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Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Multi-site HR leader of 500 headcount in Aerospace defense manufacturing operations.• Partner with cross-functional teams to provide full scope of HR services in staffing, organizational design, strategy, talent development, and employee relations.• Provide leadership and guidance on HR strategies as member of Site Leadership Council.• Lead strategic initiatives in HR communications plans, AAP, DEI, employee engagement.• Perform data analysis of HR metrics including hiring, succession planning, and attrition data to recommend actionable strategies to leadership.• Lead hiring initiatives at the site for regular and subcontract employee roles.• Lead employee engagement efforts by developing site surveys and planning annual site employee recognition budgets and events.• Lead Employee Relations investigations into allegations of harassment, discrimination, and time charging violations to government customers.• Member of Labor Relations First Responders team to respond and mitigate union organizing efforts at non-union Honeywell sites.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• HR Manager over the Engineering function supporting space, defense, and commercial manufacturing operations• Served 5 months as Interim Senior HR Manager for the Clearwater site with 4 direct reports. • Led strategic initiatives in HR communications plans, AAP, DEI, employee engagement.• Managed local hiring initiatives through partnerships with military base and tech schools to support talent and diversity outreach efforts.• Partnered with cross-functional teams to provide full scope of HR services in staffing, organizational design, strategy, talent development, and employee relations.• Project Managed offsite networking and hiring events or hard to fill Engineering roles.• Led recruiting Marketing efforts to place targeted billboards and bench advertisements in the Tampa and Melbourne, FL metro areas to attract talent from Aerospace competitors.• Developed information guides of hard to fill Engineering roles for Recruiters to match critical skill-sets to job requirements.• Led Employee Relations investigations into allegations of harassment, discrimination, and time charging violations to government customers.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Southeast Region HR Business Partner supporting Marketing, Install, Services, Small & Medium Buildings, ICT/Cyber Security, and Sales business units. • Partnered with cross-functional teams to provide full scope of HR services in staffing, organizational design, strategy, talent development, and employee relations.• Led workforce planning efforts of Breakthrough Initiative investment of $8 million to capture market share of small to medium business segment with the SaaS platform.• Performed data analysis of HR metrics including hiring, succession planning, and attrition data to recommend actionable strategies to leadership.• Managed 7 business restructuring RIF projects as a result of COVID business impacts to right size the business, including two furlough related initiatives.• Led HR staffing and org design efforts in reorganization of the Sales division to realign to a vertical market structure.• Project Managed 3 rooftop consolidation projects by developing communications plan, scheduling employee notifications, and working with payroll on tax implications.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

• HR Business Partner to 400 hourly United Steel Workers and salaried employees. • Managed one hourly HR Assistant.• Led performance manage and succession, labor relations, workforce planning/staffing, diversity and inclusion initiatives, workplace investigations, annual compensation review process, FMLA/LOA.• Managed plant monthly HR Corporate Compliance Audit Process and served as site HR lead for the global General Data Protection Regulation GDRP initiative. • Led plant new employee onboarding and revised the onboarding process which increased employee engagement and business acumen.• Coordinated employee safety training with the Environmental Health and Safety team.• Attend university recruiting events and manages the site summer internship program.• Proctored computer-based skills testing for hourly craft and production candidates.• Managed Labor Relations activities and heard first level employee grievances. • Chaired the Joint Civil Rights Committee and performed shop floor walk through activities which increased employee engagement and diversity and inclusion efforts.

Louisville, Ky, Us

• HR Business Partner to 400 employees in 3 business units that included 2 coal, gas, solar, hydro energy production plants and the Corporate Environmental Affairs team. • Performed HR Business Partner functions in performance manage and succession, workforce planning/staffing, succession planning, diversity and inclusion initiatives, workplace investigations, annual compensation review process. • Served on two cross-divisional HR Benefits and Policy Forum teams to ensure consistent application of corporate HR policies and identified a gap in the Vacation policy that would allow for certain employees on disability who were not expected to return to work to get accrued vacation time that they were not due paid out. Recommended changes to the Vacation policy language, which lead to future cost avoidance to the company.• Partnered with plant management to successfully develop a workforce plan to support strategic business objectives with the decision to idle 2 of the 3 coal production units at one less profitable site, which resulted in no reductions in force of hourly employees or severance payment.

Knoxville, Tn, Us

• HR Business Partner to 500 employees at two energy production plants. • Led performance manage and succession, labor relations, workforce planning/staffing, diversity and inclusion initiatives, workplace investigations, annual compensation review process, FMLA/LOA.• Managed the labor relations grievance processes to facilitate grievance resolution at the lowest level. Wrote site management grievance responses. • Led reduction-in-force and job placement initiatives for over 100 plant employees with the closing of 2 coal units, including developing interview guides and conducted mock interviews with impacted employees.• Led hiring and workforce development efforts for new combined cycle plant to replace coal fired units.• Served on Employee Health special project team to review FMLA rules related to essential job functions, and non-work-related injury processes. Implement a new process to transition those functions under nurse case managers which led to better tracking and management of the process. • Project managed a project to develop a new online employee and leader HR handbook.

Knoxville, Tn, Us

• Ran ad hoc reports and conducted benchmark studies on employee benefit healthcare trends to identify and recommend actionable opportunities in benefit plan design.• Program Manager for the corporate Tuition Reimbursement and Dependent Scholarship Programs. Generated $300,000 in current and future company savings.• Led medical and prescription RFP bid process, vendor selection and implementation.• Updated employee benefit SharePoint site, and policies and procedures. • Led open enrollment and developed benefit test cases, performing SIT and UAT.• Led weekly new employee on-boarding orientations. • Corporate HIPAA Official, leading annual employee HIPAA training. • Managed the health plan union grievance process.• Developed an online HIPAA training course in the Learning Management System (LMS).

Knoxville, Tn, Us

• Consultant to prospective hospital and physician practice clients to analyze and define current workflows, and recommend alternative solutions to current processes.• Managed client expectations during the entire implementation process by engaging core physicians to gather requirements, design, configure, and then perform QA testing of the custom solution to ensure a successful launch of the system. • Conducted physician and office staff training of the key features of the system. • Implemented 9 hospitals, including over 1,000 physicians within St John Health System with the impact of reducing patient length of stay, preventing potential sentinel events, and standardizing physician contact processes by providing a failsafe communication system in order to gain accreditation through the Joint Commission.• Managed a project to design and configure an Orthopedic ED On Call Backup solution at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Medical Center that increased product visibility and improved physician response time.

London, Gb

Acted as the liaison between Coventry Health Care and Caremark for the Southeast Region by facilitating the accurate build of new pharmacy benefit riders, determining business requirements of the health plan, and working to ensure the requirements were met in an accurate and timely manner. Ran queries and maintained reports regarding the pharmacy benefits for Coventry Health Care Corporate Pharmacy Operations. Reviewed the eligibility and enrollment data files that were submitted to the PBM for accuracy.Accomplishments: • Created test scenario templates and performed QA/UAT of new prescription benefit plan structures that accurately verified the correct claim adjudication and ensured the benefit build met client requirements.• Scheduled weekly conference calls with the Coventry Pharmacy Director and Caremark Account Management to review new and existing prescription benefit issues, implement benefit changes for the health plan, and resolve service warranty requests that impacted the health plan by increasing member satisfaction and client retention levels.• Performed testing for the Rebate Department that ensured the prescription co pay tier structure was meeting contractual requirements and maximizing company profit

• Gained exposure to the core functions of the Epidemiology and Research Division by attending epidemiology group meetings, Bureau Management Team meetings, as well as assisting epidemiologists with assigned projects • Evaluated the effectiveness of the TIMS (Tuberculosis Information Management System) public health surveillance system by interviewing TB Department staff on the process of diagnosing and reporting confirmed cases of tuberculosis according to CDC guidelines. Compiled a summary report and submitted recommendations based on my findings.• Assisted in the development of a Chronic Disease Surveillance Program by reviewing ICD-9 code databases and grouping diseases in the ICD-9 database by classification in order to make the database accessible online for community health groups requesting data on reported cases of diseases in Davidson County

Master'S Degree, Health/Health Care Administration/Management

Bachelor'S Degree, History