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Executive Director Division of Talent

The mission of the Detroit Public Schools (DPS) is todevelop a customer and data-driven student centered-learning environment, in which students are motivated to become productive citizens and life-long learners, equipped with skills to meet the needs of the next customer.

Strategic and innovative HR professional specializing in HRIS, metrics and analytics, systems and policy administration with a proven record of success managing of a variety of talent, human resources and organizational development activities for diverse business units across multiple organizations. Visible achievements include developing and implementing action plans for managing talent within the confines of the labor market, generating results-oriented metrics to make workforce and business decisions that contribute to organizational success, evaluate HR business cases, critical activities and other functional projects and initiatives that demonstrates measurable value. Proficient in using data to provide insight that promote organizational change, improve fiscal solvency, and foster sustainability in distinctively challenging environments. Recognized for the ability to turn around underperforming operations, build HR departments from the ground up and create effective high-performing teams. Led HR teams of 25+ and effectively control multimillion dollar budgets. Experience developing and steering HR strategy aligned to organizations’ goals and objectives; adept at managing corporate and division projects, working with CEO and senior management to integrate HR in the global context within the organization. Led HR systems implementation and integration approaches, various reorganization and downsizing efforts without compromising productivity; project lead for HR transformational efforts, including organizational redesign, role definition and issue resolution; spearheaded business process improvement efforts and created communication plans to achieve objectives. Hold Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) in Management, Executive Leadership, Bachelor of Business Administration in Human Resource Management and Associate of Business Administration in School Business Management from Davenport University, Michigan