Anthony Cannady

703-***-****

addn50@r.postjobfree.com

SENIOR TECHNICAL RECRUITER

Accomplished Technical Recruiter with over 18+ years of experience of full life cycle IT, Telecom, Finance, Insurance, and Intelligence community recruitment. Consistently demonstrate strong leadership and the ability to achieve organization's hiring goals and objectives. Maintained strong relationships with assigned clients and employees to ensure timely delivery of services. Excellent problem solver and motivated, experienced professional with an extremely successful career track record. Extremely comfortable in presenting to diverse groups and forming lasting mutually beneficial partnerships in Federal Government as well as with Commercial clients.

Dynamic recruiter, with significant experience with full cycle technical recruiting of highly cleared intelligence professionals. Clearance levels include: Public trust, Secret/Top secret, - SCI/Poly/SSBI, Full Scope Poly, etc. Internet Data Mining using Boolean search techniques. Excellent knowledge of Internet based recruiting tools (LinkedIn, Monster, DICE, and CareerBuilder, Recruit Locator etc.) Have used a wide variety of applicant tracking systems (ICIMS, Avature, Taleo, Hire Right, Kenexa, Workforce, etc…). Strong candidate networking experience.

Positions Recruited

Data Base Analysts/ Miners

Full Stack Developers, DevOps, JAVA

Intelligence Analyst, SIGINT, HUMNIT, All Source Analyst

Virtualization/VMware - VCP -Solution Architect

Ab Initio Developers

Project Schedulers, Master Planner

Enterprise Architects

QA Analysts/ Engineers

Information Assurance Engineer

Cyber Security Managers/ Cyber Forensics Engineers

Data Scientist, Solutions Architect

SOA Testers, SAP ABAP Workflow, SAP SCM/APO With TSI

Cyber Threat Engineers

Network Security Engineers

IT Project/ Program and Portfolio Managers.

Cyber SharePoint Systems Engineers

IT Audit, Financial Analyst, A-123

Systems Infrastructure Mechanical Engineers

Hadoop

FEDRAMP, Big Data Architect

Help Desk Tier I, II, III

Tableau, Enterprise Architects

GFEBS, CA Technologies

Systems Engineers, System Integrators

Pilots (various aircraft) Unmanned Systems

AWS Architects and Engineers

F-22 and F35 Pilots

AZURE Engineers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Booz Allen Hamilton 02/2019 – Present

Senior Sourcing Specialist (Cyber Intel Technical) Remote 100%

Mclean, VA

Senior Sourcing Specialist supporting Booz Allen Hamilton on their Defense & Military Intelligence (DMI) accounts.

Responsible for all aspects of personnel sourcing through all forms of medium to include LinkedIn, Facebook, various job boards and internal ATS (Avature). Interacted with hiring managers to devise talent acquisition needs and strategies.

Conducted candidate screening and interviews to ensure candidate processing flow from initial contact to onboarding. Responsible for negotiating salaries with candidate and extending offer letters.

Attended job fairs, networking events and military transition programs to recruit. interview and extend offers to candidates.

KPMG 04/2018 – 02/2019

Senior Sourcing Recruiter (Finance Technical Cyber) Remote 100%

Federal Advisory Practice, Mclean VA

Responsible for performing full life cycle recruiting, working closely with hiring managers assessing their recruiting and business needs and successfully filling requisitions in a timely manner.

Recruited for a variety of IT and well as Financial positions with specific contract requirements and DoD security clearances.

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) 07/2016 – 04/2018

Principal Recruiter (Intel Technical Cyber)

Springfield, VA

Responsible for performing full life cycle recruiting, working closely with hiring managers assessing their recruiting and business needs and successfully filling requisitions in a timely manner.

Recruited for a variety of IT positions with specific US government contract requirements and DoD security clearances.

Hire cleared personnel at all levels and staff international government facilities.

Identify, prescreen, interview and hire technical candidates in a highly competitive environment.

Presented company information, salary negotiations, and extend employment offers.

Provided detailed weekly recruiting activity reports to Program Managers, Regional, Senior Director and Staffing Manager.

Created, post, and maintain requisitions in database and social media websites.

Develop and maintain a strong network of candidates through extensive networking and candidate/resource management.

Accessed a variety of recruiting sources, as a recruiter work closely with other recruiters within the team to support specific operations.

Attended job fairs to attract talent and evangelize GDIT to potential candidates.

Attend public speaking engagements at military transition centers.

Maintained a high degree of industry knowledge through peer networking, trade papers and tech journals

ATS (iCIMS 16.3)

Lockheed Martin, Inc. 02/2015 – 07/2016

Sr. Talent Acquisition Recruiter (Intel Technical Cyber)

Manassas, VA

Provide strategic recruiting to Mission, Systems & Training Business Unit by demonstrating excellent talent acquisition and development skills. Primary responsibilities:

• Currently manage staffing needs for several funded programs / proposals consisting of approximately 140+ positions and 50 hiring managers

• Partner as a trusted advisor to hiring managers to understand technical requirements, competencies and attributes in order to down-select, present qualified candidates for consideration and add value to the process.

• Work to influence hiring managers and site leads on EEO and OFCCP compliance issues, while demonstrating interpersonal diplomacy

• Effectively recruit candidates through Internet research, internal database, cold calling, referrals, networking, job fairs, and other strategies

• Review and evaluate completed candidate profiles/resumes and evaluate applicant’s work history, education and training, job skills, desired salary/hourly rate, and personal qualifications against open requirements

• Establish and maintain professional relationships with candidates and assist candidates with completion of applications and other required forms

• Extend formal offers and maintain accurate and timely candidate tracking information

Binary Group, Inc. 10/2013 – 02/2015

Talent Acquisition Manager (Intel Technical Cyber)

Oversaw the recruiting function as well as recruited for an IT solutions and Intel services provider in the government contracting markets.

• Built and mentored a dynamic team of 3 recruiters (2 contract 1 fulltime).

• Managed well over 50 job requisitions.

• Designed and ran several iCims Insight Reports to pull recruiting metrics.

• Developed and managed the Recruiting budget.

• Integrated the company’s background screening services with the iCims 14.2 applicant tracking system, resulting in a reduction of costs by 20%, an expanded capability for international background screening, and easy access to background results by the Security and HR staffs.

• Initiated a project to integrate and automate the entry of new hire employee information from the iCims 14.2 applicant tracking system into the HRIS. As the company’s subject matter expert for iCims and the recruiting function, played an integral role in building all customizations.

• Conducted hands-on training to the recruiters, proposal department, hiring managers, and other team members involved in the recruiting process.

• Launched a targeted college recruiting effort and summer internship program.

• Requested and initiated the inclusion of the recruiting procedure into the company’s ISO 9001 quality management system.

• Identified challenges in the lifecycle of the recruiting process and through weekly meetings with the executive management team worked with the divisions to resolve obstacles, facilitate the improvement of communications between the recruiting staff and hiring managers, and advance the overall process

Information Innovators, Inc. (Triple-i) – (Contractor) 10/2012 - 10/2013 Senior Corporate Recruiter (Intel Technical Cyber)

Owned full-cycle recruiting: interviewed, offer letters, negotiated and closed candidates for assigned intelligence contracts

Installed and implemented new ATS (iCIMS 12.0)

Full-life cycle recruiting for a wide array of DoD/Military skill sets that include Engineering, Program Management, Cyber, Finance/Accounting

Responsible for all aspects of the Intel Divisions staffing from Sourcing, Talent Acquisition, Recruiting, Passive Talent, Job Board Strategies, Referral Programs, Vendor Managed Solutions (VMS), TRM (Talent Relationship Management), Pipelining, Diversity Recruitment

Responsible for internal corporate recruiting positions such as Program Financial Analyst, HR generalist, Payroll Manager, Business Development, Research Analyst, Benefits Specialist, etc.

Responsible for multiple mangers (10) requirements and staffing needs

Mentored recruiting staff

Generated weekly recruiting metrics reports for executive staff

Recruited for highly cleared candidates for various intelligence community clients (CIA, USAF, Army, NSA, etc.)

SOS International, Ltd. (Contractor) 04/2012 - 010/2012

Senior Recruiter (Intel Technical Cyber)

Sourced and contacted candidates with intelligence, technical, linguistic, instructor, public affairs, and counterinsurgency backgrounds.

Recruited for immediately billable and proposal vacancies in support of Department of Defense (DOD) and other client contracts.

Processed approved candidates through the hiring cycle.

Tracked and updated statuses of applicants and requisitions using Cyber Recruiter and Microsoft Excel.

Established and expanded networks with assistance from LinkedIn.

Performed market analysis of job salaries upon request.

Lanmark Technology, Inc.

Corporate Recruiting Manager 5/20011 – 04/2012

Significant experience building and leading Talent Acquisition/Recruiting teams

Owned full-cycle recruiting: interviewed, offered, negotiated and closed candidates for assigned intelligence contracts

Manage staff recruiters at Lanmark Technology.

Brought on new ATS system iCIMS for Lanmark Technology as well as knowledge internet-based recruiting tools

Recruited for highly cleared intelligence professionals that were based OCONUS as well as CONUS based

Sourced and staffed contracts for highly cleared personnel (Top Secret w/ Poly) for JIEDDO, DISA and NGA and other DOD agencies.

Sourced and staffed 41 highly cleared OCONUS ORA’s (Operations Research Analyst) with Top Secret Clearances which were sent to Afghanistan for the JIEDDO contract.

Brought social media recruiting tools such as LinkedIn to successfully recruit candidates for Federal Government Clients and cleared personnel

Prepared recruiting reporting briefs for senior leadership at LMT

Did extensive internet data mining using Boolean search techniques

Assigned all recruiting task to Junior Recruiters

Prepared and signed offer letters and on boarding docs

Negotiated all salaries for all cleared personnel and LMT staff

Worked with FSO with regard to pulling clearance checks

Worked closely with all levels of staff (mostly Vice Presidents and Directors) to fully understand the visions of their organizations, as well as strategic and tactical plans.

Tracking all recruiting-related costs to managing to a budget

Managed external vendors. Negotiated rates and teaming agreement.

Staff contract for these technical positions: RF Engineers, Direct Energy Engineer, Systems Analyst, Operations Research Analyst, Detect Engineer, Principle Analyst, Technical Integrators, Senior Engineer

Phase 2 Recruiting, LLC 08/2002- Present

Consultant/Owner

Information Technology, Accounting & Finance recruiting

Managed a group of up to 4 recruiters

Developed metrics, best practices, and a tiered job order management system.

Ran weekly conference calls between recruiting and business development teams.

Recruited and placed 1/4 of the company’s contractors out of a team of 4 recruiters

98% offer-to-close ratio

American Income Life, a Torchmark Company 09/2001- 05/2007

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Manage numerous staff recruiters at AIL. Bought on originally to help the VP of human resources develop a national campaign to recruit both Technical IT professionals and licensed agents.

Subsequently became senior national technical recruiter for AIL located in the nation’s capital. Primary responsibilities as a Senior Recruiter consisted of the direct sourcing and screening of potential candidates for contract, full time placement, and contract to hire openings.

Built and managed a pipeline of active IT professionals through job boards, employee referrals, internet sourcing, competitive research, cold calling, direct networking, advertising, career fairs and the like.

Searches for candidates included using traditional and creative sourcing methods, including but not limited to internal database searches, online searches, Internet postings, job/career fairs, local colleges, referrals, user/technical groups.

Responsible for the negotiating of compensation with candidates, extending offers, and facilitating the placement of candidates into the 50 offices nationwide.

Worked directly with project managers as a full service resource on a variety of assigned client relationships in order to identify strategic, as well as immediate IT staffing needs.

Internet Data Mining using Boolean search techniques. Excellent knowledge of Internet based recruiting tools (Monster, DICE, and CareerBuilder etc.) Used a wide variety of applicant tracking systems. Strong candidate networking experience.

ICICI, Infotech, RTP. NC

Manager, IT Recruitment 12/1999 to 9/2001

Responsibilities include managing a staff of 3 recruiters, one permanent placement recruiter and two contract placement recruiters as well as assisting in satisfying the staffing augmentations for Infotech’s internal Project Services group.

Aggressively tracked all new requirements and ensured persistent follow-up, candidate deliverability and maintained consistent closure rate to generate high monthly billing rates.

Instrumental in rate negotiations with regard to the consultants on W2 or 1099 and managed various aspects of recruitment and hiring.

Negotiated terms of service - placement fees, bill rate, employment benefits, payment terms and work authorization fees (H1B transfers).

Responsible for mentoring junior recruiters in the technical evaluation and the interviewing process of potential candidates.

Duties also included mentoring the junior recruiters in how to search for potential candidates from multiple sources, i.e. (running newspaper ads, internet searching, various resume repository websites, corporate phone books, etc…)

Assisted the Account Managers in their understanding of requirements given to them by the customer. Developed screening questionnaires for candidates. Developed interviewing process for all recruiters.

Micro Focus (Merant), Inc.

Project Manager (Business Development Manager) 9/1997 to 12/1999

Responsible for managing multiple projects and customers simultaneously. Part of the Engagement Team for Business Development. Responsibilities included performing a “proof of concept” along with a Systems Engineer (SE). Met with senior VP's and their staff to present Y2K and Web Development software tools, which are Micro Focus Revolve 2000 SMARTFIND / SMARTFIX and Micro Focus Net Express. Responsibilities also entailed the installation of hardware such as PC’s, Zip drives, printers, and third party software based on customers needs (i.e. Windows 95/98/NT, Microsoft Windows 2000 Product Analyzer.)

Clients included: Delta Airlines, Philip Morris, EDS, Dress Barn, Equitable, and Elf Atochem.

Syntel, Inc.

Project Manager 9/1994 to 9/1997

Part of the Engagement Team for Business Development that ultimately won a $200,000,000 million-dollar outsourcing contract for AIG Insurance Corporation based in Manhattan, N. Y. We subsequently moved more than 300 IT systems to Raleigh N.C. from Manhattan.

Responsible for managing 5 major IT systems for AIG Insurance Corporation under their International Division. These systems were GENESIS, EIS, Foreign GEN, CRS, SPARS and numerous sub-systems worlds wide within Claims and Underwriting.

Oversaw staff of 25 stateside personnel and 6 India based personnel. Some stateside personnel were sent to various countries to install, implement and train users on newly developed or enhanced IT systems (France, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and Thailand).

Regular meetings (daily and weekly) included senior corporate VPs and Directors with their management teams in person or by videoconference.

Project development tools used at Syntel included Microsoft Project Plan, EXCEL, JAD and JAR sessions, Visual Basic, SQLSERVER, LOTUS NOTES, DB2, COBOL II, CICS C, and C++.

Uniforce, Inc.

Account Manager, Technical Services 2/1992 to 11/1994

The Technical Services Division was a newly formed Division under UNIFORCE. Responsibilities included developing a new customer database, as well as a database of potential technical service personnel.

Subsequently hired Technical Recruiters and an additional Account Manager to assist in placements of technical service personnel. Developed the marketing package in conjunction with Corporate Marketing executives.

Consulting Engagements 8/1984 to 2/1992

Project Leader/ Sr. Programmer/Analyst for clients to include: State of North Carolina, General Dynamics (Electric Boat), Nortel, Inc. (RTP), IBM (RTP), Perot Systems and MCI Telecommunications Corp.

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