Linda B. Email & Phone Number

Boulder, Colorado

Manage all aspects of Benefits Administration, Payroll Administration, HRIS (Paylocity) Administration, Leave Administration.Compliance, Employee Support.

Greater Denver Area

• Manage all aspects of administering health and welfare benefits, retirement plans, unemployment, workers’ compensation, and leave policies for 70+ employees.
• Responsible for compliance as related to benefits, retirement plans, as well as, labor laws for multiple states, including California.
• Manage annual renewal, including analyzing and recommending appropriate changes to existing programs and manage all aspects of Open Enrollment for all employee benefit plans.
• Coordinate/ensure the administration, auditing and reconciliation of employee benefit programs and invoices.
• Consult and advise employees on eligibility, provisions and/or other matters related to benefits, including problem resolution of all employee issues and concerns.
• Process manual enrollments and terminations through all vendor portals.

Boulder, CO

• Support the clients and their employees by administering benefits
• Work with the carriers and vendors on behalf of the clients
• Quote benefit options for the new plan year

Denver, CO

• Served as liaison between benefit vendors, department staff and employees.
• Resolve escalated customer issues with vendors.
• Identified service issues concerning the vendors and worked as a team for resolution.
• Served as a key team member for two medical carrier implementations.
• Developed and managed Request for Proposal (RFP) process for a benefit contract.
• Successfully consolidated RFP responses to allow committee to disseminate information and choose the vendor.

Boulder, CO

• Provided timely, relevant and accurate information to Project Executives and Management teams in support of efforts to meet financial plan.
• Worked closely with all levels of management, financial analysts and the Project Office.
• Tracked three separate budgets totaling $35M.
• Provided monthly cost analysis and reconciliation.
• Created financial presentations and attended meetings with high level account executives and IBM management to provide budget information and financial forecasting.
• Acquired knowledge of many IBM systems, including RMS (Resource Management System), BMS and Webstat (queries), and many other data gathering tools.

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology, 3.54

Activities and Societies: • Member and Treasurer of Psi Chi Honor Society (2005). • Dean’s List (2004). • Member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor.

Associate'S Degree, Psychology, 4.0