Objective

Successfully obtain employment that allows the application of my skills in an environment of human service to mutually benefit the employer, persons served, and myself.

Experience

12/2010 to Present Star Choices, Inc./North Star Georgia 170 College Street

Title/Position: Lead Worker/Supervisor Toccoa Area Macon, Ga. 31201

Supervisor: Robert Chandler 404-***-**** 478-***-****

Responsibilities include but are not limited to provision and supervision of other staff providing direct, person centered supports to and for persons living with developmental disabilities in their homes and in community to develop and maintain daily living skills necessary to promote independence and community inclusion, scheduling of services and staff, working with other administrative and support staff to collect and process billing information, staff training, maintaining Medicaid compliant documentation, supportive interaction with supported persons, families, other members of supported person’s support network, other duties as necessary and dependent on the needs of supported persons.

8/2002 to 6/2010 Stephens County Board of Commissioners 37 W. Tugaloo St

Title/Position: Emergency Management Agency Director Toccoa, Ga. 30577

Supervisor: (Human Resources) Patsy Browning 706-***-**** 706-***-****

Responsible for jurisdiction wide emergency and crisis response, mitigation, and preparation planning, maintain emergency program approved by state and federal government levels of Emergency Management, develop, implement, and maintain policies and procedures for emergency response in keeping with the National Incident Management Program requirements under Homeland Security Presidential Directives 5 and 8, assist other departments, agencies, the municipalities, commercial interests, and the private sector where necessary in developing, implementing, and maintaining effective and efficient safety planning, serve as liaison between local government and state and federal resources to acquire federal grants and assistance to support the needs of the community, develop and conduct in conjunction with all emergency support function agencies and departments in the jurisdiction a disaster and emergency exercise program compliant with federal standards and regulations. Additional local duties include management of the county’s vehicle and equipment fleet (with over 200 numbered items of inventory), and licensure and coordination of 20 + members of the local volunteer Rescue Unit to provide emergency support services ranging from lost/missing person searches and high angle rescue to dive recovery operations, etc.

2/2001 to 8/2002 Toccoa Police Department 92 N. Alexander Street

Title/Position: Communications Officer (Certified Dispatcher) Toccoa, Ga. 30577

Supervisor: (Human Resources) Brenda Yearwood 706-***-**** 706-***-****

Receiving and routing emergency calls for police, fire, forwarding and coordinating services with Sheriff Department, EMS, Ga. State Patrol, and fire services, documentation of calls and actions taken based on caller information and emergency service response, assisting officers and potential employers with obtaining criminal histories, driver histories, and vehicle and license information in keeping with established reporting and confidentiality guidelines from Ga. Crime Information Center and the National Crime Information Center, basic data entry of incident, accident, and family violence reports, receiving payments of fees and fines for Clerk of Court’s office after business hours, and routing service calls for utilities departments after normal business hours in a basic public safety dispatch environment.

9/1999 to 2/2001 Circle K # 2050 (Business closed) 1200 S Big A Road

4/1995 to 6/1996 Toccoa, Ga. 30577

Title/Position: Assistant Store Manager

Duties included, but were not limited to customer service, light bookkeeping including daily and by shift balancing of fuel usage and inventory, store inventory, management of orders and receiving of store stock, liaison between vendors and Tosco Corp., supervision and scheduling of other staff, training of new and advancing shift employees, balancing and handling of daily bank deposits, etc.

Other Previous Work Experiences

Other employment history includes work in 186 bed long term care nursing

facility (Toccoa Nursing Center) as Certified Nursing Assistant providing hands on daily living and basic care services for residents, work at 117 bed long term care nursing facility (Hart Care Center), first as Activities Director providing reality orientation, entertainment, and development oriented activities, and then as Social Services Director, providing intake and placement coordination services, progress and status reporting, liaison between facility administration and Resident’s Council and families of residents, assistance with acquisition of services such as physical therapy, etc. where residents may have special needs, coordination with Ga. Ombudsman’s program to investigate any report of possible neglect or abuse of a resident or misuse of benefit funds.

Additionally, during my high school and part of my college years, I worked through the Job Training Partnership Act serving in the Day Treatment Program of the local Mental Health Center assisting in the provision of activities for the clients of the Day Treatment program at that time, and through what was then known locally as the MH/MR program working with developmentally disabled persons, both in provision of activities and supporting the supervisory staff of what was then termed a ‘sheltered workshop’.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology Piedmont College, Demorest, Ga. (1989)

Personal References

Denise Sanderlin 678-***-****

Janice Haslup 706-***-****

Michelle Kelly 706-***-****