Jun 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Led Home Office and Field TA teams, broke down silos and created synergies between teams
• Developed long term goals and strategies, SLAs, process flows, candidate personas, best practice documents, interview guides, job ads, interview/bias/natural talent/new unit opening/ATS/Linked trainings
• Focused team on diversity: underrepresented groups, females, and non-traditional backgrounds
• Reduced field third party recruiter and recruitment marketing spend
• Moved TA resources, processes, and support from other departments to TA
• Built out and optimized ATS (iCIMS), reduced third party technology vendor usage, revised TPR agreement, enhanced TextRecruit and TextApply, updated career site
• During COVID-19 created/executed TextHR campaigns to contact 70k+ hourly employees regularly, developed remote interview process for Home Office, upgraded New Store Opening hiring process, added safety standards and anti-racism language to job ads, took over recruitment marketing, completely rebuilt social media strategy and content, increased hourly staffing support

Apr 2016 – May 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Scottsdale, Arizona

• Led TA team for both P.F. Chang’s + Pei Wei to support 440+ restaurants and corporate office (Pei Wei separated from P.F. Chang’s in mid-2018, TA team then solely focused on P.F. Chang’s 220+ domestic restaurants and corporate office)
• Selected, implemented, and provided on-going support of new ATS
• Created and utilized recruiting metrics and team goals; created competency/values-based interview guides and other selection tools for all levels for field and corporate office
• Key member of culture refresh team; TA included in national road show for 70+ presentations
• Improved collaboration within TA teams and across organization; filled Director + roles
• Eliminated 3.2M in recruitment marketing agency spend and reduced third-party recruiters
• Elevated employment branding: created, integrated, and socialized EVP inside and outside organization, built and executed social media strategy, revamped careers website, updated job ads, created marketing and career fair collateral

Nov 2015 – Feb 2016 · 3 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Evaluate and make recommendations on the organization’s talent acquisition strategy, including resources, technology, workforce planning, employment branding, social media, sourcing, screening, interviewing, candidate experience, candidate relationship management, metrics, programs, processes & initiatives.

Mar 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Eden Prairie

• Responsible for the leadership of the recruiting function, team, and strategic goals and projects within HR as well as enterprise-wide
• Managed campus recruiting strategy and internship program
• Initiated and led project to develop competencies for all departments, created recruiting metrics. team goals, various trainings
• Created and implemented social media strategy, contingent workforce and vendor management compliance processes
• Conducted senior level searches for the organization
• Partnered with Marketing on Community Investment Initiative

May 2012 – Jan 2013 · 8 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Created strategies and developed tools, processes, and resources for 120+ operations and newly created field HR roles
• Developed and conducted training for new field HR professionals; created best practices for field recruiting and staffing
• Supervised two Recruiting Consultants – partnered to fill 80+ HR roles and 45+ field operations roles

Jan 2010 – Dec 2025 · 15 yrs 11 mos

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Mar 2009 – May 2012 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Manager, Experienced Recruiting
• Strategic recruiting consultant/business partner for 10+ business groups; eliminated third party agency needs for majority of functions, improved interview processes and quality/diversity of hires
• Managed team of three Recruiting Assistants and gave work direction to contract recruiters
• Led enterprise-wide and confidential hiring projects
• Led project to create competency based interview guides for several business groups; led Interview Skills Training for corporate and field employees regularly; led New Hire Orientation cross-functional revamp/improvement team
• Managed contingent workforce and VMS vendors
• Channel lead for Twitter, key member of social media team
• Led diversity recruiting event for 300+ potential candidates
• Partnered with teams to interpret Hogan assessments for individual/group development
• Managed 15+ volunteer team to create and implement networking events
• Manager, Campus Recruiting
• Recruited for operations and engineering professionals
• Created interview guides for campus supply chain recruiting teams based on new competencies
• Led SHPE diversity conference recruiting team of 14, team member for NSBE conference
• Led cross-functional 2 day 80+ intern event project

Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs

• Manager, Corporate Recruiting
• Created department
• Consultant/business partner to all corporate client groups for full-cycle recruiting management
• Led recruiting team, corporate internship program, contractor/vendor compliance projects; contingent worker risk avoidance projects
• Created, developed, and delivered corporate wide training, Employee Referral Program and marketing plan
• Senior Recruiter, Corporate Recruiting
• Created all processes and procedures for corporate recruiting
• Managed third-party vendor selection and usage
• Recruiter and consultant to all corporate client groups for full-cycle recruiting management

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

• Source, screen, interview and hire top talent for Target Technology Services, specifically focusing on Enterprise Architecture, Six Sigma, and Strategy.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr

• Sourced, screened and placed accounting and finance professionals.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs

• Source, screen, interview and hire top talent for all areas of Eschelon Telecom.

Jan 1997 – Jan 2000 · 3 yrs

• Worked in several areas of Selection to source, screen, schedule, interview and hire college graduates for finance, accounting and IT.

Jan 1991 – Jan 1997 · 6 yrs

• Supported youth and families of several congregations