LEENA DATE

SUMMARY:

A creative and inventive thinker, who craves a challenge and who is not afraid to work outside her comfort zone. Leena is a motivated team player who consistently aims to push revenue expectations and exceed goals. Exceptional communicator and is someone who can build up rapport easily, open clients, find out exactly what they need, and then present them with a wide range of services and solutions. She wants to develop her career in a fast-moving environment that values passion, positivity, integrity and hard work.

To be part of a company that would provide Leena with the best channels for growth while enhancing her skills and allowing proficiency that would enable to positively impact the company’s performance and target objectives. As well as providing leadership and direction to create a unique value proposition and build a superlative recruitment model.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

xScion Solutions October 2017 - Present

Talent Partner

xScion is a SMART (Strategy Measurement Approach Rol Team) transformation consultancy that accelerates client

success through business and IT innovations. xScion is a woman-owned IT professional services firm, our focus has

always been to provide value to our customers via efficient, quality-driven and innovative solutions. We are a proven

leader in providing top talent and solutions to Commercial and Federal client throughout the Washington, D.C.

metropolitan area.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for standard recruiting workflows that include sourcing, qualifying, interviewing (phone, Skype or in-person), client submittals, salary negotiations

Partner with the sales team to identify the best qualified candidate for each job

Thoroughly review and understand each job requirement to determine the best qualified match Excellent sourcing expertise using LinkedIn, dice, monster or technology resources

Piper Companies January 2017 - August 2017 Divisional Principal

Piper is a niche human capital solutions and consulting firm specializing in the deployment of best in-class services and staffing solutions within the IT Infrastructure, Software Applications, Business Analytics, Information Security, Clinical and Life Sciences arenas.

Responsibilities:

Provide technical expertise in the field to lead and contribute to a wide variety of infrastructure and development projects.

Technical direction of projects within the team.

Develop client relationships and develop new opportunities

Communicating, liaising and collaborating effectively with clients

Meet and interview prospective candidate’s in-person daily

Attend meetings with Fortune 500 or Federal customers at their corporate or field offices and represent the company in a highly professional manner

Current government customers include Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Department of State, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), DoD Office of Inspector General, and multiple Intelligence Community agencies.

Open Systems Technologies February 2016 - January 2017

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Open Systems Technologies (OST) established in 1990 is one of the largest privately-owned staffing firms in North America. OST have built relationships and have created a system that allows to personally cater to the needs of our clients and candidates. OST is committed to excellence in our recruiting practice established connections and hard work to ensure long term fulfilling matches for our clients, consultants and candidates.

Responsibilities:

•Review and understand technical and functional job requirements from direct clients

•Source review potential candidates utilizing job boards (Career Builder, Dice, etc.), LinkedIn.

•Screen candidates for basic technical competence

•Present highly qualified and interested candidates Clients, ensuring candidate meets all basic requirements for client’s needs

System Soft Technologies May 2013 - February 2016

Sr. Technical Recruiter

System Soft Technologies is one of the leading Talent Acquisition / IT consulting service firm with its operations across the Globe at USA & India. It provides its consulting support to Top 50 fortune clients at North America. To place the right person for the right job at the right time is the Theme of SSTECH. It is an IT staffing and solutions providers firm with adherence to high work ethics, integrity and willingness to imbibe and promote new technologies.

Responsibilities:

•Receive, review and understand technical and functional job requirements from clients, including Fortune 500 organizations

•Source, evaluate, and review potential candidates utilizing cold calls, job boards (Monster, Dice, etc.), LinkedIn, internal database, and referrals to develop a pool of qualified candidates

•Screen candidates for basic technical competence, availability, interest level, visa status, and hourly/salary range, and relocation needs for contract, contract-to-hire and permanent positions

•Accurately assess candidates’ qualifications, negotiate compensation, and extend offers

•Present highly qualified and interested candidates Clients, ensuring candidate meets all basic requirements for client’s needs

•Coordinate and schedule candidate interviews, ensuring candidates are adequately prepped for phone and face-to-face interviews.

•Work with the full recruiting team to maintain or improve the efficiency of the recruiting process

Satnam Technologies, Inc November 2012 - May 2013

Business Development Manager/ IT Recruiter

Joined Satnam Technologies in Jan 2012 as one of the key members of the team and collaborated closely with Senior Management to build the company to a Staffing Solutions Company. Led the recruiting programs, ensuring top talents are matched to the right position for each requirement. Built dedicated recruiting teams focused on industry.

Responsibilities:

•Develops recruiting plans for assigned requisitions based on technical requirements and competencies

•Accountable for the overall success of recruitment including meeting recruitment objectives and filling the jobs in the least amount of time with the best-qualified candidates.

•Monitors the status of all recruitment prospects and analyze recruiting data to determine effectiveness

•Provides leadership, direction, motivation, and supervision to onshore/offshore recruiter to hit the target goals

•Present recruitment/sales development updates at weekly team meetings with CEO, participate in business development discussions with other business executives, and develop new recruiting strategies based on current client needs.

•Direct interaction with the hiring managers throughout the recruitment process

•Ensures that a candidate pipeline is maintained to support current and anticipated resource requirements.

•Responsible for overseeing all recruiting initiatives including sourcing and selection standards, vendor management, recruiting technology and operational management of recruiting functions.

•Ability to recruit professionals on W2, 1099, Corp-to-Corp for contractual, contract-to-hire, and permanent staffing.

•Manage and support internal clients and work on cross-vertical client job requirements to ensure suitable candidates’ submission.

•Prepare consultant Statement of Work/Sub-Contractor Agreement, based on legal terms and conditions.

Corporation for National and Community Service September 2005 - August 2009

Project Lead/Database Administrator/ ETL Developer

Responsibilities:

•Managed Projects providing VISTA systems solutions, Business Mapping, Process, Definition, Data warehousing and customized IT solutions.

•Served as Project Leader for document Management design and implementation for CNS.

•Responsible for the BI infrastructure in roles ranging from Architect to ETL developer.

•Provided Strategic guidance for warehouse implementation, development practices, report distribution methods, performance improvement, and disaster recovery.

•Developed the Repository browser In Oracle HTML DB for Corporation for National and Community Service (CNS). This CNS Intranet function that allows anyone within the Corporation to browse the metadata associated with fields contained in the Corporate Data Warehouse. Also working on Reporting Processes & Standards, Scheduling Documents for CNS.

Parexel June 1998 - May 2005

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

•International pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device firm.

•Key role in design development of RDBMS systems for Fortune 500 healthcare clients including Eli Lilly, Roche, Pfizer etc.

•Responsible for configuration and administration of Oracle databases, including installation, monitoring, capacity planning and troubleshooting.

•Responsible for design and development of several components of reporting system.

•Responsible for the Business rules Definition, Creation and Maintenance of CORE Management applications using ORACLE.

•Responsible for Data Conversion.

•Responsible for maintaining already existing forms and reports to implement multiple modifications and enhancements requested by user.

Department Of Transportation January 1997 - June 1998

Software Developer

EDUCATION:

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Software, Computer Science, Bombay University 1996 – 1997

Diploma in Electronics Engineering – Bombay University 1995

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