Eddie Drane, MBA, SHRM-CP

Senior HR partner supporting multi-site organizations across eight business lines, advising senior leaders on workforce strategy, organizational design, and operating-model decisions at scale. • Primary people advisor to senior leaders across complex, high-growth environments, influencing organizational structure, leadership investment, and workforce planning decisions spanning multiple sites and business lines. • Multi-site talent review and succession strategy, shaping leadership bench strength, promotion readiness, and future-state organizational design across senior management populations. • Scalable workforce planning and decision mechanisms supporting rapid growth, organizational change, and leadership effectiveness. • Enterprise workforce risk oversight, ensuring consistent decision quality, policy application, and organizational stability during periods of rapid scale, operational complexity, and change.

Strategic HR partner supporting global Product, Engineering, IT, and AI/ML organizations, advising senior leaders on organizational design, talent strategy, and workforce scalability in a high-growth fintech SaaS environment. • Primary people partner to Product and Technology leaders, influencing organizational structure, span of control, and leadership investment decisions across U.S. and international teams. • Succession and talent review strategy across multiple technology organizations, providing leadership readiness insights and risk perspectives to senior executives to inform promotion and workforce planning decisions. • Global competency, leveling, and career architecture, establishing consistent role clarity, promotion standards, and internal mobility pathways across technical job families. • Executive partnership to stand up the AI/ML organization, shaping role taxonomy, leadership structure, and hiring strategy to support new capability build-out and long-term scalability.

HR partner supporting large, multi-site operations, advising leaders on workforce planning, leadership effectiveness, and organizational health across high-volume fulfillment and retail environments. • People strategy partner across multiple sites, applying workforce insights to improve organizational stability, performance outcomes, and leadership decision-making. • Site-wide leadership reviews and talent strategy, shaping development pathways, promotion readiness, and succession planning across management populations. • Leadership effectiveness and manager systems, strengthening accountability, performance management, and engagement through targeted development programs. • Scaled HR operations and execution models, improving efficiency and consistency through automation, workload optimization, and standardized processes.

HR leader supporting engineering, quality, operations, and manufacturing organizations in a safety-critical aerospace environment, advising senior leaders on workforce planning, organizational resilience, and leadership effectiveness during periods of operational and structural change. • Senior people advisor across multiple functions, influencing workforce planning, leadership deployment, and organizational decisions in a highly regulated, mission-critical environment. • Workforce analytics and operational diagnostics, identifying production, staffing, and quality constraints to inform leadership actions that improved output and delivery reliability. • Succession and leadership readiness strategy, strengthening bench depth, accelerating internal fills for critical roles, and improving leadership continuity across technical and frontline populations. • Crisis and change leadership during COVID-driven restructuring, partnering with executives to redesign organizational structures, stabilize operations, and maintain customer commitments through significant workforce reductions. • Executive communication and decision-support enablement, training engineers and managers to translate root-cause and corrective-action data into clear, executive-ready insights that improved leadership alignment and execution quality.