Earvin Hopkins

Official "AI Udemy Instructor" - (4k students enrolled)

Udemy • Freelance

May 2025 - Present • 1 yr 1 mo

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Fractional Chief HR / Payroll Officer

Company Confidential • Part-time

Mar 2021 - Present • 5 yrs 3 mos

Fractional Chief HR & Payroll Administrator September 2024 - Present - Remote / Atlanta, GA ▪ Built a fully functional AI-powered HR chatbot for staff self-service using Voiceflow - integrated with MySQL for live HR data queries, allowing employees to get instant, accurate answers on handbook policies, SOPs, benefits, and compliance questions without contacting HR directly ▪ Support leadership on employee relations, corrective action, and HR compliance questions as they arise. ▪ Serving as the fractional HR and payroll lead for a remote-first nonprofit - owning the full HR and payroll function on a part-time basis. ▪Process full bi-weekly payroll in Rippling - wages, deductions, bonuses, multi-state tax withholdings, and direct deposit management ▪ Administer health, dental, vision, 401(k), leave, and open enrollment - coordinating with carriers and reconciling premiums ▪ Conducted a full organizational compensation survey - analyzed all roles, built salary bands, and benchmarked against BLS OEWS data using Excel ▪ Maintain HRIS data integrity in Rippling - employee records, compensation updates, classification changes, and audit-ready documentation ▪ Built a fully functional AI-powered HR chatbot for staff self-service using Voiceflow - integrated with MySQL for live HR data queries, allowing employees to get instant, accurate answers on handbook policies, SOPs, benefits, and compliance questions without contacting HR directly ▪ Support leadership on employee relations, corrective action, and HR compliance questions as they arise

Manager, Human Resources

ABM Industries • Full-time

Dec 2018 - Mar 2021 • 2 yrs 3 mos

- Complete payroll for 100 employees 2x per week via Blueforce/ePay, submit merit increases, and provide 85 appraisal trainings annually - Conceptualized and created innovative solutions for candidate selection that reduced turnover 23% YTD and increased productivity by 2.5% due to improved quality of talent hiring - Counseled Managers on candidate selection which has resulted in successfully hiring 55 talented employees YTD by posting hiring promotions through talent boards and from employee referrals - Conduct roughly 40 exit interviews annually and analyze information to identify opportunity for continuous improvement in hiring, performance management, and personnel policies - Conducted +/- 20 new hire orientations for groups of up to 20 employees each, communicating policies, mission, vision, values, and role scope, which has improved promotions 7% and decreased disciplinary action over prior year - Host Town Halls weekly to communicate updates on policy changes, open enrollment deadlines, safety updates, and changes in the market - Implemented HR filing and retrieval system for past and current records that has improved time spent filing by 40% - Maintain Human Resource staff through recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees while allowing for no more than a 5% delta from the goal to actual - Perform three OSHA Safety inspections per week to ensure safety and regulatory compliance