PETE KOHLI Cell: 972-***-****

(**) Pete Kohli LinkedIn ad48ow@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY:

Enthusiastic Account Manager/Business Development Manager, Recruiting professional, 14+ years of leadership in the high-technology space.

Proven success securing new clients, locating, recruiting, and hiring top-performing talent

Proven success in Agency and Corporate recruiting, working in virtual and onsite offices.

Equally adept at processing high-volume, non-exempt employees, as well as upper-level executives

Powered the recruiting and sourcing growth at several staff augmentation companies

Managed and matured the recruiting processes from start-up tornado to steady growth

Startup experience where each company was successfully acquired. Was part of the same leadership team through-out

WORK EXPERIENCE:

MobileComm Professionals. A UST company- Richardson TX 12/23- Present

Recruiting for all IT and Telecom positions within the Corporate Office for Major Clients – Ericsson, Nokia, AT&T,T-Mobile, Samsung.

Wimmer Solutions, Seattle, Dallas, TX 6/2021 – 10/2022

Sr. Technical Recruiter (Professional Services)

First hire for the Professional Services team to recruit internal and staffing hires for Key clients. Managed and conducted full life-cycle targeted, selection recruiting processes, utilizing traditional sources, Internet sourcing, social media, referral programs, and affiliation networking. Worked with sales representatives and practice managers to develop recruiting strategies and forecast needs, as well as sourcing qualified candidates.

4Consulting Inc, Richardson, TX 6/2020 – 4/2021

Delivery Manager

(Deloitte, KPMG, WMATA, State and Federal Government clients)

Brought on board to manage delivery/staffing needs of key clients to maintain KPI and vendor status.

Managed MSP programs, VMS systems and offshore recruiting teams.

Oversaw day-to-day management of recruiting .Hired/Managed team of six recruiters. Hired permanent employees, contractors, and subcontractors internally and for external clients.

Nespon IT LLC, Irving, TX 6/2018 – 6/2020

Account Manager/Recruiting Manager/Sr. Recruiter

(Account Manager for : Frontier Communications, Windstream Communications, Spectrum/Charter Communications, Brinks. )

Managed and conducted full life-cycle targeted, selection recruiting processes, utilizing traditional sources, Internet sourcing, social media, referral programs, and affiliation networking. Worked with sales representatives and practice managers to develop recruiting strategies and forecast needs, as well as sourcing qualified candidates. Oversaw day-to-day management of recruiting. Hired/Managed team of six recruiters. Hired permanent employees, contractors, and subcontractors internally and for external clients.

Personally filled IT/telecom positions that were open and unfilled for several months.

Onexte Consulting LLC 12/2015 – 5/2018

Dir of Talent Acquisition /MSP Practice Lead

(Account Manager for Top Golf, IBM, Mayo Clinic)

First hire after the CEO. Responsible for building the Office team from Sales to Office/Accounting Dept. Instrumental in building the firms HIT Staffing and Cybersecurity and staffing practice and developing an offshore MSP recruiting division. Created, managed and implemented staffing plan to train internal Sales team to sell Staffing and Services to existing and new clients

GlobalStep LLC - Dallas, TX 4/2014 to 11/2015

Account Manager/Sr. Technical Recruiter

(Account Manager for Mapi Group, TMZ, CAPCOM)

Hired to build a RPO and Staffing and Services arm for a Gaming company that specialized in QA and interactive entertainment. Introduced On Site placement and retention of contract, contract-to-hire and direct-hire to existing clients that were only using GlobalStep for Offshore services

Responsible for recruitment of IT professionals at all levels from Helpdesk, System Admin's to Infrastructure Manager for a new Global client that lead to a $1.5 million project.

Created, managed and implemented staffing plan to train National Sales team to sell Staffing and Services to existing and new clients in the Gaming industry. Added 6 new Logo clients.

Recruitment of internal team including Sales, Recruiting and Administrative Staff.

Expertise in full life-cycle recruiting which includes initial intake sessions with clients and sales, requirement gathering, marketing, candidate sourcing, screening, submittal & presentation to the customer, client/candidate introductions, driving the interview process and closing the placements.

Straveda

Resource Manager/Sr. Recruiter Plano, TX 8/12 – 01/14

Hired to build a staff-augmentation arm for a Start up. Responsible for studying and re-engineering the existing processes and tuning them for this new business. Actively worked with Sales, HR and Delivery teams. Managed the delivery of all IT contract staff nationwide in a Player/Coach role

MobileComm Professionals INC.

Account Manager/Sr. Recruiter Richardson/Plano, TX 12/08 – 7/12

Recruiting for all IT and Telecom positions within the Corporate Office for Major Clients – Ericsson, Nokia, AT&T,T-Mobile, Samsung,MetroPCS, Lightsquared, Huawei,Sprint.

Managed (Player/Coach) the delivery of all contract and FTE staff for 2 Business Unit’s nationwide,

Instrumental in staffing positions for new office in CANADA for clients; Rogers, Telus, ZTE,Bell Canada, SaskTel etc.

Built a very large network of partner/vendor companies to source candidates

Implemented recruiting process improvements

Sr. Recruiter - Independent Consultant Plano, TX 11/05 – 11/08

Clients: Technology Partners,Tavant Inc., An enterprise systems specialist with 1000+ employees

Hired to build a staff-augmentation arm. Responsible for studying and re-engineering the existing processes and tuning them for this new business. Actively worked with Sales, HR and Delivery teams.

Managed the delivery of all IT contract staff nationwide in a Player/Coach role

Perficient (Acquired Vivare for $9+ Million) Plano,TX 04/98 - 11/05

After acquisition, helped transition all contracts from various staffing agencies over to Perficient. Decided to go independent at the end of the retainer period.

Vivare Inc /Paranet (Formed by acquisition out of One Inc) Plano,TX 02/02 - 09/05

Director- Recruiting Channels

Managed the delivery of all IT contract staff nationwide

Oversaw a team of staffing employees for complete life cycle staffing functions (i.e. job postings, background checks, I-9’s, relocation, vendor management, applicant flow, etc.)

Reviewed and made recommendations for all RFP’s

One Inc (Vital Solutions acquired by One Inc for $22 Million) Plano,TX 06/00 - 01/02

Director- Channels Delivery

Managed the delivery of all contract staff for 7 Business Unit’s nationwide

Built a very large network of partner/vendor companies to source candidates

Recruiting for all IT positions within the Corporate Office

Implemented recruiting process improvements

Vital Solutions Inc Plano, TX 04/98 - 05/00

Lead Recruiter

2nd hire after the founders. Hired to help lead this startups hiring requirements

Worked closely with client hiring managers to determine their hiring needs.

Sourced candidates via the Internet, job fairs, and employee referrals and staffing companies.

Negotiated salaries, Conducted interviews, Scoped projects (true startup mode).

EDUCATION

Central State University Edmond, OK 01/83 – 06/89

Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 08/89 – 06/90

TECHNOLOGIES

Given my strong technology educational background, I have recruited for a wide-range of computing technologies: Networking technologies (routing, switching, security, unified communications, ), Operating systems (Sun Solaris, Windows, Linux, Unix), Enterprise IT and DB apps (Siebel,Salesforce,SDFC, Clarify, Vitria, Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Coldfusion, ATG, MTS,JBOSS,JBPM,HADOOP,IIS, Tibco, Plumtree, Mongo,Hive,Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2, SAP, PeopleSoft,Redhat) Business Intelligence, Sterling,Solr,Spotfire,Business Objects, Project Managers, Business Analysts etc. Digital – UI/UX, Marketing, Campaigns, Healthcare – EPIC,Cerner,Pharm.D.

Data Scientist, ML,Tableau, PowerBI,Analytics. RPA, UiPath.

Telecom :LTE, UMTS, WCDMA,EVDO,GSM,CDMA,iDEN,E911,5G,4G,3G,RF engineers, DAS,In-Building,, zoning and electromagnetic field exposure, Construction Managers, Tower Crew, Drive Testing and benchmarking, LOS, Install and Commissioning. Site survey, BTS,Integration, Wifi 802.11,BTLE,CBRS

ATS/VMS: Vurv,Taleo,iCIMS,Quickarrow,Bullhorn,Primavera,JobDiva,Zoho,Fieldglass,Tapfin,Beeline,Zerochas.

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