Patrick Gerity

About Patrick Gerity

Qualified business operations management professional with 20+ years experience in human resources (HR), supervision, operations and corporate administrative functions. Seeking to provide strategic leadership, productivity improvement, and overall administrative efficiency. Skilled in identifying and hiring quality employees and highly effective in development, implementation, and administration of policies and procedures. Solid communications, a strong desire to help others, and looking to meet and exceed new challenges. • Project Management and team supervision/management • Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) testing and implementation • Master’s in Business (MBA) degree specializing in operations management • Strategic planning and implementation • Corporate policy and procedure development • Compensation analysis and planning • Staffing and recruiting • Payroll, benefits and leave administration • Training and employee development • Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO/AA) policies and compliance • Software: Microsoft Office, Outlook, Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PeopleSoft, Oracle, MS Access, SAP, timekeeping systems, online job board posting Specialties: Human resources, project management, supervision, HRIS, Peoplesoft, payroll, benefits, records management, recruitment, vendor liaison, compensation analysis, operations management, leave management, timekeeping

Experience

1. HR Business Partner

   Colorado Department Of Natural Resources

   Jul 2016 — Present · Denver, CO, US

   Responsible for delivering agency wide human resource services for an organization of 1,500 employees located throughout the state of Colorado. Specific duties relate to employee relations, training administration, system analysis, performance program administration, and benefits coordination. Serve as the management advisor in matters related to employee relations and provide analysis of potential risk (legal liability, appeals, and grievances) to the agency. I am delegated as the agency expert on employee relations and progressive discipline. Duties also include ongoing needs assessment to determine training priorities for the agency. This includes developing training material; organizing, coordinating, scheduling and administering training activities; evaluating training material and presentations to recommend changes/enhancement; and creating and managing a departmental training advisory group to obtain department-wide input on training activities.Duties related to benefits include serving as a liaison with the Department of Personnel & Administration’s Benefits Unit; coordination of the agency’s open enrollment process annually; administration of the benefits system; advise employees with regard to available benefits; and develop and administer new employee orientations for the agency. Additional duties include advisement on recruitment and selection activities, records administration, vendor relations, payroll liaison, and coordination of system upgrade and implementation.

Education

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  BS-Forestry

  1984 — 1987

• University of Missouri Trulaske College of Business

  MBA

  1989 — 1991