Hr Staff Global Mobility
Resume:
Nguyen P Nguyen
** ******* ***** **., ******, TX 77382
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HR Leader with a broad business understanding of software, commercial, manufacturing, international and engineering consulting environments. Possess extensive experience in global mobility, OD, recruitment, and employee relations. Demonstrated success in both start-up and established environments with experience in leading all HR functions, and in-depth knowledge of compensation, acquisitions, and compliance. Proven ability to supply calm, effective and efficient HR leadership under extraordinary challenging circumstances. Substantial experience in delivering enterprise-wide initiatives, systems, and services.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Successfully designed and built HR function from the ground level.
Experienced working with C-level and BOD in delivery of actionable initiatives (M&A, ESG, DEI)
Effectively held multiple HR Lead roles in a Lean-driven manufacturing culture
HR Lead in the expatriate assignments of staff to Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Australia
HR Lead in implementing enterprise-wide HR initiatives such as Ceridian DayForce, ORACLE, SumTotal (on-line Performance and Salary Management system), standardizations of policies and procedures, HR organizational realignments, training (cultural, on-boarding, and technical), Benefits management, and unique HR projects (Libya start-up)
HRIS implementation experience (which included MS Dynamics, CERIDIAN DayForce, Spectrum, BEST, ORACLE, and Brassring ATS) from RFP to installation and training.
HR Lead in acquisitions: HR due diligence, employee integration, data conversion, 401K and benefits conversion, payroll conversion.
HR Lead for operating companies during IPO process
100% retention of HR staff in the past twenty years, with an emphasis on HR staff development. EXPERIENCE
DAVIES GROUP (US) VP HR 02/2023 – 08/2024
HR Leadership role in the Insurance Services division of Davies Group, a specialized professional services and technology firm across ten countries, serving more than 1,500 insurance, financial services, public sector, and other highly regulated clients, with M&A as a key growth strategy.
• Led HR effort in all M&A activities, from due diligence through integration of staff, programs, policies, platforms and processes.
• Responsible for realignment and unification of all HR areas: staff, benefits & 401K, HRIS, compensation, policies, procedures, programs, etc.
• Provide C-level input on strategies, coaching & mentoring, and organizational development. BAKER HUGHES HR for HR Lead 07/2022 – 11/2022
Baker Hughes is one of the world's largest oil field services companies with a diverse portfolio of equipment and service capabilities that span the energy and industrial value chain.
• Short-term assignment to provide initial strategic and tactical approaches to support the HR team of Baker Hughes’ largest division.
SIMULATIONS PLUS VP HR 04/2019 – 01/2022
Simulations Plus (SLP) is a leading provider of software and consulting services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. SLP's modeling and simulation solutions can improve productivity while lowering cost of drug development from early discovery all the way through regulatory approval.
• Built effective and efficient HR functions from ground level in one year.
• C-level partnering and coaching, with direct BOD interaction on HR initiatives.
• Leading the drive to deliver progressive, effective, and efficient HR practices across all divisions.
• Direct functional oversight of IT, Legal and Data Privacy (inclusive of GDPR)
• Successful integration of Lixoft, a newly acquired division in France.
• Unified all three US divisional benefits plans.
• Implemented: Flexible Vacation Policy, Travel Policy, and Return-To-Work Policy (post- Covid)
• Rolled out new all-SLP Career Path.
• Leadership role in recently ESG and DEI initiatives
• ERP implementation and Incentive Compensation plan USA ENVIRONMENT Director HR & IT 04/2016 – 04/2019 Provided HR Leadership in realigning HR and IT talents, resources, and processes to drive and improve company operating performances to achieve business objectives for a Private-Equity-owned environmental services company.
Full scope of HR responsibilities:
Employee Relations Talent Acquisition Health and Welfare Executive Coaching Training
Policy and Procedure Performance Management Salary Administration New Hire Orientation
Metrics and Statistics
Full scope of IT responsibilities:
Establish, plan, evaluate and execute IT solutions, policies, and procedures to achieve overall organizational goals Manage IT staff, Help-Desk support, Telecommunications, and IT inventory.
Optimize and maintain existing applications and infrastructure, including maintenance, development, and upgrades Control IT budget and expenditures
HR & IT initiatives:
• HRIS conversion from Paychex to CERIDIAN DayForce
• Comprehensive Benefits and 401K realignment
• Job Title and Career Path & Performance Management redesign
• Incentive Compensation Plan redesign
• Unified Internet/Intranet Webpage redesign
PENTAIR Senior HR Manager 09/2013 – 03/2016
• Within the first three months, assessed, re-calibrated, realigned, and standardized operational HR talents, processes, and resources for optimal delivery of HR services for the largest manufacturing plant for Pentair Valves & Controls, which also included defining road maps for effective and efficient leveraging of Center-of-Excellence capabilities.
• Concurrently, led the Stafford HR team through the successful integrations of Benefits, 401K, Payroll cycle changes, PeopleSoft HRIS, Performance Management, Compensation Planning, migrated from legacy TYCO Flow Controls to PENTAIR.
• Assumed interim Change Management Lead role for the Americas region at the start-up phase of the Organizational Management Transformation (OMT) initiative, which was a complete restructuring and realignment of functions, process, systems, and talents across the entire GBU. Effectively held this role until successfully transitioned responsibilities to the permanent Change Management Lead.
• Managed HR staff with the full scope of HR responsibilities in a lean-driven manufacturing culture. AECOM HR Director 05/1998 – 09/2013
AECOM is a global provider of professional technical and management support services to a broad range of markets, including transportation, facilities, environmental, energy, water, and government. A Fortune 500 company, AECOM serves clients in approximately 125 countries with approximately 60,000 employees around the world.
International
• Manage total life cycle staffing process: recruiting, deployment, and in-placement repatriation.
• Direct full global mobility cycle: complete visa process, tax treatment, travel coordination and cultural orientation
• Responsible for all strategic and operational HR deliverables: employee engagement, turnover reports, performance management, annual salary reviews, employee relations, HR processing and administration.
• HR Lead in international business development effort, with travels to Libya and Viet Nam Organizational Development
• Technological: HR Corporate Lead on BrassRing ATS and ORACLE Conversion
• Interpersonal: Reorganized and redeployed divisional HR Department from an administrative function to HR Partnership within 10 months
• Structural: Led special HR Task Group to centralize eight divisional HRD’s Recruitment
• Realigned the recruiting function to meet company’s strategic and tactical staffing needs for Executives, Senior Engineers and Project Managers, CADD Technicians and Support Staff
• Successful implementation of a full-cycle Campus Recruiting Program and an Internship Program Employee Relations
• Coached executives and Senior Managers on improving sensitivity and awareness.
• Investigated and managed issues with Manager-Staff working relationship.
• Corporate Lead in handling calls, mostly anonymous, to the Ethics and Compliance Hotline Compliance
• HR Lead for Sarbanes-Oxley audits and ISO-9001 audits
• HR Lead for OFCCP Audits
Training
• Implemented on-line training tools such as SkillSoft and Red Vector
• Implemented successful in-house trainings such as Harassment, Diversity, and Interviewing Skills HR Management
• Managed a team of five Corporate HR staff and has direct oversight of ten Field HR Liaisons, with a full scope of HR responsibilities: Employee Engagement, Policy and Procedure, Performance Management, Salary Administration, New Hire Orientation and Metrics and Statistics
• Successful development of HR staff from Administrators to Generalist and Manager American Bureau of Shipping HR Generalist 01/1991 – 05/1998 ABS is an international marine classification and engineering company with more than 140 offices in almost 90 countries.
• Employee Relations and Human Resources Information System (HRIS) DHRG Inc. Supervisor Recruiter 08/1988 – 10/1990
• Recruitment and placement of technical professionals - engineers, computer programmers. UNHCR Principal / Teacher 09/1987 – 06/1988
• Voluntary duty in a closed camp of more than 3,000 Vietnamese refugees
• Assumed Principal position for the children school of 300 after three months of assignment.
• Designed class syllabus, teacher schedules.
• Taught survival English to adults in the evening. Geosources Inc. Engineer 07/1985 – 01/1987
• Electronic troubleshooting on geophysical data acquisition systems EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University
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