Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States
With a strong academic foundation in psychology, I hold a Bachelor of Science from Indiana University and a Master of Science in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Northern Kentucky University. Currently, I serve as a Talent Acquisition Specialist at American Commercial Barge Line, headquartered in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Prior to that I was a Human Resource and Recruiting Generalist with ACBL. My role involves leading corporate recruiting efforts, developing and implementing recruitment strategies for our Vessel Operations team, and designing targeted social media campaigns across platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Handshake. I am also responsible for full-cycle recruiting for corporate positions, managing our applicant tracking systems (UKG/Ultipro and LinkedIn Recruiter), and driving employee engagement initiatives through survey implementation. My prior experience includes roles such as HR Intern and HRIS Specialist at Kings Island Amusement Park and HR Generalist/Corporate Recruiter at Medpace, a Clinical Research Organization in Cincinnati, OH. During my time as the recruitment chairman for my fraternity, Kappa Sigma, I successfully increased membership by 25 new members each year for three consecutive years. These experiences, coupled with my academic background, have honed my ability to align organizational goals with effective human resource strategies.
•Serve as instructor for PSY 199 Careers in Psychology •Administers and grades assignments •Delivers feedback to students and hold virtual office hours to assist in educational track/career planning
•Analyzed active and terminated employee data by extracting HRIS records from UKG PowerBI into Excel and conducting regression analysis to produce point in time retention insights. Identified patterns in frontline employee turnover and pinpointed when resignations were most likely to occur, enabling more proactive workforce planning and targeted retention interventions. •Leveraged UKG and PowerBI HRIS data to design and maintain comprehensive KPI dashboards, providing visibility into time to hire performance, stage progression timelines, retention trends, and other key talent acquisition metrics. Enabled data driven decision making by transforming complex hiring data into clear, actionable insights that strengthened recruiting effectiveness and operational efficiency. •Partnered cross functionally with IT, Logistics, Supply Chain, and Finance to design and launch targeted internship programs aligned with departmental workforce needs. Built strong university partnerships with Bellarmine University, the University of Louisville, and Indiana University Southeast to source high potential student talent and successfully fill internship pipelines. •Collaborated with the Manager of Compensation and Benefits to conduct market analyses for key roles, providing data driven insights that informed equitable pay decisions. Supported the Barge Maintenance leadership team in developing competitive salary adjustments for their workforce, strengthening internal equity, retention, and overall compensation strategy.
•Developed an Engineer in Training program that expanded the talent pipeline by enabling skilled external candidates to enter the engineering track without starting in entry level deckhand roles. Shortened the evaluation and hiring timeline by 3 weeks and identified candidates immediately rather than waiting 1-1.5 years by creating structured, competency based interview guides that enabled the Reliability team to identify the top 10 candidates from more than 140 applicants. •Managed full cycle recruitment for corporate and high volume frontline roles, overseeing sourcing, evaluation, interview facilitation, offer delivery, and pre employment coordination. Ensured a seamless onboarding experience across 12 locations in 10 states by aligning hiring processes with operational needs and maintaining consistent, high quality candidate engagement throughout the recruitment lifecycle. •Led the selection and implementation of an external vendor to design and validate the company’s employee engagement survey. Worked closely with the Manager of Organizational Development and the HRIS team, applying Industrial Organizational Psychology and survey research expertise to develop a scientifically grounded instrument. Selected Qualtrics as the survey platform and collaborated with their analytics team to validate the survey through exploratory factor analysis. Administered the survey company wide and conducted comprehensive data analysis, delivering descriptive statistics, factor correlations, and actionable insights to senior leadership that informed organization wide engagement strategies and decision making.
•Modified and updated employee data in HR System (SumTotal), process changing employee information and other additional requests as necessary. •Worked with team members to maintain the audit review process of all data changes and made recommendations for process improvements. •Maintained data integrity and provided routine reports to management. •Identified data issues, led efforts to interpret data & trends, making recommendations, and facilitated resolutions •Ensured HR data is error free in advance of payroll deadlines and Headcount reporting deadlines in each supported office