Comp. Manager - design and administration

DARRYL K. LEWIS, CCP

Email: *********@***.***, Home Telephone - 718-***-****, Cell Telephone - 347-***-****

Mailing address: 155-23 116th Drive, Jamaica, New York 11434-1513

COMPENSATION PROFESSIONAL - CAREER SUMMARY

Provided progressive organizations a platform for the development, delivery, and maintenance of state-of-the-art

compensation services and performance management systems, by creating a compensation philosophy that adopts

and/or adapts the underlying principles of total compensation (inclusive of base salaries, incentives, bonuses,

compression payments, benefits, and performance project management); thereby delivering the means to measure and

sustain a desirable but affordable competitive posture with respect to their specific external markets of peer business

organizations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Population Council

2000 – Dec. 31, 2014: Compensation Manager

Administer all company programs relating to compensation and performance management. Provide progressive

strategies that attract and retain a competent and qualified workforce domestically as well as internationally.

• Internal compensation consultant/advisor to 13 Population Council overseas offices spanning Africa, Asia, and

Latin America, and was instrumental in restructuring the salary increase budgeting process for all

international offices with respect to cost of labor rates rather than CPI indices.

• Ensured organization compliance to such government mandates as defined by the Fair Labor Standards Act.

• Enabled the Population Council to pay competitive salaries to its U.S.A. staff, executives, and expatriates, by

monitoring the pay practices of the domestic external market (employing Kenexa market-pricing software),

and suggesting and deploying a consistent strategy over a ten-year period that eventually met our philosophy’s

goal as of the year 2011.

• Administered and designed major portions of the domestic year-end salary increase program.

• Introduced the “deliverable” job description writing style that established a direct connection to similar

external market jobs, as well as the internal performance management process.

• Implemented an objective goal/competency oriented performance management program.

• Introduced success rate data as a measure of production and efficiency for recruitment sources.

• Compared market data experience requirements to job candidates’ actual experience, thereby gaining the

important data to economically negotiate starting salaries that were actually external market driven.

• Converted the salary increase system from an across-the-board general increase system to a merit pay-for-

performance system.

• Addressed the informational needs of compensation administration by serving as the principal compensation

advisor during the HRIS conversion to the Ceridian system.

MTA/New York City Transit

1987 – 2000: Manager, Compensation Planning

Addressed the specific concerns of operating and administrative areas, on a project basis, by conceptualizing and

implementing innovative compensation and salary administration programs.

• Served as principal compensation liaison for PeopleSoft HRIS conversion.

• Developed and proposed a short-term project oriented capital program incentive initiative that employed

targeted milestones with specific dollar awards funded by decreased percentages of expected and projected

costs overruns.

• Co-developed and delivered senior management training seminars relative to compensation and job

evaluation systems.

• Implemented a $700,000 program providing relief for managerial salary compression.

The Long Island Savings Bank

1986 – 1987: Manager, Compensation and Benefits Administration

Developed, installed, and maintained programs pertaining to executive compensation, salary administration

policy, merit budgeting and structure movement, defined contribution and benefit plans, and employee

welfare. Assisted in the development of a spot bonus program for clericals and secretaries.

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National Benefit Life Insurance Company (subsidiary of American Can Company)

1985 – 1986: Manager, Compensation and Benefits

Developed and administered procedures for wage and salary, executive compensation, salary surveys, salary

budgets and salary range projections, employee 401(k) plan, group insurance, and pension plans.

Administered executive bonus program based upon targeted revenue goals associated with specific percentage

awards.

ADDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT ASSIGNMENTS & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Newsweek Magazine

Manager, Salary and Benefits Administration

Administered salary increases and the Hay job evaluation program.

Supervised the administration of the 401(k) savings plan and company health, pension, and disability plans.

New York Stock Exchange

Senior Compensation Analyst

Assisted in the development and implementation of a market-pricing evaluation system and corresponding job

descriptions.

Developed corporate salary structure as well as annual individual and divisional salary planning format.

Administered year-end bonus program as a function of salary grades.

Stauffer Chemical Company

Senior Compensation Analyst

Participated in salary surveys and analyzed results. Prepared and reviewed salary adjustment programs for selected

plants and regional offices. Assisted in the preparation of annual salary increase budgets and salary range adjustment

proposals.

American Express Company

Senior Compensation Analyst – Travelers Cheque and Money Order Division

Assisted in the Hay job evaluation of all positions in the divisional headquarters. Counseled employees on available

company benefits and performed requested pension calculations.

New York Life Insurance Company

Job Evaluation Assistant

Recommended position evaluations to the Job Evaluation Committee. Conducted, analyzed, and participated in salary

surveys among other financial organizations.

EDUCATION

WorldatWork Certification (formerly American Compensation Association)

Certified Compensation Professional (CCP)

B.A., Queens College of the City University of New York

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

WorldatWork

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