James Edward Pimentel

San Francisco, Bay Area, 415-***-****

ad2mae@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimpimentel/

BIG 4 TALENT ACQUISITION LEADER

Outstanding Project/Program Manager and Recruitment professional with over 15 years of result-driven success in Talent Acquisition and Staffing Agency management. Expert at building, managing and executing full life-cycle recruitment/staffing strategies and processes for small to large scale, complex organizations.

DEMONSTRATED ACHIEVEMENTS

ü Managed extremely large team in five countries and seven unique time zones.

üAble to anticipate issues within recruitment/acquisition and make hiring recommendations for resolving problems and implementing actions.

üAble to anticipate issues within recruitment/acquisition and make hiring recommendations for resolving problems and implementing actions.

üEffective instructional skills heightened by the knowledge and utilization of various recruitment/acquisition training models.

üAbility to motivate staff within diverse cultural and remote environments.

üUtilization of both individual and team recruitment/acquisition training concepts. ü Completed hires for senior most levels executive positions, reporting to the C-suite. ü Created Executive Diversity Recruiting Program to support divisions.

ü Championed in-house recruitment/acquisition team.

MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

Nelson and Associates Pleasant Hill/Fairfield/San Francisco, CA 2021 – Present

Director of Program Management

Plan, direct and coordinate all aspects of our Delivery Program team to ensure customer satisfaction, growth and expansion of product and service offerings

§Responsible for the complete quality management of all contingent workers at the client site; main point of contact for all contingent workers onsite.

§Acts as an onsite liaison between client’s employees/managers/supervisors (order sources) and all temporary services.

§Resides onsite at the client location and independently manages and maintains a healthy collaborative working relationship with the client.

§Responsible for labor market trends, wages, benefits, and realistic expectations in today's market as it relates to the client.

§Identifies, creates and implements opportunities for operational process improvements that are business impactful for the requirements of the client.

§Informs candidates of job duties and responsibilities, compensation, work schedules and working conditions, policies, assignment opportunities, and other information as it applies.

§Manages the pipeline of candidates for future orders, including facilitating and executing pipeline expectation calls, etc.

§Active Supervisor for all contingent workers onsite at the client location. Duties include creating new hire packets, conducting orientations and exit interviews, creating and maintaining personnel files, coordinating on-boarding and off-boarding, maintaining time-off requests, terminations, and counsels. This includes making real-time, business impactful decisions.

§Manage contract and agreement negotiations with vendor.

§Independently oversees contingent worker performance review process and other quality control programs.

§Independently provide problem resolution services that are business impactful for contingent workers.

§Prepares weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports as required; attends weekly, monthly, and/or quarterly meetings and provides updates as required.

§Processes payroll for all contingent workers on a weekly basis.

§Independently communicates with clients and resolves accounting discrepancies, including employee timesheets, invoices, etc.

Vaco-San Francisco at Google Mountain View/San Francisco, CA 2013 – 2021

Senior Project Manager

Attract/recruit top tier innovative talent across multiple locations nationally and internationally. Managed a team of remote acquisition recruiters as well as in-house. Focused on developing, managing and executing Talent Acquisition, Recruitment, Onboarding and related strategies throughout North America. Managed staff of 45 employees.

§Manager of the Vaco vendor employees for Google Play Merchandise team.

§Manager of the Vaco vendor employees for Google/YouTube Music Merchandise.

§Manager of free-lance writers and bloggers for Google (projects include Zagat.com and Google Maps Summary).

§Work with Google editors to recruit additional writers for projects.

§Advised Senior Vaco-San Francisco Strategy Leadership annual demand planning, budgeting and forecasting, building practice talent, sourcing methods, and building project execution teams.

§Directly managed a global team, ranging from a staff of five executive and contract recruiters.

§Successfully led the recruitment integration of any open positions on my team.

§Managed annual budget of $4.5 million in payroll and executive search spend.

§Led the Talent Acquisition strategy with several teams of recruiters, program managers and recruiting coordinators in remote locations.

§Led a variety of change management and innovation projects, including process improvement, best practice development, and policy deployment.

§Developed and codified knowledge documents and training sessions for internal capability building.

Cumulus Media San Francisco and San Jose, CA 2011 - 2013

Web Interactive Producer

Executive Producer responsible for promoting the top five Cumulus stations on our different websites. I needed to integrate sales opportunities for our staff to grow out large business.

•Showed incredible growth in our Unique Visitors each month.

•Raised our revenue successfully in the 24 months I was in charge of the web sites.

•Built many new applications for our sales staff to increase our yearly revues.

•Managed 10 employees in our 24-hour news service.

•Brought on-air talent to our websites to increase our Unique Visitors,

San Francisco Examiner San Francisco CA 2001-2011

Executive Editor

Executive Producer

Managing Editor

Sports Editor

As the leader of the second biggest newspaper and web site in San Francisco, my job everyday was to make us relevant in our story selection as well as photographs selection. Under my guidance, we continually passed our previous goals, both in revenue and Unique Visitors. Although challenging to be the "second paper" in our community, I am proud that we had a strong imprint on the everyday life of our readers. sales opportunities for our staff to grow out large business.

•Managed a staff if 45 writers, editors, and production staff.

•Continually used my creative thought process to promote stories on the front page that people would "talk about."

•Also used my news judgement to to continually try new ideas on the internet.

•Responsible for a "special edition" the day Scott Peterson was charged with murder.

•Continually "pushed the envelope" with the different stories I would promote on the front page.

Quokka Sports San Francisco CA 1996-2001

Executive Producer

Senior Producer

Managing Editor

Content Manager

During my time at Quokka Sports, I was the Executive Producer of golf.com and managing editor of the America's Cup. While at golf.com, I had to manage over 50 employees in four time zones. We were covering every golf tour in the world. My job was to lead in the type of content we wanted to see. With the American's Cup, I lead a website that had two million Unique Visitors.

•I was responsible for hiring all of the free-lance writers needed for both sites..

•In charge if $2 million budget for America's Cup and $4 million for golf.com.

•Managed full-time employees in multi-time zones.

•. Was responsible for profit/loss for both web sites.

•Continually grew both web sites from the Unique Visitor-perspective.

EDUCATION

Diablo Valley College, General Studies Salesian High School

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