Oana Breen: Human Resources Manager in Santa Barbara, CA

Oversee, design, and execute all HR functions, including staffing, recruitment, benefits, compensation, payroll, training, leadership development, succession planning, HRIS, and regulatory compliance - for California employees, remote employees in 13 other States, and international collaborators and contractors. - Direct all HR for US operations while collaborating with other managers, directors, and senior executives to design new business initiatives, foster employee engagement, and develop talent. Prepared the company for scaling and grew it from 35 to 82 employees during the first year. - Spearhead AutoVitals through rapid HR change and transformation programs, including HRIS integration, HR policies and procedures, and an Intranet project to answer HR-related FAQs, to increase employee satisfaction from 6.5 to 8.8 in 12 months. - Integral in enabling operational change essential to a $1M reduction in HR costs facilitating redesign of core business operations; orchestrated strategic alignment of HR with new business objectives and minimized business interruptions through the execution of workforce integration plans, including M&A workforce transition and integration.

Responsible for a global HR restructuring of a Flight School conglomerate - designed and implemented a global HRIS solution restructuring HR into a single global HRIS system in 18 months. Standardized HR processes for recruitment, training, performance Santa Barbara, California, United States Phone: +1 386 333 1574 Email: oana.breen@gmail.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/oana-breen evaluation and employee engagement and implementing a full PII solution that spanned the globe and remain compliant internationally. This directly resulted in a cost savings of 50% of the global budget across divisions, while improving HR services and employee retention by 80% over the same timeframe. - Facilitated senior-level M&A decisions, supporting initial analysis through due diligence and subsequent integration - aligned HR processes, selected, recruited, onboarded new personnel and trained new operational HR person to take over; minimized business interruptions through workforce execution integration plans for a $100,000 HR operational cost decrease over 6 months.

Responsible for directing recruitment and staffing for a start-up venture while assisting in building the company from an empty office into a full-scale operation with 16 employees (13 staff and three management/executive personnel). - Oversaw hiring policies, procedures, systems, and technologies to support the company's long-term growth and expansion, leading to a net profit of $200,000 within 1 year. - Offered outsourced HR services to diverse customers, mainly in the IT/tech/SaaS industry, ensuring that they reach their growth and development goals - up to 400% growth in some cases. Partnered with different HR teams and multiple stakeholders to successfully attract, hire, onboard, develop, and train the right talent. Hired and trained 248 IT professionals over the course of 12 month for 46 different customers. - Designed and executed effective onboarding programs for new hires - internal and external customers - induction training sessions, ranging from organizational culture to local processes and prioritization, skill development, and training programs for development and growth, increasing employee retention rate in all cases, up to 75% for some of the customers.

Orchestrated the operational plan, including Press Release Development, Interview Management, Open Days & Product Demonstrations, using research of human behavior and segment feedback by persona, using the insights to guide product roadmap and create effective messaging. - Responsible for managing various end to end communication projects - building and implementing communication plans and strategies, from internal newsletter to external communication content, in multiple languages, to facilitate growth and scaling for the company, allowing internal customers to use similar messages in their customer interaction. - Oversaw Integrated Marketing Communication Campaigns, focusing on launching new products and services in the target markets, including data centers, document printing, electronic & physical archiving, direct response marketing, and product lead generation, which led to an 85% revenue increase over 2 years.

Directed the transition of all HR processes from Unilever Spain to Accenture Romania to ensure a 98% SLA for all HR services including Resourcing, Hiring, Workforce Administration, Exit/Offboarding Processes, Compensations & Benefits, Employee Relations, and an Employee HR Contact Centre. - Integral in negotiating deliverables, deadlines, changes, strategies with the HR Business Partners & Service Delivery Managers to set the right HR processes and procedures in place. - Integrated HR functions previously managed by several different departments into a single consolidated organization to manage all generalist affairs. Trained and supervised 14 HR professionals. Developed and consistently improved work instructions for all in- scope HR processes.