career profile

highly skilled in planning, directing, and coordinating human resource management activities of an organization to maximize the strategic use of human resources and maintain functions such as employee compensation, recruitment, personnel policies, and regulatory compliance (ama, flma, affirmative action, ada).

 

performance management / staff training initiatives / benefits administration

salary planning /equalization / organizational development / talent acquisition & retention

change management / personnel management

 

benefits & compensation: administer compensation, benefits, and performance management systems. modify compensation and benefits policies to establish competitive programs and ensure compliance with legal requirements. coordinate activities of subordinates related to employment, compensation, labor relations, and employee relations.

 

staffing & recruitment: perform difficult staffing duties, including dealing with understaffing, refereeing disputes, firing employees, and administering disciplinary procedures. conduct exit interviews to identify reasons for employee termination. identify staff vacancies and recruit, interview and select applicants. allocate human resources, ensuring appropriate matches between personnel and vacancy. provide current and prospective employees with information about policies, job duties, working conditions, wages, opportunities for promotion and employee benefits.

 

organizational behavior: advise managers on organizational policy matters such as equal employment opportunity and sexual harassment, and recommend needed changes. serve as a link between management and employees by handling questions, interpreting and administering contracts and helping resolve work-related problems.

 

training & professional development: analyze training needs to design employee development, leadership / supervision, improving morale, some software applications, discipline, and handbook clarification.    

 

records management:  maintain records and compile statistical reports concerning personnel-related data such as hires, transfers, performance appraisals, and absenteeism rates. determine causes of personnel problems and develop recommendations for improvement of organization's personnel policies and practices.

 

professional experience

 

human resource manager, trw, lafayette, in, 06/2006 c present

human resource manager, industrial federal credit union, lafayette, in, 07/2003 c 04/2006

human resource manager, adkey, inc., goodland, in, 06/2002 c 06/2003

human resource generalist/interim hr director, city of lafayette, lafayette, in, 03/2001 c 05/2003

branch manager, personnel management, lafayette, in, 03/1998 c 05/2000

significant accomplishments

• directed the success of a 10-member staff and 200 contractors for 2 distinct sites.
• stood as benefits sme and led conversion from ppo/hmo to hra/hsa platform for n. america steering.
• enhance the potential of 182 salaried and 300 hourly bargain unit employees through training modules and consistent, up-to-date professional development.
• reduced overtime expenses by 20% by customizing innovative approaches to productivity.
• handled multiple benefits programs including unemployment, worker s comp., fmla, ada, and 401k.
• resolved the training concerns of managers through specific development of training modules covering leadership / supervision, improving morale, software applications, discipline, and handbook clarification.    

 

education

 

master of science in management (hr concentration), indiana wesleyan, anticipated graduation may 2010

 

bachelor of science in organizational leadership and supervision, may 2002

purdue university, school of technology, gpa 3.7

 

leadership lafayette graduate

mediation services, mediation training

 

affiliations

 

-         greater lafayette personnel association

-         indiana credit union league hr and training council

-         tippecanoe area personnel association

-         chamber of commerce

-         united way