Debi Birch
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Professional Experience
*/**** – Present American Express –
**/**** ******** ** ********** / Resource Manager, New Data Center Project
Special Project to Recruit, interview and hire full time and 200 Consultants for new data center program. Positions included: Data Center Leadership, , Program Project Managers, Infrastructure specialists to include server installation, network design and installation; Midrange specialists, application migration teams. Financial Analysts. Once hired, I managed monthly billings. Mapped all resources to current Program Project Plans.
8-2006 – 10/2010 American Express Technology and Finance Recruiter
The Experts @ 1st 3 months contract – converted to Full Time Employee Jan. 2, 2007.
Corporate Recruiter Supporting Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions and IT.
Consult with Hiring Leaders to create job description, salary range, and develop strategic recruitment strategies, offer and onboarding.
Sourced talent through Social media, networks, databases, professional organizations. Managed contract sourcing resource reporting directly to me.
Full cycle recruitment for Salary Exempt Information Technology, Finance, Merger & Acquisition professionals nationwide. Immigration Non US Citizen Visa processing.
Creative Sourcing Strategies include Social Media, AIRS, Networking, LinkedIn, Advanced Google Search, traditional database search. Managed Consultant and Agency partnerships. Establish pipelines for current and future open roles. Diversity recruitment; University Recruitment.
7/2006 – 8/2006 IndyMac Bank - 30 day Executive Contract Recruiter – (Spherion)
Using advanced Executive Sourcing skills - cold calling and head hunting techniques to hire at the Vice President levels and above.
Corporate Recruiter - Talent Acquisition Group - Financial Services / Credit Card
8/2005 – 7/2006 Vital Processing Services, Tempe, AZ (Contract - Bocker)
Recruiter - Information Technology, Accounting /Finance Salary Exempt, and Operations Exempt and Non Exempt. Supported Phoenix, and GA corporate offices.
Creative Sourcing Strategies. Diversity & Community Outreach- Chair.
Manage contingent staffing vendor relationships and direct hire sourcing. University Recruitment AIRS Recruitment and Diversity Sourcing Trained
11/2004 - 8/2005 Phelps Dodge Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona
Corporate Recruiter - North American Copper / Molybdenum Mining and Rod - refinery businesses. Salary Exempt Mining and Technical professionals in Arizona and Colorado Mines. Strategic sourcing.
Healthcare Rx Recruiter - Contract employee
9/2004 - 11/2004 Caremark Rx - Team builders, Phoenix, AZ
Full cycle recruitment healthcare professional's – Pharmacists.
Human Resources Recruiter- Contract Employee
1/2004 - 8/2004 Choice Hotels International Western Regional Offices
Technology - Full Cycle Recruiting – sourcing strategy to hire. Salary Exempt and Non Exempt. People soft E-Recruit Education Certificate of Completion. Career succession planning.
Area Manager and National Technology Recruiter Department of Defense Secret
5/2001 - 12/2003 Alert Staffing, LLC, Phoenix, AZ
Manager – Recruiter - Responsible for Full Cycle Recruitment. Include Strategic Sourcing. Skill testing, behavioral interview qualification, salary negotiation, benefit administration, employment offer for exempt positions. Managed Recruitment staff of 4 On-Site Branches. Manage 300 of Motorola Staffing Agency Vendor agreements- Tier 1 and Tier 2. Established Diversity Recruitment initiatives. Director - Grand Canyon Minority Economic Council - 2 Years.
Sr. Technical Recruiter
3/2000 - 4/2001 TMP Worldwide E Resourcing, Phoenix, Arizona
Responsible for full cycle recruiting for Information Technology professionals. Initial candidate sourcing through recruitment cycle - final negotiations & offer. Skill levels include Sr. Executive Search to administrative. Metrics: Recruitment Performance
1/2000 – 3/2000 Giltek Technology Recruiter Agency – Contractor
Sr. Technical Recruiter / Account Manager
3/1998 - 1/2000 Recruiter CDI Information Technology Services, Tacoma, WA and Boise, ID Technology Agency Recruiter for IT positions at top companies nationwide. Account Management of Hewlett Packard Recruitment.
Staffing Manager / Recruiting
7/1997 - 3/1998 ROBERT HALF INTERNATIONAL, Mesa, Arizona
Responsible for Recruiting Accounting candidates. Sources included: career fairs, Internet, Networking, media, educational institutions, & professional associations. Interview candidates; behavioral, skills, etc.
Education - Boise State University, Bachelors of Business Administration - Accounting