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A change management professional who can manage a complex HR organization or help an organization accomplish a complete turn-around from failure to success.
A chance to bring my experience and enthusiasm to to a growing or turn-around situation.
Manager
About Me
Industry: |
Management & Business |
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Occupation: |
Manager |
Highlights: |
I have been the chief HR manager in 6 progressively larger manufacturing facilities from 200 employees to 3200 for three different companies. Significant accomplishments in these positions include a successful startup of a facility, a total integration of management and systems in an acquisition, installation of comprehensive wage training programs that in one case reduced turnover from over 75% to less than 10%, maintaining union free status, and implementing first level supervisory training where little had existed. I have also had company wide HR responsibility for over 15 separate manufacturing facilities, both union and non-union. Significant accomplishments in this role include installing the first ever Total Quality programs in all facilities, successful implementation of team based management styles to replace traditional manufacturing management hierarchy, successfully negotiating union contracts to include wage pattern breaking in Texas City, and successfully negotiating and implementing a gain sharing system with the Teamsters in Trenton Michigan. A key skill for a successful HR Manager is to have excellent consultative skills because rarely do they have position power to influence line managers. I have had the opportunity to demonstrate expertise and develop critical relationships with line managers from Shop Foremen to Manufacturing VPs. Some of my accomplishments that I attribute to this skill are listed above but others include successful guidance of a management through a class action suit, countless discipline cases, recruiting the right managers to fill critical positions, installing gain sharing where the concept was totally foreign, successful coaching of numerous line managers that in one case ended in the individual rising from an obscure supervisory position to a Manufacturing VP and designing and implementing a total process change of the management development system which more closely tied performance to compensation, used 360 degree feedback, and integrated the development process. - I have a BS in Industrial Relations from the University of North Carolina. I have completed extensive development courses in strategic planning and development, reengineering, project management, team development, team leadership and organizational change to name a few. I have also designed and instructed over 30 management courses and been guest speaker/lecturer at colleges and for professional groups As a member of the Reengineering team for Monsanto Corporation I had the opportunity to lead the company wide process improvement efforts in project management where we demonstrated a $15M annual improvement, the maintenance redesign effort where our efforts in preventive maintenance alone topped $30M, accounts payable and receivable where cash flow improvements exceeded targets by 100%, HR where we were able to reduce hiring cycle times by as much as 4 weeks, tie HR planning to the long range manufacturing plan, implement employee transaction centers, and install employee development centers to allow employees to take charge of their own development. Following this effort at Monsanto, I started my own consulting business where I have had the opportunity to successfully lead process improvement teams in project engineering, manufacturing, sales finance, HR, product development, process integration in an acquisition and long range planning at the executive level. I have a very high level of expertise in the overall change management process from identification of the opportunity to the successful implementation of the solution and measurement of the results. |
Ideal Companies: |
Start-up or turnaround companies of less than $1B value |
Education level: |
Bachelor |
Will Relocate: |
Yes |
Location: |
Emerald Isle, NC |
Work Experiences
1/1996 - Present
(private)Self-Employed
- Principal Consultant providing a broad range of general management, process improvement, and organizational development services to clients such as GE, P&G, Siemens as well as various non- profits. Accomplishments include but are not limited to: - Successfully provided Human Resources leadership as required by clients on a temporary basis until position could be filled by a permanent hire. Participated in the selection. - Achieved cost savings that outperformed targets by 10% by providing directed facilitation enabling clients to develop state of the art, fully integrated project delivery processes. This includes integrating marketing and sales, design and development, project management as well as tracking, customer service, financial and quality control. - Led consultant teams that more than met client financial expectations by implementing new processes in areas such as customer service, accounts receivable and payables, new product development, purchasing, and maintenance - Provided Long Range Planning consulting to various boards of both for profit and non-profit organizations, which successfully revamped direction and aligned the organization with that new direction. - Led consulting on efforts that ‘right-sized’ numerous organizations to achieve short-term financial objectives in a humane manner and without lawsuits. - Consulted on numerous developmental projects that required a broad spectrum of expertise to include organizational design, new compensation schemes, design and delivery of training as well as significant management coaching throughout the engagement.
