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Director, Enterprise Applications & Insights @ Stitch Fix San Francisco Bay AreaAdvisor, teamUpHR @ teamUpHR, Inc. Helping grow the team and business at teamUpHR San Francisco Bay AreaHead of Business Systems @ Airbnb Lead the strategy, roadmap and implementation of business systems responsible for Finance & HR with accountability to both CFO and CHRO. Built and scaled...

Director, Enterprise Applications & Insights @ Stitch Fix San Francisco Bay AreaAdvisor, teamUpHR @ teamUpHR, Inc. Helping grow the team and business at teamUpHR San Francisco Bay AreaHead of Business Systems @ Airbnb Lead the strategy, roadmap and implementation of business systems responsible for Finance & HR with accountability to both CFO and CHRO. Built and scaled an application ecosystem from 2 to 24 applications, to support the business initiatives and needs of Finance & HR. Key accomplishments:* Implemented a global Financial application ecosystem with Workday Financials, Anaplan, Concur, Blackline, ReconArt, Kyriba and other custom built tools that reduced the monthly financial close process from over 21 days to 7 days currently.* Led the implementation and optimization of our Talent Systems platform (Workday, Greenhouse, Reflektive, Degreed, CultureAmp and other applications) with functionality around workforce data management, performance management, advanced compensation, learning & development, global payroll and workforce analytics. * Implemented a systemized headcount planning process in partnership with HR, Finance and IT resulting in the eradication of manual processes and dozens of Google Sheets/Excel based headcount plans.* Launched the “procure to pay” process leveraging multiple enterprise applications that resulted indouble digit million dollar savings in addressable spend for the company.* Built and supported 250+ integrations across HR & Finance Systems resulting in 90% elimination of manual processes and savings of 100’s of manual person hours.* Created and supported the quarterly SOX and ITGC controls process.* Integrated Financial ERP with the airbnb.com platform for both revenue and payments data management.* Led the HR & Financial technology integration for Airbnb’s largest acquisition. * Responsible for scaling the systems portfolio to support the hyper growth at Airbnb. From September 2014 to September 2018 (4 years 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Director, HR Technology and Operations @ Informatica Led the Global HR Operations and Technology function in building and executing the strategy for worldwide HR Service Delivery with responsibility for HR efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance. Focused on designing and delivering reliable workforce data, business focused HR analytics and a technology roadmap to support the business needs.Key accomplishments:* Successfully led the worldwide implementation of Workday - an all-in-one, self-servicecloud based core HR application; consolidated core HCM, Benefits, Compensation, AbsenceManagement and Reporting for 28 countries under one single platform.* Transformed many manual based HR processes by automating them (e.g. on-boarding, payroll integration etc.). This has resulted in greater employee self-service and an increase in HR self-reliance.* Oversaw day to day global HR Operations managing on/off boarding (employees and contingent workers), workforce support, HR data governance and compliance (including SOX).* Provided business and HR leaders with meaningful workforce analytics that help measure workforce performance and drive key talent decisions.* Led process improvements across all areas of the HR organization and worked with the HR leadership team to manage change, scale and growth. From September 2011 to September 2014 (3 years 1 month) Redwood City, CAHR Technology Operations Leader @ Intuit Led the definition and execution of the strategy for integrated HR Technology road map focusing on end-to-end user experience. Reduced overall HR Technology spend by consolidating the application footprint from on-premise to SaaS solutions.* Enabled worldwide launch of Workday with manager and employee self-service, workforceanalytics and standard business processes. Built strong partnerships with HR centers-of-excellence leaders, IT, Finance and vendors to gain shared vision and execute on the road map.* Established best practices for communication, change management, and training, resulting inenhanced self sufficiency, better user experience and, reduction of support volume.* Directed technology implementations for multimillion-dollar M&A deals.Key enterprise wide implementations include Core HR (Workday, PeopleSoft), Talent Management(ADP/Virtual Edge, Authoria, Taleo), Learning Management (Plateau) and Incentive Compensation(Callidus). From 2007 to August 2011 (4 years) Staff Business Systems Analyst, HR Technology @ Intuit Led multiple projects and teams. Implemented on time delivery of optimal customer solutions in talent management applications and managed entire project life cycles from business requirements to post production support.Implemented our Enterprise Learning Management System (Plateau) with a global footprint that delivers online training for more than 16,000 workforce (including Outsourcers)Led multiple projects to deliver annual compensation plans for the incentive compensation system (Callidus) for more than 1000 employees. From 2006 to 2007 (1 year) Business Systems Analyst, HR Technology @ Intuit Transformed the manual paper based Tuition Assistance program to an automated, online application with checks and balances. This resulted in ensuring compliance and over 25% increase of efficiency in process and resources.Led requirement gathering, systems analysis, user acceptance testing, end-user support, training and knowledge management sessions for multiple projects and systems like LMS, Talent Management Applications, Compensation and Talent Acquisition/Staffing systems. Liaison between the business leaders/process owners, engineering organization, infrastructure teams and vendors. Drove end-to-end projects and programs with a results oriented focus. From 2004 to 2006 (2 years) Senior Software Engineer @ Intuit Led the team that helped design, develop and support a home grown Talent Acquisition system with candidate management, assessments, requisitions, offers, approval workflow and reporting functionality. Over the three year period, the application hosted almost one-half million resumes, 5200 requisitions, more than 13,700 offers, multiple reports and a built in work-flow approval/notification engine. Enhanced the Enterprise Directory to serve more than 16,000 Intuit workforce. Helped integrate key enterprise wide applications to the LDAP enabled Directory and the HRMS systems, hence enabling other business units and functional groups to utilize and manage people data.After 3 years in IT, joined the HR Technology team. From July 2001 to July 2004 (3 years 1 month) Systems Analyst @ Fatbrain.com Fatbrain.com used to be a leading e-tailer of educational resources offering individual and corporate customers online access to books and technology-based information.I helped them develop an infrastructure to promote and sell digital content. My role included product development on web related technologies and relational databases, enabling Fatbrain to enhance its B2B deployments. From January 2000 to June 2001 (1 year 6 months) Consultant @ TransCanada Pipelines TransCanada Pipelines is an energy company, focused on natural gas transmission and power services. As a Systems Analyst Consultant, my role was to design and develop interfaces for their functional financial backend system in association with their financial accounting team. Key projects included developing a faster reporting engine, a base library template and interfaces to the Baan system. From August 1998 to December 1999 (1 year 5 months) Programmer Analyst @ EFA Software EFA Software provided stock market automation systems for emerging stock markets around the planet. During my stay at EFA, I was involved in product development and market analysis for emerging stock exchanges. I was part of a team that analyzed, designed and developed the real-time trade matching engine, supporting business and market information services. From July 1997 to August 1998 (1 year 2 months) Engineer @ Panther Software Panther Software was a leading provider of seismic data management systems (SDMS). Their software managed the entire work flow - from the data repository to the desktop - providing access to 2D and 3D data stores at the click of a button.As an Engineer, I was involved in product development for their SDMS system from the inception to the final release of the product. My primary responsibilities included design and development of class libraries, integration with ObjectStore database and other platforms including porting to Solaris and AIX. From March 1995 to July 1997 (2 years 5 months)