Working to scale reforestation

-Served as global HR Leader for an industry-leading precision agriculture solutions team-Following acquisition, helped integrate multiple organizations into a singular Digital Farming Solutions unit within Bayer's Crop Science division-Provided the strategic architecture for a next compensation approach for Digital Farming Solutions

HR Business Partner for Climate’s R&D organization - Partnered with leadership to scale Climate from start-up to industry-leading digital farming platform - Helped drive compensation and benefits integration for two mergers- Supervised team of HR Generalists and Business Partners supporting Climate’s HR operations, management development, diversity and inclusion, on-boarding, and employee relations work - Developed and implemented Climate-wide talent management program including talent review cadence, promotion process, job architectures, and succession planning framework- Supervised refresh of Climate's on-boarding program- Site lead for Seattle office which grew over 300% during my tenure

Evolved Microsoft Research’s PhD intern program, which hires 800+ interns annually across eight labs worldwide, to better align to its globally coordinated research agenda- Drove increased PhD hiring into Microsoft’s engineering groups to supply talent for the company’s Data and Applied Science disciplines- Brought together several groups across Microsoft to better align the company’s engagements with top universities and improve its ability to attract top talent.

Management of business, planning, and team operations for both Corporate R&D and Windows HR teams including budget, headcount, communications, and project management. Division-wide implementation lead for performance review and other corporate processes- Served as Interim HR for a variety of teams in the R&D portfolios including Chief Research and Strategy Officer's staff (2 years), Engineering Excellence (1 year), Technical Strategy (1 year), Trustworthy Computing (6 months), Start-up Business Group (6 months), Microsoft Surface (6 months) - Interim Staffing manager for a team of seven in support of Microsoft Research and Trustworthy Computing groups. Clients comprised of ~1800 employees in across a variety of disciplines. Created FY15 workforce plan and candidate generation budget and re-aligned Staffing Consultant roles to optimize for budget and team performance following client re-organization.

HR Manager for Internet Explorer team during IE7-IE9 product cycles. HR Manager for the Windows Experience Dev team and the Core and Fundamentals Dev teams during portions of the Windows7 and Windows8 product cycles- Responsible for end-to-end support including leadership development, organizational development, talent management, and employee relations- Developed talent movement processes to re-deploy Windows developers in between product cycles

Charter member of team working to give targeted career experiences for high potential employees- Developed processes for facilitating the cross-company movement of senior employees as part of Microsoft's succession management strategy- Developed talent slates for several high profile internal roles including the Technical Assistant for Bill Gates

Staff role supporting the leadership team of the People and Organization Capability (POC) team, Microsoft's leadership development, learning, OD, and talent management group. Developed a team-wide business management system and helped create an HR-wide implementation framework for cross-company HR products.

Part of a cross-company team working to streamline Microsoft policies aroung managing job eliminations. Consulted with business planning for job eliminations and coached employees impacted by these events. Helped create a workforce planning toolkit for Microsoft's HRLT.

College recruiter for Microsoft focused primarily on growing hiring from Canadian universities. Increased hiring at targeted schools by over 100% in two years.