Manages the organization's human resources function, including• HR Strategic Planning: aligns organizational core competencies; formulates, develops, and implements HR policies and procedures; presents HR matters at the Assembly of Parties meetings and chairs executive compensation meetings• Total Rewards: conducts market research and benchmarking; designs, oversees, and implements executive and employee base and variable compensation, annual performance reviews, and benefits; ensures the internal equity of the compensation system; manages benefits vendors, including 401(k), health, life, disability, business travel, workers compensation, and business liability insurance; extensive experience with IGO, UN, and US Federal Government remuneration packages• Resource Management: designs and implements effective strategies for sourcing, recruiting, evaluating, and onboarding of qualified candidates, including international assignments, relocations, immigration visa procedures, and job descriptions to meet the organization's resource needs• Employee Relations and Organizational Development: coaches, mentors, and creates strategies to develop talent and ensure the retention of organizational knowledge• Assembly of Parties and IAC Coordinator and Secretary: organized and managed the international assemblies of 149 member countries in June 2022 and June 2023

Leads the company's human resources function and manages a team of six professionals.• Trusted Advisor: partners with the PMs/Directors of the federal contracts to implement Service Contract Act (SCA) and non-SCA compensation; benefits; onboarding and terminations; human capital management (HCM); leave administration; disciplinary actions, disputes and investigations; conflict resolution; performance and talent management; recognition and employee engagements; occupational health and safety; and training and professional development.• Subject matter expert: manages audit function and drives compliance with federal, state, local, and federal service contractor laws; designs and implements best practices, and promulgates HR processes and procedures and coordinates with recruitment, finance, and payroll. • Corporate Engagement: leads event planning and charity initiatives; and fosters engagement, teamwork, and inclusion by soliciting employee feedback and developing and deploying HR generalists to contract offices.• Consultative

Provided advisory services to international and national association clients, including business process improvement, human resources, workforce planning, and financial modeling projects• Leadership: provided HR advisory services for C-suite and presented in board facing roles for national and international projects• Collaboration: added value by assisting clients in translating their vision into strategic HR policies and procedures for compensation, benefits, talent acquisition, recruitment, onboarding, talent management, personnel management, organizational development, employee training, people relations, employee engagement and retention, succession planning, diversity and inclusion, innovation, and learning and leadership development that were clear, and people-centered, and compliant with labor and employment laws; and by reengineering and simplifying processes, reducing redundancy and achieving results in alignment with talent strategy• Coaching: contributed over 20 years’ teaching and coaching experience in the aerospace and telecommunications industry• HR Department of One: extensive experience designing and managing a comprehensive human resources/payroll/administration function for small to medium entities

Managed the law firm’s people, financial, and client practices, and ensured regulatory compliance• Enterpreneurship: created governance policies and procedures for new IP law firm• Vision: collaborated to align the firm’s people management practices with founding members’ vision, and provided guidance to team members on all practice administration matters• Resilience: researched and obtained Covid-19 pandemic relief; added over $100K in value through savings, loans, and new payroll, compensation, and benefit programs; managed transition to remote work and the dissolution of firm after merger

Developed and managed policies and procedures for total rewards-compensation & benefits, HRIS, and relocation, including visa clearance; managed team of six professionals• Innovative: redesigned total rewards models and long term incentive plans to enhance employee recruitment, engagement, and retention in the competitive telecommunications market• Creative: linked organizational and sales bonus programs, annual salary reviews, and performance management to foster internal mobility• Presenter: trained executives, managers, and employees on implementation of HR practices, retirement planning, and equity awards in the privatized entity

Delegated to interdisciplinary Corporate Restructuring Team to convert treaty-based organization into a for-profit US corporation• Subject-matter expert: worked with cross-functional team leaders, C-suite executives, and outside legal counsel and advisors to reengineer HR and manage transition regarding complex legal, political, and people matters, including compliance with US employment and immigration laws• Organizational change: delivered organization-wide training sessions and individual guidance• Multitasking: Discharged these full-time responsibilities in addition to full-time duties in consecutive roles as Manager, Employment & Recruitment, and Compensation & Benefits Director

Developed and implemented policies and procedures for recruitment, immigration and relocation (domestic and international), onboarding, exit interviews, employee relations, diversity, and ATS. Liaison between Office of General Counsel and human resources; managed team of five professionals• Talent Acquisition: Adapted the recruitment strategy to attract and retain a commercial oriented hires during transition from intergovernmental organization to private US company• Strategic: Selected to lead HR on the restructuring team (see above)• Solutions-focused: Completed law school and passed the bar while enhancing organization-wide recruitment processes and fostering increased teamwork in department to better serve the clients

Management-level representative of Human Resources Division within Information Systems and Operations Divisions, with responsibility for recruitment, onboarding, exit interviews, implementation of compensation and benefits, training, and employee relations for almost one-half of organization’s staff (500 people). Managed one assistant.• Teamwork: team of three generalists collaborated to create this new role which significantly enhanced HR's visibility and employee satisfaction• Customer service: initiated first weekly HR visits to night-shift satellite mission control engineers, and developed empathetic and consultative relationships with clients at all levels• Counseling: guided management and employees through individual and large departmental layoffs, and numerous complex employment and performance issues

Served as operating and staffing budget officer, compensation and benefits analyst, and recruiter. • Self-directed: reduced initial task portfolio by 75% within 10 months through function redesign, earning first promotion from assistant to analyst and gaining C-suite exposure• Compensation subject-matter expert: analyzed position descriptions and calibrated employee, sales, and executive total compensation for 1,000+ technical employees; contributed to national and international surveys• Data driven: reviewed and enhanced HRIS/ATS databases and budget reporting through Excel• Communications: Composed and edited the organization’s first compensation and benefits handbook, Your Employee Benefits Highlights, as well as a recruitment brochure, and weekly human resources newsletter for organization-wide distribution

Worked for Prof. Dr. Emiel Van Broekhoven, Chair of Belgian Pension Fund Association and president of pension advisory firms• Wrote explanatory booklets for General Motors Continental Pension Plan• Drafted legislation for Ministry of Pensions for mutual pension fund plan for small and medium sized companies; co-authored such plan for major private insurance company as well as a book on personal financial planning