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CareerFlexOwner
Jan. 2011Virtual · HybridCareerFlex is an executive leadership, motivational speaking, and career coaching firm targeting fast-growth sales organizations to get in shape. Through it, I help competent and successful professionals become clear on their professional abilities and personal goals.
Spartan Gutter GuardsFounder/CEO
Apr. 2020Billings, Montana, United StatesSpartan Gutter Guards is a servant-leader company. We have the strongest, most innovative product on the market, and we hire the best, most radical, yet ethical people. Our sales professionals practice respect, diligence, and looking out for our customers. Our installation experts do the same. $0-$900,000+ in sales year over year for 3 years!
Amazon Web ServicesHR Leader- Nordics
Sep. 2017 - Sep. 2019Stockholm, SwedenFirst in-country HR Leader for half billion dollar Amazon Web Services Nordic Region headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, responsible for launching and stabilizing Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark cloud computing Commercial Sales and Data Center entities as member of executive leadership team. HR/Employment law subject matter expert on union interface, recruiting, policy development, diversity hiring practices, and synchronizing various HR centralized support teams across countries. Key planner for compensation, benefits, performance management, executive coaching, severance agreements, and policy development across two independent business units and 6 business verticals with 40% growth YoY. Further, as Amazon Bar-Raiser, 1 of 3 leaders in region responsible for maintaining Amazon’s legendary high hiring bar.
US Marine Corps3d Civil Affairs Group- 2nd Detachment Team Leader
Jun. 2016 - Nov. 2017Greater Chicago Area3rd CAG is the newest civil-military focused organization in the Marine Corps. The CAG mission is different and requires different Marines. We partner with allies to unleash the human and material resources they have inherently. A key member of this small, specialized team in Operation Balikatan 17, partnered with the Philippine Army, local elected leaders, and key civilians to assess infrastructure, relationships, local capabilities and humanitarian needs. Guided conversations, international coordination, assessment deliverables. Helped protect and save teenage girls against human trafficking schemes. Expert in asset resource control an allocation, negotiations, cross-cultural interface and training, stability assessments, and conflict resolution. I'm expert in Middle Eastern, Philippines, Scandinavian, and Afghan cultures.
AmazonSr. HR Business Partner
Jun. 2015 - Sep. 2017San BernardinoIn Amazon’s largest North American Fulfillment Center (NAFC), ONT2, led team of 12 human resources assistants (HRAs), while serving as HRBP for FCs support team of approximately 300 across 4 departments. Within 6 months, took on another team of 8 HRIS Operations Administrators (OAs) and assumed HRBP responsibilities for FCs Outbound department of 2500 people and 40+ managers.
• Brought in for emergency mass hiring, successfully hiring and onboarding 1600 new employees in 2 weeks.
• Drove process improvement, technological innovation, and bold curiosity.
• Cut network standard transfer process from 25 days to 13 days. • Resolved severe HR team rapport issues, removing some team members and creating a finely honed, forward-facing team, becoming consistently sought after by both leaders and line employees.
• Established process maps for transfers and HR trouble tickets, reducing ticket backlog from 280+ to no more than 20 at a time.
• Conducted or provided oversite on dozens of employee relations, sexual harassment/assault, and equal opportunity investigations.
• Interviewed, screened, and hired 125 operations managers, HR Assistants, HR Business Partners, and quality control leaders.
• Guided and mentored salaried managers in their own careers and career options for their subordinates.
• Drove unpaid absences down 60%, creating labor plan savings of approximately $130,000 monthly.
Praxair Distribution, IncCalifornia Regional HR Manager
Aug. 2014 - Jun. 2015Santa Ana, CAAs Human Resources Manager for the California region PDI, I support directors and regional vice presidents in our retail and distribution outfit focus on 56 locations, 3 unions, and over 500 employees. I offer advice and guidance on hirings and terminations, have been involved in union contract renegotiations, investigations, and vast arrays of employee relations issues. I work closely with our recruiters to move hiring processes along and I've established relationships with schools and academies to source crucial personnel. I think the strength of HR is understanding "the business". Not HRs business, but the stuff that keeps operations managers up at night, like margins, numbers, productivity, sales deficits. Utopian HR schemes must be filtered through the lens of what keeps everyone employed.
United States Marine CorpsInternal Staffing Director
Nov. 2013 - Jul. 2014Camp Pendleton, CALed matrixed team of 18 employees in creating internal personnel sourcing strategy through data analysis, HRIS technology, and networking. Reportable to VP of HR, sourced best qualified candidates for over 1000 domestic and international assignments, pulling from 24 dotted-line subordinate units. Using high level and dynamic influencing, acted as top planner and last phase profile screener to ensure the right people were in the right positions to guarantee peak organizational performance. Participated in executive searches, primary staff succession plans, competency gap closing, and other talent searches to nominate most qualified professionals for crucial positions. • Directed organization in creative sourcing solutions of unique and hard to fill positions including task forces, investigations, and special purpose missions. Also audited position requisitions in order to cut costs. Presented briefings biweekly to executive team. Proactively sourced sensitive positions based on dynamic understanding of organization, identifying both requirement and appropriate candidates before need was even known. • Designed predictive systems thinking HR analytic blueprint to scope 180-day requirements for scalable enterprise-level operations, fundamentally changing how personnel allocations were made in order to ensure proper balance of human capital.
• Coordinated and negotiated higher echelon personnel requirements using Six Sigma tools to simplify and unify multiple concurrent projects and initiatives.
• Pioneered and initiated voluntary pilot program for sourcing promising young managerial candidates into challenging roles to allow eager rising stars to shine and prove their worth.
• Provided mentorship, guidance, and “Jedi-training” for subordinate managers.
United States Marine CorpsHuman Resources Foreign Advisor/ Consultant
Sep. 2012 - Oct. 2013AfghanistanDirectly responsible for success of Afghan linguist recruitment project, built positive relationships between multiple DOD agencies, and executed US Special Immigration Visa packages, payroll and HRIS management, investigations, onboarding, terminations, equal opportunity compliance, security processing, training, employee relations, leaves of absence, employee coaching, policy, performance evaluation system, and housing for all team-members and interpreters for 31 US Marines, 18 DOD contractors, 31 British Army Soldiers, and 42 Afghan linguists during a six-month deployment for foreign advisor team • Recruited, coached, and managed “largest and most stable linguist population in Helmand Province”.
• Streamlined HR reporting for personnel management policies regarding local Afghan interpreters that directly contributed to the successful accomplishment of the Marine Corps’ advisor mission in Helmand. • Executed 42 separate visa packages for linguists through US embassy.
• Submitted for Navy Commendation Medal for success in communication and customer focus.
United States Marine CorpsDeputy Director of Human Resources
Jun. 2012 - Sep. 2012Camp Pendleton, CADeputy director of human resources (Captain) for 25,000 strong First Marine Division, largest division in Marine Corps. Oversaw 5 immediate employees, driving all personnel management policy, pay, leave, and other HR issues across division, entailing 24 dotted-line reporting relationships, with weekly presentations to senior executives. Supervised training of subordinates and tracked efficiency trends on behalf of 29 subordinate units spread over thousands of miles to the right people were in the right places to ensure critical win.
United States Marine CorpsRegional HR Manager (Battalion/Regiment)
Nov. 2009 - Jul. 2012Jacksonville, North Carolina AreaLed and trained a team of 6 employees, managing the administrative and legal affairs of an 1,800 and then 4,500 person Marine infantry battalion (unit/store) and regiment (market) both during training in the US and during combat in Afghanistan, with dotted-line reporting oversight of four subordinate HR units. • Rebuilt filing database, SharePoint HR page, and developed system for the editing and processing of over 700 awards.
• Revamped and personalized onboarding process for successfully socializing new managers.
• Successfully teamed with primary staff as the HR domain knowledge lead responsible for coaching leadership on benefits, law, policy, leaves of absence, investigations, organizational development, employee relations, coaching, career progression and sensitive topics including terminations.
• Recruited, taught, and retained 78 person local national Afghan linguist team.
• Received Navy Commendation Medal for supporting HR solutions which impacted the organization.
United States Marine CorpsMarine officer in selection and leadership training
Jan. 2009 - Nov. 2009Quantico, VAUnderwent selection and training in America's premier leadership training system: Marine Corps Officer Selection Course (OCS) and The Basic School for Marine Officer (TBS).
Preventive Pest Control/Vivint SecuritySales Rep
Mar. 2008 - Jan. 2009Temporary door-to-door sales position between semesters that ranged from northern Utah to Virginia Beach, VA. I was tasked with residential security contracts, a cold-calling sales position. In the 5 months of work, I secured nearly $90K in residential contracts in $1500 contracts.
Preventive Pest ControlSales rep
May. 2006 - Aug. 2007Seasonal cold-calling sales position between semsters which ranged from Salt Lake City, UT to Fairfax, VA. Over two summers of work, secured over $150,000 in $400 1 year contracts.
O-BAR-D RanchRanch Hand/ Foreman
Mar. 2004 - May. 2005Cochise, AZRanch work with horses.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsVolunteer Missionary
Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2004SwedenServed as a lifestyle consultant to Swedish nationals in regards to everything from personal habits to overcoming substance abuse. Responsible for weekly and monthly reporting, prospecting interested parties, qualifying prospects, and consulting on concerns. Ultimate goal was refining qualify of life for investigative parties..
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