Summary

HR DIRECTOR/MANAGER/GENERALIST with over 20 years of experience and specific skills in:

Employee Relations

Recruiting & Staffing

Compensation & Benefits

Policies & Procedures

Safety & Compliance

On Boarding

Training & Development

Professional Experience

Princeton Auto Group, Princeton, IN 10/2011- Present

(New and Used Vehicle Dealership with four sites (three in Indiana and one in Illinois) with 150-employees)

Director of Human Resources

Responsible for employment law compliance, employee benefits and all Human Resource and Payroll activities, workers compensation, training, supervisor training and development,

Successfully management of manpower levels: salaried, commissioned, full time, part time, and casual status.

Negotiating benefits contracts and maintenance of those contracts to reduce costs by 20% or remain the same in highly inflationary times.

Established an electronic benefit enrollment system.

Established HR as a business partner for the hourly workforce, for the salaried workforce and for the management team by being visible at all sites.

Improved hiring process to address the laws and requirements

Successful EEOC negotiations

Management of the 401 (k) plan

Unemployment management addressing the Unemployment Laws for the specific state.

Significant reduction in Worker’s Compensation cost due to attention to details

Payroll formulation

ACA 1095 compliance

Millennium Steel Service, LLC, Princeton, IN 4/2006- 10/2011

(A steel processing manufacturing facility with 50-employees in Indiana & working in conjunction with HR at MSTX with 50-employees supplying TMMI & TMMTX)

Assistant Manager of Human Resources

Responsible for recruitment, training, employee counseling, supervisor training and development, employment law compliance, workers compensation, employee benefits and all Human Resource and Payroll activities.

Establishment of a monthly management meetings to improve communications within the management team.

Successfully managed the manpower levels without any layoffs during the recent production slow-downs at Toyota. They cut hours, did training and used vacation to keep from laying-off people.

Negotiated benefits contracts that significantly reduced costs 25%.

Improved hiring process to reduce turnover for a cost savings

Successful EEOC negotiations

Unemployment Audit, successful outcome no penalty

Significant reduction in Worker’s Compensation cost due to attention to details

Handling transition from three shifts five day work schedule to four ten hours days on and four ten hour days off schedule to met production requirements.

ADP payroll back up

THE WOMEN’S HOSPITAL, Newburgh, IN 2/ 2004-6/2005

(A For-Profit Hospital targeted to females health care needs)

Human Resources Director

Management of the Human Resources functions for a 450-employee workforce. Responsible for maintaining employee issues & progressive disciplinary action processes, conducted & analyzed Employee Opinion Survey, conducting harassment investigations. Managed a staff of 1.5. Involved in JCAHO accreditation efforts.

Staffing expansion of 50 additional nursing and support positions in twelve months.

Established electronic annual enrollment for benefit packages.

FUTABA INDIANA of AMERICA (FIA), Vincennes, IN 1/2002-2/2004

(A $2B global manufacturer of automotive parts and Tier 1 supplier to TMMI of stamped and welded parts.

Human Resources and Community Affairs Manager

Managed a staff of 4-salaried employees & provided HR support to 20-salaried & 175-hourly employees for start-up operation.

As a start-up corporation, recruitment and hiring of the 175-hourly, 12-salaried supervisors and 7-managers, while managing the Visa process for 4-Japanese translators was primary. All hiring and training was accomplished on time for production.

Established all the HR systems and benefit administration, to include 401K

Led the Union Avoidance Training that was given to the management team.

Established a Safety and Ergonomic Committee for the plant.

COLLIS, Inc, Evansville, IN 1/1999-1/2002

(A $1M manufacturer of refrigerator and freezer racks and shelving for Whirlpool and GE)

Human Resources Manager

Responsible for the Human Resource function for a 300+ unionized workforce. Managed a staff of 2 & all HR activities

Achieved ISO9002 certification, introduced lean manufacturing & Gant charting concepts to the management and hourly workforce.

Negotiated successful union contract.

Moved from a traditional 5-day/8-hr production schedule and successfully implemented a 7-day/24-hr work schedule that improved productivity and quality

Evansville State Hospital, Evansville, IN 1/ 1996-1/1999

(A mental health hospital with an annual budget of $100,000)

Human Resources Director

Responsible for all HR functions for a workforce of 650 employees in two unions (with two separate union contacts), managed a staff of 3. Affirmation Action, EEOC, Investigated sexual harassment issues. Duties included strategic management, recruiting & staffing, compensation & benefits, employee relations, policy & procedures, employee handbooks, record keeping, and training & development. Actively involved with TQM (team) & JCAHO accreditation efforts.

GFI, EVANSVILLE, IN 4/1994-1/1996

(Pharmaceutical research corporation with a $250 thousand annual budget)

Human Resources Specialist

Responsible for strategic management, recruiting and staffing, compensation and benefits, employee relations, policy and procedures, employee handbooks, record keeping, and training and development.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Business/Marketing from the University of Southern Indiana

Professional in Human Resources (PHR) 1994-present

Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM)-(SHRM-CP) 2015-present

Affiliations Professional Membership/Certifications

Evansville Area Human Resources Association, 1994-present, Several board positions

2015 EHRA HR Volunteer of the year

Society of Human Resources Association (SHRM) 1992-present

IVY TECH Placement Board member 1996-present

Princeton Rotary member, 2006-present; Sectary 2011-12; President-elect 2013, President 2014-15, 2015-16

Tulip Tree Health Center, Board Member 2009-current

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