Volora Howell
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Volora Howell
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Emerging Technical Search March 2008- Present
Chief Digital Recruiter
Consulting and Permanent Placement Company specialized in interactive recruiting technology personnel:
Roles recruited: Sr. Director of Ad Operations, National Sales Director, Campaign Manager, Digital Media Sales,
Regional Sales, Director of Interactive Sales, Digital Media Sales (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles), Regional Sales
Director- Interactive One Media Planners, Digital Producers, Web Developers, Mobile Phone Developers, Sales
Directors, Anchor, Art Directors, News Director, Copywriters, Producers, Associate Producers, Graphics Editors,Broadcast Engineer, PR Director, Publicists, Journalist, Ruby-on Rails,
iOS, Android, Erlang, Go, Scala, Hadoop, Postgres, MySql, etc. as well as infrastructure, site ops,
project program managers, pre post sales managers, and creative (Marcom, PR, Graphics Design)
Verizon Business, New York, NY July 2007 – February 2008
National Talent Acquisition Sales Recruiter (contract)
Diversity Recruitment for the Verizon Business Premier Account
Roles recruited: Sales Directors, Executive Sales Director, Account Managers, Sales Managers, Pre/ Post Sales
Engineers, System Engineer Manager; Sales Engineers for USA Nortel Engineers, CISSP, Network Architects,
CNA's, SAN's, VOIP engineers, Cisco, Juniper Technicians; Flash Action Script Developers, Recruiting personnel for
Japanese Telecommunication Sales Engineers Vertical Accounts. RAS Engineers; InfoSec Engineers, Director
Interactive Technology, Web Developer, Flash, Adobe Suite, Action Script, CSS, SEO
Sourcing Methodology: Social Networking, LinkedIn, Cisco Alumni Associations, Facebook, Twitter and Zoom
Info
CNBC, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2004- 2005
Producer /Technology Recruiter (Contract Assignment) Onsite-Assignment
Responsibilities were the recruitment of Segment, Associate, Financial Producers, Field and Senior Producers, Desk
Assignment Editors, Managing editors, Calls Producer, Primetime Editorial /Segment Producer, Technical Manager
(Project Manager OO, XML,) Graphic Design Artist (deko experience) for CNBC. Duties include sourcing, interviewing
screening applicants.
AdOne 2000-2002
Director of Technical Recruitment/Corporate Technical Recruiter (Consultant)
Technical Recruitment, which included: Account Executives for On-line Advertisement, Java Developers, Java, J2EE, JSP,
SQL, Architect, Systems Programmers, Network Engineers, Project Managers, Technical Writers, Database Consultant,
Oracle DBA, Oracle Financial Consultants. Reported directly to the CTO and COO.
BROADCAST AND DIGITAL MEDIA CLIENTS
Interactive One New York Times Microsoft Conde Nast
BET Interactive AOL Global Grind Radio-One
NBC Universal Radio One Salesforce Reeds Elsevier
HBO Weather Channel Direct TV Redhat
MTV CNBC NBC Digital- NY Non- Thomson Reuters
Food Network AT&T Stop (Joey Reynolds McGraw Hill
Reader's Digest HTC Show)
Shuttershock News Corp CBS
EDUCATION:
Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA
Masters of Education- Business Administration Suffolk University, Boston, MA
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Bachelor of Science - Journalism/Public Relations Grahm Junior College, Boston, MA
Associates - Broadcast Journalism Airs Trained Source Point Trained at Sourcecon 2007
Trained in Broad look Technologies Trained ZoomInfo
Diversity Recruitment Training at Verizon Business
SKILLS:
I-Grasp, Brassring, Kenexa, JobDiva, Restrac,Webferret, Resumix, Copernic, OFCCP Trained
Google Docs, Google Drive, JobDiva, Talentbin, Name generation, Cold-Calling, Boolean Expression
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Independent Executive Producer:
BET J Network /A Viacom Network
Sahara Entertainment-New York/New Jersey
Executive Producer (1997 -2009)
Sahara Entertainment connects the Metropolitan area, which is one of largest
Broadcast markets in the USA. Produced shows which will be distributed worldwide on Global Broadcasting
Company, Viacom Channel and Simply Me TV, Urban Broadcast Company.
www.voloratv.com
Senior/Segment /Line Television Producer:
Cable Ace Award Winner (two times)
Woman of the Week-1995-1998
Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) –New York, New York
Producer, Talk Show Host:
WILD Radio-Boston, Ma.
Fashion Reporter:
WBZ-TV (NBC Affiliate)-Boston, Ma 1982- 1982
Free-Lance Journalist Bay State Banner Roxbury, Ma. 1977-1982
Production Assistant Black News Television (CBS Affiliate) 1976-1977
News Reporter:
Channel 12 (CBS Affiliate) Television Providence, Rhode Island