Human Resource Employee Relations

Keith Kydd

Mission Viejo, CA. *****

801-***-**** * E-Mail: **********@*******.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/Keith Kydd

Results-driven human resource management professional with extensive experience helping global organizations drive results through human capital. Demonstrated strengths that include: advising organizational need, setting strategic/tactical direction, implementing initiatives that enhance corporate performance, staffing, and employee relations counseling.

WORKFORCE PLANNING ACHIEVEMENTS:

- Interviewed, hired, and placed 10,000 new hires from 60,000 applicants to work at CityCenter-Aria Resort, Las Vegas within 10 months as a member of a team of HR professionals.

- Managed workforce business partnering for 300 consultants in North America and India as a founding member of the resource management office at Adobe Systems.

AREAS of EXPERIENCE

Succession Planning

Organization Development

Leadership Development

Project Management/Resource

EEOC Compliance

HR Analysis

Employee Relations

Policy Planning

Total Rewards

Performance Management

Recruiting

Head Count Projections

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Kawasaki Motors Corp 2015-2017

Sr. Human Resource Business Partner

Responsibility statement

-Oversee the headcount budget for the Kawasaki President and Vice President’s

-Designed and implemented Performance Management process called, “check-in”

-Leader in the succession planning process for Kawasaki

-Managed compensation review and benchmark

-Charged with providing human resource guidance and support to all levels of management

-Manage and resolve successfully employee relations issues

-Oversaw the strategic business partner initiative that achieves the mission, vision and business goals for my business units

-Liaison between USA corporate legal counsel and X Patriot Japanese executive management

HR Service Inc. 2015 (temporary)

Human Resource Consultant and Compliance Coach

Responsibility statement

-HR consultant partnering with all levels of management and business units on strategies and HR guidance practices

-Conduct employee relations counseling and sensitivity training

-Charged with helping companies become ERISA (Employment Retirement Income Security Act) compliant

-Interpreter of HR labor laws, benefits, total rewards, employee handbook creation

-Coaching benefit providers and employers on how to be Department of Labor compliant

Adobe Systems 2011-2014

Workforce Business Partner/Resource MGT

Responsibility statement

-Directed the Resource Management office where I designed, developed, recruited and launched the workforce planning process for the consulting department and sales department

-Successfully managed multiple merger and acquisition buyouts of employees who assimilated into the Adobe family

-Coached and counseled management and employees regarding human resource policies and procedures

-Human Resource Business Partner liaison with all levels of management from VP, Director, Legal and Sales

-Interviewed and staffed all projects in NA with consultants and on boarded new employee consultants

-Oversaw 250 consultants in India and North America who are focused on implementation and optimization projects

-Handled employee relations for consulting department- resolving conflicts between client, consultant

Adobe Systems 2010-2011

Talent Coordinator Generalist

Responsibility statement

-Managed complex candidate interview scheduling for phone screens, in-person and remote

-Interviewed and prescreened candidates

-HR Business Partnered with senior recruiters and hiring managers (mediate conflicts, terminations)

-In charge of auditing offer and candidate information to ensure data accuracy for a smooth new hire integration process

-Partnered with HR shared services team to ensure the candidate is hired accurately into SAP

-Directed the onboarding process/ I-9 process/EEOC & AA compliance

-Teamed with other staff on the development and delivery of HR policies, practices and procedures that guide the business

-Maintained compliance with federal, state and local laws for employment

CityCenter-Las Vegas

HR Advisor Generalist 2008-2009

Responsibility statement

-Implemented HR policies as a generalist, partnering with business operations to ensure a complete understanding of business needs and objectives

-Recruited for several hundred positions

-Charged with interviewing up to 100 candidates per day on various positions

-Managed pre-employment process, including posting positions, applicant tracking, background investigation, job offers, new hiring process and career development

-Supervised union position offerings

Stay at home Dad 2006-2008

Andrus Transportation

HR Managing Recruiter 2004-2006

Responsibility statement

-Provided advice and counsel to managers on company policies, employment laws and employee relation issues to ensure that management principles, objectives and programs are consistently practiced

-Recruited over 15 drivers a week

-Managed the implementation of staffing strategies that provide a qualified and diverse candidate pool

-Managed employee relations counseling

-Planned organized and implemented job fair that attracted 100 potential drivers- over 40 hired

SYSTEM PROFICIENCIES

MS Office (word, excel, power point, outlook), applicant tracking system-Taleo, SAP, Sales Force, AtTask-project management tool, PeopleSoft, EchoSign and other Adobe products, Oracle, UltiPro, ACT, iRecruit, and Workday, Lotus Notes

EDUCATION

-Masters of Science Human Resources Utah State University

-Bachelors of Science in Business University of Phoenix

Current Human Resource memberships

- SHRM

- PIHRA

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