Ralph Parilla
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