GABRIELA J. P  REZ AVELLANEDA

266 Avenida Montalvo. San Clemente, CA 92672. .  [Send email to request phone number] 12.9084

HR Professional with more than 10 years of experience with national and
international companies having strong skills in Recruitment and Selection,
Compensation, Training and Development, Employee Benefits Administration.
Bilingual Spanish - English. 

Trust  —  Leadership  —  Goal Oriented  —  Motivated  —  Team Player

PERSONAL DATA

 Born in Ames   “ Iowa, USA. 19/12/1970. Single. Citizenship:
American-Venezuelan.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Benefit Administration: 
Attended to Managers or employee requests such as: payment adjustments,
vacations, leave of absence, tuition reimbursements, housing allowances, company
loans, insurance, social security, taxes, among others. Was an advisor to ensure
decisions in compliance with federal, national and local labor laws (American and
Venezuelan Laws).

Recruitment & Selection: Adhered to Equal Employment Opportunity Regulations
while creating job posting announcements and searching for promising applicants
from both internal and external sources. Developed recruitment worksheets for
panel interviewers, advised management on hiring decisions, completed fitness for
duty, proposed salary offers and completed hiring process. Facilitated new
employee orientation programs while complying with all Equal Employment
Opportunity regulations.

Total Remuneration: Facilitated annual performance appraisal and salary
administration program. Conducted workshops to keep employees and management
updated about salary increases and incentive bonuses. Created competitive salary
offers for prospective employees. Advised Managers, Supervisors and employees on
Corporate HR strategies and benefit plans and supported the implementation of
those business strategies. Advise supervisors in the preparation of job
descriptions. Performed job matching sessions with management and TR advisor to
establish salary scales adjustments dictated by the market. Domain Behavioral
Interviews, Assessment center technique, Panel Interviews for hiring potential
candidates under the Competencies Model.

Expatriates Services: Support a diverse community of expatriates working in
Venezuela, regarding New Supervisors Orientation Programs.

Training & Development: Supported the development of training activities,
reviewed checklist of participation, guaranteed the presence of facilitator,
contacted suppliers, participated in bidding process to select suppliers,
performed post training evaluations from participants. Facilitated performance
development committees for Business Development, and Earth Science functions to
approve promotions, identify high potential employees and to determine employee
intercompany transfers and future leader nominations. A consultant for company 
's Succession Plan Implementation.

Employment Relations: Abided with federal, state and local harassment laws by
supporting corporate HR in hotline complaints and conducted investigations to
gather information so management could take appropriate action. Conducted exit
interviews and terminations processes.

Reporting: Prepared report with regards to data collection, head counts,
organizational charts, hiring and terminations, contracting plan status.
Developed and implemented tracking tool for status of processed job requests.

LABORAL EXPERIENCE

04/2008-08/2009 CHEVRON TECHNOLOGY SERVICES. American Oil Company based in
Venezuela.
HR BUSINESS PARTNER
Recognition of achievement for the facilitation process of Performance
Development Committees and ranking sessions for Salary Administration meetings.
Awarded letter of recognition because of significant contributions to run the
Horizons Cross-functional workshops due to the commitment shown to empower
participants and please customers during the sessions.
Recognized in a labor audit process for presenting the best tracking tools for
benefit administration and legal compliance.

02/2005- 04/2008 SINCOR, SINCRUDOS DE ORIENTE - Oil Company. Venezuela 
HR CONSULTANT
Leader of the element Hiring and Contracting from the SCIS, an International
System adopted by Sincor to guarantee high standards of security and prevention
control for processes, equipments, human resources and environment. Evaluated
with the highest level of achievement 10/10.

07/2004-01/2005 TPR CONSULTORES. Staffing Company. Venezuela
HR CONSULTANT
Worked freelance with the execution of recruitment activities for clients in the
oil field, also for manufacturing companies, banks, telecommunications, etc with
successful placements in time record. 

01/2004-05/2004 COCA COLA FEMSA. Manufacturing Industry. Venezuela.
SUPERVISOR OF OPERATIONS FOR RRHH
Coordinated, supervised, planned and executed Recruitment, Selection and
Training processes. Corrected and Evaluated profiles according to results of
Psychological Tests applied to potential candidates. Presented/displayed to the
management, the achievements and status of progress in the department according
to objectives raised by headquarter office.

08/2001-08/2002 AMERIVEN, HAMACA Project   “ Oil Company. Venezuela
RECRUITMENT ANALYST
Participated as leader and consultant in a process of massive recruitment of
Technicians of Processes in which it was managed to contract 110 of these
technicians in a lapse of four months with successful results for the
organization.

08/2000-01/2001 SINCOR, SINCRUDOS DE ORIENTE   “ Oil Company. Venezuela
RECRUITMENT ADVISER
Obtained remarkable results in support of the start up of the plant with the
recruitment and selection of high performance specialists for the Up-grader
(Technicians of Processes, Technicians of Maintenance, Process Engineers, Project
Engineers, Administrative Personnel, Operations Engineers, Technical Translators,
Mechanical Engineers, Contracting Administrators.

01/2000-08/2000 MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION- Government. Venezuela
HR COORDINATOR
Leader for a project to determine the viability to decentralize the
administration of personnel assigned to the Ministry of Education in the Amazon
State. This project received the recognition being the best at National level as
far as Human Resources talks about.

 06/1998-11/1999 English language studies at Seminole Community College located
in Sanford, Florida. I had the opportunity to work for the Orlando Regional
Medical Center as Assistant of RRHH for two month and also for Sunshine Staffing,
a company dedicated to hire cafeteria workers for the Seminole County Schools, as
a HR Coordinator, recruiting and hiring promising applicants.

12/1996-04/1998 TELECOMUNICACIONES MOVILNET, CA- Telecommunications. Venezuela
HR ANALYST II
Kept track on Manpower and Headcount records. Manage exit interviews. Benefit
Administration.

12/1995-10/1996 BANCO INTERNACIONAL, CA. Banking. Venezuela
HR ANALYST I
Elaborated wage scales to attract potential candidates and to motivate the
employees of the company, calculating wage proposals in cases of adjustments by
inflation, promotions, transferences, advantages by fulfilled goals, increases by
collective hiring, evaluation of performance updating the manual of position
descriptions, supporting to the management of recruitment and selection of
personnel executing selection interviews.

12/1993-10/1994 BANCO PROGRESO SACA. Banking. Venezuela
HR SPECIALIST 
Person in charge to coordinate and to execute interviews of selection of
personnel for the branches of the company, support management on hiring
decisions, elaborated reports on monthly hires and terminations.

1992 Worked as a Trainee in Centro Sim  n Bol  var and Citibank, NA. Both
experiences required to elaborate the manual of position descriptions of each
organization.

EDUCATION

Major in Industrial Labor Relations. Universidad Cat  lica Andr  s Bello. 1993.
Caracas. Venezuela.

OTHER SKILLS

Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, Access, People Soft, Cezanne, Outlook, Lotus
Notes.

Operational Excellence Management System.

Radio Speaker. Universidad Central de Venezuela. 2008. Puerto La Cruz,
Venezuela.

TRAINING COURSES

Will be provided under request.