Experience

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  Matria healthcare inc

  Jan 1995 - Oct 1997

  Human resources leader

  Reported to CEO, CFO. Responsible for HR in multiple states in US and Europe as leadership team member. Rapid growth through VC funded acquisitions. Key contributions: M&A due diligence/integration, organization and talent acquisition strategic planning and execution; leverage consulting firm design/selection/implementation of employee benefits plans including DB and DC plans.

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  True temper sports

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2001

  Human resources manager
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  Pepsico

  Oct 2001 - Dec 2007

  Human resources manager

  Staff-level business leadership position covering multiple sites, reporting to reporting to VP HR, dotted to VPGM. Led EH&S Manager, Staffing Manager, HRP. Key contributions: Created sustainable, high performance culture in a difficult turnaround union environment; maintained non-union status in satellite. Development and execution of annual HR strategic plan with quarterly updates to business SVPs. Site became an exporter of high potential talent to other regions. Strategic plan, leadership alignment, negotiation and ratification (under planned CAGR) for two Teamsters labor contracts during strike threat; work stoppage contingency planning; daily collective bargaining contract interpretation and administration; grievance resolution; developed excellent labor relationship allowing for maximal operating flexibility; successfully avoided union organizing twice in separate non-union facility. Developed staffing forecast and strategy resulting in sustained full staffing levels and increased efficiency and service with significant labor and talent acquisition cost savings. Reduced turnover for all frontline and leadership positions year-over-year. Ensured staffing and retention by strategically sequencing wages and creating internal job feeder pools. Extensive experience and excellent outcomes with arbitrations, mediations, civil suits, GL claims, regulatory investigations and audits. Improved employee satisfaction survey favorability by >8 pts; Reduced Workers Comp cost by >$2M in 3 years by changing culture, driving performance and claims management and eliminating frivolous claims. Annual AAP actions and partnerships resulting in increased diversity. Show less

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  Bd

  Jan 2008 - Aug 2016

  Sr. human resources manager, site leader

  Responsible for HR leadership for San Diego region, multiple business segments (BD Biosciences, BD Diagnostics, BD Medical Pharmaceutical Systems and newly acquired BD medical device business) partnering with WW functional VPs and their organizations in Silicon Valley, Seattle, San Diego.Key contributions: Provided business perspective on multiple global platform leadership teams. Consulted with senior leaders in Operations and R&D to design and execute strategic workforce planning and build a culture of high performance and accountability and develop leadership pipeline. Simultaneously led HR due diligence/integration for concurrent acquisitions in separate businesses. Successfully designed/executed novel M&A integration, communication, change management, retention, scale up strategies including post-integration closure of two acquired sites in US and UK. Exceeded all value driver targets. Led global HRBP team to create best-in-class M&A toolkit. Benchmarked, implemented quality of hire metrics to ensure high caliber talent. Capitalized on opportunities to drive change, build capability, drive innovation and positively impact culture. Identified ways to lean out processes and ramp up rapidly which permitted timely product development and commercialization. Sent to Europe for global HR transformation design team. Flawless input, planning/ execution of large scale RIFs and plant closures. Show less

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  General atomics

  Aug 2016 - Mar 2018

  Sr. director, human resources

  As a key member of the HR leadership team, responsible for leading an HR team of 20 professionals (direct reports include Director, 5 HR Managers) with 17 exempts and 3 non-exempt level employees partnering with enterprise corporate functions, EMS business, GA Global, GA defense and commercial businesses in multiple states for 4,000 employees. Promoted to Senior Director from Director.Key contributions: With an enterprise view, created scalable HR org design and hired a high performing HR team; effectively partnered with and leveraged COEs to deliver effective programs to businesses and executive stakeholders and their teams; steering committee champion for successful design and implementation of Success Factors; partnered with executive leadership and TA to develop and execute workforce plans to rapidly scale EMS business and met targets; worked with HR Manager direct reports to successfully integrate three strategic technology acquisitions concurrently in Q4 2017; identified and influenced adoption of new solution for enterprise employee engagement and retention data and analytics; key HRLT contributor to 2018 strategic HR plan. Show less

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  Thermo fisher scientific

  Mar 2018 - Jul 2019

  Sr. director, human resources

  Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $20 billion and approximately 70,000 employees globally. Our M​ission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market and increase laboratory productivity. Global business unit leadership team member developing and leading HR strategy, solutions and strategic workforce plans that align to the business and functional strategy and objectives for several business units and functions in Life Sciences Group (Biosciences Division) ranging from $640M to ~$1B in revenue. Translated business strategy into HR strategy and organizational needs to HR solutions and plans. Successfully led business integrations, built and executed HR strategic plans and novel leadership development talent accelerator programs. Show less

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  San diego hr consulting

  Aug 2019 - Apr 2020

  Hr leadership - contract consulting
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  Intercept pharmaceuticals

  Apr 2020 - now

  • Executive Director Human Resources

    Feb 2022 - now

  • Senior Director Human Resources

    Apr 2020 - Feb 2022