David Vedro Msl Sphr Shrm-Scp Email & Phone Number

Rochester, New York, United States -

In this position, I teach graduate-level courses in organizational change, diagnosis, problem solving, and project management at Roberts Wesleyan College. ✯ Serve as Lead Professor of the Organizational Change and Diagnosis course, in which I select and deliver material, and coach peers in best practices and teaching methodologies. ✯ Received the Outstanding Professor recognition for three years by a cohorts of students for my exemplary facilitation and teaching contributions in this role.

Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area

Rochester, New York, United States

Geneva Ny

As an HR Business Partner, I advised, coached, and mentored the senior leadership team at Guardian Industries’ Geneva office. In this capacity: ✯ Promoted best practices in leadership, market-based management, and strategic planning to consistently exceed organizational objectives. ✯ Ran talent management and HR, which included compensation, recruiting, on-boarding, succession planning, performance management, and employee relations. ✯ Most notably, I led the maintenance team during a leadership transition, successfully cutting unscheduled downtime, increasing employee morale, and seamlessly deploying $3M in capital equipment.  ✯ Implemented a compensation plan that impacted over 200 hourly employees, and was adopted by the organization’s 25 other locations.  ✯ Enhanced the organization’s onboarding program, which aligned new employees with its culture and values. ✯ Createdd and led a process which identified the root cause of employee turnover, running employee-owned solutions for a 25% reduction.

Binghampton, Ny

Managed operations for TeamWorld, Inc. a leading provider of branded products.. I oversaw customer service, safety, HR, production, maintenance, and business and warehouse operations, ensuring continuous process improvements, profit maximization, and cost control. ✯ Seamlessly implemented an organization-wide safety program, which included lockout, tag out, hazardous waste procedures, and individual safety accountability.✯ Coordinated with vendors, scientists, and industry leaders to resolve a significant technical issue with a new piece of equipment, eliminating potential downtime.✯ Reorganized roles and accountabilities, which dramatically improved organization-wide efficiency, production, and compliance.

Penfield, Ny

As Senior HR Director: ✯ Advised senior operations leaders on the strategic planning and execution of a site-wide transformational change, quickly establishing new value streams. ✯ Worked with Corporate Talent Acquisition to more quickly and accurately recruit staff and fill key positions. ✯ Successfully implemented training and leadership development programs, which improved employee engagement, productivity, leadership, and retention.

✯ While at Unity Health System, I designed and delivered best-in-class, customized, competency-based leadership development programs, coaching, and mentoring to all cross-functional levels. This was key to the organization achieving Best Place to Work recognition. ✯ I functioned as a trusted advisor, and delivered over 300 hours of coaching to executive leaders, physicians, and clinical and operations teams. In this capacity, I continuously optimized communication, employee engagement, and business performance. ✯ Most notably, I established and managed Unity Health System’s first ever physician leadership development programs, which served over 200 physicians and have consistently been rated at a 97% or higher by participants. ✯ I also delivered over 150 feedback assessments as a certified 360 degree coach, and facilitated over 300 DiSC assessments to senior leaders, physicians, and clinical and operations team as a certified DiCS communications coach. ✯ Finally, I established an organization-wide Coaching Certification program with 16 hours of intensive theory and practical applications to enhance cross-functional leadership.

As a System-Wide Educator:✯ Led employee orientation and alignment to efficiently fill roles, and instill the organization’s culture and values. ✯ Created the organization’s leadership development, computer training, and new hire orientation programs,.✯ Ran a bi-annual employee survey to proactively identify issues and inefficiencies, advise key leadership on how to mitigate them. ✯ Negotiated and outsourced computer training program development tasks, cutting costs by 30%. ✯ Provided training to all senior leadership during a period of organization-wide change, ensuring a seamless transition.

Rochester, Ny

While at Newport Corporation, I directed P&L, operations, and manufacturing for the organization’s Newport Gratings business unit. ✯ Served on the Corporate Operational Excellence Team as a subject matter expert on Lean Principles, and ran engineering, logistics, purchasing, HR, and QA. ✯ In this capacity, I drove continuous process improvements. I optimized training content, delivery, and documentation towards a more efficient, cross-trained workforce, which cut training time by 50%, and saved $100K over 2 years. ✯ I also coordinated two kaizen events at a sister facility, which improved service by 20% and quality by 30%. Negotiated key vendor partnerships that drove over $300K in savings in 3 years. ✯ Created and fostered an open dialogue between employees and managers by improving the performance review process, which raised satisfaction by 60% and led the Rochester location to be recognized as the best of 12 facilities in performance reviews.

Facilitated a six week Lean Transformation for manufacturing clients. Provided lean leader certification for the clients leadership team.

Responsible for Profit / Loss management along with all manufacturing, service, quality, process improvement, and human resource development for two divisions, totaling 180 employees, and achieving $28 million in sales.✯ Created and implemented a lean vision which resulted in a 55% increase in efficiency. Lowered the labor unit cost of the product by 18% while raising the average wage of the employees by 29.7%.✯ Significantly reduced material costs per unit by reducing internal scrap by 53%.✯ Reduced employee turnover 50% by creating / implementing employee development programs.✯ Negotiated partnership relationships with vendors resulting in over $300,000 savings in 3 years.✯ Improved safety performance by reducing severity of OSHA recordable and loss time accidents. This resulted in a refund from the workers compensation insurance carrier of $84,000 in one year.✯ Mentored and coached / trained 12 leaders in the organization. Raised level of professionalism in plant leadership, transitioning from hourly shift leaders to salary mentoring professionals.Facilitated a monthly high level senior management review of all distribution costs resulting in a more streamlined, cost effective supply chain.

Philadelphia, Pa - Pittsburgh,Pa - Rochester, Ny

Regional Customer Support & Technical Support Manager Responsible to plan, direct, and manage customer support functions within the North Region (21 states / 32 sales persons / 11 customer support personnel.), along with providing for the ongoing development / management of the North Region maintenance processes, training and safety assurance programs supporting 9 printing facilities.Plant Manager (Rochester, NY) Responsible for the total management of this check printing facility, including P&L, production, materials management, process improvement, customer relations, human resources, facilities management, and quality on sales of $11 million and 100+ employees.

Responsible for leading a unit of up to 180 personnel involved in the support of operations of the Hawk Missile System including: administration, training, maintenance, site security, and NATO battle strategies.Obtained the rank of Captain

Masters Strategic Leadership

Ba, Psychology

Minor in Business Management Certificate in Human Services