Ruturaj “RUTU” Maharaja

Currently at Herndon, VA

571-***-****; actu1q@r.postjobfree.com

Work Auth: US Citizen

Looking for Lead or Management position in Talent Acquisition in Dallas TX only – Thank you

Summary

Skilled, creative, and dedicated Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist, with extensive hands-on complete lifecycle recruiting, paired with rare in-depth technical background, responsible for staffing and resource management of Agile technical business unit:

Talent acquisition, supervisory and hands-on responsibilities for:

Complete recruiting lifecycle for wide range of cleared and non-cleared positions

Coordination with hiring managers and recruiting teams on requirements and pipelines

Private and public sectors recruiting, including uncommon skills sets

Domestic and international assignments, for funded and contingent hiring

Executive hiring, including corporate confidential and strategic stakeholders

Recruiting systems improvements, ground-up design, implementation, and maintenance

iCMS customization, administration, reporting, and user management

Metrics design, development, analysis, and presentation

Market evaluation for location-based talent and compensation

Resource planning with executives and other stakeholders, including:

Resource management across multiple accounts and programs

Staffing strategies and tactical planning

Confidential data, such as staff compensation, contracts, rates, and profitability

Reporting and assessments of metrics, recruiting, procurement, and legal issues

Internal resource allocations across multiple contracts, responsible for:

Talent identification and assignment for business development and proposals

Staff and subcontractors reassignments and terminations

Coordination with HR for benefits, onboarding, and compensation

Coordination with legal for compliance, subcontracts, and immigration

Procurement and subcontracts, including vendor identification, relationships, and management

Security clearances for DoD and non-DoD clients

Resolution of complex integration challenges following acquisition

Excellent communication skills, exceptional writer and editor, and talented presenter

Hands-on experience with technology, programming, marketing, sales, and business development

EDUCATION and CERT

2015: CSPM (Certified Security Project Manager)

2010 – 2013: MBA – Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

1999 – 2003: BSEE from Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India

Core fields and competencies experience

Cloud and DevOps (IT)

Cloud management: AWS (Amazon Web Services), VMWare, OpenStack

Methodology: Agile and Waterfall

DevOps tools like Cucumber, GitHub, JIRA

Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Bamboo

Configuration Management: Puppet, Chef, Salt

Automated test tools: QTP, Selenium

Telecom

RF Design and Optimization Engineers (LTE/HSPA/UMTS/CDMA/GSM/WiMAX) – All levels

Project Manager (RF, Network rollout, Site Dev, Site Acquisition)

Carrier Transport/ NOC, Microwave Backhaul Engineers

Fiber Optics Engineer (FTTH) / Fiber Design Engineers/ Fiber SME’s

Microwave/ Transport Design / Sr. Field Technicians (IP/ MW/ Transport/ Backhaul/ SONET/ SDH)

Information Technology (IT)

Technologies: J2ME, PocketPC. SIP, BREW, WAP, XML, WebServices

Databases: DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL server, Sybase.

Tools: Clearcase, Clearquest

Internet technologies: HTML, Java Script, LDAP, Websphere, WSDL

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, UNIX, HP UNIX, Solaris

Prog Languages: J2EE, J2ME, WML, C++, C#, CORBA, Java, .NET (WPF, WCF) etc.

Networking

Network Design and Architecture : DWDM / SONET / TDM

Network Administration and Management

Data Center Solutions

Network Operation Centers (NOC)

Transmission and Switching

Security Integration / Network Security : IDS / IPS

Recruitment tools and methodology used

Web Boolean Search (X-Ray DeeperWeb FlipSearch) and Data Mining (L-Soft), Social Networking (LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Dev Bistro Quora GitHub), Internal Database, Direct Networking (phone and email), Internet job boards, Cold Calling, Blogs and Industry Groups

Compliance Experience

OFCCP, ADA, EEOC, DFAR, as well as Legal and Government Compliance

Application Tracking System (ATS) Experience

iCIMS, Monster TMS (Talent Management Solution, Sprint VMS, Verizon/AT&T Fieldglass, Bullhorn, CATS (Candidate Application Tracking System), Taleo

Types of Hire and Security Experience

Permanent employees, Temp-to-Hire, Contractors, 1099 and Corp-Corp bases

Top Secret, Secret, Confidential, Public Trust, TS/SCI, CI Poly

References

I can provide excellent references of my direct supervisors from all employments

Professional Experience

KARSUN Solutions, Senior Corporate Recruiter (Apr 2015 – Present)

Herndon, VA

KARSUN is PRIME to GSA (Federal) and Subcontractor to Lockheed Martin.

Responsible for End to End Recruitment Life Cycle, Contract Management supporting GSA (Sr. Software Engineers, DevOps, Drupal Developer, Java Developer, Full-Stack Developer, Unix/Linux System Administrator) and Lockheed Martin (IT Positions including AWS, Azure, PHP, Python) requirements

Worked as a go-to person in a fast paced environment, handled high recruiting volume and implemented sourcing strategies to generate a pipeline of qualified candidates to include lead generation through social media sources such as LinkedIn, TalentBin (product of Monster.com) and OpenWeb (product of Dice.com).

Created and maintained a continual flow of candidates by utilizing advanced internet searching skills, cold calling, networking, and other advanced recruitment techniques for current and future open positions

Led two major career fairs every quarter, WIT – Women in Technology and Dice; both local to Northern Virginia

Designed specialized recruitment programs to address unique needs and address spikes in hiring volume as well as pipeline development and worked with all recruiting active resources available, networking, cold calling to help identify and source qualified candidates.

Best Performance: Closed 9 positions in month consistently on an average and three positions in a week and supported management in developing best recruiting practices and procedures.

Worked closely with hiring managers to source the right talent in tight deadlines and daily reviewed recruiter activity in Applicant Tracking System (ATS), iCIMS to measure progress towards assigned recruiter goals.

Lead strategy meetings on a daily/weekly basis and provided coaching, mentoring in terms of effective searching techniques, technical screening, negotiating while holding members accountable to production metrics.

Developed and executed sourcing strategy against position requirements and assisted with other HR functions related to benefits and compensation.

Conferred with management in planning needs and coordinated execution of recruitment strategy.

Used Dice, Monster and Career Builder, Linked in to publish jobs, recruit and screen candidates, document activity and approvals, compile interviewing schedules and feedback, and formulate employment offers.

Provided metrics to management and supported the on-boarding process (background screening) for new hires and provided value-added recruiting knowledge to hiring managers including market intelligence, interviewing best practices and offer negotiation tactics.

LCC International, Senior Technical Recruiter (Oct 2010 – Mar 2015)

McLean, VA

Corporate Telecom Recruiter responsible for identifying talent, maintaining candidate pipelines, and filling open jobs for both in house fixed price/turn key positions, any corporate in-house staffing needs as well as identifying qualified candidates for any contract placements for telecommunications clients both Nationally and on a Global level

Streamlined and initiated recruiting efforts via Social Media, responsible for gaining candidates momentum and resource referrals for both passive and active candidates

Sr. Lead Recruiter responsible for candidate sourcing, placements, customer/ client relations, candidate relationships, job order fulfillment, Customer RFQ’s, etc

Daily sourcing and candidate submissions for the following requirements: RF Design and Optimization Engineers (UMTS/CDMA/LTE/HSPA), Project Management, IP and Data Engineering, Spectrum Analysis & Management, Zoning Engineers, Transport Engineering, Fixed Network Engineering, Site Acquisition and Development, Site Installation and Maintenance, E911 System Design and Testing, Drive Testing and Benchmarking, RF Engineering Business and Market Planning, System Integration, Application Development, etc

Source and present qualified applicants, assuring timely responses and placements with hiring managers

Managing the hiring requisition process, which includes, but is not limited to, sourcing candidates, interviewing candidates, generating offers to candidates, finalizing the hiring process for candidates, ensuring receipt of new hire paperwork

Negotiating salaries and bill rates, pay rates, and other full life cycle related recruiting activities. Offering on W2 Temp, Fulltime / CTC basis

Develop recruiting strategies designed to identify qualified candidates

Full Life cycle recruiting for all levels of IT/Telecom, high level Sr. Engineers/ Designers

Create and execute local and national recruitment strategies for senior-level positions, search activities through the use of a proprietary Applicant Tracking Systems (LCC/WFI – TMS)

NextXap Inc, Account Manager / Senior Recruiter (Dec 2009 – Oct 2010)

Alexandria, VA

Develop and maintain pool of available technical candidates via networking, referrals, cold-calling, jobs postings, job fairs, and intelligent use of recruitment databases

Performing full life-cycle recruitment (from discovering and sourcing candidates, to matching, pitching and closing them on contract opportunities)

Track all interactions with candidates

Responsible for negotiating exclusivity, salary and benefits, start times and job responsibilities

Help train, mentor, and educate junior team members

Identify, attract and recruit top notch candidates for all open positions within the company

Responsible for all College level recruiting efforts and maintaining College contacts

Proactively work to identify potential candidates in anticipation of future openings

Focus on establishing and maintaining good relationships

Develop, Manage, and Staff company-wide intern training program

Coordinate, Plan, Setup, and Facilitate all company job fair events including invitation only job fair

Mindlance Inc, Senior Technical Recruiter (Aug 2007 – Dec 2009)

Hoboken, NJ

Managed full life cycle of recruiting including posting of job opportunities, searching job boards, sourcing, screening, interviewing, checking reference, negotiating salaries and finalizing offers

Built a network of candidates through referrals, cold-calling, networking, and internet recruiting

Work as Assistant Account Manager on fortune 500 company (electrical) account of high tech

Make decision of resume submission to fortune 500 company client

Work on more than three requirements at a time

Lead and participate on all conference calls to ensure that all job orders are being covered

Knowledge sharing with junior staff and colleagues, arrange knowledge sharing sessions and create documentation to increase productivity

Maintain a candidate database in company’s in house product developed by CATS, Candidate Application Tracking System

Maintain a prospective and current candidate database on daily basis

Build and maintain a solid relationship with hiring managers, candidates and HR Personnel

Maintain a weekly report card by categories of task

Submit resume to client and follow up

Working with Health care and Pharmaceutical, IT departments requirements, Electrical, Electronics, financial companies

Responsible for placements for contract, contract to hire and full time positions

Radiant Systems Inc, Senior Technical Recruiter (Jun 2006 – Jun 2007)

Bangalore, India / South Plainfield, NJ

Responsible for recruitment of contract, contract to hire

Work hand and hand with the Director of Recruiting

Recruiting through the channels like: Existing internal database, referrals, networking and internet

Conduct interviews with candidates over the phone as instructed by client

Identify and present opportunities for each candidate based upon skill set, salary and location

Maintain a database in company’s in-house tool RMS (Radiant Management Systems)

Worked with IT services, Electrical, Electronics, telecommunication Fortune 500 and government contracting companies

Maintain prospective and current candidate contact database

Responsible for posting jobs on the internet

Maintain weekly recruiting metrics

Rishabh Software, Technical Recruiter (May 2005 – Jun 2006)

Baroda, India

Responsible for all processes in the placement of contingent candidates

Cold call candidates that are looking for employment in their related fields

Build and maintain a solid relationship with candidates

Prepare resumes for submission to clients

Provide clients with background and reference checks

Keep track of all candidates, submissions, interviews in a database

Place job posting on provided job board and internal web site

Maintain database of available candidate in company’s tracking system

Recruitment Trainer:

Point of contact for all recruiters for general training on recruitment process

Conduct weekly meetings to discuss open job orders and trial/dummy requirement

Assisted with mentorship program to mentor all new hires

Act as liaison between clients and vendors

Larson and Turbo (L&T), Assistant Engineer (Mar 2004 – Apr 2005)

Baroda, India

Functioned as a primary contact for engineering documents, drawings and software availability

Maintained excellent communications with four major departments of the company

Supported 24 hour on call/duty as demanded

Recorded and managed all engineering drawings and requests into a application tracking control system, called PDIS

Preparation & updating of Project Deliverable List (department wise for both drawings & specification sketches) updating Net Bimonthly

Checking Process and Instrument Diagram for I/O points in field Instruments connecting to DCS

Uploading and downloading of Project documents on P-Net and FTP server

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