Human Resources Management

E r i c S t e v e n G r i e s e l

Houston, TX ***29 • Skype: eric.griesel • (m) 713-***-**** • e78ris@r.postjobfree.com • Will Relocate • Will Travel

* Providing Senior Level/C-Suite Tactical & Strategic Leadership in Human Resources, General Legal Counseling, Risk Management, Employee Safety and Operations in Diverse Industries *

Leveraging strategic competencies and aggressively working to develop and more fully integrate and engage human capital, reverse dysfunctional organizations, create safer working environments, insulate organizations from state and federal regulatory predators and protect company assets. A passionate leader, team member and ‘game-changer’ able to eliminate your pain points while creating a sustainable, reproducible organization.

A ‘GO-TO’ STRATEGIC ALLY OFTEN CALLED UPON TO FASHION SYNERGISTIC SOLUTIONS FOR END-USERS.

• Recognized Change Agent who has (1) Facilitated successful management and cultural transformation at Vopak’s North American headquarters, which aligned organizational goals with newly created culture and core values, generated management collaboration and training, and reversed declining morale and record-high work-related injuries; (2) Driven cultural change and related supervisory training, while instituting state-of-the-art recruiting and onboarding protocols that resulted in improved recruiting efficiencies and increases of 9% and 11% of revenues in 1999 and 2000, while also reducing attrition percentage from more than 60% to nearly 0% at targeted facilities;

• Designed, implemented and developed ‘from scratch’ multiple support departments (i.e., HR, Legal & Risk Mgmt.) with multi-state employers and more than 7,500 FTEs, consistently within budgetary constraints; operationalized standardized employment and safety practices that successfully engaged employees and either reduced or totally eliminated work-related injuries at all facilities – significantly exceeding departmental deliverables annually; prepared and implemented all policies and protocols; implemented two Human Resource Information Systems;

• Created high-performance teams that consistently exceeded expected deliverables, including becoming impervious to employment law claims and litigation; mentored and coached team members that compiled impressive and unmatched records of ZERO regulatory complaints or fines with all employers;

• Supported aggressive M, A & D activity including negotiations, due diligence, and integrating and rebadging targeted acquisitions resulting in seamless and immediately profitable transitions;

• Negotiated 24 contracts as ‘first-chair’ with Teamsters, UAW, IBEW and SEIU; obtained favorable decisions in 26 of 28 arbitrations in labor-strong Great Lakes area; decertified SEIU local and successfully defended action before Regional NLRB; established Union avoidance environments that successfully withstood aggressive organizing efforts;

• Enhanced employee benefits annually by consistently monitoring usage and loss runs, ongoing training and education of healthcare end-users and remaining engaged with insurers to make timely adjustments, while insuring renewals were aligned with quantifiable metrics;

• Crafting decisive ‘strategic’ HR plans through engineering and networking of knowledge and analysis of critical information creating an indispensable asset in strategic leadership;

• Driving employee lost-time injuries from record-high figures to 0 lost day injuries at targeted facilities: and

• Converted Texas employers from workers’ comp to ‘non-subscription’ status, resulting in more than $1,000,000 bottom line savings per facility.

REPRESENTATIVE CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Strategic and Tactical Leadership and Management

• Fully Aligned Employee Engagement

• Credible Activist and Cultural Steward

• Superior Collaborator and Communicator

• Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures

• Organizational Development and Design

• Strategy Architect and Succession Planning

• Talent and Performance Management • Union and Non-Union Employee Relations

• Mentoring and Executive Coaching

• Training & Development Aligned to Strategic Goals

• Architect of High Performance HR Teams

• Advocate of Servant Leadership

• Risk Assessment and Risk Avoidance

• Legal Support and Regulatory Compliance

• Litigation Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GLOBALSTAINE ENERGY CORPORATION – Centennial, Colorado / Houston, Texas and Dallas, Texas

Chief HR & Legal Officer; reported to the CEO/Co-Founder (3/2007 – Present: Currently PRN)

C-Level Executive with oversight authority for Human Resources, Legal and Risk Management activity for this international energy / oil and natural gas / construction start-up company. During the first year my activity was limited to creating the company, preparing all governance documents, strategic planning, state and federal filings, addressing SEC questions, client presentations, financial concerns and setting up corporate infrastructure and supporting the corporate officers in any operational manner essential to our mission. Unfortunately, the company has yet to achieve positive cash flow and that appears unlikely to change anytime soon.

COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC. - Dalton, Georgia & Macon, Georgia

Vice President, Human Resources; reported to the COO (3/2006 – 12/2006)

First VPHR for $375M integrated healthcare company tasked with implementing comprehensive organizational strategies to seamlessly absorb recent acquisitions.

• Created HR Strategic plan within budget; helping drive cultural changes, insuring organizational development strategy aligned with, and mapped to, key initiatives for large number of recent targeted acquisitions;

• Triggered more than $200,000 in savings in month ONE by resolving COBRA benefits’ tracking issues;

• Redesigned and redefined 18 member HR Department to include:

o conversion to shared services model

o enhanced value of employee training and development deliverables by closer alignment with strategic goals, and

o providing greater ROI through enhanced proficiency and stronger organizational presence

• Introduced and implemented performance management, achieving tighter strategic alignment; and,

• Provided Executive Coaching for middle and senior level executives, including C-Suite members and the COO.

RESOURCES GLOBAL PROFESSIONALS - Houston, Texas

HR/Legal Consultant/Associate: reported to the Office Director (9/2004 – 2/2006)

Provided HR and Legal consultation for domestic and international corporate clients on a ‘PRN’ basis.

• Provided expansive HR and Legal solutions for C-Level and senior client executives;

• Facilitated change management initiatives throughout N.A. headquarters of the world’s largest international provider of conditioned storage facilities for bulk liquids and gases; and,

• Evaluating operations to insure alignment of strategic goals with clients’ overall business objectives.

NEXUS HEALTH SYSTEMS, LTD. - Houston, Texas

VP, HR & Risk Management/General Counsel; reported to Owners (8/1998 – 8/2004)

First VP, HR and Risk Management/General Counsel for privately held healthcare company with revenues at or above $50,000,000.

• Collaborated with shareholders to develop corporate culture, core values and organization restructuring; map out detailed implementation plan and execute plan within time and budgetary constraints;

• Facilitated external branding and communication campaigns to fortify reputation as employer of choice in the competitive nursing market;

• Bolstered strength of leadership teams through strategic implementation of Organizational Leadership Development and Succession Planning programs;

• Oversight authority for casualty and liability coverages, including monitoring loss runs and negotiating renewals resulting in savings well in excess of $300,000 during just one renewal period;

• Implemented new safety standards and protocols that resulted in reduction in workers' compensation claims by 70%; reversed spiraling trends of three facilities from record high lost-day injuries - to 0 lost day injuries in 2 years;

• Converted Texas facilities to non-subscribers, developing internal networks to record, monitor and treat work-related injuries – with savings in excess of $1,000,000 when compared against projected premium increases; and,

• Implemented effective litigation management resulting in significant cost savings, while realizing superior outcomes.

THE VINEYARD, INC. - Carrollton, Texas (and formerly Clovis, New Mexico)

VP, Law & Admin/Chief Administrative Officer; reported to CEO (1/1996 – 8/1998)

HR, Legal, Risk Management, Admin & IT support for 250,000+ square-foot medium manufacturer and sales force with International business partners and suppliers and more than 800 FTEs in multiple locations.

• Initiated employee recognition/incentive programs through employee engagement and performance management;

• Instituted company’s first Safety Committee, eliminating work-related injuries by more than 55% in year ONE; and,

• Credited for achieving zero employment law related lawsuits or settlements during my near three-year tenure.

Prior successes additionally include Director of Human Resources and Risk Management/General Counsel, Chartwell Healthcare Corporation, Dallas, TX; Associate General Counsel, HEA Management Group, Inc, (a/k/a Texas Health Enterprises) Denton, TX; Top Billing Associate Attorney, Healthcare & Employment Law Sections, Shannon, Gracey, Ratliff & Miller, Fort Worth, TX; and, Chief Counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in Dallas, TX and in Sherman, TX (totaling more than 850 licensed beds).

U.S. Military Service

Lieutenant-Commander, U.S. Navy Reserves, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, at multiple tenant commands, including Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, TX (NASCC) and Naval Air Station Hospital, Corpus Christi, TX. Responsible for prosecuting more than 100 capital/felony cases, approximately 50 administrative hearings and overseeing the Civil Claims Department, that maintained in excess of $350,000,000 in overall claims responsibility for Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Rated top JAGC Officer on board NASCC over all other JAGC officers during first full reporting period. Received more than $200,000 worth of training during tenure at NASCC. Honorable Discharges received for both Active and Reserve duty.

EDUCATION, LICENSING & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• JD - University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. Received American Jurisprudence Awards for Contracts & Civil Procedure. Selected “Best Advocate” - First-Year Moot Court competition.

• Completed all coursework towards MPA without taking oral boards - University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.

• BA, Political Science - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.

• Admitted to practice law in Colorado, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas.

• Professional Memberships: State Bars of Texas and Georgia; and, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

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