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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

• Build and sustain productive operations by handling all human resource functions, including, but not limited to, creating job descriptions, recruiting top-performing professionals, improving employee retention, and facilitating staff succession planning.• Utilize broad scope of industry knowledge and dynamic financial acumen to develop and manage a $6-million annual budget, including maintaining accurate non-profit foundation accounting records in compliance with GAAP.• Prepare month-end closing journal entries and updates schedules, coordinate budgets for finance committee and board, record capital expenditures, update depreciation schedules, and prepare annual audit schedules.• Develop financial and staffing forecasting models for five year strategic plan• Liaise among development staff to coordinate efforts regarding all restricted / unrestricted grants, donations, and fees, along with supporting activities with foundation accounts for the planning and execution of yearly audits.• Lead comprehensive coordination of non-profit foundation community events for the Boston Red Sox, Boston Red Sox Foundation, BAA Summer Dance program, Mark O’Connor String Academy, and Four String Academy.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Implemented sourcing, selection, and staffing strategies for 134 schools and 50 Central Operations and Academic Departments with over 10,000 employees.• Hired an average of 500 employees annually in accordance EEOC regulations and recession level budget cuts, school closures, and school re-openings. • Managed a cross-functional staffing team of 13 employees to recruit, hire, and complete all staffing functions including new employee onboarding to employee retirement paperwork, CORI/SORI, licensure, payroll, benefit enrollment, etc. • Resolved salary, benefits, and payroll issues and monitored unemployment claims.• Reviewed and updated hiring policies with respect to changing ethics law, ensuring widespread application and end user focus.• Member of the labor management team that negotiated Union contracts 13 Labor Unions. • Lead the team that resolved Union grievances and recommended action with the Teacher Union, Secretarial Union, Custodial Union, etc. • Represented the Boston Public School System at mediations, arbitrations and civil court.• Created business requirements for Future Force, a custom bolt-on to Peoplesoft, using Peoplesoft compensation, job history, race, and leave data, etc., to determine resource applicability for future year staffing and employee tracking. Supervised testing and training for system and user adoption.• Interpreted information for grant submissions including compensations, benefits, employee classification, and contractual constraints.• Compiled, analyzed, and reported hiring data for School Committee, Superintendent, district leadership, school principals, and the staffing team to enable data-driven personnel decisions.

Boston, Ma, Us

Led the new teacher support team that was designed to increase new teacher retention and facilitated new hire on-boarding. Created the district wide new employee orientation sessions to facilitate One-Stop introduction to the BPS Organization structure and culture, share key employment information, benefits overview, mission and value statement, employee expectations and key policies and proceduresIncreased new teacher satisfaction with Human Resources services from 19% in 2003 to 64% in 2004-2005. Designed and directed the New Teacher Institute, the BPS orientation to all incoming teachers, which was a collaboration between the Office of Curriculum and Instruction, Unified Student Services, Office of Language Learning and Support Services, and external partners. Initiated the implementation of a national one-year study of teacher induction programs in Boston Public Schools, in collaboration with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and University; Center. Resulting in a new Teacher Mentoring Program.

Boston, Ma, Us

Ensured timely and accurate payroll processing for approximately 22,000 City of Boston employees using PeopleSoft.Provided customer support to the employees and coordinated with other central administrative and client departments throughout the City.Managed system configuration as it related to general deductions including managing set-up tables, coordinating calendar year transition for union dues, 403B annuity and deferred compensation deductions.Oversaw communication project with employee population on critical 403B payroll deduction issue.Coordinated and performed general deduction processing, including data intake from employees and vendors, loading data via mainframe to BAIS HR, and pre and post-entry auditing to data quality control.Audited Personnel and Tax related data as part of the weekly payroll confirmation process using PeopleSoft Query.

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Prepared and analyzed $25M information technology department budget, preparing monthly accruals, journal entries, corporate financial statement and flash reports. Performed operating account analysis and prepared projection of operating and capital expenditures and reviewed and reconciled budget variance reports. Processed payment for information technology and telecommunication service invoices.Led SAP Data Conversion team organizing financial data for SAP AP module implementation.

Bachelor, Business Administration

Masters Of Science, Human Resources Development