PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Dedicated to the contact, recruitment, acquisition & retention of quality

IT candidates for open positions at a career depth of diversified

recruiting accomplishments for customer (employers, clients, colleagues &

candidates at all organizational levels) in numerous occupational

designations & across broad industry lines:

Specific recruiting accomplishments Executive, Managerial, Technical,

Creative, Project Management, MFG. Engineering, Individual Contributor,

Sales, Administrative, Clerical classifications & Fed. Gov't clearances

inclusive of full poly scope clearance.

Recruiter expertise includes the effective engagement with all levels of

hiring management for all aspects of recruiting (New Biz Dev., Account

Management, B2B negotiations, SOW's definition & direct in the trenches

&or in trenches with other candidate recruiters to well match, submit &

manage hiring process for the delivery of well matched candidates;

inclusive of on boarding duration / process:

V Known for both excellent client & candidate control / influence

V Trained recruiters & believe, that with hiring manager access, all

open orders (req's) can be filled -the key is structured, clearing

key items off table, (always trial closing) consultative methodology,

along with a Sr. Recruiter level of SME.

V Human Resources Management Certified (HRMC) -Labor Law compliance,

HR. best practices

V Bilingual Spanish: speak, read, & write: native speaker

SR. TECHNICAL RECRUITER PROFILE INCLUDES:

Sr. level of Recruiter understanding of multi-tier application

architecture & development (SDLC paradigm), solid in the following

processes & technologies:

. Highly familiar with ATS': Taleo, Brass Ring, etc.

. Computer literate: Boolean Logic, Outlook, Lotus Notes, MS Office,

various ATS', Windows & MAC proficient

. Technical Recruiting: .Net/Windows, Java Windows/UNIX/Linux, Open

Source technologies,

. ERP (PeopleSoft Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards), HRIS, MRP & BI

systems

. Systems Administration, Infrastructure, architecture, development,

maintenance, & SLA processes

. C/C++/Pro *C firmware design, debugger, emulator, electronic hardware,

& integrated development tools (IDE) inclusive of complex firmware

design processes & documentation control in an FDA QSR, ISO regulated

environment inclusive of control, release & Build Mgmt.

. Creative Recruiting: Java, HTML/CSS, Objective-C development for

mobile Application development: Apple iPhone, iOS native development

via Cocoa/Objective-C, within layered systems architecture solutions &

designs, inclusive of shared software concepts: significant

understanding of Information Navigation, UI Ergonomics & Creative

Digital Design

. Key accomplishments in high volume & rapid recruiting of Engineering

new graduates & Live Support Systems Engineers

V Generalist Recruiting: New College Graduate, F&A, HR., Scientific

(R&D), Light Industrial & Administrative skills sets

V Linked-in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermannkepfer -developed &

maintain a network community of resources for recruitment of

diversified & available Human Capital talent.

KEPFER CONSULTING INC. Southern California 12-

2013 to present

Sr. Technical Recruiter

(A practical longstanding shell to practice contract, C2C & 1099

Recruiting opportunities-desire has always been Full-time direct hire

employment)

KFORCE Culver City 03-2013

to 12-2013

Talent Representative: Sr. Technical Recruiter (not associated with

Kepfer Consulting Inc.)

Technical Recruiter for IT Flex Contract opportunities -placed 5 people

on long-term contract billing.

KEPFER CONSULTING INC. Southern California 08-

2005 to 03-2013

Sr. Technical Recruiter

(A practical longstanding shell to practice contract, C2C & 1099

Recruiting opportunities-desire is Full-time direct hire employment) (Not

all contracts are listed)

. Conduct a wide array of management services for diverse clients

primarily relating to Client & Candidate-side Recruitment assignments,

Organizational Design & general hiring consulting

V Completed well over 1000 + placements for such critical

classifications at all levels of authority for IT professionals,

Finance, Accounting, sales & marketing, Mfg'ing & production

Engineers, Office management & clerical positions

. Organizational Design expertise includes development, control &

maintenance of org chart; development of succession planning & cross

training strategies in alignment with corporate vision / retention

strategies

. Significant experience working with & within HR. Departments / HR.

Partners

TAD PGS (Adecco Federal Gov't Services Recruiting) Garden Grove, CA

07-2012 to 12-2012

Sr. Technical Recruiter (contract not associated w/Kepfer Consulting

Inc.)

. Hired, on mutually agreed to contract to hire basis, as specialized

Sr. IT Recruiter accountable for finding experts to meet clients

complex & highly sensitive technical & security needs.

. TAD PGS, Inc.'s candidates include retired military & government

personnel who have received extensive, & intensive, training, so as

to be highly skilled IT professionals with the experience to conduct

vulnerability assessments, develop risk-assessment plans, provide

24/7 network monitoring & everything from basic level coding to

advanced architecture; placed candidates that required Federal

Clearances.

V Well exceeded expectations

V Contract ended due to funding issues.

V In 10 weeks placed 7 contracts to hire IT individuals, maintained pace

of a placement a week.

V Endorsed by Adecco State of Michigan Franchise owner

CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT (NDA), Southern California

03-2012 to 07-2012

Hiring Processes / Recruiting Consultant 08-

2009 to 02-2010

04-2008 to 02-

2009

. For a NDA government agency client contracted three times to

significantly enhance (create) an existing recruiting program to

execute to new ?increased standards of production via proven

Recruiting methodologies: analyzed processes & provided

recommendations for effective use of Microsoft Office & Applicant

Tracking

. Attained additional experienced in training of four new recruiters in

accordance with Agency policies

V Called back: in 1st assignment reported to HR. Director, in 2nd & 3rd

assignments reported to different in-house Counsels

CST, KAVLICO, Moorpark CA, 12-

2007 to 10-2008

Sr. Contract Recruiter (for leading Mfg'r of Electronic Components)

. Interacted with all levels of management for Aerospace, Transportation

& Industrial divisions of this EU company

. Recruited / placed for the following: Engineers (ME, EE, AE, Project,

New Grads), Program & Project managers, Sr. Financial Analysts, Lotus

Notes Admin Developers, Business Intelligence Admin Developers,

Director of Operations, Materials Manager, R&D Engineering Manager,

Components Buyer & HRIS Analysts

. Exercised expertise regarding SDLC, ERP & MRP technologies

. As assigned, functioned as HR. Partner

V Hired approximately 10 MFG. Engineers, 8 MRP/ERP (combination

technical & functional), 1 Supply Chain Analyst,

& 1 HRIS Analyst, 12 new College Engineering graduates & approximately

20 Light Industrial skill sets.

AVEEVA CORPORATION, Fremont CA, 08-

2007 to 12-2007

Sr. SAP Recruiter

. Recruited contract, contract-to-hire & FTE ERP/SAP professionals for

positions in Pharmaceutical, Entertainment, & Mass Market Distribution

clients as contract to hire Recruiter; designed & executed mutually

agreed too business plan

V Hired approximately seven SAP (combination techno-functional direct

hires)

MARSHALL & SWIFT, MDA, Los Angeles, CA,

07-2006 to 06-2007

Sr. Corporate Recruiter (for premier Software Mfg'r of Construction Cost

& Real Estate Appraisal Application)

. Recruited Executive, Technical, IT Product, Finance & Accounting, &

Construction / Appraisal Industry professionals: C, C#, JAVA, ASP.

Net, SQL Server, COBOL, & IT Product Business Analyst positions,

inclusive of vendor (external recruiters) management

V Hired approximately 4 Java programmers, 3 Database Analysts, 13 SQL

live Support Engineers, 2 NOC Technicians, & 1 Assistant Controller &

1 Corporate Receptionist, etc.

COUNTRYWIDE FUNDING CORP, Malibu Hills, CA,

08-2005 to 06-2006

HR. Consultant / Corporate Recruiter

. Interacted with all levels of management

. Managed, guided, & facilitated hiring process of Countrywide's

"SMART" PeopleSoft/Oracle Enterprise implementation

. Required to execute ERP SME (Subject Matter Expertise)

. Consulted with all levels of hiring managers for position description

definitions, needs analysis & recruiting; Interviewed candidates for

SME & cultural fit

V Coordinated hire of 60 + individuals inclusive of H1 hires & transfers

V Managed / recruited for up to 80+ open new hire requisitions,

inclusive of vendor (external recruiters) management

PROSUM RMG, El Segundo, CA

2003 to 2005

Account Manager / Sr. Recruiter

Engaged for new business development: search fee, contract bill rate,

insurance & master client agreements

SOURCE EDP/ KFORCE, Sherman Oaks, CA

1998 to 2003

Account Manager / Sr. Recruiter

. Established & grew network of highly skilled IT professionals as per

client needs for 3 southern California offices

. Directly Interviewed or managed interviews of over 5000+ candidates:

primarily in technical, IT/IS, WWW, ERP/MRP, finance, accounting &

administrative positions

V Selected & noted as new hire mentor -experience in training new

recruiters

V KFORCE 2001 / 2002 Silver award winner

RECRUITING SUBJECT MATTER PRACTICES

. Windows (all versions) UNIX, SOLARIS, LINUX, MACOS 10.X, iOS

. . NET (C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL SERVER, LINQ, T-SQL, JQuery) VC++, VB,

VBA

. ERP/MRP SAP, PEOPLESOFT / ORACLE (PL/SQL) JD EDWARDS, LAWSON

. Open source (PHP (OOP), MYSQL, HTML, XML, PERL)

. C/C++ firmware design, documentation control, release management

. Apple iPhone iOS development via Cocoa/Objective-C, Java, HTML/CSS,

Objective-C

. Java/J2EE: JSP, tag libraries, within MVC framework inclusive of

JQuery, JQuery Mobile,

Modernizer, Backbone, JsUnit, etc.

. Methodologies: OO, Waterfall, Agile

. COBOL & other mainframe skill sets

. DBMS: design, dev., prod, test, Dev. DBA & Production DBA & Hot

Engineering

. SME's, Business Analysts, IT Product Analysts

. Live Applications Support Engineers: live SQL scripting

. WWW: look & feel, Information Navigation: Web design, GUI dev.,

production, testing, & QA,

inclusive of website performance metrics

. Change Management: Corporate Training & Communications skill sets,

IT/IS auditors

. HRIS Analysts / Developers / Administrators

. Finance & Accounting: Controllers, F&A Personnel & Contractors at all

levels

. HR. Directors, HR. managers, Talent Managers, Recruiters, ER, Comp &

HR. partners

. Executive Assistants, Receptionists & Special projects personnel

. CFO, CIO, CTO, COO, Corporate Counsel, Corporate Recruiters

. Program Management: PMO, Program, Project & IT Product Managers,

Engineers & Coordinators

. Engineers (ME, EE, AE) PHD'S, MS & BS & MFG. Engineers

. Limited IT Healthcare

. New College Grads

V Above list is not all-inclusive, nor up to precise date.

INDUSTRY PRACTICES

. Insurance / CRM

. Finance / Banking / ERP / Accounting

. Internet / Software Dev. / ecommerce / Science (.Net, Java & Open

Source-DOTCOM)

. Engineering / Electronics Components Manufacturing (SIMMS) / MRP /

Supply Chain / KAZAN

. Transportation, Aerospace, Industrial & Light Industrial

. Telecom / Wireless / Cable / Cellular / WI-FI

. Entertainment / Broadcast

. Construction Estimation / Real Estate Appraisal

. Manufacturing / ERP / MRP / Mechanical - Electrical Engineers

. IT Product / Medical IT / IT Hardware / MFG./ IS / MIS

. Project Management: PMO / EPMO / PMI / PMBOK / Program, Project

Managers & Project Coordinators

. IT Security / IT Systems' Administration / Networks Interconnectivity

/ Storage Management (SAN)

. US Federal, California State / LA County Governments inclusive of

sensitive security clearance positions

. Gaming & Internet Gaming

V Above list is not all-inclusive.

V Previous professional experience includes: Advertising, Mid-Range

solutions sales, Academia, (Faculty Rank), Client-server IT Hardware

Solution Sales & Major Cellular Major Accounts Program Management

EDUCATION:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, UCLA, Westwood, CA, BA Economics

LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, Westchester, CA, Certificate in Human

Resources Management

LEADERSHIP:

KFORCE Silver Award recipient

Twice UCLA Alumni Association Chairman for Community College Scholarships-

Lifetime member

Sixteen year Martial Artist: Hapkido, 1st Dan; retired 2005

Linked-In user -noted within group of first 300k member users: top 5%

visited Profiles for 2012 & at 3700+ connections

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