Management Technical

Renuka Pandita

Herndon, VA *****

***********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE:

Obtain an appreciated place as a Technical Recruiter in any Industry with the full implementation of accomplished experience and

education.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows9X, Windows2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, Unix, MS DOS

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Office Package: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook Express

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PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

• Highly motivated, hard working professional, with around 10 years of work experience in IT, of which more than 4 years with

IT Recruiting, Technical Recruiting, Account Management, New Business Development, and Strategic Planning and

about 6 years, as a Unix System Admin.

• Have a full life-cycle recruiting experience, from obtaining the contracting opportunity, researching the opportunity, sourcing

the candidate, technical interviews, client contact/feedback, negotiations, closing the hire and mentoring the candidate in the

position for both permanent and contract positions..

• Experience in recruiting involves dealing with large industry leaders and Fortune 500 clients in finance, banking, insurance,

pharmaceutical, Telecommunication etc. Use Internet recruiting skills, utilizing a variety of resume database subscriptions,

job-posting sources, and Internet email list memberships to obtain hard-to-find candidates.

• Extensive experience searching and recruit Technical Candidates utilizing various recruitment methods and strategies to

include: Direct Sourcing, Internet, User/Technical Groups, Referrals, Career Fairs, posting ads plus reading resumes posted

on personal web pages. Etc.

• Technical recruiting experience with DBAs, Java Programmers, Interwoven Professionals, Network Engineers, QA Testers,

Software Developers, Programmer/Analysts, Cisco Router Specialists, NT/Novell/Unix/Solaris Administrators, Web

Designers-Developers, Data warehousing Engineers.

• Excellent communication skills, Risk taker, excellent team player, Good attitude, Good client handling and excellent

management skills, IT recruiting, office administration and team management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Paramount Technologies, NY January 2007 – Sep. 2009

Title: Sr. IT Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities/accomplishments include the following:

• Responsibilities include Internet searches, post job requirements, candidate sourcing and qualification, technical screening,

reference checking, employment/ education verification, offer & salary negotiations, relocation assistance, networking,

Format resumes.

• Coordinated and scheduled interviews after pre-screening candidates for requirements received from clients.

• Worked closely with Account Executives and hiring managers to develop concise job descriptions and create salary ranges.

• Effectively interfaced with all levels of management to define hiring needs.

Stopka & Associates, NY Dec 2004 – June 2006

Title: IT Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities/accomplishments include the following:

• Day to day responsibilities include Internet searches, post job requirements, candidate sourcing and qualification, technical

screening, reference checking, employment/ education verification, offer & salary negotiations, relocation assistance,

consultant management and retention, networking, adding candidate information into Stopka database, search Stopka

database for candidates, Format resumes, present candidates to Account manager, contact H-1 candidates (for Visa

transfer), Notify HR/Corporate of a new hire.

• Built up a good rapport with vendors and consolidated business relationships by signing contractual agreements.

• Coordinated and scheduled interviews after pre-screening candidates for requirements received from clients.

• Built up a client base by cold calling direct and indirect clients and providing third party candidates for requirements received

by them.

• Successful at opening up several new accounts and the recruitment and placement of several IT Professionals for various

Contract and Permanent positions (Project Managers, System/Business Analysts, Web/E-commerce, C++, Java, Oracle,

Sybase, Visual Basic, LAN/WAN, Database Administrators, System Administrators, etc.)

• Initially qualified consultants through their resumes and interview process.

• Negotiated rates and other contractual terms with Independents and Third Party vendors.

• Effectively interfaced with all levels of management to define hiring needs.

Masterminds Global Solutions, Charlotte, NC Feb. 2004 – Nov 2004

Title: IT Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities/accomplishments include the following:

• Full responsibility of all Information Technology (IT) & many Technical recruiting functions, including candidate sourcing and

qualification; technical screening; reference checking; employment/ education verification; offer & salary negotiations;

relocation assistance; consultant management and retention.

• Initiate process of H-1 transfer/new documents from candidates.

• Recruit, interview and extend offers of employment to senior level consultant candidates. Expertise in candidate selection,

managing the interview process with strong emphasis in selling, negotiating, and closing the deal.

• Recruiting experience with DBAs, Java Programmers, Interwoven Professionals, Network Engineers, QA Testers, Software

Developers, C#, Dot Net, Programmer/Analysts, Cisco Router Specialists, NT/Novell/Unix/Solaris Administrators, Web

Designers-Developers, Data warehousing Engineers etc.

• Defined job descriptions, created advertising campaigns, scheduled interviews, initiated candidate file preparation, prepared

background checks, performed reference checks and developed a candidate pool for future client hiring.

• Extensive experience searching the Internet (i.e., search engines, bulletin boards, Usenet groups, resume database sites),

Networking, cold calling, internal referrals, posting ads plus reading resumes posted on personal web pages.

• Negotiated rates and other contractual terms with Independents and Third Party vendors.

• Personally conducted phone screens to qualify candidates for communication skills, basic work experience, availability,

immigration status, and salary requirements.

• Client Relation Management, invoicing, timesheet-tracking and payment to consultants, rate negotiations, contract writing

and negotiations.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:

FedEx IT, Memphis, TN Jan 2001 – Aug 2003

Role: System Administrator

Environment: HP/UX UNIX

Roles/Responsibility

• Daily maintenance included performance password maintenance, general debug, advice to management and admin team on

issues, general performance problem resolution resulting in a 90% website performance improvement.

• Developed many scripts in ksh and Perl

• Design and implementation of a daily backup plan

• Technical support for in-house programmers

• Maintained central root password repository

• Develop administration tools and procedures

• Internal technical support for other employees

• Worked with primary UNIX admin team on complex configurations, network configs, and performance issues.

• Application level patches.24/7 support. Vendor problem resolution coordination.

• Technical coordinator and senior technical support for all AIX, UX Servers.

• OS maintenance and runtime/user support

• Kept detailed daily work logs often used for future reference

Essar Telecom Ltd. Delhi, India Aug 1997 – Oct. 2000

Role: System Administrator

Environment/s: SCO, AT&T, True 64, HP-UX, Stratus

Essar Telecom is one of the Companies of Essar Groups, which is provider of Wireless Telecommunication Services. There are a

number of applications running on this system, which include real time prepaid billing application and IVR

(Interactive Voice Response).

Roles/Responsibility

• Independently handling the whole System Administration responsibilities.

• Review system performance w/ capacity planning data to ensure proper utilization of hardware & software, as well as

timely response & throughput.

• Monitoring System Log & Trouble-shooting/Reporting Errors.

• Responsible for writing reports using AWK.

• Make implementation recommendations on types of hardware or software acquisitions needed to correct or improve

operating system performance or to meet business needs.

• Responsible for SIM and activation management, management of Tariff plans, fault recognition.

• Responsible for Disk capacity, backup procedures, problem reports (PR).

• Creating users, handling Recovery Procedures and management of network elements e.g. TCP, X.25, CMISE of OPSC

(ORGA prepaid service center), a system by ORGA Card Systems Germany. OPSC is real-time prepaid hot billing

application operating in GSM cellular network in India.

• Responsible for creating new Users and 100% uptime of Servers. All servers are mission critical servers.

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