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SmithPilot is a team of compensation experts helping nonprofits determine fair, reasonable and competitive pay.

• Serve as senior leader of a successful human resources consulting firm specializing in compensation, performance management, and organizational development.• Advise a diverse set of clients in the not-for-profit sector, as well as professional services, education, technology, and financial services, partnering with client executive leadership and boards of directors.• Lead all business development initiatives.• Develop a team of consultants to create customized talent management systems that enable organizations to attract and retain staff, create a roadmap for career development, and develop cost-effective approaches for motivating and recognizing talent.

• Delivered timely and valuable human resource services and consulting to clients utilizing Keating Advisors’ service model and resources in accordance with the firm’s high standards.• Built firm capabilities and expanded firm knowledge and experience by participating in professional development, training and mentoring opportunities.• Tracked and documented opportunities to improve workflow related to firm services and their implementation, including the identification and utilization of human resources technologies.• Located and/or proposed potential client engagements by exploring potential clients in the marketplace.• Coordinated efforts, strategies and relationships with various associations/organizations for new business opportunities.• Oversaw daily activities of direct reports, effectively managed team performance, and developed new team members.

• Provided compensation consulting to clients including providing competitive pay and total rewards reviews, developing tailored annual rewards strategies (merit, promotion, market adjustment, bonus guidelines), and ensuring an overall effective compensation strategy aligned to organizational workforce and talent strategies. • Strategized with clients’ executives and HR professionals on establishing a pay philosophy and strategy to recruit, retain, and motivate the talent needed and parameters for total rewards processes and systems.• Coached clients’ senior leaders and HR on how to use compensation to enhance their human capital and business results.• Delivered presentations to boards, executives, and senior business leaders to educate and influence strategic and operational decision making.• Acted as technical lead and provided subject matter expertise for client engagements.• Worked collaboratively with team members to define approach and strategies for achieving client requirements.• Supported business development initiatives. • Managed analysts on client engagements and provided supervisory feedback.

• Served as primary client contact in project management; responsible for overall quality of deliverables and maintaining ongoing client relationships.• Planned, developed, designed, and implemented mathematically and technically sound pay programs for clients, including base salary and/or hourly wage salary structures, incentive pay, and executive compensation, in support of clients’ business objectives.• Analyzed impact of compensation decisions to clients’ bottom lines and made recommendations for ensuring effective compensation practices and strategic objectives were met.• Conducted, administered, and published two customized national compensation surveys for energy services industry positions and non-tenure track higher education faculty.• Participated in the development and implementation of metrics-driven performance management systems.• Wrote and developed marketing materials including proposals, case studies, and white papers.• Led staff analysts in conducting market pricing research and analysis.

• Performed complex compensation analyses and developed organizational salary structures, including an analysis of a 9,000 nonexempt staff population for a 14-institution public university system.• Prepared data to facilitate compensation decisions for client organizations, including development of both analytical and written reports.• Examined and evaluated compensation for executive and non-executive positions.• Assisted in the design process of a comprehensive career pathing system for a national nonprofit.• Worked with client organizations to determine type, scope, and purpose of analyses.

• Developed new and updated career level guides, including proposals and recommendations for new job leveling architecture, career level guide content, and supporting implementation materials.• Market priced all corporate roles, defined and documented internal market pricing methodology in alignment with internal job levels and architecture, served as technical lead to ensure fully leveraged use of market pricing software (PayFactors).• Managed and executed compensation surveys participation process on behalf of company. • Analyzed and provided recommendations for company-wide job families/functions revamp, including assessment of job codes, titles, HRIS capabilities, and impact of job codes redesign across HR technology functions and practices.• Conducted ad hoc projects as requested, including modeling and providing recommendations for company-wide salary structure update, developing internal training for new compensation analysts and interns, and developing comprehensive Compensation team process documentation.

Washington, Dc

• Managed building front desk operations and staffing.• Supervised diverse off-campus residential community of 400 residents.• Developed and implemented social and educational programs.• Provided advising, counseling, and conflict/crisis response using mediation techniques.• Identified, intervened, and documented University policy violations and emergency situations.

Middletown, Ri

• Coordinated and executed events of 200+ guests, including rental orders, creating event worksheets and documents, and managing communications with clients and vendors.• Scheduled event staffing for 40+ summer events, recruited new staff.• Compiled and reconciled company weekly budget and payroll.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Organizational Sciences

Concentration in Organizational Management

Ba, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: University Honors Program, American University Orchestra