>> My name is Christine Kaiser.
And I work for Highmark, which is an insurance company mostly though we do many other things.
And my specific job is a human resources consultant.
Well, last year we bought a company,
another Blue Cross company up in northeastern Pennsylvania.
And so my role in that is the project manager.
So, it started out by following the rules of the merger agreements.
But it became, what benefits are those employees going to receive?
And when are they going to receive our benefits that we currently offer our employees?
What policies they're going to follow and what policies of theirs are they going to continue
to follow and when do we convert to the Highmark policies?
What jobs the people are going to do?
Obviously anytime you have a merger there are some lay offs.
But the goal of the merger is not to do any lay offs per se, although it happens,
the goal is to put the jobs where they need to be.
So, we might take some jobs in our existing headquarters and move them to this new location.
And so we are doing the workforce management work as well.
Plus, we're also doing an IT conversion of systems.
And so my job is to make sure that the HR system conversion goes well.