Deepa Mirchandani
Bay Area,CA
***********@*****.***
Overview
. US Citizen with over 10 years of relevant US experience and about 6
years of focused experience in Technical Recruiting and Account
Management for various industry verticals like Engineering, Science,
R&D,Finance,Banking,Health Insurance,Medical etc.
. Key strengths would entail excellent communication and interpersonal
skills when dealing with clients,hriing managers,candidates,internal
managers and the like,demonstrated effective relationship management
and client servicing skills.
. Conducted full cycle recruiting duties including but not limited to
sourcing,conducting technical and overall interviews,salary or rate
negotiations, background and reference checking, scheduled drug
screens, extended job offers, placement and coordinated the paperwork
with the hiring manager pre and post hire,post hire followups etc
. Sourced all levels of skilled trade including but not limited to
Software Engineers,Architects,
DBA's,Developers,Administrators,Network/System/Security Engineers,Web
Developers,SDE's, Quality Assurance/Test Engineers, Technical
Program/Product/Project Managers, Business Analysts etc.
. Placed candidates for all types of positions such as contract,contract
to hire,full time permanent placements etc.
. Strong technical and business acumen in understanding technical
requirements,sourced for various technologies like
SAP,Oracle,Java,C++,C#,.Net,Datawarehousing,BI,Peoplesoft,QA,Linux,Unix,Web technologies etc.
Employment History
Tekforce Corp, San Ramon, CA (02/2007-01/2010)
Title: Sr.Technical Recruiter
. Sourcing and recruting globally for Program/Product/Project Managers,
Business Managers, Directors/Executive Managers, Systems/Business
Analysts,Architects,SDE's,Software Engineers,DBA's etc.
. Extensive use of sourcing tools like Dice,Moster,Yahoo
Hotjobs,LinkedIn,Careerbuilder,CareerMosaic, cold calling, social and
professional media sites and job boards,used advanced sourcing
techniques etc
. Conducted full cycle recruting duties involving,cold calling from
intelligence lists, scheduling interviews, screening candidates,
negotiating offers, working with engineering hiring managers and
executives, and sourcing for the entire team of HR Managers & Staffing
Partners.
. Negotiated salaries and hourly rates,and explained compensation
structures to candidates for full time positions, extended offers of
employment to successful candidates and filled all the necessary paper
work after the hire.
. Prioritized client requirements in a high volume, time-sensitive
environment to meet deadlines.
. Placed candidates for a varied potpouri of skillsets and technically
challenging requirements.
Yottasoft Inc, Fremont, CA (06/2006 - 02/2007)
Title: Sr. Recruiter/Biz Dev Manager
. Yottasoft is an Oracle partner focused on recruiting in the areas
covering Project Management / Application Development and
Maintenance, Architecture Consulting, Business Applications (ERP/CRM)
Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP Applications, Web services, Java, J2EE
applications and QA.
. Recruited and placed Web Developers, Software Developers and Analysts,
Database Developers, Administrators, Analysts, Architects, Network
Administrators, Engineers, Technical Writers, QA Testers, and
Program/Project Managers.
. Managed and Trained a team of junior recruiters and handled full cycle
recruiting duties as well.
. Yottasoft gave me the opportuinity to wear multiple hats so to speak,I
handled both aspects of IT Sales,Recruting and Account Management,as
an Account Manager, helped Yottasoft get a position as a preffered
vendor to a few direct clients,and thereby helped boost their
business.
Artech Information Systems, Fremont, CA (06/2005-02/2006)
Title: Technical Recruiter
. Artech is a global leader in sourcing and is on the preferred vendor
list for most of the top IT clients such as Deloitte and Touch , HP,
Toyota, Charles Schwab, GE, Fidelity, AT&T and Sprint to name a few.
. Placed candidates for the following positions: Project Managers,
Hardware and Software Design Engineers, Senior Software Engineers,
Customer Engineers, Financial and Business Analysts, Coordinators,
Accounting Managers, Auditors, Executive level Admin Assistants, Web
Developers, Help Desk and Desktop Support, etc.
. Tools utilized for sourcing included Monster, Hot jobs, Dice, Staff
ITnow, Webpas etc
. Full cycle recruiting duties covered sourcing and technical screening
of candidates, matching them to hot requirements; walking them through
the entire hiring process, including scheduling, conducting
interviews and closures and follow-up.
Cymbal Corporation, Fremont, CA (06/2004-05/2005)
Title: Accountant
. Responsible for full cycle accounts payable which involved matching
and batching of invoices with receivers on a daily basis handling
discrepancies with regards to price and quantity.
. Reconciling prepaid expense accounts, accrued expenses, and direct and
indirect expense accounts. Created journal entries for all those
accounts as well.
. Handling check payments on the basis of aging reports on a weekly
basis as well as helping with month end close
EBAS, Fremont CA, (02/2004-05/2004)
Title: Administrative Executive
. EBAS was an IT staffing firm with an employee base of 250 employees.
My duties involved assisting the HR and Account Managers on day to day
matters.
. In HR functions ranged from employee immigration matters,
interacting with internal and external legal and Para legal teams.
. Accounting functions covered Accounts Payable and Accounts
Receivable.
Accountemps, Fremont CA (10/1999 - 04/2001)
Title: Accounts Payable Analyst
. Responsible for full cycle accounts payable which involved matching
and batching of invoices with receivers on a daily basis.
. Interdepartmental communication with purchasing department with
regards to discrepancies in price and inventory issues.
. Reconciling accrued insurance reserves, cash in store, miscellaneous
deposits, and prepaid expense accounts.
. Handling check payments on the basis of aging reports on a weekly
basis as well as helping with month end close.
Napa Systems, Milpitas CA: (01/1999 - 04/1999)
Title: Technical Recruiter
. Work involved searching resumes from the various mediums such as the
Internet, adding interesting ones to the company resume database,
looking up resumes that matched with job requirements in the company
resume database.
. Interviewed candidates, checked references with current employers and
others, interacted with prospective employers.
. Posted Job Advertisement with job requirements and maintenance of
existing resumes on file. Formalized an interviewing process for
prospective candidates
Education
MBA in Finance, Diploma in International Trade Management(DITM),
Bachelor of Commerce in Business(Bcom)