Report directly to the CEO and member of the global Executive Leadership team. Drive talent strategies and enable business results for an $1.2B global manufacturer and supplier of packaging equipment and supplies through direct and distributor selling models. Responsible for over 30 manufacturing facilities in US, UK and Netherlands. Company is currently owned by PE firm, Warburg Pincus.

Lead HR for Vertiv Americas region. Delivering power, thermal management, racks and enclosures products and services throughout North America and Latin America. Consisting of over 9,000 employees - including 6 manufacturing facilities, over 500 sales team members and over 1,500 services personnel.

International assignment in Tokyo, Japan. As a key member of the JV leadership team, lead and direct HR integration activities covering over 11,000 employees across 15 countries for a $4B Joint venture between Johnson Controls and Hitachi Appliance. Develop and direct (6) HR work streams to integrate Hitachi current processes, systems and programs to the Johnson Controls "way" – work streams include HR Applications, Compensation, Benefits, Labor Relations, Change Management, Employee Communications. Each work stream has multiple projects that are simultaneously managed and coordinated for dependencies and seamless integration. Led effective visioning process with CEO and leadership team using Strategy Deployment process to ensure our strategies and actions are clearly linked to the short term goals and longer term vision for the JV.

Member of Leadership team, as the business partner for the VP/GM of Global Aftermarket business, which represents about $5 billion in sales as well as the business partner for the US VP/GM Aftermarket business which represents about $3 billion in sales. Supported global and regional aftermarket strategies through robust HR programs including building organizational capabilities through deployment of a sales competency model, designing regional sales incentive programs and optimizing organization structure to support customer needs and drive business results.

Member of Leadership team, as Global Operations business partner supporting VP/GM of Global Components and Integrated Supply Chain, supporting 44 plants across US, MX, Brazil, Columbia, EMEA, China, Korea. Established early leader development process in Operations (OLDP) that has resulted in 8-10 young leaders each rotating through 4 plant experiences over a 2 year period. Led Manufacturing Engineering leadership team through complete organizational redesign from regional “generalist” structure to global “subject matter expert” structure – completed holistic review of all talent and created change management plan to deploy the new model. Created focus on inclusion and diversity by implementing cross-region teams resulting in an operating system model with a set of principles, objectives and best practices that allows a region to be assessed to determine their level of maturity for inclusion and diversity. Program was recognized with a Company Merit Award.

Member of Leadership team, supporting commercial business leaders and plant operations, which represented about $3 billion in sales. Responsible for Americas HR operations strategies - delivering robust HR solutions to plants in Americas with specific oversight to 18 US plants and headquarter Operations teams and support to Mexico, Colombia and Brazil HR teams on hourly compensation strategy, talent management, labor relations, employee relations, and employee engagement. Oversaw development and implementation of U.S. non-union (union avoidance) strategy for five U.S. non-unionized facilities; create and deploy labor relations plan for unionized facilities including overseeing or directly leading contract negotiations including preparing bargaining objectives and aligning with Operations leadership on key bargaining priorities. Rolled High Performance Work Teams to all plants.

Managed day-to-day relationship including contract negotiations with benefit suppliers with monitored performance guarantees. Provided strategic counsel to labor relations HR partners during labor negotiations. Led the design, development, delivery and assessment of the BeWell4Life wellness program. Participated in mid-career development program for enterprise Johnson Controls North America taking a complex business issue and working with a cross-business unit team to benchmark, create recommendations and present to senior leadership. Selected as one of 60 individuals selected to participate in the program.

Labor and Employment Attorney - Public and Private Sector Clients, confidentially advised clients on complex employment law issues including worker’s compensation, medical leave, disability accommodations, wages and hours, discrimination, and polygraph testing. Conducted training for clients’ employees regarding union avoidance, wage and hour laws and harassment.

Advised Human Resources Managers at over 15 plant locations with 5,000 employee regarding complex HR issues. Completed vendor selection and guided implementation of web-based open enrollment system making process completely paperless - received President’s Award for Corporate Excellence.