Donald R. Scheick

**** **** ******* **. ******, OH 45458

acrwz9@r.postjobfree.com Cell: (937)829 - 5769 Home: (937)885 - 2808

CAREER SUMMARY

Seasoned Human Resources executive with extensive experience in compensation and benefits, including plan design and administration, executive and incentive compensation, union negotiations, merger & acquisition due diligence, proxy statement preparation and writing Board of Director materials. Additional skill sets include HR processes, staffing and performance management.

EXPERIENCE

Pro Mach Inc. – Loveland, OH June 2014 – July 2015

Manager, Compensation & Benefits

Responsible to establish a formal compensation and benefits function at the corporate level for this packaging equipment company, with 1,900 employees. As a department of one, accomplishments included:

Self – managed an RFP to replace the primary outside consultant.

Completed a search for and implemented an online pricing tool to provide competitive market pay data where none has been available before.

Completed discussion with all 16 business units to provide an overview and general understanding at corporate, of the range, nature and extent of division specific incentive plans. This is part of a larger project to assess if a company wide, broad – based incentive plan should be considered for 2016 to replace the various division plans currently in place.

Worked on developing a broad compensation philosophy and development of more formal processes for basic salary administration

Assumed control of all benefits for the company – design, implementation and administration.

Recommended a series of anciallary Rx programs in the company’s medical plan, which resulted in negating 95% of the forecasted increase in 2015 expenses and, for the first time, no increases in employee contributions.

Redesigned the wellness program from a series of walking challenges to one with multiple challenges covering other aspects of wellness to increase employee engagement and improved the opportunity to earn incentives.

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Cincinnati Bell Inc. – Cincinnati, OH June 2000 – Feb. 2014

Director of Compensation & Benefits

Responsible for the design, development and administration of all compensation and benefit programs for a company of 2,500 employees and 2,200 retirees. Managed an array of vendor relationships and negotiating renewals directly, and through the RFP process.

Was the sole compensation resource for the company during my last six years, whether doing routine market pricing for jobs, or writing the Compensation Committee materials for the Board of Directors

Completed a major redesign of the company’s long term incentive program, approved by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors in January 2014.

Responsible for the annual bonus plans and merit increase program – companywide.

Created and implemented a shareholder outreach program for 2014.

Achieved medical expense increase of only 2.7% per year, per capita, for salaried employees during the last six years, by implementing a high deductible healthcare plan, wellness program, and employee education.

Drove significant savings through aggressive RFPs, resulting in significant reductions in ASO fees and steep discounts for prescription drugs.

Managed an audit of the company’s pension plans by the Department of Labor without any adverse findings by the agency.

Member of a three-person primary bargaining team through three union contract negotiations, which led to major concessions by the union on healthcare plan design and freezing the pension plan for most bargaining unit employees.

Implemented a program to assist post-65 retirees in the selection of a Medicare supplement and Part D prescription drug program tailored to the retiree’s medical and financial situation.

Huffy Corporation – Miamisburg, OH Sept. 1988 – May 2000

Director of Corporate Human Resources

Responsible for all compensation and benefit programs corporate –wide, and staffing, employee relations and facilities management for the corporate staff.

Negotiated a unified design for both the medical and dental plans, covering all salaried employees in the six subsidiaries and corporate staff, each with separate plan designs.

Eliminated Hay job evaluation/grading system by developing and implementing a market-based salary grade system for corporate staff.

Changed the pension benefit formula for executives, which transferred accrued benefits under the company’s non-qualified supplemental excess retirement plan (the SERP) to the qualified plan, thereby securing the benefits of executives, while reducing the corporation’s SERP liability by $3M.

Completed redesign of sales incentive plans at four business units, providing market competitive incentive pay opportunities and improving sales profitability by tying sales goals to gross margin performance requirements.

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Filene’s Basement – Wellesley, MA 1987 – 1988

Director of Personnel Administration & Staffing

Responsible to the President for the design and administration of compensation and benefit programs, management development, corporate staffing functions, payroll functions. Supervised 13 staff.

Negotiated benefit provisions for management- led buyout of Filene’s Basement.

Designed and implemented new benefit programs in seven-week period preceding the effective date of Filene’s becoming a privately held business.

Developed successful wage model for labor contract negotiations.

Developed new salary grades/ranges for all salaried positions.

Kemper Financial Services – Chicago, IL. 1986 – 1987

Manager, Benefits & Compensation Analysis

Northwest Industries Inc. – Chicago, IL. 1980 – 1986

Associate Director, Compensation & Benefits 1985 – 1986

Manager, Employee Benefits 1982 – 1985

Corporate Staff Personnel Manager 1980 – 1982

Ford Motor Company – Dearborn, MI 1976 – 1980

EDUCATION

MBA – Michigan State University

BBA – The University of Michigan

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