
Vice President of HR Solutions at Dolby
San Francisco Bay Area

Vice President of HR Solutions at Dolby
San Francisco Bay Area
Accomplished innovation strategist, technologist, author, speaker and entrepreneur focused on the areas of talent, learning and technology. Articles / quotes published in Fortune’s Business Innovation Insider, Wall Street Journal, ERE, the CRL Journal, Recruiting.com, and WetFeet. Most recent speaking engagement at OECD's Innovation Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark entitled "Creating an Innovation Ecosystem" and "Innovating for Innovators." Applied for two patent in the areas of search and online community.
Systemic Innovation, Strategic Planning, Learning Systems, Business Process Outsourcing, Writing / Speaking, Talent Acquisition and Management, Human Resources Information Technology, Agile Development Methodologies, Sales Strategy and Execution, Marketing and New Markets Strategy, Contract Negotiation, Corporate Development and Business Development / Partnership Management
(Public Company; DLB; Consumer Electronics industry)
June 2009 — Present (2 months)
HR Solutions includes staffing, sourcing, HR technologies and administration.
(Human Resources industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
The Talent Unconference was first held in January 2007. The purpose of the Talent Unconference (http://www.taluncon.com/) is to assemble leaders from diverse disciplines associated with fields that strategize, operationalize, educate and invest in human talent. These fields include business, government, academia, education and NGOs.
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)
February 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)
Publisher and writer of Talentism.com, Recruiting.com's "Best Blog of 2004."
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
November 2003 — Present (5 years 9 months)
Hunter | Morgan Associates is a strategic consultancy working with all parties in the business value chain: service vendors, technology vendors, consultants and corporate departments. Our mission is to create and deliver innovative solutions, strategies and business approaches that return measureable value to its clients.
(Public Company; ERTS; Computer Games industry)
July 2008 — June 2009 (1 year)
Electronic Arts' global talent management organization, includin leadership & management development, knowledge management, technical training. Lead international organization that creates, implements and supports innovative talent programs and services in North America, Europe and Asia.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERTS; Computer Games industry)
February 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 6 months)
HR Business Solutions is a new group created within EA as an insourced service provider tasked with improving the efficiency of HR. Group charter is to increase the value of people information at EA while decreasing the risk / cost of people transactions. Function includes HRIT, Solutions Development, Service Centers and Analytics.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 6 months)
DashNote was a Web 2.0 service that used advanced patent-pending technology that enabled users to provide detailed feedback on web pages without having to install new software. Merged to become MashLogic (http://www.mashlogic.com/).
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERTS; Computer Games industry)
May 2006 — February 2007 (10 months)
Everything mentioned in "Director, Global Talent Technologies" below, as well as all global strategies Electronic Arts uses to find, connect to and hire the world's best talent. Includes oversight of our Central Sourcing Business.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2005 — January 2007 (2 years 1 month)
With over 3.5 million listings and counting, Simply Hired (www.simplyhired.com) is the world's largest search engine for jobs. Their mission is to help people find their next job in the simplest, most effective way possible. Simply Hired is a privately held company, headquartered in Mountain View, California. In my capacity as an Advisory Board member I advise the senior management team on business, market and sales strategy.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ERTS; Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 5 months)
Visioning, provisioning, revisioning and decisioning about the technologies that help Electronic Arts find the best people in the world and connect to them.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 10 months)
COO and Founder of Employment Engineering Inc., an innovative employment systems software and services corporation. Employment Engineering designed and implemented numerous automated recruiting functionalities, including requisition management, interview scheduling and conceptual search. These modules were the first of their kind in the industry built to integrate directly with the PeopleSoft HCM application set. Employment Engineering software is used for mission-critical recruiting services at companies such as Intuit, Sybase and Lawrence Berkeley Labs
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1997 — March 2002 (5 years)
Euphorion was based on the prediction that the Internet was going to require adaptive, flexible enterprise systems and service-oriented architectures to become a useful long-term solution to the IT departments. Euphorion developed and implemented unique software frameworks and methodologies called e-blox that reduced the risk of rapid change associated with deploying large-scale, Internet-facing enterprise applications. E-blox was one of the first development architectures based on XML and dynamic data exchange amongst distributed services.
Using e-blox Euphorion became a leader in the development of custom recruitment management solutions, including developing, deploying and supporting Talent Alliances Talent Management solution and Heidrick & Struggles Leaders On Line. Euphorion was purchased by Catenas, Inc. in 2001.
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
May 1996 — April 1997 (1 year)
IntelliMatchwas worlds first Internet-based public SQL resume repository. Lead team to redesign product to be enterprise-based skills management system as well as leading the sales efforts for the company's largest customers.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1995 — May 1996 (1 year 1 month)
Member of strategic sales team, working with customers such as Microsoft, Nike, Disney Interactive, Aerojet General, CAE and Sybase. Moved to become member of the product management team, working on some of the first Internet-based products released by Resumix.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 1994 — April 1995 (9 months)
Worked with United Way Board of DIrectors and President to create an innovative community-based renewel perspective for United Ways.
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
March 1992 — August 1994 (2 years 6 months)
Expand this international non-profit for children with disabilities, including program management, strategic planning and fund development.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)
September 1987 — February 1992 (4 years 6 months)
Reporting to VP of HR, responsible for managing multiple HR services world-wide for Conner Peripherals, fastest growing manufacturing start-up in history. During tenure at Conner responsibilities included lead Generalist for the manufacturing division.
BA , Philosophy, History , 1983 — 1987
Winner: "Best Blog" - Recruiting.com 2005
Winner: "Most Strategic Use of Recruiting Technology" - ERE, 2007