Human Resources Manager

LOUISE BUDKA, GPHR

*** ****** ***** • Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922

Phone: 908-***-**** • E-mail: ******.*****@*****.***

SENIOR GLOBAL HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONAL

Global Business Unit Partner Strategic Planning Labor Relations

Organizational Development Mergers & Acquisitions Executive Training & Leadership

Employee Relations Workforce Reengineering Talent Acquisition

Project Management EEOC & Diversity Management Expatriate Services

HRIS Technology Compensation & Benefits Employee Relocation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DOW JONES & CO., INC. 1990 – 2008

DIRECTOR, HUMAN RESOURCES (2001 – 2008)

Jersey City – New York – Princeton, NJ

Senior Business Partner responsible for Human Resources functions for Enterprise Media Group (Dow Jones

Newswires/Indexes/Financial Information Services/Factiva/MarketWatch), Information Technology, Sales, Corporate

Groups, and International Operations. Workforce consisted of approximately 3,500 employees.

Member of the EMG Executive Management Team involved in all aspects of strategic planning and business

decisions designed to drive business growth.

Executive Advisor and Acquisition Team member responsible for ensuring corporate due diligence and corporate

governance issues.

Strategy leader for the roll out of a new on-line Performance Appraisal System and Global Talent Management

Program designed to facilitate succession planning, reduce costs and increase retention rates.

Realigned the International Human Resources function to improve service levels and increase cost effectiveness.

Partnered with Business Unit Presidents to align employee compensation structures with competitive marketplace

and union contract.

Regional responsibility for the company expatriate program including advising management on various package

options. A managed complex workforce issue for expatriates, third country nationals and local employees.

Established human resources plans, systems and communication strategies, as well as change management

initiatives to proactively support key business initiatives.

Member of Collective Bargaining Team. Negotiated IAPE-CWA contracts.

Member of DJ/Union Classification and Grievance Committees.

Strategist for the organization of a new business entity in Santiago, Chile.

Leadership consultant with Dow Jones Training Group responsible for initiating HR programs and strategies.

Integrated a newly revised telecommuting program (“Work Anywhere”) as new corporate policy and procedure.

Directed recruiting and staffing functions.

MANAGER, HUMAN RESOURCES, Princeton, NJ (1999 – 2001)

Responsible for all Human Resources issues for Electronic Publishing division–Americas; several Wall Street Journal

News Bureau’s; all Printing Plant personnel in Princeton, NJ and White Oak, MD.

Advised Senior Management regarding items such as labor relations, employee relations, staffing, sexual

harassment, EEOC charges, compensation, training, benefit administration, and other generalist duties.

Lead contact for over 1000 employees and managers regarding Asset Sale of Dow Jones Markets to Bridge

Information Systems. Strategic partner with Bridge’s Senior Human Resources Staff and Dow Jones’ Senior

Management.

MANAGER, HUMAN RESOURCES, Jersey City, NJ (1994 – 1999)

Responsible for integration of two Dow Jones subsidiaries into fully owned, functioning, Dow Jones departments:

Federal Filings (Washington, DC) – Trained Senior Management on Dow Jones Corporate/Human Resources

Policy. Developed employee training programs.

Telerate FXD (Mountain View, CA) – Established tactical plan for development of incentives, staffing

strategies, promotions and integration of staff at this Silicon Valley location.

Coordinated the transfer of the entire New York City Newswires staff to Harborside offices.

Evaluated corporate compensation structure for Dow Jones Markets Newsroom personnel vis-à-vis Dow Jones

Newswire team in an effort to form cohesive job titles/functions/salary grades.

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MANAGER, HUMAN RESOURCES, New York, NY (1991 – 1994)

Liaised extensively with NLRB, Dow Jones Legal, and IBEW Local 164 to conduct election of decertification of Local

164’s representation of Dow Jones Telerate employees at Harborside.

Played key role in the local union being decertified from the Jersey City office.

Lead representative for Electronic Publishing Unit at the first OFCCP Audit of a Dow Jones location.

Co-authored Employee Relations Reference Guide for distribution to all Dow Jones’ domestic management.

Responsible for all day-to-day Human Resources activities including discipline meetings, new hire orientations,

management training programs.

Managed various domestic HR office locations.

ASSISTANT MANAGER, HUMAN RESOURCES, Jersey City, NJ (January 1991 – June 1991)

Responsible for the coordination and transfer of entire Telerate Systems Inc. staff to Dow Jones & Co. employee status

due to the corporate acquisition of Telerate.

Conducted training sessions for all Harborside employees in an effort to communicate and describe new medical

benefits, profit sharing program, insurance policy, and Dow Jones’ policy and procedures.

Trained Telerate Senior Management on Dow Jones Corporate/Employee Relations Policy.

Member of Negotiation Committee for Collective Bargaining Agreement between Dow Jones Telerate and IBEW

Local 164

Responsible for all Generalist duties including recruitment, training, orientation, labor relations, employee

relations, benefit administration, policy communication.

Promoted to Manager after five months.

TRAINING COORDINATOR, New York, NY (1990 – 1991)

Responsible for implementation of Management Training Program for Dow Jones employees on a corporate basis.

Presented Management Training Programs to both new and experienced Managers in conjunction with Dow Jones’

first corporate training initiative.

Met with training vendors to negotiate prices, review programs, and coordinate site locations for management

classes.

Wrote and distributed Corporate-wide Training Newsletter.

THE BANK OF NEW YORK (Formerly Irving Trust Co.), New York, NY 1986 – 1989

INVESTMENT BANKING OFFICER (1988 – 1989)

Accepted to the Investment Banking Officer Training Program and completed comprehensive studies/cases in

Corporate Finance, Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Risk Analysis, Asset Based Lending and International

Banking.

TRAINING COORDINATOR, New York, NY (1986 – 1988)

Managed all aspects of the Professional Banking Officer Training Program (Investment Banking) including the

recruitment, relocation, and orientation of new trainees to one of the most competitive programs in the Investment

Banking community.

EDUCATION

MS - Stevens Institute of Technology, Management/Applied Psychology Hoboken, NJ

BA - Seton Hall University, Psychology, South Orange, NJ

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND AFFILIATIONS

Awarded GPHR certification as participant of inaugural program.

International Director of NJ SHRM State Council

Program Director of NJ SHRM GPEG Group

Graduate of SHRM International Management Certificate Program

Member of NFTC

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