Experience

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  Bethany medical center

  Oct 1986 - Dec 1996

  Benefits and compensation manager

  Ten years with Bethany Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas holding the positions of Personnel Information Technician, Employment Specialist, Benefits and Compensation Specialist and Benefits and Compensation Coordinator.

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  City of lawrence, ks

  Dec 1996 - Sept 2021

  I serve as the Manager for the Human Resources Division of the City of Lawrence. The division strives to foster a high quality, progressive, innovative work environment by providing strategic leadership to anticipate, identify, analyze, and balance City organizational and employee needs.Human Resources serves as a strategic business partner with city management andstaff in developing, implementing, and administering a centralized human resource management program for all City employees with emphasis in the following areas: benefits, classification / compensation, employment / retention, employee relations, employee recognition and leadership and employee professional development. The objective of the Human Resources Division is to create and maintain a work environment placing City employees in the best position to carry out City Commission goals. Show less

  • Human Resources Director

    May 2020 - Sept 2021

  • Human Resources Manager

    Dec 1996 - May 2020
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  City of lincoln – lincoln, nebraska

  Feb 2022 - Apr 2022

  Interim human resources director

  Via GovHRUSA, served as the Interim Human Resources Director for the City of Lincoln and Lancaster County, Nebraska. The position and the department serves approximately the 4000 employees for both the city and the county in human resources activities, Highlights of my tenure include working with stakeholders to resolve and implement a corrective action plan for a systems/process issue arising within a newly implemented Human Capital Management system; work with human resources and risk management staff to prepare for a change in leadership; and with a fresh eye, conduct a SWAT analysis for senior leadership and the new director to use to design the new human resources strategic plan. Show less