About The CEO

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Shaun Thomas is a skilled and diverse HR People and Operations Professional with unique and balanced experience in both large enterprise Fortune 500 and start-up environments for over 25 years. She currenty holds a Bachelor's of Science in Leadership, a Master's of Business Administration in Human Resources Management, a Master's of Jurisprudence in Labor and Employment Law from Tulane University's School of Law, as well as semester credit hours towards her Ph.D. in Human Resources Management.  She is also a certified Agile Coach, certified to train and certify new learners in Agile Methodologies She is well versed in each of the HR areas, with emphasis in Labor and Employment law and HR Project Management.  Her excellent skills, great personality, capacity to learn, and versatility will be an asset to your organization. Below is a brief snapshot of additional experiences:

HR Leadership/Management

Ten (10) years’ experience providing professional leadership, executing decisions, and assuming ownership of high impact deliverables for the organization:

· Managed up to 50-100 employees at a time

· Supported 300 employees regarding performance management and employee relations

· Supported 700 recruiters and recruiting managers with ATS requests and training

Technical and Non-Technical Project Management

 Over five (5) years of HR Project Management.

· Coupa to Workday Financial migration (BSM/Procurement integration)

· Workday Recruit (Configuration and data management)

· Beeline to Fieldglass migration (VMS migration)

· JDE to SAP Peoplesoft migration (ERP migration)

· Asana Implementation

· Smash fly and Text Recruit to BrassRing Integration (CRM integration)

· ATS configurations and change requests

· ADP to UltiPro and Equifax migration (ATS migration)

· Diversity and Inclusion Council projects

· Global Employee Engagement Survey for “Great Place to Work” certification project

Employee Relations

Over five (5) years’ experience in employee relations  

· Provided coaching, guidance and expertise to leaders to address employee conduct and performance related concerns.

· Complaint investigations, employee advocacy, union avoidance, and EEO compliance, and creating global corporate diversity and inclusion programs.

Unions and union negotiations

Employee relations support for up to 300 employees investigating complex and non-complex employee issues and concerns regarding wrongful terminations, exit interviews, harassment, and performance management, and providing resolutions

HR Legal Compliance 

Over five (5) years’ experience in HR Legal compliance: 

Sox Compliance, AA compliance, EEO-1 compliance, VEVRAA compliance, and OFCCP compliance

· Completed quarterly SOX and legal audits

FMLA, ADA, and other Title VII or employment related laws

· Writing employer position statements for EEOC

· Provided legal guidance on legal and policy interpretation

· Processing non-competes for termed employees

· Ensured job codes and job descriptions are in legal compliance

Process Improvement and Change Management 

Ten (10) years’ experience in process improvement, creating SOPS, QRGs, Org charts, and process maps.

· Created SOPs and restructured recruiting processes and practices for legal compliance.

· Created Recruiting Process maps in Visio for entire organization along with SOPS and QRGs for new and updated processes, and created and facilitated training for each new process or change

· Developed Global Employee Survey questionnaire to identify and analyze employee disengagement, created reports, and proposed strategic recommendations to executives for remedy

· Created and maintained organizational charts

Performance and Workforce Management 

Over five (5) years’ experience in performance management with line and operational HR tasks such as:

· Implemented 9-box grid to identify high-performers, as well as developed training materials to help managers identify and coach colleagues for succession planning

· Created Employee recognition plans and made recommendations for implementation

· Meet with employees for annual review and evaluations

· Applied company policy and employment law to take appropriate actions for performance-based terminations

· Ensure corrective/disciplinary actions consistently, fairly, and legally across the enterprise.

Training and Development

Ten (10) years’ experience with candidate and executive interactions:

· Leading corporate training for executives and colleagues

· Creating and facilitating presentations and corporate wide training with colleagues and executives.

· Training and onboarding for new employees

Recruiting/Talent Acquisition

Twelve (12) years of full desk and full cycle recruiting experience in staffing, corporate, and vendor RPO. This includes:

· Sourcing candidates, both passive and active in all job boards and in ATS, and other non-traditional methods of sourcing candidates

· Interviewing candidates using behavioral interview questions

· Onboarding candidates, ensuring background was completed, as well as benefits and payroll set up

· Negotiating billable and salary pay rates for contract employees

· Schedule and process background checks including initial review of results, working directly with HireRight

· Posting and creating jobs on job boards 

· Creating compliant job descriptions 

· Scheduled candidates and executives for travel, including hotel and dinner reservations

· Facilitating major national job fairs such as the Diversity and Women’s job fairs for corporate and college

Corporate Communications

Over seven (7) years’ experience in exhibiting excellent written and verbal communication skills, and have experience with duties such as:

· Writing the monthly blogs for the company website regarding up to date news within Human Resources

· Created all training and presentation decks for directors and VPs

· Created all social media tiles for recruiters to post on Linked In, Twitter, Instagram and others

· Created Bitly codes and QRGs to direct candidates to job posting

· Managed the revision of the enterprise recruitment “playbook” that provides internal resources and external research in Recruitment and D&I practices

Vendor Management 

Over five (5) years’ experience of managing vendors including duties such as:

· Oversee procurement and vendor management as a Workday Financial SME for entire Talent Acquisition team. 

· Research and conduct spend analysis for vendors and suppliers, and make recommendations to leadership

· Entered and managed all RFPs and contracts within Workday Financial

· Work with the accounting team to approve requisitions for supplier purchase orders in Workday. 

· Ensured vendors were properly coded under the appropriate spend category and with the correct cost center

· Primary point of contact for all suppliers to assist and resolve any issues of non-payment. 

· Meeting with vendors to review business needs