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Remote First, Us

Remote First, Us

Remote First, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

PINTEREST SAN FRANCISCO, CA Head of Education, Learning & Development | 3/2016 - 12/2019 • Joined as the first Head of Education and managed all learning and development operations, overseeing planning, resource allocation, budgeting, learning roadmaps, deployment, and program measurement. • Successfully grew the team from 1 to 8 members over the course of three years, enabling the global scale of education and training to support employee growth from 500 to 2,000+ through IPO in April 2019. Partnered with executive leadership across all functions to scale manager training programs and support growth in interpersonal communication, adaptive leadership, executive coaching, and effective feedback. • Challenged with aggressively launching international expansion of learning and development through the largest hiring cycles in company history, supporting global onboarding for hundreds of new employees. • Researched, designed, and implemented the first global Learning Management System (LMS) to double the frequency of onboarding to support scale, creating learning paths, and standardized training sessions. • Established learning calendars to promote selfdriven continuous training for existing employee base. • Evolved learning effectiveness following the Kirkpatrick Model of training evaluation, resulting in a 30% increase in rated performance and a rated 6+ (out of 7) by 100% of participants for employee experience. • Recognized by leadership for building a culture of learning, diversity, and inclusion, by creating learning goals tied to performance, unconscious bias trainings, and promoting diversity during new hire orientation.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

TURN SAN FRANCISCO, CA Global Director of Learning & Development | 3/2010 - 2/2016 • Brought onboard as the first dedicated Learning & Development hire, joining Turn at 55 US employees, helping to scale global training to 450+ global employees within the first two years, and building the first onboarding, training, and education programs leading up to a $310M acquisition by Amobee in 2017. • Directly managed global training, learning and development, helping to grow the total department to 9 employees, by hiring, training, and managing a team to support education across 10+ global offices.Solely responsible for creating and launching the first LMS, an online learning platform designed to certify all client facing employees, increasing product and platform knowledge by 40% after initial launch.Completed several iterations of new hire training and onboarding programs after initial launch, enabling role and department based trainings to support new product advancements for achieving global scale. • Led post-training assessments of certification programs for both product and professional development, ensuring 100% of employees were successfully onboarded, and given access to new learning courses. • Responsible for leading the training and development of external partners for advancing success of paid product offerings, partnering with Engineering and Product to help clients leverage Turn’s technologies. • Partnered with HR to support Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing teams with talent and succession planning, performance reviews, and employee development, by creating and leading training workshops.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

GOOGLE MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA Training Lead & Sales Manager, Online Sales & Operations | 1/2007 - 5/2009 Learning & Development Training Specialist | 12/2003 - 12/2006• Joined Google as a founding member of a new training group designed to launch education for the entire Online Sales & Operations team in AdWords and AdSense for all product offerings, tools, policy, and legal. • Drove the creation and standardization of all team-wide trainings by developing a training mentorship program through Google’s 20% project offering, training and sustaining 200+ mentor relationships across the Sales organization, helping to enlist top performers to partner and support consistent training efforts.Researched, designed, and implemented all required training curricula, such as the first Google AdWords Professional certification (GAP), Presentation Skills, Content Development, and Manager trainings. • Created and delivered New Hire Training in partnership with HR, supporting onboarding education in Chat Support, Site Quality Evaluation, New and Emerging Products, and Professional Development. • Played a key role in driving eLearning’s and skills training initiatives for internal and external groups by budgeting, negotiating, and closing contracts with third party vendors to support 250+ Google employees, helping to create and record 40+ eLearning modules for the Google Help & Learning center. • Developed training handbooks for all projects, and administered feedback surveys for evolving trainings. • Fast tracked to receive 3 promotions over the course of 6 years, and tapped to manage a 14 person Sales and Account Management team, while still owning training initiatives across the Sales organization. • Became a Distinguished Volunteer for Google Grants, helping to pre-screen French speaking candidates.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Developed and managed Trainer Mentor Program Provided support for non-specialist training endeavors; Sustained mentor relationship for 200+ individuals Developed Presentation Skills & Curriculum Development training; delivered to 300+ people Created and delivered multiple curricula from scratch; delivered over 150 in-classroom trainings Chat training for AdWords advertiser support Site Quality Evaluation training for improving Google search results New and emerging products training: launch of Google Audio and Google TV Ads Online Sales & Operations Professional Development: PowerPoint & Macromedia Breeze Drove key E-Learning initiatives for both Internal and External audiences Negotiated and implemented contract with third-party vendor for 250+ Googlers to complete self-paced online courses in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word Helped create/record 40+ eLearning modules for external education purposes via Google Help & Learning center Created, administered, analyzed and reported against hundreds of training feedback surveys Created best practices guides for all transitioned projects & trainings

UNIVERSITY OF TOULOUSE, LE MIRAIL TOULOUSE, FRANCE French Language Teacher | 1/2001 - 1/2003• Managed a group of 7 core American Civilization instructors, orchestrating weekly lectures, reviewing student homework, creating grading scales, and the creation of final course exams across all classrooms. • Instructed classrooms in both English and French, helping to deliver lectures in Composition, Business English, Translation, and Oral Expression, while developing and improving course syllabi for future courses. Organized student study sessions and helped create numerous translations for professional use. • Co-developed the ‘Education for All’ program to provide additional support for students with specialized needs, recruiting a French Sign-Language instructor for hearing impaired students, offering English lessons to non-French citizens through volunteer outreach, and tutored English speaking students through the Foreign Student Immersion program.

Bachelor Of Arts

Master'S, French As A Foreign Language

Master'S Degree, Teaching French As A Second Or Foreign Language