Personnel Office

If the people who hired Haroon Ansari had studied his resume, they would have noticed he claimed to have directed a Kansas City mental health program in 1974, when he was 13.But no one did.Mr. Ansari, 33, who was chosen after a national search last year to oversee Crownsville Hospital Center, resigned from his $63,000-a-year job Monday after state officials discovered that he had falsified his resume. He was described by state officials as a con man who took advantage of a lapse in background checking.

The Navy has fired a veteran fighter pilot from one of the top jobs in naval aviation because he did not respond quickly to a complaint from an aide that she was sexually harassed at a convention of Navy fliers in September.Rear Adm. John W. Snyder Jr. was removed as commander of the Patuxent River Naval Air Test Center in Lexington Park on Tuesday and transferred to an unspecified job at the Naval Air Systems Command in Crystal City, Va., by Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, chief of naval operations.

The ad seeking applicants for the Howard council administrator's job said it pays $55,918 and up, depending upon experience.That was enough to draw 224 applicants from across the state and from as far as Florida, Alabama, Georgia and West Virginia to fill the vacancy left by the firing of former administrator Sheila Tolliver last month.The level of applications is 43 percent higher than in January 1993, the last time the council had to fill the position.At that time, a former state senator and an employee of the U.S. Supreme Court were among the 157 applicants for what was then the position of council "executive secretary."

Anne Arundel County Executive Janet S. Owens appointed a committee yesterday to study the Fire Department's $7.2 million overtime expenditures last fiscal year. The move is the second county government response to criticism that the department exceeded its overtime budget by more than $1 million and spent millions more on overtime than neighboring counties. Last week, the County Council requested an audit of the department. The eight-member committee, headed by Owens' senior economic adviser, Ronald McGuirk, will analyze the department's staffing practices and compare them with other jurisdictions.

Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome said yesterday that he has not had any discussions with Minnesota about trading for Randy Moss, and was unaware of Vikings owner Red McCombs giving his club permission to trade one of the league's top receivers. ESPN reported Sunday that McCombs gave the Vikings personnel office and coach Mike Tice permission to trade Moss last week, but newspaper accounts out of Minneapolis yesterday had McCombs and other team officials denying the report. "I have not talked to the Minnesota Vikings about Randy Moss," Newsome said.

County Executive Robert R. Neall announced Friday that paramedic Matthew Thomas is the first recipient of the Anne Arundel County Executive Fellowship.In a program designed to identify minority candidates for management jobs, Mr. Thomas of Annapolis, 41, will spend the next six months learning about the operation of local government."As the county grows, the need for competent managers in government will increase," Mr. Neall said in a prepared statement. "I believe Matt Thomas is among those who have exceptional potential."

Carroll commissioners have hired two auditors to scrutinize the operations of county departments.The Office of Performance Auditing now has four employees, office administrator Timothy D. Hartman said.Both positions, which were filled this fall, had been vacant for about two years because of a county hiring freeze, he said.The commissioners decided to lift the freeze so the auditors could be hired "to ease pressure on the existing staff," said Commissioner Elmer C. Lippy.The county audits itself continually, Mr. Lippy said.

Eleanor R. Mulligan, a retired Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. employee and a volunteer, died of leukemia Friday at the Edenwald retirement community in Towson. She was 89. She was born and raised Eleanor Rooney in Baltimore. After graduating in 1934 from the old St. Joseph's High School in Emmitsburg, she began her career as a telephone switchboard operator at C&P's Vernon exchange. Mrs. Mulligan was promoted to supervisor in the company's business office, and at her 1985 retirement was a supervisor in the personnel office.

Annapolis attorney Paul G. Goetzke was elected chairman of the Anne Arundel County Ethics Commission at the panel's first meeting yesterday.Mr. Goetzke, who will serve a one-year term, received a law degree with honors from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1985. He is an associate at the Annapolis law firm of Council, Baradal, Kosmerl and Nolan, specializing in civil trial and appellate practice before state and federal courts.Mr. Goetzke also serves on the Annapolis Board of Appeals and sat on the city's Redistricting Committee in 1991.

County Executive Robert R. Neall scored with black leaders yesterdaywhen he appointed Donald Tynes Sr. to head the county's personnel office."With this appointment, the county executive may very well have established a new era in county politics. I'm elated," said Jean Creek, president of the Anne Arundel chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.Tynes, the University of Maryland's director of human resources, affirmative action and equal employment opportunity, is Neall's firstCabinet-level minority appointment.