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After my most recent contract ended, I took a purposeful career break to reassess my professional direction and clarify my goals. I explored new career paths, identified key skills needed for meaningful impact, and invested in enhancing my expertise in technology and data. This time also allowed me to prioritize family, balancing personal growth with professional development. I’m now re-entering the workforce with renewed energy and a clear sense of purpose for my next chapter.

• Led development of new reporting strategy and delivery of 500+ reports for Oracle HCM deployment. • Rehabilitated reporting deployment by restructuring the build team and instituting deployment standards.• Utilized Power BI to ingest and clean data, producing executive-level status updates and data comparisons (parallel testing) for over 500 Oracle HCM reports.• Strengthened security strategies, plans, and requirements to ensure ongoing success and compliance prior to facilitating a smooth and effective handoff to the newly appointed UHG manager.

New York, New York, Us

• Provided expert guidance to Sales, Partnership Managers, and RFP teams on the HR technology, process, and analytics implications of on-demand pay. • Advised clients and prospects on how on-demand pay enhances Human Capital Management, HR strategies, and employee outcomes.• Established the Guide Team as an external and internal consultancy, defining its mission, vision, roadmap, and services.

Dania Beach, Fl, Us

• Developed and presented a 5-year Digital HR and Analytics strategy and roadmap, influencing annual C-Suite planning.• Ensured Digital HR and Analytics strategy met business objectives by building and maintaining a tactical roadmap. • Improved recruiting efficiency and effectiveness by selecting and deploying a pre-hire assessment vendor using conversational and gameplay AI.• Increased data accuracy by 45% and enhanced the user’s experience of HR dashboards and visualizations by using an Agile methodology to collaborate with HR stakeholders to redesign and rebuild the dashboards and visualizations.• Developed a streamlined data extraction process with UKG Reporting and implemented data cleansing using Power Query, ultimately building comprehensive HR dashboards in Power BI.• Reduced HRIS data administration time by 30% by leading the implementation of UKG and Greenhouse automation.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

• Supported 200% annual growth over two years in a startup environment by developing and implementing an HR Tech and Analytics strategy.• Managed the implementation of UltiPro (UKG) in under three months, including solution design, configuration, and testing of HR, Payroll, Benefits, and Reporting and the successful conversion of data from TriNet to UKG.• Created monthly and quarterly dashboards for C-Suite executives using UKG Reporting, Greenhouse Reporting, and Excel.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Client: McKnight Foundation & HousingLink• Developing models and dashboard to predict rent prices under a number of scenarios for affordable housing advocates to inform investment and policy decisions.• Using R, Tableau, SQL Server, & SQL to build and deliver insights based on multiple data sources.Client: Leading Hospitality and Entertainment Business in Midwest• Developed and communicated business recommendations utilizing descriptive, exploratory (topic modeling, sentiment analysis, clustering) and predictive (time series, SVM, bagging) techniques.• Selected as a finalist to present findings and recommendations to client senior leaders.Client: Mall of America• Communicated recommendations to gift store managers to increase guest satisfaction through store re-branding and an optimal product mix using descriptive statistics and market basket analysis.• Developed insights, patterns, and domain expertise from 2 years of data in ~200K rows of data using SQL, R, and Tableau.

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• Developed and managed the technology strategy, overseeing a $15M budget and expanding the team from 4 to 35 to support over 40 technologies across more than 10 HR departments. • Increased team's ability to rapidly respond to changing priorities and strategies by transitioning to agile and lean practices, increasing the speed of solution delivery by 20%.• Managed a six-month, $1.2M Benefits Administration Outsourcing project, including benefit program redesign and pilot initiatives, completing it on time, within budget, and within scope, serving approximately 121,000 active enrollments.• Led a $700K payroll deployment in India, completing the project on budget, on time, and within scope, resulting in the production of over 25,000 paychecks.

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• Shepherded a $5M global technology upgrade project on time, on budget, and in scope as business analyst lead and project senior leadership team member.• Reduced annual payroll costs by $40K by redesigning processes, limiting rework, and improving quality.• Decreased year-end tax processing risk by initiating a cross-functional team to create a reusable project plan with processes, accountabilities, timelines, and quality audits.• Reduced security administration time by 25% and aligned to corporate security requirements by redesigning, simplifying, and continual process improvements.

• Built consulting company specializing in HR technology program delivery. • Successfully led large technology upgrades and deployments of up to $5M for a variety of clients including; UnitedHealth Group, Medtronic, 3M, Staples, GMAC-RFC, Children's Hospitals and Clinics, City of Minneapolis, St. Paul Public School District.

Dublin 2, Ie

• Led a variety of HR Technology projects across multiple industries including, Insurance, Telecom, Travel and Local Government.

Masters Of Science In Business Analytics

Ba, Math And Economics

Mba, Operations And Finance