Herlinda Thomas

• Support and assist with HR recruiting and employee relations efforts

• Comply with and execute duties and responsibilities with an in-depth knowledge of the HR department's policies and procedures

• Adhere to the HR department's procedures regarding confidentiality

• Understand how the mission and policies of the HR Department relate to the overall mission of the District

• Review correspondence, required back-up information, and respond accordingly as applicable

• Answer phones in a courteous and professional manner and ensure to follow up and follow through with any requests for information, documents, guidance, and/or assistance

• Design and maintain a filing system by scanning employee files to DocuWare for the effective and efficient operation of the HR Department.

• Perform data entry and data maintenance to included add College Transcripts, enter Educator Certificates, update W-4 forms, Update demographics, and add Contract Status

• Schedule appointments for and in accordance with HR administrative personnel schedule as applicable

• Ensure compliance with the Texas Educator's Code of Ethics

• Process Statement of Eligibility for Internship Certificates for Non-Certified Teachers
• Assist with submitting Contracts to Professional Staff
• Maintain District of Innovation employees to include follow-up with certification progress, and maintain employees with intern certificates and one-year certificates.
• Review service records, and update service records.
• Employment verification for professional new hires that complete the experience affidavit
• Audit Employee Files

• Main duties consisted of answering telephone and scheduling appointments for all South Texas Rural Health Services, Inc, clinics for medical and dental departments.
• Work with submitting Medical Records to various agencies and also work in submitting referrals.

• Worked in Countroom Dept. duties included data entry, typing, filing, switchboard operator.
• Maintained retention schedule.
• Worked as Human Resources Representative which consisted of data entry of officer daily strength, processed payroll status changes, worker’s compensation reports.
• Prepared and Posted New Hire positions.
• Maintained employee files, prepared disciplinary reports.
• Compiled, posted and tabulated data of employee time.
• Assisted employees with insurance benefit changes and summer enrollment.

• Provide care assistance, run errands, and maintain household.

• Worked in Human Resources Dept. duties included typing, filing, answering telephone.
• Data entry of officer daily strength.
• Processed various payroll status changes, worker’s compensation reports.
• Compiling, posting and tabulating data of employee time.
• Assisted employees with insurance benefit changes and summer enrollment.
• Prepared employee orientation paperwork and reviewed summary of TDCJ benefits.
• Maintained employee files, retention schedule and also prepared employee disciplinary reports.

• Worked in Inmate Records Dept. duties included typing, filing, switchboard operator.
• Prepared committee dockets.
• Provided information in reference to policies, procedures, rules and regulations.
• Data entry of updating offender visitation list.
• Prepared bench warrant paperwork.
• Assisted Counsel Substitute in preparing offender disciplinary reports.

• Worked with Insurance Department.
• Printed out insurance claims and mailed out claims.
• Corrected insurance claims to resubmit claims.
• Did follow-ups on insurance claims.
• Data entry, filing, make copies and answer telephone.

• Worked in Mailroom and Countroom Dept.
• Duties included in the mailroom dept. consisted of scanning incoming and outgoing mail.
• Housed incoming mail and issued legal correspondence.
• Logged all incoming and outgoing legal correspondence.
• Processed indigent supplies to eligible offenders.
• Maintained and inventoried stamp usage report for administrative and indigent offenders.
• Worked in Countroom Dept.
• Within countroom department worked also in inmate records, classification, switchboard operator, and disciplinary.
• Duties included typing, filing, making copies, data entry, prepared various committee dockets.
• Maintained retention schedule.
• Logged all incoming and outgoing calls.
• Processed offender disciplinary reports.

• Worked within county taxes, motor vehicle, voter registration and beer license renewals.
• Collected and balanced currency for county taxes as well as motor vehicle.
• Issued out motor vehicle registration renewals.
• Processed title transfers.
• Processed beer license permits and renewals.
• Within voter registration issued and assigned voter registration numbers.
• Processed reports, typing, filing, data entry, make copies, fax machine, calculator and answer telephone.