Human Resources Manager at Visible Technologies
Greater Seattle Area
Human Resources Manager at Visible Technologies
Greater Seattle Area
Strong organizational, people, and communication skills. Proven leader with more than eight years of progressively successful experience in management, training, and administrative positions.
Creating and streamlining Human Resources and Recruiting functions in IT, Social Media, and Web 2.0 Companies.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year)
• Initiated and created all aspects of the HR function in a dynamic and turbo-paced IT startup to include employee handbook implementation, new employee orientation, staffing procedures, separations, regulatory compliance, and record keeping.
• Reduced the cost of health care by over 13% annually to the Company and Employees benefits.
• Oversaw expansion of the Company by 50% managing recruitment and staffing process. Negotiated and created compensation, stock option, and bonus plans.
• Reduced recruiting fees to less than 1% per placement by streamlining the recruiting process.
• Created all Corporate HR, Administrative, Travel, and Training Policies.
• Provide creative strategic level advice to the Executive team on contingency and succession planning, organizational structure review, disciplinary issues, and employee transitions (up to the C-level).
• Utilized metrics in work flow and work force planning, recruiting, and compensation analysis.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Commercial Real Estate industry)
January 2006 — March 2008 (2 years 3 months)
• Provided strategic planning and guided acquisition of over $3 million of real property in the Tacoma Market. Negotiated contracts, built relationships, and de-escalated issues as they arose.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)
October 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 2 months)
• Maintained and forecasted the payroll budget for all full time employees of a state-wide 400 plus person organization. Accounted for an annual budget of over $30 million using a web based oracle fund control system.
• Manager for the Human Resource Section in the Joint Operations Center for the Washington National Guard during regional training exercises and real world events (2008 Floods) involving over 100 local, county, and state governmental agencies. Briefed the Washington State Homeland Security Advisor daily on all personnel updates and reports.
• Analyzed and updated work flow and decision making processes to streamline and improve productivity and communication.
• Led organizational recruiting and staffing functions reducing turn around time of personnel actions by 75%.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USA; Military industry)
August 2000 — December 2005 (5 years 5 months)
• Provided decisive and proactive direct leadership to groups of up to 45 employees and maintained over $10 million worth of equipment in multiple complex and dynamic environments.
• Supervised all aspects of a personnel management system of a 700-person organization including performance evaluations, benefits, payroll, rewards and corrective intervention, staffing, classification, policy adherence and creation, and new employee orientation and integration.
• Conceived, planned, and directed an initiative to develop and train from the ground up Human Resources Departments from two 600-person Iraqi Ministry of Defense Organizations. The program was a success and the project was used across the region as a model for American-Iraqi staff developmental training.
• Experienced in developing, executing, and supervising written, computer, and hands-on training programs for groups of up to 175 employees. Over the course of six years, conducted more than 300 classes and presentations.
Business Administration (BS), Politicial Science (BA), Psychology (BA) 1997 — 2001
Graduated with Honors.
Social Media, Recruiting, Human Resources, Real Estate, Reading, Poetry, Ultimate Frisbee
Soma, SHRM