As People & Culture Business Partner Brandon supports the Distribution Center in a variety of People & Culture strategic initiatives, programs, projects, and processes. His role is the functional COE for the Distribution Center as it relates to supporting the business through all steps of the employee life cycle. He also works cross-functionally with Corporate P&C COE's as it relates to new processes and process improvement that affect the Distribution Center employee base. His role also assists with Employee Relations issues ensuring successful coaching and counseling leadership on maintaining positive employee relations and serve as a primary point of contact on determining resolution for a wide range of people-related issues.

As Learning Technology & Operations Analyst Brandon supports the Learning Management System (LMS Admin) and team within Talent Development & Learning. Provides escalated HR call center support to address inquiries and questions for the Learning Management System and bank compliance requirements. Maintains close relationship with Tier 1 support and provides guidance, issue resolution instruction, and support documentation. Responsible for creating and running reports, subscriptions, and distributing standardized reporting. Coordinate and manage team-level and across line of business projects. Conduct research, data analysis, and compilation in multiple formats. Supports team in scheduling meetings, preparing documents, agendas, reports, and event planning. Supports designated program(s) in coordination with consultants/ Program Manager. Coordinates with content vendors to update and maintain content libraries. Coordinates across functions to maximize partnerships and functional processes. Performs complex administrative duties. Maintains department shared drive document storage, clean up, and organization. Develops processes and procedures to improve efficiencies within the function. Works with in-house LMS team for content testing and publishing. Development and maintenance of internal Social Learning platform.

As Sr. HR Specialist, Ask HR Service Center, Brandon manages inbound emails and calls, initiates and updates case documents leveraging the case management system (Remedy). Resolves issues or directs inbound emails and callers to external contacts as necessary; e.g., Payroll, Talent Acquisition ER, Benefits. Researches issues and documents in Remedy as appropriate. Provides select data entry services, ensuring data integrity, accuracy, and timeliness. Processes inbound documentation. Provides support to employees and managers on Employee Self-Service and Manager Self-Service processing. Resolves data entry problems. Assists HR Specialists with escalated inquiries.

As HR Specialist, Associate Service Center, Brandon provided overall support to the Associate Service Center team including work with benefit and vendor systems administration. His responsibilities included assisting internal and external customers with benefit and vendor system related inquiries and issue resolution. Escalated complex issues to third party vendors for resolution. Provided overview of benefits for associates and managed data with vendors to complete enrollment for new associates. Routed and assigned issues via Tech Excel to appropriate internal departments with associate data changes into the payroll system; Completed Benefit Verification of Coverage letters for government agencies and for associates; Processed Medical Support orders; Processed government agency related employment verification. Initiated Onboarding and I-9 Processing. Monitored and followed up regarding issues for pre-employment processing. Assigned employee numbers and provided notification to appropriate areas of responsibility.

As Talent Acquisition Coordinator Brandon actively recruited top talent for current and future positions and supports the HR organization cross-functionally solving multi-functional issues by identifying root problems and advocating best practices to assist in maintaining compliance. In his position he was responsible ensuring timely and thorough completion of various administrative recruiting processes, procedures, data entry, posting, communication and reporting for all open positions in multiple Core HCM, HRIS, Compensation and Talent Management systems. He was also responsible for administering drug & alcohol policies, processes, procedures, and reporting for Company Policies and DOT Federal Regulations. He also assisted with DOT Driver Qualification compliance. He supervised and managed contract administrative staff.

As Recruiting Specialist Brandon was responsible for ensuring timely and thorough completion of various administrative recruiting processes for all open positions. In partnership with his team Brandon recruited for assigned temporary, hourly and/or seasonal positions in the environmental industry, including technical, scientific and corporate professionals. He also supported his team with the coordination, development, administration, and communication of recruiting processes to support the business needs of SWCA.

As Recruiting Coordinator for PeopleScout RPO Brandon was responsible for various administrative recruiting processes. In partnership with his team Brandon supported coordination, development, administration, and communication of recruiting processes presenting high quality talent to PeopleScouts's client ATCO Group (http://www.atco.com/).

As Candidate Specialist for Randstad Human Resources on assignment at Charles Schwab, Talent Acquisition (https://www.schwab.com/) Brandon was responsible for pre-screening applicant candidacy for high quality talent for licensed and unlicesned Investor & Institutional Services positions and movement of qualified candidates through the recruiting process. He partnered with Recruiters & Sourcing Specialist to analyze talent pipelines based on strategic talent attraction & sourcing models.

As Human Resources Coordinator for Superior Staff Resources Contract Employee on assignment at International Rectifier Corp., Epi Services (http://www.irf.com/indexsw.html) in partnership with the Human Resources Director, Brandon was responsible for coordination, development, administration, communication, and support of strategic human capital management strategies and compliance of personnel records for various business units in the World Wide Sales organization and the local Epi Services business unit.

(Contract position was transferred from DSS, Inc. (http://www.dsstemps.com/) in June 2009)As Recruiting Coordinator at Arizona Public Service Co. (http://www.aps.com/) with DZ Atlantic (a Day & Zimmerman Company) Brandon was responsible for supporting the recruiting function and acted as a subject matter expert to the on-boarding process of new hires. Brandon partnered with Recruiters and the Talent Acquisition department with coordination, development, administration, and communication of recruiting processes to support the business needs of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station.