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Project managed quarterly global all-hands meetings, global site visits, annual company leadership meeting, and other large employee engagement events.Provided budget and project management support for other CEO-related initiatives.

Served on SVP/Chief Corporate Affairs Officer’s Leadership Team; acted as trusted advisor and provided strategic counsel to senior team leaders to enable informed decisions.Managed all department business operations, including budget; adherence to enterprise-wide deadlines, policies, and procedures; Leadership Team weekly meetings; and all-hands meetings.Partnered with HR to address resource allocation, personnel issues, hiring, compensation, recognition, and professional development. Created new budget process and operational infrastructure for global Employee Resource Groups and provided project management support to company-wide COVID-19 response steering committee.

Built from the ground up and managed the hospital's stewardship program of its major corporate gifts.Managed and implemented volunteer events that engaged over 1,100 Partner employees in four years; created opportunities to meet Partners' employee engagement goals; provided positive volunteer experiences; performed follow-up and reporting. Collaborated with Human Resources leadership at Partner companies to develop pediatric- and obstetric-classes, services, webinars and lectures for Partner employees and families. Launched hospital's onsite navigation program for Partner employees. Merged data from two systems into Excel to provide daily reports of patients to visit and program metrics. Gathered business requirements, structured data and created reports for internal and external users at all levels. Responsible for event planning and representing the hospital at corporate events. Responsible for giveaway and collateral procurement, engaging with event attendees and reporting.

Served as Managing Editor for the hospital’s public website; developed and edited content to help families make informed decisions about the hospital.Project managed three major website projects; was responsible for vendor selection and management, product and functional requirements, and creating and revising content.Project managed and wrote business requirements for Kids Connection (http://kids.stanfordchildrens.org), a website to help children prepare for a hospital stay or procedure. Served as sole business resource for physician portal during beta; wrote user communications and help materials; trained new users; provided 24x7 support to ensure physicians could use site to monitor their patients.

Managed cross-functional team activities to build, support and maintain product releases.Met with product management and development teams to mitigate project risks and ensure on-time delivery; published project plans and maintained websites to keep company informed of project statuses.Communicated and managed downstream effects of technical changes so they were accounted for in team’s release preparation. Constructed processes to manage one-off requests to better utilize engineering resources.

Architected and project managed development of a new corporate website; worked with marketing, public relations and investor relations to develop an effective site for investors and media.Introduced formal product development cycle to corporate and Intranet sites to ensure deadlines and high quality standards were met.Managed content for corporate and Intranet websites.Assisted public relations in writing and proofreading press releases.

Designed and produced content to enable informed purchasing decisions and build user retention.Managed four external partnerships to provide users with health care-related content related to purchasing, careers and industry news. Wrote user tutorials, educational materials, help pages and requirements documents.Created two project websites to serve as document repositories and communication hubs.

• Developed a categorization scheme and team to enable effective classification, browsing and searching of medical products and services.• Started as sole categorizer and was promoted to manage the categorization scheme and a team of five.

Master Of Public Health (M.P.H.)

Bachelor’S Degree