Matthew Fitzgerald

adxd28@r.postjobfree.com 213-***-**** 3224 Altura Walk, Los Angeles, CA 90031

Professional Skills

Identify and reference relevant policy, procedure, and guidelines for on-going and advanced practices applied to institutional processes and methods.

Experience

Senior Personnel Analyst

City of Los Angeles, 2006–Present

• Institute Diversity Equity Inclusion Justice policies mitigating past practices and paradigms.

• Investigate discrimination, harassment, and retaliation complaints.

• Provide direction to department executives to reverse past impact implement progressive training.

• Reference and apply Human Resources policy providing leadership in three separate City of Los Angeles Departments.

• Implement, track, and facilitate inclusive initiatives and policy advancement in recruitment, selection, hiring and promotions.

• Classification and position description, defining qualification, performance expectations evaluation, essential functions, and bonuses.

• Employee relations: investigating grievances and discipline developing resolution vis-à-vis numerous bargaining units represented SEIU, AFSCME, EAA, and Building Trades.

• Training Coordinator developing curricula and assigning requirements and conducting orientation and supervisor instruction.

• Coordinator for leave of absences including FMLA and reasonable accommodation.

• Record, track, and analyze employee records via several platforms including SAP, Kronos, SharePoint, PaySR, and dashboards using Power BI and other tools.

• Supervise staff processing and maintaining confidential documentation. Project Coordinator

Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, 2001–2006

• Provide guidance in formation of citywide system of Neighborhood Councils; identify, guide grassroots leadership in creation of inclusive bylaws and certification of first-time board members addressing City policy.

• Innovate and facilitate communications and on-going structures fulfilling City services.

• Liaison with department management in execution of priorities developed by grassroots stakeholder constituency.

Field Investigator

RAND Corp 2000–2001

• Initiate contact and conduct extensive civic access research survey with random households, skewed towards very poor.

• Conduct Woodcock-Johnson testing on youth: pre-K to High School.

Day Labor Community Job Center Coordinator

Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California 1996-2000

• Assemble and identify skills of those looking for work and match them with employers.

• Insure or retrieve wages of workers facing challenges.

• Provide lessons in English as a second language. Matthew Fitzgerald

Education

Loyola Marymount University, Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

Certification

Society for Human Resource Management, Senior Certified Professional

Volunteer Work

Healthy Homes Collaborative, EPA Lead Safe Rehabilitation Trainer KPFK, News Reporter/Producer

KXLU, Producer, Host Live Music Presenter, DJ