Technical Recruiter

ARAVINDAN THIRUMALAISAMY

**A Avenue B,

Lodi, NJ 07644

Objective

Senior Recruiter/Talent Acquisition Professional with a proven track record of success in public and commercial accounts seeking a growing company requiring a specialist in Information Technology or Enterprise Resource Planning

Professional Summary

Over ten years of Information Technology experience encompassing talent acquisition (consulting and permanent placements), account management/sales, and resource management.

• Expertise in Federal and State hiring,

• Skilled in fulfilling client requirements in the Financial Services Industry – FSI (ING, Federal Reserve Bank of NY, SwissRe), Pharmaceutical (Eisai, PDI), Media/Publishing (McGraw Hill, GroupM, Getty Images), Healthcare (HIP of NY) and Manufacturing (Coach, Estee Lauder) and Distribution.

• Knowledgeable of” Application Development (.NET, J2EE, C/C++, Web), Infrastructure (Citrix, Cisco, Microsoft Servers, UNIX), ERP (PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards), Security (Check Point, Pix) and Desktop Support (Helpdesk to 3rd level support) and Mainframe (COBOL, DB2) technologies

• Successfully placed professional at all levels from CTO’s/Directors to Help Desk/ Support

Professional Experience

Gotham Technology Group, Montvale NJ Jul 07 – Present

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Technology consulting firm with world-class practices in Access Management, Application Development, Information Security, Infrastructure and Staffing. Focused on full life cycle consulting and direct hire IT recruiting.

• Established and maintained strong relationships with practice managers/sales team while working on filling their high profile staffing and technical requirements

• Actively sourced and identified qualified candidates through a variety of recruitment techniques including cold calling, internet research and sourcing, industry networking, and internet job boards to support a strong and qualified pipeline of candidates

• Conducted in-person interviews, assessed candidates technical background, administered technical assessment test, and strategically matched/placed candidates with open positions

• Successfully achieved team (11) and individual (2) placement goal for every month

• Networked with product specialists within IT including Check Point, Cisco, Citrix, EMC, RSA, VMware, WYSE

• Led post interview debriefings to establish and perform appropriate next actions and communications

• Utilized various development and IT groups on LinkedIn for networking

• Generated leads for the sales team on a regular basis to establish new business relationship

• Multitasked and recruited for several positions at one time; efficiently filled openings in a timely manner while meeting deadlines

Excel Partner Ltd. Montvale NJ Mar 07 – Jun 07

Sr. Technical Recruiter - ERP

Responsible for direct full time permanent placements, specializing in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for the recruitment of Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and JDEdwards professionals.

• Full life cycle experience in Technical Recruiting for major Fortune 500 and IT consulting firms specializing in ERP (SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft) solutions.

• Recruited SAP/PeopleSoft Technical and Functional Consultants for nationwide practice, placed/filled 3 positions

• Performed complete sourcing and qualifying of candidates for mid to senior level positions involving Architecture, N-Tier, Development, Implementation, Integration, and configuration.

• Negotiated and closed deals with customers and consultants.

Computech Resources International Inc. NJ Aug 02 – Feb 07

Sr. Technical Recruiter

• Sourced new candidates, managed internal resources, tested/evaluated skill sets, presented candidates to client, prepared the candidates and scheduled interviews.

• Responsible for the complete recruiting process for the State and City of NY from Technical analysis to reference checks including NYS OTDA, OCFS, DOH, DOL, DCS, and OMR.

• Extensively worked on recruiting Security (Secret/Top Secret) cleared candidates for US ARMY/INSCOM, DoD, Navy, ANTEON.

• Sourced/recruited for Project Managers, Systems Engineers, Network Engineers, Database Administrators, Software Engineers, and Technical Writers/Editors.

Professional Access Ltd., NY Dec 98 – May 02

Technical Recruiter/Business Development

• Achieved maximum target in filling open positions with direct clients and through blanket vendors using available technical resources.

• Worked closely with Clients to meet their sourcing requirements including Citigroup, American Airlines, Bank of New York, EDS, Goldman Sachs.

• Conducted searches per client specification utilizing internal database and client/candidate network referral and placed entry-level to upper-management level IT professionals.

• Interviewed and hired candidates for project teams, successfully placed long and short -term contractual assignments in client/web server technologies.

Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oregon, OR Mar 98 – Dec 98

Programmer Analyst

The main objective of the CAS system was to make the system Year 2000 compliant. This involved analyzing the impact of date variables across the system using menu options XREF and the year 2000 tools, preparing the impact analysis report.

• Responsible for testing all the remediated batch jobs with CASH, CASG and CASL files in test region to make sure that the functionality is intact before, during and after year 2000 changes.

• Designed and developed an interactive JCL builder application in REXX for the team.

Fleet Technology Solutions, RI Oct 97 – Feb 98

Programmer Analyst

The project involved detail analysis of all the date fields used in Investment division. The date fields had to be traced for input fields, checked for year 2000 compliance and documented. New Trancentury logic was also used for all date manipulations in Cobol/MVS and to include century bytes in the existing date fields.

• Performed testing, wherein Hourglass Techniques was used in the testing environment for the date fields in Cobol/MVS.

• Designed and developed interactive JCLs

Pentafour Software Solutions Inc., CA Nov 94 – Sep 97

Programmer Analyst

As a team member participated in the implementation of the Integrated Human Resource Software. Activities included installation of the product for testing and production. Worked on JCL modifications, job scheduling, system testing for production and test environment.

Square D Software, India Feb 94 – Oct 94

Senior CAD Engineer

4DFX Consultants, India May 93 – Jun 94

CAD Engineer

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, University of Madras, India

Training

Attended 2-day recruiter marathon by Morgan Consulting

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