Project Manager Human Resources

Location:

New Caney, TX

Posted:

December 22, 2023

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RESUME

JAMES K. DOLAN

***** ****** ***** **** • Huffman, TX 77336 • 805-***-**** • ***********@*****.*** EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Exceptional leader, strategic planner, project manager, and team motivator offering successful executive-level administrative and program management experience. First-rate personal, political, analytical, communications and government-relations skills. Outstanding ability to manage multiple large-scale projects, tasks and priorities effectively in a global environment. Superior communicator who readily distills the most complex of materials into easily- understood compelling reports and presentations. Core competencies include:

• Strategic Vision & Planning • Regional Equal Opportunity Manager

• Human Capital Management • Win-Win Negotiator, Leadership Development

• Training & Workforce Development • Master Training Specialist, Motivational Speaker

• Transformation/Change Management • Team Building, Coaching & Leadership

• Construction Project Management • Physical Fitness Instructor and Group Trainer

• Security Clearance: Active DoD Secret Security Clearance

• Computer Skills: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UNITED STATES NAVY • E-9 –Master Chief, Senior Manager/Supervisor Dec 1998 to Present Served in multiple positions of increased responsibility and complexity at various worldwide locations, demonstrating exceptional leadership, knowledge, skills, and proven abilities in the following areas:

Human Resources Management

• • Principal advisor to the senior director and 6-regional directors on operational, development, utilization, well-being, and quality life matters affecting 10,000+ personnel annually

• • Expertly support the Navy and region’s mission while encouraging the personal and professional growth of 420 instructors and staff members administering courses and learning continuums to over 10,000 students annually

• Inform senior leadership on policies, programs and procedures regarding staffing, recruitment, placement and retention, employee training/development, labor management, pay and benefits administration, employee assistance programs, health and safety, physical fitness training, Equal Opportunity (EO) and other HR issues

• Facilitator for all agencies concerning HR/personnel and quality training initiatives

• • Ensure proper counseling of individuals on HR/personnel programs, procedures and benefits

• • Participate in special initiatives to improve the HR program and its ability to provide services

• • Advisor to employees on retention activities, programs and career decisions

• • Resolve complex employee relations issues in multiple, diverse organizations Representative Accomplishments:

• • Recognized by executive leadership for instilling a culture of excellence, collective responsibility, esprit de corps, and professionalism in every individual assigned

• • Provided exceptional oversight and collaboration with community managers enabling the assembly of high-performance teams, ensuring all personnel acquired the skills necessary to be members of a global-ready force

• • Completed 575+ Career Development Boards, ensuring personnel had the right tools, information and knowledge to be successful in both personal and professional matters. JAMES K. DOLAN PAGE 2

HR Staffing/Recruitment & Classification

• • Manage human resources programs such as recruitment and placement, affirmative employment concepts, principles, regulations, programs and practices to recommend methods and strategies to resolve problems in workforce planning, downsizing and modernization initiatives

• • Provide position classification services to various organizations for positions covering a variety of professional, technical, administrative, and trade/labor

• • Develop job descriptions and evaluation statements using various position classification tools and resources

Regional Equal Opportunity (EO) Manager

• • Assist the senior director by creating and maintaining a positive EO climate throughout the region

• • Ensure the Navy’s Equal Opportunity policy becomes an integral part of day-to-day personnel management

• • Supervise identification/resolution of EO/sexual harassment and other discrimination problems/concerns

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Employee Relations

• • Handle daily employee relations counseling, transfers, and exit interviews

• • Educate and counsel managers regarding employee relations issues including but not limited to investigation, discipline, communication, termination, hiring, training, and related areas

• • Provide employee relations assistance to organizational managers of a complex nature

• • Serve as a senior specialist resolving very difficult employee relations issues in multiple, diverse organizations

• • Apply a full range of labor relations theories, principles, methods, and techniques to include interpreting labor relations law, regulation, Executive order, and decisions of labor relations matters

Training & Workforce Development Director & Master Training Specialist

• • Orchestrated the training of military and civil personnel and foreign officers sponsored by the Chief of Naval Operations with an annual throughput of 4,400 students and $5M budget

• • Senior HR Manager and Instructor to Civil Engineer Corps Officer Basic class, Naval Construction Facility Operations Basic and Advanced courses, Executive Senior Manager, Intermediate Senior Manager, and Senior Manager courses to 150 students annually

• • Responsible for the quantity and quality of work produced by instructors including development, revision, and presentation of a full range of training curricula

• • Reviewed and approved lesson plans; observed classes to determine quality of instruction and evaluate instructional methods and subject matter accuracy of instruction

• • Employed highly polished platform teaching skills, demonstration-performance, and other teaching methods

Business Management & Analysis

• • Provide sound leadership and technical oversight for work center programs associated with business processes, resource requirements and management, organizational analysis, metrics and training to accomplish objectives

• • Execute internal management support services in the areas of program cost monitoring, annual fiscal planning, and development of annual work-plans, for the procedural and relationship aspects of various agencies

• • Direct manpower and organizational studies/analyses of functions and work processes and provide management consultation to improve operational effectiveness, and resource efficiency and savings

• • Elicit, analyze, specify and validate the business needs of project stakeholders JAMES K. DOLAN PAGE 3

Project Manager

• • Managed 6-senior managers and 166-person project teams through multiple projects both overseas and in various states in US; planned and estimated construction projects, procured materials, determined time/labor requirements, defined scope, developed/managed project plans, budgets/schedules

• • Directed activities, project objectives, risk management, change control processes, and project communications

• • Coordinated, scheduled and assigned tasks, maintained working relationships with client functional areas, and ensured project progressed on schedule and within budget

• • Identified schedule solutions to keep projects moving forward, scheduled project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks to meet project objectives Employee Relations