Play a pivotal role with my client by providing strategic guidance and operational support in various human resource functions. I provide consulting and advisory services to senior leadership on the best in class practices and programs. Focus has been on employee engagement and retention and have developed and implemented programs to increase engagement in a fast-paced, global environment.

Strategic partner to Sales, Global Customer Care and Marketing, working alongside three key C-level executives and their leadership team at all levels to provide the best employee experience possible. Currently lead a team of HR Business partners in US, UK and APAC who partner at the local level and provide support to over 1,400+ employees. We are responsible for delivering company-wide initiatives into the organization, such as our bi-annual employee review and rewards planning, performance management and feedback, company survey feedback and MBO planning and tracking. We provide coaching and consulting to all levels of leaders, facilitate and present at weekly staff meetings, recommend organizational improvements, attend key planning meetings, participate in workforce planning, develop and deliver top talent and key employee retention programs and attend numerous key stakeholder meetings.Key initiatives include developing and driving the Career Pathways program and the Leadership Development Program.

Hold a dual role leading both HR and recruiting functions for the North American sales organization which includes support for field AE's, sales development reps, SC's and alliance managers. Built and scaled performance management, built SDR career progression path and introduced Sandler assessments into our interview process. Responsible for headcount planning and allocation and driving the hiring plan to accommodate for our growth. Regularly liaise with many internal key stakeholders including finance, marketing, sales operations and sales enablement to continually hone and improve all processes that touch our people. Responsible for internal recruiters as well as managing any external agency searches that we may engage.

Hired and led the recruiting team through hyper-growth, hiring across field sales, pre-sales, inside sales and all customer success roles. Liaised with internal clients and key stakeholders to determine areas of growth, secure headcount, built the hiring plan and then executing the hiring plan via our internal recruiters. During this timeframe, we achieved 100% growth year/year.Anaplan is the planning cloud for Sales, Finance, Operations, and HR. We built our platform from the ground up to empower you to plan, collaborate, and act—in real time. Anaplan enables you to deploy easy-to-use applications to solve complex planning challenges across your organization. Stay ahead of critical business events, rapidly model potential impacts, and course correct on the fly. Anaplan is a privately held company, headquartered in San Francisco, CA with global offices on four continents. To learn more, visit anaplan.com. Follow us on twitter: @anaplan

Responsible for recruiting, hiring and scaling the Enterprise Sales organization.Fortinet is a global leader and innovator in Network Security. Our mission is to deliver the most innovative, highest performing network security platform to secure and simplify your IT infrastructure. We are a provider of network security appliances and security subscription services for carriers, data centers, enterprises, distributed offices and MSSPs. Our market position and solution effectiveness has been widely validated by industry analysts, independent testing labs, business organizations, and the media worldwide. Our broad product line of complementary solutions goes beyond Network Security to help secure the extended enterprise.

Provided consulting and full cycle recruiting to several Bay area start-ups companies. Hired across all functions including Marketing, Customer Success, Data Analysts and Sales. Hired across all levels from entry to senior level positions.

Joined Oracle to build the newly created Engineered Systems sales team which was created from several acquisitions. Hired across multiple titles and levels including sales, sales consultants in both individual contributor and leadership roles. Created and lead hiring initiatives which included full management of hiring process from organizational design, headcount assignment and creating an actionable hiring plan. Drove the entire hiring process with hiring managers including sourcing, interviewing, presenting, negotiating and closing.Led several projects to improve the quality of hiring and interviewing. Created and implemented a hiring and interviewing skills course for hiring managers which significantly improved the quality and speed of hiring.

Responsible for talent acquisition throughout the Midwest. Work closely with senior leadership and hiring managers to create and implement a solid hiring plan. Recruit and hire for sales and technical titles including: enterprise account managers, sales consultants, delivery personnel for both individual contributors and management titles. This included hiring across all pillars at EMC including storage, back-up and archive, RSA, content management and EMC Consulting.Received the Area MVP award in 2008 for providing outstanding support for the management team from a hiring perspective. Key member of the team and provided valuable information to senior management in identifying and improving hiring practices.

Started out my career in recruiting with KLA. Experienced success by not only securing new clients for KLA, but recruiting competitive candidates for various positions that were available. Placed candidates at leading-edge software and hardware companies throughout North America.

ViewGate networks provided a network management software platform to monitor IP-VPN networks and their performance. Responsible for aligning appropriate hardware vendors (Cisco, Riverstone, Nortel) to support our platform. This required coordination between our sales teams, our customer's requirements and our development team. Our customers were large vendors including Cable & Wireless, Verizon and Qwest.

Started out my career at AT&T as a sales rep in the Business Markets division in the Northern Virginia territory. Excelled in direct sales roles and was promoted into several product marketing positions in the N.J. headquarters. Eventually went back out to the field managing a sales team in both Oakbrook, Illinois and in Vienna, Virginia.