Experience

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  Us army

  Aug 2007 - Dec 2010

  Directed and trained multi-level employees on standard operating procedures to include career progression, educational assistance, payroll reports and submission. Updated various procedures to ensure a more positive flow of production and to ensure accurate data was obtained for mandated reports. Provide planning information for short and long range human resource requirements to ensure employees are deployable to numerous theaters of operation. Oversight, Compliance and Technical Assistance: Developing plans, providing assistance, providing oversight to promote successful outcomes. Provide data, processes, system flow diagrams, charts, and descriptions using commonly used concepts. Instructed, directed, and monitored data extraction and review by service personnel, as appropriate. Persuades others to accept recommendations, cooperate, or change their behavior; works with others towards an agreement; when appropriate, negotiates to find mutually acceptable solutions. Experience with program development and managing team development to include but not limited to updating processes, creating new procedures, implementing team goals and award system. Reorganized several internal and external departments to improve meeting project deadlines, customer service response times, and report timetables. Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations. Prepare, review, and brief reports to upper level management. Created numerous databases to insure all information was captured and measured. Implemented and facilitated team building exercises. Show less

  • Senior Human Resource Supervisor

    Jul 1986 - Dec 2010

  • Division Operations Manager - Balad, Iraq

    Aug 2008 - Aug 2009

  • Area Recruiting Supervisor

    Aug 2007 - Oct 2008
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  U.s. department of veterans affairs

  Jan 2011 - Dec 2017

  Regional veteran employment coordinator

  Advise management on various types of appointments and their appropriate application process in both competitive and non-competitive appointments within an 8 state region. Use various recruiting strategies to aid in recruiting veterans into the organization. Identify and place prospects determined by their skill sets, education level, and experience. Created region analysis to identify demographics, attrition rates, hiring trends, and target areas to ensure organizations mission goals are obtained and independently carries out and adjusts yearly plan when needed. Create plans and advise various facilities concerning large staff turnovers, staffing challenges, and policy recommendations concerning employment challenges. Knowledgeable of Veteran Affairs and various federal agency regulations, policies, and laws. Plan and attend various career fairs and outreach events in order to create a broader base of applicants into organization. Provide advice and consultation on all phases of the recruitment process. Evaluates position and qualification standards of positions being recruited by organization to provide constructive analysis of candidates credentials for employment consideration. Assist applicants with understanding the composition and requirements of job announcements through the Delegated Examining Unit, merit promotion, or other applications processes. Reviews recruitment and placement actions and provide advice on various moderately complex, non-controversial issues to include advising clients and human resource departments with questions and concerns regarding Title 5 and Title 38 questions and 5 CFR understanding. Show less

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  Veterans benefits administration

  Dec 2016 - Mar 2022

  Directs administrative activities conducted throughout department while serving as Executive Director’s (SES)Executive Assistant. Effectively monitors program activities, sets priorities, provides assistance, coordination and follow up (internally and externally) to the Executive Director and division leadership. Ensure Executive Director’s intent and decisions on initiatives and program/ project management are implemented. Serves as focal point of contact for controlled correspondence from external stakeholders, internal stakeholders, and signature of the Director. Plan and schedule ongoing production-oriented work on a quarterly and annual basis, or direct assignments of similar duration for Director’s office. Create and improve work methods and procedures to ensure smaller turnaround times and project deliverable time tables. Correct and reject documents submitted to Director’s office. Ensures correspondence is accurate, complete, and in accordance with the deliverable requirement, and timely. Represents the Executive Director, as needed. Show less Advise managers / supervisors on staffing and recruitment, including guidance on issuing vacancy announcements and effective methods of recruiting to obtain highly qualified applicants. Ensures accuracy of existing qualifications criteria for each announced vacancy and applies exceptional knowledge of qualification standards to the most complex situations and develops a systematic approach to recruiting for open vacancies. Prepares all related documents to ensure a timely and proper new hire process. National Human Resource Specialist for Rating Veteran Service Representative and Veteran Service Representative world-wide program. Ensure managers are aware of and have the necessary information to participate in a wide variety of recruitment programs. Works with managers to identify and develop current and long range staffing requirements to include succession planning. Writes a variety of materials ranging from informal notes to formal decision documents including reports, makes oral and or written presentations to managers, supervisors, employees and general public. Show less

  • Executive Assistant

    May 2018 - Mar 2022

  • Human Resource Specialist

    Dec 2016 - May 2018
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  U.s. department of veterans affairs

  Mar 2022 - now

  • Transitioning Service Member Program Manager

    Feb 2023 - now

  • Human Resources Specialist - VISN 10 SBU

    Mar 2022 - Feb 2023