Chief People & Culture Officer | Chief Human Resource Officer (Fractional) 2013 - Present Op2Work - Fractional CPO / CHRO to high-growth SaaS, AI, tech & PE/VC-backed clients (PushPay, Breakthrough Energy, Wondros) · Remote-First ● People Strategy & Executive Partnership (Cultural): Serve as trusted, discreet, and decisive strategic advisor to CEOs, EVPs, founders, and Boards, defining and executing comprehensive People strategies aligned to business goals and growth trajectory, and partnering on organizational design, workforce planning, and culture across SaaS, AI, and high-growth environments. ● Build & Scale People Functions (Operational): Architect and stand up world-class HR/People functions from scratch through the 100 to 300+ employee inflection, building scalable HR processes, policies, and systems to support growing global workforces; a builder and operator who ships programs that run on documented cadence, not heroics. ● Compensation, Equity & Total Rewards (Financial): Design compensation philosophy, pay bands, job leveling, pay-equity, and equity/RSU/stock-option frameworks in partnership with Finance and Legal; cut HR delivery costs 30% and eliminated roughly $450K in annual administrative overhead through shared-services optimization. ● AI-Enabled People Operations (Operational): Deploy an agentic AI-enabled operating model across HRIS, ATS, analytics, and manager enablement to automate the mechanical and protect the human, improving data integrity, workforce reporting reliability, and hiring efficiency across distributed teams.
Vice President of People & Culture 2024 - 2026 Clarvida (formerly Pathways Health & Community Services) · Behavioral Health · Remote / Multi-State · 5,000+ employees · 20+ states ● Performance & Leadership Development (Cultural): Designed and implemented enterprise performance management and leadership-development frameworks (Manager Essentials, Leadership C.A.M.P., succession planning) that enabled managers with tools and training, raised manager effectiveness 70%, and reduced employee-relations escalations 30% across a 5,000+ employee workforce. ● Organizational Design & Team Scaling (Operational): Designed and implemented a scalable HR operating model (HRBP, COEs, Shared Services) and led a 50+ person remote-first People Ops team; drove org-wide restructuring and workforce-planning initiatives that improved decision-making speed and operational efficiency. ● HR Operations & People Analytics (Operational): Led HRIS and ATS transformation in partnership with ADP, stood up a People Operations ticketing system with SLAs, governed the joiner-mover-leaver access lifecycle, and built people-analytics reporting that improved onboarding accuracy and workforce-reporting reliability across 20+ states and Philippines operations. ● Talent, Culture & Compliance (Operational / Financial): Re-engineered talent and succession frameworks that lifted internal promotion from 18% to 41%, championed DEI and engagement across a distributed workforce, and strengthened multi-jurisdictional compliance (CA, CO, WA, OR, NY, AZ, IL, TX, IN, FL), cutting regrettable turnover 18% within six months."
SHRM-SCP
Society of Human Resource Management
2023 - 2025
SPHR
Human Resource Certification Organization
2026 - 2028