Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist – General Dynamics Information Technology 2019 to Current
Full Life Cycle recruiting for Special & Psychological Operations and Navy Programs.
Carried an average requisition load of 50+ reqs
Averaged 100+ hires per year.
Recruited candidates with Secret; TS; TS/SCI; TS/SCI/CI Poly.
Recruiter for the following disciplines – Linguists; Data Engineers; Data Scientists; Systems Admins; SQL DBA’s; IT Technicians; Linux Admins; HBSS/ACAS Administrators; Software Developers; Network Engineers; Help Desk; Program & Project Managers
Represented company at virtual and on-site job fairs.
Received 2 recruiting spot awards.
Contract Recruiter 2018 – 2019
Completed a 6-month contract recruiting Aeronautical; Aerospace; Mechanical and Stress engineers. Filled 50+ positions.
Job duties entailed as a full lifecycle recruiter writing and posting requisitions; sourcing; phone screens and interviewing candidates; scheduling interviews; and extending offers
Lead Technical/Healthcare Recruiter, MITRE Corporation 2010 to 2018
Job duties included writing and posting requisitions; sourcing; phone screen and interviewing candidates; scheduling interviews; and extending offers. Handled college recruiting for the divisions supported. Responsible for recruiting strategy for divisions supported.
Lead recruiter for a 1,500-employee division of MITRE. Supervise 1 recruiting coordinator. Supported Healthcare; Information Technology; FBI; and Navy Programs. Averaged 72 hires per year.
Led a high-volume health care recruiting campaign hiring 50+ healthcare professionals in 90 days. Skills included Clinical Quality; Healthcare Policy; Electronic Health Records; Population Health; Health Data Analysts; Health Attorneys; Doctors and Nurses. Organized a healthcare invitational. Carried req load up to 100 reqs.
Responsible for recruiting for the division’s IT groups. Skills included; Cybersecurity; Cyber Engineers; Cyber Analysts; Biometrics; Human Machine Language; Data Analytics; Geospatial; Agile/Scrum; Virtualization Infrastructure; Quality; Organizational Change Software Engineering; Enterprise Strategy and Transformation; Homeland Security and Systems Engineering. Positions were non-cleared to TS/SCI/POLY. Corporate lead for recruiting AI; Autonomy and Data Science Engineers.
Developed Ambassador Program to enhance brand in college recruiting for the division’s new healthcare division.
Led a division workforce analytics project which identified skill gaps and allowed recruiting to develop target plans to close the gaps.
Received 2 Directors Recruiting awards.
Principal, Millenium Holdings, Ltd. 1995 – 2010
For various clients recruited executives, senior/mid management, professional, exempt and non-exempts in telecommunications, data communications, and information technology in both federal and commercial sectors also for positions that required TS/SBI/SSBI/SCI/ISSA, and or CI/Lifestyle Polygraphs. Functional areas recruited include Engineering (all disciplines), IT (all disciplines), sales/marketing, human resources, and administration. Full life-cycle recruitment, which included searches, contacting/qualifying candidates, pre-closing, interviews, reference checking, organizing interviews in high volume environments.
Recruited for the following technology skills: Telecommunications. Satellite, Transmission, Switching (Nortel, Tellabs, AT&T), FPGA, PCB Design, Networking, Hosting, Fiber Optics, Wireless, Inside/Outside Plant. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - C/C++, UNIX, Visual C++ HTML, Java, JavaScript Java Beans, Hadoop, Python, R, Oracle/Sybase/Informix RDBMS, ERP systems (SAP, PeopleSoft), data warehouse, Novell, Windows NT, PL/SQL, QA, Y2K, VAX/VMA, MVS, Ada, FORTRAN, x-Windows/Motif, and Object Oriented. Designed an organizational structure, staffing program and expatriate compensation program for a 150+ person maintenance facility in the Middle East. Worked in high volume recruiting environments hiring over 236 technology employees in 1 year and 30 employees a month in another subsidiary. (MCI and MCIMetro)
Clients included Tellabs; AT&T Government Systems; MITRE (3 engagements); Network Equipment Technologies; Capital One; Logicon/Northrup Grumman; MCI and MCIMetro; Raytheon Systems Corporation (2 engagements); American Diabetes Association; Sullivan and Company, Dovel Technologies; ICRC; Accenture; KForce and Toplu, LLC.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Testified before the House Banking Subcommittee on Small Business Banking Environment
Testified to EEOC on the Americans with Disability Act (ADA)
Testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism
Trained military personnel traveling overseas on personal protection against terrorists
Was a Member Joint Task Force on Skill Pay Programs, University of California
Was a member, Microsoft Advisory Board
EDUCATION
MBA - Human Resources Management, Golden Gate University
MA - Management, Webster University
BS - Liberal Studies, SUNY at Albany
CERTIFICATIONS
Completed OSHA 30 hour certification course.
COMPUTER COMPETENCY
Hardware - PC’s; Apple; Android Tablets
Software - Microsoft Office Products
HRIS - ADP, ABRA 2000, First Resource, InSci, PeopleSoft; Workday
Accounting/Payroll - Peachtree, Quick Books Pro, DAC, Navision, QuickPay, ADP, Deltek, Navision, Fidelity Payroll
Applicant Tracking - Resumix, Restrac, Hiresystems, PeopleClick, Brass Ring, CATS, Brass
Ring/Kinexa; Taleo; Workday; iCIMS
Recruiting Databases - Monster, CareerBuilder, LinkedIn, and many others.
Networking - Win 95 Peer-to-Peer, Novell, NT
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Coach and goalkeeping trainer for youth soccer. Hold National Soccer Goalkeeping License. Coached boys travel soccer team which was ranked 36th in the state of Virginia after just 3 years. Held position as a House Commissioner overseeing 10 age group coordinators, over 60 coaches and 1,500 male and female youth soccer players. Am a licensed soccer referee refereeing over 400 recreational; travel and adult soccer games a year.