James Blount

About James Blount

Mr. Blount is a Human Resources Executive with a broad background in the HR function within the R&D and high-tech industries. He has experiences strategic planning, project and program management, compliance and operations management with a history of delivering on projects at the institutional, organizational, division and department levels. Professional accomplishments include leading large scale organizational restructuring, pandemic response, ERP program leadership, workplace violence prevention and threat assessment program leadership, and global business operations integration. Strength areas are in leadership coaching, relationship management, organizational development and effectiveness, HR operations and systems optimization, connecting stakeholders, talent management, leadership development, and HR operations. Adaptation, moving quickly to changes in the environment, collaboration and teaming and behaving with the greater good in mind are what I am most proud of.

Experience

1. Director, HR Digital Transformation Leader

   Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

   Jan 2025 — Present · Richland, WA, US

   Executive leadership partnering with the Program Management Office, System Implementer and internal partners (end-users, Finance, IT) to implement an HCM solution. Includes all readiness, discovery, design, configuration and test activities.

Education

• Texas State University

  Bachelor of Science, Exercise and Sports Science

  1991 — 1996

• Penn State University

  Master's Degree, Human Resources and Employee Relations

  2011 — 2014

Skills

• Leadership
• Compensation Structure Design
• Employee Benefits
• Lean Sigma
• Affirmative Action Compliance
• Management
• Hris
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Equal Employment Opportunity
• Organizational Development
• Operations Management
• Leadership Coaching
• Leadership Development
• Talent Management
• Employee/Labor Relations
• Distribution Management
• Leading Large Teams
• HR Strategy
• Diversity Strategy
• Six Sigma
• Financial Management
• Effectiveness
• Organizational Design
• Personnel Management
• Managerial Finance
• Oganizational Effectiveness
• International Management
• Employment Law Compliance
• Industrial Relations
• Employee Relations
• Training
• Performance Management
• Eeo Compliance
• Compensation Structures
• Talent Acquisition