Jason Preston Email & Phone Number

- Interview applicants about their experience, education and skills.- Contact references and perform background checks.- Inform applicants about job details such as benefits and conditions.- Hire or refer qualified candidates.- Conduct new employee orientations.- Process paperwork.- Bridge management and employee relations by addressing demands, grievances or other issues.- Advise managers on policies like equal employment opportunity and sexual harassment.- Direct disciplinary procedures.- Maintains employee benefits programs.- Ensures legal compliance by monitoring and implementing applicable human resource federal and state requirements; conducting investigations; maintaining records; representing the organization at hearings.- Maintains management guidelines by preparing, updating, and recommending human resource policies and procedures.- Maintains historical human resource records keeping past and current records.- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.- Updates payroll records by reviewing and approving changes in exemptions, insurance coverage, savings deductions, and job titles, and department/ division transfers.- Pays employees by directing the production and issuance of paychecks or electronic transfers to bank accounts.- Maintains employee confidence and protects payroll operations by keeping information confidential.- Participating in administrative staff meetings- Nurture a positive working environment

Woodstock, Ct

Daily Job Duties:• Answering employee questions• Processing incoming mail• Creating and distributing documents• Providing customer service to organization employees• Serving as a point of contact with benefit vendors/administrators• Maintaining computer system by updating and entering dataRecruitment/New Hire Process:• Participating in recruitment efforts• Posting job ads and organizing resumes and job applications• Scheduling job interviews and assisting in interview process• Collecting employment and tax information• Ensuring background and reference checks are completed• Preparing new employee files• Overseeing the completion of compensation and benefit documentation• Orienting new employees to the organization (setting up a designated log-in, workstation, email address, etc.)• Conducting benefit enrollment process• Administering new employment assessments• Serving as a point person for all new employee questionsPayroll and Benefits Administration:• Processing payroll, which includes ensuring vacation and sick time are tracked in the system• Answering payroll questions• Facilitating resolutions to any payroll errors• Participating in benefits tasks, such as claim resolutions, reconciling benefits statements, and approving invoices for paymentRecord Maintenance:• Maintaining current HR files and databases• Updating and maintaining employee benefits, employment status, and similar records• Maintaining records related to grievances, performance reviews, and disciplinary actions• Performing file audits to ensure that all required employee documentation is collected and maintained• Performing payroll/benefit-related reconciliations• Performing payroll and benefits audits and recommending any correction action• Completing termination paperwork and assisting with exist interviews

Woodstock, Ct

• Documents all necessary information including daily log entries, incident reports, and data collection.• Administers medication following physician orders and the Dept. of Developmental Services guidelines while keeping accurate records. State of CT Medication Administration certified.• Maintains client’s medication inventory by performing scheduled medication counts and ordering/receiving medication as needed.• Manage client’s schedules and accompany to doctor’s visits or other appointments.• Follow care plan, company regulations, and safety practices at all times.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

• Light and sound board technician.• Maintenance and hanging of stage light instruments.• Flying of scenery and drapery.• Set construction, scenic painting, prop design and fabrication.

Putnam, Connecticut

• Created weekly schedules for a staff of 12 and executed payroll management.• Trained store managers on store standards and practices, often being the point of contact for questions on company policies.• Monitored and maintained concession and office supply inventory levels and initiated and prepared requisitions for supplies and services.• Maintained files and records, in both paper and electronic formats, while ensuring the confidentiality of sensitive data.• Mediated conflicts regarding customer accounts and fees.• Counted money at store opening and closing to ensure accuracy, researched and reconciled discrepancies, and made daily bank deposits.• District #8209: Store of the Year 2002 and 2003, Manager of the Year 2003, Best Team Player 2002

Putnam, Ct

• Assigned long-term assignments with companies including Crabtree & Evelyn, ltd. and United Natural Foods.• Operated a variety of office equipment, including printers, copiers, and personal computers.• Compiled jpeg files for weekly grocery flyers for the graphic artists.• Performed data entry and proofreading.

Bachelor Degree, Fine And Studio Arts; Concentration In Painting And A Minor In Technical Theatre

Activities and Societies: Dean's List, Tau Sigma - May 2011, (GPA: 3.818) Magna Cum LaudeI worked within the theatre department.

Associate Degree, Fine And Studio Arts

Activities and Societies: Dean's List, Phi Theta Kappa