City of XXXXX
Risk Manager 7/02–Present
Manage a division of five professional staff members responsible for workers’ compensation, insurance programs and safety programs for approximately 4,200 city employees. Accomplishments include:
- Working extensively with Police Department, Office of Public Works and City Attorney’s Office to develop citywide general liability reduction strategies.
- Managing expenditures of $25 million, including operational budget of $820,000.
- Instituting comprehensive return-to-work program and workers-compensation management program.
- Reducing claims and lost days by 20% each in the last fiscal year.
City of XXXXX
Employee Relations Manager 5/00–7/02
Led team that negotiated and interpreted 12 active memoranda of understanding with over 29 separate bargaining units. With staff of four, supported all departments within the city in personnel actions, grievances and civil-service issues. Accomplishments included:
- Presented numerous labor issues reports before the City Council and implemented policy direction.
- Worked with unions to build positive relationships while supporting workplace management goals.
- Managed outside contractors for specialty services regarding labor and management issues.
City of XXX, Community and Economic Development Agency
Assistant to the Director, Senior Negotiator 6/97–5/00
Assisted in project management responsibilities of 350-employee agency, organizing the City’s Brownfield’s Action Team, forming an economic development strategy as regards to the reuse of industrial properties, representing the Agency in its dealings with labor unions, working with community groups in the development of special projects, and presenting Council reports to City Council in both open and closed session. Projects managed included:
- Controversial demolition and RFP process of a blighted, vacant, one-million-sq. ft. vacant warehouse.
- Land and contract transfer for seven-acre Montgomery Wards site.
- Complex contract with the Marriott Corporation to privatize the City’s convention facilities.
- Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA) and supporting reports for a new school.
- Management of City’s visitor marketing bureau and the public information function for the City and the Community and Economic Development Agency.
- Management of RFPs for various projects, including a major parking garage build, two proposed neighborhood commercial mixed-use lots and the above-mentioned seven-acre warehouse space.
Law Offices of XXX
Staff Attorney 4/96–4/97
For this labor and administrative law practice, with an emphasis on public entity employment matters, I performed self-directed work that involved the successful settlement of a number of complex cases involving both public entity employment and professional license matters, representing professional license-holders before administrative bodies.
Sentinel Fair Housing
Executive Director 12/95–4/96
Served as interim executive director by request of board of directors. Projects included training staff on current housing law, presenting workshops to outside attorneys on housing discrimination law, and recruiting, hiring and training the permanent executive director. Accomplishments include:
- Restructuring and participating in team-building exercises to motivate staff.
- Developing budget for organization, which included writing funding and grant proposals for public and private funding sources that resulting in a successful relationship with Fannie Mae Foundation.
Self-Employed
Consultant/Attorney 1/95–12/95
Self-employed lawyer, real estate broker (with Mason McDuffie in Piedmont) and campaign manager for successful Oakland City Council campaign. Helped nonprofit community group develop legal challenges to creek side development project and assisted in the development of Oakland’s watershed ordinance.
Legal Aid Society of Alameda County
Staff Attorney 10/91–12/94
Staff attorney with special emphasis on housing, employment and land use, working both with individual clients and with the development of major policy issues such as the development of a model ordinance governing property rights of homeless persons. Used redevelopment law as it pertains to housing set-asides, housing development and public housing programs. Managed law student intern program and worked on civil jury trials and administrative hearings for public benefit issues. Major cases include Tovar v. US Postal Service, 3 F.3d 1299 (9 th Cir. 1994), argued before the 9 th circuit in 1991.
Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco
Associate 9/89–9/91
Land use and business litigation practice that emphasized working with cities and counties in land-use litigation involving development agreements, General Plan and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) issues. Litigated complex business cases for clients such as Coopers and Lybrand, Diamond Walnuts and commercial real estate brokerage companies.
Hon. John G. Davies, Central District of California
Clerk, Summer 1986
Interned for Federal District Court Judge in Los Angeles researching law and motion matters, drafting bench memos and orders regarding both civil and criminal issues.
