Drive global compliance initiatives for equal employment and affirmative action (AA), collaborating closely with global recruiting and hiring teams to ensure adherence to OFCCP, EEO, and AA guidelines. Oversee HR policy and process development to ensure adherence to complex regulations, fostering an inclusive and compliant work environment. Partner with cross-functional teams within Amazon to mitigate risk and maintain compliance.

Lead strategic talent initiatives, collaborating closely with business leaders and cross-functional managers to align recruitment and performance efforts with organizational goals. Analyze workforce data to identify hiring trends and opportunities. Provide guidance on performance management, employee relations, and compensation to ensure attraction and retention of top talent. Drive leadership development initiatives to build a strong talent pipeline for critical roles, supporting long-term business success.

Designed and implemented a comprehensive leadership training program for recruiting managers across AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services in North America, enhancing their skills and effectiveness. Demonstrated exceptional performance by achieving 2022 target goals two months ahead of schedule through strategic, metrics-driven approaches and strong team leadership. Significantly improved recruitment efforts organization-wide by developing and conducting weekly sourcing and diversity trainings, resulting in increased top-of-funnel activity and substantial progress towards Professional Services hiring goals.

During a concise yet influential period at Coinbase, I applied my expertise in scaling high-growth companies to collaborate with executives on strategic hiring, headcount management, and process optimization. Led a global, cross-functional team of Product, Engineering, Design, and Leadership managers to efficiently acquire and convert top talent. Pioneered talent intelligence initiatives to identify and proactively engage sought-after engineering candidates on a global scale, enhancing the company's competitive edge in talent acquisition.

Led global sourcing strategies for Meta and WhatsApp, building and mentoring a high-performing team of 16 sourcers. Implemented successful employee referral programs across AMER, APAC, and EMEA, while developing sourcing strategies that efficiently yielded diverse candidate pipelines. Fostered strategic business relationships, drove diversity initiatives, and promoted employee advocacy. Notable achievements include creating social footprint programs, partnering with talent intelligence to map top diverse talent, and leading Black@ and Women@ Committee initiatives. These efforts encompassed online marketing, video content creation for employer branding, internal communications, and diversity event strategies, significantly supporting Global Operations and WhatsApp's growth and diversity goals.

Drive the talent, recruitment, and diversity initiatives for Amazon Web Services Training & Certification (learning and development) organization to ensure diversity and inclusion across the business. Serve on special projects, spearheading multiple initiatives across the organization to bridge talent gaps. Create, implement, and assess business strategies to attract and retain qualified talent. Manage direct reports comprised of recruiters, interns, and contractors. Mentor peers and members of the Black Employee Network (BEN).Accomplishments:• Developed and delivered trainings for the Sale Marketing Leadership (SML) organization to drive broader impact outside of our direct business groups.• Designed and delivered business training for hiring managers and senior leaders in effort to close our gap to goal for new hires.• Architected, trained, and delivered a weekly diversity recruitment training to increase BLNA (Black, Latino, and Native American) and female talent and representation on interview panels to create a better candidate interview experience. • Immediately earned the trust of the business to accelerate hiring goals and influenced changes to their job requirements, language, and interview process to access a wider pool of qualified, diverse talent.• Created a social networking strategy to brand open roles to the external market on LinkedIn.

Led and developed a team, driving their success through training, mentoring, guidance, and performance feedback. Led talent strategy and achieved staffing objectives for large strategic accounts through market analysis, strategic sourcing, and effective collaboration with business partners. Started as a Recruiting Manager, transitioned to Market Manager, and ended as a Director.

Lead a team of direct reports focused on IT delivery efforts to our top clients.

Manager and recruiter for large scale staffing efforts onsite and remotely for client projects and individual department staffing needs. Responsible for delivering talent solutions and managing candidate pool across multiple projects in the health, financial, hospitality, entertainment, and telecommunications industry. Research market, companies, and technologies to provide the most proficient, quality services for large scale projects.

Prepared status reports, reviews, and maintained communication for Senior Executives, shareholders, and management. Managed financials, invoicing, SOWs, resources, and budgeting of approximately $500 to $1 million. Utilized System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology to analyze business needs, identify problems, propose solutions, and implement changes. Maintained compliance with all resource on-boarding and off-boarding processes and documentation.

Serving in HR capacity, I was responsible for documenting Human Resources Dashboard associated with headcount approvals for survey program. Learned and used Oracle’s Quick Survey tool to measure effectiveness of College Recruiting Program. Drafted articles to be published in Human Resources Compass and Global News Channel newsletters. Loaded, tracked, and consolidated feedback for Oracle’s Senior Leaders Talent Mentoring Program.

Provided monthly reports for 9 dining and quick service restaurants using SAP and Microsoft Excel Compiled data for separate client databases to help managers keep up with their sales, cost, volume, profit, and kitchen inventory which helped them make a decision on whether or not any changes/corrections needed to be made