Emphasis in Human Resources, Career Coaching, Communications, Web & ERP Systems
I am a skilled HR Project Manager and Career Coach with 15+ years' of professional experience leading project teams, re-engineering processes, communicating with diverse audiences and configuring systems.
'I love solving problems and I take pride in contributing toward an exceptional final product and customer experience. I know my strengths reside in my analytical nature, my functional and technical skills and my attentive people skills which help me and my client achieve success.'
DIGITAL PROJECT MANAGER CAREER COACH
den Consulting April 2011 - Present
Work remotely to deliver client services focused on solving problems, achieving targets, and creating an exceptional client experience.
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Business Role
• Single point of contact on a variety of web projects for an international fully-integrated real estate company (i.e. thousands of webpages).
• Work collaboratively with multisite Designers, Developers and Marketing Teams across time zones to deliver projects that align with business objectives.
• Gather requirements, delegate projects, track progress, review and QA tune, test and manage risk and deployment (i.e. MS Office, MS Visio Help Scout, Slack, Google docs).
Coaching Role
• Coach clients to clarify career goals, devise action plans and plan effective job searches.
• Conduct mock-interviews to bolster client confidence, competence and interview calm.
• Develop high-impact career marketing documents (i.e. Adobe CC, Windows and Mac).
CAREER ADVISOR
Wilfrid Laurier University, November 2021 - April 2022Â (Internship)
​​Work with the Career Centre to provide students and alumni with employment coaching with a focus on fostering self-awareness, career planning and career clarity. Help clients develop effective career strategies to overcome challenges, set goals and expand their career network.
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Provide WLU Students, Grad Students and Alumni with career development support including one-to-one consultations on Resume and Cover Letter, LinkedIn, Job Search, Interview Skills, and Mock interviews.
Develop career related articles for publication in Laurier's Career Development Centre.
Accomplishment: 100% positive performance recommendation on delivering over 85 student sessions during a 200-hour academic practicum.
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HR SPECIALIST/BUSINESS ANALYST, PROJECT LEADER ERP SYS ADMIN
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc., February 1989 - January 2006
Work on-site with all levels of the management team to develop equitable, attractive, cost-effective employee programs and systems focused on creating a strong cohesive team within a foundation of trust, inclusiveness, and mutual respect.
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ERP ASSIGNMENTS
Challenge: Improve data integrity, system usability, security and eliminate double data entry points.
• Led PeopleSoft HRMS Core HR, Base Benefits implementation, Supported Time & Labor.
• Led PeopleSoft to SAP real time interface development.
• Led SAP HCM Organization Management reimplementation.
• Led SAP HR Role Based Security Project.
• Led SAP HCM Master Data & Recruiting Kaizen.
• Led SAP HCM Compensation Module reimplementation.
• Led SAP HCM Flex Benefits implementation.
Accomplishment: 100% improvement in SAP HR ERP usability, data integrity, information security (PIPEDA) and ability to use Manager Desktop for dispersed approvals and reporting.
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ROLES
HR Specialist, Project Leader PeopleSoft & SAP HCM 2004 - 2006
HR Specialist, Project Leader SAP HCM 1998 - 2006
HR Statistics/Data Analysis 1990 - 2000
HR Specialist, Compensation & Benefits 1997 - 1998
HR Specialist Benefits 1996 - 1998
HR Staff Assistant Benefits - 1995
HR Specialist, Payroll 1992 - 1994
HR Staff Assistant, Payroll 1989 - 1991