Eric Miller

Successful application and approval for a F1 student visa program for Van Andel Institute Graduate School. Currently overseeing the development of policies and procedures for implementation of the program.

Team lead for the Human Resources department to join a cross functional team in redesigning the UI design of the Institute's web site. Responsible for writing the content for VAI Careers landing page, Benefits landing page, and Living in Grand Rapids landing page.

This project involved updating the Institute's New Hire Orientation Training. This included creating a new presentation for New Hire Orientation as well as developing materials to provide to new hires with key information prior to first day of employment. This included incorporating the use of Brainshark.

Human Resources representative for the recruitment, hiring and successful onboarding of 37 new scientific laboratories.

A comprehensive guide to create a distinctively human way of working, through flexibility and empowerment, that is not just about making people feel good, but about giving them the ability to be as productive as possible, without sacrificing well-being.

VAI’s Flexible Work Guidance is intended to help supervisors and employees plan for the future. As an
organization we need to stop seeing the post-COVID era as a return to our previous normal.
This guidance was created to imagine what our next normal will be and create a step-by-step, deliberate process to better support our employees while continuing our important mission and start planning for VAI’s next normal in a positive, supportive, and engaging way

Architect in the development of a stipend for employees who were forced to work remotely due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Team lead for an organizational grassroots effort in crafting VAI's culture with the idea of building upon our successes and focusing on acceleration and alignment.

Team Lead for the selection and implementation of a cloud based New Employee On-boarding Portal (SilkRoad) to replace an antiquated paper on-boarding process. This project included creating and presenting a business case to the Executive team, vetting and selection of a vendor (SilkRoad), negotiating contracts, and working with vendor implementation specialist on creating the portal. This required an entire review and redesign of the current on-boarding processes and workflows. Responsible for… Show more

Team Lead for the selection and implementation of a cloud based New Employee On-boarding Portal (SilkRoad) to replace an antiquated paper on-boarding process. This project included creating and presenting a business case to the Executive team, vetting and selection of a vendor (SilkRoad), negotiating contracts, and working with vendor implementation specialist on creating the portal. This required an entire review and redesign of the current on-boarding processes and workflows. Responsible for creating all new web based on-boarding material and web pages. Show less

Human Resources Team Lead as part of a cross functional team to review and redesign work flow process around employee personnel actions. This project consisted of replacing a paper process with a web based electronic process, including employee requisitions for new hires, transfers, promotions, assignment extensions/terminations, funding allocation, and grant management activities.

Project Lead for vetting, selection, and implementation of a new SAAS based ATS (SilkRoad). This project included creating and presenting the business case to Executive team, vetting and interviewing vendors, negotiating vendor contracts, decomissioning of legacy Taleo ATS, working with new SilkRoad vendor on implementation, redesign of business process and workflows related to Talent Acquisition through Hire, and creation of new VAI/SilkRoad Career's Portal.