Sales and Recruiting Professional
Objective is to obtain a position in as a recruitment and/or sales manager.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY SEPTEMBER 2013 -
PRESENT
GRADUATE STUDENT
ONLINE M.A. HISTORY DEGREE (21 CREDIT HOURS, 4.0 GPA, MILITARY HISTORY
CONCENTRATION)
FARHEAP SOLUTIONS, LAS VEGAS, NV SEPTEMBER 2013- DECEMBER 2013
HR RECRUITER
Hired to recruit technical and financial personnel for permanent positions.
I achieved the following:
. Found, interviewed, and led candidates through the complete hiring
process. Within 3 months I was responsible for 4 hires: 2 call center
personnel, a business intelligence analyst and an Email Marketing
Manager;
. Coordinated hiring between U.S and Russian development team;
. Averaged 3 interviews per week for various positions, including C++
programmers, SharePoint administrators, accountants and front-end web
designers/developers;
. Attended HIPPA training for updates to this law;
. Used a combination of job boards, personal contacts and LinkedIn to
find candidates for positions in Las Vegas, California and Louisville,
KY;
. Rewrote job descriptions by interviewing hiring managers;
. Worked on multiple openings simultaneously, achieving submittals of up
to 15 quality candidates per week;
. Used software packages CATS and SharePoint to track clients, candidates
and other work tasks;
. Layoff December 2013.
CRESCENT SOLUTIONS, LAS VEGAS, NV SEPTEMBER 2012 - MARCH 2013
RECRUITER PARTNER MANAGER
Hired to recruit technical personnel for both contract and permanent roles.
I achieved the following:
. Placed I.T. professionals, both in Las Vegas and California. These
placements ranged from a project managers to help desk personnel;
. Achieved average gross profit per week of 3k-4k;
. Worked with less experienced recruiters to help them be more effective;
. Worked on multiple openings simultaneously, achieving submittals of up
to 8 - 12 quality candidates per week;
. Used software package SendOuts to track clients, candidates and other
work tasks;
. Worked with client hiring managers to expedite placements.
EASTRIDGE INFOTECH, LAS VEGAS, NV JUNE 2011 - SEPTEMBER 2012
SR. TECHNICAL RECRUITER
Hired to help rebuild Las Vegas branch due to attrition. Within four
months I achieved the following:
. Placed seven I.T. professionals, both in Las Vegas and California.
These placements ranged from a business analyst to Java programmers;
. Increased billable consultants in branch by 54%;
. Increased revenues to nearly $10k in billing per week;
. Utilized several client VMS tools to fill job orders;
. Worked successfully on multiple openings, achieving submittals of up to
10 quality candidates per week using MaxHire recruitment software;
. Built many local contacts within the I.T. sector.
Independent Recruiter April 2011-May 2011
Short-term contract assignment with a national recruiting agency to help
recruit technical professionals.
ECONOMICS GRADUATE STUDENT AUGUST 2009 - Ongoing
I.T. Strategies international Corporation, Las vegas, NV July1996-
August 2009
Executive vice-President, Sales/recruiting
. Started company from zero revenues, realizing consulting sales of 40M
over fourteen years;
. Identified accounts, performed sales cold calls, wrote proposals and
developed PR/marketing campaigns;
. Remotely managed satellite office in Sacramento and project team based
in San Francisco;
. Interviewed, hired and managed all personnel, including sales staff,
recruiting staff and consultants;
. Wrote and taught three seminars to over 100 I.T. professionals in the
areas of project management, quality assurance and requirements
definition; these seminars were 1 to 3 days in duration, depending upon
the subject matter;
. Created successful temp-to-perm consulting program that increased sales
by 30%;
. Clients worked with include Las Vegas Valley Water District, Nevada
Energy, United Health Services, AT&T Wireless, Clark County, City of
Las Vegas, State of Nevada, MGM, Wynn/Encore, Clark County School
District, Bally Technologies, Palms, Aristocrat and others.
International Business and technology consultant - 1992-1996
. Worked successfully in a culturally diverse and challenging environment
in Saudi Arabia;
. Co-authored an information technology strategic plan to align business
goals with technology initiatives;
. Defined mission critical I.T. projects, along with scope, cost,
schedules, staff levels and staff training needs;
. Directly managed project teams using a matrix structure ranging in size
from 3 to 50+ personnel;
. Recruited staff internationally, from business analysts to help desk
personnel;
. Managed 4 major multi-million dollar projects and 10 smaller projects,
from requirement studies, RFP definition, software evaluation to user
acceptance testing; all projects were managed using MS-Project
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENUER/MANAGER/CONSULTANT - 1980-1992
. Served 3 years as a quality assurance consultant with CG Computer
Consulting assigned to create a quality assurance department and
monitor a previously unsuccessful $20 million customer finance project
for Transamerica Commercial Finance.
. Co-founder of DB2 software utility company Platinum, technology. As
Director of Consulting Services helped bring in cash flow that allowed
the company to focus on software development. Responsible for
consulting sales, recruitment and customer care.
. Participation in diverse technical consulting assignments across a
variety of industry sectors, primarily in a mainframe environment (OS,
COBOL, PL/1, IMS, VSAM,DB2, IDMS, IMS DB/DC) with CSC Computer
Partners.
EDUCATION/RECOGNITION:
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks ND, Master in Applied Economics,
2009-In Progress, 27 credit hours.
Thomas Edison State College, NJ, Mathematics, 2009-2010; courses in
algebra, calculus and statistics.
Elmhurst College, Elmhurst IL, B.S., Economics, 1982.
Purdue North Central University, Westville IN, A.S., Computer Technology,
1980.
Quality Assurance Institute, Orlando FL, various seminars related to I.T.
quality assurance.
Recognition by Nevada state and federal representatives for 10 years in
business award.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Microsoft Office Suite, including extensive use of Word, PowerPoint and
Excel; Apple Office Suite; Statistics package Stata V.11, Mathematica V.7,
Scientific Workplace V.5.5, Microsoft Project, MaxHire, WebPass, SendOuts,
TQM, SLAs, Disaster Planning, B2B sales, IPAD, Product Management, Arthur
Anderson SDM Methodology, Ernst & Young Methodology.