ROBERT A. LANDI
Staten Island, NY 10308
Office: 201-***-**** Cell: 917-***-****
E-Mail: ******.*****@*****.***
SUMMARY
An ambitious Human Resources Professional with experience in the consumer
electronics, financial services and information technology industries seeks
a Human Resources Generalist opportunity within a progressive company.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 8/05-5/07
M.A., Industrial Organizational Psychology - G.P.A. 3.97
St. John's University, Staten Island, New York 1/02-5/05
B.A., Psychology - G.P.A. 3.57
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Panasonic Corporation of North America, Secaucus, New Jersey 5/08 -
Present
Human Resources Representative - Panasonic's Headquarter and Service and
Technology companies of approximately 425 employees.
. Employee Relations: Investigate and manage employee relation cases
enforcing compliance with corporate policy, federal, and state
regulations. Examples of cases include leave of absence administration,
employee disputes, and harassment.
. Performance Management: Manage the performance appraisal and
performance improvement processes. Mediate performance concerns between
manager and employee; identify employee strengths and areas of
improvement to quickly and effectively increase individual and
organizational productivity.
. Organizational Structure: Pair with business line management to
effectively align organizational structure with future goals, freeing
up resources to effectively work on projects of value for the overall
organization. Analyze workforce and workflow data to identify areas of
improvement and efficiency.
. Compensation: Partner with management to drive a competitive and
equitable compensation plan focused on attracting and retaining top
talent. Compensation plan includes base salary, annual increases, and
individual/organizational performance bonuses.
. Employee Benefit Services: Support Panasonic's Employee Services
department providing benefit and payroll program support to all
Panasonic headquarter and affiliate companies (over 7,000 employees).
Manage the qualifying life event process for employees.
. Recruitment and Onboarding: Pair with management to analyze all
staffing requirements. Detail needed knowledge, skills, and abilities
for all vacant positions. Train hiring managers on the newly
implemented Taleo recruitment tool. Assist in the assimilation of new
employees into the Panasonic culture. Ensure I-9 compliance, and carry
out various company programs.
Special projects:
. Managed the reduction of approximately 12% of staff (98 people).
Partnered with management, legal and EEO to develop and execute the
consolidation or reduction of staff positions.
. Policy and Procedure board member. Reviewed and updated all company
H.R. policy and procedures. Conferred with Mercer to redevelop and
distribute Panasonic's Employee and Benefits handbooks.
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, New York, New York 8/06 - 5/08
Human Resources Associate - Bank of New York Mellon's Securities Operations
division of 3,400 employees globally.
. Employee Relations: Investigate and manage employee relation cases
enforcing compliance with corporate policy, federal, and state
regulations. Perform exit interviews for employees leaving BNYM with
the objective of identifying patterns of turnover.
. Performance Management: Review, edit, and track performance appraisals
and corrective actions. Mediate performance concerns between manager
and employee; identifying employee strengths and areas of improvement
to effectively increase productivity.
. Recruitment: Confer with management and recruitment specialists in
recruitment planning, candidate screening, and the interview process.
Efforts result in proper matching of candidate skills to job
requirements.
. Organizational Structure: Research headcount data to develop
organization charts detailing accurate organization construct.
. Compensation: Partner with management to plan and execute salary
actions. Confer with colleagues overseas on the management and
processing of merit increases, bonuses, and promotions with the goal of
consistency compensation practices globally.
Merger projects:
. Coordinate domestic and global employee redeployment efforts with
Corporate Finance, H.R. and the various business lines across the Asset
Servicing Sector of over 8,500 employees. Integration initiatives
taking place in India, U.K, U.S and Asia.
. Develop a job requisition tracking system for open positions across the
Asset Servicing sector. Implement new requisition process across H.R.
community. Process results were provided to senior line management to
improve workforce management.
. Develop an ad hoc open job requisition system specifically used for
location migration efforts within the Asset Services sector. Reports
used by Finance, H.R., and Business lines to compare project efforts
against expected synergy deadlines.
. Transition legacy BNY merit increase, incentive compensation, and
performance management processes to new BNYM processes.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
. Active member of the Society of Human Resource Management
. Active member of the Human Resources Association of New York
SOFTWARE SKILLS
H.R. Information Systems: Proficient in HRIS PeopleSoft, ADP EV3, Taleo,
Kenexa, ReportSmith, and OrgPlus.
General Tools: Proficient in Lotus Notes, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint,
Excel, Outlook and Visio.