In my current role, I partner with LinkedIn's Large Enterprise clients to help them optimize their performance and reach their talent acquisition goals through the use of their LinkedIn Talent Solutions. I do this by engaging customers in proactive discussions to understand their business and objectives and then leverage these insights to ensure the solutions in place are contributing to achieving these goals. Additionally, I partner with clients to develop and execute success plans in order to help their TA teams meet their recruiting goals. I help reduce churn by creating custom plans for accounts at risk which is in partnership with my sales partners

As a Veteran Ally, I am passionate about supporting the Veteran Community especially when it comes to helping veterans transition from active duty to civilian work. LinkedIn.com provides a great platform for transitioning Veterans! Our Veterans & Allies ERG's Mission: Connecting Veterans with Allies, creating a fostering environment of support and empowerment.If you are a Veteran, feel free to reach out and learn more about how you can leverage LinkedIn.com

Chicago office lead for the LinkedIn Veterans & Allies ERG.

I partner with LinkedIn's Large Enterprise clients to help them optimize their performance and reach their talent acquisition goals through the use of their LinkedIn Talent Solutions.Highlights: Recipient of the Culture & Values Award for Results for H1 2019

I helped create and execute our first customer success team for our out of region customers. As one of LinkedIn’s first Regional Customer Success Manager, I worked with our global accounts that implemented LinkedIn Talent Solutions across North America. I provided regional expertise to these global teams by driving adoption, engagement, education and value of their solutions. My focus was to ensure our customers maximized the return on their investment and accomplished their recruiting goals by leveraging their LinkedIn Talent Solutions. I collaborated with the global LinkedIn account teams in order to provide the best level of customer success support to the local teams in North America. Highlights: Created and executed Out of Region Customer Success plays globally within LinkedIn Talent Solutions. I collaborated with global Senior Managers to build the Out of Region Customer Success strategy within our Customer Management Model. I also helped lead global collaboration with APAC, EMEA, and LATAM by sharing best practices with the global Out of Region Customer Success Managers. I contributed to global communication for our sales partners and Customer Success Organization within Talent Solutions. I was also the recipient of the Culture & Values Award for Demand Excellence for H2 2017 which was a result of my work for building out of the global Out of Region Customer Success program.

Our vision at LinkedIn is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. As an Associate Customer Success Manager, my job is to ensure that my customers are leveraging their LinkedIn Talent Solutions to help them achieve their business goals and and receive an ROI on their investment. I partner with my customers to help them implement their social media recruitment strategies and measure their success along the way. My goal is to be a true business partners with everyone of my customers and when our customers' win, LinkedIn WINS.

As a Relationship Manger, I helped senior IT leaders and their teams at midsized companies increase efficiency, transform their departments, enable growth, and reduce risk. In this role I was dedicated to making sure that my members were engaged and felt confident leveraging the services within the IT Leadership Council. I worked and collaborated with Chief Information Officers and their teams at 75 mid sized organizations in North America. The territory I managed was $1.5M and I was responsible for the renewals and selling additional talent trainings.

As an Account Manager, I managed government accounts in the Upstate of South Carolina with a focus on building long-term, productive, and mutually beneficial relationships with all of my customers. I provided value by partnering with my customers and helping them take costs out of their business.In my role, I managed a $2.5M territory that consisted 30 customers within the higher education, local, and state government segment; customers included Clemson University(21K students),Greenville Tech College(14K students)& Spartanburg County (290K pop.) I managed my current business while selling additional products to different stakeholders within each organization. I was able to grow revenue profitability by 6.8% from $2.37M to $2.51M in 2014 and I prepared and presented quarterly business reviews to drive product consolidation and cost savings for customers. I was also the Recipient of the Pinnacle of Excellence Award for “Have a Winning Attitude” and this is something that I always try to bring to any role and team that I am a part of.

During my time at Kraft Foods I was an Assistant Human Resources Business Lead in the manufacturing facility for Grey Poupon, A1, and Tassimo. My primary responsibilities consisted of supporting 450 hourly associates by providing day to day HR functional support. I led plant wide initiative to revamp on-the-job training, met with hourly associates, operations leadership, quality, and safety to solicit feedback and influence implementation. I assisted hiring managers by managing the life cycle talent recruitment for all hourly openings and hired 15 hourly associates. Lastly, I partnered with Business Unit managers to understand their talent needs and helped create an execution plan to recruit and hire open positions within their business.

As a Mock Interviewer, I worked with students during the mock interview process to help strengthen their interviewing skills and responses to questions. I prepared and asked real interview questions to students who were preparing for an upcoming interview. I also provided feedback in order for them to feel confident and prepared for their interview. In addition, I was a Graduate Assistant with the MBA Business Career Services program where I advised students on their career aspirations and helped prepare them for their interviews. I also created and helped implement MBA 101, an online training program which served as prep for incoming MBA students.

As an HR Intern for Kraft Foods, I worked in the Maxwell House Coffee Plant and I worked on a variety of projects throughout my summer internship. Proven Results/Primary Responsibilities:-Developed and recommended a rewards and recognition program for the 185 hourly union associates that focused around the ideas and suggestion board to drive 100% engagement and to drive integrated lean six sigma results.-Led a 10 person cross-functional team, consisting of Director level members, for the request for proposal (RFP) for a company-wide solution for time management training to be implemented for 7500 salaried employees and 23,000 employees total across the organization. -Performed end-to-end recruitment and sourcing for four different requisitions utilizing Taleo, which yielded seven different employees being hired

As an HR intern, I had the opportunity to work on some major projects. Proven Results/Primary Responsibilities:-Organized and led a recruiting team for 100,000 Jobs Mission Hiring Event (www.100000jobsmission.com) to maximize talent acquisition strategy to hire 50 positions across 10 divisions and to strategically fill openings with military veterans. -Integral player in the global launch of Taleo, Talent Management System, affecting some 100,000 employees. -I leveraged LinkedIn Recruiter to maximize the efficiency of hiring manager’s talent needs by developing strategies that reduced 3rd party costs and accessed a greater talent pool, leading to a net hiring of qualified candidates. -Participated in AIRS Professional Recruitment Training which aided in co-leading a part of Recruiter Training on an improved recruiting process.

As a territory Sales Consultant, I managed over 200 customers in the Greenville/Spartanburg territory in South Carolina. I was responsible for diverse customer base including Retail, Manufacturing, Commercial, Hospitality, Automotive, and ContractorsProven Results/Primary Responsibilities:- Managed a $500K+ territory -Initiated 20 cold calls a week which resulted in 68 new customers and $175K incremental sales -Consistent high level performer growing sales and exceeding sales goals with 154% and 115% to goal performance -Recognized as one of the top ten sales representatives in the country for new customer acquisition-Received the Triple Crown Award for exceeding sales goal each month in Q3 and Q4 for 2010-Top five Territory Sales Representative for performance to goal MTD April 2011

As a Consumer Business Development Intern, I completed and presented pre/post shave category review to Kmart buyer, completed an efficient assortment that led to 8 incremental skus for P&G, developed promotional analysis tool that identified $276K in lost sales opportunity for Bounty 8 roll at Kmart, and identified account opportunities and trends based on Kmart Workbench and AC Nielsen that led to $500K opportunity for P&G.

As an intern in the Purchasing department I worked on many projects; I collaborated with Category Managers in Purchasing to put together Manager’s Seminar Presentation, worked on $60M initiative to improve product freshness on a company wide issue, identified and contacted high opportunity vendors to improve expiration data resulting in $6.5M potential savings, attended key vendor meetings with CM’s (Hershey, Russell Stover, Storck, etc), and provided Walgreens warehouses with disposition on active inventory resulting in inventory reduction of $150K.