Richard C. Smith

516-***-**** / Jericho, NY, ****3

apd9w8@r.postjobfree.com / http://www.linkedin.com/in/staffingdirector

Summary:

** ***** ** **** *********, retained/contingent/temporary/corporate-recruiting experience. Managing and training recruitment teams with average staff sizes of 6-10.

Extensive US and offshore-based recruitment experience. Primary focus has been in financial services markets, including buy and sell side financial. Expert vendor management systems (VMS, Taleo, Chimes, Beeline, ATS) and strong experience with H1b, T1, L1, visa transfer process.

Software Engineering; Large-Scale High Performance Distributed Apps; RAD/Tactical Front-Office Development; Quant/Analytic Dev. & Modeling

Finance; Fixed Income (Bonds, IR/Credit Derivatives); Equities (Cash, Options, Volatility/High-Frequency); FX, Commodities, Futures Trading, Structured Products (MBS, ABS, CDO); Portfolio Trading.

Technology; OO Server-Side Business Logic Dev.: C++, JAVA, C#; Fat-Client: Winforms, Swing, VBA/Excel; Thin-Client: Webforms, JSP’s; Messaging: Sockets, MQ, Tibco; Web Services: XML/SOAP

Specialties

Full lifecycle Perm Recruitment, C2C, C2H, Vendor Contracts, VMO, Recruitment Systems Solutions, Salary negotiation, Behavioral Interviewing, Training, Communication skills, Sourcing of hard-to-find skills, Coaching/Influencing, Banking, Trading, Investment Banking, Financial, Brokerage, Capital Markets, Private Client, Wealth Management, Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Software, Vendor, Technology, Solutions Provider

Experience

CGI, US Enterprise Markets (USEM) January 2011 – Present

CGI Group Inc. is one of the largest Information Technology and Business Process Services (BPO/BPS) firms in the world with 30,000 member professionals.

Sr. National IT Recruiting Partner - Capital Markets, Trading, Banking

Clients - PNC Bank, Moody's, Deutsche Bank, GEICO, Government, State/Local

Job skills include: C++, C# .NET, ASP.NET, Winforms, Core Java, FLEX, DHTML, J2EE, Web forms, AJAX, and Sr. PMO, Fixed Income Business Analyst, C++ Quants, QA's.

Responsible for driving all aspects of the technical recruiting process, which includes partnering with Human Resource Leaders, Hiring Managers, and Senior Leadership.

Currently leading the recruiting efforts and placing candidates in Perm and Contract roles.

I am responsible for building an ongoing technical candidate pipeline using research, social networking, outplacement services and online job database information. Also recruiting and interviewing potential candidates for future projects

I source, recruit, and pre-screen candidates and then submit candidate to open requisitions. Qualifies each candidate to determine whether their capabilities match job requirements

Participates in interviews with hiring managers to decide whether to extend a job offer. Determine job offer details; negotiate, prepare and extend new-hire offers.

Communicates offers or rejections to candidates.

Pipeline of qualified candidates for future jobs and track candidates and provide recruiting metrics reports.

Sapient Global Markets - (Contractor) June 2010 - January 2011 Technical Recruiting Manager, Sourcing, Hiring, Capital Markets

Clients - Merrill Lynch, Citadel, UBS, Barclays, Wellington Federal Reserve and US Treasury

60% Contract Openings / 40% Perm Jobs Placement

Job skills include: C++, C# .NET, ASP.NET, Winforms, Core Java, FLEX, DHTML, J2EE, Web forms, AJAX, and Sr. PMO, Fixed Income Business Analyst, C++ Quants, QA's.

Responsible for the hiring and sourcing of IT Contractors nationally + Full Life Cycle Perm Placement of senior level ETRM Commodities, Fixed Income Derivatives + Equity Trading Investment Banking IT professionals

Direct client facing (on site) at Banks meeting with Project Managers receiving IT requirements Hands on control of Candidate’s Submittal Process; sourcing, qualifying, submitting to job, documenting in VMS, setting up the interviews and providing offer letters.

Provide background checks, drug screening, reference checks, and paperwork and resume verification prior to candidate start date

Experienced with a variety of VMO/VMS/ATS products including Taleo, Beeline, Chimes, People Click, Maximizer, Akken + a variety of Oracle/PeopleSoft/SAP-based Tracking. Developed, Created and managed all aspects of Sapient National Sourcing Strategy

Created Pipeline of candidates for each recruiter then submitting resumes for submittal and managed the job requests coming from all recruiters. Directly managed and worked in partnership with India sourcing team and launched Internal “Candidate Referral Tracking System”

Trained IT recruiters + India sourcing team how to directly head hunt into specific companies.

Direct source targeted head hunting from customized searches conducted by cold calling and email campaign. Recruited candidates from a specific business domain (ex: Goldman, JPMorgan)

MANPOWER, Inc. / COMSYS (Contractor) August 2009 - June 2010 Technical Recruiting Lead, Commodities & Equity Trading Systems

Clients - Citigroup, AIG, RBC, Bank of America, TIAA-Cerf, Morgan Stanley

90% Contract Openings / 10% Perm Jobs Placement

Jobs skills: C++, C# .NET, ASP.NET, Winforms, Core Java, J2EE, Web forms, AJAX, and well as Sr. Fixed Income Business Analyst, C++ Quants and QA's.

Placed consultants including: Networking, Business Systems and Applications Development requirements such as Programmers, Business Analysts, Project Managers, DBA, Technical Leads, and Systems Admin.

Responsible for filling 36 financial risk trading jobs specializing in the full life cycle recruitment of Fixed Income Investment Banking IT professionals. Direct client facing (on site) in bank meetings with project managers where I receive technical requirements – also a Vendor Management System (VMS) Expert

Hands on control of Candidate’s Submittal Process; sourcing, qualifying, submitting to job, documenting in VMS, setting up the interviews and providing offer letters.

Provide background checks, drug screening, reference checks, and paper work and resume verification prior to candidate start date.

I conduct technical testing for candidates on Prove-IT and Pre-Visor.

Establish and maintain strong business relationships with account managers while working closely with clients and account managers to meet their staffing and technical requirements. Work load is monitored every day to see how many candidates were submitted to each job, how many interviews I set up and how many jobs I filled.

Utilize Internet searches, database searches, referrals, third party sub-contracting, college level recruiting, headhunting practices and cold calling to source candidates.

I extensively utilized user groups + Internet search engines posting advertisements and sourcing. Conduct thorough technical screening and reference checks for selected candidates. I scheduled and co-ordinate with Clients/Account managers for final interviews for short listed candidates. Negotiate with third party vendors on rate and contract related issues. Provide feedback and confirmation of resume submittals to Account Executives within 24-hr.

Universal Management IT Systems June 2008 - July 2009 Technical Recruiting Manager, Capital Markets Trading

Clients - E*Trade, TIAA-Cerf, Blackrock, Citigroup - 100% Perm Jobs Placement IT Candidates

Responsible for hiring 15 jobs perm jobs in the risk trading. I specialize in the full life cycle placement of Investment Banking IT professionals.

Jobs skills: C++, C# .NET, ASP.NET, Winforms, Core Java, J2EE, Web forms, AJAX, and well as Sr. Fixed Income Business Analyst, C++ Quants and QA’s.

Placed consultants including: Networking, Business Systems and Applications Development requirements such as Programmers, Business Analysts, Project Managers, DBA, Technical Leads, and Systems Admin.

Utilize Internet searches, database searches, referrals, third party sub-contracting, college level recruiting, headhunting practices and cold calling to source candidates.

Extensively utilize Internet job search engines writing job posting advertisements and sourcing. Conduct thorough technical screening and reference checks for selected candidates. I scheduled and co-ordinate with Clients/Account managers for final interviews for short listed candidates. Negotiate with third party vendors on rate and contract related issues. Provide feedback and confirmation of resume submittals to Account Executives within 24-hr per

Concepts In Staffing (CISNY) November 2000 – January 2008 Managing Director, IT Recruiter, Staffing Agency

Clients - Bank America, JPMorgan, CSFB, RBC, Aetna, Shell Oil, MERCK

80% Perm Jobs / 20% Contract Placement

Responsible for at 22-25 job openings

Technical Recruiter I specialize in the full life cycle placement of Investment Banking IT professionals and hands on control of Candidate’s Submittal Process; sourcing, qualifying, submitting to job, documenting in VMS, setting up the interviews and providing offer letters.

Provide background checks, drug screening, reference checks, and paperwork and resume verification prior to candidate start date.

Able to multi-task and manage multiple requirements in all areas of IT.

Establish and maintain strong business relationships with account managers while working closely with clients and account managers to meet their staffing and technical requirements

Market and Place consultants with various IT backgrounds including: Networking, Business Systems and Applications Development requirements such as Programmers, Business Analysts, Project Managers, DBA, Leads, and Systems Admin. Utilize Internet searches, database searches, referrals, third party sub-contracting, college level recruiting, headhunting practices and cold calling to source candidates. Extensively utilize Internet job search engines writing job posting advertisements and sourcing. Conduct thorough technical screening and reference checks for selected candidates. Schedule and co-ordinate with Clients/Account managers for final interviews for short-listed. Negotiate with third party vendors on rate and contract related issues. Provide feedback and confirmation of resume submittals to successfully identifying "Top-tier" IT Technical Talent using traditional recruiting methods from beginning to end including networking. Experience staffing for high-growth, high demand recruiting

Conduct phone screens, engage in in-person interviews and manage complete interview to-hire process with the hiring client managers and/or representatives.

Prime Charter Management May 1994 – November 2000 Derivatives Trading, Investment Manager

Clients: Blackrock, DLJ, Western Asset, Merrill Lynch

Derivatives trading manager executing Equities Trades based and hands on working knowledge of NASDAQ/NYSE trading vehicles. Primary options trader and lead contact for all institutional options accounts and high net-worth private clients. Traded all listed options, index options, currency options, raised $$ from Cold Calling, Hunting and Client Development.

Proficient in trade execution techniques, with the ability to act and make quick and strategic decisions in market conditions

EDUCATION

Long Island University - Westbury, LI, NY, B.S. Economics and Computer Science

Lehman Brothers, New York, NYC, Management Training Program Lehman Brothers sponsored Series 7 and Series 64 brokerage trading licenses.

Software:

Java J2EE, SQL, DBA, Oracle, Networks, ASP.NET, VB, C#,

Windows family O/S: (3.1x, 95,98, ME, NT 3.51, 4.0, Level MS Office all - 2000,

MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Front Page, IE, Netscape, Novell (admin. level) thru 5.0, Ghost, Norton Products (PC Anywhere, Utilities, ZIP, etc.), Lotus 1-2-3, NOTES thru R 5, CC:Mail, MS Exchange Server, WordPerfect thru ver. 8, MAC OS Thru ver. 8, DOS, Remedy, Adobe, Antivirus Software (Norton Antivirus, Dr. Solomon, Various search engines including Monster.com, DICE

Protocols: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBeui, AppleTalk, WINS, DHCP, DNS, and N

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