Work

HR work, systems work, and what changed.

I’ve advised executives on their organizations, scaled performance management, developed People Partners, and led compensation and Workday work. These examples come from my employment experience. The AI prototypes are my independent work.

Interactive walkthrough

See where AI helps—and where a person decides.

Walk through a fictional policy clarification. See what AI prepares, what a person checks, and what evidence closes the case. Then explore the system in 3D.

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Selected employment work

LinkedIn experience

Chime

2023–2024

A performance model scaled to 1,400 employees

As Manager, People Partner, I scaled a redesigned performance-management model from a 200+ employee group to all 1,400 employees.

Manager, People Partner · Company-wide performance management.

LinkedIn experience

Chime

2023–2024

Headcount decisions made with Finance

I turned informal headcount decisions into a structured model with Finance. I also rebuilt career ladders and competency frameworks for Operations & Member Experience.

A 500–600-person portfolio across Risk and Operations & Member Experience.

LinkedIn experience

CB2 · Crate and Barrel

2019–2021

Organization design and store compensation

As the HR leader for CB2, I redesigned roles, career paths, and reporting lines for 130 Photo Studio Operations associates. I also built the brand’s first formal store-compensation structure across 21 stores.

Brand-wide HR leadership across stores and corporate operations.

LinkedIn experience

CareerBuilder

2016–2017

Workday business processes and reporting

As an HRIS Analyst, I designed Workday business processes and custom reports, contributed to the Workday Learning implementation, and built the reporting foundation used by HR operations.

Supported a 400-person distributed workforce.

LinkedIn experience

CB2 · Crate and Barrel

2019–2021

Workday testing and adoption across stores and corporate

I led user-acceptance testing and change management for a Workday implementation across CB2’s 800-person workforce. I designed adoption workflows and prepared store and corporate leaders for the transition.

21 stores · US and Canada.

LinkedIn experience

Chime

2021–2025

Developing another People Partner

I managed and developed a direct report who was promoted to Senior People Partner. I also mentored other People Partners while advising executives across technical and business teams.

People management and coaching alongside my own HRBP portfolio.

LinkedIn experience

Chime

2021–2025

Around-the-clock cybersecurity coverage

I helped build a follow-the-sun cybersecurity operating model with an employer-of-record arrangement in Poland. The work connected international hiring and organization design to the team’s need for 24-hour coverage.

Executive partnership with Security leadership.

LinkedIn experience

Parker Hannifin

2014–2016

A shorter shop-floor recruiting cycle

I redesigned shop-floor recruiting and reduced time to fill by 30%.

HR generalist for 250 manufacturing and engineering employees across two Illinois sites and a union facility in California.

LinkedIn experience

These examples describe my roles with the named employers. They are not advisory-client case studies. Sources are my published LinkedIn experience and résumé.

Independent builds and test records

My own prototypes and documented workflow designs.

Working prototype

HR Mission Control

A prototype that watches a defined set of public sources, collects the relevant details, gives the work an owner, and keeps the decision and follow-through together.

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HR Mission Control prototype showing public compliance items beside a decision packet with source provenance, two highlighted information gaps, and a separate Human decision step

Look closer

Source attached

The source-provenance card keeps the public URL in the packet. A reviewer can open the original instead of relying on the summary alone.

Gaps called out

The yellow card says data classification has not been captured. A second warning flags missing competing interpretations. Both gaps remain visible before a decision or execution.

Person still decides

Human decision is a separate step before Execute and Verify. The packet prepares a review; it does not approve its own conclusion.

Private HRMC prototype, using public-source test material. Yellow cards flag missing information.Open image at full size
  1. Update
  2. Summary
  3. HR review
  4. Owner
  5. Action
  6. Done

What I checked

  • 64 of 64 repeatable checks passed on July 15, 2026
  • 10 of 10 known items found in a small, human-checked source test on July 13, 2026
  • 240 local requests completed without a failure in a five-minute test on July 10, 2026

What it does not do

It helps organize the work. It does not give legal advice, promise complete coverage, or make policy decisions.

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Designed workflow

Policy questions with sources

A design for answering policy questions from approved material. The proposed workflow would show its sources and refer sensitive questions to the right person.

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  1. Question
  2. Find
  3. Compare
  4. Show source
  5. Ask for help
  6. Save

What the design requires

  • Uses only the material the team approves
  • Shows the source and what is still unclear
  • Stops and asks for the right person on sensitive topics

What it does not do

It does not decide accommodations, leave, investigations, discipline, pay, immigration, or other sensitive employee matters.

Documented workflow

HRBP weekly brief

A documented design for bringing meeting notes and open questions into an HRBP’s weekly brief.

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  1. Notes
  2. Facts
  3. Questions
  4. Owner
  5. Review
  6. Next step

What the design requires

  • Keeps facts separate from interpretation
  • Shows missing context instead of hiding it
  • Records who owns the decision and the follow-through

What it does not do

The workflow organizes the briefing. The HRBP still owns the relationship, the judgment, and every employee decision.

What do you need help with?

A few sentences about the task and what you have tried are enough to start. Please do not send sensitive employee information.

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