~10 years in HR

Senior HR Business Partner (L2)

Promoted to lead HR Enablement and AI Transformation for Dentsu US. Built a self-serve HR data tool that cut QBR prep from 5+ days to 3 hours, ran an HR buildathon that lifted AI utilization across the function by 60% and produced an AI Coaching Agent, and advised executives through consequential restructuring decisions with discretion and care.

Senior HR Business Partner (L1)

Sat in monthly headcount and restructuring forums as the strategic people voice across multiple business units, and kept a standing cadence with the CFO and Head of Resourcing to get ahead of financial pressure before it hit headcount. Deployed a conversational AI talent assessment agent to 250+ managers without engineering support, diagnosed an AI-driven cultural drift across Dentsu Creative and turned it into a talent strategy spanning 20+ job families, and built two frameworks, an HRBP Career Progression model and a 6-level HR Impact Scale, now used across the Business-Facing HR function.

HR Business Partner

Advised C-suite and senior directors on succession planning, total rewards, and performance strategy for 1,200+ employees, while directly supporting ~600. Built a performance review cycle tool giving leaders real-time KPI visibility and keeping salary reviews aligned to budget, and developed PowerBI workforce analytics dashboards translating exit, performance, and engagement data into retention insights for the C-suite.

People Operations Manager

Solo HR for a distributed, multi-site veterinary startup during rapid expansion. Coached 15+ hospital managers through performance and team health issues, built a compensation strategy using market data that cut turnover in critical roles by 10%, and developed a data-driven HR QBR framework for site-level people performance.

HR Generalist

Partnered with leadership on workforce restructuring through COVID-19 across a complex, matrixed organization. Designed a 9-box succession planning process and served as the primary employee relations resource for the SF office, managing investigations, PIPs, and conflict resolution.

People Service Generalist

Supported the HRIS transition from Namely to Workday, maintaining data integrity and a seamless employee experience through the migration.

HR Director

Built the HR function from scratch as a solo practitioner: implemented an ATS, rebuilt the employee handbook for California compliance, and owned full-cycle recruiting, benefits, leave administration, and employee relations. Increased applicant volume by 200%, cut time-to-fill by 50%, and grew diverse applicant pools by 20%.

HR Manager

Managed HR operations, payroll, and employee relations for 200 staff across a geographically distributed workforce.

M.S., Human Resources Management

B.S., Psychology

Member (Volunteer)

Cross-functional community of HR, technology, and ethics leaders shaping responsible, people-first AI adoption in the workplace.

HR Leader

Invite-only community of HR, Finance, and Ops leaders who operate as "teams of one," trading notes on shared business challenges.

Board Member

Led employment law compliance review of the employee handbook and board development work, including a Head of HR search process.