Michael Cannon Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

Wheaton, Illinois, United States

Crest Hill, Illinois, United States

Crest Hill, Illinois, United States

Serving as resource assistant to both Human Resources and Finance.

Greater Chicago Area

In this seasonal position, I assisted with the daily operations and administrative duties of the human resource department, interacting with employees and managers. Daily tasks included record maintenance; clerical support; managing internal and external HR related inquiries and requests; scheduling interviews; completing reference checks and more.In addition to daily tasks, I was responsible for various special projects for HR Management and the team. Examples include: • Creating employee communications for open enrollment as well as award packets for employee recognition.• Assist with updating Employee Handbook and Performance Appraisal documents.• Filing project for employee training documents, prepping data for upload into HRIS system and the filing and archiving of historical data.• Audit employee files, working with department managers and directly with employees to obtain necessary documents.• Compile Material Safety Data Sheets from multiple locations to update and consolidate for conversion to digital format for ease of use for employees across locations and working out in the Preserves.• Simplified and automated organizational documents for ease of use.

Greater Chicago Area

In this role, I consulted with HR Managers and Executives of various clients to develop and implement wellness programming to complete client’s total rewards package. Programs and employee incentives were designed to meet clients goals, from maintaining and improving healthcare and insurance costs to simply improving employees health as a part of the organization’s culture. Clients saw successes such as showing stable medical costs of 1.1% over multiple years to sowing an ROI of $2.11 on every $1.00 spent on programming. Wellness programming options included annual biometric screenings, online activity programming, team and individual challenges, health coaching, and more. I worked with a variety of clients with multiple locations included healthcare institutions, municipalities, school systems, industrial manufacturing, and more.I designed communication plans to education and train management and employees, creating pieces branded specifically to each client, activity, and topic in print and digital format. I conducted onsite educational events to maximize employee engagement. In managing the programming and client relationships, I compiled aggregate reporting to analyze the success of the program based on program participation and participants achieving goals. I presented the results to the client, from the executive level to the employee level, with respect to confidentiality and employment regulations. Successes and opportunities were leveraged to strategically plan ongoing programming as we worked to meet the organizations goals. I also complied employee specific reporting for each client for incentive payout. Reports were provided in various formats to meet the needs of the client’s HRIS or payroll system as often as monthly; in compliance with HIPAA, GINA and other employment and confidentiality regulations. While with the organization I was a committee member of the team working with a third party company to redesign and update the member website.

Greater Chicago Area

In this role, I collaborated with Human Resource Managers and Department Managers to leverage temporary staffing in workforce planning and development to provide adequate staffing for proper patient care and ancillary services.I proactively worked with the site executives and managers for successful implementation and administration of all human resource initiatives, programs, policies and compliance.As an Account Manager in this role, I was able to grow my territory to the highest revenue greater Chicago area territory from the lowest, working with clients in both Chicago and Northwest Indiana. I was also the third account manager in the history of the company to achieve a weekly revenue of $100K.

Illinois

In this role, I was responsible for all HR initiatives in my business unit, including benefits administration, payroll and the full life cycle of the employees. Duties included recruiting, talent acquisition, onboarding, training and development, and performance management to effectively accomplish corporate initiatives of maximizing sales and customer service. I was promoted from Sales Associate to Store Management in 2002 in Carbondale, IL, then transferred to the greater Chicago area in 2005. Successes include increasing annual sales at two store locations above the previous year’s sales and exceeding the company’s projected sales goals. This was accomplished by maintaining the employee retention rate while achieving the highest customer conversion ratio in St. Louis district. I was also able to turn a store with high merchandise loss into the lowest merchandise loss store in the St. Louis district. These successes are linked. The proper talent acquisition and talent management builds the low turnover rate bringing success in all other aspects of the business.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Organizational Leadership

Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Certificate In Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management

The final project for this program was to create a professional portfolio of documents that I created during the courses. These include.