Marion Brown Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Responsible for managing a group of 15 Labor Relations Specialists and Attorneys to provide advisory and legal support services to the Office of Human Resources at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, U.S. Department of the Treasury, including participation in negotiating up to 19 collective bargaining agreements with its unions.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Labor Relations Business Partner in Cultivating a Results-Driven Workplace

Rapid City, South Dakota

• Was accountable for rate recovery of BHE’s transmission assets in CO, MT, SD and WY for its three electric utilities, managing Regulatory and Transmission projects and maintaining a good Regulatory relationship with.
• Ensured cost recovery and profitable growth of over $500 million in transmission assets in 4 states.
• Selected by senior management to serve on a 7-member team to negotiate the terms by which BHE would a join a regional transmission organization, along with 9 other electricity providers in the Rocky Mountain region.
• Served as Project Manager on several cross-functional teams.
• Selected by BHE management to serve as a company ambassador in South Dakota and to serve on the ASPIRE leadership team, an organization created by BHE senior management to recruit, support and promote high performing.

Greater Atlanta Area

• RE: Accepted a one-year assignment at WellStar Health System in Atlanta, GAOversaw several IT Enterprise software projects during the largest conversion in WellStar history – converted 5 hospitals to 11 and 40.
• Managed 200 internal and external resource allocations in Planview.
• Served as Project Manager over the integration of the following software applications: Matrix, CS Stars, TMS Four Rivers, Craneware, MM Hayes, and Standard Register.
• Prepared work breakdown schedules, cutover plans, status reports, action registers, etc. and interacted effectively with team members and all levels of management.
• Directed multi-disciplinary professional staff using traditional project management techniques, delivering results on-time and within budget.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• In my last position, managed and provided technical direction to Regulatory project managers who oversaw cross-functional teams that evaluated and recommended Commission action in electric rate and tariff proceedings.
• Ensured that teams adhered to strict timelines for deliverables (e.g., Commission orders, opinions and other legal decisions, option papers and recommendations) in order to meet statutory deadlines.
• Facilitated consensus on the resolution of multi-faceted and complex energy matters of wholesale electric utilities – e.g., issues related to rate design and energy market formation - among senior staff across program.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Represented the NLRB in negotiations with its unions under six collective bargaining agreements.
• Provided HR Director and Staff training on permissive bargaining subjects to ensure management rights were not compromised.
• Implemented programs and policies for the HR business unit; including, performance management, employee relations, assessment of core competencies and training, reward and recognition, succession planning, organization.
• Independently developed the 2009-2014 Strategic Human Capital Plan for the NLRB, and subsequently received approval of the plan by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Represented over 1000 bargaining unit employees at FERC headquarters and its five regional offices – Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Portland and San Francisco.
• More than doubled the level of union penetration at the FERC.
• Negotiated significant provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.
• Revised significantly the AFGE Local 421 Constitution & Bylaws.
• Provided ethics, EEO, employee and labor relations training, among others, to both bargaining and non-bargaining unit employees.
• Settled a plethora of grievances and complaints, participated in arbitration proceedings, and instituted an informal process for settling employee grievances within 30 - 45 days.