HR Business Partner / HR Generalist / People Advisor with some of smartest people in the tech industry (Facebook and Addepar). Facebook has one of the fastest moving, most progressive, and most integrated HR Business Partner teams in the industry. People Advisor to Addepar, a fast growing start-up in Mountain View, CA building the a platform for the future of finance. Specialties: Workforce/talent planning,executive and management coaching, organizational development, employee relations, strategic planning, employment branding, university relations, rotational development programs, diversity networks and recruiting, assessment methodology, project management and candidate experience.

HR Business Partner @ From February 2015 to Present (9 months) Menlo Park, CAAdvisor @ From November 2014 to Present (1 year) Mountain View, CAHR Generalist @ From January 2014 to February 2015 (1 year 2 months) Menlo Park, CAHuman Resources Business Partner @ Games - GameSpot, Giant Bomb, Comic Vine, GameFAQ's Media - TV.com, Last.fm, Metacritic, Metrolyrics, and CHOW Marketing - Design, Creative Services, Product Marketing Finance - CFO, Revenue Operations, Yield Management, Audit, Accounting, AP/AR, and Market Research - Builds and implements business unit people strategy in partnership with BU leadership team and HR team - Build effective partnerships with Business Unit Management to help drive the business toward establishing and maintaining a culture of growth and excellence and support the company as it strives to deliver against its business, product and people strategies - Perform as a senior level human resources generalist providing professional human resources support for assigned areas of the organization - Build relationships and partnerships with HR Centers of Excellence - Build effective relationships with CBS Interactive employees and provide seamless HR support - As a partner with business clients and internal HR functions, consult/lead/advise management on ways to address structural, cultural and people initiatives that are aligned with the business and drive success - In partnership with HR SME's, provide consulting expertise and apply best practices to assigned Client Groups on HR issues including but not limited to: organizational design, retention, employee relations, staffing, compensation, benefits/leaves, training, various HR services and programs; Employee Development including management development, succession planning, performance management program, skill gap analysis, individual career planning, individual career development - HR Leadership for approximately 300 employees From February 2013 to January 2014 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaHuman Resources Business Partner @ Entertainment (CBS.com), Lifestyle (TV.com, MetaCritic) From September 2012 to February 2013 (6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaTalent Acquisitions Manager @ Target, Attract, Acquire, and Develop. I lead a team of recruiters, coordinators, university relations professionals and sourcers to bring the best talent in the market to CBS Interactive. 78% YoY growth in hiring with over 300 hires. From November 2011 to September 2012 (11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaUniversity Relations Manager @ Partnered with the executive team, recruiting staff, and a wide range of alumni, recent grads, and hiring managers to build CBSi’s employer brand. Built long lasting and durable relationships at our target campuses. Designed and implemented a Software Engineering Rotational Development Program, targeting the top 10% of computer science graduates. Created CBSi's Employee Referral, Employment Branding and Merchandise, and Summer Intern programs. http://youtu.be/Irtyd8zM1R8 From August 2010 to November 2011 (1 year 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaUniversity Relations Manager @ As Intuit's University Relations Manager I developed and executed a strategy to build a strong employer brand on campus, hiring over 500 students across the country. I instituted programming competitions, as well as sponsored professor research and tutoring programs. Our team focused on unique events and student organization relationships as well as building our employer brand through social media and interactive websites.The role of the University Manager is to plan, attract, and close top talent from targeted universities using a high touch and low resource process. Strategic Developments: Target university tier's Assessment methodology Candidate experience Campus alumni teams Knowledge management Diversity pipeline Career’s website development Career’s interactive micro-site development Intuit early career strategy team I also founded an Intuit diversity network, the Next Gen Network (NGN) a growing 550+ member, executive sponsored network with branches in Mountain View, San Diego, Boston, Reno, Plano and India. NGN focuses on early career, Gen Y employees and their unique needs (Social, Development, Innovation) transitioning from university life to a corporate environment. Recipient of Intuit's Vision, Impact and Partnership award From December 2007 to August 2010 (2 years 9 months) Candidate Generation Recruiter - Sourcer @ As part of Intuit's Candidate Generation team I networked within social and business networks to bring passive job seekers to Intuit mostly in the web marketing and human resources fields. From August 2007 to December 2007 (5 months) Name Generation Specialist - Search Research @ As part of Intuit's candidate generation team I worked to bring passive job seekers to Intuit. I sourced and managed over 19,000 hard to find or hard to attract passive candidates contacts. I helped to create Intuit's mergers/acquisitions and outplacement target strategies for Talent Acquisitions as well as develop geographic target data. From January 2006 to August 2007 (1 year 8 months) District Executive @ Executive Consultant leading all Boy Scout operations for 6 cities. Managed an executive committee, fund raising, membership/volunteer recruitment and training in support of 2000+ youth, 300+ volunteer leaders and 86 troops/packs/units. From August 2005 to January 2006 (6 months) Santa Clara County

MS, Human Resources Management @ Golden Gate University From 2007 to 2010 BA, Sociology @ California State University-Chico From 2003 to 2005 Leland High School From 1997 to 2001 Mark Howard is skilled in: Workforce Planning, Talent Planning, Employment Branding, University Relations, Rotational Development..., Strategic Sourcing, Diversity Strategy, Behavioral Assessment, Candidate Experience, Applied Behavior..., Human Resources, Project Management, Program Management, Start-ups, Social Media, Social Networking, Employer Branding, College Recruiting, Recruiting, Talent Management, Strategic Human..., Performance Management, Organizational Behavior, Employment Law, Training and Development, Compensation..., Interviews