators to rediscover answers.

What I did

Prototyped Workday Field Notes (Beta) as a searchable knowledge base with topic navigation, troubleshooting prompts, official documentation links, and a separate AI question-answering layer.

Why it matters

This is now a live Labs prototype rather than only a concept. Its scope, source quality, and limitations are stated openly; it is not an official Workday product.

Knowledge Design · Search · HRIS
Systems & AI

Integration Tracker Concept

Explored a lightweight tracker for integration status, ownership and documentation.

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The situation

Teams supporting many interfaces need one place to understand what runs, who owns it, and what is currently blocking testing or delivery.

What I did

Outlined an Integration Tracker concept covering interface inventory, owners, environments, schedules, authentication and encryption method, incidents, and outstanding dependencies.

Why it matters

A proposed practical tool informed by operational experience, not a shipped commercial platform.

Integration Governance · Tool Design
Leadership & Operations

Microsoft 365 Collaboration Migration

Planned and supported a Google Workspace-to-Microsoft 365 transition covering accounts, documents, and user enablement.

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The situation

A growing organization needed a coherent move from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 without losing everyday communication or access to working documents.

What I did

Supported migration sequencing, account and licensing preparation, domain and identity considerations, document transfer planning, user communications, and post-migration enablement. Evaluated where tools and process ownership needed to change, not just where files would move.

Why it matters

Demonstrates an end-to-end collaboration-platform transition spanning technical administration and employee experience. No unverified downtime or savings claims.

Microsoft 365 · Migration · Enablement
Leadership & Operations

SharePoint Internal Knowledge Hub

Developed a central internal reference point for a growing team’s shared information.

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The situation

Rapid team growth had left operating instructions, shared files, and team resources distributed across individual accounts and conversations.

What I did

Developed SharePoint as a more organized internal knowledge destination, working through navigation, permission expectations, reusable pages, and document ownership for everyday team use.

Why it matters

A central information architecture can reduce dependency on tribal knowledge; measured adoption outcomes have not been established.

SharePoint · Information Architecture
Leadership & Operations

Tier 1 Support Onboarding Framework

Designed a structured onboarding path for an early support hire.

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The situation

A new frontline support hire needed to become useful across a developing HR technology product while still learning service expectations and escalation rules.

What I did

Built a staged onboarding framework spanning product navigation, core HR concepts, customer communication, issue triage, reproducible testing, and escalation ownership. Included feedback loops rather than assuming a single training session would be sufficient.

Why it matters

Shows how support capability is built through documentation and structured practice. No unsupported resolution-time improvement is claimed.

Support Operations · Training
Leadership & Operations

Operational Handoff Playbooks

Built reusable client-initiative handoff structures for status, decisions, owners and unresolved items.

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The situation

Client technical work can become difficult to hand off when decisions, dependencies, and open questions live in one person's notes.

What I did

Built concise handoff formats with a quick orientation, separate workstream sections, decisions, risks, owners, source links, and clearly marked unknowns. Scoped the document to the work actually owned rather than copying the whole engagement.

Why it matters

Creates a usable continuity artifact while keeping credentials and sensitive employee data out. No claim that an unverified future handoff occurred.

Documentation · Program Continuity
Leadership & Operations

Shared Support Intake Design

Helped plan a shared support model across several operating teams.

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The situation

A small services organization needed a consistent way to receive, classify, and route issues without losing accountability between technical and functional teams.

What I did

Designed intake categories, basic triage and escalation paths, staffing assumptions, and boundaries between product support, HRIS advice, and implementation responsibilities.

Why it matters

This is support-model design; the final operating model and service metrics require confirmation before they can be described as live.

Service Design · Intake
Leadership & Operations

Vendor and Licensing Governance

Reviewed SaaS contracts and licensing choices for operational risk and supportability.

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The situation

Technology choices for a growing organization can create hidden renewal, access, support, and contract obligations.

What I did

Reviewed vendors and licensing with attention to seat assumptions, service ownership, renewal terms, admin controls, transition costs, and whether a partner model could be supported long term.

Why it matters

Shows commercial judgment alongside technical operations; confidential deal terms and unexecuted partnership outcomes are intentionally omitted.

Vendor Management · IT Operations
Leadership & Operations

IT Provisioning and Offboarding Standards

Made laptop provisioning, account access, onboarding, and offboarding more repeatable.

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The situation

Employee onboarding and offboarding involved laptops, accounts, permissions, software tools, and multiple people who needed clear handoffs.

What I did

Established or refined checklists for device procurement/provisioning, account creation, permission approvals, phishing follow-up, offboarding triggers, and access removal. Emphasized named owners and repeatable actions rather than informal requests.

Why it matters

Makes the employee lifecycle easier to administer consistently while reducing ambiguity about system access. This is operational process work, not a security audit certification.

IT Ops · Access · Onboarding
Leadership & Operations

Client Requirements and Statement-of-Work Design

Helped translate business needs into clear workstreams, assumptions and deliverables.

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The situation

Prospective client needs were often broader than the initial request, creating risk that proposals and statements of work would promise the wrong work.

What I did

Translated discovery notes into defined workstreams, deliverables, assumptions, dependencies, client decision points, and explicit exclusions. Reviewed document consistency and version changes before material moved toward agreement.

Why it matters

Helps connect what the client needs with what a delivery team can responsibly commit to. This does not claim a deal closed.

Discovery · Scope · Consulting
Leadership & Operations

Process Design for Team Growth

Connected collaboration tools, support processes, and operational handoffs as the team expanded.

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The situation

A growing HR technology company needed repeatable operations that could keep pace with new colleagues, clients, and responsibilities.

What I did

Connected work across Microsoft 365, SharePoint, onboarding, hardware standards, security/offboarding, support intake, and written handoffs. Focused on who owns each step and how a new team member can find the answer without asking the same person repeatedly.

Why it matters

The contribution was building pieces of operational infrastructure as the team expanded, not claiming personal responsibility for company growth or unverified efficiency gains.

Operating Model · Change
Integrations & Data

Identity Integrations: Saviynt, SailPoint & Azure AD

Identity platforms depend on timely, accurate worker information, and technical delivery requires coordination between HR systems and IAM stakeholders.

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The situation

Identity platforms depend on timely, accurate worker information, and technical delivery requires coordination between HR systems and IAM stakeholders.

What I did

Helped build, test, validate, and deploy interfaces involving Saviynt and SailPoint. Also investigated downstream Azure AD attribute behavior. Work involved checking the data being sent, expected lifecycle behavior, and whether results matched requirements.

Why it matters

Shows the connection between HR events, enterprise security and downstream access. Does not claim sole ownership of IAM architecture or every provisioning rule.

Workday · IAM · Saviynt · SailPoint · Azure AD
Integrations & Data

Recruiting Connections: LinkedIn, Indeed & Career Sites

Job and location data had to move correctly between Workday Recruiting, external job platforms, and a global career site while supporting the candidate experience.

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The situation

Job and location data had to move correctly between Workday Recruiting, external job platforms, and a global career site while supporting the candidate experience.

What I did

Worked on LinkedIn interfaces, Indeed API integration, RaaS-based career-site feeds, and job/location data cleanup. Coordinated with platform vendors and tested downstream results in a roughly 60-day global recruiting project.

Why it matters

Demonstrates hands-on integration work visible to candidates, where incorrect job or location data affects recruiting outcomes. Contributions varied by system rather than representing every integration as a solo build.

Workday Recruiting · LinkedIn · Indeed · API · RaaS
Integrations & Data

Benefits & Retirement Interface Enhancements

Benefits and retirement feeds depend on accurate eligibility, worker data, effective dates, and vendor specifications; small data errors can affect downstream participant records.

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The situation

Benefits and retirement feeds depend on accurate eligibility, worker data, effective dates, and vendor specifications; small data errors can affect downstream participant records.

What I did

Enhanced, tested or troubleshot provider integrations involving Fidelity, Bupa and Mercer, alongside other carrier and payroll-related files. Compared source populations, field mappings, and outbound results with stakeholder and vendor expectations.

Why it matters

Shows cross-domain work at the boundary of Benefits configuration, integrations, data validation, and external vendors. No claim that a particular carrier accepted or activated an unverified file.

Workday Benefits · Fidelity · Bupa · Mercer · Data validation
Systems & AI

MikeWernert.com — AI-Powered Portfolio

A live personal site with two purpose-built AI assistants, recruiter job-description reviews, and an interactive technical portfolio.

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The situation

Static websites require visitors to translate résumé content into answers relevant to their own needs.

What I did

Directed iterative AI-assisted development of a mobile-first site with Cloudflare Workers AI, an approved-profile assistant, recruiter role comparison, Workday Field Notes (Beta), voice dictation, and a searchable project library. Tested live deployments, worked through failures, and improved usability through successive releases.

What it demonstrates

Product ownership, process thinking, practical AI implementation, deployment QA, and ongoing iteration. AI tools helped generate implementation code rather than a claim of entirely manual software development.

Cloudflare Workers · Workers AI · HTML / CSS / JS · AI-assisted development

Project examples are anonymized where appropriate. Work ranges from completed delivery to technical advisory and prototypes; individual outcomes are described at the level verified.

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