Experience

2011 – Present
HR Director
Bon Secours Private Hospital, Cork, Ireland

Responsibilities: HR Leadership, Employee Relations, cost containment, resource operational and business leaders, member Senior Management team. Group, Bon Secours Health System Hospital Acquisitions - HR Lead/Advisor onImplementation Steeringc'tee to manage business acquisition, exercise HR due diligence, ensure compliance,plan new staff integration and provide front line leadership & critical staff communications.

2007 – 2011
HR Director/Country Manager
GE Healthcare Ireland

Responsibilities: Organisational Development and Change Management, HR leader and member of senior management team

2005 – 2007
Employee Relations Manager
GE Healthcare Ireland

Responsibilities: Leader site Employee Relations, Organisational Development, training

2003 – 2005
Senior HR Manager
Dell

Responsibilities: HR business partner to EMEA Supply Chain management and Quality Engineering functions. Reporting to three European VP’s and provided tactical, strategic and Management Development leadership to 500 professional staff. Member of site senior HR management team and coordinated initial Dell European Works Council.

2001 – 2003
Associate HR Director
Elan Pharmaceutical

Responsibilities: Site HR leader for manufacturing facility. Directed significant restructuring programme for manufacturing facility. During this time, served as inaugural Chairman of Westmeath County Childcare Committee. This limited company now employs four full time personnel to lead childcare provision for the county.

1998 – 2001
Regional Director
IBEC (Limerick & Mid-West)

Responsibilities: Key business leader for mid-west. Provided support to region’s largest employers on legal, ER and strategic management matters. Directed IBEC service provision to member companies, leading a team of six staff. Chaired a number of IBEC regional policy committees comprising 40 CEO’s from mid-west and Kerry flagship employers. Oversaw IBEC’s regional submission for capital funding on behalf of IBEC mid-west for input into National Development Plan to provide for key infrastructural and service provision.

1989 – 1998
Senior IR/ER Executive
IBEC (Cork)

Responsibilities: Legal and employment advisor, representative and chief negotiator for many of the largest and most significant employers in Cork city and county. Represented member companies at Labour Court, Tribunals and Conciliation Conferences (LRC) and “Rights Commissioner” hearings. Also represented IBEC on a number of National Joint Labour Committees/Councils and served as secretary for Cork Cargo Handling Company (Port Rationalisation) and Director of Cork Master Printers Association.

Education

• 2003 – 2004: Diploma Strategic Human Resource Management, Irish Management Institute
• 1986 – 1987: M.Sc. Econ., London School of Economics
• 1982 – 1985: B.A. Psychology (Hons), NUI Galway

Other Qualifications

• Performance Consulting - ICBE - 2011
• Certificate in Conflict Coaching - 2011
• Professional Diploma (Level 2), Mediators Institute of Ireland
• Certificate in Management Consulting (Institute of Business
  Consultants, UK)
• Mindstream Coaching Diploma, University of Limerick (accredited by European Coaching Institute)
• Certified NLP Practitioner
• Career Counselling Certificate (CCS UK)
• Psychometric Licenses – MBTI, Belbin Team Profiling (Belbin Institute 2008), Bar-On (EQ-i), Firo-B, 16PF