HR Functionality
A federalized SAP
HR product must
provide business
process support to all areas of
human resources management
(HRM) -- from classification
to retirement. While the
commercial SAP HR software provides support
to private sector organizations in all employment
"life cycle" areas, things like veterans
preference, RIF competitive areas and federal
pay systems don't exist in private industry and
must be added if we are to support Federal HRM.
To ensure the SAP HR product meets Federal
requirements, the FHRIS Project Team has been
working to document the federal requirements
for HR functionality in the following areas:
- Recruitment (including automated
announcements, applicant supply file,
applicant tracking, automated rating and
referral of candidates)
- Priority Consideration (automatic
identification of candidates, such as
employees on grade retention, who
should receive special placement
consideration)
- Skills Bank (ability to store knowledge,
skill, ability and competency information
for use in staffing, training, and
workforce planning)
- Classification and Organization/Position
Management
- Employee Development and Training
Management (including career
counseling, automated SF 182, automated
individual development plans, automated
identification of training and on-line
registration for training)
- Reduction-In-Force (including RIF
modeling, adjusted SCD calculations,
severance pay calculations, and
qualification information for use in
placement determinations)
- Complaint and Case Tracking
(information that will allow analysis of
EEO complaints, grievances, appeals and
other third party complaints)
- Performance Management (including on-line performance appraisals)
Once federalization is complete, the SAP HR
software should be one of the best HR products
available to Federal agencies. Because
federalization will take some time to complete,
pilot testing of the SAP HR software will
primarily involve "out-of-the-box" (non-federalized) functionality.
The FHRIS Project Team
We keep talking about the FHRIS
Project Team, but unless you've
visited our web site you probably
don't know who we are. The following are the
primary DOI people working on the project
team. In addition to this dedicated group there
are many other departmental employees from the
Office of Secretary and the bureaus lending their
support and expertise to the project.
Dave Anderson, DOI FHRIS Project Manager - Dave
comes from the Office of Personnel Policy in the Office of
the Secretary. Dave is a Human Resource Strategist who
is responsible for the Department's HR data systems and
HR Strategic Plan. Before joining the Department, Dave
worked for the Air Force and DoD with numerous jobs
that included being a Personnel Officer and part of the
team working on the DoD modern HR data system.
Stephanie Robbs, DOI Integration Manager - Stephanie
is part of the National Business Center's (NBC) Product
and Services division in Denver, responsible for FPPS.
Before becoming the Integration Manager for the project,
Stephanie worked as the Quality Assurance Officer for the
new FPPS GUI and as the Y2K manager for FPPS. Prior
to that she held a managerial position over the personnel
and payroll functional areas of the PAYPERS system.
She's been with NBC for 10 years and the Federal
government for 23 years.
Ron Bowman, Team Operations Manager - Ron is also
part of the Office of Personnel Policy in the Office of the
Secretary. Ron is the Department's HR System
Administrator (for FPPS). Ron has been with the
Department for 7 years and is also the Department's
representative on the various government-wide HR
systems committees.
Allison Beard, RIF Subteam Member - Allison works
in the Office of Surface Mining Personnel Office and is
a part time member of the team. Allison has worked for
OSM for 4 years and been with the Department since
1988. Allison became a Personnelist in 1991.
Linda Behlin, Classification Subteam Member - Linda
works for the U.S. Geological Survey at the Patuxent
Wildlife Research Center. She began working for USGS
in 1996 and has been a Personnelist since 1981. Her
current assignments involve working with diversity issues
and the classification of research positions.
Debra Bird, EMR-LMR Subteam Member - Debra is
Chief of Employee-Management and Labor-Relations at
the National Park Service Bureau Personnel Office.
Debra's been with NPS since 1996, but she's worked for 5
different DOI bureaus over 25 years. Debra lives in
Annapolis, Maryland with her husband, 2 children (ages 7
and 4), assorted pets, and way too many Happy Meal toys.
Robert Eckert, Classification Subteam Member - Bob is
from the Fish and Wildlife Service where he's worked for
over 4 years. He's been with the Federal government for
25 years, including working for the National Park Service,
the Department of the Army and the Bureau of Mines.
Bob's been a Personnelist for 14 of those years.
Jerry Ganiere, RIF Subteam Member -Jerry is with the
the Bureau of Reclamation and works in Denver. Jerry has
been with BOR for 10 years and has 34 years of total
Federal service. Prior to working for BOR he worked for
the Air Force, Navy and VA. He has worked in all areas of
Personnel and worked on many HR automation initiatives.
Kathy Haggerty, Staffing Subteam Member -Kathy is a
part-time member of the project team and works for the
Office of Surface Mining. Kathy has only been with OSM
for 1 year but has 22 years of prior Personnel experience
with the Coast Guard. Recently she was the lead
Personnelist working on the OSM Hackett HR
benchmarking study.
Janie Houde, Employee Development and Training
Subteam Member - Janie works for the Minerals
Management Service in Herdon, Virginia. She been with
MMS since the beginning (15 years). Prior to that she
worked for Conservation Division in USGS and the
Internal Revenue service. All together she has 20 years of
professional HR experience. Janie is also in charge of the
MMS Quality of Worklife programs.
Beres Muschett, Staffing Subteam Member - Beres is
from the Bureau of Land Management. While he's new to
the Department (only been here for 6 months), he's a
seasoned Personnelist with 24 years HR of experience in
the Federal government. He was part of the DoD team
working on the DoD modern HR data system and Project
Manager for the DoD COREDOC functionality. Prior to
that he served as Deputy Project Manager for the Army's
AAWMIS project.
Wanda Oeser, Staffing Subteam Member - Wanda is a
member of the Products and Services group in the National
Business Center, Denver. Her background includes
developing and implementing PAYPERS and FPPS.
Michael Rogers, Integration and Interface Subteam
Member - Michael is a part-time member of the team
from the National Park Service. He came to NPS in 1992
after several years in accounting and auditing with private
industry. Since coming to the Federal government he's
been a computer specialist and Senior Network Manager.
In addition to working on LANS and WANS he's a
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
Rosemary Ravenscroft, Employee Development and
Training Subteam Member - Rosemary is a member of
the Products and Services group in the National Business
Center, Denver. Rosemary has been with the Department
since 1987when she came back to Interior (her second
time with us) from the Department of Energy. She's
worked in an operating personnel office doing
classification, staffing and training and most recently
worked on the technical team implementing FPPS.
Frances Steburg - Frances is from the Social Security
Administration in Baltimore. As FPPS's largest customer,
SSA is very interested in the FHRIS Project and Frances
has joined the teamwork on numerous team activities.
Frances is the FPPS Security Administrator for SSA and
has been with them for 5 years. She's a 33 year
government employee and worked for HHS before SSA.
Frances has been enjoying the FHRIS Project immensely
and been a real asset to the DOI members!
Richard Sullivan, Classification Subteam Member -Richard is a member of the Products and Services group in
the National Business Center, Denver. Richard has 21
years of Federal service and is an IBM retiree. He has
been a Project Manager for implementing new clients into
FPPS and stress tested the initial FPPS system. His entire
career has been involved with implementing information
technology solutions.
Bob Veltkamp, Employee Development and Training
Subteam Member - Bob works for the Department of the
Interior University and has been with DOI since 1984. He
came to the Department as a Management Analyst and has
also worked in facilitation and Reengineering training.
Prior to coming to DOI he worked with the Department of
Labor and National Park Service. Bob managers the on-line learning team in the DOIU and has a BS degree from
the University of Michigan. You can check out the DOIU
on-line learning web site at
www.doi.gov/training/online.html.
Tammy Washington, Integration and Interface
Subteam Member - Tammy is a part-time member of the
team and works for the National Park Service. She's been
with NPS for 14 years and has been involved with HR
systems issues. She had a primary role in the
implementation of FPPS in the Park Service.
Where are the Pilot Test Sites?
The final phase of the FHRIS Project
calls for pilot test sites in each of the
bureaus to test the functionality in three
areas (recruitment, skills bank, employee
development and training) of the SAP HR
software. While they may change as we get
closer to the actual pilot test, the organizations
initially identified as pilot sites are:
Office of Surface Mining - Division of Financial
Management located in Denver, Colorado.
Fish and Wildlife Service - Office of the Assistant
Director for Planning, Budget and Human Resources
located in Washington, DC and Arlington, Virginia.
Minerals Management Service - Office of
Administration and Budget located in Herndon, Virginia.
National Park Service - Business & Finance Group and
Human Resources Group located in Washington, DC and
the Mather Training Center located in Harpers Ferry, West
Virginia.
Bureau of Reclamation - Management Services Office
located in Denver, Colorado.
National Business Center - Portions of the Management
and Technical Services Division and Denver Operations in
Denver, Colorado.
Bureau of Land Management - The Executive Services
& Initiatives Group in Washington DC; and the National
Human Resources Management Center and BLM National
Business Center in Denver, Colorado.
U.S Geological Survey and Bureau of Indian Affairs
have not identified their test sites yet.
Each pilot test site will enter test data into the
system to determine how well the software
functions, what improvements were made in
business processes, and what resources will be
necessary if a decision is made to implement the
federalized SAP HR software Department-wide.
Further information about the pilot test will be
included in future newsletters.
Want to Learn More About the
FHRIS Project?
Please visit our demonstration area at the
Human Resources Management
Conference, Working Together...For
Tomorrow, May 31 - June 2, 2000 in New
Orleans. There will also be overview briefings on
the FHRIS Project held are various times
throughout the conference. We hope to see you
in New Orleans!
Have a suggestion for a newsletter article, or a question or suggestion
for the project team, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
U.S. Department of the Interior
Interior South Building
FHRIS Project
Room 355 - MS 326
1951 Constitution Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20240-0001
Phone (202) 219-0624
Fax: (202) 208-6512
dave_anderson@os.doi.gov
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