Michael W. Email & Phone Number

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Greater Chicago Area

▪ Provide strategical and tactical support and coaching to management at multiple sites in the areas of talent acquisition, labor relations, talent management, compliance with state and federal laws (ADA, Title VII, FLSA, FMLA), company polices and compensation/benefits. ▪ Key team member in leading the transition following a decertification from the union in North Chicago, IL in 2012-2013.▪ Successfully led committee teams towards the creation of a new employee handbook following union decertification.▪ Full cycle recruiting: Develop recruiting strategies for the Great Lakes region leading recruiting efforts for multiple plants for both salary and hourly associates to hire best in class talent. ▪ Head Military recruiting initiative for the Business Unit. ▪ New hire Onboarding- Lead training for all new hires reviewing all company policies, benefits, and new hire paperwork, following up with all new hires over the first 120 days of employment.▪ Respond to associates complaints and/or questions by providing feedback and taking appropriate action in a timely fashion.▪ Effectively and consistently communicate, interpret and apply company policies and procedures throughout the organization. ▪ Organize and lead administration of company activities such as open house, recognition awards ceremony, etc. ▪ Benefits champion: Assist associates with interpretation of plan details, billing inquiries, leaves of absence, open enrollment.▪ Unemployment claims: Provide supporting information and documentation to the state for all unemployment claims and attend unemployment state conference calls to defend company. ▪ Workers Compensation: Assist in the litigation for claims against the company, management of light duty work, incident investigation reporting, etc.

Naperville, Il

• Provide day to day operational support of HR processes including issue resolution, process enhancements, and maintenance of employee documentation• Provide outstanding customer service support for inquires related to company benefits, policies, STD & FMLA, etc.• Guide and coach management on a variety of HR related issues. • Organizational structure management in SAP- (employment transactions in SAP)• Core team member for Latin America payroll operations centralization project - Assisted in designing, testing, and implementing SAP Interface, developed interface test scripts, served as an interpreter for conference calls and documents in Spanish & Portuguese, assisted in the development of a implementation strategy for each country.

São Paulo, Brazil

• Assisted regional director of human resources and respective client groups to design and implement new business processes that improved internal efficiency, employee data accuracy, and client support.• Defined and prepared monthly regional HR KPI reports to support functional groups and countries facilitating the management of their respective workforces. • Improved and streamlined administrative processes within the company • Gathered, manipulated, and effectively presented data to support business cases.• Managed employee master data in SAP for Latin America- (Adhoc SAP Reports)• Prepared and maintained detailed Latin America Headcount for all business units.• Core team member for Latin America payroll operations centralization project for six countries- documented process flows and detailed descriptions, helped design new centralized payroll process, vendor comparison analysis, translated documents in Spanish and Portuguese to English,

•Managed and created client sales proposal and estimates. •Developed in depth understanding of customer’s needs by analyzing trends and pricing of materials for sales.•Prepare documentation for international shipments•Held numerous meetings and teleconferences with prospective clients to negotiate contract details.•Assisted in managing multi-million dollar annual contracts for international clients such as Alliance and Sony.•Responded to inquiries from regional sales manager and customers..