How do the items in the current list  relate to the user's profile? There's
a lookup field  type that might work for you, and if not, there are some
third-party cross-site lookup field types that might do the job.

Actually we are using the time
management template from Microsoft. there is a list  named time log, and
within that list I create a view named by month and by week. i created a new
column in the list (person look up), and selected the department field. Is
there something more that should be configured to pull the data in?