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MICROSOFT 2012 - presentOFFICE AND SKYPE — Redmond, WA Lead HR Rhythm of the Business (RoB) and people planning for 800 employee geo-distributed business. Strategic business partner for 2 Corporate Vice Presidents. Lead HR v-teams in Europe and US• Developed and drove executive leader on-boarding to help build higher functioning SLT and organization• Drove semi-annual talent management planning• Partnered with leadership team to build people strategy to align business and talent priorities and ensure seamless execution of business strategy• Created succession plans for LT to ensure business continuity and growth while mapping critical talent to critical work• Talent broker – partnered with CVPs and Talent Management to export and import Partner GPMs in CSE and CxP • Talent broker – partnered with CVPs and Talent Management to export and import Partner GPMs to ensure business continuity, enable teams to continue work in Machine Translation, Automation, and Support to improve customer NPS.• Partnered with leadership team to create communication forum to socialize accomplishments and business priorities to re-engage employees

Software as a Service (SaaS) workflow application to give corporate counsel visibility into outside counsel spend and to manage cases.; Regional HR Lead for software business with highly matrixed global development team. Partner with functional VPs and senior management teams to drive strategy and operational rigor. Lead execution for post acquisition integration, divestiture and O&O.• Partner with GM and leadership team to align for growth, align spend to software industry standards, and improve efficiencies to make business more scalable • Built people and communications strategy to transform from a small, entrepreneurial start-up to a growing and stable corporation• Lead employee survey and organizational improvement program that increased YOY employee engagement scores by 9% (2008) and 8% (2010)• Drove business process identification and documentation that resulted in expense control and $1.6M in cost reductions• Created HR metrics to directly align to business strategy and objectives• Lead international O&O related project and retained >98% of critical talent•

Directed HR function for employee population of 1500 at 63 sites with $30M payroll. Lead all aspects of staffing, training, policy administration, and employee relations while directly managing a staff of five HR professionals. Talent ManagementDrove performance improvement by creating Performance Management training program for Executives, Line Managers, and SupervisorsBuilt accountability within organization through focused performance assessment and managementBuilt quality standards and metrics to hold the Leadership Team accountable for development of leadership within their divisionsStaffing and Workforce DevelopmentCollaborated with peers to forecast staffing based on enrollmentDirected Training Coordinator in execution of strategy to develop highly qualified workforceDeveloped HR team skills and experience that resulted in five promotions and expanded career development opportunities

Developed and executed on global people strategy for $100M Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software implementation. This software implementation allowed for consistent, global business processes across the supply chain.Leader Readiness and Organizational AlignmentConducted Staffing Impact Analysis to determine job role changes or eliminationDelivered Leader Readiness sessions that gave managers specific strategies for local implementationWorked with International Labor Councils (Asia and Europe) to determine impact of software implementation on workforceTraining and CommunicationsManaged global team that defined and created global business processes linking Procurement, Finance, and New Product IntroductionCreated global communications and training strategy for 15,000 end users (North America, South America, Europe, and Asia) to ensure adoption of ERP applicationManaged courseware identification process and delivery using Web Ex, MS Live Meeting, e-Study, and Instructor Led Training