Curriculum Vitae

Isabella Grable

An experienced Operations and People leader, transitioning into front-end development

Currently in training

SheCodes — Front-end development

Jun 2022 - PRESENT

Highlights:

  • Front-end development and coding practices
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, API Integrations, Responsiveness and React
  • User Experience (UX) and User Interface Design (UI) to convert sketches into actual pixels
  • Product management - testing ideas, iterating designs based on user feedback and using product management tools
  • Total of 400+ hours of training

Technologies

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Bootstrap
  • API integrations
  • Responsiveness
  • React
  • Figma
  • Invision
  • GitHub
  • Git
  • Netlify
  • Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
  • Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) testing

Experience

Accurx | London — Head of People Operations

Aug 2021 - Aug 2022

Highlights:

  • First People hire and built the People Ops team from scratch
  • Setup multiple people tech platforms and operational processes to support the growth of the company from 100 to 200+ people
  • Managed entire employee life cycle - including onboarding, exit, performance management, leadership training and pay reviews

Additional skills

  • Products advisor and tester for People products
  • Workplace Mental Health First Aider
  • BambooHR & CharlieHR & Humaans | HRIS
  • Small Improvements & Lattice | Performance Management
  • Peakon & Slido | Employee Engagement
  • Trello & Notion | Project Management
  • Salesforce | CRM Service

Lightful | London — Director of HR

May 2017 - Aug 2021 (multiple HR roles)

Highlights:

  • People lead for a team of over 50 employees - managing the entire People function from recruitment to retention
  • Responsibilities included strategy, health and wellbeing, team engagement, diversity and inclusion, benefits, annual reviews, pensions, payroll, recruitment, visas and more
  • Lead the change to remote working during COVID 19

Additional skills

  • Products advisor and tester for People products
  • Workplace Mental Health First Aider
  • BambooHR & CharlieHR & Humaans | HRIS
  • Small Improvements & Lattice | Performance Management
  • Peakon & Slido | Employee Engagement
  • Trello & Notion | Project Management
  • Salesforce | CRM Service

Previous Experience

Truphone — Customer Service Agent

Jan 2017 - Apr 2017

Parallel Consulting — Recruitment Consultant

Oct 2016 - Dec 2016

Move to London — Au Pair and Language School

May 2016 - Oct 2016

University of Heidelberg — Student Counsellor

Apr 2013 - Apr 2016 (part time)

University of Heidelberg — Research Assistant

Mar 2012 - Feb 2016 (part time)

Team Training — Adult Coach

Apr 2010 - Sep 2011 (part time)

Master

University of Heidelberg

Oct 2011 - Feb 2016 (part time)

Education studies with a focus on organisational change and HR

Final grade 1,4 (very good)

Bachelor

University of Tübingen

Oct 2008 - Jul 2011

Education studies with a focus on adult education, further education

Secondary Subject: Psychology and Sociology

Final grade 1,7 (good)

Languages

German | native
English | fluent