Ralph  Parilla

Ralph Parilla

Adjunct Faculty

Biography

Ralph M. Parilla, Jr. is the President of Parilla & Associates, a consulting firm specializing in Management Training and Human Resources consulting. His experience includes several years in Human Resources positions at Motorola and Gould. He also worked as the Southeast Vice President of the Employers Association of Florida.

Parilla's experience includes fourteen years at Motorola, where he worked in a variety of assignments in divisional, corporate and international operations. His last two assignments were at the Director level with responsibility for Motorola's Human Resources operations in the Asia/Pacific region, and then in Florida and Puerto Rico.

His experience with Gould (later Encore Computer) included Director level assignments in Compensation, Benefits, Employee Relations, Employment and Recruiting, and EEO.

Since starting Parilla & Associates in 1986, he has conducted training programs and made convention and seminar presentations for client organizations in a variety of enterprises such as state, county, and municipal government, and numerous industries including computers, machine tools, health care, food service, telecommunications, agriculture, aviation, biological products, country clubs, electronics manufacturing, printing, retail, and construction. These programs have ranged from first level supervisory courses through CEO level seminars.

Consulting assignments include extensive work in Compensation projects such as pay plan design, job evaluation, job descriptions, and salary surveys. Other consulting activities encompass employee relations issues, performance appraisal design, EEO Charge resolution, Human Resources policy and handbook writing, meeting facilitation, and strategic planning.

His involvement in the community includes being on the founding Board of Directors of the Adam Walsh Center. He was the Center’s Chairman of the Board from1982 until the merger with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 1990. Since joining the NCMEC Board, he has been an active board member, chairing several committees and serving on the Board’s Executive Committee. He was recently the Chairman of the NCMEC Board of Directors. In addition to his work on the NCMEC board, he has been active in workforce development issues for over 30 years. He is the past Chair of the Work Force One Board of Directors. He was also active in the Broward County Crime Stoppers Program, serving as Chairman of the Board. He was also a volunteer Suicide Crisis Line Counselor for eight years, and was a member of their Board of Directors.

Education

  • BS Psychology, Saint Louis University
  • Other Loyola
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