Jessica Mitchell

• Enhanced team collaboration through regular communication, goal setting, and performance evaluations.
• Developed high-performing teams by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth.
• Improved project efficiency with strategic planning, resource allocation, and time management practices.
• Established a culture of continuous improvement by fostering open communication channels and empowering employees to voice their ideas.
• Optimized staff performance by designing comprehensive training programs tailored to individual needs.

Managed and built a team of 4 HR Business Partners.

Player coach as the HR Director and the HRBP for the R&D functions.

• Client facing HR Business Partner supporting Engineering and Product Management
• Interim HR Business Partner supporting Sales and Marketing.
• Interim People Operations Director

• Client facing HR Business Partner supporting the Engineering, Professional Services, Product Marketing, Corporate Functions, Sales and Marketing teams
• Trusted partner with senior management looked upon to develop effective working relationships, act as a consultant and a key influencer to mature SailPoint policies, processes and people engagement strategy.

• Client facing HR manager supporting Senior Vice President level business leaders for the Core Platforms Group (11,000+ global employees)
• Manage a team of 7 HR Managers that support Switching, Core Software, Core Hardware and Computing Systems
• Managed Annual Cycle Program budgets for engineering organization of 25,000 employees Programs included Mid-Year & Year-End Bonus, Promotion, Merit, Stock, and Global Market Adjustment elements
• Mentor and coach to HR Leadership Program participants that rotated through the Engineering Organization.

• Client facing HR Manager supporting SVP/VP level business leaders supporting the Enterprise Networking Group with revenue in excess of $1 billion and 3500 employees globally
• Assist Leaders and employees with all employee relation's issues; work closely with corporate ER team to bring all cases to a resolution
• Drive all Annual Cycle programs to reinforce HR Strategy: Workforce planning, Performance management, Career Development, Executive Compensation and Rewards, Talent Reviews and Pulse Surveys
• Responsible for overall budget management and metrics to senior leadership
• Responsible for developing and project management of Engineering and Cisco Enterprise wide staging preparation for global work force reductions.

• Responsible for Inclusion and Diversity initiatives and projects for the Central Development Organization (Engineering)
• Developed cultural awareness campaigns, leadership development and education opportunities, and coordination of employee resource groups, identified internal and external speaking engagements for top talent within the engineering organization.

• Responsible for the development of the 'Cisco Choice Program.' Defined the overall strategy, pipeline, hiring, placement and management of 1000 full-time and intern college hiring for the Cisco Development Organization (CDO- Engineering)
• Worked closely with university recruiting campus leads on all recruiting activities at 30 key target schools as well as national diversity events
• Primary University Recruiting HR manager lead for the 16,000+ engineering organization
• Worked closely with the SVP of CDO and the VP of HR to determine university recruiting deliverables, strategy, progress reports and forecasting and pipeline planning
• Managed the Cisco Choice program
• Responsible for the overall development of the onboarding process and placement of engineering University new hires within the development organization
• Responsible for all onboarding activities, new hire paperwork, W-4's, I-9 paperwork, badging, laptops, and training and final job placement
• Responsible for negotiating the SOW for training and staffing partners/contractors
• Managed all CDO Cisco Choice new hires
• Actively managed new hires for a period of 6-8 weeks while onboarding at Cisco
• Responsible for employee relation issues with new hires, compensation, performance management and overall manager responsibilities
• Managed a team of 8 full-time recruiters to hire and onboard 1000+ engineering new hire and interns annually
• Partnered with Cisco immigration attorneys for H1-B, J-1 and TN visas
• Partnered with CDO Communications team on building a new Cisco Choice website and marketing collateral
• Partnered with Cisco Compensation on salary guidelines for new employees
• Analyze market data to determine the appropriate increases in new hire salary guidelines
• Work closely with CDO HR managers on equity and compression issues in their various engineering business units
• Partnered with Cisco legal to achieve 100% OFCCP compliance
• Responsible for forecasting and reporting to SVP of Engineering and HR the full-time and intern hiring in Israel, China, India and Ireland and other global sites
• Responsible for vendor management of Manpower and Spherion
• Negotiated all SOW's, contracts and staffing plans with vendor
• Managed annual Cisco Choice budget of over $12M.

• Developed, implemented and managed the CIAG education programs
• These programs included equipment donations to universities, scholarships, guest lectures, syllabus coordination, internships and coordination with government agencies (National Security Agency)
• Donated over $3.5 million dollars' worth of equipment to leading university for network security education
• Created a web-based tool for online scholarship applications
• Hosted the 5th Annual National Colloquium for Information Security Systems Education conference
• This National Security Agency event is hosted every 3rd year by Industry
• Coordinated the logistics of event, lodging, event space, agenda, guest speakers and all budget requirements
• Over 300 government, academia and industry professionals attended the 3-day event in Atlanta, GA
• Served on various academic industry advisory boards (Towson University, University of Maryland University College, West Virginia University and Mesa Community College)
• Coordinated with Cisco University recruiting to help recruit and retain top engineering students.

• Directly supported an SVP within the Cisco Development Organization on staffing plans, building job matrices for new positions, job promotion levels and employee relations issues
• Created new job descriptions, grade levels and business plans for new positions for the newly created Global Government Solutions Group
• Responsible for all the staffing projections for a newly formed business unit within Engineering
• Responsible for delivering separation packages for 150+ affected employees in the state of Florida during a workforce reduction
• Worked with Cisco legal, HR, Security, IT and Compensation on severance packages for employees
• Worked with affected Cisco employees to go over the severance package, answer all compensation, benefits and employee relations' questions.

• Full-time recruiter supporting Cisco's Corporate Security Programs Group
• Responsible for the full life cycle of recruiting, sourcing candidates, screening candidates, responsible for arranging interviews with the hiring team, background check, OFCCP compliance, relocation and salary negotiations.

• Responsible for the overall recruiting life cycle of open Account Managers and Sales Engineering positions
• Responsible for sourcing, qualifying candidates for open positions
• Worked closely with Sr
• Management on overall offer for candidates.