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HR leader for multiple functions including Samsung Business (Enterprise B2B team), Corporate Finance, and Corporate Marketing, totaling ~1,000 employees across the U.S. Strategic HR thought partner for 3 executives and corresponding leadership teams: EVP of Enterprise, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer.• Led the development and implementation of SEA’s first-ever peer-to-peer recognition & rewards program, Applause, resulting in a 25X YoY increase in annual recognitions and a pivotal cultural shift toward timely, social-based recognition.• Architected SEA’s first-ever MBA Leadership Development Program (2 year General Management rotational program) and successfully recruited 3 cohorts of top-tier MBAs with placements into key GM roles.• Guided 12 of SEA’s high potential rising leaders through a customized 5-month L&D journey, called the Aspiring Leaders Forum.• Partnered with the Chief Marketing Officer to develop the organizational infrastructure for the launch of Samsung's flagship retail experience center (‘837 Washington’) in the Meatpacking District, NYC.• Honored among the top 2% most recognized employees in the company.

HR leader for multiple technical engineering teams including the Computing Systems Product Group (converged infrastructure team of 1,000 employees, $4B business for Cisco), the Network Operating Systems Technology Group (software development team of 2,500 engineers responsible for all core routing and switching technologies including IOS, IOS-XR, and NX-OS, collectively driving $25B+ of revenue for Cisco across the Service Provider, Enterprise, and Data Center segments), and the Engineering Operations & Solutions Development organization (advanced R&D team of 1,800 employees in 94 locations around the globe).• Applied venture capital concepts to create the Accelerated Innovation Program, incubating grassroots innovation across the global engineering function (community of 30,000 engineers). HR SME on the core team focused on the talent mobility, performance management, and rewards & recognition elements of the program.• Streamlined Cisco's global retention bonus process by mapping roles and responsibilities and centralizing administration to the Global Business Services function, thereby eliminating hundreds of thousands of dollars of missed payments, late payments, and costly overpayments.• Leader in Cisco’s efforts to build a gender diverse engineering workforce, creating partnerships and co-hosting the 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Women in Engineering (IEEE-WIE) Leadership Conference.• Designed and managed organizational development projects for four functional groups, including Engineering Business Operations, Systems Development, Engineering Shared Services/Transceiver Module Group, and Enterprise Smart Solutions Engineering.

HR Leadership Program participant, holding roles as an HR Business Partner, a Talent Acquisition / Learning & Development Lead, and a Talent Officer in the Talent Management CoE.HR Business Partner (November 2011 - February 2013)• Supported the Information Technology and Global Marketing & Corporate Communications organizations, driving all HR programs and policies for 2,000+ full-time employees and total workforce of 5,700+.Talent Officer (September 2010 - November 2011)• Managed the Leadership Review Process and the calibration and development of executive talent for the Sales & Services organizations, ˜1,700 leaders worldwide.• Managed all facets of the HRLP internship program including recruiting at 7 campuses across the U.S., onboarding, placement, training, social and philanthropy events, performance evaluations, and full-time offers.Training & Development Lead (July 2009 - September 2010)• Oversaw the training of 250+ recruiters globally in the Talent Acquisition center of excellence and partnered with the Staffing Innovations team to deliver Talent Connection training to all 65,000 Cisco employees worldwide, creating an open marketplace of opportunity for employees across the company and winning the ERE 2011 Recruiting Excellence Award.• Developed the Staffing Knowledge Network website as a database for on-demand training resources and an internal forum for best-practice sharing.• Enhanced Cisco’s Talent Acquisition metrics suite through the launch of the Corporate Leadership Council’s Recruiter Effectiveness Dashboard (RED), thereby enabling competitive benchmarking and recalibration of key performance indicators.

• As part of the HR Acquisitions team, led the integration of 265 Linksys employees into Cisco, including database migration, new employee orientation, and tools training.• Helped create the Experienced Influencers employee resource group to connect Boomers and Gen Y employees through mentorship opportunities and developed branding for the global Cross-cultural Connection program.

• Payroll systems governance project for Honeywell's international divisions in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, including on-site consulting in Dubai, U.A.E. and Johannesburg, South Africa.

Assistant Manager for the Pacific Northwest regional office, responsible for training a sales force of 40+ via workshops and one-on-one coaching.• First in sales for the PNW regional office and top 25 in sales out of over 800 company sales associates nationwide.• Generated $160,000 in gross revenue in a 4-month period while garnering managerial promotion.

Utilized foreign language fluency to serve as liaison between Accounts Payable and 30+ other departments across the ILO. Responsible for ensuring the accuracy of all banking details and payment data for hundreds of ILO external suppliers and service providers.• Spearheaded an initiative to cleanse thousands of supplier bank records in the Oracle database, thereby eliminating costly delayed electronic funds transfers.• In conjunction with Union Bancaire Suisse, cleared a multi-year backlog of all payments in arrears, totaling over CHF 2.4MM.• Conducted research to assist the President of the Worldwide Organization for Women (www.wowinfo.org) in preparing statements for the 57th Session of the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights, impacting human rights policies in Africa.