After nearly seven years building a human resources department from the ground up and leading all human resources initiatives at a growing start-up company, I decided to take a break from it all to re-set my overall wellness, and adopt a much needed change of pace. I was fortunate to take this time for myself for self reflection (a lot!), travel, reading, home projects and reconnect with friends and family. In addition, I work as Office Administrator at Amazing Grace Lutheran Church managing administrative and accounting duties, payroll and weekly creation and design of the Sunday bulletin. This career break has allowed me to see in myself a personal satisfaction and importance in working with people and being of service to others. Relationship building, project work, learning and continuous challenge are things that excite me!

* Promote "people-first" culture by connection, service, recognition and collaboration with employees to be their best self, show up with enthusiasm and delight our customers.* Collaboration with leadership for alignment with company mission, purpose and strategic initiatives.* Advise, highlight, expand and enhance Total Rewards in areas of compensation, recognition, incentives, benefits and equity.* Live and embed our company values of customer focus, ownership, innovation, transparency, and passion.* Provide and support professional and personal development opportunities within organization in areas of new hire onboarding, performance management, on-the-job learning programs for rapidly growing and diverse employee demographic.* Oversee recruiting initiatives and support hiring managers with open roles. Onboarded 250+ new hires to date.* Advance employee satisfaction YOY including administering and analyzing employee survey results with high participation (18% increase from 2021 to 2022) and focus area identification for ongoing, continuous improvement.* Partner with external counsel and support administration for H-1B and green card visa sponsorships.

* Lead Human Resources department in areas of payroll, compensation, benefits, on-boarding, employee relations, policy creation and providing a resource for employee HR needs and requests.* Support tremendous hiring growth year after year. Between 2020-2021, 100+ onboarded new hires.* Implementation and management of applicant tracking system, performance management and recognition programs. * Partner with executive leadership on company values initiatives and engagement.

* Manage office of 26 employees by serving as human resources and accounting lead.* Work together with PEO as human resources liaison including payroll, benefits, compliance, hiring and on-boarding.* Manage all accounts payable functions, cash flow, and company banking matters.* Receive and record software business area subscription and customer product payments.* Track re-seller and non-disclosure agreement contracts. * Work together with management developing office flow, policy creation and best practice functions of start up business.

• Provide advanced, confidential administrative support to HR team of seven, including supporting the VP of HR. • Manage FMLA and non-FMLA leaves by working closely with our vendor, communicating with employees and managers, and tracking leaves. Ensure compliance with FMLA, ADA and company policy. • Serve as the employee’s point of contact for Human Resources inquiries by managing an HR email inbox and by responding with timely, accurate policy driven responses to resolve employee concerns. • Support all areas of benefits including open enrollment, life events, supplemental life insurance and tuition reimbursement. • Complete and track income verifications, unemployment paperwork, employee warnings and monthly bonuses. • Review and update the Human Resources page on employee intranet.

• Provided support to VP/Plant Manager, HR Director and entire leadership team (ten members). • Prepared documents and communications on behalf of leadership involving sensitive employee performance and payroll data keeping information under strictest confidence. • Assisted recruiting department in all areas including interviewing and onboarding process of candidates and new hires.• Successful planning and execution of all day Business Team, Vision and Board meetings including coordinating presentation materials, room set up, and catering. • Served as point of contact for employees processing tuition paperwork, organizational charts, travel authorization and all compliance training records.

* Provide administrative support to Director of multi-million dollar avionics government contract as well as support program management and functional business management in avionics market segment * Manage email and calendar of Director with access to sensitive information* Create weekly/monthly reports on program status and financials; presentations viewed by corporate executives* Assist in meeting coordination, travel arrangements and onsite customer visits* Attend program meetings, take minutes and track action items* Active participant and volunteer with team building activities, corporate sponsored fundraising and community involvement

* Composition of company memos, information distribution, many miscellaneous office duties and special projects* Coordinated, planned and executed all employee related events, i.e. meetings, seminars, team building activities, holiday parties* Created and maintained monthly employee newsletter* Contact person for general needs and questions of entire staff (approx. 100); extremely knowledgeable on company processes