Steven Harris

About Steven Harris

Hello, I’m Steve Harris! My record of success comprises over 20 years in implementing, managing and optimizing multi-level HR practices, change management programs, performance management, and organizational design initiatives. I am skilled in the development of executive strategies, initiatives, and business objectives by focusing on power of organization’s people. I am adept in HR strategy, managerial leadership, talent acquisition, employee relations, and organizational development. I am able to drive open communication between senior management and employees to develop thriving cross-functional relationships. Throughout my career, I have developed solid leadership skills and achieved out of box results: • Demonstrated success in enabling achievement of full business potential through comprehensive HR leadership and creating bottom-line impact through targeted human capital initiatives aligned with emergent business strategies. • Recognized leadership across diverse companies with specialized experience managing the unique challenges and needs associated with complex organizational re-structuring, mergers and acquisitions. • Proven expertise in developing partnerships with business units and delivering bottom-line employment management to support employment matters. My solid contributions and achievements are as follows: • Led cross functional manning redundancies to save $2.9M annually and repurposed manning savings to support 74% of new and emerging global missions. • Directed cross functional efforts to decrease staffing levels aggregately by 40% across all corporate headquarters and business units areas without degradation in global mission accomplishment worldwide. • Revamped talent acquisition program optimizing intern recruitment across enterprise from annual onboarding of less than 100 recent graduates to over 1,200 in first year of new program while increasing diversity recruitment by 200 percent and established corporate brand at annual recruitment venues • Developed and implemented knowledge management review, reducing $750K in annual paper usage. • Transformed Army\'s policy direction to account for all training conducted within subordinate organizations that eliminated costly duplicative training programs with cost saving of $10M annually. • Optimized workforce participation in workforce development programs from historical average of 50% annually to 99% participation by the staff. If you find my profile exciting or interesting in learning more about my skillset, please contact me on LinkedIn or email me at h••••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Deputy Director Personnel

   U.S. Army Contracting Command

   Jul 2022 — Present · US

   Senior Civilian HRBP/Dep Director within the Army\'s Contracting Command responsible for leading an enterprise-wide team of globally dispersed HR organizations in the mission execution Strategic Human Resources that deliver business and employee growth across Army Contracting Command. Provides strategic oversight of the Organization\'s workforce development of the core Acquisition and Contracting workforces and synchronize corporate People Strategy. I lead a team of senior HR Business managers and partners in aligning HR strategy and program oversight with the senior leadership\'s business objectives while providing advisory collaboration and partnering that aids subordinate leaders and supervisors, managers with guiding and coaching their workforce’s progressive workforce planning. I closely monitor and partner regularly with internal and external customers to maximize alignment with organizational goals maximizing return on investment in talent acquisition, retention, and internal mobility in critical mission areas. I regularly provide advice and counsel management and Human Resources sub-functions to resolve workplace issues, execute people focused programs, and ensure that all actions within the people domain are legal, morale and ethical. I collaborate with various functional business units to include Finance, Legal, Operations, Logistics, Audit, and IT to develop strategies that provide leadership in growing our footprint and ensuring our strategic objectives are achieved. I direct multifactional teams in developing solutions within the Agile framework that can be quickly expanded for enterprise-wide application of HR workplace models that help as Army Contracting evolves into a 21st century workplace. I establish objectives, plans, forecasts priorities of budget and personnel management controls, and developed review mechanisms for the resource programs of the organization.

Education

• Alabama State University

  Bachelor's degree, Mathematics

• Columbia Southern University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

  2017 — 2019

• U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology

  Master's degree, Operations Research (Simulation Modeling)

• Sandusky High School

  Diploma

  1974 — 1978

• Human Capital Institute

  Certification, Strategic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

  2022 — 2022

• OPM Center for Leadership Development

  Senior Executive Assessment Program

  2017 — 2017

• AIR WAR COLLEGE

  SENIOR LEADER DEVELOPMENT, Military and Strategic Leadership

  2002 — 2003