Our consultants have extensive experience with Kronos' automated Time & Attendance, Scheduling, HR, Payroll, Finance and ERP Systems.   These resources specialize in Time & Attendance applications addressing some of the most complicated pay rules, interfaces, and business processes - making them recognized specialists in this field.  Project roles have included Project Management, Application Consultant, Training Lead (development and deployment), and Industry Specialist.  Their strong background and exposure to innumerable labor activity scenarios and timekeeping systems enables them to provide superior technical solutions and business process guidance.

Athena consultants are masters at analyzing the customer's current policies, practices and system requirements and converting them to configurable solutions and effective business tools.  Their acumen for pay practices, business processes and operational objectives enables them to assess, design, test and deliver system configuration and setup efficiently and with minimal re-work.  As an implementation specialist Athena consultants have worked with numerous related HR and Payroll systems including Lawson, PeopleSoft, ADP, SAP, HRizon and many more.  Their experience with the interfaces, networking and data collection (time clocks, telephony, web, etc) aspects of Kronos' time and attendance technology enables them to provide end-to-end system support.

Technical aptitude and communication skills have enabled our consultants to successfully train the entire spectrum of users - from small customer front-end users to internal application consultants who face every possible configuration issue.  We offer some of the industry's most engaging and popular trainers in the classroom.  Several are former Kronos Trainers where they were certified on multiple versions of the Kronos product line through the highest programming level.

Our experience includes a broad range of industries and organizations.  Assignments in the hospitality, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, banking, and education industries for union and non-union companies with up to 70,000+ employees demonstrate our ability to serve effectively in any organization.  Our consulting style is flexible and diligent and we assimilate easily into customer environments.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Surveys; Business Process and Pay Policy Analysis
• Kronos Pay Rule / Work Rule Configuration
• Kronos Connect - interface development
• Scheduling System Design
• System Setup - including user, access, and aspect Profiles, Reports, Process Manager, End User Features (GUI workspace) and System Performance Settings
• Hardware installation and setup - time clocks, telephony (Kronos DCM, TeleTime, ShowNTell, TTE, TTE Homecare)
• Access Control Systems
  • Integration of biometrics, access control, time clocks and telephony into Time and Attendance Systems
• Client server and web server technologies; network administration
• Testing and validation; Verification of system readiness
• Change Management Control and Documentation
• Pinpointing, troubleshooting and resolving complex application problems
• Training Development and Delivery
• Determining customer interface requirements; development of interface solutions between various applications
• Custom Reports
• Disaster Recovery Plans

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• PC: Microsoft Office 2000 Professional, SQL Server 7.0, Crystal Reports
• O/S: Windows NT 4.0 / 95 / 95 / 2000 / XP, and A/S 400, RS6000
• Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint; SQL Server 7.0
• Crystal Reports
• Interface applications (e.g. Kronos Connect, Lawson, ADP, PeopleSoft, SAP, HRizon)
• PC Anywhere; Citrix; UNIX; AIX; Terminal Emulation Software
• Application Skills: Kronos TKC v2a-4.1, Workforce Timekeeper v2a-6, KAT; DOS, DCM, iSeries, Connect, Advanced Scheduler, Optimized Scheduling, Retail Scheduling, Activities, NexTrak, Image Maker; Gatekeeper: TouchID biometrics, NT, Unix, SQL; Accruals; Access Control, Oracle, Citrix, XML
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, MCSE
• Cisco Certified Network Associate, CCNA
• Certified NetWare Engineer, CNE
  • NT, Ethernet, LANs, WANs, TCP/IP