• Review and counsel on all brand communications and advertising materials including, but not limited to, television advertising, print, digital/social media, press releases, website content, blogs, and videos• Renew and protect company trademarks and intellectual property• Research, analyze, and apply relevant statutes and case law to advertising campaigns and marketing strategies

• Responsible for negotiating all impacts to working conditions as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, including all CalOSHA regulations. • Revised and updated the progressive discipline training and conducted numerous County-wide trainings for management staff.• Worked collaboratively with departments to transition the drafting and preparation of disciplinary notices to Human Resources.• Assisted with the drafting of various policies, including but not limited to lactation, incentive pay, Family Medical Leave Act, and COVID-19 prevention policies. • Successfully resolved 48 meet and confers within the first 12 months of employment.• Drafted grievance process manual for supervisors and managers.

• Member of bargaining team that negotiated reopener collective bargaining agreement which resulted in millions of dollar savings due to renegotiation of employee health benefits. • Successfully handled Employment Development Department audit to avoid significant penalties.• Transferred expense claims and employee leaves to online systems to reduce employee labor and provide streamlined process.• Developed and implemented performance reviews for managers.• Responsible for negotiating and implementing 457B plan for executive staff.• Implemented policies and process to ensure that seasonal staff received final pay and notification of right to file for unemployment insurance benefits, as required by law. • Assisted with preparing a plan for continuation of operations in the face of significant budgetary losses due to court decision.

• Successfully negotiated initial collective bargaining agreement with staff union within 6 months after union and school had been negotiating for over 3 years. • Conducted various trainings regarding employee performance, social media, wage and hour, and employee leaves/reasonable accommodations. • Second chair in case involving 2 unfair labor practices that after one week of hearing resulted in a settlement between the parties.

• Significant role in collective bargaining negotiations with the staff union, including the drafting of all proposals and responding to information requests. • Conducted analysis of online training department to continue providing effective services while staff was reduced from three to one.• Successfully implemented and trained supervisors regarding performance management, including the implementation of standardized employee evaluation process. • Developed and implemented Injury and Illness Prevention Program. • Responsible for management and oversight of 401K as part of the 401K advisory committee.• Routinely reviewed and audited payroll to ensure accurate payment of employee wages. • Trained department staff regarding FMLA/CRFA, PDL, SDI, PFL and reasonable accommodations.• Developed and implemented process for dealing with employee leave requests.• Transferred all internal investigations to department and implemented standardized investigation process for department.

• Averted potential risk of losing over 10% of union members by successfully opposing the only 2 severance petitions filed against the union involving approximately 8,600 employees from Bargaining Unit 1, a unit represented by SEIU. • Successfully appealed an employee dismissal resulting in the successful reinstatement of the employee with back pay.• Successfully litigated AWOL separation that led to reinstatement of member with back pay – a matter representing only the 2nd case where a member received back pay during this timeframe (2008).• Led successful effort in orally arguing a contracting out challenge of certain IT services by a state agency before the State Personnel Board after the state agency appealed the decision of the Executive Officer to the Board. • Litigated the only contracting out challenge ever scheduled for an evidentiary hearing before the State Personnel Board when the union opposed multimillion-dollar, multiyear statewide contracts entered into by the State of California.• Served as the lead for the union on drafting comments to the first major regulation changes to the State Personnel Board hearings and appeals regulations.• Analyzed and interpreted legislation to ascertain potential impacts on the members and/or SEIU. • Led meet and confer involving the union and the Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation Realignment Program. Assisted in negotiating over bidding on vacancies, transfers, redirections and layoffs in response to a court order reducing the inmate population and Governor Brown’s proposal to shift low level offenders to county jails.