Rosemarie Carbone's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

I decided after getting my MA that I didn't really want to be a college professor after all--might have had something to do with the 4 more years of school I'd be facing. So I took my various degrees in English and leapt headlong into Publishing. Tried many different roles that I enjoyed / contributed to /...

I decided after getting my MA that I didn't really want to be a college professor after all--might have had something to do with the 4 more years of school I'd be facing. So I took my various degrees in English and leapt headlong into Publishing. Tried many different roles that I enjoyed / contributed to / learned much from, but never quite felt compelled by any of them. I fell by chance into the HR arena. Amazingly, there I found a career that blended all the things that mattered to and interested me: human behavior; ensuring the 'right thing' happens; creating hardcore business efficiencies...On any day I was hands-on intense business strategist, guerrilla recruiter, attorney, counselor, comp & benefits expert, global visionary, executive speech writer, or class clown (yes, sometimes I can be that, too). I was incredibly fortunate to enter HR in companies (usually start-ups...) where that function had either been understaffed or unformed or had very short timeframes to complete major milestones (like an IPO...) Hence my baptism by fire. But, all-in-all, this served me quite well as I was forced to 'get it' fast and learn to focus on what matters while becoming well-versed in leading all HR specialty areas in companies poised for growth. So I guess until Peet's Coffee crafts an exec role whose primary task is taste-testing many nonfat triple-lattes a day, I can't imagine a role that I'd like better than this one that found me 18 years ago... *** I can be reached at: [email protected] *** Specialties: high tech start-ups; business advisor / counsel; transitioning pre-to-post IPO; M&A; staffing; compensation; benefits; organizational development; performance management; employment law; employee relations; training; internal communications; HRIS; payroll; compliance; prior PHR certification. Facilities and real estate management. Helping employees love who they work for. Keeping HR strongly relevant and gently irreverent...Head of HR @ Oversight of full HR and Staffing functions for this way fun virtual reality startup enabling compelling human connections and communication in the virtual world. Seat at the table. Check us out at altvr.com to experience--and contribute to--what we're up to! From June 2015 to Present (5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSr. Director, People @ Cloud technology changing how visual computing gets delivered. Head of People--U.S. and International. Seat at the table; exec role. From May 2011 to June 2015 (4 years 2 months) Director of Human Resources @ Head of HR. Beyond full HR span of work and dept management, much focus/time on heavy and broad lifting (strategic OD work) in a company owned and led by warm, brilliant people. Had the siren song of high-tech not called me back (to OnLive), I'd have been happily-challenged to further advance this healthy corporate culture. Much interface with the Board here. From August 2009 to May 2011 (1 year 10 months) Principal @ Sole proprietorship: HR Consulting; Business Event Operations: OPEN Silicon Valley, Sunny Hill Energy, GRID Alternatives, FountainBlue, Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA) From October 2008 to August 2009 (11 months) Director of Human Resources @ First wireless MP3 player. Head of HR. Seat at the table; exec role. Much M&A strategic participation / counsel / activity. Significant role bridging company w/parent, post-merger. From February 2007 to April 2008 (1 year 3 months) Vice President of Human Resources @ One of the first online consumer lending sites. Head of HR. Seat at the table; exec role. Significant involvement and impact through major business decisions and transitions: pre-to-post IPO; pre-to-post M&A transactions (both sides); major leadership changes (departure of Founders, etc.) replete with subsequent major corporate culture shifts. Very significant role in creating an organizational mindset and culture that was responsible, ultimately, for the company's long survival through absurdly difficult business cycles. From February 1999 to February 2007 (8 years 1 month) Principal @ Sole proprietorship: HR Consulting; clients: Buy.com, SOFTBANK Forums From November 1998 to February 1999 (4 months) Director of Human Resources @ Second-largest producer of tech industry events / tradeshows: Networld+Interop, Seybold, Java One, etc. Head of HR for majority of tenure. Seat almost at the table--I'd say just outside the door with the door open so I could hear. :-) Much focus on M&A activity; on attracting great candidates during very competitive period; and on creating first-ever full-blown HR function to be nimble and aligned with business strategy and organizational shifts. From December 1994 to November 1998 (4 years) HR Senior Business Analyst from Business Mgr @ Major computer magazine publisher: PC Magazine, PC Tech Journal, MacUser, MacWEEK, Computer Shopper, etc. From May 1989 to December 1994 (5 years 8 months) Master of Arts, English (Poetics) @ New York UniversityBachelor of Arts, English (Writing) @ Queens College, City University of New York Rosemarie Carbone is skilled in: compensation, benefits, organizational..., performance management, employment law, employee relations, staffing, training, internal communications, HRIS, payroll, compliance, prior PHR certification, facilities, real estate, safety, business insurance, M&A, pre-to-post IPO, strategic consulting, business counsel, Compliance, Human Resources, Facilities Management, Real Estate, Employee Benefits, Temporary Placement, Payroll, Employee Relations, Deferred Compensation, Performance Management, Organizational..., Training, Vendor Management, Leadership, Start-ups, Insurance, Change Management, Strategic Consulting, Management, Team Building, Mergers & Acquisitions, Employment Law, Personnel Management, Recruiting, Strategy, Talent Acquisition, Business Strategy, Internal Communications, Talent Management