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Melissa Bada

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People Operations leader at Koshee.ai and Affiliated Businesses, established a service model across four businesses and improved employee support.

United States
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At Koshee.ai and Affiliated Businesses, I established a People Operations service model across four businesses, with clear ownership, intake and escalation paths, and operating rhythms. I also created procedures and self-service resources that reduced avoidable manual work and improved accuracy across the employee lifecycle.

I own benefits and leave administration, including multi-state compliance, payroll coordination, and relationships with brokers, carriers, and plan administrators. I also partner with Legal on complex employee relations matters and investigations.

At Light & Wonder (formerly Scientific Games), I established global People Operations service standards across the United States, EMEA, and APAC. I built dashboards, service metrics, and workforce reporting to surface trends, bottlenecks, data-quality issues, and program risk.

I helped lead the Oracle Cloud HCM-to-Workday transformation, contributing to requirements, testing, communications, training, change adoption, and post-launch support. Earlier, at Chax Software, Inc., I built recruiting operations workflows and improved time-to-fill by 20% through clearer role requirements, structured intake, and stronger hiring-manager alignment.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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HR Function Lead (People Operations)

Koshee.ai and Affiliated Businesses

Jul 2024 - Present (2 years 3 months)

Own the People Operations function across four affiliated businesses, establishing service models, benefits administration, leave administration, and SOPs. Serve as escalation point for complex employee relations and drive continuous improvement.

Education

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Amberton University logoAU

Amberton University

Master of Science, Human Resource Management

Grade: 4.0/4.0

Pursuing a Master of Science in Human Resource Management with a 4.0 GPA, expected completion in 2026.

California State University, Fullerton logoCF

California State University, Fullerton

Master of Science, Gerontology

Completed a Master of Science in Gerontology.

California State University, Fullerton logoCF

California State University, Fullerton

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology

Completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

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Software and tools used professionally

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