Technical Recruiting
. Corporate, *rd party staffing and agency recruiting in technology and
other business functions.
. Deep experience understanding technical requirements for positions and
building very close relationships with technology management and teams.
. Able to perform both 'target shooting' and 'high volume transactional'
recruiting roles.
Contract Recruiter
January 2009-Present
Helped executive-level business owners make low-cost, high-impact hires
through full-cycle recruiting on select key roles, and building repeatable
and highly targeted recruiting systems for repeat hires.
. Client: InfoPrint - 3 month contract recruiting assignment with
responsibility for recruiting on more than 40 corporate requisitions in 5
states. Utilized Taleo ATS software and teamed with two staffing
coordinators to fill roles in a complex, multi-layered HR hiring process.
o Positions include technology (C/C++/Postscript/Java developers;
build engineers; SW/HW test; SW Engineering Management; product
engineering; product management; project management; solution
sales; solution architecture)
. Client: ServiceMagic.com - 4-month contract recruiting assignment with
'full desk' responsibilities recruiting from scratch and conducting heavy
hiring manger coaching to complete hires.
o Technology (J2EE and UI developers; SQA; SCM; SysAdmin, Oracle DW
Architect) and strategic business development professionals in a
contract corporate recruiting role.
. Client: 24x7Telecommunications - helped small Denver-area
telecommunications service provider hire four technical support resources
for less than the cost of one fee.
o Built a hiring profile, interview and evaluation tools, candidate
sourcing plan, advertisements and other program elements to allow
company to improve hiring
o Launched the sourcing plan to generate candidates
June 2007-January 2009
Lariat Software Professionals - a Denver-area software services and
contract programming company.
CONTRACT RECRUITING TEAM LEAD at ProBuild - participated in and then led a
successful 3-person staffing effort to fill 128 positions in 19 months for
the new Corporate HQ of a $5.5B Fidelity-backed company.
Full life-cycle recruiting for positions across a wide professional
spectrum including weekly status reporting with hiring managers at the CXO,
VP, Director and Manager levels.
Filled director, manager and direct contributor level roles in:
. Applications Delivery (project management, business and systems
analysts, development DBA, J2EE developers, SQA/Configuration
Management)
. IT Operations (network, security, Unix and Windows system admin,
production DBA, project management, telecom, helpdesk)
. Oracle ERP implementation (program director, functional team leads,
functional analyst, SOA/interface developers, applications DBA,
organizational change management, deployment)
. PMO (organizational change management, project management, portfolio
and metrics)
. Audit (data analytics; internal audit)
. HR (recruiting, labor relations, safety and administrative)
January 2005-January 2007
Colorado Credit Union League
HUMAN RESOURCES CONSULTANT
Delivered a variety of HR services for small businesses in Colorado and
Wyoming.
. Built recruiting platform, hired recruiter and managed recruiting
projects for member credit unions
. Filled 12 executive level positions (CXO, SVP, VP), and management and
direct contributor positions in marketing, customer service, lending, human
resources, IT, business development and front line staff
. Developed and conducted training in front-line retail sales skills;
customer loyalty and interviewing and hiring for sales skills for classes
up to 100 participants.
. Performed job analysis, developed job descriptions, graded and developed
compensation structure for credit unions; wrote compensation and benefits
analysis; conducted human resources audits; delivered performance
management tools and coaching
. Designed and deployed employee satisfaction and internal customer service
standards surveys to clients
October 2001-December 2004
GMAC Mortgage; Cherry Creek Mortgage
LOAN OFFICER
. Took positions in retail mortgage lending during the post-dot-com era
to keep financially solvent.
October 1999-August 2001
Knowledgeworkers, Inc., Englewood, CO
CONSULTING RECRUITER
. On-site consulting recruiter working with Vroom Telecommunications, a
software company developing OSS/BSS software for the convergent
telecommunications industry.
. Developed a recruiting process based on client needs and abilities
. Trained hiring managers and teams to build rudimentary job descriptions,
interview questions and evaluation/selection criteria
. Managed interviews and hiring of 26 new employees in four months
. Triggered client contract renewals twice based on fulfillment of client's
needs
. Promoted to drive product development efforts for a Human Capital
services and product suite
o Developed and sold outsourced recruitment process elements -
screening services, background checks, technical skills testing and
personality profiling, "Behavioral Interview" training.
Sybase, Inc. Boulder, CO June 1997-October 1999
SENIOR HUMAN RESOURCES REPRESENTATIVE
. Promoted to the senior site HR role after 6 months in my initial position
of Technical Recruiter. Supported the VP/General Manager, 4 Directors,
and 17 Managers
. Trained groups of first-line managers in management and communication
tactics.
. Sourced, screened, interviewed and placed personnel into engineering,
product management, facility and administrative, marketing, finance,
human resources, IT support and product technical support positions
. Advanced the college recruiting program by strengthening relationships
with local University intern, career services organizations, and
individual department heads, and working with managers to increase intern
roles
Keane, Inc., Lakewood, CO October 1995-June 1997
MANAGER OF TECHNICAL RECRUITING; contract technology staffing firm
. Lead recruiting responsibility for software services firm performing both
staff augmentation and out-sourced project work consisting of client-
server and mainframe application development, legacy software system
support, Y2K remediation, and network development/ support
. Helped source, interview and train outside sales representatives for
business development in staff augmentation and technology project
outsourcing sales
Career Forum, Inc.; AIM Executive January 1994-October 1995
PROFESSIONAL FOR-FEE RECRUITER (retained and contingent search)
. For fee recruiting in technology, mining, management and sales
EDUCATION & TRAINING
US AIR FORCE ACADEMY - BS, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Certified Facilitator: Zenger-Miller and 360 Solutions
Certified AIRS Search Consultant
recruiting competencies
TECHNICAL:
. Business application development - .NET and J2EE Technology Stack Web
development; Client-server (C++, PowerBuilder, VB), Legacy (Mainframe
Cobol CICS, RPG).
. Software engineering - software product engineering; firmware and
embedded developers for phones and hard drives
. QA/Testing - Manual and automated test (Mercury, WinRunner and other
tools)
. Configuration management - build/release and configuration management
(PVCS, Rational, ANT/NANT)
. Database administration - development and production-side DBA (Oracle,
SQL Server, Sybase, DB2)
. System administration - MS Exchange/Active Directory, UNIX (Linux,
AIX, HPUX), SAN, Avaya/Siemens Telephony
. Network engineering and administration - Microsoft, Cisco, MPLS, VOIP,
wireless for large-scope routed networks as well as small offices
. Support - desktop support (L1,2,3), product support for middleware
products
. Project management - application development, telephony and network-
related projects...PMBoK, RUP, Agile methodologies
. ERP - Oracle ERP team staffing for Greenfield implementation of
Financials, Supply Chain and Quote-to-Cash functionality (Program
Director, PM, Functional team leads and analysts, interface
developers, DBA) including IT/Organizational Change Management hires
(OCM, training)
. VP and Director-Level - IT Generalist, PMO, application development,
infrastructure/operations (network, end user computing, applications
support, data center)
. Security - Director and manager level information security positions
. IT Architecture and Strategy - architecture development; mid-and long-
term strategy development (solutions, roadmaps, technology evaluation)
. Consulting - practice and consulting management; project managers;
consultants at all levels (staff augmentation; large system
integrator, Big 4)
Business
. Executive - Filled CXO positions (including CEO for $500m Credit
Union), VP, Director and Manager level (companies to $5B)
. Management training - Worked to fill fast-track programs for national
trucking, fast food and retail companies
. Marketing/communications/web - Director to intern level
. Human Resources - generalist manager, compensation analyst and
multiple recruiter and recruiting support roles
. Sales - inside, outside, administrative, front-line hourly retail; VP
to intern level
. Accounting/Finance - AR/AP, Controller, analyst, audit
. Lending - Credit Union consumer lending and management; mortgage
lending, processing, underwriting
. Administrative - executive admin; administrative assistant; front-
desk; facilities management
. College - recruited for intern, Bachelor and MBA graduates; sat on the
Computer Science degree and career advisory boards at CU;
. Specialty -
o Mechanical engineering; engineering management
o Mining - management, rolling stock management, R&D