Brian Dickerson Email & Phone Number

1000 Throckmorton Street, Fort Worth, Texas

Responsible for all areas of Human Resources and Risk Management functions of the country’s 17th largest and fastest growing large City including: employee relations, compensation, benefits, policy development, civil service, risk management and workers’ compensation. Accomplishments/experience: Lowered health plan costs by introducing health concierge services focusing on transparency; carving-out the prescription benefit with a pass-through pharmacy benefit manager (PBM); establishing a near-sight clinic for employees, retirees and dependents; better monitoring of member health and creating a tiered benefit structure that offers health plan members improved benefit levels. Restructured compensation and rewards structure to drive organization’s move to pay for performance. Lead major update of personnel rules and regulations. Restructured workers’ compensation program to provide better quality of care, with improved outcomes, that returns injured employees to work sooner.

757 North Galloway Avenue, Mesquite, Texas 75149

Responsible for all areas of Human Resources and Risk Management functions of the City including: employee relations, compensation, organizational development and training, benefits, policy development, civil service and workers’ compensation. Accomplishments/experience: Lowering cost of health plan by improving transparency that lead to a negative trend over a twenty-four month period; improved wellness program results that included a 50% reduction in tobacco use, installation of a fitness program and steerage of specialist referrals to high value providers; implemented updated automated applicant tracking and digitized personnel file systems to reduce transactional workload and increase compliance.

1640 Dallas Parkway, Plano, Texas 75093

Responsible for leading the build-out of the government and education book of business in the Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma region. Accomplishments/experience: built contacts with elected officials and staff members of governmental entities; identified and evaluated prospects; assisted in identifying strategies for proposals to address health care needs of the governmental entity; served as liaison between local offices and lobbyists; identified, screened and developed minority business firms for inclusion in proposals; determined and executed local marketing strategy; identified market trends and requirements; improved market awareness of CIGNA as an alternative health care provider; met sales goals for 2008 – 2010.

13000 William Dodson Parkway, Farmers Branch, Texas 75234

Responsible for all areas of Human Resources and Risk Management functions of the City including: employee relations, compensation, organizational development and training, benefits, policy development, and workers’ compensation. Accomplishments/ experience: drafting a comprehensive employee policy manual; redesigning the health plan and introduced a strong wellness program to address the City’s cost for employee healthcare that maintained a zero trend for 5 years; developing and introducing changes to reduce liability of retiree health; negotiating improvement to the City’s 457 Deferred Compensation Plan that lowered plan costs and improved quality of investment offerings; introducing the use of positive discipline; directing the automation of the benefits enrollment process; and developing and introducing on-line training to facilitate compliance and reduce training costs.

101 Abram Street, Arlington, Texas 76010

Responsible for directing and monitoring the development and operation of a broad spectrum of human resources functions including: employee relations, employee development and training, compensation, testing/selection, recruitment of personnel, workers compensation, benefits, policy development and other related human resources programs. Responsibilities also involved the supervision and development of professional, technical and support staff. Accomplishments/ experience: creation of an award winning series communicating employee benefits; introduced an integrated disability management (IDM) program for workers’ compensation to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the program and productivity of the workforce; restructured organization’s personnel policy manual into a more employee friendly format; facilitated introduction and implementation of Discipline Without Punishment strategy into discipline process; developed and implemented organizational pay practices to ensure the organization’s competitiveness in a number of labor market environments including skill-based pay plans; facilitated department consultant model paradigm shift to improve service to employees and management; and initiated a number of outsourcing processes to improve service and reduce costs.