During her federal career, Ms. Rummage served as a Injury Compensation Program Manager, FECA Administrator, Claims Processor, Case Manager, and Retirement Specialist. She is fully qualified and proficient in making return to work determinations and performing extensive workers’ compensation case management. Ms. Rummage’s HR background provides a unique insight into retirement as well as employee relations issues related to injury compensation.

Ms. Rummage is also a certified and trained EEO professional. She served as a Special Emphasis Program Manager (SEPM) for a defense agency and participated in diversity recruitment programs. She attended industry conferences and coordinated a teacher recruitment career fair designed to increase workforce diversity within the Department of Defense Dependents Schools. Ms. Rummage is currently an independent contractor providing EEO Counseling for a number of federal agencies. In this capacity she conducts informal counseling, which consists of pre-complaint processing, fact-finding inquiries, resolution attempts, and report writing. Ms Rummage is a trained and experienced EEO Investigator and is also certified as a Federal Workplace Mediator through the George Mason University, Northern Virginia Mediation Service.

Ms. Rummage has developed and presented a number of training sessions and seminars for federal agencies throughout the United States. She utilizes her broad knowledge in the field of HR to conduct on-site sessions for managers, supervisors, and employees on various aspects of workers’ compensation and retirement benefits. She has demonstrated ability as a Personnel Staffing Specialist, Employee and Labor Relations Specialist, Personnel Management Specialist, Retirement Program Manager, Benefits Officer, FEHB Program Manager and Injury Compensation Program Manager. Ms. Rummage has traveled extensively nationwide and abroad and is considered an expert in her field.

Areas of Expertise:

• Workers’ Compensation Program Management
• Retirement & Benefits Counseling
• Employee Relations
• Recruitment and Placement
• EEO Counseling
• EEO Investigations

Courses taught:

• How HRM Programs affect OWCP Claimants
• Personnel Issues and how they relate to FECA
• Impact of Workers Comp LWOP on Employee Benefits
• Intermediate Workers Compensation Case Management for HR Specialists
• Introduction to Federal Workers Compensation
• OWCP program requirements and responsibilities for management officials
• Federal Service Retirement
• CSRS Pre-retirement Seminars
• FERS Pre-retirement Seminars
• Federal Employee Benefits Overview

Awards and Accomplishments:

• Recipient of DLA Superior Civilian Service Medal and Award
• Program efforts resulted in over $1 million in OWCP savings
• DoD Injury and Unemployment Conference guest speaker
• Presented training courses at the Veterans Administration Federal Workers Compensation Conference
• Recipient of Department of Defense Spirit of Excellence Award
• Conducted retirement benefits seminars for DoDEA employees in Panama, Korea, Turkey, Spain and Norway
• Served as the civilian personnel liaison in Japan, Italy and Germany; charged with interacting with school officials, teachers and family members to provide overall guidance on HR matters.
• Organized Teacher Recruitment Career Fair which targeted educators for “hard to fill” teaching positions.
• Conducted major study to determine feasibility of centralizing agency injury compensation program and presented the conclusions to management. Recommendations ultimately led to the establishment of an Injury Compensation Center.