Responsible for leading Middough’s talent management, workforce development, and organizational development, focused on aligning our talent and organizational processes and managing associated organizational change. Lead the effort to bring our company strategy, brand and culture to life in our talent management and talent acquisition processes, including performance, succession, development, leadership, diversity & inclusion, and organizational effectiveness.Also served as Director of Human Resources.Utilize a wide variety of professional experiences to build robust talent management and professional development programs and processes to support the Middough business objectives nationwide. Specific areas of focus:• Lead and direct the organizational development and training activities for the company to assist the organization in performing at the highest possible level. • Play an active, hands-on role in the recruitment of senior leadership into the organization. • Design and implement a strategy to train and coach leaders and managers to consistently demonstrate the qualities and behaviors required to execute our business strategy.• Leverage existing new graduate and early career development programs, and create a strategy to optimize these across the enterprise. Work cohesively with each office to leverage best practices and ensure synergy and consistency in message and branding.• Partner with Corporate Marketing and Talent Acquisition teams to develop a refreshed employer brand aligned to the Middough strategy and experience.• Apply solid business strategy, project management methodology, communications, and leadership skills to efficiently and cost-effectively assure a high caliber and diverse workforce. • Responsible for enhancing the Talent Acquisition strategy the drives continual process improvement across the Talent Acquisition team and delivers seamless service to the organization.

Valdes Engineering is a multi-location Engineering Consulting Firm focused on providing high level technical support to a wide variety of clients in the Refining, Chemical, Power, and Pipeline sectors. • Hired initially as Talent Acquisition Manager for the firm; promoted to assume all Human Resources responsibilities for the company. Report to the President and CEO with six direct reports. • Strategy and tactics drove success through the firm resulting in the most successful recruiting year in company history. • Responsibilities include Human Resources strategy, Compensation and Benefits, Nationwide Recruiting, EEO/OFCCP, Training, Safety, and Employee Assistance Programs.

Director of Recruiting for Austin, Hill & Associates, a Chicago based Executive Search Firm. Possess more than 20 years of recruiting at both the corporate and executive search levels. Provide a very high level of customer service to our clients, as well as our candidates.Though our focus is mainly on permanent placements, we have accepted challenging contract assignments in the past.

Recruited to company to manage all recruiting and executive search activity for a top 35 national homebuilder. Also responsible for succession planning, leadership development, and growth of employees. Accomplishments include: • Delivered eleven consecutive months of record high volume of hires, while also significantly reducing attrition. • Developed strong working relationships with leaders across all functional areas in company. Drove all workforce planning, retention, and performance management activities in the company.• Hands-on Project Manager for all aspects of the Organizational Development, HRIS, and strategic planning process.

Austin, Hill & Associates is a nationwide, multi-location executive search and leadership development firm.

Held various positions with Coca Cola Enterprises, to include:Division VP, Sales & MarketingRegion Sales Manager Sales Center Manager Director of Human Resources Human Resources Project Manager Management Trainee

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