Overview

Gender

female

Shaunna brings over 15 years of Human Resources experience to Avalara. Her career of leadership roles with businesses like Washington Mutual, Starbucks and Solar Turbines has been focused on developing high performing teams, creating a talent-development culture, and driving streamlined processes to improve organizational effectiveness.

Prior to Avalara, Shaunna was First Vice President, Human Resources, at Washington Mutual, where she led the execution of people strategies across multiple corporate functions. As the senior HR leader supporting the Technology organization, Shaunna built an HR team to manage the recruitment, training, and leadership development efforts as the division doubled in size from 1,500 to 3,000 employees.

Shaunna has a Master’s Degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from University of California, Irvine