Kari Carr

Company Overview: A Fortune 300 company headquartered in Lowell, AR that is a prominent transportation and logistics company with a market cap of $17.3 billion. It plays a crucial role in the logistics sector, offering a wide range of services, including intermodal, dedicated, and truckload transportation solutions, as well as supply chain management

• Created rewards and recognition programs for acknowledging employees' achievements
• This role entails strategic project management that aligns with the delivery of PTO/Leave plans as well as our benefit plans to their specific functional area
• Collaborate with HR Business Partners and HR Operations to respond to business and/or employee needs
• Also, subject matter expert with the ability to make time sensitive decisions, manage multiple competing priorities, and teach or train others
• Kept programs in line with plan structure, company policy and legal requirements.

Company Overview: Headquartered in Lakewood, CO This global company's mission is to protect the vulnerable. Mesa serves a broad set of industries that requires dependable quality control and calibration solutions to ensure the safety of its products used every day by hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, blood banks, laboratories, pharmacies and industrial facilities.

• Oversaw open enrollment processes during last part of fourth quarter
• Audited benefit programs and agreements to optimize service delivery
• Assessed client requirements and developed targeted benefits solutions
• Expedited benefit delivery by establishing working relationships with benefit providers
• Assessed and evaluated jobs to determine appropriate salary ranges.

Company Overview: Headquartered in Denver, CO Whiting is a top crude oil producer in North Dakota that operates substantial assets in Northern Colorado.

• After filing Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, partnered collaboratively with HR peers to rebuild the benefits program resulting in $6.4MM savings of quantifiable items to the company and in par with peers from within the Industry
• Handled as a new FT employee with minimal assistance all the benefit related items and COBRA that required many fires to be put out from the RIF when a 1/3 of the company was laid off in regards to the severance packages
• Managed company´s self-funded medical, dental and vision plans
• Developed effective improvement plans in alignment with goals and specifications.

Company Overview: Independent energy company focusing on the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil and gas reserves in the Rocky Mt Region.

• In charge of handling all aspects of the benefit administration and payroll processing for the company
• Collaborated with HR to develop and maintain up-to-date benefits manual
• Analyzed and evaluated existing compensation and benefits programs and recommended improvements
• Checked employees' benefits enrollment for accuracy and inputted all data into ADP Workforce Now
• Reconfigured the entire payroll system in ADP Workforce Now and created 12 schedules for 99.99% accuracy of the bi-weekly payrolls

Company Overview: Global market leader in press pipe fitting technology.

• The key advocate for all the North America locations of 600+ employees in handling the bi-weekly payroll and benefit programs in ADP Workforce Now
• Explained benefits to plan participants in easy to understand terms in order to educate each on available options
• Resolved issues and inquiries from plan participants regarding health and welfare benefits and deductions through telephone, email, and in-person interactions
• Enhanced benefit package by adding some voluntary, supplemental options for the employees - pet insurance, critical illness, cancer that were of no cost to the employer

Company Overview: #1 N.A., $24MM distributor of piping and tube fittings.

• As part of the leadership team this new role handled all key HR related functions as well as compiling and maintaining all accounts payable records including the process of bi-weekly payroll in its 3 locations
• Followed all company policies and procedures to deliver quality work
• Generated reports detailing findings and recommendations
• Developed effective improvement plans in alignment with goals and specifications

Company Overview: Eye care leader EMR in the Optical healthcare industry.

• Represented the direct support to the HR department in handling comprehensive and diverse HR processes, multi-state payroll processing, employee relations, new hire and leave management
• Implemented performance evaluations that were not being conducted as a formal evaluation before
• Managed payroll data entry and processing for 125 employees to comply with predetermined company guidelines
• Checked payroll, vendor payments, commissions and other accounting disbursements for accuracy and compliance