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Mapleton, Illinois, United States

Provide strategic oversight to operations leadership on core HR activities (recruiting, onboarding, investigations, PIP, RIF, terminations) and strategic initiatives (employee engagement, performance management, talent development, succession & pipeline planning, strategic workforce planning) to meet business and talent priorities.■ Collaborated with leadership team and led strategic workforce planning process to identify actions to support strategic goals resulting in sourcing 3 functional areas ($3M savings), focused hiring efforts to meet production manpower targets (400+ hires/75% pull through) and reestablishing the maintenance apprenticeship program (27 apprentices).■ Coached facility contingency coordinator on contingency HR policies and procedures, employee relations, stipends and night shift premium process for over 350+ contingency employees.■ Served as Culture Workstream Lead for new hire onboarding by creating a framework focused on desired behaviors achieved through actions (training courses, Workday courses, videos) contributing to a 92% new hire positivity rate.■ Analyzed Employee Insights data and coached leaders on action planning to achieve increases in participation (+14%) and Employee Experience (+8%) over the last 3 years.

Peoria, Illinois, United States

Delivered solutions to clients through tactical and strategic HR support. Consulted, advised and guided leaders on HR compliance, employee relations, investigations, talent management and strategy planning.■ Advised clients on training plans and performance metrics to promote position success and support business goals.■ Consulted with client to develop a strategic membership survey to address organization’s current and future needs.■ Spearheaded change management plan for client transitioning to new HRMS system.

Peoria, Il

Developed Caterpillar’s Global Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) strategy and partnered with Center of Excellence process owners to embed D&I into HR processes to support the business strategy. Served as process owner for Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and Diversity & Inclusion Excellence Awards.■ Provided leadership guidance to 14 Employee Resource Groups (65+ global leaders) on HR policies/procedures, employee engagement, mentoring, recruiting, recognition, strategy, budget and metrics.■ Collaborated with enterprise process owners and ERG Executive Sponsors’ Lead HR Mangers on a new selection process to identify talent to fill ERG global leadership positions.■ Analyzed/interpreted employment data and benchmarked with external organizations to measure D&I efforts to drive quality improvements.

Mossville, Il

Supported VP and CTO in devising internal and external messaging for Caterpillar’s Enterprise engineering community.■ Created and managed 10+ strategic communication plans for Caterpillar's enterprise engineering community.■ Oversaw the development of internal and external communications for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education activities in partnership with industry groups including FIRST, NASA, and Army Corp of Engineers.

Delray Beach, Fl

Ran HR operations as well as managed payroll, vendors, insurance, accounts receivable/ payable, building maintenance, and compliance of all state and federal laws, regulations and filings. Cultivated strategic relationships in community to forge partnerships that drove sustainable growth.■ Served as trusted council to the Executive Director providing coaching on HR policies and procedures as well as ran all recruiting efforts from developing job descriptions, posting jobs, interviewing and onboarding.■ Updated and implemented HR policies and procedures to achieve the organization’s first ever accreditation by the Council on Accreditation.

Peoria, Il

Oversaw distribution process for 6 grant cycles and 50+ scholarships consisting of over 100 endowment funds. Nurtured relationships with community organizations through local initiatives, site visits and community events.■ Formed Emerging Philanthropists in Central Illinois (EPIC) fund by recruiting a volunteer committee of 9 professionals from within the community: surpassed membership goal by 50% with 100 members in first year.■ Facilitated seminars on the granting/scholarship cycle and application process to over 100+ community partners.

Peoria, Il

Provided program support to 38 partnering organizations sponsoring Learning for Life programs through identifying and soliciting organizations for new programs.■ Recruited and trained 165+ volunteers for district committees and Learning for Life programs.■ Successfully launched 5 new programs in the first year by building relationships within the communities served to solicit organizations for new programs.

Peoria, Il

Charged with setting strategic vision and executing organizational goals and objectives. Spearheaded all aspects of human resources including supervision of a 16-person team.■ Broke record for most attendees at a single performance with 3,000 attendees at Nutcracker 2009 as a result of formulating volunteer marketing and fundraising committees to develop strategic marketing and fundraising plans.■ Achieved 25% increase in academy attendance for 2009-2010 school year through the creation of a comprehensive recruitment and marketing strategy.

Peoria, Il

Developed strategy, cultivation and stewardship of donors globally. Managed communications for the Great Rivers Partnership team located in Africa, Brazil, China and the U.S.

Peoria, Il

Chicago, Il

M.A., Leadership In Human Service Administration

B.A., Fine Arts, Minor In Spanish