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San Francisco Bay Area, US

• Remote and onsite implementation of federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA/ADAAA), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) and California's Family Rights Act (CFRA) legislatively.
• Absence and disability case management and return-to-work program development.
• Implement effective and medically appropriate reasonable accommodations for all qualified disabilities, including occupational injuries and non-occupational serious health conditions.
• Prepare essential function job analyses, ergonomic assessments, job descriptions, and job task banks.
• Participate in interactive process dialogue with employees, line supervisors department managers, legal and medical providers.
• Ensure cost containment by developing proactive workplace solutions that promote employee engagement, health, safety, productivity, inclusion, and retention.

Wayne, PA, US

• National remote telephonic and onsite local case management and job accommodation services for Roche Genentech exempt and non-exempt employees. Facilitated on-site interactive process discussions with employees.
• Coordinated necessary steps to assist employees with occupational injuries and non-occupational serious health conditions to continue safe, healthy, and productive work.
• Proposed medically appropriate Stay at Work and Return to Work reasonable job accommodations through compliance with ADAAA federal and FEHA state legislation.
• Implemented medically feasible cost-effective transitional work assignments for both cognitive and physical impairments that support their employees' ability to perform essential job functions and maintain gainful.

• Disability case management and vocational consulting services with employers, third-party administrators, and insurance claims representatives to facilitate the safe and productive return to work of employees with.
• Prevent injuries and provide reasonable job accommodation.
• Support the return to medically appropriate work.
• Reduce loss time and improve employee retention.
• Promote workforce health, wellness, safety, and productivity.
• Maintain compliance with both State and Federal guidelines and legislation.

Olympia, WA, US

• Claims unit support within the Insurance Services Division and Return to Work Partnership department to expedite the safe and productive return to work of occupationally injured workers.
• Complex case review and consultation with private providers, claims managers and adjudicators to identify and eliminate barriers, revolve vocational issues and improve employment outcomes.
• Technical expertise to department claims staff, vocational consultants, employers, third party administrators, injured workers, and their legal representatives.
• Reviewed required documentation to recommend eligible services and acceptable budgets in compliance with Washington's legislation, guidelines and administrative policies.
• Participated in Lean initiatives and claims staffings to ensure a productive team approach and reinforce Labor and Industries evolving culture and business practices.

Renton, WA, US

• Absence Disability Management (ADM) Consultant providing oversight of multi-state (AK, WA, MT, OR, and CA) leave of absence claims for exempt and non-exempt employees with occupational disabilities and non-occupational.
• Facilitated communication between human resources, regional department managers, and employees including outsourced leave of absence and STD administrator, LTD vendor partner, Workers Compensation stakeholders and Legal.
• Timely and appropriate delivery of system-wide Providence Health & Services absence and disability management programs covering over 70,000 union and non-union employees.
• Participated in early redesign of Return to Work (RTW) program for employees with non-occupational serious health conditions including identifying system-wide current state policies and procedures over five states and.
• Cross-functional team member implementing STD standardization in initial regional markets in CA, WA, and MT.
• Built effective relationships between medical provider, company, and employee to promote prompt exchange of information to determine employee’s functional capability.

• Identifed employment and training opportunities for veterans enrolling in federally-funded approved private post-secondary job training and placement programs.
• Recommended viable training programs to improve veteran enrollees’ labor market competitiveness validated by their Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) and civilian experience.
• Supported job placement and training programs with special emphasis on qualified veterans with service-connected disabilities.
• Provided case management and student advisement services to ensure academic progress, successful program completion, and positive employment outcomes.

• Developed cost-effective and customized Return to Work (RTW) and Stay at Work (SAW) vocational solutions.
• Proactive provision of early intervention services.
• ADAAA interactive process facilitation.
• Transitional job accommodation and adjustment.
• Alternate work assignment.
• Worksite modification with adaptive devices.

Arlington, VA, US

• Internal Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor and Subject Matter Expert (SME) at the Boeing Commercial Airplane's Renton WA manufacturing site, providing WC, STD and LTD disability case management services to exempt and.
• Early claims intervention.
• Essential function industrial, administrative and cognitive job analyses.
• Office and industrial ergonomic evaluations and product recommendations.
• ADA Interactive Process facilitation.
• Identification and implementation of ADA compliant reasonable accommodations.

• Vocational rehabilitation and disability case management contracted services for self-insured employers, third-party administrators, insurance companies, public and private sector workplaces.
• Field Case Manager with MedInsights, Inc. providing vocational consulting and vocational rehabilitation plan development services.
• Developed and implemented individualized modified and alternate ADA and FEHA compliant Return to Work reasonable accommodation programs with public sector employers such as Los Angeles Unified School District and Los.
• Provided consulting services to private post-secondary schools to develop and market short-term vocational skills training programs to enhance their ability to attract potential student referrals from private sector.

• Contracting part-time instructor for claims personnel completing a Worker's Compensation Vocational Rehabilitation 12-week course taught three times per year for Workers Compensation Claims Administration (WCCA) and.
• Developed course outline and assignment materials.
• Presented lectures.
• Prepared and graded examinations.

• Vocational rehabilitation and disability case management.
• Implemented early intervention Return to Work and Stay at Work ADA and FEHA compliant reasonable accommodations including individualized modified work, temporary transitional work and permanent job placement.

• Vocational rehabilitation and disability case management services. Facilitated early intervention Return to Work and Stay at Work ADA and FEHA compliant reasonable accommodation.
• Developed individualized modified and alternate return-to-work plans with public sector employers i.e. City of Santa Monica, City of Pasadena, MTA, and private sector employers, i.e. Walt Disney Company, ABC Studios.

Master Of Science, Ms, Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts, Ba, Psychology