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Lee County Classification and Pay Study Proposal Page 5 of 10 Kim Newsom retired from Randolph County as the Personnel Director. A native of the Piedmont Triad, Kim also boasts more than 40 years of human resources management experience including work with the NC Office of State Personnel, the Greenville Utilities Commission, and the NC Department of Human Resources, serving as personnel analyst for local mental health, public health, and social services departments in a 21 County region. Kim has a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from NC State University and has completed graduate level coursework at NC State and East Carolina University. Kim's has developed skill sets in a full range of human resources services with an emphasis on employee relations, classification and compensation, policy development and administration, interpretation and application of federal and state legislation, drug and alcohol policy administration, and supervision and managerial development. Kim is also a member of IPMA, serving as President of the NC chapter and as President of the Southern Region during his tenure. Ann Taylor has over 30 years of Human Resources experience at the county and regional level. After working for six years with the Union County Department of Social Services, she joined Piedmont Behavioral HealthCare (now Cardinal Innovations). Ann retired from Cardinal Innovations having served as Director of Human Resources for over 20 years, where she developed and administered a substantially equivalent personnel system. During her tenure she was a member of the Executive Management Team developing and over-seeing merger plans, divesture plans and the creation of Daymark Recovery— a successful, private non-profit spin-off of the area program. Her experience includes policy and procedure development, employee relations, classification and compensation, interpretation and application of federal and state legislation, development and presentation of a wide range of Human Resources and Compliance training. Ann obtained her Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) in 1999 and completed the Healthcare Corporate Compliance Institute in 2005 and is certified as a Workplace Mediator. Since retiring in 2007, she has worked as a consultant providing Human Resources, Compliance and National Accreditation training and consultation throughout the state, working with Areas Programs and Behavioral Healthcare Providers. Most recently she was a key member of the consulting group managing the successful merger of three Area Programs that transitioned from a Local Management Entity (LME) to a Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO). Stacy Griffin has over 25 years of Human Resources experience in both the private and public sectors. After working for eight years with First Union National Bank in Training and Development, she joined LifeSpan, Inc. as Director of Human Resources in January 2002. In January 2010, she moved from the private sector to the public sector when she became the Human Resources Director for Randolph County, NC. After serving the County for almost five years, she transitioned to the Human Resources Director for the City of Asheboro in October 2014. During her tenure at these four organizations, she was a member of the Executive Management or Senior Leadership Team at each organization. Her experience includes policy and procedure development, employee relations, recruiting and retention program and strategy development, classification and compensation, interpretation and application of federal and state legislation, development and presentation of a wide range of Human