Resource Manager

Sanya Strawser 317-***-****

***************@*****.*** Fishers, IN - 46038

Summary

• More than 14 years of experience in managing Client Relationships, Recruitment and Training.

• Expert in full life cycle of recruiting and possess strong leadership and managerial skills.

• Excellent communication, people and computer (Hardware & Software) skills.

• Excellent ability to multitask and work well in team environment.

• Expert in sourcing and recruiting qualified candidates using every available resource, i.e. Job Boards, Networking, Search Engines, LinkedIn, Social Media etc.

• Expert in full life cycle recruiting on cleared and non-cleared positions.

• Expert in Vendor Management, Created, implemented and managed effective strategies.

Education/Certifications/Training

• MBA in Human Resources.

• Bachelors in Psychology.

• A-Level Advanced Diploma (Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications) DOEACC, Govt. of India.

• Business Professional programmer Diploma (O-level). DOEACC, Govt. of India.

• Diploma in Information Systems Management APTECH Computer education, India.

• Advanced Diploma in Adult Psychology

• Diploma in Communications & PR

• Attended seminars and workshops on HR Functions, Recruiting Techniques and Sales.

• Attended 2 days “Monster Power Recruiting Workshop” based on best recruiting practices and optimum monster usage and Attended Top Echelon Candidate prep training.

• Attended training sessions for functional SAP CRM u CIC, Internet Sales, MM.

• Attended training sessions for SAP for Market Equity & HR Master Data within a Company.

• Attended training sessions for Bulhorn and Taleo Applicant Tracking Systems.

• Attended training session for Jobvite.

Work Experience

Aprimo , a Teradata Company February ’12 – Present

Corporate Resource Manager (Contract)

• Work on Taleo ATS.

• Responsible for all Cloud Computing Services, R&D, IT and Engineering recruiting and some positions within other business units at Aprimo.

• Responsible for Client Relationships, HR and Recruiting operations within Aprimo

• Responsible for providing HR support to all relevant business units.

• Sourced candidates using Job Boards, Social Media, Jobvite etc.

• Using Jobvite to post all open positions to LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook

• Proven track record in closing positions that need aggressive sourcing effort.

• Responsibilities include full cycle recruiting desk on several positions.

• Recruiting lifecycle includes working closely with HRBP’s to get information and insight on a new position, setting up Hiring Strategy Meetings with Hiring Managers, going over details of the recruiting process, posting the positions, sourcing/recruiting, phone screening, helping the hiring managers through the selection process, interviewing the selected candidates face to face, making compensation recommendations to the Hiring Managers, working with them on verbal offers, also working closely with the HRBP’s throughout this process and keeping and open line of communication.

Aries Consultancy Services June ’11 – January ‘12

(Contract – Hands on Recruiter/Manager)

• Working for a Mid-Size consulting firm providing Recruiting support to multiple direct clients.

• Serving as a Recruiter as well as an Account Manager for the Company’s largest client.

• Ensuring all Recruiter/BDMs are on the same page and giving them reqs etc to work on daily basis. Stepping in and helping as and when required for maximum results.

• Actively recruiting on executive level positions.

• Responsible for managing Client Relationships, HR and Recruiting operations of the company including creation of hiring strategies, budgets and plans, offer packages, employment documents and vendor & services contracts.

• Responsible for training all new hires.

• Tackling through multiple requirements, delegating and providing support while Recruiting.

• Extensively using all search engines i.e. LinkedIn, Dice, Monster, Online Networking etc.

• Successfully Training and Mentoring new full-time/contract Recruiters for the client.

Roche Diagnostics. November’10 – May ’11

(Contract Recruiter through Adecco Technical Services)

• Worked extensively with SAP and Taleo.

• Responsible for Client Relationships within Roche, HR and Recruiting operations.

• Responsible for providing HR support to all business areas within Roche

• Responsible for all RDO recruiting. Business areas include Information Technology, Finance, Engineering, Manufacturing, Compliance, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, and Business Support.

• Responsibilities included full cycle recruiting desk on several positions.

• Sourced candidates using Job Boards etc

• Proven track record in closing positions that needed aggressive sourcing effort.

• Recruiting lifecycle included working closely with HRBP’s to get the position maintenance requests through SAP, setting up Hiring Strategy Meetings with Hiring Managers, going over details of the recruiting process, posting the positions, sourcing/recruiting, phone screening, helping the hiring managers through the selection process, interviewing the selected candidates face to face, making compensation recommendations to the Hiring Managers, working with them on verbal offers and then getting the written offers out along with new hire package.

• Extensive knowledge of recruiting within a regulated industry (eg: FDA)

Malektron Solutions Inc. May‘10- November’10

Recruiting & Business Management Consultant

(Contract Technical Recruiter & Manager)

• Managed Department of Homeland Security’s recruiting efforts as a recruiter.

• Managed a team of recruiters.

• Created a reporting tool which allowed all recruiting data to be collected in one place on weekly basis.

• Responsible for recruiting qualified resources for DHS and other clients like: AT&T, CITI, Daichii Sankyo Pharmaceuticals, A&P law firm, Pelican Products, EMC etc.

• Used all Job Boards and networks to recruit and submit candidates on daily basis

• Handled and closed multiple contracting requirements from the clients in a timely manner.

• Managed business relationships as liason with various clients.

• Managed full cycle recruiting for many IT & Sales positions like: IT Architect, Tibco professionals, Field Sales Consultants, Sales & pre-sales Professionals, Business & Sales Managers, Market & Business development Executive, VP’s, Delphi, Java/Websphere consultants, ETL developer, Network Engineer, C# .Net Technical lead, Storage Consultant, SAP Consultants, Senior Managers etc.

Qubic D, Inc. January ’08 – April ’10 Recruiting Manager (This was a fulltime position. The company had to temporarily shut down US operations)

• Responsible for managing the department, establishing reporting structure within the department.

• Ensuring all Recruiter/BDMs are on the same page and giving them reqs etc to work on daily basis. Stepping in and helping as and when required for maximum results.

• Responsible for managing Client Relationships, HR and Recruiting operations of the company including creation of hiring strategies, budgets and plans, offer packages, employment documents and vendor & services contracts.

• Responsible for training all new hires.

• Responsible for providing software/technical support to all employees.

• Created Recruitment Best Practices Curriculum and conducted respective Trainings.

• Created Recruiting and Business Plan, Best Recruiting Practices Training Program and worked with VP’s of the company to determine an effective Hiring and recruitment strategy aimed at reducing cost, optimum utilization of recruiting tools like job boards, targeting qualified candidates, reducing time-to-fill and identifying the most effective ways to fill requirements.

• Managed Onsite and off-shore recruiting team and visited India to create a qualified recruiters offshore team and process to support sales team in USA.

• Was Subject matter expert on compensation analysis i.e. to decide right range of salary/compensation/rates for almost every type of position.

• Managed Recruiting, Sales and Training processes.

• Responsible for hiring internal sales/solutions and services team.

• Trained sales and recruiting team on Best practices of sales, managing client relationships and recruiting.

• Conducted phone screening, candidate prep and interview debriefing for recruiters.

• Conducted Training on daily basis to teach experienced/inexperienced candidates on various important points to be considered during interviews.

Breakwater Solutions April ‘07- December ‘07

Technical Recruiter

(Contract)

• Independent, Innovative, Strategic, “Outside The Box” thinker.

• Hiring Managers approached me through referrals from previous employer.

• Responsible for Client Relationships, HR and Recruiting operations of the company

• Responsible for providing software/technical support to all employees.

• Responsibilities included full cycle recruiting desk on different perm, contract and contract to hire requirements.

• Worked on almost all types of IT requirements including – ERP (JD Edwards, SAP, Peoplesoft, Oracle applications, Siebel etc) Consultants, Internal Sales, business development, Client Relationship Management professionals, Treasury Consultants, Project Managers, Database (Sql server, oracle etc) DBA’s, Developers( java, j2ee, .net, php, c++ etc), Accounts & Sales Managers/Executives, Sales Director , Telecommunications Engineers, Communications Specialist, Software Sales & Sales support Professionals, Communications Network Managers/Engineers/Technicians, Telephony Technicians, Voice Communications Manager, Test Engineers, Training Specialists, SMEs, System Administrators (Linux, Unix, Windows etc), Network Engineers/Administrators, Security Specialists, Solution Architects, Pre Sales Engineers etc.

Responsibilities on a Multi-Million$ government project

• Recruited for a huge Top Secret Government project

• Conducted research on ‘top secret cleared and active poly type - resource management’ and trained team on the same recruiting strategies.

• Involved in full cycle hiring process of TSSCI (Top Secret Cleared professionals with access to sensitive compartmentalized information) and active Poly Technical resources (Project/Program Managers, Logisticians, Network Engineers/Administrators, Support/Security/Financial Consultants etc.) for the government project at NSA for their networks and security division.

• Recruited and Qualified resources and their completed questionnaires before sending their profiles to NGC and NSA for approval.

Prior to April 2007, I worked for several Start-ups, Mid-sized and Large consulting companies (listed below) on contract basis. Most of the contracts were short term and responsibilities and roles were similar. I worked from a remote location for most of these contracts. On occasion, I was asked to travel onsite and work out of the office for one week out of the month or on as-needed basis. I’ve had the opportunity to work for different companies and understand different structures. I’ve been able to work different markets and almost all IT positions. I’ve listed the companies below and explained my work responsibilities.

Binex Group Inc June ’06 – March ‘07

PrimeSoft Solutions, Inc. November ’05 – June ‘06

Enfonics, Inc. June ’05 – October ‘05

Altius Consulting, Inc. March ’05 – May ‘05

AltSoft, Inc. December ’04 – February ‘05

ProSoft, Inc. August’04 – November ‘04

HAS, Inc. May ’04 – August ‘04

Saf Solutions Inc. January 04 - April 04

Century Personnel Inc. Jan 03 – December 03

SM Inc. June 02 - December 02

Asset International June 96 - April 02

CONTRACT RECRUITER

(Sr. Technical Recruiter / HR Generalist)

• Provide full life cycle recruiting efforts as a staffing and consulting partner on all sorts and levels of requirements. Corporate Clients such as Comcast, Dunkin Brands, Smith & Nephew, Vfinity, GroupM, Sungard, Sheer Pharmaceuticals, Sovereign Bank, Bullhorn, Skillsoft, Sterling Commerce, AT&T, New York Life, American tower corporation, Verizon, Eli Lilly, Freddy Mac, Fannie Mae, Sallie Mae, UBS, and many mid-sized environments.

• Involved in full cycle hiring process of lot of sales professionals for various companies like Vfinity, Sterling Commerce, New York Life, Comcast etc.

• Sales positions covered during the tenure included : Lead Generation Manager, Account Executives, Sales trainer, Accounts Manager, Software Solution Sales, Tele Sales Associates, Field Sales Associates etc.

• As part of the company’s recruiting life cycle, gathering requirement, posting jobs on job boards, taking phone interview, giving brain bench tests to candidates (as & when required), Face to face interview/meeting with candidates, managing 3rd party vendors (if involved), working with client and candidate to schedule different rounds of interviews, reference or background check and “finally- what we all want, closing the deal!”.

• Worked closely with Business Development Managers to review and qualify client requirements and often communicated directly with client hiring personnel to assist in the candidate selection process.

• Maintained 100% of required company standard performance expectations for tenure.

• Trained entry level recruiter on preliminary recruiting process.

• Worked on Entire Recruitment Lifecycle (gathering requirements from Managers, posting, sourcing through different sources (Internet, Cold calling, networking, Etc), screening, interviewing, negotiating contracts/Rates/Salary/compensation, and checking references, Hiring) for their Jobs.

• Qualified candidates based upon interpersonal skills, technical requirements, salary expectations, behavioral interviewing techniques and performing comprehensive screen interviews via the phone or in-person and coordinated final interviews with appropriate Manager.

• As HR generalist, worked with immigration specialist/HR manager on visa applications and green card sponsorships.

• Had been involved in complete hiring and was responsible for many HR operations including – creating Hiring Budget & strategy, Offer packages and Employment Documents etc.

• Sole recruiter for the company to handle h1 transfer cases and to bring candidates for virtual bench i.e. the candidates to be hired fulltime by Software Pundits for our projects.

• Supported lot of Sales requirements of client: Staples.

• Recruited heavily on ERP skillset, like: - SAP, Peoplesoft, Oracle technical and Functional for all modules.

• Recruited for positions in the following skill set domain :- Java J2ee developers & architects , ERP ( SAP functional & technical u SD , MM , PP , FI/CO , BW , CRM , SCM , basis-security and abap'er , Oracle Applications, Peoplesoft techno-functional u HRMS, financials, CRM) , JD Edwards, Siebel, Business Objects, BI analyst, Oracle dba/developers, SQL server dba, Networking layer 2, layer 3, VoIP, SNMP/MIBs , Telecommunications engineers and managers, sustenance engineer, build & release engineers , C# dot net, SAS developers, Cognos, Informatica , QA and Test automation engineers, Business Analysts, Pre Sales and sales support Engineers, Project managers, data modeler and data warehousing analysts etc .

• Responsible for evaluating and analyzing compensation ranges for different skill sets in market especially IT arena.

(Responsibility as Resource Manager)

• Trained new hires on Client lead generation, recruitment and its best practices.

• Used to send some requirements to offshore team after posting the same on job boards.

• Assigning jobs to the offshore team members and explaining the details of req and helped team to handle new situations/issues on daily basis.

• Boosting team with encouragement and resolving their concerns.

• After, offshore team used to prescreen/ initial phone screen them, gather candidate details and pursue further.

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