Experience

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  Dyne HR Consulting

  • Nation- wide

  • Chief Executive Officer

    • 2011 - Present
    • Nation- wide

    Independent 3rd party employment investigations company. Employee Relations consulting involving training HR professionals / managers on complex employment investigations which include sexual harassment (including same sex ), race, gender, and national origin. Providing harassment prevention training for employees in the areas of sexual harassment and workplace violence. Additional consultations involving appropriate responses to EEOC and other state/ municipal agencies involving Title vii of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.Discrimination - Employee consultations on Title vii of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in employment which include Failure to promote / hire, retaliation and terminations. Additional employee consultations involve providing advice and guidance on performance management , corrective action, including discipline, attendance management and ethics.

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  EPOCH

  • Leawood Kansas

  • HR Manager

    • Apr 2010 - May 2011
    • Leawood Kansas

    EPOCH - 2010-11Responsible for employee relations support including performance mgmt, corrective action, FMLA, STD. Directed outside audit team during audit of 401k plan.Chaired Diversity Council - Led monthly Diversity Council meetings and initiatives to recruit diverse candidates into leadership and management roles within company. Managed percentage of recruitment activities involving diverse candidates thru executive search firms. Managed detailed statistical models on current employee populations based on years of services and anticipated retirement dates while simultaneously working with line mgmt on backfills that included diverse candidates. "Generational Diversity" - Led educational outreach to executives and line mgmt regarding Generational Diversity -How to effectively manage multiple generations within a company. Performance Mgmt. - Conducted analysis involving statistical research on ratings and turned those ratings into percentage representations of entire employee population. Created performance calibration tool for entire Corp. Responsible for workforce planning.

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  WEB DuBois

  • Kansas City, Missouri Area

  • Board Member/ Strategic Planning Dir./Fundraiser

    • 1997 - 2011
    • Kansas City, Missouri Area

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  Sprint Nextel

  • Overland Park, KS

  • Manager HR / Sr. Legal Anlst / Sr. Recruiter

    • Jan 1997 - Mar 2009
    • Overland Park, KS

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  Sprint- Corporate Center

  • HR MANAGER

    • Jan 1997 - Mar 2009

    Provided employee relations support for 1,200 -2,400 employees. Used consultative approach in policy guidance to assist management in arriving at solutions involving diversity, performance management, succession planning and all remaining HR policies and practices. Introducing new HR program / processes to Mgmt / IC pop. Major accomplishments while in Network include as part of executive lead team of FEO went on 10 city tour to speak to employees concerning merger acquisition of Nextel and how HR programs would be administered in newly formed company. Additionally facilitated tier and job title consistency exercise for merging corporations involving 4 Regional Field Engineering and Operations VP's for 5,200+ FEO employees nation-wide. Project Anaconda (Excellence Award winner) team member of Network and Company wide teams to reduce contractor expense by converting and or releasing contractors. Company wide effort led to a savings of over $190 million dollars company wide and $10.8 million in savings in Network. Performance Management - Introduced new online performance mgmt system to FEO regional population in merger environment. This was accomplished thru onsite employee meetings, staff meeting presentations and conference calls. Conducted yearly performance mgmt., rating meetings with executive level mgmt and coordinated communications of entry/completion dates. Monitored rating entry completions through internal HR system. Communicated results back to FEO Executives on daily basis during ratings period. Network Services project lead for Sexual Harassment / Workplace Violence Training Program. Completed training on over 8,000 employees. In addition, negotiated with vendor and coordinated with Sprint University development team to create two new online training modules that have delivered SH/Workplace Violence training to entire corporation.

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  Sprint

  • MANAGER HUMAN RESOURCES

    • Jan 2001 - Jan 2007

    Managed staff of 4 professional level employees. Chaired Sprint PCS Short Term Disability Vacation Task force. Consulted 15 regional HR managers in 14 states including the following corporate center organizations- Sprints Disability Management Group, Corporate Employee Relations, Sprint Legal and Customer Solutions Executive team regarding practice / process improvements to the current STD /Vacation policies. After collecting relevant data and benchmark statistics, recommended fact based practice / process changes. Identified $2.04 million in savings through the discontinuation of pay prior to STD eligibility at the 41st. hour. The new vacation plan known as Time Pool Quarterly Allotment launched January 1, 2002 affected 13,000 PCS employees throughout the US. The change to the PCS Vacation plan resulted in an increase of 18 percent in customer service levels to Sprint PCS customers in the subsequent months after the vacation plan change. Coordinated new programming requirements involving vacation plan changes with outside contracting agency. Managed budgetary requirements of $100,000 to effectuate vacation plan changes with selected programming vendor. INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS - Served as single point of contact for all escalated Executive level and "Ethics Hotline" complaints in the Customer Solutions organization nationwide. Investigating Title VII charges involving race, gender, age, sexual harassment and disabilities. REORGANIZATIONS- Member of KC based Human Resource group team which coordinated nation-wide downsizing in 14 states. Participated in planning of 3 separate business unit realignments; Reviewing "Due Diligence" involving statistical comparisons in conjunction with Sprint

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  SPRINT LAW DEPARTMENT

  • SR. LEGAL ANALYST

    • Jan 1999 - Jan 2001

    Provided legal analysis and support on a nation- wide basis including investigation, research and communications to attorneys in Sprint's Employment and Labor organization. Participated in the Sprint / WorldCom pre-merger civil investigative records demand ordered by the U.S. Department of Justice. Provided legal analysis and support surrounding post-merger litigation at the highest and most sensitive level within Sprint. Subject matter expert on the use of independent contractors Researched and wrote company - wide memorandum on use of independent contractors. Reviewed and updated language in over 125 of Sprint LDD Incentive Compensation plans. Acted as liaison between investigatory agencies, outside legal counsel and Sprint attorneys. Responsible for the pre- draft preparation of position statements, research and notice of litigation memorandums. Responsible for the coordination, production and analysis of all internal Human Resource documentation related to assigned charges and litigation. Team participant on redesign of Sprint compensation plans. Provided legal analysis and investigations on Title VII charges, litigation and employment related issues such as sexual harassment, FMLA, Age, Race, Disability and Wage compensation claims.

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  SPRINT HUMAN RESOURCES

  • SR. RECRUITER / Employee Relations Staffing Specialist

    • Jan 1997 - Jan 1999

    Directed the selection process for Sprint Network, Marketing, Public Relations /External Affairs and Carrier Markets organizations. Sourced, interviewed and recruited perspective job candidates. Recruiting tools included Sprint HRIS system and Sprint's SelecTrak. Conducted salary compensation for new hires, as well as promotions and laterals. Coordinated employee relocation benefits. Created national recruitment strategy for Network engineers Processed thousands of individual salary actions for assigned business units. Participated in the relocation of Sprint Finance Group from Florida; , which involved re - staffing 300 employees in various job groups.

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  City of Kansas City

  • EEO/AA OFFICER

    • Jan 1991 - Jan 1996

    Investigated 300 + Federal, State and Municipal EEO complaints involving Title VII of The 1964 Civil Right Act. Extensive records review experience involving relevant employment documentation. Including pay, discipline, performance, witness interviews, video, audio documentation and business plans. Reviewed corporate AA plans and advised corporate EEO officers on diversity in workforce structure and retention. Constructed100+ statistical models involving corporate workgroups. Extensive analysis of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and Executive Order 11246. Consulted with attorneys and corporate EEO officers involving employee / employer legal disputes, in lieu of case determination and settlement. Testified in federal court as expert witness. Negotiated and settled federal and state charges in excess of $3M.Mediated conflicts involving employee - employer, business - customer disputes. Designated department spokesman for print, radio and television media requests. Managed clerical staff of 12 employees. Participated on KC City Hall Compensation Team in reassessing the entire City government pay structure. Compensation Team findings led to city- wide employees moving from the bottom one-third in pay to the middle two-thirds in pay structure for local governments throughout the U.S.

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  Deluxe Corporation

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Asst. Manager

    • 1986 - 1991
    • Houston, Texas Area

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  U.S. Air Force Reserves

  • San Antonio, Texas Area/Kansas City, Mo

  • Sgt. WSSF

    • 1983 - 1989
    • San Antonio, Texas Area/Kansas City, Mo