Dr. Charles Oatis, Sr. is currently employed as the Human Resources Manager for the Louisiana House of Representatives, Baton Rouge, La, which encompasses a total of 145 employees. His work as Human Resources Manager includes onboarding, training and development, recruitment, and job embedment. He is a former City Manager of the City of Donaldsonville where he supervised 32 employees and was responsible for five major departments. The departments overseen were the gas department, sewerage department, finance department, parks and recreation department, fire department, police department, tax and revenue department. As Grant Administrator for the Parish of Ascension Government, he administered the Section Federal Program, implemented a transitory shelter program for the homeless and administered to the Parish of Ascension housing rehabilitation housing program.