LOUISA E. DEPASS, PHR/SHRM-CP

adzmus@r.postjobfree.com I 703-***-**** I Centreville, VA I https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisadepass/ Human Resources Senior Leader with proven success in winning the talent war. Strategic change agent – executing on high-level human resources initiatives to achieve business results, shareholder value, and employer-of-choice status for small to large global companies. A trusted advisor to senior leadership, stakeholders, and employees; equally adept at building and directing high-performing HR organizations. Demonstrates business acumen via leveraging previous profit and loss responsibilities gleaned from years of successfully navigating the complex government contractor arena as well as a background in retail store management. Holds a TS/SCI clearance. Additional key strengths include:

• Coaching & Mentoring

• Project Management

• Global Staff Mobilization

• Benefits & Compensation Strategy

• Dispute/Conflict Resolution/Employee

Relations

• Leadership Development

• Talent Acquisition

• Employee Engagement

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

• Risk Mitigation

• PeopleSoft/Workday/SAP/Oracle/Deltek

• Succession Planning

• People Leadership

• Performance Management

• M&A Talent Upscaling

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BAE Systems, Inc., Sterling, VA May 2020 – July 2023 Sr. Director, Human Resources

Strategic human resources business partner driving key initiatives for $800M+ intelligence business unit supporting 1,800 global employees.

• Built a team of 6 cleared human resources business partners with zero turnover over 18 months.

• Designed and successfully deployed low-cost leader feedback program as one key element in support of employee engagement during pandemic.

• Designed and facilitated more than 10 HR team and manager - employee listening and learning sessions using the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging lens as the project manager during the pandemic.

• Created and executed new fringe benefits package for 400+ cleared employees to gain market competitive edge against intense talent war.

• Designed and developed bi-annual salary planning for highly skilled software engineers resulting in a decrease of voluntary attrition of 8%+.

• Voting Member of the Inc level Retirement Committee Advisory Board.

• Change management and risk lead for all COVID processes for 1,800 employees, 70% working on government site with differing requirements. Managed the pilot group for corporate-wide programs.

Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD Jul 2019 – May 2020 Sr. Talent Management Project Manager

Recruiter to fill the Corporate project manager for the Executive Leadership Team’s talent management succession program for $53B – Fortune 60 global company.

• Led key initiatives within the talent management Center of Excellence (COE) to align high potential leaders with enterprise-wide career advancement programs.

• Designed and developed project plan for transforming the bi-annual succession plan – savings in labor hours and repeatability.

Parsons Corporation, Centreville, VA Aug 2016 – July 2019 Director, Human Resources Business Partner

Recruited to fill this strategic human resources business partner role driving all key initiatives for cyber & intelligence and Defense markets supporting 2,500 global employees.

• Responsible for designing and executing leadership development programs for the two highest- growth divisions.

• Ethics Officer with full case management responsibilities to mitigate company risk while managing employee relations and balancing a dynamic growth culture.

• Partnered with the P&L leadership and corporate functions to drive the people growth engine for Parson’s cyber & intelligence market which grew 35% + YoY. LOUISA E. DEPASS, PHR/SHRM-CP 703-***-**** adzmus@r.postjobfree.com Page 2 of 2 General Dynamics Information Technology, Fairfax, VA Apr 2016 – Aug 2016 Human Resources Business Partner, Talent Management Performance management project manager driving cultural change in designing and employing new performance management methodology and retention initiatives focused on winning the talent war. Performance coach within the Talent Management COE to leadership for $1.8B health and civilian division within GDIT supporting 15,000 global employees. Leidos and SAIC (company spilt), Reston, VA Aug 2004 – Apr 2016 Vice President, Director of Human Resources

Key strategist and executive leader providing human capital expertise to senior management of $1.3B intelligence and cyber business unit with 3,500 global employees. Directed 65-person HR team through full life cycle talent management prior to SAIC’s split into 2 separate entities. Provided direction in matrixed solutions center model for staff planning and deployment, organizational and leadership development, organizational effectiveness, compensation strategy, retention consulting, employee relations, management training, dispute/conflict resolution, and compliance assessments.

• Spearheaded HR programs in line with business objectives, including reducing turnover 10%+ in key customer-centric locations, decreasing time-to-fill 10%+ for open positions, and recruiting and retaining key technical/management staff.

• Led human resources redesign for business unit with successful migration of employees to Leidos while reducing HR budget 20%.

• Drove talent management needs assessment to facilitate change in succession planning, management effectiveness and assessments, retention surveys, leadership coaching, employee engagement and action planning, and performance management utilizing incentive tools and metrics.

• Co-lead for Workday systems transition from legacy PeopleSoft platform for global mobility module.

• Headed due diligence and new staff transitions for more than 5 target company acquisitions, including completing compliance reviews for all benefit and compensation plans.

• Steered enterprise-wide policy committee for newly formed Leidos.

• Provided HR thought leadership for business unit’s CMMI Level 3 certification. ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

CACI (formerly American Management Systems, Inc. (AMS) - Sr. HR Manager Nov 1999 - May 2004 Lockheed Martin Corporation - HR Manager Aug 1998 - Nov 1999 Raytheon (formerly Hughes Aircraft Company) - HR Manager Apr 1997 - Aug 1998 EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS

B.S., University of Maryland, College Park

Professional in Human Resources (PHR) through HRCI Society for HR Management (SHRM) Certified Professional (SHRM-CP) Certificate in Management, University of Virginia, Darden School of Business Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Qualified

Human Capital Institute, Coaching for Engagement and Performance (CEP) Certified, 2017

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