Michael Nugent

I am a Chartered HR Professional with international and local experience in HR, OD, and T&D.

I am excellent at balancing people vs business priorities and operational vs strategic goals.

EMPLOYMENT:

Self-employed HR Consultant: M2 Consulting

November 2003 to present Johannesburg

I provide generalist HR services and advice; OD, Training & Change interventions and HR Project Management services through my own consultancy, or in collaboration with others. I also provide employment relations and labour law advice.

Memorable projects include:

oProject-managed all HR aspects of the merger of a retail and a cosmetics business worth R350 million.

oUpskilled IT staff of a bank across 16 African countries. I ran a number of HR projects across Africa for this bank.

oPlanned the complete overhaul and retraining project for a Lesotho clothing factory.

o Managed change initiatives within FNB and Massmart.

H.R. Consultant: JATO Dynamics Ltd

November 2002 to March 2003 (contract) London, U.K.

JATO Dynamics gathers and disseminates data and statistics for vehicles and vehicle sales. It had 300 staff across 42 countries.

I successfully upgraded all HR processes & procedures to industry standards and hired their first HR Director.

(Returned to South Africa)

H.R. Consultant: Band-X Ltd. (Telco)

September 2001 to March 2002 London, U.K.

Band X brokers international bandwidth for wholesale ISP’s vendors globally.

I managed a retrenchment exercise in their UK, US & Germany offices and closed down their France, Netherlands, India and Brazil offices, retrenching all staff.

(Contract ended)

Human Resource Manager: Level 3 Communications (Telco)

December 1998 to July 2001 London, UK

Level 3 Communications owns and operates about 1/3 of the world’s internet infrastructure, including international and undersea cables. The London office managed the UK, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

As European Recruitment Manager and sole resource, I grew the company from 300 to 1,600 staff across five countries in less than a year. With only two other HR staff, we provided a full HR service, including creating policies and procedures for Europe for 18 months. I also established the Training & OD functions and managed the Netherlands HR office.

I then managed the redundancy programme which retrenched 80% of the European staff over three months.

(Redundancy)

Human Resource Manager: CMS Cameron McKenna law firm

September 1997 to December 1998 London, UK

CMS is a large multinational Corporate Law firm based in London.

I provided a full HR service to a third of the practice’s 150 lawyers, with 3 subordinates.

(Head-hunted to Level 3)

Human Resource Manager: (maternity cover) Alcatel Telecom Ltd.

November 1996 to July 1997 Banbury, UK

This unit sold large telecoms switches to UK operators.

I provided a full Human Resource function for 150 high-tech staff, with two subordinates.

(Contract ended)

Development Consultant: (contract) London Transport

June 1995 to September 1996

London Transport operates the tube trains and buses in London. They never retrench staff for fear of strikes, so surplus staff were transferred to a displacement unit until they found alternative work. When I joined, some staff had been displaced for 3 years or more.

My role was to train & develop the 100+ displaced staff to help them to find alternative employment. We were hired after many other initiatives had failed to move long-term displaced staff. Most of the training was developed from scratch to meet the particular needs of the displaced staff.

I was also a part-time lecturer in Employee Relations at the University of Greenwich.

(Contract ended)

Proposal Centre Co-ordinator Unisys Limited

September 1994 to April 1995 London, UK

(This was not a HR role)

I managed up to seven ad hoc matrix teams generating tender proposals for large-scale IT system projects. The work required excellent IT knowledge (for a non-tech role), expert knowledge of MS Office and effective team skills in a time-critical environment.

(Contract ended)

Human Resources Manager Ford Motor Company

January 1991 to March 1994 London, UK

Initially working in the UK Head Office in the National Wage Negotiation Team, I later worked in the Dagenham factory, a strongly unionised environment, as HR Manager for the Body Plant and Croydon Factory).

H.R. Officer & Manager SA Breweries

July 1984 to July 1990 Cape Town & Johannesburg

HR Officer for the Cape distribution operation of 150 staff (July ’84 to Sept ’87).

I served my military National Service as an Industrial Psychologist Officer in the Medical Corps during my employment.

HR Manager for the Krugersdorp Distribution operation (09/87 to 07/90). I was also acting Industrial Relations Manager and acting site HR Manager for 13 months.

(Resigned to travel overseas)

EDUCATION:

1980- 1982 University of Cape Town

Bachelor of Social Science degree

1983 University of Cape Town

Post-Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management

CONTACT DETAILS:

Address: 25 Prentice Road

Greenside, Johannesburg 2193

Links: ad2xpv@r.postjobfree.com

http://za.linkedin.com/in/mikenugent/

Mobile phone: +27-722-***-***

Home phone: +27 (0-10-646-****

Skype: mikenugent0701

S.A. ID: 620**********

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