Felder J. Charbonnet

2212 Rose Drive

Gretna, LA 70053

Phone: 504-368-7929

Cell: 504-453-2111

Felder_charbonnet@yahoo.com

OBJECTIVE

To apply strong communication, leadership, and organizational skills, with the goal of contributing to an organization’s growth and success. .

STRENGHTHS

EXPERIENCE

Worknet Staffing Services                                                                 09/2007- 07/2009

Metairie, LA

Staffing Manager

• Prepared personnel forecasts to project employment needs.
• Developed pre-employment evaluations to ensure competence of applicants and assessed skill levels
• Responsibilities included: utilizing innovative recruiting techniques, scheduling and staffing government contracts and bids, interviewing and appropriately matching candidates, continuously provided excellent customer service to existing clients and actively maintained client schedules.
• Managed all areas of Human Resources to include: Sourcing for Candidates, Skill Testing, Assessment Testing, Reference Checking
• Assisted President of the company with bids, marketing strategies
• Handled recruitment of hourly employees; conducted interviews and made hiring decisions for vast range of skill sets
• Conducted employee new hire orientations and exit interviews.
• Maintained employee personnel files and ensures paperwork is complete and contains required signatures.

      Able Body Labor                                                                     02/2005 - 09/2007

     New Orleans, LA

Branch Manager

• Actively pursued contractual relationships with potential clients
• Established and/or maintained regular and direct contact with existing clients.
• Overseen all aspects of personnel management for office staff and the temporary workforce of the branch including recruiting, organizing maintaining, developing, disciplining, and supervising the temporary workforce to be assigned to the client clients
• Participated in the budget process through careful assessment of the needs of the clients and their utilization of company services to determine the best allocation and utilization of available resource
• Managed day to day branch operations with an emphasis on increasing profits and minimizing losses
• Regularly analyzed branch expenditures to establish expense controls
• Conducted, monitored and facilitated the proper payroll of the temporary workforce

• Negotiated and established the clients’ billable hour rate per temporary worker based on the parameters provided by the credit department
• Established the hourly wage for the temporary workforce based on the assessment of individual skills and work to be performed
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• Managed and monitored profitability as it related to client accounts and determined when to conduct financial collections of past due accounts
• Ensured that proper hiring procedures are followed, including but not limited to compliance with Department of Homeland Security rules regarding worker eligibility and state-mandated background investigation laws.
• Coordinated all transportation of the temporary workforce to and from the client’s job site
• Ensured compliance with OSHA directives regarding generating employer responsibilities
  
  

      Bail Bonds Unlimited                                                              03/1998 - 02/2005

      Gretna, LA

Bond Forfeiture Accountant

• Supervised office staff in regards to payroll, collections and office operation
• Insurance update management.
• Skip tracing.
• Managed and dispatched bail enforcement agents.
• Resigned bonds in open court.

      Pioneer Aerospace                                                                   07/1994 - 03/1998

      Baton Rouge, LA

Quality Control Technician/Lab Technician

• Inspected and tested parachute material and hardware before it went into production.
• Performed test such as alkalinity, acidity, air porosity, visual, breaking strength; thread count, hardware hardness, and measurements. Guidelines were usually to follow military specifications and blueprints.
• Participated in the testing of the Mars Pathfinder deceleration parachute project which successfully landed on mars on July 4, 1997.

US Navy                                                                                        06/1990 - 06/1994

      Pearl Harbor, HI

BM, E-4/ Petty Officer 3rd class

• Served as helmsmen and lee-helmsmen
• Served as a member of damage control and security alert teams
• Participated in honor guard ceremonies.
• Participated in Desert Shield, Desert Storm and drug ops

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

   American Staffing Association
            - Certified Staffing Professional, March 2008

   Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
            - Associate of Applied Science in Business Administration

              Concentration in Management, May 1997, GPA 3.4/4.0

   L. W. Higgins, Marrero, Louisiana
            - High School Diploma, May 1990

Reference available upon request