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Ruth Ann Davis

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Washingto, DC 20002

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Summary of Experience

Over twenty years of experience in the human resources field, with emphasis in staffing and processing with the Department of Homeland Security and Department of the Navy. Experienced human resources specialist with expertise in staffing and processing HR actions through a variety of automated systems and reviewing Official Personnel Folders for conformance.

Provided staffing and transaction processing support to the Transportation Security Administration and Department of the Navy using skill requirements and the recruitment methods most likely to produce highly qualified candidates for job vacancies. Developed and prepared vacancy announcements, job analysis, crediting plans, and KSAs to support specific job vacancy announcements. Rated and ranked applicants and determined if they meet qualifications requirements. Prepared certificate of eligibles for submission to managers for review and selection. Prepared offer letters and contacted applicants for interest and intent.

Made job offers and prepared offer letters to obtain and/or forward SF-75 information to other federal agencies. Prepared and sent disposition letters to job applicants. Prepared and closed out vacancy case files. Drafted and entered vacancies into the OPM USA Staffing system. Conduced new hire orientation.

Completed pre-employment processing to include determining appropriate grade, pay and salary; completing SF-52s with coding and remarks that will assure the final HR transaction is properly completed. Processed personnel and payroll actions in Computer System (CS). Properly coded and processed SF-52s and reviewed SF-50s for errors. Troubleshooted and corrected payroll and personnel errors in CS. Ensured employees were paid timely and accurately.

Ran employee and payroll reports to ensure that new and departing employee profiles were created/deleted in CS. Ensured that SF-50s, SF-52s, and supporting documents were approved within e-OPF workflow and appropriately filed in e-OPF.Reviewed personnel records for accuracy of specified data elements. Prepared e-OPF documents for OPM scanning and logged new SF-52s into metrics database. Ran and prepared standard reports from the CS.

Conducted a 100 OPF review of official personnel folder for various federal agencies. Researched pertinent regulations and laws to determine correct appointing authorities pay and salary, grade determinations, within-grade increases and other personnel actions. Identified appropriate documents to support appointments, promotions, transfers, resignations, retirements and benefits. Determined eligibility for benefit programs and veteran’s preference. Determined federal creditable service, and computed service computation dates.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Human Resources Specialist (Contractor)

Deept of Commerce 6-15- 01-16

•Conducts job analyses and assists in the development of automated interview assessments

•Collects and prepares applicant packets for panel review

•Monitors selection processes, processes selections, presents job offers, and sends notifications of non-selection

•Implements all aspects of recruitment to hire functions such as the preparation of referral lists for vacancy candidates

•Coordinates team activities

•Coordinate with hiring managers, recruiters, position classifiers

•Prepare Vaacancy /Job Postings Using Hiring Management System

•Perform Applicant Qualification processes/ Maintain Applicant Tracking Systems

USDA, Coast Guard, FDIC (Contractor)

Human Resources Specialist 2010 – 2012

§Conducted complete 100% Official Personnel Folders (OPFs) review of OPFs for Federal Agencies. Researched pertinent regulations and laws to determine correct appointing authorities, pay and salary, grade determinations, within-grade increases, and other personnel actions. Identified appropriate documents to support appointments, promotions, transfers, resignations, retirements, and benefits.

§Determined eligibility for benefit programs and made sure forms were properly documented and completed. Determined federal creditable service and computed service computation dates. Made sure all personnel documentation was accounted for and filed in accordance with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Guide to Personnel Recordkeeping. Ensured records were filed in the correct type of folder using the Official Personnel Folder, Merged Records Personnel Folder, and the Employee Medical Folder.

§Reviewed and corrected discrepancies in benefit coverage for Retirement Coverage, Life Insurance, health insurance, and Thrift Savings Plan. Ensured beneficiary forms on file were accurate and up-to-date in accordance with other documentation in the folder. Review and correct any pay errors.

§Reviewed and ensured employee’s Veterans Preference was documented properly. Ensured personnel actions were processed in accordance with governing personnel regulations such as time in grade, temporary promotions, and changes to lower grade, qualification requirements, and documentation of qualification requirements.

§Reviewed OPFs for Reduction In Force (RIF) and payroll cleanup project at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Prepared RIF Data Sheet on each employee OPF by reviewing each folder and presented any discrepancies to the Project Manager.

§Checked for changes in tenure groups, making sure dates were met and correct. Prepared qualifications analysis on each employee to determine what other positions for which the employee may qualify.

§Provided services to the Congressional Budget Office to review OPFs. This review was necessary to determine the status and correctness of employee benefits enrollments for three (3) major benefits programs: Federal Employee Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Confirmed payroll deductions for such enrollments with actual and most recent election forms on file in employee OPFs. Findings were entered into an agency-supplied spreadsheet or database. In the event of error, determined the extent of the error, made the correction, and passed on that information to a staff member of the Congressional Budget Office for final processing.

Senior Human Resources Specialist (Contractor)

Transportation Security Administration 2008 – 2010

§Developed job analysis, crediting plans, and KSAs to support specific job vacancy announcements.

§Developed vacancy announcements for submission to OPM and screened applicants for experience and/or education qualifications against OPM’s published standards or guidelines.

§Rated and ranked qualified applicants using computer data based or the established Crediting Plan. Provided documentation of the results of qualifications analysis and rating and ranking sufficient for issuance of Certificates of Eligible. Developed inputs to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for use by clients for human resource management support services.

Senior Human Resources Specialist (Contractor)

Transportation Security Administration 2004 – 2005

§Reviewed service requests assigned to caseworkers for error corrections in health insurance, making sure error codes and corrective action taken were accurate and necessary.

§Reviewed letters to employee for overpayments and debts payments.

§Reviewed OPFs, payroll records, employee express records, and carrier records for verification of enrollments making sure records matched.

§Reviewed actions to carriers to ensure that they were correct and properly documented.

§Reviewed health and life insurance enrollment forms, making sure codes, effective dates, and options were correct and entered into the system correctly.

§Reviewed enrollment forms, making sure enrollment forms were certified correctly.

§Provided service to the Transportation Security Administration to the Ghost Project of removing 25,000 separated employees from the active rolls.

§Work required knowledge of the Civilian Personnel Management Information System (CPMIS) to retrieve information and effect corrections.

§Responsibilities involved quality review of standard form SF-50s and SF-52s for HR transactions processing to assure that forms, authorities, action codes, remarks, etc., were accurate and took action to correct deficiencies.

§Verified CPMIS database systems making sure all canceled personnel actions and separated employees were taken out of the database. Prepared standard form 50s for submission to payroll in Excel spreadsheets to meet the bi-weekly payroll deadline. Reviewed, purged, and merged OPFs for conformance to regulatory requirements.Verified eligibility for veteran’s preference,

Senior Human Resources Specialist (Contractor)

Transportation Security Administration

2002 – 2004

Prepared vacancy announcements and crediting plans .

Determioned if applicants met qualification eligibility and requirements.

Rated and Rank applikcants

Participated in the management of processing centers, providing oversight to personnel assistants,

and handling the more difficult aspects of processing.

Provided assistance with the coding of actions and the interface between automated systems

and the payroll function.

Conducted audits of personnel actions for accuracy and provided guidance on resolution of

immediate and systemic processing problems.

Provided training in action processing and the overall management of processing centers.

Responsibilities involved participating in the quality review of HR transactions to assure that forms,

authorities, action codes, etc., were accurate; took action to correct deficiencies.

Verified eligibility for Veterans Preference,

Rrecomputed Service Computation dates, reviewed OPFs for conformance to regulatory requirements

Trained others to properly process actions, use CPMS, and maintain OPFs.

Wrote standard operating procedures for processing personnel actions, requesting OPFs of new hires

to the agency crrediting military service, and computing new service dates.

Participated in the management of processing centers, providing oversight to personnel assistants, and

handled the more difficult aspects of processing.

Provided assistance with the coding of actions and the interface between automated systems and the

payroll functions

Conducted audits of personnel actions for accuracy and provides guidance on resolution of immediate .Provided training in action processing and the overall management of processing centers.

Staffing and Classification Specialist (Federal Employee)

Department of Navy (DON), Human Resources Service Center

1981 – 2002

§Provided classification and staffing services, including placement and recruitment, processed internal placement actions, conducted reduction-in-force, and external recruitment, and operated in a delegated examining unit environment.

§As a Recruitment and Placement Division, Stay-in-School Program Coordinator, recruited participants, conducted interviews and verified eligibility for program. Provided guidance to participating students and their supervisors during employment. Processed all personnel actions for students including new appointments, separations, conversions, leave without pay, pay adjustments, and awards. Coded SF-52's assuring that all supporting documents were included. Processed SF-52's into the automated database (DCPDS), using the Personnel Process Improvement program to track and generate personnel actions and reviewed actions for accuracy. Assured that pay was set properly. Established due dates for probationary period, within-grade increases, leave, conversion to career appointment. Prepared and processed travel orders, obtained preliminary employment information. Coordinated and conducted Job fairs.

§Provided career counseling and advice to individuals who were facing displacement or reduction-in-force, or were interested in a career change. Assisted customers in use of software to complete applications for employment and resumes. Provided assistance in formulating responses to the specific skill requirements listed in vacancy announcements. Maintained center resources by assuring up-to-date vacancy announcements were available and ordering other resources such as newspapers, magazines, etc.

§Provided support for Equal Employment Opportunity programs including affirmative action, special emphasis, and community outreach programs statistical data. Monitored submission of EEO reports by field activities and reviewed submissions to assure consistency with previous reports. Made arrangements for Special Emphasis Events and accommodations for physical challenged individuals, such as interpreter services, personal accommodations, and computer accommodations. Coordinated the Bring Your Child to Work and Partnership in Education programs. Set up special events programs and provided administrative support.

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