Management Human Resources/Employee Relations/Learning & Dev Expert

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

SKILL HIGHLIGHTS

CORE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

THOMAS VEGA

** ******* ***, ***** *********, MA 01373 C: 413-***-**** *.****@*******.*** Ambitious leader of organizational learning and development initiatives. Driving strategic business coaching and guidance of fact-based thinking practices within the IT Business space for product sales, manufacturing and development teams. Experienced in leading as many as six teams and providing operational coaching and mentoring at all levels of leadership regarding quality, operations, and emotional intelligence.

Labor Law/Labor Relations

Emotional Intelligence

Business Measures

Human Resources

Lean Principles/Supply Chain

Inventory/Cost Control

Benefits Administration

Change Management

Leadership/Staff Development

Operations/Project

Management

Training and Development

Secured a State Training Grant valued at over $100,000. Opened up capacity to take on $1M in additional annual sales through waste elimination.

Managed the administration of benefit packages for up to 600 staff members.

Reduced average lead times from 1 year to 8 months for development and assembly operational processes.

Successfully rolled out various training programs for populations of 100 to 600 staff members.

01/2015 to 02/2016 Continuous Improvement Consultant MassMutual Financial Group Springfield, MA

Drove strategic business coaching and guidance of fact-based thinking practices within the IT Business space for MassMutual's product and sales manufacturing and development teams. Established a customer-centric coaching and mentoring culture at all levels of leadership to ensure fact-based management systems remained in place. Initiated customer focused outcomes using a lean thought process combined with emotional intelligence to raise engagement quality, timeliness and cost reduction. 10/2011 to 01/2015 Improvement Coordinator

Baystate Medical Center Springfield, MA

Drove the education of all clinical, I.T. and non-clinical staff on A3 Thinking, facilitative leadership, organizational thinking and establishment of roles and responsibilities, change management, relationship management, process mapping, creating standardization documents, and the utilization of all of the above for fact-based management and decision making. 04/2010 to 10/2011 Training and Development Specialist TJX Companies Bloomfield, CT

Proudly led in the role of developing and deploying all training programs and materials needed to transition the organization to new engineering and efficiency production standards. Advised on strategic improvement efforts in production, benefits, and leadership training for approximately 67 members of leadership staff ship and 600 warehouse production employees. My scope included the development, deployment, and interpretation of topics such as EDUCATION

medical benefits, worker's comp, safety, floor level and administrative operational procedures, and corporate policy.

09/2004 to 08/2009 Human Resources Manager

Universal Forest Products Belchertown, MA

Led training and development of approximately 100 employees as well as deploying safety and all benefit programs. Provided guidance on all Title VII and ADA related risks and liabilities. I also successfully oversaw programs on workplace organization, set-up reduction, team building, total preventive maintenance, standardization, and performance measures. I also guided leaders and staff on active listening and effective communication skills. 2016 BBA: Business

Western New England University Springfield, MA, U.S. Minor in Business Management

Graduated Magna Cum Laude with 3.5 GPA

Coursework emphasis on Quality and Operations, Fact-Based Management and Emotional Intelligence.

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