Experiences at Alcoa

Managing with dignity and respect workforce reductions and dealing with Change,

Coordinated and managed most HR generalist functions such as recruiting, labor/employee relations, benefits administration, compensation, performance management, communication, training and development and EO requirements. HR lead for four different organizations,

Demonstrated ability to meet business expectations and clear leadership capability.

Project Manager of Oracle Application Conversion projects; Directed virtual team of IT conversion personnel on large-scale, multi-org, global implementation of Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM). All sites completed on-time/ahead of schedule. Developed tool for projecting resource needs and estimated load time based on data volumes.
* Performed global conversions, including enhancing scope to include foreign countries/languages, identifying architecture/ftp requirements, customizing application setups such as flexfields and lookup codes, migrating??code to??remote servers, loading category translations, and tracking/resolving??global conversion-related issues.
* Implemented solutions for conversion issues in accordance with corporate Enterprise Business Solution standards. Resolved database performance issues on global systems. Developed tool for tracking/reporting issues and change requests.
* Developed/implemented conversion process/code improvements that resulted in 80% productivity increase.
* Authored/presented total conversion process to Alcoa domestic and international IT audience, including deployment strategy, conversion methodology, code development/enhancement process and framework.
* Performed functional setups, including: enabling eAM organizations, defining lookups, areas, WIP, departments, resources, legacy assets, and categories, and converting assets, activities, asset activity associations, routings, bill of materials (BOMs), meters, and preventative maintenance data.
* Developed conversion programs for asset/maintenance BOMs and prevalidation programs for eAM data, emphasizing reusability of code....

Administrative Assistants love to organize data. Alcoa has an unending need for people that like to work, like to hit the floor running, and desire to be challenged. If you fit these criteria, you're hired!

Various Administrative Assistant positions including Assistant Buyer, Maintenance Clerk, Procurement Clerk, Quality Assurance Assistant and Safety Assistant

Wrote standardized work instructions and business systems documentation in Excel.

As a design engineer, I have found that my position is much more involved than creating a product design and releasing it to the customer as my title depicts. In fact, designing to customer standards, meeting their timing requirements, and supporting my product in their facility is less than 50% of my overall responsibility. I also interact with our internal manufacturing plants, cost estimating department, quality department, components group, and product development group. Therefore I assume the role of a liaison between all of these commodities and the OEM customer. As a liaison, I try to resolve any issues that one party may have or communicate any important information that needs to be shared, such as quotes....