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Gateway Community College, Phoenix

Workforce manager at intermediary workforce development program providing guidance to low income individuals seeking certificate and degree programs.

Greater Phoenix

Provide services relating to employment, including vocational evaluation, earning capacity, employability, job search effectiveness, wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Area Leader, Career Center Operations/Partnerships (12/16 - 11/17)Drove the Partnerships & Special Projects team to help execute Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona’s mission of ending unemployment through the coordination of integrated workforce and employment services at the Partner Career Centers. Partner Centers included Arizona@Work, oversight of.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Created, implemented, and provided oversight of support services that helped advance UMOM’s mission in shelter and permanent housing programs: 1) workforce development; 2) health and wellness; 3) campus safety; and 4) health and wellness. Worked closely with senior program leadership to align the strategic direction of support services with UMOM’s.

Phoenix, Arizona

Founded a firm providing business services drawing from extensive experience in career coaching, vocational evaluation, human resources management, training, organizational development, outplacement, talent management, and program coordination in private and non-profit organizations. Clients included (but not limited to) Phoenix College, Driving MBA.

Tucson, Arizona

• Oversaw all HR and safety functions and ensured compliance with HR policies, procedures, and regulations consistent with mission critical goals of a start-up optics/telecommunications firmAccomplishments:
• Assisted COO in design and facilitation of company-wide initiative to define start-up’s vision and values
• Designed and implemented a recruitment strategy to locate, qualify and hire niche-market, optical and process engineers filling key technology requirements essential to the business
• Coordinated outplacement services with local city and county workforce services
• Facilitated conflict management/mediation interventions to resolve disagreements between members of senior management team and to resolve employee/management issues between production and management

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Drove people-initiative business objectives by devising a strategic operations plan implementing progressive talent acquisition and retention strategies, management training, workforce development, and compensation and.
• Collaborated with senior management in the design and facilitation of world-wide management team meetings resulting in prioritization of organizational initiatives and a definition of vision, mission and values
• Recruited over 150 management, financial, technical and production personnel
• Coordinated outplacement services
• Trained management in “Balanced Scorecard” technology which provided the foundation for the company’s performance management process
• Integrated HR systems and benefits programs during two company acquisitions

Tucson, Arizona, United States

• Training and Organization Development Specialist, Medical Benefits Supervisor, Staffing/Outplacement Supervisor, and Technical Recruiter at a defense contractor of 10,000+ employees dedicated to the research, design.
• Facilitated team of high-potential managers to redesign RMSC’s structure, vision and goals
• Managed succession planning for the 22 Directors comprising the senior leadership team at RMSC
• Managed IITV Learning Center (video campus) resulting in education and training of over 250 professionals and managers, delivering degree programs and professional development courses from National Technological.
• Coordinated outplacement services with Right Management, Drake Beam Morin and Challenger Gray & Christmas
• Negotiated, developed and coordinated on-site MBA and MSSE (Systems Engineering) programs partnering with the University of Arizona, resulting in 40 enrollments in accelerated on-site graduate programs, limiting annual.

Bs, Science (Minor In Psychology)

Activities and Societies: Theta Chi Fraternity

Master'S Degree, Vocational Evaluation/Rehabilitation Counseling