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Florida, United States

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Lead strategic engagements with Fortune 500 companies and higher education institutions to address critical workforce challenges, including skills gaps, talent shortages, and the transition to a future-ready workforce. Project highlights include:- Design thinking projects and stakeholder workshops to help facilitate innovation around the future of work.- Partnership with Cleveland State University to engage industry on co-development of non-credit micro-credential programs and apprenticeships.- Designed Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) strategic roadmap for The Center for the Future of Work.- Led multi-stakeholder design thinking innovation for Case Western Reserve University's NSF grant, convening 60+ stakeholders on reimagining the future of work and education for sustainable manufacturing.- Serve as reviewer for Urban Institute’s competency-based apprenticeship frameworks.- Designed online learning community leveraging strategic partnerships with IBM SkillsBuild, BuildWithin and MyInnerGenius.www.community.newcollartalent.com

Youngstown , Ohio , Us

Youngstown, Oh, Us

Served on the President’s Cabinet and responsible general management of a new division for workforce education and innovation. Also served in strategic leadership role for external and government affairs, industry relations. Strategic, financial, and operational leadership of new workforce division focused on developing new talent pipelines and delivering workforce training, industry credentials, and other non-credit programs focused on IT, advanced manufacturing, general business, leadership and professional development.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Played a key role in the development and launch of IBM's groundbreaking "new collar" talent initiatives, focusing on hiring and training individuals without four-year degrees through innovative models such as apprenticeships and work-based learning.Led external workforce initiatives and partnerships with industry, higher education, government and not-for-profits to develop industry close the skills and opportunity gap, leveraging new collar IT apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, work-based learning, digital on-line training and digital credentials. Co-chair of the CTA + IBM Apprenticeship Coalition, Co-chair NICE Apprenticeship Council.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for launch of IBM's inaugural apprenticeship program focusing on strategy, design and delivery of competency frameworks, learning system, internal systems, process and experience. Apprenticeship is the gold standard in work-based learning and designed to create employability pathways for those who may not have advanced degrees or experience. In apprenticeship, we hire for aptitude and knowledge and train for skills through this earn while you learn training program.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Managed North American Talent Acquisition for IBM Watson Groups, Cognitive Sales, Industry Platforms and Offering Management. Concurrently managed Early Professional / Campus Recruiting Operations for all technical roles across the enterprise.

Plano, Texas, Us

Responsible for launching the first ever dedicated recruiting function for this $1B global leader in voice, data and infrastructure products and services. Held strategic, operational and financial management responsibility for the recruiting and employment functions across North American business units including systems, budgets, vendors, processes and compliance. (EEO, OFCCP, ISO)Developed national sales recruitment program including new sales profiles, interview and selection strategies and onboarding programs.Business owner, project manager and SME of the design and implementation of Brassring (ATS) and Social Source (CRM) software.

Managed all facets of Human Resources for the Cisco division including policies, employee relations, recruiting, retention, onboarding, compensation and benefits, performance management, organizational/leadership development and M&A due diligence and integration.

Responsible for developing and delivering HR consulting services to clients including KeyBank, Concurrent Computer Corporation, Brulant, KPMG, 4TECHWORK and others.

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Duluth, Ga, Us

Responsible for implementing Recruiting and HR function for Everstream, a high growth software division specializing in on-demand video and media applications.

Cleveland , Ohio, Us

Provided advisory services and delivery of strategic recruiting programs for Business Banking, Credit Administration, HR, Finance, Marketing, and Treasury.

Responsible for managing global recruiting for company’s channel partner organization (Novell, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle, etc.). Responsible for full life cycle recruitment of Executive Leadership, Management, Sales and Functional/Technical Staff of the publicly held, $1 billion IT consulting firm.Member of internal consulting/special projects team responsible for strategic and mission critical recruiting projects including organic expansion, M&A, and underperforming business units.

Responsible for selling IT solutions to key business and executive stakeholders. Focused on selling ERP and custom software solutions.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us