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Dallas, Tx, Us

Carlsbad, California, Us

• Directed strategic human resources programs and processes for Callaway’s 850,000+ sq ft North America Distribution Center (NADC)• Led peak workforce staffing planning, successfully hiring of hundreds of temporary labor workers in very short time frames to support business needs• Reduced temporary turnover YoY by more than 70%, to industry-leading 4% 2023 YTD• Led the NADC through more than doubling its employee base in 2022 while maintaining less than a 1% regular full-time employee voluntary turnover rate and converted nearly 100 temporary workers to regular full-time employees, enhancing workforce stability and productivity• Guided development and implementation of innovative workforce planning tools that proactively managed peak labor needs in alignment with key operational metrics, a significant improvement versus prior years• Created and improved various employee engagement and incentive programs to drive morale, attendance and productivity in support of key operational targets• Created strategic agency relationships and drove creation of an embroidery center of excellence, enabling competitive advantage for the business • Developed workforce analytics including turnover, hiring, temporary agency performance, and cost effectiveness metrics to support strategic business decisions• Supported and facilitated corporate-wide learning and development programs• Partnered with the leadership team as a strategic business partner, coached and developed talent, performed succession planning and collaborated on or led various strategic business initiatives

Kalamazoo, Mi, Us

🔹 Built, cultivated, and leveraged cross-functional relationships to implement global financial shared services delivery model. Directed restructuring, change management, and communication planning for divisional work migrations. Led analysis to identify gaps in areas of pay equity, talent, recruiting, role alignment, and change management planning. • Managed strategy to enhance ROI of early career rotation programs, improving internal processes for program graduation placements in the business.• Developed and implemented process improvements for UR finance intern and recruiting programs in order to enhance the brand and increase UR placement rates. • Leveraged company's talent calibration tools and strategies to identify, develop, and provide senior-leader visibility to high-potential and diverse talent. • Cultivated a positive, highly engaged work environment, including supporting Gallup Q12 employee engagement survey and action planning as well as StrengthsFinder and 360 coaching.

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🔹 Led HR for the US Northeast region with employees in up to nine markets, generating combined annual revenue of $12B. Designed and led strategies, policies, and processes in support of corporate culture, organizational design, talent management, performance, executive coaching and development, workforce planning, and employee engagement.• Facilitated M&As and startup operations by leading human capital due diligence and strategies for health plans, including negotiating contracts and driving go-live compliance with state and federal Medicaid/Medicare regulators.• Designed and deployed a successful "Leader-Led Culture" pilot program, overseeing an internal project team and vendors in program execution. Increased annual employee engagement scores at twice the rate of the rest of the enterprise, leading to subsequent adoption and implementation companywide.• Led cross-functional teams in developing a web-based "Employee Journey Map" using human-centered design techniques that enhanced employee experience with internal service delivery models across the employee lifecycle.• Invited to serve as one of three panel speakers for a diversity and inclusion event hosted by SMU.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

🔹 Led corporate shared services strategic planning, talent acquisition, development, retention, succession planning, executive coaching, organization design. Managed two team members directly and a matrix team of regional and country human resources generalists. Led annual strategic planning and goal setting processes.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

🔹 Fostered a culture of trust to promote cross-cultural knowledge transfer and high-performing global engineering team. Led creation and staffing strategies for global engineering centers in Bangalore, India, Juarez, Mexico, and Nanjing, China. Successfully coached and developed leaders into larger, higher-level executive positions, including C-suite roles.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

🔹 Managed four direct reports in leading the successful decertification and transformation of former union manufacturing workforce to pay-for-performance, providing extensive coaching and development of front-line leadership. Headed change management to transition 200+ staff and multiple product lines from satellite to primary location in six weeks.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

🔹 Led the successful transition of corporate IT function to external vendor while managing a facility closure, impacting 500 remote staff. Implemented Gallup StrengthsFinder and Q12 to supported functions.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

🔹 Championed corporate executive stakeholder sponsorship of new e-business function and human centered design intranet strategy that improved usability, customer experience, and functionality, contributing to $9M in project savings.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

🔹 Contracted and built sponsorship with senior level acquired executives to prepare for the Allied Signal and Honeywell PeopleSoft system integration. Developed and successfully implemented sourcing strategy to add 40+ PeopleSoft programmers in a six-week time frame in an extremely tight labor market.

Master Of Arts, Human Resources & Industrial Relations

Ba, English Literature/Minor, Speech Communications & Secondary Education Emphasis

Coursework, International Management & Cross-Cultural Communication