Human Resource Management

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telePhone: 410-***-**** • E mail: ***********@***********.***

Timothy D. Thornburg

employment Objective

To secure the Director, Labor Relations position with Mylan Pharmaceuticals for the purpose of

supporting of the company’s vision, mission, values, and strategic goals through proven knowledge,

experience, and abilities in the following areas: classification and reclassification, collective

bargaining, communication, community relations, compensation, conflict management and

resolution, contract management, criminal background review and approval, employee and labor

relations, employment law, human resource management, organizational development, performance

evaluations and improvement plans, professional development, research, staffing, stakeholder

satisfaction, strategic planning, talent acquisition and retention, transfers and reassignments,

unemployment, and workers’ compensation.

Employment History

Supervisor of Employee and

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Labor Relations; Washington County Public

Schools; Hagerstown, MD

Coordinator of Employee and

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Labor Relations; Washington County Public

Schools; Hagerstown, MD

UniServ Director (Union

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Representative); Maryland State Teachers

Association; Annapolis, MD

UniServ Director (Union

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Representative); Delaware State Education

Association; Dover, DE

UniServ Director (Union

•

Representative); Omaha Education Association;

Omaha, NE

Secondary English/Journalism

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Teacher; Shawnee Mission School District;

Shawnee Mission, KS

Adjunct College Instructor for

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School Law (PA), Writing (MD, NC), and English

as a Second Language (KS)

employment experience

Washington County Public Schools (Currently)

• Make complex and timely decisions associated

with day to day operations and functions of

employee and labor relations/human resource

management

• Help develop and drive initiatives and

strategies in a timely, responsible, and professional

manner

• Partner directly with school system’s senior

administration, in house and outside legal counsel,

and/or appropriate administrators and supervisors

to resolve intricate and multidimensional personnel

and labor matters

• Maintain current knowledge of changes to

federal and state employment law, the Education

Article to the Annotated Code of Maryland, and

Code of Maryland Regulations

• Work directly with administrators and

supervisors regarding staffing needs and service

delivery

• Assist with talent acquisition and retention of

highly qualified staff

• Make recommendations regarding transfers

and reassignments

• Provide on going contract interpretation and

maintenance

• Responsible for employee investigations

• Review and approve criminal background

checks for prospective employees, emergency

coaches, and volunteers

• Identify, organize, analyze, and monitor

relevant data for effective employee and labor

relations/human resource management

• Represent school system during unemployment

hearings

• Establish and maintain collaborative working

relationships with internal and external

stakeholders

Employment Experience (continued)

• Partner directly with staff assigned to monitor

and administer certification, compensation,

employee benefits, extended leaves of absence,

support services, and workers’ compensation

• Provide consistent education of and adherence

to Board of Education of Washington County,

state, and federal personnel policies, regulations,

procedures, and/or laws

• Provide consistent education of and adherence

to management policies, procedures, practices, and

expectations

• Serve as “go to” person regarding employee

disciplinary actions, including, but not limited to,

memorialized conversations, written warnings, and

recommendations for suspensions and/or

terminations

• Represent management during employee

disciplinary procedures, §4 205(c) and §6 202

appeal hearings, EEOC fact findings and

mediations, and labor arbitrations and impasse

proceedings

• Oversee contract grievance procedures for

certificated (teachers) and non certificated

(educational support personnel) bargaining units

• Draft and review communications of varying

subjects and degrees of complexity, including, but

not limited to, letters, reports, investigative

findings, statements of charges, position

statements, memorandums of understanding, and

contract language

• Serve as chief negotiator during contract

negotiations with certificated (teachers) and non

certificated personnel (educational support

personnel)

• Direct and sustain the bargaining process from

beginning to end by: assisting with establishment

of realistic parameters; developing definitive

strategies; monitoring local, state, and national

trends; developing and administering surveys;

reviewing data; training and mentoring Board

bargaining team members; interpreting contract

language, Board policies, and applicable collective

bargaining laws; monitoring Public School Labor

Relations Board activities, rules, procedures, and

rulings; making recommendations; communicating

with internal and external stakeholders; drafting

and revising proposals, rationales, and contract

language; reviewing tentative agreements prior to

ratification; and preparing ratified agreements for

publication

• Work directly with appropriate staff to help

transition to fully integrated digital personnel

records management system

• Work directly with administrators and

supervisors to develop and implement specialized

professional development

• Help develop and monitor department budget

• Make recommendations regarding effective

and efficient cost saving measures

• Prepare applicable local, state, and federal

reports

• Direct, monitor, and appraise assigned support

staff and services

• Provide data and recommendations to

committees, as needed

• Network with other employee and labor

relation/human resource management professionals

across state and country

• Use available technology to assist with

employee and labor relation/human resource

management duties and responsibilities

Local, State, and National Teacher Unions (Previously)

• Served as chief negotiator for certificated

(teacher) and non certificated (educational support

personnel) unions

• Responsible for coordination of bargaining

process from beginning to end

• Served as National Education Association

trainer and mentor to prospective and veteran

UniServ Directors in the areas of collective

bargaining and community engagement

• Worked cooperatively and daily with school

administration on employee and labor issues, such

as employee discipline, contract management,

conflict management and resolution, evaluations,

improvement plans, professional development, etc.

• Represented and advocated for union members

during personnel investigations, disciplinary

hearings, grievance proceedings, mediations,

arbitrations, and impasse proceedings

• Responsible for membership recruitment,

growth, retention, and development of assigned

bargaining units

Employment Experience (continued)

• Assisted local, state, and national unions with

developing, aligning, coordinating, and

implementing strategic plans and initiatives

• Assisted with developing, implementing, and

coordinating grassroots political activities at local

and state levels

• Lobbied elected officials to secure support for

local, state, and national union initiatives

• Built coalitions with education, non education,

and bipartisan groups to help accomplish local,

state, and national union goals and objectives

• Provided campaign support to recommended

political candidates

• Wrote grants for local, state, and national

unions

Instruction (Previously)

• Adjunct Instructor, English Composition;

Frederick Community College; Frederick, MD

• Guest Speaker, Employee and Labor

Relations/Human Resource Management; Hood

College (Washington County Public Schools

Educational Leadership Cohorts); Hagerstown,

MD

• Adjunct Instructor, School Law; Wilson

College; Chambersburg, PA

• Trainer, Collective Bargaining; National

Education Association; Washington, DC

• Trainer, Community Organizing; National

Education Association; Washington, DC

• Trainer, Emerging Leaders Academy;

Maryland State Teachers Association; Annapolis,

MD

• Secondary Teacher (Middle and High School),

Language Arts and Journalism; Shawnee Mission

School District; Shawnee Mission, KS

• Adjunct Instructor, English As A Second

Language; Donnelly College; Kansas City, KS

• Adjunct Instructor, Reading; Donnelly College;

Kansas City, KS

• Adjunct Instructor, Freshman Composition;

Wake Technical Community College; Raleigh, NC

• Adjunct Instructor, Freshman Composition;

Pitt Community College; Greenville, NC

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Freshman

Composition; East Carolina University; Greenville,

NC

Education

Educational Leadership Cohort (Maryland’s

Administration and Supervision Certification I and

II); Hood College; Frederick, MD

Maryland Teacher Certification, English and

Journalism (Grades 7 12, current)

Master of Arts, English (Technical/Professional

Communication); East Carolina University;

Greenville, NC

Kansas Teaching Certification, Language Arts

(Grades 7 12, expired); Ottawa University; Ottawa,

KS

Bachelor of Arts, English; Minor, Journalism; East

Carolina University; Greenville, NC

Society for Human Resource Management

Examination Preparation; Frederick Community

College; Frederick, MD

UniServ Pre Employment Development Program;

National Education Association; Washington, DC

Professional Associations

Maryland Negotiation Service, Vice Chair and

Member

North American Association for Educational

Negotiators, Member

Association of School Business Officials of

Maryland and District of Columbia, Member

Maryland Association of School Personnel

Administrators, Member

Society for Human Resource Management,

Member

Professional honors

Fulbright Grant Scholar, Study of Japanese

Educational System, Tokyo and Hiroshima

National Merit Award, Gamma Beta Phi Society

technology

Maintain current knowledge of applicable and

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available work related applications:

o Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint,

Publisher, Excel, Outlook)

o Adobe

o Lawson Human Resource Management and e

Recruiting

o Honeywell Security System (Fusion)

o My Big Campus

References

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