SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

• Business oriented HR leader who has successfully combined areas of specialized experience to become a true generalist with demonstrated ability and success in the following:
• Leading and developing the HR function and staff
• Recruitment sourcing and selection, organizational/leadership development
• HR administration including benefits and compensation, training, safety and security, workers compensation
• Employee relations, EEO compliance and affirmative action planning
• Labor contract negotiation and administration
• Policy and procedure development and administration
• DOT drug testing/abatement and alcohol abuse program development and administration
• Effective communication at all levels from senior executive to individual contributor.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Led HR aspects of affiliate start-up with offices
• Successfully established HR function for start up business jet service center, exceeding aggressive up and running targets and leading the business unit in retention
• Migrated operations schedule from 16/5 to 24/7 to meet cross-functional operations requirement with no increase in headcount. Reduced annual labor cost by over 750,000.
• Led or coordinated change management efforts for numerous Corporate and Business Unit reorganizations, successfully minimizing collateral attrition and maintaining productivity.
• Led or coordinated multiple payroll, HRIS, ESS system implementations and conversions, transitioning workforce through related process changes within prescribed deadlines
• Established Labor Compliance function within department to reduce prevailing wage/labor compliance related issues. Reduced labor related receivables from 90 days to less than 30 days.
• Successfully developed and initiated massive 4 year 4000 head staffing ramp up.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

• Confidential Resources for specialty manufacturer and installer of tensile shade structures. Lead all aspects of HR governance including organizational direction of HR mission, initiatives, culture, etc. Established policies and procedures to ensure compliance re-established value and credibility of the department after predecessor left in the wake of widespread complaints of unresponsiveness, poor administration and even ethical issues reviewed and upgraded vendors, broker services, etc. resulting in 100k in annual savings. Supervise department of six.
• Implemented desperately needed leadership training program
• Led HR aspects of affiliate startup that included offices in Dallas, Canada and London
• Established Labor Compliance function for prevailing wage business that reduced labor related receivable delays from 90 days to less than 30.
• Confidential HR where prior staff left en-masse, including compliance audits, AAP audit, division HR process analysis. Daily responsibilities include: direct and implement HR initiatives for five locations, and partner with market leaders for recruiting, training, benefits, ESS support, and employee relations. Supervised Payroll Specialist, recruiter, and staff assistants.
• Market change leader for corporate re-organization.
• HR leader for local 15 million acquisition
• Revitalized and re-focus safety committee, safe workplace management principles
• Local implementation and training for Kenexa online assessment and recruiting tool.
• Confidential Partner at start-up aircraft service center for worlds 3rd largest aircraft manufacturer. Implemented and hands on managed all aspects of HR function and staff at the facility. Responsibilities included all recruiting, employee relations, benefits and compensation administration, management and employee training, policy and procedure development and administration, facility safety and security. Supervised HR generalist, Safety/Six Sigma Spec.
• Start-up staffing accomplished within strategic time lines.
• Project leader for business unit level supervisor training and HR handbook projects
• Achieved and maintain lowest turnover in business unit.
• Successful payroll and benefits conversion from local affiliate to U.S. headquarters
• Change management leader of post '9/11' downsizing and workforce re-engineering
• Project team leader and participant at both plant and business unit level projects including online benefits portal, non-monetary incentives, job description, SAP and NDC implementations
• Project leader for 2004 facility level workforce re-engineering project involving transition to 24/7 schedule, cross-training initiatives, and focus on quality and safety.

Confidential

Sr. HR Analyst

Rresponsible for corporate office staffing, employee relations and domestic relocations for a multi-site Fortune 200 oil and chemical company with 3000 employees in US operations. Daily responsibilities included corporate office staffing design development and management of staffing initiatives identification and resolution of compensation issues management of domestic relocations consultation to the field offices on staffing and relocation issues and daily interface with senior executives on related issues. Supervised two staff assistants and one recruiter.

• Coordinated employee relocation activities for corporate office relocation to Houston.
• Developed and managed a contract labor vendor selection program, which resulted in reduced administration costs and lower negotiated fees and bill rates.
• Implemented pre-employment testing process including selection and validation of pre-employment testing software.
• Reviewed and upgraded relocation management processes, including the selection of new processing software and aggressive 3rd party administrator management, resulting in improved accuracy and reduced cost of tax administration.

Confidential

Senior HR Administrator

responsible for staffing, benefits administration, labor relations, worker's compensation, OSHA compliance, regulatory reporting including OSHA300, 5500's, VETS100 and EEO-1 and employee relations at corporate office of multi-site company with six bargaining units and 800 employees. Supervised one staff assistant.

• Coached field Human Resources Managers on HR issues.
• Audited and updated policies and procedures to comply with current labor law.
• Led a corporate wide 'from scratch', job competencies project in order to benchmark job duties and compensation in compliance with ADA and QS9000 guidelines.
• Actively participated in the implementation of 401 k plan, and served as Plan Administrator and Chairman of Advisory Board for all Corporate Health and Welfare plans.

Confidential

Labor Relations Specialist

• administering corporate policies, DOT drug plan and labor agreement for 1400 employees.
• Reduced cost of DOT required breath alcohol testing by internalizing function.
• Represented Company in contract negotiations.

Staffing Specialist

• responsible for developing and implementing recruiting strategies, recruitment of exempt and non-exempt positions, applicant tracking, and compliance with EEO/AA and Union staffing guidelines.
• Led expansion recruitment campaign of 250 in a 12 month period.
• Reduced recruiting time-to-fill and turnover.
• Developed recruiting plan for proposed expansion of 3,000-5,000 new jobs.
• Benefits Specialist
• responsible for administration of group health plans including customer service, premium reconciliation, open enrollment and COBRA/FMLA compliance.
• Negotiated annual health plan renewals with no increase in premiums.
• Improved premium reconciliation process resulting in credits exceeding 15 .