Knowledge and experience in the following Human Resource Management areas:

• Human Rights, Employment Equity and Affirmative Action Programs
  
• Employee Selection and Assessment Systems
  
• Employment Test Development, Selection, Validation and Use
  
• Performance Management and Appraisal
  
• Employee/Career Development
  
• Human Resource Planning
  
• Succession Planning
  
• Organizational Planning and Development
  
• Research Design and Advanced Statistical procedures (required to support HR Management).
  
• Survey Design and Employee Surveys
  
• Program Evaluation
  
• Project Management, Administration and Coordination.
  

Summary of Experience

A registered psychologist in the province of Ontario with over twenty years of experience in the human resource management field developing, implementing and managing programs for large organizations.

Managed large scale employee surveys, several job analysis projects, the development and validation of various types of employment tests, the development and/or audit of performance appraisal systems, and employment system reviews for discrimination or systemic bias under Human Rights and Equity Legislation. Implemented and served as master trainer for a national recruitment and selection training program aimed at hiring managers and supervisors in Canada Post Corporation.

Provided counsel and assistance to the Department of National Defence on how to effectively introduce women into roles, locations and work environments in which they had not previously been employed. Analysed societal trends and their impact on the military, and recommended personnel policy and system changes to accommodate for these trends. Provided career counselling for the newly disabled in entering or re-entering the work force. Provided counselling and assessments on a one to one basis in clinical and school settings.

Professionally, served as an expert witness to the Canadian Human Rights Commission on employment equity for women and on compulsory retirement ages. Presented a brief to the Parliamentary Committee on Equality Rights on the employment of women in the military. Participated in the development of guidelines for testing in Canada with Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). Past President of the Canadian Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, a section of the CPA.