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Nashville, Tn, Us

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Nashville, Tn, Us

Employee Retention Innovator through Personal Fulfillment-as-a-Service (PFaaS). Benefits that are “actually sticky” driving business success through talent attraction and retention. Prioritizing underserved hourly employee by providing modernized “Life Style” enriching benefits. Simplicity meets choice where employees match their ever changing personal needs fluidly with benefits that are meant to be used and valued everyday by everyone.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

As an HR leader, I'm equally adept leading in any industry, at any business stage and across all HR centers of expertise. With long tenures, I've guided business transitions from startup, though hyper growth and large-scale global transformations to sustain business vibrancy. CAREER TRAJECTORYSenior Vice President, Human Resources (2018–2023)VP HR, Americas, Global Talent Acquisition & Enterprise HR Operations (2015–2018)VP HR, Americas (2013–2015)VP HR, Enterprise Operations (2011–2013)Senior Director HR, Customer Care (2010–2011)▶️ Tech Services Startup: HR leader for concept-to-completion launch of Soluto—a multibillion-dollar core Asurion business. Navigated building new technology business within established insurance protection company and provided leadership for hyper growth. Profitable $200M+ first year.▶️ Connected Home Startup: HR leader for launch of $100M+ home services business. Built field tech recruiting engine—hired 1K new employees to expand business to 75 geographies in 1 year.▶️ uBreakiFix Acquisition/Expansion: HR Leader for $100M+ retail Technology Services business acquisition. Transitioned 200 employees and expanded from 100 to 300+ retail stores with >1K employees spanning 48 geographies within first 18 months. ▶️ Professional Talent Acquisition: Sourced top-talent, doubled overall recruiting capacity to 500+ annually, reduced hire time 50%, and eliminated $2M agency spend.▶️ Front-Line Recruitment: Met growth staffing targets. Expanded recruiting capacity 4x to hire 12K+ call center, retail, and field tech employees. Reduced hire time 75% and cost 30% during COVID-19 labor market.▶️ Talent Retention: Retained 95%+ top-tier talent while maintaining market average wage costs. ▶️ Employee Engagement: Achieved 90th percentile industry best organizational health survey scores.▶️ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I): Strategic partner with COO on programs development and engagement with Employee Resource Groups.

Mclean, Va, Us

As an HR leader with Capital One, I delivered multiple wins. If I had to pick my proudest ones, they would be contributing to the largest business transformation to date (successfully replaced a limiting cardholder system), enabling our business to expand to full banking services, and redesigning our enterprise compensation structure and planning processes (which resulted in a $2B compensation plan for 24K associates and successfully integrated 14K associates).In addition, I provided guidance for large-scale change initiatives that improved business productivity and positioned the company for future growth. CAREER TRAJECTORYSenior Director HR, Bank Acquisition & Integration (2009–2010)Senior Director HR, Compensation (2007–2009) Senior Director HR, Consumer Credit Card Business (2005–2007)Director HR, Operations (2003–2004)Director HR, Business Consulting-Acquisitions (2001–2003)Manager HR, Corporate Staff (2000–2001)▶️ Change Management: Directed HR strategy for on-time/on-budget replacement of cardholder account system, an IT infrastructure project resulting in seamless change for 6K staff and 10K agents at 30 sites. ▶️ Compensation Strategy: Delivered $20M annual savings by devising and leading communication and rollout of scalable market-segmented compensation and incentive plan for 10K employees. Managed conversion to automated analytic tools and aligned compensation department with business priorities.▶️ Business Improvement: Anchored outsourcing strategy, led workforce planning, and reorganized management structure with substantial savings from 25% population reduction.▶️ Customer Experience: Created and implemented high-volume staffing strategy to support 25% headcount growth in 1 year and developed centralized customer experience model adopted across enterprise.

Purchase, New York, Us

As an Area HR Manager, HR Manager, and Senior HR Representative at Frito-Lay/PepsiCo, Inc., I contributed to the success of 4 plant locations while playing an instrumental role in the startup of a 500-employee manufacturing facility. How? By building high-performing teams and challenging the status quo.▶️ Recognized through Frito-Lay Eagle Award for HR Excellence as 1 of 4 recipients selected nationally.▶️ Achieved top 10% performance through results-based rewards program.▶️ Pioneered hourly performance management at 1K-employee plant, driving 25% improvement in performance with zero lawsuits (compared to 8/year previously).▶️ Represented PepsiCo for successful Teamsters' union decertification campaign at Traffic Center in Kirkwood, NY.

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

As a Senior HR Analyst at the company’s OH Plant, I participated in a comprehensive Human Resources training program and graduated as the top performer in my class. I then completed my 3-year rotation an entire year ahead of schedule to take on a significant turnaround assignment.▶️ Led performance improvement initiative, elevating 300-employee plant from worst to top 3rd in 12 months.