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Waterloo, ON, CA

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, US

Talent Intelligence and Partner for scale and growthAcquisitions, product advisory, go-to-market strategy

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, US

Client Leadership over a portfolio of clients in the Consumer Brands, Business Services and Tech client base - providing consulting and leadership of end to end recruiting for 10+ clients and 10k in hires a year. Part of launching 6 new accounts and 6 new teams in 6 months

Chicago, IL, US

Leading and working with the incredibly talented PeopleScout talent acquisition teams as part of PeopleScout Total Workforce Solutions - working with clients in Canada and the US to support and deliver consultative talent acquisition strategies. Lead an end to end talent acquisition team of 200+ in 3 global regions responsible for hiring 20,000+ hires per.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

• The team at Aeryon Labs is passionate about solving problems with robotics and flight; and equally passionate about people.My role included helping build and champion strategic talent acquisition, workforce planning.
• Implemented JobVite ATS Hire and Engage in 3 weeks (thanks to the awesome JobVite team)
• Hired and successfully on-boarded 112 people in 10 months with over 55% referral rate and still counting. 149% headcount increase and an average of 10 people a month (3 a week!) 1 year turnover less that 2%
• Engaged and established Campus and co-op programs and hiring with: University of Waterloo, McMaster University, University of Guelph, University of Toronto, Conestoga College.
• Revamped and delivered approval, compliance, reporting and analytics for all hiring related metrics from board level to hiring manager
• Built and delivered workforce planning methods and reporting for executive team and management

Waterloo, ON, CA

• Privileged to have led a team of 10 of the best in talent acquisition responsible for all search, attraction and hiring of over 1200+ new people a year in North and South America. Along with this, my role has included:
• Significant Sales partnership and talent acquisition strategy for global Sales hiring, as well as ongoing and project based hiring for development, architecture and support/QA roles in multiple countries
• Global contract and vendor management (process design and management)
• Process and system implementation and oversight (PeopleFluent, Avature, SAP)
• Global Talent Branding and global metrics
• And a myriad of other projects and deliverables.... Prior to this I have had several roles as Global HR Business Partner for multiple client groups, significant Acquisition (M&A) experience (12 and counting).

Sunnyvale, CA, US

HR Business Partner to the Engineering and Customer Support teams in California, Utah and Canada.Participated in the assessment and implementation of Kenexa ATS and the process redesign of talent acquisition reporting and delivery.Part of team responsible for 30 Engineering hires in 3 locations in 180 days.

Waterloo, ON, CA

• Attraction, Performance and Retention of global employee baseAs a key leader and member of the Talent Management organization, we delivered on some significant business projects in our time:Performance Management
• 3 year project at OpenText of a complete process transformation of the entire organizational effort of resources. To evolve OpenText to a high performance culture where activities directly align to operating model and.
• RPO contract and delivery review/negotiation/implementation through to eventual scale down and removal while building internal talent function Redesign of Global Professional Employment Screening
• Covering the process evaluation, value stream mapping and recommendation/redesign of PES to satisfy global process and risk mitigation, as well as legislative requirements in all global regions, efficiency improvement.
• This includes a collection of changing RFP client PES requirements for government and public sector, private sector requirements and global legislation changes involving EU Privacy, Corporate Works Council Privacy, US.

Waterloo, ON, CA

• HR Business Partner for Global R&D, Product Marketing Groups, Cloud/SaaS and Global ServicesKey opportunities included:Cloud/SaaS Line of Business creation and design
• Worked with the team to design leadership structure, organizational design based on product lines, compensation plan design for sales, services and support (revenue generating), as well as a market based review of.
• Assisted Global Ops R&D with creation of a budget and talent planning process in conjunction with Finance and key business line stakeholders, reviewing decision making metrics including Turnover, HC growth to revenue.
• Successful budget process to ensure cost model maintained throughout year, with strong acquisition and restructuring planning to accommodate operating model changes, as well as technology roadmap changes and subsequent.
• Lead Due Diligence on two acquisitions of global companiesInvolvement in 10 acquisition integrations in 3 years from $250m and 700 employees to $20m and 35 employees. Core experience on post-acquisition integration.
• Acquisitions have been both revenue/market share activity, and technology/IP based purchases. Working directly with the CTO, CIO and SVP of R&D, adequately review strategy and actions to onboard and integrate.

Recruitment/Retention strategies for companies both private and public. Technical Services Outsourcing for Six Sigma, Production, HR, Finance and Engineering.

Board member for Grand Valley HR chapter and actively led the Peer Networking portfolio through conducting learning and information sessions with subject matter experts in H&S, Recruitment, Employee Relations/Legal, Performance Management, Training and Development.

Hanover, MD, US

Recruitment of technical and non-technical positions for contractor and full time basis for large companies in the financial, insurance, consulting services and telecom industries in Canada.

Seattle, WA, US

Asst and Store Manager for locations in Southwestern Ontario, including multi unit management. Participated in store opens, and market expansion. Led training and development for new stores, and worked within lower performing stores to deliver stronger financial and service results. Awarded numerous times for financial, operational and service performance.

Chrp/Hr Diploma

Agile/Scrum Training Completion, Agile Methodology, Scrum Master Certification Training

Education record

Journalism