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How would you describe your dream job in 10 words or less?

HR consult, project manage change, use senior professional transfer skills.

Posted @ 09:27PM, November 06, 2007 by Dru Herman | Permalink
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Work history

IBM Corporate HR October 1987 to October 2007
HR Program Manager

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How would you describe your time at IBM Corporate HR?

Senior HR professional serving many executives and personnel in human resources (HR) consultant and administrative role as an employee and member of management team in fortune 20 corporation. Significant generalist experience in HR CHQ Business Controls in learning or training, administration, and confidential integrity. Vast HR transferable skills. Co-authored and implemented patent in HR learning. Possess 27 years of experience reporting to IBM VP???s, division presidents. Advanced skills in MS Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Lotus Notes, and MS Project Mgt. A corporate HR top 15 award- Performance Excellence and Teamwork. Coordinate and project managed North America learning business controls, processes, audit, project management of 12 sub-team lead any given time, documentation, inventory control, business acumen, mentoring and supervision of managers and 425 personnel.... read more
IBM Site Facilities January 1986 to October 1987
Administrative Assistant to Executive, Plan & Controls

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How would you describe your time at IBM Site Facilities?

Administrative Assistant responsibility reported within the facilities business plans and controls mission supporting a 20,000 employee population, 300 facilities personnel mainframe computer manufacturing and development location. Daily routine included execution of any tasks assigned by the facilities executive in order to efficiently and affectively run the several missions within the facilities organization. Tasks included project studies to forecast costs of a plan to re-arrange space, construct clean room, office, and other space classifications. Typical business controls responsibility, attendance in senior and executive management meetings, preparation and presentation of annual $xxxM expense and $xxM capital plans, monthly measurement and reporting of expense and capital investment. Studies and comparisons of other location facility organizations to affect best of breed innovation and success sharing.... read more
IBM Site Finance July 1984 to January 1986
Site Financial Capital Planner

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How would you describe your time at IBM Site Finance?

Site Finance Capital Planner for $xxM annual capital plan for the research and development organizations. Responsibilities included compiling various requests for investments into the annual plan, requiring the requesting organizations to justify the capital investments at line item level to finance planner. Ultimately, planner presents annual plan to location controller and line executives. Daily routines include line item commit, release of funds, expenditure tracking, capitalization coordination with accounting functions, measurement of depreciation, process step finance approvals, monthly tracking of plan to actual. Promotion within placed responsibility for I/T executives financial support of $xxxM annual operating expense. Role required oversight of 28 financial planners in matrix regarding capital conversion of data processing equipment.... read more
IBM Large Scale Computing Division October 1977 to July 1984
Technical Manager, Technical Logic Specialist

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How would you describe your time at IBM Large Scale Computing D...?

Technical Manager of Advanced Sub-Products missions (4) in mainframe computer manufacturing and development environment. Management role included personnel management of 30 - 40 direct reports and a dozen various engineering support groups that were developing the environment and tooling to mass manufacture new mainframe computers. Role included recruiting, hiring, transferring, promoting, performance goal setting, development, appraisal, and firing of personnel. Matrix interaction and over watch of various support groups that enable the production goals. As a technical specialist for first 2 years, the focus included testing and failure analysis on logic and memory modules within mainframe computers.... read more

Education

business mgt., HR, economics

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How would you describe your time at State University of New Yor...?

There is no saturation point to education - Thomas Watson, Sr.

I acquired this 3 major degree at age 42. I now own SHRM SPHR reference library and am studying for that certification... all because SUNY experience was so awesome.
Lincoln Technical Institute January 1976 to October 1977
Specialized Electronics

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How would you describe your time at Lincoln Technical Institute?

I was playing college football elsewhere and one day enroute home for university break I rolled into this technical school, enrolled, and never looked back. I was hired into a 30 year career the day I graduated.

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I am happy to recommend Dru Herman for any position he is interested in obtaining. He reported to me at IBM for 11 years and was instrumental in the overall success of our unit. He has outstanding computer skills and is an exceptional planner with the ability to follow through on the important missions to make the customer totally satisfied. He was a dedicated employee when reporting to me and was trusted with extensive responsibilities.

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