Erin Brown
Lithonia
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Passport Specialist GS-11
Centers for Disease Control
05.2023 - Current
- Serves as the Centers for Disease Control passport and visa agent.
- Receives, examines, and adjudicates passport applications.
- Supervises the U.S. Official, Dependent and Diplomatic passports program for CDC agencies.
- Receives, examines, and adjudicates visa applications.
- Counsels service members and dependents on passport and visa requirements and processes applications for official passports and visas in accordance with Department of Army regulations and Department of State Passport Agent's Manual.
- Accepts and processes applications for no-fee and diplomatic passports and visas for all military personnel (Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine), military dependents, civilian employees, and government contract employees.
- Receives and examines passport and visa applications.
- Determines all passport eligibility.
- Determines all visa eligibility.
- Signatory authority for passport applications and authority for no-fee passport forms.
- Verifies passport and visa requirements and maintains suspense control of passport applications to insure the timely follow-up to determine status of pending cases.
- Manage the U.S. Official and Diplomatic passports program for Centers for disease control and prevention
- Establishes the identity of passport applicant and is responsible for validating authenticity of identity records.
- Serve as the CDC liaison with foreign embassies accredited to the United States for matters concerning the visa applications of CDC international travelers.
- Screens citizenship evidence and photographs.
- Assists applicants in obtaining birth evidence from applicable county of birth.
- Serves as the principal technical authority on matters concerning passport/visa services to CDC international travelers.
- Ensures visa requirements are met for applications and stays abreast of frequent regulatory changes issued by foreign governments for Visa requirements.
- Responsible for maintaining, updating, interpreting, and applying the USAF Foreign Clearance Guide.
- Accept passport and visa applications.
- Adjudicate all supporting passport and visa documentation.
- Composes and prepares justifications as needed for passport and visa requests.
- Examine original citizenship documentation to determine eligibility.
- Verifies data accuracy of completed passports; Records passport issuance and expiration dates and passport number; and issues official passports to eligible personnel.
- Serves as the CDC cable clearance coordinator and lead person for contacts with U.S Embassy Clearance Officers and State Department staff in matters concerning the provision or denial of clearances.
- Maintains a current status record on all operating official passports issued.
DOD Passport/Visa Agent
United States Air Force
08.2021 - 05.2023
- Serves as the Dobbins Air Force Base Military Installation Passport and visa agent.
- Receives, examines, and adjudicates passport applications.
- Supervises the U.S. Official, Dependent and Diplomatic passports program for DOD agencies and all military personnel.
- Receives, examines, and adjudicates visa applications.
- Counsels service members and dependents on passport and visa requirements and processes applications for official passports and visas in accordance with Department of Army regulations and Department of State Passport Agent's Manual.
- Accepts and processes applications for no-fee and diplomatic passports and visas for all military personnel (Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine), military dependents, civilian employees, and government contract employees.
- Receives and examines passport and visa applications.
- Determines all passport eligibility.
- Determines all visa eligibility.
- Signatory authority for passport applications and authority for no-fee passport forms.
- Verifies passport and visa requirements and maintains suspense control of passport applications to insure the timely follow-up to determine status of pending cases.
- Controls passports returned to the installation and insures dependent passports are not released to individuals until dependent travel is authorized by overseas commander.
- Establishes the identity of passport applicant and is responsible for validating authenticity of identity records.
- Serve as the DOD liaison with foreign embassies accredited to the United States for matters concerning the visa applications of DOD international travelers.
- Screens citizenship evidence and photographs.
- Assists applicants in obtaining birth evidence from applicable county of birth.
- Assures that DD Form 1056, 'Application for Issuance of No-Fee Passport, and all other required forms have been properly completed, issued by proper authority, and that birth and citizenship evidence and photos are appended.
- Ensures visa requirements are met for applications and stays abreast of frequent regulatory changes issued by foreign governments for Visa requirements.
- Responsible for maintaining, updating, interpreting, and applying the USAF Foreign Clearance Guide.
- Accept passport and visa applications.
- Adjudicate all supporting passport and visa documentation.
- Composes and prepares justifications as needed for passport and visa requests.
- Examine original citizenship documentation to determine eligibility.
- Verifies data accuracy of completed passports; Records passport issuance and expiration dates and passport number; and issues official passports to eligible personnel.
- Maintains a current status record on all operating official passports issued.
- Maintains a separate file and action suspense for each applicant from time of request through issuance of Passport and Visa.
DOS Passport Support Agent
CGI Federal (Atlanta Passport Agency)
06.2018 - 05.2023
- Ensures thorough application of federal laws when adjudicating and analyzing complex citizenship cases and routine applications for U.S. Passports.
- Assists with receiving passports.
- Assists with determining passport eligibility.
- Examines evidence of citizenship submitted with passport and visa applications to determine eligibility.
- Receives, examines, and adjudicates passport and visa applications.
- Issuance, amendment, and replacement of passports forwarded by acceptance agents or presented by applicants or applicant representatives.
- Accept, examine, adjudicate and authorize the documentation of citizenship.
- Receives and Determines all passport and visa eligibility.
- Receives and examines passport and visa applications.
- Receives, examines, and adjudicates passport applications.
HUMAN RESOURCE SPECIALIST
Unites States Air Force Reserve
12.2020 - Current
- Identify IIR needs.
- Interpret and apply IIR laws, theories, principles, and practices.
- Plan, develop, administer, and evaluate activities to improve the outcomes of critical Human Resource policies.
- Apply the principles and practices of Human Resources.
- Experience with identifying barriers to equal employment opportunities and making technical recommendations to aid in resolving concerns.
- Interpret and apply a wide range of HR concepts, methods, principles, and practices used in HR functions and processes.
- Adhere to Federal personnel regulations.
- Advising management officials on HR sources and strategies.
- Performs technical work in support of Human Resources Specialists in specialized functional areas.
- Distribute job opportunity announcements.
- Determine applicant eligibility for job announcements.
- Completes pre-employment security process and conduct new employee orientation for new hires/reassignments.
- Research and provide Human Resource information to management.
- Research and provide Human Resource information to staff and customers.
- Interpret and apply HR laws.
- Experience with applying the Federal Equal Employment opportunity laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.
- Collect and analyze EEO statistical data and preparing comprehensive reports.
- Assist with conducting studies, organizational reviews or workforce analyses to identify systematic equal employment problems.
- Assist and develop other HR personnel by providing guidance.
- Conduct on the job training for developing HR personnel.
- Interpret and apply HR laws, theories, principles, and practices with an understanding of the interrelationships of human resources programs and/or processes sufficient to provide customer service and integrated solutions to HR processes.
- Processes a full range of official personnel actions.
- Processes a full range of official personnel actions including, promotions, reassignments, separations, adverse actions, name changes, leave without pay, return to duty.
- Maintain human resources files to include scanning, uploading, and indexing documents into employee electronic official personnel folders.
- Utilize automated systems to create Human Resource documents.
- Plans, directs, and controls all aspects of the Human Resource programs.
- Administers personnel actions in Automated systems.
- Advise on staffing needs.
- Experience processing retirements.
- Experience processing promotions.
- Experience processing reassignments.
- Experience processing separations.
- Solve recruitment and placement issues.
- Create job opportunity announcements.
- Serves as advisor to leadership on Human Resources programs.
- Provides assistance with recruitment and placement of employees.
- Provide Human Resources management advisory services to leadership and staff on all programs.
- Conduct qualification determination for applicants.
- Process a wide range of Federal personnel and payroll actions by keying data into automated systems.
- Create job announcements utilizing automated systems.
- Discuss hiring needs with supervisors.
- Experience with onboarding, training, and out-processing.
- Experience independently processing a variety of personnel actions via automated systems.
- Ensures accuracy of Personnel Data System (PDS) and performs functional review of data reliability, conduct job analysis, manage staffing and recruitment and placement programs.
- Verifies employment eligibility and qualifications.
- Creates salary determinations and sets pay.
- Prepares promotion, recruitment and placement announcements, issue referral certificates.
- Advise management on a wide range of staffing issues such as recruitment methods, special pay incentives, and special placement programs.
- Develop short- and long-range staffing plans to meet mission requirements.
- Provide guidance on personnel practices.
- Records management experience safeguarding information and disposition of records.
- Uses analytical methods to identify, evaluate and recommend to management appropriate HR solutions.
- Preservation of records.
- Approve and process fingerprint waivers.
- Create new employee identification cards by collecting biometric authentication.
- Use biometric authentication as a form of identification and access control.
- Skill in applying analytical and evaluative methods and techniques.
- Assist in duties related to promotions, on-boarding, records maintenance, recruitment and placement, and separations.
- Daily use of Microsoft office compiling data in charts and processing requests (excel, word, power point, outlook).
- Preserves records.
- Provide a variety of general information to internal and external customers regarding program functions, processes, and procedures.
- Non-adversarial problem-solving.
- Ensure compliance with appropriate guidelines, policies, and internal controls.
- Negotiation procedures and techniques.
- Process personnel actions.
Office Clerk (Contractor)
Georgia Department Of Transportation
03.2016 - 06.2017
- Proof read and verified all documentation prior to it being stored into Electronic Documentation Management System (EDMS), and other systems as required.
- Complied with FMCSA policies and removed and properly disposed of paper files that exceed the retention period.
- Responsible for tracking and delivering both outgoing and incoming mail/FAX/UPS using a postage meter or the UPS website.
- Performed both routine and irregular data entry.
Education
Bachelor's degree - Human Resources Specialist
Columbia Southern University
Orange Beach, AL10.2024
Technical or occupational certificate - undefined
Basic Military Training
Biloxi, MS10.2013
Skills
- Microsoft Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
Relevant Coursework Licenses Certifications
Personnel Apprentice Certification
Job Related Training
Official Passport/visa Training Specialist, 2021-08-01
Organizations Affiliations
Atlanta Passport Agency - Passport Support Agent
Personal Information
Availability: Full-time, Part-time, Atlanta, Georgia, United States; Warner Robins, Georgia, United States
Timeline
Passport Specialist GS-11
Centers for Disease Control
05.2023 - Current
DOD Passport/Visa Agent
United States Air Force
08.2021 - 05.2023
HUMAN RESOURCE SPECIALIST
Unites States Air Force Reserve
12.2020 - Current
DOS Passport Support Agent
CGI Federal (Atlanta Passport Agency)
06.2018 - 05.2023
Office Clerk (Contractor)
Georgia Department Of Transportation
03.2016 - 06.2017
Technical or occupational certificate - undefined
Basic Military Training
Bachelor's degree - Human Resources Specialist
Columbia Southern University
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