Julie E.

Experience

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  A Foundery

  Advisor, A Foundery

  Jul 2026 - Present

  • As an Advisor to A Foundery, I provide strategic guidance to founders and leadership teams building and scaling global service businesses.
  • My work focuses on operating-model design, organizational scalability, workforce strategy, service delivery, automation, and the responsible use of AI to improve efficiency and client outcomes.
  • I advise leaders on how to:
  • Build scalable global and offshore delivery models
  • Translate growth strategies into practical operating plans
  • Establish the governance, processes, and performance measures needed to scale
  • Use automation and AI to improve quality, capacity, and profitability
  • Strengthen leadership capability while maintaining client trust and service excellence
  • Position global delivery models effectively for U.S.-based clients and investors
  • I bring more than 20 years of experience leading global operations, workforce transformation, shared services, and technology-enabled change at enterprise scale.
  • My advisory work draws on experience managing organizations of up to 500 employees, supporting operations across 66 countries, overseeing significant enterprise spend, and delivering more than $230 million in verified
  • savings.
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  Eisemann Consulting

  Owner & Principal Consultant

  Jul 2025 - Present

  • As the Owner & Principal Consultant, I parachute into fast-growing companies where structure has not caught up with ambition, bringing operating model design, AI-enabled automation, and workforce analytics straight to
  • founders and executive teams.
  • Translates ambiguous organizational goals into prioritized roadmaps, decision frameworks, and execution plans, giving clients in rapid growth a defensible path from chaos to control.
  • Architected AI-enabled workflows, low-code applications, and automated reporting pipelines that strip out manual effort and sharpen decision quality without new infrastructure spend.
  • Shipped CollabStack, SignalForge, and BizBudgetFlow, three AI-enabled platforms covering marketplace orchestration, financial modeling, and hiring decisions, each production-ready within weeks of kickoff.
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  FloofChonk LLC

  Founder & Owner

  May 2025 - Present

  Life is hard. Cats make it better — FloofChonk handpicks and designs cat-themed products to spark joy, laughter, and a little attitude while prioritizing ethical, made-to-order production and social impact.

  • Founder-led digital brand and creative initiative focused on community engagement, storytelling, product development, and audience-centered digital experiences.
  • Built and managed brand direction, digital engagement strategy, and collaborative creative workflows while exploring innovative approaches to online community building, customer interaction, and scalable digital product concepts.
  • This work reflects a broader interest in innovation, systems thinking, digital experimentation, and founder-led execution across modern business environments.
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  Amazon

  Director, Global Business Operations & Workforce Transformation

  Oct 2022 - May 2025

  • As the Director of Global Business Operations & Workforce Transformation, I directed six global businesses with 500 employees, 11 direct reports, and roughly $1B in operational scope across 66 countries, owning every
  • number I presented to the board.
  • Owned full P&L governance for a $1B operational scope, presenting board-level actuals, forecasts, and ROI cases while cutting cost per supported employee by 50% and holding compliance accuracy at 99.
  • 9% across 66 countries.
  • Cut organizational headcount by more than 50% in 18 months by tying workforce planning to automation delivery, then flattened management layers and widened spans to 11+ direct reports, compressing decision cycles across
  • the organization.
  • Launched 50+ AI-enabled workforce technologies spanning case management, forecasting, and executive reporting, partnering with product and engineering from requirements through deployment to cut cycle time and manual
  • effort enterprise-wide.
  • Authored enterprise-wide remote work and cross-border employment guidelines during the pandemic, addressing tax, payroll, and family reunification for thousands of stranded employees.
  • Cut budget variance by 40% and accelerated forecasting cycles by 30% during COVID by rolling out integrated demand and capacity planning dashboards company-wide.
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  Amazon

  Director Global Operations

  Oct 2022 - May 2025

  • Promoted three times in twelve years to ultimately direct six global businesses spanning mobility, immigration, relocation, tax, assignment management, business travel, and refugee hiring.
  • Held accountability for 500 employees and 11 direct reports.
  • Managed roughly $1B in operational scope across 66 countries.
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  Amazon

  Senior Manager, Global Mobility Operations

  Oct 2017 - Sep 2022

  • Scaled the global mobility function from 6 employees to 500 across 17 countries.
  • Insourced work previously outsourced to third parties and stood up delivery hubs in India, Costa Rica, and the Philippines.
  • Delivered a shared services model that cut third-party labor costs by 60% while improving quality.
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  Amazon

  Immigration Program Manager

  Apr 2013 - Sep 2017

  • Ran the programs that moved talent across borders for one of the fastest-growing companies on earth.
  • Learned that immigration work is operations work: high stakes, zero tolerance for error, and deeply human at its core.
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  Ogletree Deakins

  Senior Manager, Global Operations & Client Advisory

  Apr 2010 - Mar 2013

  • As the Senior Manager of Global Operations & Client Advisory, I managed worldwide client portfolios for a global immigration and professional services firm, and I earned a seat at a table few operators ever reach: the
  • board of directors of Emigra Ogletree Worldwide, then the second largest immigration services provider in the world.
  • Appointed to the board of directors of Emigra Ogletree Worldwide as its only non-attorney member, a seat typically reserved for senior partners, on the strength of client impact and revenue contribution.
  • Restored satisfaction on distressed multinational accounts by diagnosing service failures and rebuilding delivery processes for complex global clients.
  • Expanded scope from domestic casework to worldwide operations, managing global client portfolios against satisfaction, timeliness, cost, and compliance targets across multiple geographies.
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  Ogletree Deakins

  Senior Operations Manager

  Apr 2010 - Mar 2013

  • Advanced through three progressively senior roles over seven years within a global immigration and professional services firm.
  • Elevated to the board of directors of Emigra Ogletree Worldwide as the only non-attorney member.
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  BAL

  Global Visa Manager

  Aug 2009 - Mar 2010

  BAL is a corporate immigration law firm providing people-centered services and technology to support employers with work visas, compliance, and global mobility.

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  Ogletree Deakins

  Manager, Global Visa Coordinators

  Mar 2006 - Jul 2009

  • Led the team that kept complex visa casework moving for multinational clients.
  • Built the coordination muscle and quality discipline that defined my approach to global operations going forward.

• Jenkens & Gilchrist

  Immigration Paralegal

  Nov 2004 - Mar 2006

  Jenkens & Gilchrist is a company.

  • Started where the details live: individual cases, individual families, individual outcomes.
  • Carried that ground-level view of the work into every leadership role since.

• The University of Texas at Arlington

  International Education Advisor II

  Mar 2003 - Nov 2004

  The University of Texas at Arlington is a public research university serving students and the community in Arlington, Texas.