Ruth Ramirez Email & Phone Number

Santa Rosa, California, Us

• Support management by providing human resources direction, advice, counsel, and training• Lead company’s compliance with all existing governmental and labor legal requirements • Administer human resources plans and procedures that relate to company personnel• Plan, organize and control the activities and actions of the HR department• Contribute to the development of HR department goals, objectives, and systems• Oversight, development, and supervision of 8-10 HR department staff• Ongoing employee relations • Ownership of the company HRMS system, including data integrity and confidential maintenance of employee records• Understanding of cultural norms, traditions, and working with diverse teams• Develop and presented all management level trainings for D&I, Communication & Conflict resolution

Pleasanton, Ca, Us

● Provide in depth problem-solving direction to national executive management team● Increase per state compliance for wages, taxes and workers compensation● Set up compliant background check process for per-hire verification nationwide● Manage and conduct new hire onboarding● Processed payroll for 100+ employees multi state● Developed employee related programs and initiates● Tasked temp staff for transition of personnel files to electronic● Managed recruiting coordinator

San Ramon, Ca, Us

1. Coordinate grievance assignments and pre-job conferences; assist with correspondence and scheduling, track status and update records.2. Assist in resolving grievances and labor disputes, as needed. 3. Attend various labor, recruiting and other networking events as needed.4. Assist Director as needed with organizing agreements.5. Manage recruitment of contractor labor committee members.6. Scheduling and coordinating of Craft Committee & Labor Executive Committee meetings.7. Managing sponsorship & invites to Union Events.8. Manage portions of new member briefings and conduct new member briefings as scheduled

Consulting for small companies Helping them build the foundation for their company to build toward the future.• Develop process and procedures for communication among staff and management. • Development of FDA approved process for compliance with staff• Wrote and provided training for Harassment and discrimination prevention• All aspects of employee relations• Authored State and Federal compliant handbook

Driving the growth of human capital for the new developing industries. • Designed new on boarding process for more efficient introduction onto workforce• Conceived and delivered 360 evaluations for management staff• Wrote and Implemented policy for processing of background check and fingerprinting via the SJPD• All aspects required for successful recruitment for all levels of placement• Created compliant job descriptions • Scripted and provided management training• Authored State and Federal compliant handbook• Design and execution of new health benefits for a staff of 70

As the human resource manager I was responsible for the overall administration, coordination, and evaluation of the human resource function• Developed, recommended, and implemented personnel policies and procedures• Enforced handbook policies and procedures; • performs benefits administration to include claims resolution, change reporting, approving invoices for payment, Review of policies for cost-effectiveness.• Recruited from mid to high level engineers.

Fremont, Ca, Us

• Create and implement employee relations policies to help increase employees’ job satisfaction• Devise a list of procedures and practices for hiring new employees and managing our staff• Establish an orientation procedure for onboarding new hires and training them to meet the needs of the company• Communicate with employees about compensation, benefits and other facets of their employment• Developed compliant based PTO in accordance to CA paid sick leave requirements• Respond to questions or complaints from employees in a timely fashion• Manage all other HR department personnel

• Handled all aspects of employee relations for multiple site and companies• Implemented adherence to polices already in place.• Lead FLSA audit for all position for Federal compliance • Authored performance appraisals• Coached management on substantial performance and liability issues• Guided corporate counsel on state and federal employment laws• Reduced benefits cost by $72k annually• Author of 5 different handbook for all Amidi entities

(contract) • Handled all aspects of employee relations • Researched and Developed payroll system set up with ADP for State and Federal wage compliance• Wrote and implemented Vacation and Sick policies for multiple states.• Recruited commission only sales staff increasing size from 25 to 37 • Authored performance appraisals• Coached management on performance issue

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Served as the author of all business initiatives as related to the build-out of Human Resources goals, functions and policies for a company that has grown by a factor of 3x in that last three (3) years to 150 people. Authored the company’s employee handbook, saving $8K+ in legal and consulting fees.• Oversaw all aspects of employee relations; collaborates with other managers to ensure that all employee relations policies are strictly enforced.• Responsible for spearheading all recruiting and employee on-boarding initiatives. Designed all new HR forms and new hire orientation package, created employee handbook and safety manual.• Wrote all job descriptions for the company’s first salary administration and benefits program for salary and hourly workers.• Conducted salary surveys and other wage research for specific geographic regions in order to determine wage scales.• Administered all benefits programs and processes, including benefits enrollments, changes and terminations.• Instituted the company’s performance evaluation policy; works with managers to conduct employee appraisal and identify areas for improved productivity.• Organized and conducted employee orientations; identified vendors for training and development seminars.• Teamed with other managers concerning the creation of company committees. • Instituted new 401k and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) updated and educated employees on new benefits programs. • Led the company’s system migration efforts from Paychex to ADP, saving $1.5K/month.• Managed an HR budget of $75k. Supervised one (1) payroll specialist and two (2) executive assistants• Research all issues concerning State of California programs that provide incentives for retroactive payroll tax deductions; enrolled in programs that provided tax credits of $58k in CY2010 and $41K in CY2011.