Mike West

About Mike West

Began my career pioneering data-driven talent management & total reward programs…

Experience

1. Consultant

   Peopleanalyst

   Mar 2012 — Present

   Projects @ Mars Pet Health, Cityblock, Included Health, Zoom, Reddit, Instabase, Articulate, Extra, Mosaic, Front Door, Nike, Pure Storage, Otsuka, Olympus, Udemy, Atlassian, 10X Genomics, Molekule and Children\'s Health. Areas of Client Focus: 1. People Analytics / Data Science, 2. People Data & HRIS, 3 Compensation / Total Rewards 1. People Analytics / Data Science -Designing and implementing workforce domain-specific research - Predictive models, statistical analysis, & machine learning - Data workflow, data warehouse, and visual dashboards (Tableau, PowerBI, Visier, OneModel)- Employee engagement, culture, and pulse surveys - Headcount reporting, forecasting & planning - Designing data management workflows with automated event-triggered form/surveys - Construct talent data slides for executive and board meetings A typical project may be connecting HRIS data, survey data, and market data in a statistical model to create an exit prediction, classify employees in bands of exit risk, forecast the rate of likely exit in those bands, identify the key drivers, & provide a targeted action plan to keep at-risk critical talent exit under 2% while allowing attrition of below average talent to float to above 25%. Or whatever the goal is. I present findings, make recommendations, and develop an ongoing dashboard to monitor how conditions are changing and if actions are having an impact or not. People Data / HRIS - Workday, UKG, Paylocity, Trinet, ADP Workforce, SuccessFactors 3. Total Rewards / Compensation - Facilitating agreement on strategy, market pricing all jobs, performing internal equity analysis, proposing comp ranges & assisting with the annual or bi-annual merit planning process- Competitive Analysis, Market Pricing - Employee Preference Analysis, MaxDiff, Conjoint Survey - Merit Process - Compensation Planning Models (Cash, Variable, Equity)- Developing compensation programs to solve problems in dynamic labor markets.

Skills

• Staffing Analysis
• Analysis
• Metrics
• Predictive Analytics
• HR Strategy
• Recruiting
• Psychology
• Workday
• Compensation and Benefits Analysis
• Deferred Compensation
• Hypothesis Testing
• Compensation
• Organizational Design
• Performance Management
• Management
• HR Technology
• Online Survey Tools
• Data Visualization
• Human Resources
• Program Assessment
• Program Management
• Statistics
• Employee Engagement
• Peoplesoft
• Analytics
• Employee Surveys
• Data Management
• HR Research
• Training and Development Analysis
• Strategy
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• HR Transformation
• Data Analysis
• Sociology
• Research Methods
• Human Capital Management
• Surveys
• Data Warehousing
• Workforce Planning
• HR Analytics