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St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Burnsville, Minnesota

• Trusted confidante to ownership group during unprecedented growth in the business.• Implemented hiring, performance review, and compensation processes where none previously existed. • Recruited and built senior leadership team during COVID-19 pandemic.• Proactively worked to increase diversity throughout the organization, including leadership, during high growth recruitment period.• Managed transition of workforce to remote operations during COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in little to no loss of organizational functionality.• Delivered company’s first 401k program within 6 months of starting, improving recruitment success just in time for leadership team hiring initiative.• Strategized and executed personnel initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic in which the market sky rocketed and then returned to pre-COVID levels all in the same 12 month period• Implemented EOS (Traction) process throughout the organization and during radical growth period.• Worked through frequent employee relations issues consistent with high growth and rapid change during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Consulted Talent Acquisition Leaders on optimization of recruitment advertising and employer branding.• Wrote Employer Brand copy for Fortune 500 company in absence of hired writer, improving time to hire and saving money for the client• Delivered urgent content for Employer Branding meeting in absence of hired writer to facilitate a LinkedIn Employer Brand initiative• Established alternative media plans for especially hard to fill positions, providing successful recruitment marketing alternatives and reducing time to hire for our clients

St. Paul, Mn

• Evolved company from Graphic Design Studio to Custom Software Company by recruiting and developing a team of Software Developers, UX Designers, Project Managers, Quality Assurance Technicians, Account Managers, and Sales Executives.• Accountable to all Human Resources initiatives including strategy, recruitment, retention, hiring process, succession planning, performance review, benefits and communications• Rewrote and published employee handbook to intranet site for most up to date policies and procedures• Established and administered a 401(k)-program resulting in 100% participation, higher employee retention, and satisfaction• Investigated local ordinance for Safe and Sick Time and implemented processes to stay within compliance• Actively drove annual budget meetings for the organization, soliciting information from stakeholders, establishing the business plan for the coming year and setting sales goals which enabled the organization • Exhibiting multi-discipline expertise, successfully stepped into roles managing accounting and legal teams resulting in cost containment and improved transparency

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Penetrated a new market by establishing a creative division within a pre-press company, recruiting and training a team that quickly led the organization in overall revenue growth• Penetrated new market by establishing Book Packaging division, researching the industry, recruiting top-talent and developing writing and production processes for the publication of over 500 Children’s non-fiction books resulting in additional revenue source for the company• Launched packaging program for Target Corporation, executing production processes of retail packaging materials while actively participating in strategic meetings aimed at maintaining brands, meeting budgets, and achieving timelines ultimately supporting 33% of revenues within the organization• Streamlined processes for massive on-going marketing communications project, doubling profits and improving quality of work

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Fostered and expanded account relationships through effective project management of large marketing communications plans.

Plymouth, Mn

Directed projects through four-color separation and pre-press portions of production.• Helped integrate a prepress company into existing print company• Took on leadership role after departure of supervisor and senior staff, worked with new supervisor to recommend new personnel and process improvements• Developed processes for national accounts

Bachelor Of Arts, Journalism; School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

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