Rick Guadiano

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Houston, TX. *****

P: 818-***-****

adxx8p@r.postjobfree.com / adxx8p@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

10+ years of proven progressive success in full life cycle IT and software technical recruiting consistently delivering on quality and service throughout the entire candidate engagement process and experience

3+ years of deep recruitment experience in Cloud Architecture in AWS, Azure, Cloud Application, Infrastructure and DevOps

2+ years of Digital Recruitment including UX Designers, Visual Designers and 3D Technical AR\VR Designers

Possess skill sourcing-based search expertise able to fluently use and learn new search applications and apply social media to scout for passive candidates

Several years of hands on use with various ATS and VMS systems

Proven ability to apply broad range knowledge and strong understanding of technology acumen, technical roles and multiple software, Hardware/Products and IT competencies

Excellent verbal communication and listening skills enable proper needs analysis to quickly build partnerships with today’s top talent and IT Hiring Managers

Talent Acquisition Specialist with an inquisitive mind, passionate about technology and excellent operational industry knowledge

Motivated by a strong internal drive in finding high level Software Developers/Engineers and niche Technical Resources

Freelance experience to include strong client relationship building built extensive sourcing and placement of multiple Top-Level Java related Software Engineers; Technical Lead and Applications Development Managers for an Exploration/Drilling software client from 11/2012-01/2015

KEY SKILL AREAS:

Full Cycle IT Recruiting Technical Skill-Sourcing Social Media Sourcing Client Partnerships Key Relationship Building End to End Staffing Processes Vendor Management Candidate Screening Tech Career Fairs Database mining

Effective Negotiation Cold Calling Multi-task competent Interviewing Efficiency Create Job Descriptions Excellent Communication skills (verbal and written) Talent Attraction Referral Networks Job Postings

Local User Groups

Boolean Search Strings Candidate Pipelining

Software Development Recruitment Houston Java Users Group Facebook Bullhorn Reach ZipRecruiter Google+ Glassdoor.com

Microsoft Office Microsoft Word Microsoft Outlook PowerPoint

Excel

Indeed.com LinkedIn Recruiter OpenWeb.com ATS: Taleo, Kenexa BrassRing, Bullhorn, Ceridian

VMS: Pontoon, Fieldglass

Experience

Technology Recruitment Consultant

Wells Fargo, Houston, Tx (4/2021 - Present)

- Perform Full life cycle technology recruitment

- Engage and work directly with the hiring management team to qualify all requirements and specific details for each job requisitions.

- Utilize In house ATS system, CRM, Discovery, Peoplesoft, SDOT, and Recruiting Solutions.

- Extensive Compliance, Diversity and Fraud training

- Recruited for mid level and senior level software engineers(Java, .NET, Middleware, Flexcube).

- Recruited positions in OBIEE, Automation QA, Scrum Master, DevOps, and UX Designers

- Extensive candidate Documentation processes and compliance implementation

Senior Talent Acquistion Advisor Aug 2019 - August 2020

Infogain, Houston, Texas Area

http://www.infogain.com/

Maintained accountability for the entire recruitment process

Interface weekly with Hiring management and other key stakeholders to ensure client satisfaction

Lead initial consultations with Hiring managers on requisition definition and potential sourcing strategies

Effectively source, identify, pre-screen and counsel internal applicants and manage applicant tracking process.

Continuously negotiate and close qualified candidates and work to drive offer acceptance

Develop expertise in understanding our clients business operations and recruitment needs from the ground up.

- Technology areas:

Software Cloud Architects (Azure)

IoT Cloud Architects (Azure)

DevOps Engineers

Big Data Engineers (Azure Data Bricks, Spark, Python, Spark SQL, BigData Pipelines)

Automation Testers

Front End UI Developers(React, Typescript, Golang and Angular)

- IoT Project:

Hired an IoT Cloud Architect for an IoT implementation project for Kohler. Project created an IoT Solution for Enabling voice-based Interactions for Kitchen and Bath products. Technologies used included Azure IoT Suite, connected Platform, Connected Products & Experiences, Consumer Goods, Azure Functions, Intelligent Apps, Amazon Alexa Integration and Azure IoT Hub

Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant, North America Feb. 2018 – August 2019

Avanade

Full life cycle Technical Recruitment of Software, Cloud Architects, and Project Managers primarily in the Microsoft Technology Stack.

Responsible for sourcing and identifying talent, prescreening all candidates, managing candidate through the entire interview process, properly dispositioning candidates in the Taleo ATS system.

Responsible for all offer negotiations, offer process creation, and offer presentation.

Interface directly with hiring managers to help make recommendations and to give weekly candidate and pipeline updates.

Perform intake session calls with hiring managers to qualify all requisitions prior to sourcing.

Manage all candidate activity and entire interview process using Taleo ATS.

Use sourcing tool including LinkedIn Recruiter, Networking, Internal Database, as well as creating and posting every job through Taleo and also on Indeed.com.

Work with multiple business teams and other Avanade employees to drive employee referrals in order to drive down fill / hiring times.

Work with outside diversity firms and advocates to promote diversity talent and Female hires as this is an ongoing campaign.

Recruit and hired IT professionals for only full time FTE positions including: .NET Software Engineers, Azure Cloud Architects, Project Managers, Group Delivery Managers, and Front End Angular2 Web Developers.

Work multiple regions simultaneous including the West Coast, Texas, Denver, and some East Coast including NYC

Build and create Candidate Pipelines of each skill area for multiple locations.

Responsible for data cleansing, and all data integrity in Taleo

Senior Corporate Technical Recruiter Sept. 2015 – Nov. 2017

Infosys

Full life cycle Technical Recruitment with the 1st internal project for the new Infosys CEO Office in Palo Alto, CA consisting of UX Designers/Interaction Designers, Senior 3D/AR Technical Artist, Visual Designers, Front End Web Architects, and Data Scientists positions.

Very in depth learning and training in the UX and Visual Design specialty areas.

The focus of my recruitment was focused on the Software Engineering and Enterprise Applications including Cloud Application Architects both Azure and AWS; Java/Microservices Architects; .NET Developers, Jira Administrators, Oracle MDM Consultants; ETRM Business Analyst Consultants; Python Programmers; WPF Developers; and Angular 2.0 web developers.

Senior Corporate Technical Recruiter- Bank of America RPO Sept. 2015 – Mar. 2016

Infosys

Lead Full Life Cycle Technical Recruiting Efforts for internal Bank of America Candidate Hiring during Phase 1 of Technical Hiring for Plano, TX Global Technology and Operations Resourcing Division of Bank of America.

Responsible for technical sourcing, Screening, recruiting, retainment, and internal hiring of strictly High-Tech Staff Employees to the Plano, TX Global Technology Hub.

Q1 Primary Technical Skill Set Disciplines recruited for include DataWarehouse Architects; Sr. Teradata Architects/Developers; ETL Developers - (Informatica) and (DataStage); ETL Tech Coordinators-Data Leads; Data Mapping Manager

Q2 Technical Skill Sets include very niche areas such Sr. Pega Technical Lead Systems Architects; Blaze Rules Engine Designer/Developer; Sr. .NET Apps Programmer w Kofax

Senior IT Recruiter Nov. 2014 – July 2015

Entelligence

Senior IT Recruiter Source, and full life cycle technical recruiting of candidates in the following skill/set disciplines: IT / Infrastructure; Enterprise Storage; Networking and Data Center Architecture Sourced and made several key hires of technical consultants including but not limited to: --Cisco Network Engineer --NetApp Storage Engineer --Network Solutions Architect (CCIE) -- Windows Systems Admin --Sr. Network Design Engineer

Senior IT Recruiter (Contract) Mar. 2013 – Aug. 2014

Chevron

Full Life Cycle Recruited for Chevron Corp, ETC, ITC in Houston and San Ramon, CA

Built individual technical candidate pipelines and utilized Job Diva internal ATS for tracking all candidate activity

Supported Chevron Houston Technology and recruited for the following positions: .NET; UX Designer; C#.NET, GIS Technician, SR. Security Consultant (PKI, Federated); I.T. Project Manager, I.T. Business Analyst positions for Chevron ITC and ETC Upstream Oil/Gas Business Units –

I.R. Advisor/Technical Recruiter - Business Office (Contract) Aug. 2012 – Feb. 2013

'Sadara Chemical Project' Aramco Services Company

Responsible for the creation, streamlining and implementation of the (EPC Phase) SMP Contractor recruitment & roll-out staff augmentation plan for Sadara Biz office

Allocated Labor fulfillment; Recruited for specific EPC Engineering roles including Project Controls Engineer; Chem Engineers, Process Automation Engineer; Olefins; EPC requisitions -Assist business process work flows; Gap Analysis; SMP Process Alignment; SMP/Labor Broker ---Services Contracts facilitation; create technical and non/tech job requisitions; monitor performance ongoing, meet and interface with multiple levels of personnel.

Technology Recruiting Consultant (PPC) Feb. 2011 – Aug. 2012

Experis IT

Operated in a full desk I.T. search/recruitment/permanent placement and partnered Account Management environment

Developed the drive to execute by providing innovative and effective Technology resource solutions to Fortune 500, mid-size and small-venture clients specializing in the Houston Market.

Recognized as the highest producer on the Houston Perm IT team for 2011 and 2012

Developed strong client relationships to accurately understand technical requirements, environment, culture, industry, and overall business needs ensuring appropriate candidates are presented

Extensive industry recruiting for Oil/Gas/Chem and related clients including Pason, CPCHEM, Nalco, Stewart&Stevenson, Atwood Oceanics, Technip

Provided Strong technical resourcing and placement acumen with experience recruiting for multiple disciplines skill-sets / Technologies Java (JDK) ; J2EE / Java EE / ; C/C++ ; PHP ; eCommerce ; SOA Architecture ; EAI ; Application Integration ; OBIEE ; B.I. ; Datawarehouse ; AIX ; Linux ; VMWare; SharePoint.NET 2010 ; Dynamics 4.0 CRM ; Knowledge Management

Some examples of Executed Direct Placements with Client and ATS listed: • Nalco Corp. – SQL Server Architect – Taleo Tracking System • Academy - Linux Engineer - Taleo Tracking System • Technip - VMware SAN Engineer • Baker Hughes – Knowledge Management Lead – Taleo System • Stewart & Stevenson - C/C++ Software Engineer • Atwood Oceanic – SAP PMO Analyst • Pason Systems – Sr. Java Engineer • Pason Offshore - Technical Lead • Pason Offshore - Manager of Software Products (EDR)

Technical Recruiting Specialist Dec. 2007 – Dec. 2009

Ajilon Consulting

Manage day to day activities of Technical Resources.

Full life cycle recruitment and placement of high- level I.T. contract and direct hire requisitions.

Business development, generating qualified leads, in-person client and candidate interviewing;

built strong vital relationships with all levels of personnel.

Technology and Engineering terminology and functionality course work and memorization.

Skilled in full life cycle of IT recruitment process and sales life cycle. Made placements onsite clients

Education

Texas State University-San Marcos

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communications

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