Richard Thomas

San Diego, CA *****

619-***-****

acguqq@r.postjobfree.com

Seasoned recruiting professional with eighteen years' success in corporate

recruiting strategies, developing & managing recruitment teams, global

resource recruiting alignment and HR processes.

> Extensive experience as an individual contributor and manager to

implement strategic staffing plans for highly matrixed organizations

> Excellent salary negotiator with very strong closing capability

> Proven success at strategically aligning corporate client recruiting

needs to calculated staffing strategies

> Consistent ability to build successful partnerships with all levels of

internal stakeholders

> Results-driven go-getter with a positive, can-do attitude

Experience:

9/2010 - 10/2014 Confidential - Fortune 300 Global Firm ($31Billion)

Sr. Corporate Recruiter (Contract)

On a national scale, recruited Tier 1 professionals

for the R&D, Systems, IT, Supply Chain, Manufacturing

and Training organizations. These are for permanent

placements.

. Partnered with hiring managers, HRBPs and

senior executive leaders to execute critical

hiring projects and provide excellent customer

service to client hiring initiatives

. Successfully hired 82 full time hires for the

close of fiscal year 2013

. Managed recruiting go to market strategy in a

highly-matrixed organization

. Well versed with visa immigration onboarding procedures and processes

(H1, L1, TN, EAD, GC)

. Instituted referral campaign programs

3/2009 - 8/2010 Unable to find work during this time period due to

recession.

2/2008 - 2/2009 Ingram Micro - Global

Sr. Technical Corporate Recruiter (Contract)

On a national scale, recruited functional and

technical SAP business consultants for critical

projects and key stakeholders in a highly matrixed

organization. Internal clients would include SAP

module team leadership up to the executive level.

These would be for permanent, temp to perm and

contract hiring.

. Partnered with senior leadership to understand

current and future aggressive talent

acquisition initiatives

. Provided excellent customer service and

strategic direction to different business

units, senior leadership and HRBPs

. Developed and effectively executed short,

medium and long-term staffing plan

. Managed HR metrics to align to projected

recruitment needs

4/2007- 2/2008 BearingPoint (Formerly KPMG) - through MBO

Partners

Sr. Technical Corporate Recruiter (Contract)

Successfully managed strategic workforce planning

through talent acquisition initiatives. This would

support critical client projects in the Cross

Industry Solutions Group (CISG) and Commercial

Services Solutions Group (CSSG). These would be for

permanent, temp to perm and contract positions.

. Aligned with senior leadership to understand

aggressive talent acquisition initiatives

. Clients supported would include: Warner Bros.,

Apple, GMAC, Honeywell, Coca-Cola, Chevron,

Exxon, Tivo & Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Publishing

. Provided excellent customer service and

strategic direction to hiring managers, HR and

Sr. Leadership

. Worked resource managers to insure internal

consultant utilization was globally maximized

and recruited for

. On a national and international scale,

recruited the following titles and skills:

1. Director, Sr. Manager, Manager, Sr.

Consultant & Consultant level

candidates

2. Executive, Business Process, Financial,

Technical, Infrastructure, Developers,

ERP specialists (TIBCO, SAP, Oracle)

and business process analysts

. Maintained a strong candidate pipeline

6/2006-3/2007 HCL (formerly Axon Global)

Sr. Technical Corporate Recruiter (Contract)

On a national scale, recruited functional and

technical SAP business consultants for critical

client projects and internal programs. Internal

clients would include SAP teams and senior leadership

across all modules of SAP. These hires would be for

permanent and contract opportunities.

. Client projects would include: Goodrich,

Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, Aquarion, PG&E,

Sempra

. Please review the bullet points listed under

the BearingPoint heading, as they are the exact

same roles and responsibilities for HCL as well

1/2006-5/2006 Manpower Professional - Qualcomm

Sr. Technical Corporate Recruiter (Contract)

Hired to recruit top tier talent for Qualcomm's

"tougher to fill" technical and contract job orders.

. Skills recruited for: Systems

Analysts/Integration, Network Infrastructure,

Web Development, Hardware and Software

Engineering

. Insured all work orders had 3-5 qualified

candidates presented for panel interviews and

filled 3-4 openings per month

. Consistently managed 14-18 open job orders at a

time

. Provided senior recruitment development

strategies and tactics to 6 medium and junior

level recruiting team members

. Full lifecycle recruitment

4/2003-12/2005 PeopleQwest, LLC

Recruiting Manager

Managed team of 5 senior technical recruiters, 2

recruiting coordinators and 2 offshore recruiters to

provide recruiting solutions to our clients in the

network infrastructure, semiconductor, software

development, web development and wireless engineering

verticals. These candidates would be placed on a

contract, temp-to-perm and permanent placement.

. Developed and executed strategic staffing plans

and a 90 day forecast for recruiting

deliverables

. Strong sales activity via cold calls,

conference calls and onsite/F2F appointment

selling opportunities

. Managed $500K budget to encapsulate all

expenditures associated to the successful

delivery of the recruiting team's expected

deliverables

. Constant client interaction providing excellent

customer service

. Managed recruiter scorecard and measurable

metrics to properly align job requisition

workload, goal setting exercises and recruiter

accountability

. Managed and implemented "cradle to grave"

recruiting processes for team continuity and

accountability

. Successfully negotiated bill rates and

permanent placement fees with new and existing

clientele

8/1999-3/2003 CRG & Associates, LLC

Principal, Talent Acquisition/Management

Provided premier staff augmentation services to

Fortune 100 & 500 clients in the software

development, semiconductor, wireless, network

infrastructure, ERP and web engineering verticals.

Managed internal team of 10 recruiters, 3 sales

executives and 2 office administrators to

aggressively deliver client-recruiting solutions.

. Developed and managed recruiting team staffing

plan and milestone matrix

. Coordinated weekly and monthly staff meetings

to insure recruiting and sales team were

focused and achieving pre-determined milestones

. Managed $3.1 million dollar budget to

encapsulate all expenditures associated to the

successful delivery of the sales and recruiting

team's client placement objectives

. Managed all payroll and billing activities

-100% P&L responsibility

. Strong sales activity working with clients both

locally and nationally

. Heavy client interaction providing excellent

customer service

. Mentored internal staff from the ground up to

compete within the top 5% of our competition

. Managed recruiter scorecard and metrics to

properly align job requisition workload, goal-

setting exercises, recruiter accountability and

career growth

. Responsible for developing and leading company

market strategy and brand recognition

. Drove current and future client selling

initiatives via cold calls, conference calls

and onsite/F2F appointment selling

opportunities

. Successfully negotiated bill rates and

permanent placement fees with new and existing

clientele

. Grew company from 0 to 100 full-time employees

in 2.5 years

. Consistently managed and maximized company net

profit

12/1996- 7/1999 H.L. Yoh Company, LLC

Sr. Recruiting Specialist and Account Manager

. Recruited scientific, network infrastructure,

web development and wireless professionals for

medium and Fortune 100 sized companies.

Candidates would be placed on a contract, temp-

to-perm and direct placement basis

. Developed I.T. and Scientific branch market

strategy from the ground up. Strong contributor

in growing the external contractor base from 45

to 175 client billable employees

. Drove current and future client selling

initiatives via cold calls, conference calls

and onsite/F2F appointment selling

opportunities

. Successfully negotiated bill rates and

permanent placement fees with new and existing

clientele

. Consistently produced qualified sales leads of

potential client hiring managers for sales team

. Managed critical pipeline of qualified

technical professionals

. Mentored junior recruiters to evolve into

senior recruiters

. Complied with ISO 9000 documentation and

process requirements

Applicant Tracking Systems: Taleo, MaxHire, iCIMS, Vurv, Recruitmax,

Winsearch

Academic Preparation: Bachelor of Arts, English - University of California

- June 1993

SPHR Certification in progress - expected January

2015

Two seminars with Peter Lefkowitz (recruitment

training)

Certified AIRS I, II

References available upon request

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