Brad Barackman, PHR

Experience

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  Enterprise Rent-A-Car

  Oct 1973 - Nov 2008

  Human Resources Manager

  I started as a Management Trainee and was promoted to Assistant Manager, Bracnh Manager, City Manager and Human Resources Manager. When I started the HR department we employed 50 employees in 5 locations. We grew to 500 employees and 50 locations. My job description included all HR Generalist duties such as Recruitment, Employee Relations, Legal Avoidance, Retention, On Boarding, Facilitation, Benefits, Work Comp etc.

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  U S Dept of Commerce U S Census Bureau

  Mar 2009 - Sept 2010

  Administrative Specialist

  Human Resources Management and Administrative support in the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Kansas City Regional Census Center for Region 6 covering six states, 35 Census Bureau locations with 40,000 employees in the field during the 2010 Census peak.

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  Internal Revenue Service

  Nov 2010 - Mar 2011

  Contact Representative

  IRS Wadge & Investment Division providing high-quality taxpayer assistance to 122 million taxpayers and partner with private organizations to provide assistance to disadvantaged groups.

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  Veterans Administration (VA)

  Mar 2011 - Oct 2014

  Human Resources Specialist

  Human Resources Specialist for the Human Resources Service Line. Provide advisory and technical services in the HR speciality areas of recruitment and placement, performance management, HR development, employee/labor relations, employee benefits and position management and classification. Provide authoritative advice to managers, supervisors, and employees regarding complex recruitment and placement actions. Collaborate with managers in determining short and long term recruiting needs and redeveloping effective recruitment methods and strategies. Recommends innovative strategies to resolve problems of job turnover, long and short term workforce planning, downsizing, and reinvention initiatives while ensuring the correctness and propriety of action taken. Prepare vacancy announcements, make qualification and eligibility determinations, and issues certificates. Train and advise managers, supervisors, and employees regarding various human resource management topics and third role in the HR program. Work with a variety of organizational segments with employees in both the competitive and excepted services as well as three major pay categories, General Schedules, Title 38 and Hybrid 38, and Wage Grade.Educate the public on the VA as "Employer of Choice". Show less

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  U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

  Nov 2014 - Dec 2017

  Human Resources Specialist

  The Workforce Management Office (WFMO) provides NOAA-wide leadership to workforce management functions including strategic human capital planning, labor-management, about labor relations, employee relations, performance management, and incentive awards, executive resources, distance learning, leadership development, training and career development, and human resources data management and automation initiatives. The Workforce Management Office employees in the Kansas City Office provide client centric human resources operational support to the National Weather Service.Duties Include:Perform recruitment and placement, pay administration and personnel processing functions; use Delegated Examining (DE) regulations, rules, policies and procedures to fill vacancies; ensure that all DE requirements are met for job opportunity announcements, personnel actions are properly coded, and meets DE requirements; properly adjudicate veterans' preference; provide advice on Alternative Personnel Systems, General Schedule, Wage schedule, consultant/expert and senior level pay matters; advise on provisions of premium pay including Title 5, FLSA, hazard, night differentials, etc. apply general and premium pay principles, concepts, and practices, including multiple pay systems and authorities (e.g., title 5 and non-title 5). Show less

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  Retired

  Jan 2018 - now

  Human Resources Specialist