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Naperville, Illinois

Naperville, Illinois

Assist 2nd Grade teacher in all responsibilities in the classroom.

Naperville, Illinois

Human Resources Consulting Firm with diverse corporate experience specializing in the following areas: Employee Engagement, Change Management, Organization Effectiveness, Leadership Development, Talent Management, Team Building, Executive Coaching, Strategic Planning, Organizational Design, Succession Planning, Retention Strategies, Best Practices, Diversity and Inclusion, Training and Development, Recruitment and Selection.Visit my website at www.thetorricogroup.com*Bilingual in Spanish*

Greater Chicago Area

I drove alignment and common vision across the division by creating the People and Organization strategy for this $3 billion retail business, integrating it with the overall business strategy. In preparation of the spin-off, I devised and led a change plan for the broader organization to realign functions, ways of working, and optimally staff the company’s new organization, which exceeded cost savings goal of reducing SG&A spend by 30%.• Selected and formed this high-performing senior Retail leadership team, which attained double-digit profit growth for four consecutive years and gained share in all major categories in an increasingly challenging commodities market.• Led company’s employee engagement score globally, every year.• Designed divisional award programs in line with the overall recognition and retention strategy. Significantly impacted employee engagement, which was consistent with objective to drive profitable growth.

Greater Chicago Area

I was a key leader in influencing and implementing the transformation change plan to integrate several separate corporate functions across the division. I redefined the human resources function role within the organization to align with business needs.• Led the transformation of the R&D function to integrate multiple brands and created dual career planning to accommodate leadership strength and deep functional expertise, which boosted our ability to recruit top talent.• Directed the development of functional competencies across the corporate functions, which increased performance expectations and a manager’s ability to more accurately assess talent against benchmarks.• Implemented talent management systems and introduced talent calibration across the corporate functions and field sales, resulting in improving retention of top talent by 6% and the ability to target bottom 10% for action plans.• Created and led the diversity and inclusion agenda across the division that led to widespread acceptance of a sustainable Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) strategy, including the introduction of a D&I council, revitalizing affinity groups and integrating people practices that are fair and equitable.

Greater Chicago Area

I directed the HR strategy for the U.S. spirits markets for $1.2B in sales. I assumed an additional role of leading the HR strategy for the National Accounts business unit accounting for 25% of total U.S. sales volume. • Increased sales volume 7% by restructuring the Diageo business model to allow dedicated resources for Diageo brands within the distributor organizations. • Improved the quality of distributor GMs and other key staff by executing a resourcing strategy for the three largest U.S. liquor distributors in six major states. • Exceeded volume by 100,000 cases, profit by $8M and grew 4.4 share points ahead of the industry by realigning the organization structure to redeploy talent more appropriately in order to effectively deliver against the new business strategy. • Grew business 10.3% and 1.3 share points in FY05 by creating a new organization that formed a National Accounts team responsible for executing business objectives through more than 200 multi-state customers, including Wal*Mart, SAM’s, Safeway, Albertson’s, Costco and the Military.• Retained 100% top talent in first year by developing a successful retention strategy for the National Accounts business unit.• Upgraded leadership capability by coaching and mentoring key senior executives, enabling them to provide a clearer sense of direction and coach and mentor their teams more effectively.• Ensured North America’s best practices, needs, and issues were represented by serving as the North American representative on a Global HR Board that set Human Resources process and policy framework for the Diageo global organization.

Greater Chicago Area

I developed new account relationships within a nine-state region as a strategic business partner.• Increased sales more than $12M by developing new business in the college sector.• Increased new business $1.2M by expanding operations for the first time into the state of North Dakota.

Greater Philadelphia Area

I led strategic Human Resources support for this $1.2 billion division supporting over 15,000 employees at 400 operations. I partnered with senior leaders from Marketing, Sales, Finance and IT. I managed and developed seven Regional Human Resources Directors.• Increased performance of leadership team by implementing change initiatives, which resulted in receiving the organization’s award for top sales and profit in 2001.• Cross-pollinated top talent outside regional silos by initiating and leading organizational planning and development activities addressing management development, compensation, succession planning and staffing for the division.• Motivated line managers to over-deliver financial results by redesigning incentive plans.• Branded ARAMARK name on college campuses and created on-going pipeline for management trainee program by designing a national Student Manager Program, which became the largest source of new college hires for the organization.

Greater Chicago Area

I provided strategic and tactical HR support as a principle member of the management team for a $150 million region. I managed and developed three HR professionals in support of 2,000 employees at 65 sites across the Midwest.

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Master Of Arts (Ma), Elementary Education And Teaching

Mlir, Human Resources & Labor Relations

Bs, Psychology And Spanish

Study Abroad, Universidad de Salamanca, 1989