Katarzyna Szymczak

June 2005 – now HR Manager EDS-Poland Sp. z o.o. (455 employees)
Main activities:
• Corporate HR representative – implementation of all corporate HR rules, procedures, processes, including HP-EDS merger (2008)
• Business Development projects: due diligence process, benefit equalization, transfers of employees – managing 5 transfer processes – 250 transitioned employees
• Recruitment and employing: preparing candidate profile, offer analyzes, interviews, selection, preparing employment documents, SAP updates, medical refferall, safety and security training coordination, contact with recruitment agencies, setting up personal files
• Compensation and Benefits: coordinating salary increases and bonus payment processes, preparing and updating HR related procedures - car policy, private medical care, life insurance; providing employees and managers with information related to compensations, benefits, job codes, job codes changes
• Expatriate processes: initiating and keeping track of corporate expatriate processes for employees working abroad, coordianation of visa/insurance/health care/tax procedures
• Training: cooperation with training providers, registering employees, describing invoices, European Social Fund, agreeing with managers training plans for their employees
• Payroll: preparing and updating policy and procedure, preparing and updating remuneration rules, collecting payroll related documents - overtime, on-calls, sick leaves statements, preparing documentation for finance: new employees, salaries, cost centers, employees leaving company, outstanding holidays to be paid, salary increases, bonus payments, car allowances, verifying payroll report, checking with finance correctness of calculations
• Miscellaneous: internal audit, Business Continuity Plan, benefit implementation, internal trainings and workshops, town halls, corporation requests, vacation tracking, Work Inspection audits, contacting government organizations, preparing presentations, attending Central Management Meetings



December 2004– May 2005 Project for TPSA, Warsaw, Poland
Role: Production Support Coordinator/DBA and Relaease Manager/Help Desk Manager
Main activities:

• supervising the system in production and the Production Support Team (5 members)
• coordinating all the tickets reported to the system,
• dividing task related to production between developers, testers, database administrators
• communicate with the client to discuss production problems as well as all the organizational issues related to the project
• plan and implement database environment policy for the project
• plan and schedule internal and external software deliveries
• organize Help Desk for billing project in TPSA
• advise on organizational, procedural, and workflow plans, methods and procedure analysis
• monitor incident life cycles, taking care of SLA

October 2002 – November 2003 Project for TPSA, Warsaw, Poland
Role: Documentation Team Leader and Training Coordinator

Main activities:
• create operating manuals for the newly developed software based on Kenan/BP system
• schedule deliveries of documentation to the Client
• prepare training offer
• create training documentation
• coordinate training for TPSA
• schedule training


July 2001 – October 2002 Project for General Motors, Warsaw, Poland
Role: Administrative Assistant

Main activities:
• preparation of work orders for contractors
• General Motors BPO processes
• translation
• invoice control