Celene D. Wright
**** ******** ****, *** #*, Montgomery, Alabama 36106
************@*****.***
HR Skills
Contracts Management Staff Recruitment & Retention Orientation & On-Boarding
Support HRIS Technologies
Applicant Tracking Employment Verification Training & Development
Background Checks I-9 Compliance & E-Verify Personnel Records
HR Policies & Procedures Benefits Administration
Professional Experience
SDSE - Silver Spring, MD (Previous contractor EIS) 12/2010 - 8/2014
Administrative Assistant on U.S. Department of Labor Contract
1. Compile and maintain federal employee personnel records for the
Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation
(DEEOIC), update employee files to document personnel actions and to
provide information for human resources, payroll and other uses, and
eventually terminate files when employees leave the division or
organization.
2. Perform project administration tasks relating to, but not limited to,
setting up travel for the Director of the program, coordinating
position descriptions for divisions and staff personnel actions such
as benefit changes, employment status, personal information and
training and development.
3. Use DOL E-Procurement system to convert shopping cart requests
(requisitions over $3,000) into purchase orders, ensuring compliance,
budget, and departmental/agency policies and procedures are adhered
to. Tracking and coordination of contracts and purchases orders,
create and submit requisitions for program purchases under $3,000, and
prepare correspondence and reports as requested.
MCR - McLean, VA 6/2010 - 12/2010
Recruiting Associate
1. Assist senior recruitment staff members in the procurement and hiring
of employees, by posting jobs on internal and external job boards,
tracking applicants in Taleo, scheduling interviews, handling
telephone interviews, screening resumes, verifying employment
references, preparing and extending offers letters, new hire packets,
coordinating the on-boarding process, and tracking new hire paperwork
.
2. Maintaining recruiting reports using Excel, tracking department
expenses and budget, maintaining applicant tracking system,
maintaining state job boards, recruiting files and job advertisements,
and maintaining I-9s using E-Verify to confirm work authorization.
3. Act as Human Resources and Benefits Coordinator by on-boarding new
employees, creating personnel and benefits files, announcing new hires
and terminations, and assisting the Benefits manager.
NCW Resources - Rockville, MD (Contract position) 3/2010 - 5/2010
Human Resources Generalist for Global Defense Technologies & Systems (GTEC)
1. Functioning as Generalist by assisting Director of Human Resources and
another Generalist with special projects, in addition to providing HR
representation to the aggressively growing 276-employee division.
2. Responsible for creating verbiage for department communications,
assisting with executive salary reviews, new employee on-boarding,
maintaining and recommending improvement to company personnel records,
enter personnel changes in HRIS system and creating Excel spreadsheets
to track recruiter hires and bonus, tuition reimbursement, and
employee and contractor ID numbers.
Human Resources International - Vienna, VA (Contract position)
12/2009- 3/2010
Human Resources Coordinator for International Spy Museum
1. Reorganized approximately 150 employee files, ensuring they were
compliant, accurate, and sectioned off, identically. Conducted an
internal audit of the museum's I-9s, to decrease significant legal,
financial and public relations risks and ensure Employment Eligibility
Verification compliance.
2. Supported HR Generalist with coordinating employee reviews, in
addition to handling other administrative duties as assigned.
Enterprise Information Services (EIS) - Vienna, VA 2/2008 - 11/2009
Administrative Assistant on Department of Labor Contract 8/2009 - 11/2009
4. Provide a full range of administrative and support functions to the
Division of Federal Employees' and Energy Workers' Compensation, one
of the divisions in the Department of Labor's National Office of the
Solicitor.
5. Processes Power of Attorney (POA) Memorandums in accordance with the
procedures established by the Counsel for Energy Employees
Compensation.
Human Resources Coordinator 2/2008 - 8/2009
6. Provide Human Resources support to include distributing and tracking
signed offer letters, new hire processing, benefits administration,
employee relations, orientation, recruiting, personnel file
maintenance, and company employee communication, in addition to
auditing and following up on missing and incomplete paperwork, such as
benefits forms, proposal resumes, employment and degree verifications,
new hire paperwork, and personnel action forms.
7. Handled the on-boarding of more than 80 employees due to government
contract awarded to company, to include preparation and distribution
of offer letters, creating employee files, initiating compensation and
benefits, and providing assistance and follow-up on company policies,
procedures, and documentation.
8. Schedule and conduct orientation sessions for new associates to
familiarize them with basic personnel policies and benefits, assist
employees with in-processing paperwork, and process and maintain I-9
forms, as well as, inform on-site managers of the correct procedure
and guidelines to ensure I-9 compliance.
9. Process, verify, and maintain personnel related documentation,
including staffing, recruitment, training, grievances, performance
evaluations, classifications, and employee leaves of absence.
Georgetown University - Washington, DC 2/2006 - 7/2007
Human Resources Assistant, Medical Center
1. Managed Human Resource Information System (Genesys), which included
entering and maintaining salary and job information for Georgetown
employees to ensure they are paid correctly, in addition to ensuring
employees are accurately enrolled and terminated in the system.
2. Served as main point of contact, responding to department and employee
inquiries, as well as processing Genesys forms, processing
personnel/payroll actions, and other relevant processing for all
staff.
3. Provided administrative support to the Human Resource Generalists,
Director of Employment Services, Records Manager, Benefits Division
and medical departments in areas of employment verification,
recruitment, orientation, communicating employment policy and
procedure, and I-9 documentation and processing.
Intelsat - Washington, DC 8/2004 - 12/2005
Sr. Administrative Assistant, Human Resources
1. Managed Human Resource Information System (Oracle), in addition to
maintaining personnel files regarding salary and job information,
offer letters, contracts and performance evaluations or problems.
2. Execute a variety of complex administrative duties in support of the
Senior Director of Human Resources, corporate recruiters and other
department staff, such as setting up interviews and travel
accommodations for high profile applicants, creating organizational
charts and contract administration for contracted employees.
1. Designed and revised standard operating procedure Manual using
PowerPoint to instruct office staff on maintaining and updating the
Human Resources Information System.
Computer Skills
1. HRIS applications (Oracle, Genesys, Taleo) MS Office
(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook)
Education
Strayer University, Alexandria, VA MBA, Human Resources, GPA: 3.3
Cabrini College, Radnor, PA Bachelor of Arts, English and Communications,
GPA: 3.1
Celene D. Wright
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
1. Frances Riviere
Benefits Manager
EIS
Vienna, VA
2. Gaye Cotton
Senior Corporate Recruiter
MCR
Vienna, VA
3. John Horton
Vice President (no longer with organization)
Enterprise Information Services
Vienna, VA
4. Deborah Bassard
Senior Human Resources Generalist
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
5. Mary Spring
Senior Human Resources Generalist
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
6. Carrolyn Bostick
Senior Vice President, HR
Intelsat
Washington, DC
7. Meryl Williams
The MEW Group, LLC
1425 K Street, NW
Suite 350
Washington, DC 20005