Human Resources Manager

Jeana Legarda

Director of Human Resources - Harmon Point

Las Vegas, NV

**********@*****.*** - 702-***-****

WORK EXPERIENCE

Director of Human Resources

Harmon Point - Las Vegas, NV - February 2011 to Present

Established this rapidly growing hospitality company's first ever Human Resources Department covering 350

employees. Restructured policy and procedures and brought company up to HR standards and compliance.

Responsible for Human Resource management and development, organizational development, training, and

change management initiatives. Revamped the existing compensation, benefit plan and reduced payroll

processing liability and error rates by approximately 25%. Streamlined hiring process saving 40% in recruitment

costs.

• Responsible for managing budget and human resource department.

• Responsible for supervising and assigning workflow to HR Assistant.

• Applied state laws and federal laws to various employee relation issues.

• Responsible for updating employee handbook, policies and procedures to imitate changes to legal

environment.

• Develop training program to staff and management.

• Implemented career development paths for staff to improve employee confidence.

• Responsible for all recruiting, retention programs and employee benefit vendor selection and management

of 401K plan.

HR Administration Manager

Wynn Las Vegas - Las Vegas, NV - June 2008 to February 2011

Operations Manager

HRIS - April 2007 to June 2008

Compensation Supervisor

HR Administration - February 2005 to April 2007

Recruited to help create a new department called HR Administration, guiding the startup and management of

a full spectrum of HR operations, systems and programs. Worked with senior management to create HR

policies and procedures; recruit employees; create group benefits databases; and develop orientation,

training and incentive programs. Manage leave-of-absence programs and personnel records; administer

benefits enrollment and programs; administer HR budget; and handle HR generalist workplace issues.

• Played a key role in ensuring the successful launch of Encore. Structured and implemented programs and

policies in the areas of training, compensation structures, benefits packages, incentives and new- employee

orientation.

• Fostered a teamwork/open-door environment conducive to positive dialogue across the organization.

Personal efforts were cited as the driving force behind branch's employee-retention rate of 94%.

• Reduced benefits costs by 22% annually through contract negotiation and meticulous recordkeeping and

ensuring that company did not pay for benefits for which employees were ineligible.

• Wrote employee manual covering issues including disciplinary procedures, code of conduct, and attendance.

• Introduced company's first formal performance review program, creating a flexible and well-received

tool that was later adopted company-wide.

• Co-developed company's first-ever standardized disciplinary procedures and tracking system that

insulated company from legal risk and ensured consistent and fair discipline processes.

• Devised creative and cost-effective administrative tools that were used by global management.

• Reworked new-hire system orientation program to include HR information and company resources.

• Define and developed online solutions for all administrative documentation such as Leave of

Absences, Terminations, Transfers, Pay Rate changes, Position Requisition, Staffing changes,

Discipline actions, and Attendance tracking improving accuracy, confidentiality, and eliminated

duplicate data entry.

• Defined project requirements for system upgrades, implementations, and customizations. Insured that

all members of the project team had a clear understanding of the requirements.

• Partnered with benefits, payroll and IT to insure data integrity, system maintenance and the implementation

of employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service (MSS) module.

• Executed cost effective changes to existing benefit plans and evaluated HR systems to initiate a

strategic systems plan for improved efficiency. Conducted a comprehensive analysis of compensation

methods and an executive compensation analysis providing analytical and benchmarking data for comparison

to the executive team.

• Reduced staffing excess and instituted extensive training programs to meet compliance regulations.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communication

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA - Las Vegas, NV

2005

Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY - Berkeley, CA

2001

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

CORE SKILLS & SPECIALTIES

• HR Department Startup • Staff Recruitment & Retention • Orientation & On-Boarding

• Employment Law • Project Management • HRIS Technologies

• FMLA/ADA/EEO • Culinary/Bar Agreements • Training & Development

• Mediation & Advocacy • Benefits Administration • Performance Management

• HR Policies & Procedures • Compensation Administration • Organizational Development

Computer Skills:

• HRIS applications - PeopleSoft HR, Documentum, Kronos, Vurv, Cetec, Kenexa, TALX.

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