Southwest Region Talent Acquisition

WILLIAM LEWIS

512-***-**** (c) •*******@*****.***

Recruiting professional with extensive experience in both professional and college recruiting. Demonstrated adaptability to deliver success in matrixed and multi-site environments. Deep expertise in experienced hire, campus, military, and event recruiting. Industry experience includes Consulting, SaaS, Utilities, Technology, and Manufacturing. I enjoy being part of a team that delivers exceptional results.

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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Volkert, Inc.

Contract Recruiter present

Volkert is a leading 100-year-old Civil Engineering Firm. A nationally respected AEC company that offers a full range of design- planning, engineering, and construction services to both public and private clients across a broad spectrum of industries and geographies. Commander Naval Installations Command, Southwest Region 2023 – 2024 Region Leader, Southwest Region (1 year Contract) Home (navy.mil)

• Lead a regional recruiting team of 4. The region is responsible for Colorado, California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.

• Led recruiting efforts for Civil Service positions the southwest region

• Responsible for establishing recruiting Go To Market Plans, and attraction strategy

• Create meaningful relationships with both the Business Leaders, and Human Resource Leaders

• Establishing University recruiting events, and Military events with Transition Assistance Programs

• Branding

• Position alignment according to the Naval Installations Command guidelines

• Report out metrics

• Lead regional meetings

Itron Inc., Austin Texas 2022-2023

Americas Manager, Talent Acquisition & Compliance

Lead a multisite regional recruiting team of 8. The company has 5,900 global employees and is a leader in the Energy, Water, and Gas Utilities space. Responsible for engaging, attracting and assessing talent for sales, services, engineering, manufacturing, and field support hiring.

• Player/coach

• Establish, define, and train recruitment team on standard processes

• Reported metrics on a standard cadence to help measure efficiency

• Tracked and reported key performance indicators (KPIs) for recruitment team

• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (state and federal) for best hiring practices

• Partner closely with hiring managers to ensure achievement of business goals

• University Recruiting

• Diversity recruiting and reporting in concert with college recruiting

• Conduct New Employee Orientation

• Budget management for recruitment support programs and vendors Accenture, Austin Texas 2019-2022

Lead

Led a team of remote recruiters responsible for Accenture Technology Advisory, within the Strategy and Consulting vertical. Responsible for nationwide recruiting demand while maintaining delivery of candidates in multiple business areas. Manage relationships with key executive stakeholders, Practice Leads, Managing Directors, and specialty area leaders. Microsoft Corporation, Austin Texas 2017-2019

Senior Recruiter- Engineering

This recruiting was executed with a lens for diversity Software Engineers. Supporting the newly released TEAMS, software development, distributed systems engineering and cloud engineering across AZURE, Xbox Mixer Live, Visual Studio, Corporate Systems Engineering, Supply Chain, and Microsoft eCommerce. Position location responsibility for Raleigh, North Carolina, San Francisco, California and Redmond, Washington PROS, Inc., Austin Texas 2014-2017

Recruiting Manager

A pricing Software as a Service company. PROS is the largest publicly traded Cloud and SaaS company Headquartered in Houston Texas. The company specializes in B2B Pricing & Airline Revenue Management. Based in the Austin Texas office, This was a coach/player role.

• Redefined and led the Intern and full time Campus hiring practice.

• Manage a team of remote recruiters, Corporate based coordinators, and multi site office recruitment

• 50% Travel

• Roles included; Professional Services, Sales, Pricing, Software Development, Operations Research, and, G&A

• Designed and partnered with the Business to launch PROS Finance Leadership Development Program (LDP), for new graduates

• Awarded as a team the Service VIP award for Recruiting Contributions

• Budget management for all recruitment support programs and vendors, immigration filing, Glassdoor, LinkedIn, and Contingent Partner Staffing

• Manage, new hire orientation

DELL, Inc., Round Rock, TX 2004-2013

SR. Program Manager University & Diversity Relations Partnered with Software Engineering, Supply Chain Design & Procurement teams to identify next generation talent in all areas, drive college relations for enterprise-wide service operations that include Software Marketing, Electrical Engineering & Supply Chain, [>20K employees], Developed strategies to expand access to targeted candidates through national/regional conferences, alliance building with Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Colleges & employee referrals

• Designed first of it’s kind Dell University Relations and Diversity Networking event with University of Texas McCombs Business School and Cockrell Engineering

• Initiated the design of the Supply Chain Operations rotation program

• Diversity Recruiting Conference strategy

• 50% Travel

• Budget Management

DELL, Inc., Austin, TX 2004-2009

Recruiting Manager, Talent Acquisition, Dell Professional Services Started as contract Recruiter and prompted twice to become Manager. Managed full-time recruiters and Contract Recruiters to devise/implement first comprehensive recruitment strategies, SLAs & procedures for LOBs with >7K employees & $6B in revenues that included Procurement, SaaS, Service Delivery, Services Supply Chain, Server Support & High Volume Technical Call Center Support. Planned/drove recruiting initiative to build foundation for National Technical Account Manager Teams

• Led re-leveling job architecture initiative with Compensation to align Field Consultant pay with market based pay, resulting in >80 new hires in ~30% shorter cycle time

• Implemented previously nonexistent hiring & retention bonuses for new hires requiring security clearances, enabling Dell Services to achieve 80% accept ratio

• Selected to lead project team of 5 in analyzing use of consultants & contractors and recommending cost containment strategies, resulting in savings of >$300K/year in agency spend

• Worked with the Office of the Ombudsman to identify disparate impact cases and scenarios Dell, Inc., Austin, Tx 2002-2004

Contract Recruiter, World Wide IT

Hired by Spherion Technology to recruit niche technical talent to support Dell’s IT organization in their build out of newly-released Microsoft .Net framework software & C# programming language MILITARY EXPERIENCE

1St Cav Division, Texas Army National Guard

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX CERTIFICATIONS/ADDITIONAL TRAINING

LinkedIn Professional Recruiter• Social Recruiting• Brand Certified [Dell] • Dale Carnegie Leadership & Effective Speaking Courses • Social Media & Communities SMaC [Dell] • Project Management • Strategic Agility • Lessons in Leadership • Behavioral Based Interviewing • Advanced Internet Recruiting

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PROFESSIONAL/SOCIAL AFFILIATIONS

Knolls of Slaughter Creek HOA At Large Board Member (past) Youth Girl Volunteer Basketball Coach & Youth 7 on 7 Coach Member, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity Ex Presidents Alumni Association

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