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Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Senior executive accountable for resource management, labor strategy and operations for 60,000+ employee services organization. Lead team of 200+ global professionals to ensure resources aligned o evolving customer and cost requirements. Enabled $1.5B labor transformation over 3 years.

Houston, Texas, Us

Head of HR for $13B global services organization with 80,000 employees in over 80 countries. Led 10 direct reports and an extended team of more than 75 professionals serving as specialists in country HR, Compensation, Learning & Development and Talent Acquisition. • Developed and implemented aggressive workforce and talent strategies to address business model changes leading to operating expense reductions, increased revenue generation and increased employee engagement.• Managed resource ramp-up, leadership development workforce migration and labor transformation strategies to ensure leadership and technical skills aligned to rapid growth in offshore service hubs

Houston, Texas, Us

Head of HR leading 11 direct reports and an extended team of more than 25 professionals serving as specialists in Workforce Analytics, Labor Forecasting and Resource Management. Designed, established and drove the implementation of workforce planning, labor forecasting, labor procurement and hiring strategies for global $28B technology services business unit.• Oversight for $17B labor budget driving efficiency savings of over $3.1B by aligning the workforce strategy to business priorities and establishing key labor controls and practices. • Drove migration of over 10,000 jobs from high cost locations to low cost centers including downsizing onshore operations and staffing up offshore locations.

Houston, Texas, Us

Lead HR executive growing Notebook business unit from start-up to $22B in revenue with #1 market share• Established global engineering development model with hubs in all three regions. Model since has been replicated by multiple HP product development teams.• Set up independent legal entity and partnered with agencies in Taiwan to receive government benefits for site ramp up.• Developed Supply Chain and Manufacturing organizational structures recognized as best-in-class across HP in China, Taiwan and USA.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Led the design and development of a best-in-class HR structure featuring an industry-recognized and award winning HR Optimization Model (HROM).• Partnered to develop the strategy for separating business and transactional HR teams, aligning to manager self-service model for common HR transactions, enabling strategic investments and cutting HR costs of 40%.• HR lead for the pre-merger due diligence, integration and planning team establishing HP’s PC business in the successful merger between Compaq Computer and Hewlett Packard, regarded as one of the largest and most successful mergers in the history of the technology industry.

Northville, Michigan, Us

Human Resources Business Partner – Tenneco Business SystemsHR lead accountable for transformation of North American IT Infrastructure and SAP development organizations. • HR Lead for design and build of IT Shared Services and Infrastructure Development Center.• Managed all HR activities for the start-up of a new business unit including organization design, project management, relocation, policy design, staff-up and recruitment.

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Psychology