Human Resources Talent Acquisition

LOUISA E. DEPASS, PHR/SHRM-CP

************@*****.*** I 703-***-**** I https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisadepass

TS/SCI eligible

Human Resources Leader

·Coaching & Mentoring

·Project Management

·Benefits & Compensation Plans

·Employee Relations

·Leadership Development

·Talent Acquisition

·Global Talent Mobility

·Employee Engagement

·Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

·Risk Mitigation & Compliance

·PeopleSoft/Workday/SAP/Oracle/Deltek

·Succession Planning

·People Leadership

·Performance Management

·Change Management

·Applicant Tracking Systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vibrint, Hanover, MD 01/2024 – 12/2024

Sr. Director, Talent

Talent Acquisition and compliance senior leader supporting 150 employees providing accountable intelligence to the customer’s mission within services, solutions, and products lines of business.

Built talent acquisition team to source and successfully recruit in uniquely focused cleared and un-cleared market. Grew prime contract head-count by 30% within 8 months. Increased Products sales team by 2/3s.

Created and managed recruiting metrics dashboard for leadership team.

Managed external recruiting events.

Created recruiting job ads for social media.

Designed and delivered human resources trainings to managers to mitigate risk and manager compliance requirements.

Advised leadership on talent management strategies such as up-skilling and succession planning for key roles.

Designed and delivered in-person and virtual new hire orientation.

Created and implemented company salary structure for Services Business Unit.

Assisted with health and welfare plan review to ensure market competitive positioning and value.

Contract 09/2023 – 01/2024

Sr. Human Resources Consultant

Strategic human resources talent consultant to HR Vice President of Vibrint (see above)

BAE Systems, Inc., Sterling, VA 05/2020 – 07/2023

Sr. Director, Human Resources

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

·Hired and up-skilled 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 saving thousands of over-head dollars.

·Designed and facilitated 15+ 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%+.

·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 (HQ) 07/2019 – 05/2020

Sr. Talent Management Project Manager

Recruited to fill the corporate project manager for the Executive Leadership Team’s talent management succession program for $53B – Fortune 60 global company with 115,000 global employees.

·Led key initiatives within the talent management Center of Excellence (COE) to align high potential leaders with enterprise-wide career advancement programs. Utilized Success Factors talent management tool suite.

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

Parsons Corporation, Centreville, VA 08/2016 – 07/2019

Director, Human Resources Business Partner

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

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

·Integrated new companies into Parson’s culture.

·Designed and rolled out new benefits plan for cleared markets.

·Ethics Officer with full case management responsibilities to mitigate company risk.

·Partnered with the business unit’s leadership and corporate functions to drive the people growth engine for Parson’s cyber & intelligence market which grew 35%+ YoY.

General Dynamics Information Technology, Fairfax, VA 04/2016 – 08/2016

Human Resources Business Partner, Talent Management

Performance management project manager driving cultural change for $1.8B health and civilian division within GDIT supporting 15,000 global employees.

Designed, deployed and trained employees on new performance management methodology utilizing existing vendor tool with limited modifications. Reuse of existing tool structure saved tens of thousands of dollars.

Performance coach within the Talent Management COE to leadership.

EDUCATION

B.S., University of Maryland, College Park

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