Kevin Le, Shrm-Cp Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

• Provide on-the-ground support for team members with inquiries about benefits, open enrollment, leaves of absence, workers’ compensation in a fully remote 30+ person tech company across 13 states.
• Administer and track employee benefits including health plans, PTO, sabbaticals, leaves of absence, professional development, and HRA accounts.
• Work with broker to select the most optimal benefits plan. Identify industry trends to maximize benefits for team members, such as increasing 401k company contributions.
• Develop and launch a 6-week DEI onboarding program to ensure a baseline of equity and inclusion knowledge. As a founding member of the internal equity team, identify equity goals for the company and implement new.
• Support Executive team in deploying annual performance reviews and engagement surveys. Analyze best practices for designing and delivering the reviews and surveys to maximize participation and impact.
• Collaborate with the Executive team to create organizational policies that ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations bi-annually. Manage employee digital files in compliance with.

• Created and implemented Operations Team workflows (including recruiting, on/offboarding, invoicing, benefits management) for internal team to use; take feedback from the team and constantly iterate to remove roadblocks.
• Established equitable and inclusive hiring practices to improve candidates’ interview experience. Collaborated with and trained hiring managers and other stakeholders to ensure a structured and data-driven interview.
• Owned general administration and project management tasks, including invoicing, booking travel and logistics for team members, manage asset inventory, renew B Corp certification, and manage day-to-day support for staff.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Coordinated conference and event program logistics including conference workshops and tours, speakers, venues, catering and lodging for events, meetings and conferences, including the annual ILFI flagship event—the.
• Led activities related to planning, speaker management, staffing, and customer service
• Maintained and developed systems for registration, tracking, and project management
• Led post-event survey evaluations; continuously refine metric evaluation to assist programs team in strategizing goals and events team in efficacy of event processes
• Collaborated with Events team to create an inclusive and welcoming environment for attendees

Portland, Oregon Area

• Planned, managed, and successfully implemented two annual workshops for audiences of 60 and one annual summit of 300 attendees. Activities include managing all logistics, production and program-related activities –.
• Managed a budget of $300,000 for all event-related activities; the 2016 Summit was the first Summit to make a profit
• Generated maximum revenue by collaborating with Marketing and Development teams to acquire strategic in-kind event partners and sponsors. Ensured sponsor fulfillment and satisfaction with their event experience
• Collaborated with Programs team to diversify the speaker line-up to reflect the target audience and community demographic
• Established inclusive culture for attendees to feel welcome and safe

Portland, Oregon Area

• Managed office functions to ensure smooth workflow and maintain over 150 coalition partner relationships. Coordinated logistics for bi-annual summits of more than 200 attendees.
• Led Equity Initiative in helping coalition partners awareness of institutionalized racism.
• Developed and coordinated 8-month pilot Equity Cohort program to equip participants with organizational inclusion tools.
• Mentored two administrative assistants in developing professional office work skill sets.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Conducted feasibility analysis to determine policy options for Metro to become involved in regional wetland mitigation banking.
• Presented pertinent policy options to the Metro Councilors, elected officials representing the Portland metropolitan area, and fellow staff to implement based on feasibility analysis.

Ann Arbor, MI

• Created biophysical and economic models that can be used by stakeholders and practitioners to evaluate the value of inland lakes and land use management trade-offs.
• Conducted stakeholder interviews on inland lake ecosystem services and analyze results to determine the most useful outputs; identify major issues practitioners are facing related to lake water quality.
• Managed scheduling, project budget, stakeholder interviews, meeting and travel logistics to conferences for five-person team. Facilitated team meetings with client and project advisors.

Greater Denver Area

• Researched mitigation measures of four federally approved solar energy projects.
• Compiled key recommendations for the Bureau of Land Management’s Solar Energy Zones pilot program.
• Drafted comments for the Bureau of Land Management on improving mitigation measures for the proposed SunZia Transmission Line project and proposed Gateway West Transmission Line project.

Sacramento, California Area

• Assisted Project Managers in coordinating the licensing of 22 natural gas and solar projects. Drafted letters and memos and conducted technical research on the environmental impact report of the projects.
• Managed the licensing process of a natural gas-fired power plant in Los Angeles, which included the supervision of a 23-member team. Authored three sections of the draft environmental impact report.
• Researched and analyzed challenges and opportunities for renewable energy siting and development.
• Collaborated in the efficiency and streamlining process for 13 solar thermal power plants seeking American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding.

Santa Barbara, California Area

• Assisted the Board members and Grants Manager in planning environmental programs and projects.
• Provided administrative support for grant proposals and served as primary liaison to applicants.
• Collaborated with Board members to equitably disburse $330,000 to select coastal protection programs.

Santa Barbara, California Area

• Aided students in researching career paths and taught them how to use databases to find jobs.
• Recruited 50 environmentally friendly companies and organizations to attend campus job fairs.
• Researched and compiled resources on coastal careers regarding its description, job statistics and future outlook for student access.

Santa Barbara, California Area

• Sampled hydrological parameters and monitored native fish species of Devereux Slough.
• Obtained and monitored water quality samples.
• Researched water policies and bills that would affect the restoration of Devereux Slough, which was incorporated in the Project Supervisor's Ph.D thesis.
• Assisted Project Supervisor in creating educational materials for public knowledge, such as brochures.