Dedra Lynette Mitchell

Summary:

Dedra has ample years of working experience as Senior Benefits & Retirement Specialist, Benefits/Retirement Specialist, Recruitment/Staffing & Classification Specialist, Human Resources Staffing Specialist, Human Resources Generalist etc.

Proficient in Senior Benefits and Retirement Benefits and Payroll.

Used the following systems and programs to process Federal Government benefits such as: ECOMP, SPPS, WEB T&A, SNOW, RETM, DPRW, PINQ, ABCO, EHRI, AWS, Microsoft Office, IRIS and EOPF

Provides expert level advice in the areas of retirement, insurance, health benefits.

Maintain and update personnel information in integrated data base system (idb) regarding teacher actions for reassignment, conversion to permanent status, academic salary lane changes, transfers and new hires. I provide training to personnel assistants on use of defense civilian personnel data system (dcpds) and idb.

To secure a responsible career opportunity with a reputable company, where She can fully utilize his skills and training, while making a significant contribution to the success of the company.

Skills:

Senior Benefits

Retirement Specialist

HRIS Software

Payroll

Recruitment/Staffing

Human Resources

Benefits Analyst

Retirement Analyst

Administrative Specialist

Microsoft Office

Education:

Getty’s D. Broome HS Spartanburg, SC 1981

High School or equivalent (Major: Business Administration)

Professional Summary:

YRCI Inc., Fairfax, VA

Feb 2023 to Present

Benefits & Retirement Specialist

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Rividium Inc., Manassas – VA Dec 2021 to Mar 2022

Senior Benefits & Retirement Specialist

Provide human resources support services to the serviced area in a timely and professional manner.

Review and authenticate a wide variety of human resources actions such as pay adjustments, pay lane changes, reassignments, conversions, summer appointments, separation actions and related documents for regulatory compliance.

Assure personnel actions are accurate prior to signature

Ensure timely and correct submission of sf-50’s and related documents to payroll.

Verify personnel actions have interfaced with automated payroll database.

Audits and ensures timely corrections are made to official personnel folders ensuring all federal service is included.

Provided technical advice and assistance on a variety of staffing issues. I communicate with payroll to resolve discrepancies in actions and provide timely responses.

Maintain and update personnel information in integrated data base system (idb) regarding teacher actions for reassignment, conversion to permanent status, academic salary lane changes, transfers and new hires.

Provide training to personnel assistants on use of defense civilian personnel data system (dcpds) and idb.

Review applicable guidelines, standard operating procedures (sops), and regulations governing personnel practices as pertains to special inquiries.

Coordinate and interface w/ functional program managers to obtain assistance where information or guidance is required from other organizational elements or complex or substantive outside agencies to resolve personnel issues.

Analyze information provided by other as required to answer to employee inquiries.

Also perform a variety of advisory services related to basic federal employee benefit program entitlements; provide technical information to routine inquiries about options available to the employee regarding retirement, health, life insurance policies, unemployment compensation, and TSP.

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Washington - DC Feb 2012 to Jan 2021

Benefits/Retirement Specialist

Provides expert level advice in the areas of retirement, insurance, health benefits.

Coordinates with Human Resources policy staff on the interpretation of policy issuances, regulations, and laws relative to Employee Benefits.

Process all retirement estimates and retirement applications on a daily basis, along with providing expert retirement counseling to all servicing Headquarters employee as well as the Field Office employee.

Developed agency-wide policy, plans, and procedures for the agency’s benefits programs, including health and life insurance, retirement (Civil Service Retirement System (CSPR), Federal Employees Retirement (FERS).

Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA), thrift savings plan, leave, and employee compensation.

Served as a staff advisor to top management officials providing authoritative advice and guidance and participating in making contributions to management decisions that involve employee benefits.

Assist all eligible employees in their preparing to retire, processed all death cases and counseled the survivors on their benefits and insurance issues.

Processed Military Deposits, Service Credit Deposits, Service Computation dates and request for unclaimed service. In addition

Used the following systems and programs to process Federal Government benefits such as: ECOMP, SPPS, WEB T&A, SNOW, RETM, DPRW, PINQ, ABCO, EHRI, AWS, Microsoft Office, IRIS and eopf

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Washington, DC Mar 2010 to Feb 2012

Recruitment/Staffing & Classification Specialist

Served as a Human Resources Specialist on a broad and complex program areas that have national and mission-critical impact, such as advising on the implementation of recruitment and placement strategies to address government streamlining initiatives.

Made recommendations concerning overall plans and proposals of complex projects that impact policy and precedents and require significant departure from previous practices.

Provided advice, guidance and consultation to management officials and colleagues on important problems and developments in the areas of recruitment and selection strategy; interpretation of policies, regulations and standards; and methodologies to use in dealing with potential problem areas.

Coordinated recruitment program strategies with the Special employment Program Managers and Veterans Employment Program Managers to meet agency goals.

Provide operational and advisory services on recruitment and placement actions that require identification and analysis of management staffing problems and resolutions form a total personnel management viewpoint.

Performed cradle to grave HR operations to include creating/modifying job analyses and crediting plans; creating assessment tools within USA Staffing; creating and posting MP &DEU Job Opportunity Announcements (joas); issuing and auditing certificates; making tentative and confirmed job offers

Serve as a liaison between local managers and the HQ or ASC to properly ad vise on human resources issues.

Responds to management requests for information, analyses, recommendations, projections and evaluations on issues to include employment, staffing, pay administration, and processing executing services for all employees in the assigned areas.

Provide customer services to managers, supervisors, and employees on a variety of issues affecting human resources utilization, which includes position classification, position management, pay setting actions, staffing, (including, but not limited to: special employment such as the Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) and the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) for Displaced Employees, merit staffing, Delegated Examining Unit (DEU) authority for positions ranging from grades GS-01 through GS-15), internal placement, and personnel payroll processing.

Independently advises management on job analysis techniques, crediting plan development, the identification of core competencies, selective placement and quality ranking factors, and other recruitment components.

Develop vacancy announcements, recruitment advertisements, brochures, and recruitment mechanisms. Determines qualification of applicants and conducts and certifies panel deliberations.

Prepares selection certificates and notifies employees of selection and non-selection. Coordinates entrance on duty dates (EOD) with Headquarters and Field program offices, the Office of the Chief Information Technology (OCIO IT), the Employee Services (ESC), and the Administrative Resources Division (ARD).

Conducts orientation and in-processing sessions with newly appointed employees.

Receive and act upon requests for desk audits, position reviews, and reclassification.

Perform desk audits; evaluates positions against prevailing Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Classification Standards, Guides and Decisions and prepares appropriate evaluation statements.

Provides advice and interpretive guidance to employees, administrative officers, supervisors and managers on regulatory and policy documents such as 5CFR, OPM guidance, Labor Agreements, Departmental operating policies

HHS (Health & Human Services, Rockville, Maryland Aug 2008 to Mar 2010

Human Resources Staffing Specialist

Serves as Human Resources Specialist providing a variety of personnel management services including management advisory functions in the areas of position classification and wage administration, recruitment and placement, and organizational design.

Performs the full range of classification and position management-related duties for a complex, multi-mission organization.

Analyzes serviced organizations for productivity and efficiency gains, and provides recommendations to management officials on the most effective work processes, organizational structures, etc.

Provides managers, employees, and job applicants with information and interpretations of the agency's recruitment and placement and placement procedures, practices, policies, and guidelines.

Reviews recruitment and placement actions and provides guidance on complex and/or sensitive issues, such as those that differ from past practices, involve highly visible or political situations, or involve employment of relatives.

Provides solutions to problems pertaining to such issues as recruitment, retention, motivation, and economy.

Provides managers and lower graded specialists with technically authoritative on issues that affect the organization's efficiency, such as the assignment of work, work schedules, and the use of contract employees.

DODEA, Personnel Center, 4040 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA Oct 2007 – Aug 2008

Human Resources Specialist

Provide human resources support services to the serviced area in a timely and professional manner.

Review and authenticate a wide variety of human resources actions such as pay adjustments, pay lane changes, reassignments, conversions, summer appointments, separation actions and related documents for regulatory compliance.

Assure personnel actions are accurate prior to signature

Ensure timely and correct submission of sf-50’s and related documents to payroll. I verify personnel actions have interfaced with automated payroll database.

Audits and ensures timely corrections are made to official personnel folders ensuring all federal service is included.

Provided technical advice and assistance on a variety of staffing issues.

Communicate with payroll to resolve discrepancies in actions and provide timely responses.

Maintain and update personnel information in integrated data base system (idb) regarding teacher actions for reassignment, conversion to permanent status, academic salary lane changes, transfers and new hires. I provide training to personnel assistants on use of defense civilian personnel data system (dcpds) and idb.

Review applicable guidelines, standard operating procedures (sops), and regulations governing personnel practices as pertains to special inquiries.

Coordinate and interface w/ functional program managers to obtain assistance where information or guidance is required from other organizational elements or complex or substantive outside agencies to resolve personnel issues. Analyze information provided by other as required to answer to employee inquiries.

Also perform a variety of advisory services related to basic federal employee benefit program entitlements; provide technical information to routine inquiries about options available to the employee regarding retirement, health, life insurance policies, unemployment compensation, and tsp.

STG International DODEA, Arlington, VA Jun 2007 – Oct 2007

Human Resources Specialist

Assigned to the DoDEA Personnel Center, provide Human Resources services pertaining to reviewing and auditing Official Personnel Folders identifying data that needs to be corrected and assuring all the correct information and actions are in chronological order.

Comparing data from the OPF to what is currently in the EOPF for the agency.

NASA Goddard Space Center - GRA (Government Contractor), Greenbelt Road, US Oct 2006 – May 2007

Human Resources Consultant

The reviewing of 3120 Official Personnel Folders for Tenure, Veterans Preference, Veterans Preference for RIF, Retirement Code, Retirement Service Computation Date (SCD), Leave (SCD), RIF (SCD) validated and ensured each OPF contains the proper documentation in the OPF that supports the determination.

identified any issues that to be corrected and to be given to the GSFC HR Specialist to research and validate the specific data.

Processed the correct SCD for these employees using the GRB Calculator on a daily basis with a quota of 16 Official Personnel Folders per day

Snelling Personnel Services (Government Contractor), Washington, DC US Feb 2007 – May 2007

Human Resources Generalist

Assigned to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Office of the Deputy Administrator for Operations and Management.

Provide human resource services pertaining to the reviewing purging, and data corrections of Official Personnel Files (OPFs) for the Personnel Services Branch.

Dept of Commerce (NOAA) STG International (Contractor), Bldg 4 East west Highway US Jul 2006 to Sep 2006

Program Manager

The Program Manager for this project supervised a team of 12 employees located at all the Satellite servicing Personnel Offices in four different states.

Made routine visits to the sites to perform informal training to the new employees that was working on the project for the Department of Commerce.

Responsible for retrieving and purging Official Personnel Folders from a secured file room. Conducting a search for completed NACI Background Investigations for the agency employees.

Recorded the dates of these investigations on an Excel Spread sheet daily.

Responsible for removing the requested documents instructed by the Human Resources Department.

While purging these folders and placing the purged documents on the correct side of the OPF, using the OHR Dept Guide for record keeping.

Maintained a status report of all completed work for all sites, attended weekly staff meetings with the status of all work performed.

GRA -(Contractor) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington May 2006 – Jul 2006

Senior Benefits Spec/Counselor

As the Benefits Specialist reviewed Official Personnel Folders of employees planning to retire, prepared the annuity estimates based on the information from the OPF.

Counseled the retiree on their all their monthly annuities, benefits, survivor annuities if applicable.

The final process is to input the Retirement action into the FPPS payroll system to ensure accurate flow to the payroll office.

Prepared final Retirement packet for to be forward to the employee.

ESI (Economic Systems), Falls Church US Apr 2006 – May 2006

Benefits Spec

Reviewed and analyzed employee's Official Personnel Folders to determine and calculate a Retirement Estimate for eligibility for retirement.

Once the estimate is prepared, provided all necessary documents for the employee to begin the retirement process. Counseled employee on all their Health Benefits, Life Insurance, Retirement Annuity, and Survivor Annuities as well.

Made sure the applications were completed correctly and forward all documents to the Office of Personnel Management and the servicing payroll office for final transactions.

Performed all these duties under minimal supervision and reported all status to the Director of Human Resources on a weekly basis.

FPIMI Solutions (KPMG FERRCA Project), Washington US May 2005 – Dec 2005

Benefits Analyst/ Retirement Analyst

Extrapolate relevant data from records and document on payroll, TSP and Social Security statements from various government agencies.

Reading and understanding how to transfer this information to the ESI FERCCA Calculator.

Entering all creditable service time, military and government.

Enter payroll history and calculating adjustments, and TSP contributions and historical data.

Enter all civilian or military deposits and redeposit and make-up contributions.

Enter all information such as military duty, USERRA restoration rights having knowledge on how to apply these rights and special retirement plans.

Create the Election Summary Package to send to the employee for counseling.

Union Hospital Nov 2004 – Apr 2005

Human Resources Assistant

Posted and updated all current vacancies for the Hospital and supporting clinics for the Affinity Health Alliance Group.

On a daily basis would download application from outside sources and distribute to the appropriate recruiters for referral.

served as the liaison for all the supporting Physicians’ offices within the Health Alliance Group. Posted all vacancies to all outside resources in Baltimore, and the surrounding counties as well as the USA Job Bank.

Assisted in New Employee Orientations on a monthly basis and made sure all new employees employment information as correct and ready to input into our system and sent to payroll.

Provided all clerical and administrative duties as assigned

FPMI Solutions (Government Contractor) Mar 2004 – Jun 2004

Classification Consultant

Duties included making FLSA Determinations for Federal Employees who were exempted from duty to participate in mandatory overtime Temporary Duty Travel Pay in accordance with Federal Government Regulatory Guidelines.

Determined and applied Qualification Standard for all General Scale and Wage Grade positions.

NCS Pearson (Government Contractor) Jul 2002 – Dec 2003

Senior Benefits Specialist

As the Team Leader for the Benefits team I Health Benefits, and Life Insurance forms for the employees employed with the Transportation Security Agency for all airports throughout the US.

As the central Human Resource office, I performed a variety of Customer Service duties to include answering Help line Inquiries and counseling employees on all benefits issues.

Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), Arlington, VA Nov 1995 – Jul 2002

Human Resources Generalist

Employee Development, Staffing/Recruitment, Classification, Technical Services Asst., and Benefits Specialist.

Recruiting strategies from the GS-1 to Executive Level.

This preparation of executive recruitment packages from advertisement of the position to actual submission of the packet for candidate approval.

wrote vacancy announcements, requested OPM certificates of eligible, developed crediting plans, performed qualification analysis, rated and ranked candidates for positions, verified within grade increases due dates, verified career promotion eligibility and time after competitive appointment restrictions.

advised managers on the most efficient and appropriate means of accomplishing various personnel actions. I was responsible for making job offers to candidates selected for positions.

was responsible for classifying positions based on submitted position descriptions as well as any additional information deemed necessary, such as, desk audits, work samples, etc.

On few occasions, was asked to write position descriptions for positions in the personnel office. Other duties included advising manages on position description preparation as well as position management.

Responsible for oversight of employee benefits including Health Benefits determinations, life insurance, leave, death benefits, retirement computations, counseling and preparing retirement packages for all qualified retirees.

Also, administered the Thrift savings Open Season events and daily basis processed the submission of all TSP enrollments.

Our agency provided Human Resource services for all the Department of Defense Schools statewide and Overseas schools.

97th General Hospital, Dept of Army Sep 1991 – Jun 1995

Receptionist/Unit Clerk

Performed the duties of receptionist in the Orthopedics Department, greeting patients, scheduling appointments and surgeries for the department surgeons.

Filed and maintained information in patients’ medical records. Assisted in minor casting procedures.

Acted as the point of contact for all meetings and scheduled seminars for the department.

Responsible for ordering all supplies for the department.

United States Army Feb 1982 – May 1985

Administrative Specialist/Military Personnel Spec

Performed variety of administrative and clerical duties at preceding levels of skills to provided technical guidance on administrative issues.

Established and maintained contract files, prepared a variety of military correspondences.

Served as a principal supervisor of the mail and distribution section responsible for routing of correspondence throughout the installation and command Headquarters.

Organized, maintained, and reviewed both officers and enlisted personnel records.

Entered and retrieved personnel information on the SIDPERS system. Provided career guidance, in the assignment of military orders /duty station on military installations for Army personnel staff.

Assisted with change in duty assignment when personnel had a conflict due to family problems.

Prepared correspondence, organizational charts and prepared reports for the Battalion S1 operation.

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