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La Jolla, Ca, Us

San Diego, California, Us

San Diego, California, Us

Morristown, New Jersey, Us

Reported to the CEO. Responsible for leading the human resources functions for a public biotech company, a senior leadership role in the organization. Directed growth with an emphasis on organizational development, and partnering with senior management to maintain the culture focused on company values. Accountable for building required organization capabilities that supported outstanding performance and managed growth. Directed HR Assistant, Senior HR Manager and Senior Recruiter. •Company needed the best talent to achieve 18 and 24 month company goals and objectives; Result: All developmental activities were executed and hiring targets achieved. •Identified leadership skill gaps of the Product Development Team Leaders; Result: Developed a curriculum and coaching to assist each leader in improving teamwork and output for each team.•Developed a best-in-class HR services, practices and policies; Result: Attracted top talent for a growing biotech company with a high accountability culture and focus on becoming an employer of choice. •Created 3-year Manpower Plan; Result: Recruited 30 positions annually; managed employee development, career growth, and promotion initiatives. •Implemented Applicant Pro as our tracking system, and Bamboo HR as our HR Information System; Result: Successfully integrated both systems into our payroll system, Paychoice.

San Diego, California, Us

Reported to the CEO. Responsible for all HR services globally. Managed a team of 13 located in San Diego, St. Louis, Yorktown and Germany. Company conducted business in USA, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. •Managed integration of two acquired companies into the Tapestry organization; Result: Successfully merged cultures of two diversified companies. •Developed and led comprehensive people strategy to serve clients; Result: Fulfilled growth objectives. •Spearheaded career development, workforce planning, talent acquisition, organizational development, compensation and M&A initiatives; Result: Created a highly-engaged work environment for employees. •Designed short- and long-range incentive compensation plans; Result: Obtained Compensation Committee approval. •Redesigned Performance Management System linking company priorities/goals to recognition programs; Result #1: Company met 100% compliance while completing the reviews and merit and bonus paid, and Result #2: Development plans were executed and turnover was improved by 3%. •Designed a Leadership Pipeline Acceleration Program to ensure senior leaders were there to fill newly created positions as a result of acquiring two companies; Result #1: Used 360-Instrument; assessed each incumbent against core competencies and selected two; Result #2: Selected a third from the acquired company using same techniques.Result #3: All leaders were successful in their roles, 100% retention.

Lake Mary, Florida, Us

Reported to the CEO. Responsible for providing leadership for all Human Resources services in multiple states. Handled integration of two acquired companies. •Redesigned the benefit platform; Result: Saved the company $200,000 annually. •Led HR due diligence, culture assessment of two companies acquired by TriTech; Result: Both companies successfully integrated into TriTech Software Systems.•Developed HR strategies for business units in multiple locations; Result: Aligned employee engagement, leadership development, workforce planning, and talent acquisition programs with company plans.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Reported to the Chief Human Resources Officer. Worked as HR leader for the largest business segment in the organization: Commercial. Provided leadership coaching, HR strategic planning, employee development, employee engagement and talent acquisition services. Prepared Board presentations and metrics for the Senior VP of HR. Optimized strategic and operational HR leadership to commercial, research, and administration organizations. •Developed and implemented a new HR Service Directory Model; Result: Improved customer feedback and elimination of 7 HR positions which saved more than $450,000 in payroll expenditures. •Directed HR business initiatives and consulting services to sales, research, medical affairs, finance, and IT; Result: Effectively organized corporate development for a rapidly-growing biopharmaceutical company. •Established employee engagement, career development, leadership development, succession planning and workforce planning programs for corporate and field-based employees; Result: Reduced turnover. •Prepared and personally delivered presentations to the Board of Directors on compensation and workforce planning initiatives; Result: Both initiatives were adopted by the Board.

Cincinnati, Oh , Us

Reported to the CEO. Responsible for leading a team of 6 in multiple locations. Focused on employee development, redesigned compensation and talent acquisition programs. •Coached the CEO to evolve the culture of the company to a highly accountable and engaged employee structure; Result: Enhanced performance management; employees more accountable to the task at hand. •Updated and rewrote employee job descriptions; researched marketing price of jobs; updated payroll and compensation policies and procedures; Result: Enhanced employee satisfaction with the company.

Novato, Ca, Us

Responsible for all HR services for 7 states. •Managed the merger and integration of a $200-Million business; Result: HR cultures were successfully merged into Fireman’s Fund Insurance policies and procedures. •Established a culture of change strategy and operationalized a strategic corporate vision; Result: Turnaround business objectives were met. •Led feedback, coaching and strategic consulting for three executives responsible for organizations in 7 states; Result: Enhanced the management professionalism of all three executives.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Responsible for heading a team of 12 to provide compensation and benefit services to turnaround national retailer with 5K employees and $520-Million in sales. •Spearheaded effective coaching and linkage of key business strategies; Result: Improved performance and enhanced incentive compensation programs. •Designed and implemented major changes to stock option program; Result: Moved from an entitlement to a performance-based program which supported company’s new compensation philosophy. •Facilitated self-insured medical benefits; Result: $800,000 savings.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Organization Development And Human Resources

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Human Resources