MEET THE HUMAN RESOURCES STAFF
Greetings from the South Texas College Office of Human Resources! The HR team strives
to provide timely and effective payroll and benefits services to personnel in accordance
with the mission and goals of South Texas College. Below you will find contact information
and areas of expertise for HR staff members that can provide answers for your questions,
assist you with issue resolution or point you in the right direction to find the
information you require. Click the categories below to display staff.
HR Administrative Staff
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HR Payroll Staff |
HR Benefits Staff |
HR Support Staff |
Institutional Support Staff
- Oversees day-to-day activities
- Ensures policies, procedures and regulations are in compliance
- New position analysis and classification
- Administers performance evaluation program
- Investigates employee relations complaints
Phone: (956) 872-5051
E-mail: singram@southtexascollege.edu
- Develops employee relations process to ensure thorough investigation of employee
grievances
- Acts as arbitrator and liaison between disputing parties on personnel matters
- Develops and recommends policies and procedures relating to personnel
- Conducts training/meetings to foster fair and effective employee relations
- Processes faculty and salaried employee payroll and temporary assignments
- Prepares annual South Texas College Staffing Plan
- Processes HR surveys and generates federal and state reports
- Maintains HR Banner system codes
- Oversees child support deductions, federal garnishments and state garnishments for
faculty
Phone: (956) 872-5050
E-mail: rrodriguez4@southtexascollege.edu
- Processes salaried employee payroll
- Processes temporary assignments
- Process child support deductions, federal garnishments and state garnishments for
staff
Phone: (956) 872-3806
E-mail: jcarlosh@southtexascollege.edu
- Processes adjunct, overload and dual enrollment NOE forms
- Processes staff personnel files
- Processes name/address entries and changes
- Generates TX new-hire reports
- Processes child support deducations, federal garnishments and state garnishments
for part-time instructors
- Process W4 entries and changes
Phone: (956) 872-5096
E-mail: dsalazar@southtexascollege.edu
- Process direct wage, work study, and trainer NOE’s
- Process resignation letters
- Reviews NOE’s submitted for compliance of regulations
- Processes child support deductions, federal/state garnishments for direct wage and
work-study
Phone: (956) 872-3801
E-mail: amaldonado38@southtexascollege.edu
- Administers benefits/enrollment and handles employee retirement
- Coordinates all HR payroll and benefits issues and administers exit process
- Oversees tuition reimbursement and grant process
- Oversees FMLA/WC and employee leave issues
- Responsible for state benefits reporting
- Provides customer service for employee benefits and payroll
Phone: (956) 872-5057
E-mail: brendajb@southtexascollege.edu
- Provides customer service for employee benefits’
- Processes Workman’s Compensation claims and files
- Enrolls new employees in benefits plans and provides benefits orientations
- Maintains employee benefits files and other record keeping
- Processes Classified and Professional Support Non-Exempt leave forms
- Processes full-time benefit eligible employee payroll
Phone: (956) 872-3728
E-mail: hsoliz@southtexascollege.edu
- Coordinates and administers FMLA documentation
- Enrolls new employees in benefits plans and provides benefits orientations
- Process employee status changes related to benefits plans on BANNER and/or ERS
- Processes employee disability claims
- Audits and maintains benefits files
Phone: (956) 872-3804
E-mail: kgarza36@southtexascollege.edu
- Enrolls new employees in benefits plans and provides benefits orientations
- Processes employee status changes related to benefits plans on ERS
- Processes Institutional Grant (formerly Tuition Waiver) applications
- Maintains employee benefits files and other record keeping
- Conducts exit interviews and processes exit documentation
- Maintains Sick Leave Pool membership
Phone: (956) 872-3730
E-mail: lortiz@southtexascollege.edu
- Coordinates annual employee health/wellness fair
- Processes changes related to benefits plans on BANNER and provides benefits orientations
- Maintains 403b annuity files and coordinates educational sessions
- Maintains employee EXIT files and other record keeping
- Processes Tuition Reimbursement applications
Phone: (956) 872-3808
E-mail: sgarcia_6747@southtexascollege.edu
- Evaluates degrees, degree equivalents and accreditation requirements for staff and
faculty
- Tracks employee transcripts
- Maintains adjunct pool database
- Maintains faculty credential database
- Updates faculty rosters
- Serves as HR delegate for evaluation committees
Phone: (956) 872-3722
E-mail: cycavazos@southtexascollege.edu
- Generates custom reports for Office of the President and Office of VP for Finance
and Administrative Services
- Develops and maintains HR procedural documentation
- Develops and assists with instruction of ethics and various other HR training programs
- Assists Benefits personnel with new-hire orientations
Phone: (956) 872-3812
E-mail: atfish@southtexascollege.edu
- Analyzes, designs, develops, implements and maintains computer applications to support
the department functions
- Prepares detailed specifications from which programs will be written
- Designs and documents system test plans; creates test data; QA's and tests new programs
and program modifications; conducts overall systems tests
- Designs procedures to solve complex problems based on User defined needs. Formulates
and defines system scope and requirements
- Responds to, identifies, researches, resolves, and documents applications system
performance problems
- Assists in the interpretation of program specifications, program design, and problem
solving
Phone: (956) 872-3811
E-mail: sstoyanof@southtexascollege.edu
- Processes personnel requests and follows advertising procedures
- Processes personnel requests and follows advertising procedures
- Maintains application logs for staff
- Processes resignation letters
- Prepares the staff recommendation to hire packets that are submitted by hiring committees
and presents packets in an orderly manner to the Vice President, then to the President
for final approval
- Makes job offers to candidates after recommendation has been approved
- Ensures all applications are returned to HR after the search has been completed
- Develops and maintains staffing spreadsheets
- Communicates staffing information to Director of HR, VP's, Deans and other Directors
throughout the staffing plan preparation
- Coordinates with HR Payroll Tech to ensure that all staffing plan information/changes
are also keyed in Banner for payroll purposes and to produce the Board approved
staffing plan in a timely manner as changes occur or information is received
Phone: (956) 872-5082
E-mail: mcarver@southtexascollege.edu
- Processes staff and faculty employment applications
- Handles front office applicant flow
- Initiates processing of new hires
- Issues Work Release Authorization forms and sets up employees on time clock
- Enters new employee personnel files into Banner
Phone: (956) 872-3637
E-mail: mpena59@southtexascollege.edu
- Provides administrative assistance to the Director of Human Resources
- Assists with annual budget development, requisitions and purchase orders
- Maintains tracking/analysis spreadsheets, files and collects reporting data for
the Director
- Updates HR manuals to ensure federal/state/local compliance
Phone: (956) 872-3816
E-mail: lmoreno@southtexascollege.edu
- Develops and maintains all employee personnel files
- Updates employee files to document personnel actions and to provide information
- Updates Director's manuals and maintains reference manuals
- Maintains confidentiality of all documents in the Office of Human Resources
Phone: (956) 872-3745
E-mail: esanchez@southtexascollege.edu
- Processes Temporary Employee Agency requests.
- Maintains internal spreadsheets regarding staff and faculty vacancies
- Processes Education Increases for eligible staff and faculty
- Generates custom reports at the request of the HR Director, VP for Finance and Administrative
Services and the President of the College
- Processes work-study background checks
- Logs staff and faculty applications for search committee use
- Handles new hire orientation for part-time staff
- Tracks grant-funded employees in internal spreadsheet
Phone: (956) 872-3830
E-mail: jramos_8480@southtexascollege.edu
- Handles front office flow
- Processes new hires and new hire files as needed
- Tracks and maintains documentation for Employment Eligibility Verification, Form
I-9
- Processes employment verifications
- Sends correspondence to applicants regarding closed positions for the HR Director
- Issues Work Release Authorization forms
- Initiates time clock set up for new and returning employees
Phone: (956) 872-3721
E-mail: aheredi2@southtexascollege.edu