Kimberly R. Farnsworth
Knoxville, Tennessee 37934
865-***-**** cell
Objective: Professional and experienced Human Resources Manager with over
ten years experience maintaining employee relations, employee benefits and
payroll seeks long term employment with a company that can utilize my
experience and expertise.
Experience:
Concrete Polishing Technologies, Inc.
Human Resources Manager 08/12/2009 - Present
Duties include but not limited to maintaining employee relations,
recruiting, writing and administering HR policies and procedures, creating
job descriptions, conducting employee orientation and exit interviews.
Responsible for all HR personnel files, employee documentation and employee
discipline. Research and administration of benefit plans. Completing
weekly payrolls using Millennium software. Creation of compensation plans.
Responsible for workers compensation and legal compliance as well as
employee training on all company programs with the primary focus on safety.
Responsible for working with all managers in regards to HR training and
disciplinary issues.
ADESA Knoxville
Human Resource Manager/District HR Generalist 09/04/2000 - 07/14/2009
Duties included but not limited to maintaining employee relations,
administering HR policy, conducting employee orientation and exit
interviews, responsible for all personnel files and employment
documentation, administering benefits plans, completing payroll for the
entire auction, responsible for workers compensation and legal compliance
as well as employee training on all company wide programs including
workplace harassment, sexual harassment, legal and effective hiring and
terminations and all safety related programs. Responsible for training and
implementation of new HR software installation including Kronos, ADP,
Oracle and Recruit ax (Vurv). Responsible for training new hire HR managers
from many ADESA locations when required.
ITT Technical Institute
Executive Secretary 03/1991 - 09/2000
Executive Secretary for a facility that utilized my skills in Human
Resources by traveling to other locations to train new personnel. Duties
included, but not limited to HR policy administration, personnel
management, benefit administration and research of new benefit plans, new
hire orientation, workers compensation, creation of personnel files and
confidential retention of employment documentation, employee benefits and
implementing employee training programs. While employed, I wrote several
company handbooks that are still utilized today.
Affiliations
Member of Society for Human Resource Management
Education
Pursuing a Bachelor's of Business with Pellissippi State's parallel
transfer program to the University of Tennessee. GPA 3.5.