On this Worker Highlight, we sat down with Stephanie Han to find out about her tenure at Cloudera, her journey from accounting to main variety, equality & inclusion (DEI) applications, and her spectacular volunteer work.
Meet Stephanie Han
Stephanie is a Senior Program Supervisor within the HR group at Cloudera. She’s been with the corporate since 2019 and performs a key function in a wide range of employee-centric initiatives together with Cloudera’s worker volunteering program, expertise administration program, and each its DEI and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efforts. She exudes enthusiasm about all of the work she’s concerned in, is grateful for the number of initiatives she will get to work on and the varied views she works alongside.
“Constructing a various group is so vital as a result of it permits us to study from each other,” Stephanie mentioned. “That may be very true with my group. All of us come from totally different backgrounds – each skilled and lived experiences. It’s been so wonderful to have the ability to develop with my group and study from our alternative ways of pondering, methods of doing, and methods of being.”
Making the Change from Accounting to HR – A Distinctive Alternative at Cloudera
When Stephanie first joined Cloudera, she discovered herself in a job doing what she had all the time executed – finance and accounting. Throughout her time as senior operations income supervisor, Stephanie labored on income shut processes, monetary reporting, and extra. Nevertheless, after she began managing staff, she discovered her ardour for skilled growth and the chance to assist teammates develop and advance their careers. She wished to do extra than simply assist “shut the books,” and this impressed her to hunt a profession change to HR.
She knew switching from a 12-year accounting profession to HR can be tough, however she remained persistent, conducting as many casual interviews with HR professionals as she may. Fortuitously, these calls led her again to Cloudera.
“The precise alternative on the proper time got here up,” Stephanie mentioned. “All of the ability units I gained in my earlier function in accounting and income operations helped me to seamlessly hit the bottom operating in HR and program administration. I’m an enormous believer that constructing ability units is extra vital than precise job titles, and I used to be grateful that the leaders at Cloudera acknowledged that too.”
Stephanie took a consultancy place on Cloudera’s DEI group in October 2020 earlier than incomes a full-time function in April 2021. The group later turned a part of the HR division and Stephanie welcomed the chance to additional combine into areas of curiosity.
Rising Cloudera’s DEI Applications
After becoming a member of Cloudera’s DEI group, Stephanie helped to construct the corporate’s Teen Accelerator Program, which has a partnership with the Boys and Ladies Membership of America in each Tennessee and the San Francisco Bay Space. This program facilitates alternatives in company America for highschool college students in under-resourced communities. The Teen Accelerator program presents college students a six-week paid internship program at Cloudera and 1:1 worker mentorship. Managing this group of worker mentors impressed Stephanie to start volunteering alongside colleagues as effectively.
In 2022, Stephanie joined Cloudera’s Ambassador Community, the corporate’s international community of philanthropic champions, devoted to planning and executing giving and volunteering initiatives. After serving on this function for 2 years, Stephanie expressed curiosity and subsequently expanded her skilled duties to incorporate the administration of this important tradition initiative. Below Stephanie’s administration, the Ambassador Community is wrapping up its inaugural Summer season of Service marketing campaign, which dietary supplements Cloudera’s present annual Week of Giving marketing campaign. Each initiatives include philanthropic occasions and international volunteer alternatives.
“It was soa lot enjoyable working with my group to plan our first Summer season of Service and seeing Clouderans so excited to plan occasions giving again to their native communities and past,” Stephanie mentioned.
Her curiosity in increasing her experience and impression didn’t cease there. Now, Stephanie’s scope additionally consists of Cloudera’s ESG and expertise administration applications as effectively.
“I really feel very privileged to be part of this group,” Stephanie mentioned. “Volunteering as an envoy for a number of years was actually rewarding. It’s actually distinctive to now have the chance to increase my scope and work on this initiative – in addition to others of curiosity, like ESG and Expertise Administration – as a part of my formal duties too. Having the help of our HR Management to proceed to construct my expertise and experience is invaluable.”
One of many different areas of curiosity Stephanie has taken on is expertise administration. She serves as a member of the expertise administration group, which is made up of staff from varied HR teams who’re extremely obsessed with serving to individuals develop their careers. The group works on succession planning, growth plans, and maps out methods to assist staff develop inside Cloudera.
“Expertise administration is an space I’m grateful for throughout my time at Cloudera,” Stephanie mentioned. “It’s an space I took nice curiosity in earlier than this function, and it’s one of many causes I pursued a profession change. I wished to work with individuals and assist them enhance and succeed professionally, and now I get to do this by way of varied distinctive and impactful initiatives at Cloudera.”
Empowering Skilled Growth Across the Globe
After the 2015 earthquake devastated a lot of Nepal, Stephanie, who lives within the Bay Space, visited the nation to see the panorama, discuss to locals, and attempt to handle widespread wants. Now, Stephanie devotes a large amount of her free time to serving to individuals in Nepal by way of group volunteer work. Not too long ago, she helped begin the Institute of Greater Studying (IHL), which goals to equip the Nepali individuals with expertise to assist them pursue a greater life.
“We realized there’s little or no that wecan do residing midway the world over, however a method we may actually make an impression is by organising a studying institute,” Stephanie mentioned. “There’s a wealth of assets right here within the Bay Space and many individuals are educated in varied transferable fields together with IT and Engineering. Nepal is shortly growing, so there can be jobs wanted within the IT area, for instance. We’ve got individuals in my group who come from varied skilled backgrounds, and it’s our mission to show and mentor college students to assist open the door to larger financial alternatives.”
The institute is beginning its first English class and hopes to launch expertise courses and coding camps sooner or later.
Following Passions of Serving to Folks Develop
Profession adjustments will not be all the time simple, however after a 12-year profession in accounting, Stephanie managed to discover a function she was really obsessed with – empowering others to develop and thrive at work whereas bringing individuals collectively by way of DEI and HR initiatives. In parallel, she continues to focus her free time on her philanthropic work to assist college students in Nepal and appreciates the power to weave that keenness for impression into her work right here at Cloudera.
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