Stone Consulting Group LLC · Eugene, OR
Independent Workday consulting for enterprise organizations — Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence. In payroll since 1996 and on Workday deployments since 2014 — 48 client engagements, deep platform expertise across Payroll, Time, Absence, and HCM. You get the senior consultant on every piece of the work.
Background
I run an independent Workday consulting practice out of Stone Consulting Group LLC. My depth is Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence — full-lifecycle delivery from Phase 0 strategy through post-production support.
Before going independent, I was a Business & Technical Architect Manager at Accenture/DayNine and Practice Leader at Alchemy — cross-functional architect across HCM and PATT workstreams, with PMO involvement on larger deployments. 48 Workday client engagements since 2014, ranging from organizations of a few hundred employees up to one with a global workforce over 500,000.
One piece of that background matters more than the count. At DayNine I was one of a small group of consultants responsible for the firm's internal delivery assurance audits — reviewing active client deployments against the deployment methodology and reporting what was on track and what was not. That is a different skill from delivering a project, and it is why I can tell you early and plainly where an implementation actually stands.
That background means I understand Workday Payroll and Time the way large SIs do — but without the layers, the bench-warming, or the markup. When you engage me, you get a senior consultant hands-on from discovery through go-live.
Industry experience spans education and government, healthcare, financial services, technology and media, retail and hospitality, manufacturing, and transportation — including heavily unionized environments. Complex payroll territory by design.
What I Do
Full-lifecycle Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence deployment. Phase 0 strategy through go-live, including parallel payroll strategy and execution. Cross-functional architect across HCM/PATT workstreams.
Post-go-live cleanup, configuration fixes, and ongoing support. If something isn't working the way it should — retro processing, time calc issues, pay component logic — I find it and fix it. Training on the why, not just the what and how.
"Red to Green" project rescue. Deployment guidance, impact analysis, and steering committee representation. If an implementation has gone sideways, I can diagnose what's broken and build a path out.
Multi-state, multi-jurisdiction, union, commissions, and garnishments — the payroll configurations most teams haven't seen before. Parallel payroll strategy and execution, run through my own comparison workbooks and custom Workday reports for accurate, auditable go-live runs.
Industry Experience
Enterprise payroll gets complicated fast when you add unions, multiple jurisdictions, shift differentials, and industry-specific compliance requirements. That's where most of my work has been.
Client organizations have ranged from several hundred employees to more than 500,000.
Why Direct Engagement
You get me — not a junior consultant with a senior title on the proposal. 48 Workday client engagements since 2014 — 15 carried through go-live, and 14 entered mid-project to get delivery back on track.
Large SIs margin their consultants heavily. Direct engagement means your budget goes toward delivery, not overhead.
Project-based, support retainer, or advisory. Structured for enterprise needs without enterprise-firm process friction.
Deep hands-on delivery across Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence, and HCM — across 48 client engagements since 2014, plus 17 post-production support and optimization engagements. I know where the edge cases live.
Let's Talk
Whether you're pre-implementation and want an honest assessment, post-go-live and need cleanup, or mid-project and in trouble — book a call and we'll figure out if there's a fit.
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