Wendell M. Barnes
Cibolo,Texas
Summary
Seeking a position as Human Resources Specialist or in Human Resource Development
Human resources professional prepared to contribute valuable experience in talent acquisition, employee engagement, and compliance. Valued for fostering teamwork and consistently achieving results through adaptability and reliability. Proficient in conflict resolution and strategic planning.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Human Resources Specialist
Air Force Personnel Center
02.2019 - Current
- Provides Management advisory services to supervisors, hiring managers, and base-level civilian personnel with effective recruitment options with one or more recruitment strategies/hiring authorities/recruitment sources to fill competitive and excepted service positions.
- Experience in applying Federal Human Resources (HR) affirmative employment, recruitment, and placement principles, policies, practices, methods, and analytical techniques.
- Prepares and processes RPAs related to recruitment and placement to include developing and posting job opportunity announcements, determining qualifications, reviewing candidates, issuing referral certificates and auditing selections, pay setting, issuing tentative/firm job offers, coding and processing of personnel actions.
- Upon receipt of Direct Hiring/Expedited Hiring (DHA/EHA) action, complete Management Advisory and issue Tentative Job offer within 5 calendar days.
- Effectively applies principles, provisions, laws, regulations, practices, and techniques of staffing and recruitment.
- Skill in troubleshooting and resolving the most difficult problems associated with providing comprehensive recruitment and placement advisory services.
- Transmit documents to eOPF within 15 calendar days after employee’s entrance on duty and/or order eOPF if applicable.
- Ability to gather and analyze facts, draw conclusions from information, and communicate information clearly, orally and in writing.
- Provides and fosters an atmosphere of teamwork and cooperativeness by working effectively with hiring managers and CPSs.
- Operates in required personnel data systems (i.e., DCPDS, USA Staffing, myPers CX, Automated Stopper and Referral Systems (ASARS), myFSS, and Reemployment Priority List (RPL).
- Supervisor: Dore Rojas (808 497-3089)
- Okay to Contact this Supervisor: Yes
Customer Representative
Total Force Service Center (TFSC), Goodwill of San Antonio
06.2018 - 02.2019
- Fields over 100 calls per day to resolve a myriad of military Human Resources inquiries
- Provide real time/accurate personnel Supporting the entire Air force inventory
- Provides advice and counseling to customer on military assignments (recruitment and placement), evaluations, enlisted accessions
- Brief customers on new policy and procedures for revamped enlisted promotion system
- Acts as liaison regular component and guard and reserve with regards to place chase and palace front applications
- Supervisor: Rhonda Britt, Team Lead/Supervisor 210-565-0102.
Superintendent, Military Personnel Section
Misawa AB Japan
06.2014 - 05.2018
- Led team to #2 Air Force Small Unit Military Personnel Section small unit PAR rating, improved PRP error free rate, garnered 34 spot improvement from previous quarter
- Directed Military Personnel Deployment Function line, smoothly processed 30 AMN for ops, enabled Komatsu ATR and bolstered coalition posturing
- Championed wing passport program dedicated 36 man-hours in delivery of tourist passports served 144 personnel
- Supervisor: Daniel Gutierrez, Capt. (Sep)
Education
Bachelor of Arts - History
University of Maryland University College
Yokota AB, Japan05.2017
Human Resources Management/Personnel Admin - undefined
Community College of Air Force
Montgomery, AL05.2002
Skills
- Human resources management
- 24 years in military HR and 4 years in civilian HR
- Staff recruitment and retention
- Hands-on results-oriented contributor
- Expertise in creating presentations and reports
- Collaboration with senior management
- Skilled in data management and reporting tools
- Strategic problem-solving with task management
- Current secret security clearance status
- Customer relations
- HR policies and procedures
- Training and mentoring
- Training development
Timeline
Human Resources Specialist
Air Force Personnel Center
02.2019 - Current
Customer Representative
Total Force Service Center (TFSC), Goodwill of San Antonio
06.2018 - 02.2019
Superintendent, Military Personnel Section
Misawa AB Japan
06.2014 - 05.2018
Human Resources Management/Personnel Admin - undefined
Community College of Air Force
Bachelor of Arts - History
University of Maryland University College
Veterans Preference
- VRA
- CPS
- VEOA
Highlights Of Professional Qualifications
- Experienced HR Executive with 24 years expertise in human resources/and relations
- Diverse background of HR expertise, anchored by 24 years of Military HR and 4 years Civilian HR
- Extensive experience in staff recruitment and retention, conflict resolution, and change management
- Results oriented – high energy – hands on professional – team player.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills – Development of presentations and reports
- Proven experience collaborating with senior mgmt to promote organizational goals and strategic plans.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Access, Excel, Power Point, Outlook Military Personnel Data Systems (MilPDS), Right Now Technology (RNT)
- Able to make difficult decisions while handling a myriad of tasks.
- Secret Security Clearance
Professional Military Education
- United States Air Force Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy, Correspondence, 2012-03-01
- United States Non-Commissioned Officer Academy, In Residence, Kapuan AB, Germany, 2007-01-01
- Airman Leadership School, In Residence, Randolph AFB, TX, 1997-01-01