Manager Project

MICHAEL JAMES SIMARD, CPC

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Aurora, CO 80015

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303-***-**** Mobile

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"Speaks Geek, Speaks Suit"

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

. Seasoned Technical and Engineering Recruiter with over fifteen years

experience. Corporate, agency and contract recruiting expertise.

Ability to effectively recruit in any situation

. Able to rapidly adapt to new environments in all social, cultural and

professional contexts

. Well versed in project lifecycle methodologies as they relate to human

resource provisioning

. Ability to perform outstandingly in high pressure environments and

urgent situations

. Extensive technical experience, including administrative and

development level MS Windows Vista, XP, NT, Linux

(Redhat/SuSE/Slackware), Python, Visual Basic 4/6/.NET, VBA, MS Access

2003, Network Management, HTML, SQL/Transact SQL/MySQL, Lotus

Notes/Domino, Adobe expertise (PageMaker, Illustrator, PhotoShop,

InDesign, Distiller, etc), extensive hardware expertise and more.

Expert level MS Office knowledge

. Ability to technically troubleshoot at advanced levels; demonstrated

excellence in communicating technically throughout all levels of end-

users and technicians

. Strong management experience including P&L maintenance, vendor

management, sales strategy, procurement, training, and employee

relations

Sharp business development skills; strategic business modeling,

corporate intelligence gathering and competitor identification and

analysis; heuristics approach to effective business algorithm

development

. More than 20 years of outstanding writing skills; proven expertise in

any style or class of writing, editing, layout and production; proven

mastery of proposal writing

. Exceptional people skills; ability to adjust communication style by

situation

. Advanced expertise in cutting edge recruitment methodologies,

including:

. Website spidering, flipping, archiving and dissection

. Newsgroup bulk message posting, archiving and data mining

. Public and private database and information repository

scouting, access and archiving

. SWOT analysis with regard to corporate human resources

recruiting function and process

. Strong basal recruitment methods, including headhunting,

outplacing, referral gathering, relationship management,

networking, moling and reverse marketing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

March, 2009 - Present

Sr. Corporate Recruiter Project Specialist II

. Contracted through Navarro Research & Engineering in direct support of

USDOE's Golden Field Office for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

(ARRA) project-based recruiting (EERE, EECBG, and other DOE stimulus

and grant-based projects). Solely responsible for GFO personnel growth

of over 400%.

. Sourced, screened, interviewed and hired over 200 high-level employees

in an 18-month period, for a project total of $12.8M annual salary.

Employees hired were niche technologies in Renewable Energy and Energy

Efficiency, including Engineers in Biomass, Geothermal, Hydrogen/Fuel

Cell, Solar/Photovoltaic, Wind, Water, and Native American Tribal

Energy Programs, Procurement/Acquisition, FAR / DEAR Contract

Management, Hazardous Waste Cleanup and Safety Engineering, and

Project Management.

. Completed DOE's 30-day deliverable on each approved position without

exception. Provided an extremely high level of customer service to

each hiring manager

. Completed a wide variety of contracted projects, including GS-level

salary adjustments, program reviews, training and education,

upstaffing project cost analysis, standardization of recruiting

algorithms, process development and publication, and proposal

assistance.

DMJM H&N AECOM

September, 2007 - February, 2009

Sr. Corporate Recruiter, West Coast Region

. Contracted to large multinational Architecture, Engineering and Design

firm through CRI (bought by Manpower in April, 2008), to perform full

lifecycle recruiting for Holmes & Narver's West Coast Region for all

open positions, including Engineering, Architecture & Design,

Technical, Financial, and Executive.

. Worked closely with over 40 hiring mangers throughout the region to

provide the highest level of service possible in filling open

positions with precision, speed, and accountability. Assisted in

executing high-level process and change management within the

organization to create a streamlined hiring process.

. Personally recruited over 600 qualified candidates into database for

quick accessibility.

. Started contract with an average workload of 60 open positions for 8

offices. Reduced this number to an average of 6-8 open positions at

any given time, by performing expert requirements analysis and

addressing the individual needs of hiring managers with speed and

accuracy. Hired 108 new employees in a 16-month period, including LEED

AP/Sustainability based positions, as well as TS/SCI Security and DOE

Q Level cleared positions.

SEGULA TECHNOLOGIES (formerly KENDA Systems)

September, 2006 - September, 2007

Sr. Resource Manager/Technical SME

. As Senior Resource Manager, managed and trained a team of four IT

Recruiters through the successful procurement of IT talent within

several specific vertical industries and sub-industries.

. As Technical Subject Matter Expert, performed requirements analysis on-

site with clients, maintained technical aspects of sales strategies,

acted as technical liaison between sales force and clients, and

supported/trained staff members in technical subject matter.

. Utilized technical leverage and innovative business development

strategies to gain client confidence and successfully create sole

partnerships with leading-edge Microsoft solutions companies.

. Provided expert level consultation for solutions architecting,

including pre- and post-sales engineering for Citrix, MS Exchange and

Active Directory migration, integration and administrative solutions

projects.

. Designed and developed company collateral utilizing Adobe Photoshop,

Illustrator and PageMaker, and managed marketing effort of this

project from concept to completion

. In addition to leadership, business development and project management

duties, performed contact management documentation, in-depth sourcing,

job requirement posting, phone screening, basic recruiting, lead

generation, in-person skill-based and behavioral interviewing,

candidate closing, salary and contract negotiation and heavy follow-up

and preemptive problem resolution with new hires.

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

July, 1999 - September, 2006

Utilized my extensive technical knowledge and strong market knowledge to

successfully recruit and place candidates on a full-time, direct-hire

basis. Recruits included Civil, Structural, Geotechnical and Mechanical

Engineering, Programming/Analysis, Project Management, Business Analysis,

System and Database Administration and other technical and engineering

based positions. All work was done as an independent consultant, providing

each client with specific recruitment models on a case-by-case basis.

Clients included Nilex, Apollo Group, Contract Engineering Corporation,

True Logic Financial, The Carnegie Group, MWH, DMJM and others.

. Employed a heuristics approach to recruiting, enabling development of

client-specific recruiting lifecycle procedures. Utilized aggressive,

business-specific sourcing techniques.

. Developed algorithms for clients with extant standardizations within

the constraints of their corporate infrastructure. Utilized CMM

standards where necessary to ensure secure and auditable enterprise-

wide Human Resource models.

. Performed intensive technical requirements analysis, resulting in

exceptional presentation-to-hire ratio.

. Other direct contracts included:

TECHNICAL RESOURCE SOLUTIONS - Contract Recruiter

Acted as internal recruiting specialist, trainer and outsourced

contractor for a technical recruiting and contracting agency specializing

in hard-to-fill, hard-to-find positions.

. Trained owner and a sales/recruiting staff in all areas of technical

placement and maintenance, including technical issues, jargon, and

sales and recruiting methods

. Performed recruiting lifecycles, including contract, benefit, bonus

and salary negotiations, position-specific technical interviewing,

sourcing, follow-up and administration

. Created large database of contractors and full-time personnel for

technical placement

. Designed and implemented CITRUS (Comprehensive Information

Technologies Recruitment Utility System), a contact management system

in Access and Visual Basic 6.0

. Organized and ran frequent office meetings to keep staff current on

technical and recruitment related issues, and to lay the groundwork

for future procedure

. Established weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual goals for all office

members, and created an extensive organizational and record-keeping

system for trend analysis in relation to these goals

NCS PEARSON - Contract Staffing Specialist

Short contract for the Transportation Security Administration division of

the Department of Transportation (TSA). This high-level government

contract was for the assessment, processing and hiring of many thousands

of federal employees to work as security screeners, lead screeners,

supervisors and law enforcement officials in all commercial airports

within the US and US territories. The contract included 100% travel, and

highly productive, recruiting-intensive work, seven days per week with

over 100 average weekly work hours. During this contract it was not only

important to be extremely flexible, but also to be able to adapt to new

situations rapidly and develop productivity techniques in a work

environment which allowed no learning curve.

ECOLLEGE.COM - Contract Corporate Recruiter

Completed upstaffing projects for rapidly growing online education

company.

. Sourced, screened, recruited, interviewed and placed highly

specialized personnel, including programmer/analysts, program and

project managers, database administrators and software architects

. Hired all levels of positions, from a COO to call-center and help desk

personnel

. Put in place a permanent recruiting and HR staff while developing

policy and procedure models

PRODUCTIVE DATA SOLUTIONS - Contract Technical Recruiter

Performed all tasks relative to high-level Technical Recruiting,

including sourcing, screening, interviewing, closing and placement of

highly skilled technical personnel

. Completed all responsibilities within operations policies and

procedures set forth by CMM level 3

. Presented excellent opportunities for Account Managers through strong,

existing market relationships

. Instigated procedure "trimming," to streamline recruiting lifecycle

throughout the recruiting division

NATIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICE CO. - Contract Recruitment Consultant

Successfully created Technical Recruiting division for Architectural and

Civil Engineering staff augmentation company

. Performed high-level Change Management in response to a volatile and

extremely dynamic corporate environment, including implementation of

structured office and administrative procedures

. Retrained Engineering Recruiters to meet recruiting needs of

increasing Information Technologies requirements

. Conducted exhaustive technical training for Account Managers to more

efficiently serve clientele

. Developed and implemented office management system, including

comprehensive recruiting and customer database management systems,

peer-to-peer network and subsequent policies and procedures to ensure

its efficiency

ADECCO TECHNICAL - Direct Hire Recruitment Specialist

August 2003 - November, 2004

Spearheaded and new permanent placement division of Adecco Technical as the

sole recruiter, managing the new division from its inception through its

recognition as a reliable source of permanent employees in a highly

competitive market

. Created and maintained extremely strong client relationships with

local hiring authorities

. Utilized consultative approach in dealing with both clients and

candidates to assure exceptional matchmaking

. Assisted clients and candidates in developing hiring process. Managed

all logistics, including out-of-state client management, relocation of

new hires, client interview processes, scheduling and prequalification

processes, and subsequent follow-up. All parties involved enjoyed a 0%

attrition rate.

. Assisted project managers in solidifying the hiring phase of their

project, often assuming the role of project manager for that portion

of the project lifecycle.

. Utilized my extensive technical expertise to prequalify candidates

from a technical prospective, assuring that all candidates were

exceptional matches, and that the only difficult decision on the part

of the hiring manager was which candidate to hire.

IN YOUR POCKET, UAB - Regional Manager/Managing Editor

February 2001 to April 2002

Ran every facet of the business as the Manager for the Stockholm In Your

Pocket city guide, from its launch to its establishment as a dominant force

in the Stockholm market. Managed offices in Stockholm, Helsinki, Vilnius,

Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Bucharest and Budapest toward profitability

through successful decision making in recruiting, revenue generation, and

distribution.

. Pioneered the In Your Pocket city guide to Stockholm with no contacts

or base of business whatsoever. This included all legal legwork,

renting office space, hiring a staff, researching the guide, writing

the guide cover-to-cover, production and layout, printing,

distributing, and selling advertising space.

. Quickly gained recognition as a reliable force for managing every

aspect of the business and was promoted to the position of Regional

Manager Eastern Europe and the Baltics..

. Due to the exceptional quality of the guide, was nominated for the

Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award.

COMPUTER HORIZONS CORP - Sr. Technical Recruiter

June 1997 to July 1999

Specialized in entire recruiting lifecycle, cradle-to-grave, including in-

depth definition of client requirements, procurement of leased and

permanent technical professionals, contract/subcontract and salary

negotiations, technical interviewing and testing, relocation, and strong

relationship maintenance.

OXFORD & ASSOCIATES - Technical Recruiter

November 1996 to June 1997

Responsibilities included the recruitment of technical contractors by

phone, mail, internet, e-mail, in-person, etcetera, their subsequent

interviews and placements, thorough and clean quality control to assure

excellent matches and smooth transitions, as well as related administrative

duties.

MANPOWER TECHNICAL - Technical Recruiter

June 1995 to November 1996

Maintained our primary client, the Coors Brewing Company, in the placement

of technical personnel, arranged employee benefits, such as vacation and

holiday pay, insurance and bonuses, processed worker's compensation claims,

unemployment compensation claims, resolved any payroll related problems,

and satisfied all other aspects of human resource management

RELATED INFORMATION

. Certified Personnel Consultant (CPC, NTSA)

. Technical Services Certified/Certified Staffing Professional (TSC/CSP,

ASA)

. Capability Maturity Model Certified (CMM, SEI)

. Member of MENSA from 1988-1992, 1996-2000.

EDUCATION

. Colorado University, Boulder - BA Communications, 1992

. Colorado University, Boulder - BA General Writing, emphasis in

Technical Writing, 1992

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