Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · San Jose, California, United States

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Nov 2018 – Oct 2024 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Redwood City, CA

• Joined Alation as employee #125 during its Series B stage and helped scale the company through Series E ($123M+). Within my first four years, I built the global talent engine that powered Alation’s growth from 125 to 850+ employees across four regions, seven countries, and more than fifty cities—a 700%+ headcount increase during one of the most competitive markets in tech.
• I led two global functions—Talent Acquisition and People Business Partners—to drive strategic growth and operational excellence. I built and developed a high-performing recruiting team that attracted top talent across GTM, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. I personally recruited 90% of the company’s executive leadership team (ELT) members. In 2023, I was honored with the "Founders’ Award" for exceeding ambitious hiring targets set by the executive team.
• In parallel, I redesigned and scaled the HRBP model to align with Alation’s rapid expansion. Partnering closely with technical and product leaders worldwide, I strengthened performance, drove engagement, and implemented people programs that enhanced productivity, retention, and leadership development.
• Proudly, Alation became a 5x winner of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces award during my tenure.

Mar 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos · San Jose, CA

• Led and scaled the Global Talent Acquisition function for Synaptics (NASDAQ: SYNA), overseeing a global team of recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators while driving the company’s end-to-end hiring strategy and talent programs.
• Within my first year, we achieved a historic milestone—hiring more than 700 employees worldwide, the highest annual volume in company history. This hiring surge fueled Synaptics’ transformation across the PC, Mobile, Automotive, and Consumer IoT markets.
• In addition to executive recruiting, I owned global staffing metrics, diversity and inclusion initiatives, talent branding, university programs, employee referral strategy, contingent workforce planning, immigration, and global mobility programs—building a scalable recruiting infrastructure that supported Synaptics’ continued innovation and market growth.

Jan 2014 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Santa Clara, CA

• Led the global transformation of the Talent Acquisition team of recruiters, sourcers and coordinators for Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL) that hired 1000+ people globally on an annual basis. The transformation focused on rebuilding trust, elevating credibility, and strengthening the team’s ability to source, engage, and hire top talent in the data infrastructure semiconductor global market, including computing, networking, security, and storage.
• Partnered with the company's Co-founder/President (Weili Dai) to develop and implement programs that promoted diversity and "women in tech". Weili was a known champion and a leading advocate in Silicon Valley for increasing the number of women in engineering roles and corporate leadership positions.

Aug 2005 – Oct 2013 · 8 yrs 2 mos · Milpitas, CA

• Served as Head of Global Talent Acquisition, overseeing all corporate staffing programs and vendor partnerships across North America, Asia-Pacific, and EMEA. Provided strategic leadership in hiring, developing, and retaining a global recruiting and sourcing organization that supported Intersil’s growth and transformation initiatives.
• From 2007 to 2013, also led Intersil’s Leadership and Executive Development functions, designing and delivering company-wide training programs for executives, managers, and individual contributors. These programs strengthened organizational capability and supported succession planning for key business leaders.
• Additionally, served as HR Business Partner for the Power Management Products Group, which included the Consumer, Computing, and Multi-Market Products divisions, along with several emerging product lines.
• As a member of the Global HR Leadership Team, contributed to the company’s successful transformation into a pure-play analog business—recognized by the Silicon Valley HR Symposium Award for Human Resources Excellence.

Sep 2001 – Aug 2005 · 3 yrs 11 mos · San Jose, CA

• Led the Global Talent Management, Leadership Development & Succession Management, Diversity & Inclusion strategies at a Corporate level. Provided exclusive coaching to top executives, managers and “high potentials” employees on career development and career moves. Partnered with business leaders with filling key positions with global talent pool candidates.
• Implemented talent management tools, systems and programs. Drove initiatives to close the talent gaps within the global workforce. Extensive international travel and interface with key leaders & counterparts in North America, AsiaPac and EMEA regions.
• Contributed to various global HR teams to establish Centers of Excellence (CoE) that led the groundwork of the Philips Semiconductors (now NXP Semiconductors) spin-off as an independent company from Royal Philips Electronics.

Aug 2000 – Sep 2001 · 1 yr 1 mo · Sunnyvale, CA

• Spearheaded the Company’s People & Talent function for this early-stage software company. This includes addressing human capital strategic issues, developing HR policies/processes, compensation & benefits. Scaled the company from 75 to 350 employees in first full year. Developed the People and Culture programs and infrastructure to support the rapid growth of the company during the "dot-com bubble".

Jun 1996 – Aug 2000 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Provided HRBP support and helped build teams for Philips Emerging Businesses, which focused on creating fast-growing markets such as smart cards, networking, digital media processing and computing as well as several diversified groups of tiger teams creating products for new markets.
• Developed and managed the NA College Relations Program which included the Philips' L.A.U.N.C.H. Leadership Rotation Program as part of a Diversity & Inclusion initiative.

Apr 1995 – Jun 1996 · 1 yr 2 mos · Longmont, CO

• Served as a HR Generalist to the Maxtor's 2.5-inch Product Line as well as Corporate Development Engineering, Quality Engineering and New Product Introduction Organizations. Led the Diversity and Inclusion initiatives for all US locations. Managed the Company-wide College Recruiting Program.

Sep 1991 – Apr 1995 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Irvine, CA

• Initially hired as part of the recruiting team to support the growth of WD's Drive business then rotated into a HR Generalist role to provide HR/People support for the Product Marketing, Product Development, Quality and NPI organizations within the Storage Business Unit. Managed the Company-wide College Relations Program.