Ed Legrand

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My Work Experience

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Maimonides Medical Center | Jul 2024 - Present

Vice President, Workforce Management and Employee Services

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Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Apr 2023 - Oct 2024

Deputy Chief of HR Operations and Analytics

― Responsibility for the entire HRIS, HR employment operations, budget, workforce planning, call center, document management center, benefits operations, HR UX, and a team of 160 employees ― Strategic leadership to the HR Data Science, Data Engineer, and Data Steward teams of 20 employees experiencing fast growing demand for their services ― Development of short- and long-term business process transformation, data strategy, technology roadmap, budget planning, project delivery, while monitoring results to ensure maximum value creation and execution with excellence ― Management of sustained demand for high-priority projects leveraging decision-making skills on resource management ― Oversight of the organization structure, including roles and responsibilities to support HRIS and analytics and to meet requests, considering the unique organization culture and structure ― Improvement of effectiveness and employee experience by supervising the maturity of the HRIS landscape; providing recommendations to advance HR’s delivery model, and guaranteeing implementation of high-value tools ― Evaluation of key HR projects to identify and recommend opportunities for a formal project management approach to meet objectives ― Development of future business cases for additional investments needed in technology or resources ― Coordination of divisional strategy for analytics, reporting, and planning, including data governance frameworks, operating and service model for human capital management, data structures, and deliverables ― Guidance to the team and HR leaders in developing advanced analytic solutions using AI and machine learning and capabilities Accomplishments ― Enhancement of HR competency and capability to interpret data into meaningful insights and impact for the business ― Improvement of talent, DEI insights, and decision making through expert recommendation on metrics, dashboards, and reports

Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Feb 2022 - Apr 2023

Senior Director of People Analytics & HRIS

― Oversight of sourcing of new software programs, implementation, contract renewals, and external vendor management ― Development and guidance to a team in creating and executing AI/ML solutions to support HR product areas ― Development of short- and long-term initiatives for division in accordance with business strategies, and oversee business planning activities and create budgets to measure feasibility and resource needs ― Development of a technology strategy as well as vendor relationships supporting the delivery of analytical capabilities, while maintaining industry best practices and market trends ― Identification and delivery on opportunities to support key People Team initiatives through comprehensive analyses and dashboards, ranging from diversity to employee engagement to talent processes ― Development of capacity within the people organization to utilize data and analytics for decision-making process that involve creating resources, dashboards, and training for HR and Recruiting teams ― Product owner for the Human Capital Management ecosystem, and other supporting middleware applications to provide strategic direction, roadmap, prioritization, and continual pursuit of new, innovative capabilities, and features ― Agency-wide implementation of the upgraded PeopleSoft ecosystem with the program director and IT leaders ― Closely interact with the senior HR leadership and agency heads and business operations to advise and implement strategies based on innovative thinking and industry best practices ― Expertly handle budget and portfolio of over 10M Accomplishments ― Integration of AI/ML to generate insights and recommendations for business actions, to reduce costs, to increase capabilities, to enhance controls, and to improve employee experiences ― Establishment of a service delivery organization and the data governance processes for servicing multiple, internal and external request for compliance and regularity reporting

Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Feb 2021 - Feb 2022

Director of HR Data Science

― Oversight of the evaluation, design, and implementation of innovative emerging digital HR technologies ― Setting of data-driven perspective on evidence-based decision-making among team, senior leaders, and external partners ― Strategic direction to the team in conducting business process analysis using process mining tools to create process maps, identify process variants and bottlenecks, and develop meaningful insights about HR processes ― Design and management of data models, customer-specific dashboards, and analysis allowing data-driven process for HR impact assessment ― Recommendation of process optimization based on process mining and other enterprise modeling capabilities ― Collaboration with enterprise IT stakeholders in architecting technology solutions adapting data strategy and architecture principles to drive tangible business benefits ― Expert of data model/structure in the execution of meaningful analysis and creation of reliable workforce data with corresponding workforce reporting and analytics ― Coordination with colleagues and customers to gather meaningful discussions regarding data outputs and feedback on usage activities toward HR performance improvement Accomplishments ― Development and implementation of HR technology strategy to support business needs, while creating a profile of data and analytics to generate and distribute clear data and analytics stories across the business environment ― Implementation of business process analytics, data architecture design and development, as well as workflow process

Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Jan 2014 - Feb 2021

Assistant Director of Strategic Planning, Office of Governance and Administration

― Partnership with senior staff to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and smart ways to deploy process improvements and/or technology to solve business problems ― Management of infrastructure modifications, integrations, acceptance lifecycle, and updates to PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) data warehouse ― Facilitation of process and system testing to maintain alignment of user and system requirements with established quality standards and regulatory regulations ― Monitoring and evaluation of the application life cycle tracking systems to obtain useful operational metrics to reduce defects, improve service, and optimize the implementation process ― Leadership to a team of analysts in using business data and statistical methods to translate insight into business performance and recommend area and methods needing improvements ― Subject matter expert in strategic communications and reporting, such as presentations, reports, and process workflows Accomplishments ― Project lead for all governance and administration initiatives, responsible for initiating process improvement solutions for human capital management (HCM), financials and supply chain management (FSCM), and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) data warehouse ― Development and integration of data governance functions, including organizational accountability, quality control and audit, as well as transactional progress measurement and monitoring

Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Jan 2011 - Jan 2014

Senior Manager, Business Operations

― Expert management of the overall operations in the Enterprise Content Management, Electronic Records Management and Employment Verification Unit’s administrative requirements, platform planning, policy and procedure development, and budgeting ― Administration of the information management system to properly route and process digital HR employee records, supporting documents, and supplier invoices ― Collaboration with the HR Team in identifying opportunities to optimize employee personnel file technology solutions ― Lead of Business Service Center for various agencies’ HR employee personnel file conversion initiatives that focused on data collection, validation, migration, maintenance, and sustained integrity, while managing records and information management initiatives ― Creation of strategies for integration of records generated within diverse systems by analyzing new technologies that involved software applications and hardware ― Identification of applications and services based on technology options and recommendations for decision making Accomplishments ― Successful integration of document management systems (DMS) records and requirements into enterprise systems ― Development of systems security model for HR personnel files, and implementation of business plan to support the transition from paper to electronic records

Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Jan 2010 - Jan 2011

Manager, Business Operations

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TIAA | Jan 2010 - Jan 2010

Pitney Bowes Consultant Customer Service Supervisor, Organization Services

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IKON Document Services | Jan 2007 - Jan 2009

Shift Manager, Legal Document Services

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TD Ameritrade Institutional | Jan 2000 - Jan 2007

Assistant Vice President, Information Management Services

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Morgan Stanley | Jan 1995 - Jan 2000

Supervisor, National Distribution

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My Education

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Maryville University of Saint Louis

Berkeley College

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