Successful Career Reinventing HR Strategy
Chief People Officer
Corporate Strategy, Organizational Design & Turnaround, Talent Acquisition & Development
Differentiate Businesses Through Steadfast Transformational, and Multifaceted Human Capital Solutions That Align with Global Growth Agendas and Maximize ROI Powered by a Company’s Most Critical Asset—a Talented and Productive Workforce
Exemplary leader and result-focused business-HR executive who offers the value of a broad-reaching career—developing and implementing solutions to drive organizational evolution in several sectors: healthcare, transportation, hospitality, banking, retail industry and in the military—in unionized and non-unionized environments. Business partner who has protected, enabled, and supported growth by building first-time HR functions and redesigning existing ones, resulting in high performance through M&As, reorganizations, expansions, transitions, and competition intensification.
Highlights of Business Impact
- Strategic Partner to CEO and Boards: High-level strategic vision and change ambassador, keeping organizations ahead of the curve in talent management, organizational modeling, workplace redesigns in alignment with business goals.
- Future-Focused People Strategies: Enabled increase in talent base and progression readiness through design and execution of a competency-based HR modeling, organizational reorganizations, and design of training programs.
- Operations Excellence: Developed and implemented best-in-class process improvements to shore up regulatory compliances, mitigate risk, streamline administrative work, enhance quality and reliability.
- Changed cultures: Designed best-in-class reward and benefits plans, improving employee retention and improving accountability, pride, and ownership. Established trust, built, and managed teams of up to 1050 members.
- Financial-business intelligence: Demonstrated strong technical, financial, and legal compliance acumen, piloting a wide-range of critical projects/programs.
Additional Career Contributions
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS MEDICAL SCIENCES FAYE BOOZMAN COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH, Little Rock, AR (2009–2013)
CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER, TARA HEALTHCARE, Orchard Park, NY (2004–2006)
HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR, PIEDMONT HOSPITAL, Atlanta, GA (2000–2004)
DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY AND HUMAN RESOURCES, WAFFLE HOUSE, Norcross, GA, (1998–2000)
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ADMINISTRATOR, METROPOLITAN ATLANTA RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY (MARTA), Atlanta, GA
(1995–1998)
PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISER, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC), Atlanta, GA (1992 – 1995)
MILITARY OFFICER, UNITED STATES ARMY, (1990-1998)
