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Washington, Dc, Us

Strategic Consultancy delivering across a wide range of HR areas including Executive Coaching, Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, Org Design, Onboarding and Career Advancement, Learning & Development, Visa Administration, HR Compliance/Admin and most importantly Employee Experience with a specific focus on creating and implementing programs to scale quickly and effectively. Currently engaged with startup and scaleup organizations as well as capital investment firms across multiple industries and geos.

Westborough, Massachusetts, Us

• Manage team of HR and Learning & Development professionals.• Create and launch Internal as well as Customer training programs including content development, learning supports, LMS distribution for both synchronous and asynchronous courses. Over 100 direct trainings held / over 12 courses and 50 lessons developed.• Drive recruitment: hired and onboarded 50+ global team members, including Executive & Leadership roles, utilizing in-house efforts.• Devise, launch, and ensure continual adoption over numerous strategic initiatives including OKR methodology; New Hire Onboarding; Annual Performance Review; Manager Training Series; Skills-based Career Pathing; Pay Equity; Organizational Redesign(s); etc.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

CDP (Contributor Development Partnership) is a cooperative fundraising alliance that pioneers new and innovative fundraising technologies, marketing strategies, and scaled best practices on behalf of more than 230 public radio and television stations. • Managed team of 6 professionals (HR, IT and Knowledge Management/Training)• Doubled diversity among staff over two years by adjusting recruitment to identify and engage with underrepresented talent more strongly – encompassing both visible and nonvisible elements of diversity. Continue to devise and launch programs designed to ensure efforts of DEI go beyond recruitment to also achieve equity, inclusion and belonging for all staff.• Drove hiring: 50+ team members, including Executive & Leadership roles, utilizing in-house efforts.• Devised, launched and ensured continual adoption over numerous strategic initiatives including HRIS/People Analytics enterprise implementation; New Hire Onboarding; Annual/Mid-year Performance Review Process; Manager Training Series; Skills-based Career Pathing; Pay Equity; Launch of Remote workforce; Covid Protocol Definition and Oversight; Organizational Redesign(s); Best-Practice Security Training; Company-wide Quality Initiative; etc.

Independent consultancy offering recruitment, operations and business strategy to CEO's and Boards of emerging startup ventures through mid-level organizations. At varying times, worked as either the full-time VP of HR or as a Strategic HR Consultant. Focus areas include Executive Coaching, Talent Acquisition, Career Development, Comp & Benefits, Employee Experience, Retention Initiatives, Organizational Design, Visa Administration and Workforce Management. Partial list of clients includes, but not limited to: Promoboxx, Connected2Fiber, Babbel, Synthesio (acquired by Ipsos), Neolane (acquired by Adobe), FirstFuel (acquired by Tendril), Sepaton (acquired by Hitachi), StrikeIron, (acquired by Informatica), Cymfony (acquired by TNS Media Intelligence), mValent (acquired by Oracle), INetU Managed Hosting (acquired by ViaWest).

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

After spending 6 months as strategic consultant, was converted to full-time status at request of CEO to assist Founder led organization during CEO transition. Focus was on hiring of key Executive Leadership, as well as rebuilding Engineering, Services and Sales organizations; Organizational redesign; and Employee Engagement initiatives.

New York, New York, Us

After spending 12 months as a strategic consultant, was converted to full-time status at request of CEO to drive global expansion efforts. Responsible for leading the HR function across North America, Europe and APAC. Focused on driving strategies that support global growth through talent acquisition & retention, workforce planning & management, learning & development, compliance, compensation management, benefits & rewards.

After spending 3 years as a strategic consultant, was converted to full-time status at request of President. During 4 year tenure, directed all human resources activity for Neolane, North America. Responsible for developing and implementing policies and programs that supported the organization’s overall strategic direction. Oversaw all areas of human resources, including recruitment and selection, compensation, benefits, training & development, performance management, employee relations, etc.

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Responsible for strategic and operational results of privately held Placement Company, including Strategic Initiatives, P&L performance, Permanent Placement, Contract Placement, Finance and Administration (including HR and IT). Placement included all levels from individual contributor through executive and all skill sets surrounding full product life cycle, including “go-to-market”, engineering and professional services.

Responsible for merger and acquisition initiatives of $150+ million, privately held corporation. Reported to Chairman, President and CFO.

Manager of Operations (Tech Specialists, Division of Office Specialists)Manager of Technical Operations, North Carolina (Tech Specialists, Division of Office Specialists)General Manager, Computer Based Communications, (Division of Office Specialists)Member of Market Research Team (Office Specialists)

Mba, Finance And Strategic Planning

Bsba, Marketing And Social Psychology