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Stamford, CT, US

• Phenix Advisors is an HR consultancy that provides CHRO interim and advisory role support for a broad range of Organizational Effectiveness concerns including culture change, human resources strategy, executive.
• Served as Interim Head of HR for the U.S. operation of a private equity held international lighting firm.
• Provided HR Advisory services for a “White Glove” Housekeeping Company with a 50% staff turnover rate. Focus on recruiting, interviewing, selecting and onboarding candidates to improve retention, increase referrals and.
• Coached a Marketing Executive with an early growth company to improve internal relationship management skills. Currently coaching a high potential COO and CIO to improve their leadership effectiveness.
• Conducted an onsite workshop with a PE portfolio company on the development and retention of high-performance teams.
• Aided the CEO of a $1B Electrical Contracting firm to identify, develop and coach high-potential talent including a newly hired Strategy Executive.

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New York, New York, United States

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Greater New York City Area

• NYRA is a not-for-profit corporation that operates the three largest thoroughbred horse racing tracks in the state of New York: Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga Springs. Led the Human Capital Management team.
• Implemented a labor relations strategy that led to the successful negotiations of 17 labor agreements and annual cost savings more than $1M.
• Provided leadership in clarifying the transition to a more inclusive and performance-oriented culture. The focus on guest service led to NYRA being awarded the “Sports Event of the Year” for the 2015 Belmont Stakes.
• Designed and implemented a performance planning process that focused on improving the alignment among the corporate, functional and individual objectives. This HR initiative contributed to the organization surpassing.

Greater New York City Area

• Surescripts is the nation’s most trusted and capable health information network. For 20 years, the company has served the nation with an industrial-strength health information network designed to increase safety, lower.
• Established the strategy and processes to aggressively grow the workforce organically by over 300%. Transaction volume grew by over 1,500% from 2008 through 2012.
• Designed and implemented a performance planning process that focused on aligning company, functional and individual objectives that contributed to the organization beating its revenue and cost objectives by an average.

Greater New York City Area

• Guardian is a $7.9B diversified insurance corporation whose performance-driven culture serves 29M people daily, helping them to achieve well-being in life, health and wealth.
• Led the analysis and implementation of a revised performance management process to effectively align individual performance and behavior with achievement of company objectives. Financial performance exceeded the.
• Implemented executive assessment, development and succession programs to improve leadership performance. Pre-tax operating income grew 14% to $1.0B from 2005 to 2007.
• Restructured the retiree medical plan and selection of 401(K) provider to achieve a combined annual expense reduction of $25M.

Greater New York City Area

• The Consumer Assets Division of Citigroup is comprised of CitiMortgage, Citi Home Equity and the Student Loan Corporation with $100B of assets under management. Led the HR Organization for the division's 3,500 U.S..
• Directed the planning and implementation of the human resources acquisition integration plan for California Federal Bank. Project targets were met on time within financial parameters.
• Designed and implemented a new performance management process to achieve stronger alignment between business and individual performance objectives. Net income targets were met or exceeded from 2001 to 2003.
• Increased capacity for active direct recruiting and reduced cost per hire by 44% in 2003.

Greater New York City Area

• Citizens Utilities (now Frontier Communications) was a diversified utility company that operated in tertiary markets. The organization had revenues of $1.6B and 7,000 U.S. employees.
• Led transition to a performance-based culture for the $1.6B diversified energy services provider.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

• Carrier Global Corporation is a $5B American multinational home appliances corporation.
• Led compensation and benefits strategies, policies and programs. Participated in the formulation and implementation of Carrier’s global HR strategies.

New York, Texas, Arizona And Kansas

• PepsiCo is a global CPG company with $33B in revenue. Progressed through several HR leadership roles across Frito-Lay, PepsiCo Corporate and Pepsi-Cola International including a final role as an HR Director for.
• Realized $6M in savings by selecting a new “Big Five” accounting vendor. Orchestrated a major overhaul for Pepsi’s tax equalization and planning process for expatriate employees.
• Selected for HR Lead on the Start-Up team for the Frito-Lay plant in Casa Grande, AZ. Awarded Food Engineering’s “Food Plant of the Year” for the most innovative new food or beverage plant built in North America.

Masters Of Science, Business

Mba, International Business

Bs, Industrial & Labor Relations

Certificate, Executive And Organization Coaching