Alajuwon O. Norman

MCAS Beaufort, Box *****, Beaufort, South Carolina 29904

Cell: 980-***-**** / Email: acrkgi@r.postjobfree.com

Work: 843-***-**** / acrkgi@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Mid-Level Assistant Human Resource Manager transitioning from the US Marine Corps to the civilian realm- tour of duty ends November of 2015. Honorably served over 9 years, of dedicated service to military bases, U.S. Embassies & Consulates, and various government facilities around the world. Adopted strong communication, teamwork, analysis, judgment and customer focused skills with a passion to help others and succeed!

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

- Planning & Budgeting

- Verbal & Written Communication Skills

- Crisis Management

- Microsoft Project

- Diversity Issues

- Leading and Managing a team

- Database & Transaction Management System (IBM)

- Logistics Management of Personnel

- Forecasting and analysis

- Certified Six Sigma Black Belt

(ID#: 218***********)

- SharePoint

- Inactive Top Secret SCI Clearance

- OSHA Certification (ID#: 18-900******)

- Collecting & Analyzing Data

- Meeting Management

- Defense Travel System (DTS)

- Resource management

- Manpower Planning

EXPERIENCE

Sep 13 – Present Mid-Level Human Resource Manager /Safety Coordinator/Project Manger

MCAS Beaufort, South Carolina

Over 9 years of specialized combined experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 in:

Monitoring the actions of superiors and subordinates towards each other and customers, to be sure that company and government policies and regulations are followed. Ensure compliance and provide assistance to individuals and Division Directors/Managers with the execution of responsibilities. Help manage and implement the Division’s Managerial Internal Control Program and Procedures.

Coordinate a schedule for monthly administrative meetings with Division Directors/Managers and/or representative. Support Division Directors/Managers and individuals with flexible customer service and support as needed.

Assist in the development of extensive policies, to help improve administration of the labor relation programs; this implementation directly caused for my installation being the highest rated Installation Personnel Administrative Center in the entire Marine Corps, with an overall rating of 90.7 %.

Developing programs that engage the employee in an on-going professional development process help build a dynamic workforce. Identifying aggravating and mitigating factors, relevant to identify underlying cause of misconduct and/or poor performance, supporting an office of five personnel to process out over 700 military service members in under 5 months.

Write plans, policies, and procedures to establish guidelines for administration of the labor and employee relations programs, acting as an Assistant Human Resource Manager. Led an office of 5 personnel, processing over 200 Permanent Change of Assignments, 320 Permanent Change of Station, and 190 retirements.

Counseled over 300 individuals in retirement pay earnings and compensations. Work with automated personnel computer systems and software in effecting personnel actions and completing work assignments.

Assisting and coordination the overseeing spending of Government Card Holders, ensuring that correct and legal purchases were being made.

Supervise all HR and administrative actions in my section, which consist of over 700 service members and 300 civilians. Daily consult with managers, supervisors, employees, etc. to interpret and apply laws, regulations, policies, etc. on various Human Resources functions.

Assist in the management the operating budget, manpower, resources and facilities in performance of the battalion/division responsibilities, along civil service members and contractors. Responsible for and adherences of all aspects of Marine Corps and government standards.

Explains the standards, classification decisions, impact of designated duties on classification, and complaint and appeal procedures to employees, supervisors, and operating officials or managers.

Analyzing current civilian strength, vacancies, and projected gains/losses to develop reports for review by management to determine man hour requirements. Manage and review all correspondences and other materials prepared for the information and signature of the Command Group Senior Leader for appropriate grammatical, clarity, content, coordination, and proper routing/coordination of staff actions.

Manages the evaluation systems for the command including the integrity, timeliness, and quality of active duty and reserve officer and enlisted fitness report (FITREP) and evaluation reports. * Required. Manages the board process for special awards and provides approved board members with nomination packages, scoring sheets and general instructions.

Developing, coordinating, and maintaining an integrated system of administrative services, by evaluating recruitment process to identify process improvements and performing analysis of staffing plan to determine employee placement and future forecast manning levels. Advising management on performance plans to improve consistency.

Responsible for tracking and monitoring all pay and entitlements for over 4,000 personnel aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort; Also auditing, resolving pay discrepancies and submit requests for pay adjustments or special payments to the Disbursing Officer.

Ensures hazardous and sensitive materials or equipment are properly stored, labeled, and proper disposal procedures are followed. Ensures safety equipment is on hand and serviceable.

Store and stage ammunition, explosives and hazardous material in proper warehouse locations.

Ensuring surrounding facilities are adhering to OSHA standards and ergonomically sound. Implement, interpret, analyze, adapt, and evaluate the full range of safety and health policies and conduct security investigations as needed.

Responsible for ensuring the implementation and enforcing of the Division Directors/Managers regulations and policies are carried out on Equal Opportunity, FOIA, HIPAA, Sex Assault, and Suicide Prevention.

Assisting the Safety Director, in implementing safety policies and regulations. Analyzing accident data, new processes, and machinery for potential safety concerns and conduct job hazard and job safety analyses. Saving the base millions dollars a year on MCAS Beaufort South Carolina.

Provided over 26,000 hours of training in safety policies, principles and regulations.

Managed the base wide project of implementing VPP. (VPP is an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) initiative that encourages private industry and federal agencies to prevent workplace injuries and illnesses through hazard prevention and control, worksite analysis, training; and cooperation between management and workers.

Implements plans, policies and procedures to comply with DOD, DA, OSHA and Department of the Navy safety regulations and directives. Provides technical expertise to managers and supervisors in establishing techniques and procedures for the eliminations or control of unsafe behaviors, environments and hazards.

Developing annual safety and health goals, to help cut MCAS Beaufort cut in over government cost.

Assisting the Safety Manager in regards to incident investigations and corrective action follow-through and tracking in ESAMS/CAPA database.

Dec 12 - Sep 13 Division Human Resource Manager Assistant/Budget Specialist/Government Credit Card Holder/Division Legal Specialist Assistant

Combat Logistic Battalion 451, Charlotte, North Carolina

Independently performed a variety of budgetary, supporting administrative and statistical analysis functions to justify support budget formulation and submission to branch or division level budget analyst.

Coordinated the timely submission of budget estimates by line program managers and staff officials in the sub-components. Performed tasks involving budget execution by compiling resource data from various financial management reports for the whole division worth more than 100 million dollars

Reviewed and analyzed budget requests submitted by sub organizational activities to ensure their consistency, accuracy, and adherence to instructions. Researched, consolidated, and summarized budgetary data from source documents, automated budgetary systems, accounting records, and reports for use in preparing budget estimates and annual financial plans.

Applied government travel regulations and procedures to process complex travel transactions and coordinate the government travel card program, for over200temporary additional duties.

Monitored Government Purchase card processes and procedures ensuring that supplies are ordered, other card holder’s payments are reconciled, and ensuring card holder ratio is not exceeded.

Acted as a liaison between Citibank and a division of over 4000 personnel.

Provided legal and technical support to Marines and Sailors and other technical/professional positions in the processing of claims filed under the provisions of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

Assignments consist of processing more complex hearing cases where analysis of pertinent issues and interpretation of the provisions of the laws, regulations, rulings, precedents, policies, procedures and guidelines relative to the cases is necessary.

Providing legal assistance in getting personnel out of contracts before deployments or prolong temporary additional duties.

Reviewing and analyzing case materials to become familiar with the case or matter. Creating and maintaining litigation case files of pleadings, discovery documents, and correspondence. Organizing and maintaining legal and other reference materials.

Arranging travel reservations; preparing and completing necessary travel authorizations and vouchers; and coordinating with appropriate offices to ensure prompt payment.

Dec 09 – Dec 12 Diplomatic, Embassy Security Guard/Project Manager/Administrative Support Specialist

U.S. Marine Corps/Department Of State

U.S Embassy: Colombia, Cambodia, Serbia, Venezuela, Indonesia, China, & Malaysia

Implemented extensive interpretations of labor and employee policies at, at least 7 different embassies, improving Diplomacy and diplomatic relations.

Advised Senior Leadership (Ambassadors, Regional Security Officer, FBI/CIA/, and Foreign diplomats/foreigners)

Coordinates with manpower and personnel representatives to update significant career information and ensure career data is accurate in the personnel systems. Advises senior leadership, managers, supervisors, and other command officials on changes affecting programs and assists the organization by evaluating modifications to existing plans in response to changing environments.

Planned, coordinated and supervised extensive contract activities and served as the principal representative for 4 top military ceremonies combined totaling in over 4 million dollars. The ceremonies were a project of that consisted in the coordination of Ambassadors, Senators, Royals, top foreign officials, along with the coordination of security.

Assisted in the strategic planning of a distributions compensation and overtime, in preparation for embassy visits from the President of the United States, Sectary of States, and many high and senior officials.

Supervised the coordination (with CIA, FBI, ATA, USSS, and Regional Security) of 5 direct acquisitions of over 3 million dollars in ammunition and weapons, to help in the protection of the Embassy and personnel.

Advised Senior Leadership such as the Ambassadors, Regional Security Officer, and numerous government agencies, on safety and security risk. Meeting or exceeding all performance requirements.

Support field elements by developing, managing, reviewing, and overseeing operational support programs. Performs pass and identification services for entry onto installation.

Chosen to supervise the management of over 5 detachments and over 800 Local Guard Force personnel, to assist in the continuance of safety regulations and maintaining a 100 percent safety and security readiness, on all embassies I was put in charge of.

Supported the ISO / OHSAS Management System as needed.

Enforced, reviewed, maintained and recommended safety policies and procedures.

Selected 5 times to assist the Secret Service with the visits of the President of the U.S., Secretary of State, and Secretary of the Navy; providing safety guidance for employees and supervisors. Participated daily in discussions, meetings and conferences with Agency officials, subject matter specialists; and senior technical personnel and Departmental and industry representatives to secure and provide information concerning security matters and problems; discuss recommendations, conclusions, and alternatives; and develop solutions to immediate, anticipated or potential problems of a complex nature involving the applicability of security regulations and procedures.

Maintained close liaison with federal, state, municipal, and private industry to obtain safety practices to military methods. May coordinate utilization of laboratories, equipment and safety training materials and/or facilities.

Surveyed, planned, implemented, and managed safety policies/security plans and programs around the world. Assisted in saving over 5 billion dollars in government assets.

Taught/Demonstrated safety policies up to 2 people, to a group of 120 individuals

Hand-picked to go to 4 other embassies to improve safety, security and evacuation plans/programs.

Successfully assisted in the supervision of 3 real embassy threats and over 15 embassies training exercises.

Jan2006 – Dec 2009 Human Resources Clerk/ Files and Records Clerk

U.S. Marine Corps, MAG 39 Camp Pendleton, California

Assisted in all administrative actions assigned to me.

Provide assistance and administrative support to specialists in the workgroup, gather and analyze automated or manual data and apply knowledge of training operations and systems.

Successfully assisted in maintaining all records for over 4,000 Marines.

Served as member of the executive environmental health and safety committee

Assisted in developing and delivering training to employees as needed.

Maintained all unit/facility files.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

University of Maryland College (online)/BS Environmental Health & Safety/2015

Certified Safety Professional Certification (CSP) /Beaufort, SC/2015

Certified Hazardous Materials Manager Certification (CHMM) /Beaufort, SC/2015

OSHA regulations, standards, and guidelines/Beaufort, SC/2014

U.S. Marine Corps/Department of State Training: Crowd Control, Risk Management, Safety & Security violation investigations, Bomb Searching, Hazardous Waste Generation and Handling, Leadership/Quantico, VA/2009 – 2013

Personnel Administrative School/Jacksonville, NC /2007

United States Marine Corps/Jacksonville, NC/2006

University of South Carolina, Upstate /Spartanburg, SC/2006

Paul M. Dorman High School/Roebuck, SC/2005

CERTIFICATIONS AND CLEARANCES

Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (ID#: 218***********)

30 hour OSHA (ID#: 18-900******) certifications in:

oConfined Space

oFall Protection

oMachine Guarding

oPersonal Protective Equipment

oStairways and Ladder Safety

oSafety and Health Programs

oHearing Conservation

oBloodborne Pathogens

oErgonomics

oLockout/Tagout Energy Control Program

oFlammable and Combustible Liquids

Certified in first aid/CPR.

Extensive knowledge in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Inactive Top Secret Clearance SCI

RECOGNITION

Receiving a “Certificate of Commendation” for getting a noteworthy or having a flawless inspection. My team ended up having the best Human Resources facility throughout the Marine Corps.

Honored with 2 Navy & Marine Corps Medals, for improving embassy security plans.

4 letter of commendations and job recommendations.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

I’m currently implementing/starting my nonprofit organization, “Pen Pals United.” I’m also in the process of implementing it in Nepal.

REFERENCES

Available on request.

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