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Indianapolis, In, Us

Muncie, Indiana, United States

Supporting the Comcast Advertising Human Resources via the Solutions & Adoption Team while growing our team members' development, fostering employee engagement, and championing our organizational culture.

Muncie, Indiana, United States

Focused on Comcast Advertising wide/large HR Initiatives including annual Performance Management / Talent Management processesSupporting:• Review / Approval – process for HR Leaders in engaging with appropriate projects and agreed upon goals / objectives. Lead reoccurring project portfolio reviews with HR Leaders.• Planning – creation, including budgets / timelines. Working with HR Operations, documenting workflows and archive content for reoccurring projects.• Execution – bring together necessary cross-functional teammates, partner departments and aligns, assigns and confirms roles / responsibilities. • Measurement – tracks critical project achievements to determine progress. Determines risk including potential collision and/or resources issues. Partners with HR Insights to assess impact of projects. Provides post project readouts including cost vs budget and lessons learned. • Adoption/Change Management – partners with Talent Leads, HR Communications and HR Operations on determining adoption needs for Advertising teammates based off initiatives. Ensures effective ongoing implementation of changes including reinforcement.• Assist Talent Program Director with project plans for Talent programs and scheduling, prep and agenda for ELT quarterly Talent meetings.• Coordinate operational support to Talent Team for Corporate Talent Initiatives such as Career Wellbeing.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Manage projects to completion, ensuring on-time delivery, meeting of budgetary demands and maintenance of overall project ownership. Develop and use formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks and changes Identify project scope and objectives  Manage a cross-functional team including third party vendors and other resources to coordinate activities and achieve goals Develop, maintain and manage detailed project plans, action item registers and major milestone timelines for assigned projects Plan and direct schedule Coordinate resources and needs while developing and maintaining regular contact with vendors for support and services Maintain communication with stakeholders Provide status reports to vendors, stakeholders, coworkers and executives Facilitate project meetings Address problems through risk management and contingency planning and presents solutions and/or options to executive managementWorking out of Muncie, IN, covering Effectv's entire national footprint.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

 Lead and directed the local and regional Account Planning functions and personnel for the state of Indiana Prepared and proofed sports, themed, demographic and other assigned sales packages Trained Local Sales Managers, Account Executives and Account Planners on our suite of media products, processes and software Developed and implemented standards and processes for the North Central Division, Central Region and Indiana Provided pre-sale support functions for Account Executives when workload or head count demandsWorked out of Indianapolis, covering the greater Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne & South Bend markets

Muncie, Indiana Area

 Established job descriptions and organizational reporting for professional services company Developed employee evaluation SOP and tools for deployment

Muncie, Indiana Area

 Managed the daily operations for a successful plumbing franchise with a service territory of over 1 million households Project management for large scale excavations including material procurement and equipment, utilizing multiple vendors

Muncie, Indiana Area

 Responsible for all company operational functions regarding the cable ad sales and internet division Served a critical role in the creation and organization of a new internet, web and technology division: Fusework Studios Directed all accounts receivable functions including collection activity for past due accounts Trained sales support personnel and account executives on products, procedures and applications Improved on-boarding of human resources by direct management and revamped policies and procedures Facilities manager accountable for new space acquisitions, building renovations and office moves Negotiated vendor contracts for services, products and software Lead a team which performed: reporting, scheduling and billing functions for a coast-to-coast media company Established the centralized scheduling and billing department

Muncie, Indiana Area

Muncie, Indiana Area

Muncie, Indiana Area

Bachelors, Business, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Phi Gamma Nu - Business Fraternity Founding member of the Epsilon Epsilon chapter of Pi Sigma Epsilon.

Education record

Since 1976, the Academy for Community Leadership has contributed to the growth of Muncie & Delaware County's community leaders.

Education record

Emergence: Personal Foundations of Effective Leadership An eight-week highly interactive and engaging training opportunity ideal.