Kerry L. Garman, SPHR

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Berlin, Maryland 21811

(Cell) 269-***-****

acvo6f@r.postjobfree.com

Career Summary

Highly accomplished executive with solid strategic human resources skills and proven business operational achievements.

• Strategic contributor as the senior HR executive

• Organizational and employee development driven

• Strong labor relations skills for both prevention and dynamic labor relationships Professional Experience

Consulting as Paragon People Solutions d.b.a. April 2016 to present Revived consulting practice with franchises in assessments and talent management assignments. Employer: Perdue Farms Inc.

Senior Vice President Human Resources August 2012 to April 2016 Major Activities: The Senior Human Resources Executive in this global privately held $9 billion Protein (Pork and Poultry), Consumer Products, and Agricultural Products Company. These duties include full strategic and functional responsibilities for all domestic and international locations including 21 plant/distribution locations and 22,000+ employees. Team includes nontraditional medical wellness staff, through twelve (12) Directors in all areas of HR and Corporate Communications, with 248 HR/medical team members and a $16 million annual budget. Report to the Chairman of the Board/CEO.

• Lead the people initiative for this traditional poultry and agricultural business to become a consumer products focused organization

• Worked directly with the Board of Directors’ Compensation Committee

• Led human resources efforts due diligence in the acquisition of Niman Foods Holdings

• Establishing centers of excellence for business services

• Certified Achieve Global Trainer, Certified Profiles International Trainer, Certified Center for Creative Leadership Benchmarks Trainer, Completed Aubrey Daniels Training.

• Strategic redesign of health and welfare benefits including RFP’s and network changes resulting in

$25MM savings in first 18 months

• Directed union negotiations in two facilities, which resulted in moving all H&W plans from trust funds to self-funded to improve efficiency, compliance, and saved $1MM annually

• Directed compliance for the Affordable Care Act

• Diversity Initiatives included creation of Inclusion Council and Engagement Team

• Conducted successive years of an engagement survey to create scoring system

• Implemented SAP HCM conversion from People Soft and SAP Payroll from ADP

• Led enterprise wide Succession Planning process

• Executive level recruiting for succession planning

• Implemented Success Factors Compensation Module with other modules in planning stages

• Realigned Medical Clinics to focus on wellness and preventative initiatives for chronic conditions

• Board member of the Peninsula Regional Medical Center Foundation 2

Employer: Kalsec Inc.

Vice President Human Resources August 2004 to August 2012 Major Activities: Board and Officer Human Resources Strategic Leadership role of this $125 million, privately held, Global Micro Food Ingredients Company. The VPHR duties include responsibility for domestic and international locations. Reported to the Chairman of the Board/CEO.

• Redesigned the compensation systems from internal to market based, through/with the Board of Directors Compensation Committee, which also included incentive designs for management and sales force.

• Conducted Global Succession Planning with an emergency succession design

• Redesigned talent selection processes including behavioral assessment processes

• Negotiated (Steelworkers) first ever employer- decided, health and welfare and compensation component to be included in a collective bargaining agreement

• Redesigned Health and Welfare benefits with $1.6 million in annual savings

• Established legal compliance through an organization- wide human resources audit which resulted in an overhaul of the administrative processes and INS compliance

• Conducted bi-annual engagement surveys to assess talent contribution to organizational goals, addressed HR needs through these results

Consulting June 2003 to August 2004

Consulting in HR (d.b.a. Paragon People Solutions) while conducting a job search. Clients included Corporate Expressions, Ralcorp, Forgent Inc., and the City of Montgomery, TX. Employer: ConAgra Foods- Food Ingredients Division Vice President Human Resources April 2001 to June 2003 Major Activities: Strategic human resources responsibilities for ConAgra Foods, $19 Billion global consumer food products company. The VP-HR duties included responsibility for domestic locations and international locations. Led fifty (50) HR professionals through seven (7) Directors. Reported to the President/Chief Operating Officer and the Executive Vice President of Administration.

• Completed the people processes for the divestiture of a business unit

• Implemented PeopleSoft HRIS, 5% under budget and on time

• Created and deployed performance management system

• Negotiated labor contracts and settled a two- year -old strike within budget during the first ninety (90) days on the job

• Converted internal compensation process to market- based compensation system including a new management incentive design

Employer: American Pharmaceutical Partners

Vice President of Human Resources March 1999 to April 2001 Major activities: Strategic responsibilities for all Human Resources for American Pharmaceutical Partners: a

$200 million integrated, 1200+ employees, privately held to IPO, injectible drug manufacturing company. Oversight for twenty (20) HR professionals and reported to the CFO and President.

• Created HR function in this divested business from Fujisawa USA

• Worked with the Board Compensation Committee and redesigned the compensation system from the Hay System to a market based system

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• Successfully recruited VP General Counsel, VP Finance, VP Quality, VP Business Development, VP Sales and Marketing without recruitment fees and seven tech positions

• Redesigned sales incentive program and management incentive program Employer: Fortune Brands Corp., a $6 Billion Consumer Products Company in spirits, cabinets, sporting equipment, office products, and locks with 34,000 employees Vice President of Human Resources December 1997 to March 1999 Major Activities: Responsible for all Human Resources for ACCO North America, ACCO is an office product manufacturing company with $1.5 billion sales including a border assembly and manufacturing operation in Mexico and a sales company in Canada. ACCO is a division of Fortune Brands, a $6 Billion consumer products company. Led HR initiatives through five (5) Directors and thirty-five (35) human resources professionals.

• Directed a conversion to Oracle HRIS.

• Successfully prevented IBEW from organizing a manufacturing location

• Chief Spokesperson for three contracts within budget along with union prevention activities for the 16 manufacturing sites in North America

• Successfully completed three (3) acquisitions of office product manufacturers Employer: Ralston Purina Company October 1986 to December 1997 HR Manager through HR Director over the twelve (12) years of service Ralston Purina Company was an independently publicly traded consumer products company (now a part of Nestle) with $6 Billion sales in pet food, cereal, baby food, cookies, and crackers. Ralston Operations had 2100+ employees.

Director of HR Golden Cat Division April 1995 to December 1997 Major activities: All Human Resource activity during and post acquisition of the Golden Cat Corporation, a

$350 million sales company, in the cat box filler, consumer-packaged goods category. Led seven direct reports and reported to the President of Golden Products Group

• Conducted due diligence and then acquisition of the Golden Cat Corporation

• Created Human Resources function for this acquisition as a Strategic Business Unit including policies and benefit programs

• Negotiated with the Steelworkers a complete conversion to Ralston Purina benefits including concession savings valued at $83,000 annually

• Diversity initiatives included the first Ralston Purina Minority Scholarship program at Central State University (CSU) in Ohio and grants to CSU for the Business College Director of HR Pet Products Operations August 1993 to April 1995 Major Activities: All Human Resources activities of the Human Resources function for eight manufacturing facilities for 2100+ employees. Oversight of 27 HR professionals with one direct report and reported to the VP of Human Resources and the EVP of World Product Supply.

• Created and led the Divisional college recruitment program

• Implemented Criterion AAP systems

• Negotiated five (5) union contracts in budget and without labor strife Regional Manager of HR May 1991 to August 1993

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Major Activities: Led the Human Resources function for three (3) manufacturing facilities for 800+ employees. Led nine HR professionals and reported to the Director of Human Resources.

• Successfully conducted two union prevention campaigns and negotiated one contract

• Implemented Gain Sharing Programs at two facilities Manager of HR October 1986 to April 1991

Major Activities: Complete Generalist duties for this 500 employee Pet Products facility in Iowa. Eleven direct reports and reported to the Plant Manager.

• Led Divisional Recruitment Program for seventeen (17) colleges and universities

• Led Divisional Management Training Program

• Revised Employee Relations Program for non-exempt employees Employer: Safeway Stores Incorporated January 1981 to October 1986 Safeway is a $19 billion retail grocery chain including distribution and food manufacturing facilities with 100,000+ employees

Major Activities: Upon completion of college degree was moved to Denver from Arkansas to participate in the Human Resources Management Development Program. This experiential program provided training in all aspects of Human Resources.

Labor Contract Administrator June 1986 to October 1986 Employment Representative February 1983 to June 1986 Training Instructor May 1981 to February 1983

Activities: Perdue Foundation Grants Committee, Peninsula Regional Medical Center Foundation, Vice President Kalamazoo Human Resources Association-SHRM Chapter, Mentoring HR Professionals, Program Committee HR Houston-SHRM Chapter, National SHRM, World at Work, and the Chamber of Commerce. Education: BS Degree, Public Relations, 1981 Arkansas State University. Webster University, Masters Program in Human Resources (nine hours) 4.0 GPA, Certified Senior Professional Human Resources (SPHR). Honors: Chairman of the Board Exceptional Achievement Award and Ralston Purina Presidential Special Award of Excellence. Guest lecturer and recognized as a professional speaker on HR and business issues to a wide array of audiences including state level HR and local chapter conferences across the U.S. Software: Microsoft Office Suite, Lotus Suite, Now Solutions (EmPath), Criterion AAP, DOS, OS/2, Windows XP- Vista, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Tessaract Mainframe Focus Reporting. References: Furnished upon request.

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