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Wylie, Tx, Us

Concord, California, Us

Concord, California, Us

As the National Learning and Development Manager for Swinerton, my team and I support the creation and curation of development content for all businesses and divisions of the Swinerton organization. As a department within the broader Talent team, L&D diagnoses, prescribes, and applies the appropriate learning or organization development interventions to support the needs of all employees. Additionally, the L&D team oversees, manages, and supports the organization-wide Learning Management System, through providing relevant, useful, and just-in-time learning resources to our stakeholders and clients.Specifically, I support:The development and implementation of the organization's learning strategy and programs, aligned with the organization’s strategic objectives, evaluating to ensure complete understanding of all business units and their specific L&OD requirements.The L&OD project management and budgeting, overseeing project deadlines and deliverables and tracking budgets.The negotiation of contracts, building and maintaining relationships with third-party L&OD providers.The Implementation of various learning methods, i.e., coaching, job-shadowing, online training, and assessing the success of development plans, modifying where necessary.As the principal point of contact for questions about training and organization development, and advise managers on appropriate career development/pathing for members of their teamThe development and maintenance of organizational communications, such as intranet bulletin boards and newsletters to ensure employees have knowledge of training and organization development events and resources.

San Diego, California, Us

I support various clients with consulting services that include coaching, leadership development, operations leadership programs, and learning initiatives. Additionally, we provide clients with support in establishing L&OD departments while building a culture of learning within the organization, build multi-year, leadership development programs that reach high-potential leaders at various levels, establish internal coaching programs, and serve as executive coach to organizational leaders from c-suite to front-line managers.

Carlsbad, California, Us

As the Director of Training and Organization Development for Bergelectric, I led an amazing team of L&OD experts and a large cohort of 26 high potential employees in a 4-year leadership development program. Our team oversaw all talent and organization development activities, including planning, organizing, and leading programs, ensuring proper execution at all levels of the company, across all US regions. The team successfully completed the design, development, and rollout of organization-wide systems implementation; a learning management system, impacting every employee across the United States. I support my team with consistent methods in the development, delivery and application of training standards and oversee the planning, prioritization, and development of new training and development programs and initiatives, ensuring they align with department, Human Resources, and corporate strategies, objectives, and needs.Oversee/collaborate with a team of learning & organization development experts and department P&L in support of org initiatives.Define/implement KPI's, analyze and distill compliance and effectiveness data to executive leadership. Oversee 4-year, high-potential leadership development program designed in-house, program P&L, curriculum, and evaluation and effectiveness.Support administration of the organization-wide LMS. Plan and lead our content management strategy, including developing, curating, and managing external partners.Assess current/future L&D needs gaps by conducting needs analysis in partnership with org leaders.Design/implement internal coaching/mentorship programs to meet current and future business needs of the org.Integrate research studies and ROI analysis throughout all development programs (pre-, mid-, and post-implementation) to evaluate and measure results.

Escondido, Ca, Us

As the Learning & Development Manager at Baker Electric, I had responsibility for employee development, design and management of learning initiatives, developing and implementing professional development and best practices, strategizing with executives on organizational and cultural health, increasing employee engagement, and ensuring all programs demonstrate value for the individual as well as for the organization, in the form of validated return on investment data (ROI). Aligning with corporate strategic initiatives, I developed the annual learning & development strategic plan, objectives, and budget. Among other things, my team managed the design, planning, and implementation of employee development programs, management training, and high-potential leadership development programs. My team developed and maintained hands-on learning content, guides, evaluation checklists, LMS, etc. and analyzed employee and leadership feedback for continuous improvement of programs, learning culture, training content, and program delivery.

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

I developed and designed over a dozen training programs and proficiency exams for corporate clients such as Bank of America, CVS Health, US Navy, Mitsubishi Motors, and more.I designed and developed curriculum for various training initiatives, including software tools, soft skills, and project management tools and techniques including project basics, project communication, and project scheduling. I created asymmetrical training content in recording studio using voiceover and on-camera tools to develop training material for consumers via online website purchase. I recommended organizational improvements to the training and curriculum design process and tools.

Kowloon, Hong Kong, Hk

As the learning and development manager, I designed and implemented the learning management system (LMS) and all learning content for the organization. I engaged internal clients to support learning and development initiatives across the organization by conducting training needs assessments (including SME interviews, focus groups, and surveys), progress analysis, and program evaluations to assist leadership in attaining strategic alignment on learning. I tripled company training activity in two months and improved employee engagement and morale by creating and implementing engagement and team building initiatives. This resulted in a 30% reduction in attrition and an increase in productivity and revenue by 10% over three months. I developed a new onboarding program, reducing the initial training timeframe by more than 50%, from eight weeks to less than a month.I also managed internal support staff, and other resources to ensure consistency and reliability of project management services for external clients. I setup and implemented a best practices model for project management systems and controls. I Identified opportunities and developed implementable solutions of quality and profitability of new technologies. I developed and facilitated new standards on customer service and client rapport resulting in a 40% improvement in survey feedback scores. With the support of my team manager, I developed new ground rules to conduct efficient and effective team meetings; this reduced meeting times by half and resulted in the adoption of the ground rules by other teams. I received recognition in efficiency for redesigning document management system within the company ISO:9001/17025 quality system, implementing control procedures, and updating 75% of all project documentation, including templates and training materials.

I provided project management education to adult learners, using self-designed curriculum and facilitating weekly instruction sessions. Developed new project management courses resulting in courses being added to the curriculum in subsequent terms. Provided one-on-one coaching to learners, supporting individual needs and designing development paths to re-align with other students and the course curriculum. Recognized as the most successful instructor in Southern California for project management.

Saarbruecken, De

I hired, trained and managed project teams to support wireless testing service projects for tier-one wireless clients, such as Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, and others. I managed several multi-million dollar projects with top tier clients, ensuring client satisfaction and support throughout the projects, resulting in continued follow-on business and the onboarding of additional clients. Coached and developed team of project managers, and produced and developed project training and documentation portfolio for leadership team. Recognized as high performing and high potential project manager for success with building and training project team and supporting top-tier clients.

I co-created the design of organization development and change management interventions for private and public sector organizations, mainly inclusive of non-profit early education clients. Designed and developed dozens of training modules for instructor-led trainings (ILT) and e-learning asymmetrical environments, including team building, engagement, capacity building, facilitation methods, project management, resource management, contracting, and other training content. We delivered to over 50 local, state and international clients in more than 350 organizations. Managed four internal staff employees and 8-12 external consultants, including hours and compensation, performance management, rewards/discipline, etc.

Master’S Degree, Msod, Organization Development

Msem, Engineering Management (Project Management Area Of Expertise)