Kara Washington, Pmp®, Phr® Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Kareer Noire is an online community + lifestyle blog created to help women create and cultivate the life and career of their dreams. It features travel tips, career resources, holistic wellness and job search tips and adventures from around the world.It's owner Kara is a speaker, budding author, holistic career strategist, future of work coach and most adamantly a wanderluster.Her blogging experience covers many areas including writing, social media marketing, graphic design, photo editing, video production & editing, and content creation.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Provided HR support, coaching and expertise focused on hiring, training, diversity, equity & inclusion, performance management and compensation review to geographically dispersed executives, senior and front-line leaders, and individual contributors. • Consulted with assigned HR executive leaders to understand the organizational strategy/drivers and identified corresponding people strategies to achieve priorities. • Monitored existing and emerging HR processes and identified creative opportunities for increased efficiency and effectiveness of all HR programs and initiatives. • Worked with people managers and employees to address complex employee relations issues, fairly representing all interests. • Proactively assessed organizational performance and identified talent gaps. Deployed impactful people strategies that enabled the organization to perform effectively, and scale efficiently.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Served as project manager for strategic development and execution of Boeing's HBCU Scholars Program. • Partnered with Boeing HBCU strategy and campus teams to execute strategic program including outreach, campus engagement, and pipeline activities. • Collaborated with team stakeholders to operationalize the Engagement Partner Program strategy, initiatives, policies/processes and trainings.• Developed effective benchmarks and metrics for measuring and assessing program impact, talent team engagement, scholars experience and hiring effectiveness.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Redesigned Boeing’s global performance management process and competency framework through strategic partnerships and consulting with talent process owners and other organization stakeholders.• Teamed with Learning, Communications and other related teams to develop resources to supplement change management efforts around the new performance management strategy, Boeing processes and expectations, and soft skills (i.e., employee and manager as coach, giving and receiving feedback, etc.).• Leveraged analytics, metrics, dashboards and reporting tools to analyze data and formulate recommendations to support talent practices including performance management, leadership development, succession planning, total rewards, retention strategies, Hi-Po programs and mentoring programs.• Ensured Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) compliance by partnering with Global Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and leading candidate tracking of executive movements.• Proactively engaged in external research and knowledge sharing to continuously improve Boeing’s talent and leadership development practices.• Led and engaged with summer interns, overseeing daily activities and serving as a mentor and coach.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Directed, planned, and executed programs to support BBEA chapters and initiatives across the enterprise. • Organized, facilitated, and moderated enterprise-wide events that helped to educate and create community around diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.• Responsible for increasing awareness of upcoming events, news and recent accomplishments across the enterprise, as well as communicating program priorities to members and other key stakeholders. • Partnered with international leaders to develop group growth plan based on regional & country specific needs and created a roadmap to reach more employees globally.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Established partnerships with business partners, gathering requirements and conducting analysis for utilizing portal technology to ensure expectations such as design, functionality and workflow were met.• Transformed the Enterprise Portal change management process, managed change procedures and optimized the process of receiving and prioritizing change requests; evaluated risk level associated with change requests and maintained accurate, detailed records of the outcome of each change.• Supported the development and deployment of digital workplace on the IBM platform, including strategic planning, testing and creating end-user training materials and governance documentation.• Developed and executed project communication and marketing plan for portal next generation to communicate more effectively, market new features and train end users on the services provided.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Drove process improvement, identifying optimization opportunities for operational excellence for the Network Connectivity Service.• Engaged key stakeholders (e.g., enterprise teams and business partners) for implementing a metrics dashboard for 2nd Century metrics automation and analysis to sustain network support and services.• Produced metrics for strategic decision making and presented service performance report on a weekly basis to the leadership team to discuss Network Connectivity’s operations workload.• Coached and mentored application developer in interpreting and translating Tableau dashboard requirements into functional specifications to enhance user experience.• Created and published user guides to support end user training.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Completed rotations in a highly competitive enterprise leadership development program categorized by roles spanning the breadth of Boeing’s IT organization.• Planned and facilitated seminars, Hackathons and monthly training and development opportunities targeted at maximizing ITCFP participants’ potential through coaching and curriculum development.• Led and executed full lifecycle recruiting process, including resume screening, interview scheduling, hiring, event planning and coordination for Charleston IT interns, promoting a diverse pipeline of business talent.• Developed and led Charleston’s ITCFP Communication committee, which was responsible for increasing awareness of upcoming events, news and recent accomplishments across the enterprise, as well as communicating program priorities to participants and other key stakeholders.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Supported project management execution activities to ensure completion of all milestones and to meet cost targets and schedule requirements for Global IT Infrastructure projects. • Managed risks, issues and opportunities to optimize the execution of program and project operations to ensure lowered cost, first time quality and lean schedules.• Developed metrics to track program and project status and health in order to improve IT Infrastructure service delivery for international sites.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Oversaw web development team redesigning the IT Training and Development web front end, maintaining and developing new content; provided training and career development resources across the enterprise.• Developed reports using IBM Cognos and analyzed IT organizations’ health and performance; maderecommendations for process improvements based on analysis.• Executed communications and marketing to increase knowledge and awareness of IT Service Management.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Managed over 10 labs simultaneously, and effectively monitored hundreds of students assuring that they were adhering to lab procedures.• Prepared and presented monthly LabStats Metric Reports for all campus computer labs to analyze software usage.• Assisted with maintaining the resource utilization database and responsible for tracking inventory • Provided users working the lab with knowledge of information technology applications, processes, software and equipment.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Provided project management services for Data Center Modernization.• Migrated applications out of Bellevue Data Center and worked with the supplier and the application domain focals to identify roadblocks and issues, identify solutions and follow through with migration. • Supported the planning, preparation, testing, and deployment of archiving and migrating existing P-8 data into an integrated data plan that streamlined the data structure supporting the program.

Purchase, Ny, Us

• Created agile and waterfall project templates.• Developed the Global Project Management Office’s project template community site using SharePoint. • Generated daily data/status reports via Excel.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics

Master'S Degree, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

Diploma, General Studies