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Utah, United States

Promoting the vision of private land protection projects, land stewardship, and organizational management. Developing, growing, and providing oversight for outreach and education programs and projects promoting agricultural conservational easements and land trusts to local, and regional governmental agencies, professional organizations, industry groups, and private land owners.

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Using a broad-based background of leadership development with a human resource focus: able to improve existing systems with a strategized focus on organizations' needs. The goal of having the right employee in the right position proceeds with having the correct training systems and accountability metrics in place. • Supporting organizational talent management and compliance by designing and facilitating HR procedural training for 387 nationally remote and on-site employees. • Researching and presenting compensation study plans to increase organizational capability, talent management, retention, and employee engagement. • Advising and managing organizations on hiring, onboarding, talent management, policy development, and implementation, leadership development, and culture change. • Counsel key leadership of (8) independent units who each oversee 300+ constituents. Advise leadership on developmental plans to increase constituent performance by 10% month-over-month.• Collaborate with the leadership committee to assess KPIs of 16 organizational entities; define leadership development competency areas, prepare training materials, present, and facilitate regular training sessions. Perform a 365-degree evaluation of unit leadership to determine change and performance management results. Conduct retraining as needed.

Logan, Utah, United States

• Executed a JIRA workflow that enhanced organizational process compliance and resource management by decreasing SAP financial transport proof-of-testing deficiencies by 60%. JIRA process workflow and enhancing domestic and international (India and Chile) employee engagement.• Managed Snowflake data cloud conversion project for marketing and point-of-sale business departments. Conversion reduced data entry errors and report building by 25% and enabled a holistic dashboard view of advertising metrics for executive business decision making. • Increased corporate efficiency, customer value, and compliance by 50%, and decreased vulnerability costs and downtime by 40% through on-time and on-budget management of SAP S4 Hanna upgrade.• As member of innovative project management office, assisted in creating project governance documentation for systematic performance improvement.Skills Developed:#Project Management #Jira Cloud Enterprise#Confluence Document collaboration#Monday work-boards#Asana work management

Logan, Utah, United States

• Provided expert organizational effectiveness consultation for senior-level leaders at the business unit and organizational levels. Identified workflow systems inhibiting strategic success and advised, managed, and directed over 100 campaigns to help the organization achieve competitive advantage and sustainable business results.• Created a “Civility in Action” strategy to drive campus culture, team, and employee development. Strategies, increased diversity and retention rates of campus personnel by 30%.• Created a succession planning strategy for 80 skilled business unit professionals. Established career paths, mobility, workload assignments, coaching, and growth strategies increased leadership promotion by 66% over 8 years.• Established business unit staff and faculty job design structures. Results measured as motivation, satisfaction, performance, and retention led to an aggregate percentage of 95% over 8 years.• Performed student/employee relations functions including investigations towards compliance of all federal and state laws, assisting VP Human Resources in corrective action and discipline; provided technical assistance to develop performance improvement plans of 400+ campus personnel. • Researching and analyzing P&L reporting, HRIS Workday data, and budget oversight decreased workforce costs by 50%. Developed detailed budgeting, job analyses and competency models used in recruiting, screening, interviewing, onboarding, and training to develop team member capabilities to support company long-term success and business culture.• Created organizational capability dashboard utilizing key drivers of engagement and performance recommendations, which increased organizational effectiveness by 55% over a 5-year period.• Recruited, screened, interviewed, onboarded, and trained team members to support the campus’s long-term success. Developed detailed budgets, job descriptions, job analyses, and competency models used in recruiting.

Logan, Utah

• Successfully led organizational effectiveness strategy that transformed the L&D business unit into a top 5 best performing in the organization, maintained top distinction for 8 consecutive years, exceeding the 90th percentile of compliance and organizational KPIs.• As key administrator received recognition from C-level executives for learning and development excellence ≥90% over a 12-year period – Receiving Lifetime Achievement Award. • Implemented a blended-learning training program for the development of instructor functional knowledge skill gap deficiencies. Executed training portfolio was not only effective in increasing learner competencies, defined by training needs and performance outcomes but increased value and ROI through amassing: •80,000 hours of upskilling and on-the-job training •66% increase in leadership promotion over an 8 period.• Increased business unit student success and retention from admission to enrollment by 80% over a 5-year period, through strategic planning consultation with Student Success Committee.• Implemented a blended-learning training program for the development of instructor functional knowledge skill gap deficiencies. Executed training portfolio led to personal recognition for organizational Learning and Development excellence.• Formulated a change management strategy that provided educational leaders with success strategies and action steps to increase student equity and persistence. As a result, student retention increased by 40%.• Created the vision, management, delivery, procurement, and viability of 8 academic programs and over 300 blended courses serving over 5000 learners. • Devised operational effectiveness strategy to increase job skill transferability of adult learners. Over a 12-year period, 5000 learners successfully completed learning paths for an average transfer rate of 64%.

Hill Air Force Base

• Balanced resources and productivity of training, simulation and performance improvement team of designers towards timely development of instructor led and simulation course curriculum.• Working with SMEs’, identified performance gaps and developed Defense Industrial Financial Management System simulation training curriculum to improve performance of civil service users.Skills Developed:#Product Management#Team Building#Training Development#Curriculum Development#Instructional Design Models# Instructional Systems Design

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Managed relationships between clients, subject matter experts, and internal development teams to ensure proper, and effective e-Learning environmental military training curriculum was created on time and within budget.• Designed Geo-spatial web-based application for Hill Air Force Base historical building identification• Designed e-Learning Hazard Communications training for US Marine CorpSkills Developed:#Customer Relations#Team Building#Content Development#e-Learning#Micro Learning

Ogden, Utah

• Increased Fortune 1 and 5 clients’ competitive advantage by 70% through timely design and delivery of financial systems call center simulation portfolio deliverables • Working with SMEs’, analyzed and designed systems simulation training scenarios for effective use in global card registration call center development and training. • Consulted and trained department managers, and training personnel on proprietary customized LxP, KMS and simulation training technologies used in global systems learning and workforce/talent development strategies.•. Increased client competitive advantage by managing and coaching simulation project developers and designers towards development and deployment goals.Skills Developed:# Instructional Systems Design# Contract Negotiations# Instructional Systems Development# Web Coding # Project Management# Team Building# Customer Relations# Product Integration

Logan, Utah

• Designed, developed and facilitated testing anxiety workshop to 40 faculty instructors. Learner performance and persistence increased by 30% as a result of implemented Cognitive Behavior Therapy techniques. ENG 223—Interpersonal Communications Accelerated blended course that covered the elements of effective communication: conflict resolution, interpersonal relationship building, and effective listening. Designed lessons, guided discussion, developed teaching materials, graded all student work, and edited student papers.ENG 224—Public SpeakingAccelerated course that covered the main types of speeches: persuasive, informative, and demonstrative. Designed lessons, guided discussion, developed teaching materials, graded all student work, and edited student papers. APP 101—Computer Applications Accelerated blended course that covered the basics of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Designed lessons, guided discussion, developed teaching materials, graded all student work, and edited student papers.PSY 101—Motivational Psychology An accelerated course that taught motivational theory in a practical college application. Stressed goal setting and college readiness. Designed lessons, guided discussion, developed teaching materials, graded all student work, and edited student papers.PSY 299—Professional Development An accelerated course that taught job-ready skills, resume and cover letter writing, and interviewing skills. Designed lessons, guided discussion, developed teaching materials, graded all student work, and edited student papers.MAN 105—Marketing An accelerated online course that taught marketing functions such as purchasing, distribution, consumer analysis, promotion, and pricing. Designed lesson content, online discussion forums, online teaching materials and graded all student submitted work.Skills Developed:# Behavior Management# Conflict Resolution# Counseling# Advising# Teaching Methodologies

Logan, Utah

• Decreased workplace injury by 90%, and increased quality throughput by 20% through the development of instructor-led policy and procedural training for production personnel• Designed, developed, and delivered instructor-led classroom training curriculum. Developed classroom presentations, user guides, quick reference materials, exercise materials and scenarios.• Instructed manufacturing personnel, tracked and evaluated employee progress against quality and productivity standards. Skills Developed:# Presentation Development# Teaching# Training# Performance Metrics

Master Of Human Resources, Human Resources Management And Services

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs

Activities and Societies: Minors in: Portuguese, Management and MultiMedia DevelopmentEmphasis in Public Relations/Corporate Communications;

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Educational/Instructional Technology