Director of Talent Acquisition.

Rashmi Chanduraj

Phone: 408-***-**** Email: *******@*****.***

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Over 14 years of professional experience as a Human Resource Professional

specializing in Global Full Cycle Recruiting and Talent Acquisition with a

proven track record of building and driving high performance recruiting

teams and efficient processes for all sizes of organizations. Highly

effective change agent with a history of building teams and processes from

ground up, consolidating disparate teams and turning around problematic

situations. Demonstrated ability to negotiate with a never say NO approach

without proposing an alternate solution and making it a win-win for all

parties concerned keeping the companies objective in mind. Business focused

and results driven.

Areas of expertise Include:

Strategic Thinking: Tactical Execution Recruitment Process Outsourcing(RPO)

Global Executive and Sr. Level

Goal Oriented - Committed to Success Positions.

"Tough but fair" Negotiations & closing Recruitment and Staffing.

International Sourcing and fulfillment

Vendor/Customer Relationship Management

Applicant Tracking Systems

Immigration & Legal compliance (Implementation and Integration)

Business Analysis/Project Management Employee Relations and Compliance

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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

> Launched internal Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) for a $24 Million

dollar company. Responsible for P&L for Recruitment team including

process design, implementation, execution and delivery.

> Managed and owned the RPO process resulting in significant costs savings

to the company at all levels eliminating the dependence on 3rd party

vendors, managing more effective suppliers, contract recruiters which

resulted in retaining knowledge, building database and building

recruiting efficiencies.

> Implemented global sourcing strategies to attract Executive Level

Candidates, Program Managers, Project Managers in IT, operations, sales

and marketing, this increased candidate's pool per position and reduced

recruiters time to source and increased coverage.

> In addition assisted the launch of internal back office support services

from India for sales and accounting.

> Responsible for implementing recruiting strategies that successfully

increased the number of hires to 98% by integrating direct sourcing,

college recruiting, employee referrals, and aggressive networking

programs.

> Program Manager on implementation of self hosted Applicant Tracking

System. Responsible for qualifying and implementing new ATS solution.

> Prepared RFI/ RFP responses & presented Strategic Sourcing and Recruiting

plans to win several notable clients in the financial services,

hospitality and pharmaceutical industries.

> Successfully managed a geographically distributed team of up to fifteen

recruiters + three contract recruiters.

> Actively involved in customer relationship management with major fortune

500 companies.

> International Recruiting experience(United States, Europe, Canada and

Asia)

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EXPERIENCE

TGC GLOBAL, New York Mar 2012 -

Present

Director of Talent Acquisition

TGC Global is a leading provider of Information Technology Services

specializing in competencies such as CLOUD TALENT, Talent Acquisition and

full service recruitment practice including IT contingent staffing,

permanent and project based staffing. CTO ADVISOR methodology which helps

transforms the way customers deliver IT Services to support their business.

CLOUD GATEWAY Offers highly secure software defined networks, through its

experienced Optical engineering and Carrier team. INCLOUD SUITE provides

the necessary architecture needed to deliver new Cloud Services to

Enterprise customers.

. Responsible for entire Service Delivery and P&L for recruitment.

. Responsible for candidate development strategy, sourcing using

technology platforms such as linkedin, internet job boards and social

sourcing tools.

. Responsible for Strategizing and implementing recruiting processes to

hire talent around Servicenow, Cloud and Network Infrastructure

consultants.

STELE INFOTECH, New Jersey Oct 2010 -

Feb 2012

Head of Talent Acquisition (Consultant)

Stele Infotech is a growing systems integration company providing clients

with total Technology solutions in Storage, Networks and Technology

Acquisition. Hired by the cofounder to head their fast growing Talent

Acquisition and professional services group to bring in process

optimization and responsible for recruiting and HR Management.

. Implemented Maxhire ATS to streamline Sourcing and Recruiting process.

. Involved in building branding and visibility on Social Network

platforms.

. Responsible for reviving dormant client accounts and increased

consulting services revenue.

. Responsible for sourcing and hiring IT professionals.

UCA SERVICES/FORTIFY INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES, New Jersey Nov 2001 -

Mar 2010

Director - Recruiting and Talent Acquisition.

UCA was acquired by Fortify Infrastructure Services now, MphasiS a HP

Company

Fortify is a Global IT Infrastructure Services company with over 700+

employees providing Onsite & Offshore Services to large enterprise

customers both in Staff Augmentation and Managed Services engagements.

Recruited by the CEO of UCA Services in 2001 to support their west coast

operations, was offered to move to New Jersey to drive the recruitment

effort and later selected to reorganize/restructure the recruiting

organization and implement technology tools to support the recruitment

workflow. With a dual reporting to the head of Professional Services and

CEO, was responsible for end to end Staffing both internal and external,

contract and fulltime. Developed and implemented a metric-driven recruiting

process, increased recruiter productivity and accountability, reporting to

identify bottlenecks, designed creative sourcing strategies by position and

geographic locations to increase speed and quality of hires; resulting in

increased client satisfaction and reduction in turnover and overall cost

per hire. Created supportive, flexible, and repeatable recruiting strategy

to ensure company had the ability to attract and retain the necessary

talent to meet current and projected future growth.

List of clients serviced: Thomson Reuters, BNP Paribas, Dresdner Kleinwort,

Instinet, TD Ameritrade, AIG, AXA Financial, JPMC, Bear Stearns, IXIS

Capital Markets, Lord Abbot, Hoffman La Roche, Celgene Pharmaceuticals,

Aventis, Halo Pharmaceuticals, Reckitt Benckiser, Becton Dickinson,

Guardian Insurance, Prudential Insurance, Wyndham Worldwide, Genpact, and

AT&T.

. Established new recruiting process which created efficiencies and

reduced average time to submit from 2-4 days to within 24 hours.

90% of all internal and client requisitions had 100% coverage.

. Set up offshore RPO reducing cost by 43%.

. Increased closing rates from an average of 78% to 90% in 12 months

. Used well defined performance management criteria to identify and

reward top producers.

. Responsible for Human Resources functions pertaining to federal and

state employment laws, immigration laws, compensation and benefits,

best practices in sourcing and recruiting, pre-employment

requirements, delivery time, and all associated costs.

. Successfully built recruiting process and infrastructure in

accordance with sales demands using a just-in-time approach.

Responsible for partnering with business units in providing

strategic leadership surrounding headcount allocation/resource

utilization, compensation, and employee relations and employee

retention.

. Greatly improved communication between departments with all levels

of the organization through establishment of SLA's related to team

responsibility and performance.

. As a Program Manager for implementing Applicant Tracking System

evaluated, selected and successfully deployed and trained users

within 3 months.

. UCA was recognized by customer as a Value partner in 2009 due to

speed and quality of hires.

. Participated actively in staff augmentation RFP responses.

. Presented our proven ability to hire better quality people which

increased revenue and decreased costs to current and prospective

clients.

. Managed the ROI for all recruiting resources, managed vendor

relationships, and negotiated agreements to maximize dollar spend

and realized value.

. Created candidate-centric recruiting process which increased

referral volume by 32%.

. Trained recruiters related to sourcing, candidate diversity,

behavioral interviewing, assessments and testing, and referrals.

TRANSYS TECHNOLOGIES, INC, California May 2000 - Nov

2001

Sr. Resource Manager

TranSys was a $20 Million e-business and enterprise application development

company providing onsite and offshore delivery models to fortune 500

clients in Financial, Supply Chain and Pharmaceutical industries. Hired by

the regional head of west coast operations, to support project resource

ramp up and recruitment effort, liaison with customers for onsite project

delivery and utilization of offshore resources.

. Responsible for intensive hands-on full life cycle recruiting

activities for resources in US including sourcing, screening, face to

face interviews, technical assessment, background and reference

checks.

. Exceed resource utilization goals with zero bench time for onsite

resources and maximum utilization of offshore resources.

. Managed customer relations including Hewlett Packard, Grant Thornton,

Navistar and Endigo. Interfaced closely with hiring managers to

create, redefine and clarify requirements to attract best talent.

. Responsible for project ramp up and leveraged offshore talent for both

T&M and fixed billing projects.

THINK DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS, Georgia Feb 1999 - April

2000

Staffing Account Manager/ Recruiter

Think Development was a boutique staffing company providing contingent

staff to tier 1 suppliers nationwide. Hired as a recruiter and promoted to

a Staffing Account Manager managing channel sales with tier 1 customers

such as Hallkinion, TekSystems, Matrix Resources, Comsys to name a few.

. As a recruiter sourced, qualified and hired over 50 IT professionals

(software developers, systems engineers, project managers and ERP

professionals) on H1 visa from India.

. Was responsible for complete recruiting life cycle (Identify

opportunities, source, qualify and hire candidates, arrange client

interviews, including candidate interview preparation, negotiate

offers and close hires)

. Negotiated contract rates with all tier 1 suppliers and compensation

packages, assessing relevant experience, education, skills and

personal qualifications to determine pay rate, relocation and COLA

benefits, required for H1 employees to ensure desired margins.

. As an Account Manager was responsible for fostering relationships with

Tier 1 supplier to market and showcase talent.

. Liaison with immigration attorney for all H1 visa and green card

processing.

EDUCATION:

Fairleigh Dickenson University - Masters of Administrative Science - 2010

- 2013

Bachelors Degree from University of Bangalore, India - 1998

Certificate Human Resource Management from Fairleigh Dickenson University

- 2011

Certificate Program in Marketing and Human Resource Management from

DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA - 2001-2003

Diploma in Fashion Design from JD Institute of Design, Bangalore, India -

1994

Certificate in Computer Science from Compulearn, Bangalore, India - 1998

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

ATS/VMS: Taleo, Kenexa, Brassring, Fieldglass, Workcard, Beeline, Zoniac,

Vurv, Jobdiva. Bullforn, Akken

Recruiting Tools: Linkedin, Monster, Dice, CareerBuilder, Job circle,

Beyond, Hireright, First Advantage, Wackenhut, ADP Select, Talent hook and

AIRS source point.

Software Tools: MS Office

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATATIONS:

Member of SHRM

Travel: Open to relocate and travel

Work Status: US Citizen

Reference: Available on request

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