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peopleatwork.com is an HR Consulting and Coaching practice helping companies and individuals create successful talent/career strategies aligned with their values. Scope of the position includes operational responsibility, company strategy, and consulting and coaching companies and individuals on HR matters. HR Consulting and Coaching:• Develop and deliver curriculum for multiple courses, including in-person, online, and intensives, targeted to organizations and individuals. Topics include leadership capacity building, career development, and LinkedIn to grow business. Results have included job promotions, successful career transitions, and increased revenue by up to 22%.• Consultant on various projects for other start-ups/solopreneurs that led to a reported 50% increase in visibility and business growth.• Coached individuals on career development strategies to improve marketability within the organization by developing leadership capacity with a 100% success rate. To date, 100% of clients have achieved greater responsibility and compensation after coaching.• Provide HR consulting to start-up companies, including compliance, the establishment of systems, policies, processes, development of staffing plans and recruitment strategies, and leadership development.Operations:• Lead the CFO, CIO, and HR functions within this start-up organization. Manage a virtual team of 1 to 4 consultants focused on Administrative, Marketing, Finance, and IT functions.• Responsible for network and application support, including CRM, invoicing and payment platforms, scheduling, and content delivery. • Developing and liaising with legal on contracts to ensure service level agreements and terms of agreements are correct and equitable to all parties.

• Provided leadership and oversight of the HR function for Noble Energy Equatorial Guinea, West Africa, overseeing a multinational team of 400 employees and contractors. • Promoted to serve as the top HR leader in the country. Managed six direct reports and a budget of more than $4B. • Closely liaised with senior and executive management to identify strategic talent and development needs and built and executed strategy.• Responsible for three domestic business units, comprising about 50% of domestic operations, spread across ten office and field locations. • Spearheaded the reorganization and HR integration of a $2B acquisition and a $1B divestiture, including talent reviews, re-allocation of human capital resources, and succession planning for all affected business units.

Hired into Rosetta by former Manager from Marathon Oil and promoted to In-Country HR Manager during the Rosetta acquisition by Noble Energy, • Managed HR Recruitment, Training, and Development for a rapidly growing Exploration & Production company while leading a team of 5 direct reports. • Developed and implemented Rosetta’s first company-wide dedicated training program, launched within eight weeks of hire.• Developed, budgeted, and implemented a three-year plan to train existing and future employees based on a position-based methodology, and successfully delivered over 10,000 training hours in the first year.• Collaborated with finance and accounting to certify internal training courses for continuing education credits with the State of Texas, resulting in savings of over $10,000 in their training costs.• Led talent reviews to assess and evaluate 300+ employees and developed succession plans for strategic positions and high potentials.• Implemented vendor management tool for recruitment agency engagement and communication, creating efficiencies, decreasing recruiting time by 60%, and reducing commission costs by an average of ~30%.

• Promoted from Coordinator to Supervisor after three months on the job, managed HR recruiting, training and development, and shared services departments for three Marathon Oil joint venture companies representing 27% of total corporate revenues. Led a team of eight direct reports and three cross-functional indirect reports.• Acted as Sr. HR Manager of Recruitment Training and Development position while manager was out of the country, an average of 40% of time on the job. In this capacity, led a team of eight direct reports, three cross-functional indirect reports, and three department heads for a combined team of 33 ex-patriots and local staff. • Closely liaised with senior and executive management to identify strategic leadership competencies. o Developed a framework and assisted in implementing a succession plan for critical executive positions. o Identified competencies and created training plans to select and train ex-pats on how to coach and mentor local staff to accelerate the transition of local staff supervisory positions.o Built and implemented individual development plans to accelerate local staff growth, resulting in 20% increased promotions.• Achieved a 33% increase in training engagements for local staff year over year. This resulted in increased leadership opportunities for local staff and a significant decrease in labor costs.• Consistently managed training budget to plan; achieved 5% under-budget result without compromising training offerings. • Identified and helped correct a $2MM budget error collaborating closely with finance and accounting executives.

Led full life-cycle recruiting; collaborated with management to understand talent needs; identified and sourced candidates with leadership oversight for interviewing and decision process leading to successful hire and on-boarding; placements included both executive-level and technical staff positions

XISS is an IT consulting company specializing in high performance computing (super-computing) solutions servicing clients in Oil & Gas, Research, Government, and academic industries. Client engagement while working for Robert Half Technology.

Hired to provide strategic and tactical implementation/deployment of recruiting initiatives for this privately owned information technology consulting firm; reported directly to the CEO while supporting five Vice Presidents in matrix-managed organization

Program/Project Manager for large scale deployment for Corning's Recruiting Center of Excellence and Corning Cable Systems. Designed, developed and implemented mission-critical HR programs including reconfiguration and implementation across an entire division of Peoplesoft e-recruit software (from Lotus Notes recruiting & tracking platform). Other implementations: college recruiting program, interviewing skills training, workforce planning and change management programs.

Worked in various HR consulting and IT recruiting positions with increasing levels of responsibility with emphasis on change management during transitional times