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Nicole Onyango

Human Resources Professional
Austin,TX

Summary

Strategic and hands-on HR professional with 6+ years of experience, including over a year leading end-to-end HR operations at PSK America as a department of one. Currently supporting 40+ employees across multiple U.S. locations and one overseas office, overseeing everything from payroll, compliance, and benefits to recruiting, onboarding, training, and culture initiatives. Known for creating structure where needed, solving problems quickly, creating processes from scratch, all while making HR both people-focused and strategically centered. Comfortable navigating fast-paced, cross-functional environments and passionate about building processes that actually work.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
2023
2023
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior HR Generalist

PSKAmerica
03.2024 - Current
  • Serves as the sole HR leader for 40+ employees across 3 U.S. offices and 1 overseas location.
  • Implemented performance management framework for all U.S. staff and leadership, establishing review cycles, expectations, and accountability across departments.
  • Spearheads multiple compliance initiatives to ensure full adherence to labor laws (AZ, OR) and tax obligations— remediating prior inconsistencies in order to minimize legal liability of the company .
  • Evaluates and delivers weekly and quarterly recruitment and hiring performance reports to executive leadership, tracking time-to-fill, candidate quality, and process efficiency as well as other HR metrics dealing with employee engagement and compensation to guide strategic decisions.
  • Increased employee satisfaction levels with effective communication strategies as well as employee engagement initiatives such as pulse surveys and implementing employee support policies
  • Manages full-cycle HR operations including payroll, compliance, benefits, onboarding, SOP development, training, and cultural programs.
  • Onboarded 20+ new hires; streamlined the process by integrating IT and equipment setup, reducing delays.
  • Partners with local and global leadership to execute expatriate management from Korean HQ with onboarding, tax setup, visa sponsorship management and cultural integration.
  • Negotiates insurance renewals, reducing any business insurance premium costs where applicable as a cost measure.
  • Rolled out company-wide ethics and harassment training for US and Irish based employees; ensured multistate and multinational compliance on applicable employment law policies such as leave, etc.
  • Partnered with global leadership on GDPR compliance, and policy alignment to ensure data privacy security measures for Irish employees

Associate HR Generalist

ACuity Solutions
10.2022 - 07.2025
  • Administered a performance management program emphasizing feedforward method alongside the Senior HRBP.
  • Enhanced and conducted new hire orientation program that reduced employee turnover and led to higher job satisfaction.
  • Executed onboarding process by preparing background checks, drug screenings, I-9 verification for 200+ new hires.
  • Administered compensation and benefit plans and assisted in payroll processing using Paylocity, including auditing and reviewing data for discrepancies.
  • Met with current and leaving employees to conduct surveys and determine areas in need of improvement.
  • Developed training programs in collaboration with HRIS manager to improve ATS usage and employee performance.

Human Resources Specialist

Workrise
10.2019 - 07.2025
  • Managed and maintained salary structure, job documentation, and job descriptions.
  • Provided employee support on benefits, FMLA, and company policies.
  • Handled 30+ requisitions in Workday including onboarding and background/drug screening processes.
  • Streamlined recruitment processes, reducing time-to-fill positions by optimizing job postings and candidate screening.

Junior Recruiter

Dodge Construction Network
08.2021 - 07.2022
  • Managed 40+ requisitions within ATS (Bullhorn).
  • Collaborated with hiring managers to determine qualifications for IT candidates and recommend hires.
  • Sourced and screened passive candidates via Boolean searches and LinkedIn Recruiter.
  • Collaborated with Information Manager to prepare weekly reports using Power BI.
  • Initiate onboarding: background checks, drug screenings, and outstanding new hire checklist tasks.
  • Scheduled 30+ interviews weekly with hiring teams.

Education

Management -

University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX

Skills

  • Performance Management
  • Recruitment Process and Strategy Improvement
  • Process Improvement
  • Employee Relations
  • Compliance
  • Policy Development
  • Training and Development
  • Talent Retention
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Building morale
  • Benefits administration
  • Payroll administration
  • Employee engagement
  • Workday
  • UKG
  • ADP Workforce and Payroll System
  • Paylocity
  • Microsoft Suite
  • Google Suite

HR policies and procedures

Recruitment and selection

Employee retention

Onboarding and orientation

Employment law

Process improvement recommendations

Labor law compliance

Accomplishments

  • In 2024-2025, Led a company wide HR transformation at PSK America by executing a new performance management system designed by Global HR Group of PSK Global. Remediated labor and tax compliance gaps across multiple states. Delivered executive level recruitment and hiring metrics- elevating HR’s strategic impact on performance, compliance, and hiring quality which increased headcount by ~41% from end of Q1 in 2024 to end of Q1 IN 2025
  • Catapulted in 2022, the recruitment and onboarding processes for senior inpatient medical coders which increased hourly employee headcount by 29% and due to streamlining of these processes, led to increased employee retention by 9%

Timeline

Senior HR Generalist

PSKAmerica
03.2024 - Current

Associate HR Generalist

ACuity Solutions
10.2022 - 07.2025

Junior Recruiter

Dodge Construction Network
08.2021 - 07.2022

Human Resources Specialist

Workrise
10.2019 - 07.2025

Management -

University of Texas at Arlington

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