Debbie Ruth Email & Phone Number

3747 Roswell Road

Marietta, Georgia

• Served as a resource to parents and teachers for school and county policies and systems issues.
• Managed administrative records, registration and data entry for students.
• Initiated problem solving for parents and teachers -- management received positive feedback.
• Gave school tours and served as first point of contact for large school.

• Managed nursery staff of twenty-plus personnel for a large Methodist Church of 5000 plus members.
• Addressed human resources issues and enforce nursery policies.
• Hired staff members as needed.
• Educated staff members and parents on nursery policies.
• Built relationships with departments church-wide.

Atlanta

• Created effective brochures and marketing collateral for IBM sales employees.
• Developed communications summaries.
• Maintained IBM marketing standards and procedures.

Atlanta, GA

• Wrote magazine articles and press releases for local Atlanta publications.
• Wrote web site copy.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Managed communications between Hewitt teams and clients such as Sears and Wachovia.
• Served as a daily resource to the Hewitt benefits team for all client and health plan and systems communications.
• Planned and executed detailed presentations and conference calls on an ongoing basis with each client to ensure that their understanding of Hewitt’s services and systems was clear.
• Educated health plans world-wide about complex eligibility process; extensive communications skills needed.
• Managed the health benefits annual enrollment process for four large clients.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Resolved daily issues for benefits, system and HR policies.
• Managed national HMO vendor relationships and communications.
• Assisted in benefits planning and design for national health and welfare strategies.
• Trained human resources representatives in 35 field offices on health and welfare issues including medical, dental, life, disability, retiree medical, HIPAA and Company policies.
• Coordinated annual benefits enrollment with vendors, other team members and field HR.
• Conducted benefits meetings for acquisition employees for Coca-Cola Enterprises.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Consulted with employees and line managers on benefits issues.
• Administered HMO’s, PPO’s, Life AD&D and LTD plans.
• Managed domestic and international employee and carrier relations.
• Provided benefits and human resources policy orientations for new employees.
• Wrote and coordinated production of summary plan descriptions.

Abj, Journalism

Activities and Societies: University of Georgia Women's Glee Club Student Public Relations Society of Americastudied courses in.

English

Undergraduate coursework with a focus in English.