As a member of the HRTechAlliances.com Board of Advisors, I collaborate with leading thinkers within the HR Tech industry to strategically expand our global community platform, empowering vendor executives to achieve phenomenal growth. Our mission is simple yet powerful: optimize co-marketing and go-to-market strategies while streamlining the discovery, creation, and management of alliances, partnerships, and HR industry ecosystems.

Recruited to lead the Taleo Community within the overall Oracle HCM Users Group. Responsible for facilitating and leading the conversation and developing the content for this OHUG community.

Serve on the Advisory Board of Integral Recruiting Design, lending strategic insights and guidance to help shape the talent acquisition technology consulting services and solutions they provide to clients. Offer perspectives on industry trends, technologies, and best practices to assist with business strategy and planning around recruiting and hiring technology optimization.

Culturro is the Employee Experience Platform specifically designed to address the challenges of driving retention, building culture, and enhancing team and company performance in the world of remote, hybrid, and distributed teams. Culturro provides a real-time view of the employee experience to Managers and Executives while also advising what Managers can do on a daily basis to make the employee experience richer within their span of control. Finally, there is now a way to both measure and enhance the employee experience to improve performance, increase retention, and to improve managerial effectiveness- without adding any administrative duties to the HR Team.

PivotCX by Daxtra is transforming the way recruiting gets done. Through its innovative all-in-one talent acquisition communications hub, recruiting teams are empowered to make better hires faster. With PivotCX, recruiters are able to engage in personalized conversations with all candidates and managers at the scale and speed required to meet their hiring needs. The PivotCX communication hub integrates with ATS, CRM, and HRIS systems as well as job boards, social media, and career sites. This enables automated and person-to-person conversations via text, voice, video, and email. Data collection and comprehensive dashboards for communications and actionable analytics complete the SaaS solution that’s quickly becoming the go-to tool for recruiting teams.PivotCX will increase candidate recruitment ad effectiveness by more than 50%, increase candidate conversions and dramatically improve the candidate application experience. PivotCX is capable of scheduling and automating triggered events throughout the hiring workflow process as well as providing live Candidate engagement - over Text, Voice, and Video - within seconds of applying on job boards, career websites, social media ads, hiring events, referrals, or to engage candidates you are directly sourcing.PivotCX + Daxtra Search Match is an incredibly powerful combination. Message me to learn more about Partnership opportunities.

JobSync is a technology company that is on a mission to remove all of the friction in the application process! I'm on a mission to build JobSync's ecosystem of partners that are as committed as we are to making the recruiting process work for all stakeholders!Employers who are not using JobSync's Native Apply suite, are losing out on 75 % of their qualified applicants (and they don't even know it). We ensure that employers receive 100 percent of the applicants interested in their jobs, accelerate the process, and dramatically improve the experience for both candidates and the Recruiting Team. All that, while also keeping everything synchronized with both the front and back-end systems, remaining fully EEO compliant, and enabling 100% accurate source tracking reporting.JobSync customers typically see 8x more applicants, without any increase in their paid media spend while also reducing their administrative burden. Candidates are able to quickly and easily submit their full application without having to hop through multiple hoops just to give you their information. It's time to focus on counting actual applicants - not clicks!Reach out to me to learn how you can become part of the Jobsync ecosystem and/or to learn more about how JobSync's game-changing technology suite is making the recruiting process work for EVERYONE - candidates, employers, and partners.

Responsible building the Partnership ecosystem for this Series A start-up.AllyO is an AI technology company that is transforming recruiting through intelligent automation. AllyO is backed by investors such as Google, Bain Capital Ventures and Randstad. Our product, Ally, is an AI recruiter that utilizes natural language processing and machine learning to automate and self-optimize the end-to-end recruiting workflow. It addresses the traditional inefficiencies of lost applicants and conversions due to poor candidate experience, and high cost of recruiting due to overburdening of administrative tasks on the hiring teams.

Collaborate with the CEO to develop and execute the North America go-to-market strategy for this HR Technology Start-up. Lead both the direct customer and Channel partnership efforts. ThisWay Global was incubated for more than two years at University of Cambridge. ThisWay Global set out to remove the fatigue of the hiring process for both businesses and individuals. Our research and development team is from 14 countries and speaks 9 languages. We are an experienced, international team from Microsoft Research, US Dept of Defense, Xbox and other leaders from innovative technology companies. We've developed a web/mobile app platform that addresses the most labor intensive aspect of the recruiting process - identifying top talent. the employer and the candidate.Through the use of machine learning and advanced methodologies, ThisWay Global’s Matchic™ algorithms remove both the bias and fatigue from the hiring process. Our technology enables companies to scale their Talent Acquisition efforts, increase their velocity, decrease their costs, and helps them to achieve greater diversity. Our patented technology provides Recruiters and Talent Acquisition teams with the time to do the important things that a machine cannot do. Our scientific approach delivers unbiased and diverse matching while increasing the accuracy of the candidate-to-job match. We like to say, "We do the high-tech, so that recruiters can do the high-touch."

Recruited to lead the strategy, design and development efforts for the next generation of Brightfield's Talent Acquisition Analytics Platform. Responsible for leading the product planning and execution throughout the product life-cycle for both the analytics as well as the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Predictive Analytics components of the platform.- Own understanding the trends and needs of the customer and the marketplace and to then translated those needs into product vision and the road-map to build products that meet and exceed those needs.- Lead ongoing "Voice of the Customer" product review meetings - ensuring that product and road-map are continually aligned with customer needs and feedback. - Subject Matter Expert - lead ongoing product strategy and product development sessions with Development, Data Science, and NLP teams.- Create the detailed documentation required for the Agile software development cycle for all aspects of the platform - i.e. User Interface, Product Features, as well as the underlying NLP, and predictive modelling layer required for timely product delivery.- Conduct ongoing competitive analysis to ensure that the product maintains differentiation, provides exclusive capabilities, and continues to be in touch with market needs.- Redesigned and launched a product user interface - increasing the value of the product by accelerating the buyer's ability to understand and interpret their results.

Created and brought to market an award-winning Recruitment Marketing Consulting and Advisory Service. Consultation is based on the statistical data analysis of a customer's marketing performance compared to that of of similar marketing campaigns. The service provides actionable insights and best practices to HR departments to drive Talent Acquisition and Workforce Planning strategies. The service aligns the TA marketing budget with the business priorities and then optimizes Recruitment Marketing efforts by providing critical insights on how to increase response rates, reduce spend, and decrease the time spent to attract candidates.- Developed the vision and road map for the service roll-out, creating the go-to-market positioning and content, and the development of the supporting BI software.- Drive ongoing competitive analysis and positioning through regular meetings with customers, CEO, Sales, Industry Analysts, Partners combined with my in-depth domain experience. - Create core messaging documents to drive marketing and sales execution – i.e. Whitepapers, Infographics, Data Sheets, and website content.- Regularly collaborate with Sales to educate them on Talent Acquisition challenges, customer qualification questions, how to communicate the value of the services, and provide leads regarding up-sell and cross-sell opportunities.- Evangelist: Develop the “story” as well as the positioning and messaging for this unique Predictive Analytic/Data Advisory offering. Additionally, promote the adoption of Analytics in HR through frequent presentations at conferences, webinars, articles, blogs, and interviews with analysts, press and media. - Recruited and trained the Data Advisory team which provided consulting and advisory services to over 30 customers in the first two years. - The service received the prestigious “Tektonic Award” from the HR Outsourcing Association in 2013 as well as one of the 2015 “Top 10 HR Tech” products of the year.

Selected to drive HGST’s Global HCM technology and operations HR 3 year transformation strategy integrating 7 countries and 50K+ employees onto a single HR technology platform and a single outsourced Payroll vendor. The primary transformation objective was to build the foundation of a Global HR department through the standardization of HR technology, business processes, reporting, and business controls.• Reviewed and sold the plan with the HR Executives, which drove the key decision to move forward with Global HCM program.• Created the “Global Template” concept that would be the cornerstone of all 7 implementations. The Global Template is the Data Standards, Security, and Governance model that defined all aspects of standardization – i.e. philosophy, process, configuration, and approach to customization.• Drove the Change Management and User Adoption of the new platform.• Lead the Global HR Team through the requirements, testing, training, and stabilization cycles. Delivered all go-lives on time and on budget. Achieved rapid stabilization supporting the return to improved business operations and enabling the Global HR Transformation program to achieve the intended goals ahead of schedule. • Partnered with Global IT to create the model Global HRIT Service Delivery and SLA plan. Additionally developed a global HRIS prioritization model that created an Production Support service that optimally balanced customer needs with budget.

Recruited to create and extend the Global HRIS department at this multi-national company. Partner with and educate HR Management to identify, prioritize, and then support current and future technology plans. •Responsible for and oversee the creation of all HR and HRIS documentation related Sarbanes Oxley •Key member of the team put together to develop a shared services strategy and operations center.•A key driver in the development and implementation of an HR Metrics and Reporting strategy.•Drive Worldwide strategy and execution for the utilization of technology to support the business activities of HR.•Responsible for the Recruiting and Staffing activities for the US operations - Recruiting Strategy, Employer Branding, Workforce Planning, EEO/AAP, etc.•Drive Worldwide strategy, creation, and execution or Hitachi GST's Employee Recognition Programs•Own the planning and implementation of various HR programs that support all of the US Hitachi Group companies.

Responsible for the strategic vision and planning to create a Global HR Technology platform for Solectron. * Responsible for implementing Solectron's "Off-Shore" development efforts.* Global HR Processes implementations - i.e. Worldwide Job Code project, Department Standardization efforts, Security Standards, Sarbanes Oxley Compliance, Training.*Led search for LMS vendors, existing in house functionality, and best practices regarding tracking training.* HRIS Project Leadership on the Solectron's largest Acquisition. * Took on responsibility for managing the European and Mexican PeopleSoft databases. * HRIS Project Manager for the strategy and creation of an HR Data Warehouse.* Responsible for the strategic design, development, testing, implementation and the direction of a Web-based Manager Self-Service Application.* Leader in developing the Business and System Process flows that are being utilized to support Solectron's HR Outsourcing efforts.

Recruited to oversee the expansion/further rollout of the North American PeopleSoft HR system. Oversight responsibilities included the management of the full North American HRIS team. At the height this totaled 11 people. -Responsible for the design, development, and testing/implementation of a custom Web-based Training Enrollment and Training Administration application. The application created a Curriculum Roadmapfor Solectron Associates.-Project member of the team to select and implement a company-wide Portal/Content Management Solution.-Participated in weekly discussions with the European HR organization providing advice and guidance regarding HR system related issues. -Responsibility for development, support, and enhancements of the various Web based systems - i.e. Stock Granting.-Development of the business case to Upgrade/Re-implement the PeopleSoft system to create a global HRMS for Solectron.

Key member of the team for this pioneering "cloud-based" HCM product. Responsible for developing the vision and strategic direction of this fully internet accessed HR, Payroll, and Benefits system. Balanced customer needs with product vision and market research to develop the product road-map. Managed a team of 5 product managers - that prioritized documented, and developed the this innovative HR product. Worked with Product Development through the entire software development life cycle including requirements documentation, project management, and QA/Release Management.·Provided training, education and support to sales team and distribution channels.·Owned the search efforts and discussions for functionality and service partners that would enhance the Simpata product and service offerings.·Provided content, support and positioning for marketing messages internally and externally.·Created product proposal, requirements, and release notes documentation.·Responsible for leading briefing sessions with Market Analysts as well as representing the product at events, conferences and in meetings with prospects.

- Recruiter- Talent Acquisition Operations and Technology Strategy Mgr.- HR Operations Manager - Consulting Services