Lead HR workstreams on global acquisitions across Cisco's strategic areas of investment with involvement from early discovery, due diligence, commit, announce, and deal close through integration.

Negotiate with executive teams on their employment packages and all employment matters in Term Sheets and Merger/Share Purchase Agreements.

Develop organizational design approach for acquired teams, and partner with Cisco executive sponsors to establish people value drivers and strategy for each deal.

Deal Experience: Syrmia Networks, Lightspin, Smartlook, Oort, Splunk, Placetel

Chief of Staff for the Executive Director of the People, Policy & Purpose FLEX Leadership Development Program.

Partnered with CTO, VPs of Engineering, Product Management, Customer Success, and Director-level leaders in the Collaboration technology group (SaaS organization) to drive people strategy and programs. Total scope of 800+ employees globally.

Led, consulted on, and/or implemented the following:

• Career pathing

• Rewards/compensation

• Employee engagement

• People analytics & measurement

• Performance management

• Talent movement

• Organization design

• Leadership coaching & development

Workforce Planning: Workforce analysis, consultation & planning for Engineering (15,000+ EEs), CX (30,000+ EEs), & Finance (2,000+ EEs) functions.

Client Management: Led consultation, attrition analysis & predictive modeling efforts for product portfolio: inclusive of Engineering & Sales functions, total scope of 2,000+ employees.

Organization Design: Drove Organization Design consultation for Emerging Talent function.

Internal Development: Designed and facilitated workforce data analysis, visualization & interpretation ‘bootcamp’ training for new hires.