Melinda Siobhan Leslie
Summary
Senior Human Resources Leader with a strong record in shaping HR strategies and ensuring multi-state compliance for diverse workforces. Demonstrates expertise in optimizing HR operations, enhancing talent acquisition processes, and leading successful audits. Fosters high-performance cultures through strategic collaboration and data-driven workforce planning.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Human Resources Manager
VSolvit LLC.
Ventura, CA
01.2022 - Current
- Departmental Leadership: Directs strategic vision for HR and Benefits teams, overseeing all staffing, talent acquisition, and training pipelines.
- Executive Advisory: Partners with senior leadership to design and implement HR strategies that support critical business expansion initiatives.
- Offer Management: Streamlined end-to-end offer process, aligning recruiting teams with executive stakeholders to ensure timely and effective talent acquisition.
- Onboarding & I-9: Optimizes scalable onboarding protocols and maintains rigorous I-9/E-Verify compliance for remote and on-site staff.
- Management Training: Delivered comprehensive supervisor training on leadership development and employment law compliance, equipping leaders with essential skills for effective management.
- Performance Management: Deploys structured performance review cycles focused on objective assessment and professional growth.
- Employee Relations: Conducts complex workplace investigations and designs effective corrective action plans or Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs).
- Leaves & Accommodations: Administers all Leave of Absence (LOA) and ADA accommodation requests in strict accordance with federal and state mandates.
- Team Performance: Fostered high-performance culture through mentorship and strategic alignment of tasks, enhancing team contributions to organizational objectives.
- Federal Reporting: Manages the timely and accurate submission of EEO-1, VETS-4212, AAP, and California Pay Data reports.
- Multi-State Compliance: Governs legal compliance across 30+ states and Guam for a distributed workforce of over 400 employees.
- Audit Defense: Serves as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) during OFCCP, DCAA, and 401(k) audits, ensuring seamless regulatory review.
- Policy Architecture: Authors enterprise employee handbooks and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to mitigate legal risk and ensure operational continuity.
- HRIS Strategy: Evaluates and selects enterprise HRIS platforms to modernize and integrate legacy human capital processes.
- ADP Deployment: Spearheaded end-to-end ADP implementation, including performance review automation and multi-departmental system synchronization.
- HRIS Optimization: Maximizes utility of Paychex Flex and ADP through the creation of self-service guides and workflow streamlining.
- Payroll & Benefits Support: Synchronizes payroll audits, Open Enrollment cycles, and PTO reconciliations to ensure 100% data integrity.
- Communications: Drafts enterprise-wide communications regarding policy updates and corporate culture initiatives.
Human Resources Manager
Advanced Structural Technologies
Oxnard, CA
07.2018 - 03.2019
- ADP Deployment: Directed the full implementation of ADP, including customized timecard configurations and comprehensive staff training.
- Recruitment: Managed full-cycle recruitment for specialized manufacturing roles, from initial sourcing to final placement.
- Onboarding: Designed a structured onboarding framework to minimize time-to-productivity for new hires.
- Engagement: Spearheaded morale-boosting activities and employee incentive programs, fostering a positive workplace culture.
- Employee Relations: Mediated personnel issues through objective investigations and collaborative resolution strategies.
- Compliance: Audited organizational HR practices for compliance with California labor laws for 150+ personnel.
- Mandated Training: Administered required California Harassment Prevention and OSHA safety training programs.
- Safety Protocols: Pioneered updated workplace safety procedures, improving compliance and collaboration with production leadership.
- Workers' Comp: Managed all Workers' Compensation claims, facilitating communication between medical providers and insurance carriers.
- Documentation: Established secure digital and physical record-keeping systems, enhancing data security and ensuring audit readiness.
- HRIS Strategy: Analyzed and selected HRIS platforms to transition from manual to automated personnel management.
- Open Enrollment: Executed annual benefits enrollment cycles in partnership with external insurance vendors.
- Developed and enforced HR policies to guide employee behavior.: Developed and enforced core HR policies and updated employee handbooks to reflect current legislative standards.
Human Resources Coordinator
BendPak Inc.
Santa Paula, CA
08.2013 - 07.2018
- Compliance Auditing: Audited policies for a 200+ employee manufacturing firm, ensuring total alignment with CA regulations.
- Training Delivery: Led enterprise-wide OSHA safety and harassment prevention training programs to ensure compliance.
- Litigation Support: Managed evidence gathering and critical documentation to support legal counsel in employee litigation.
- Lifecycle Management: Developed and executed comprehensive full-cycle onboarding and offboarding procedures.
- Conflict Resolution: Conducted objective investigations and guided ADA Interactive Process to resolve complex employee relations issues.
- Workforce Planning: Consulted with leadership on strategic workforce planning and long-term HR initiatives.
- Open Enrollment: Directed annual benefits enrollment and communicated total rewards programs to ensure employee awareness and understanding.
- Benefit Negotiation: Negotiated competitive benefit packages to enhance the company's employee value proposition.
- Payroll Administration: Supervised accurate payroll processing and timecard management to ensure strict wage-and-hour compliance.
Education
Associate of Business Administration -
Ventura College
Ventura, CA12-2018
Skills
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Conflict resolution
- Administration practices
- Multi-state compliance
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft Office Suite
- HRIS (Paychex Flex and ADP)
- JIRA / JSM
- Policy development
- Regulatory compliance
- HR system integration
- Performance evaluation
- Employee engagement
- Strategic development
- Benefits management
- HRIS oversight
- HR strategy
Awards
- Phillips Certification: Employee Sexual Harassment Train-the-Trainer, 05/26
- Certificate of Completion: DoD Mandatory Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Training, 05/25
Timeline
Human Resources Manager
VSolvit LLC.
01.2022 - Current
Human Resources Manager
Advanced Structural Technologies
07.2018 - 03.2019
Human Resources Coordinator
BendPak Inc.
08.2013 - 07.2018
Associate of Business Administration -
Ventura College