Manager Human Resources
Resume:
HERMANN KEPFER
LOS ANGELES, CA *****
******.**********@*****.***
SUMMARY
Fifteen (15) years plus of diversified Recruiting accomplishments for employers, clients & candidates at all organizational levels in numerous occupational designations and across broad industry lines.
Specific recruiting accomplishments include Executive, Managerial, Technical, Project Management, MFG Engineering, Sales, Administrative, Clerical classifications & Fed. Gov’t Full poly clearance skill sets.
Core skill set / passion remains Technical Recruiting that has evolved to Generalist Recruiting & Human Resources consultancy & practice.
Competencies for Industry practices encompass sourcing, screening, interviewing, testing, background investigations, recruitment strategies, fee negotiations, and networking phone calls, organizational design, change management, communications and coordination of recruiting activities up to securement of on-boarding of new hires and labor law compliance.
Sr. Technical Recruiter profile includes:
• Noted for consultative recruiting with Hiring Managers, HR Personnel, candidates & colleagues
• Technical recruiting practices include: .Net / Windows, Java Windows / UNIX / Linux, Open Source, inclusive of ERP (PeopleSoft Oracle, Lawson, JD Edwards), MRP, BI & HRIS technologies; Systems Administration, Infrastructure development, maintenance, and SLA processes
• Key accomplishments in high volume recruiting: New Grads & Live Support Systems Engineers
• Computer literate: Boolean Logic, Outlook, Lotus Notes, MS Office, various ATS’, Windows & MAC proficient
• Linked-in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermannkepfer -developed & maintain a network of contacts & community resources for recruitment of diversified & available Human Capital talent
• Human Resources Management Certified (HRMC) –Labor Law compliance, HR best practices
• Bilingual: Fully Spanish fluent
• Subject matter expertise & Industry practices listed at end of resume
KEPFER CONSULTING INC. Southern California 2005-present
Technical Recruiter
Resume length economy, nondisclosure agreements (NDA), periods of assignment overlap, business development, candidate marketing, plus work effort for organization of business incorporation: not all work assignments are listed on resume; operated as “does business as”, “dba”, since 2005, incorporated August, 2010.
• Conduct a wide array of management services for diverse clients primarily relating to Recruitment assignments, Organizational Design and general hiring consulting
• Completed well over 950 + placements for such critical classifications as IT professionals, Finance, Accounting, sales & marketing, Mfg'ing and production Engineers, Office management and clerical positions
• Organizational Design expertise includes development, control & maintenance of org chart; development of succession planning and cross training strategies in alignment with corporate vision / retention strategies
• Significant experience working with & within HR Departments / HR Partners
CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT (NDA), Southern California 8-2009 to 2-2010
Hiring Processes / Recruiting Consultant 4-2008 to 2-2009
For a NDA government agency client contracted twice to significantly enhance (create) an existing recruiting program to execute to new increased standards of production via proven Recruiting methodologies: analyzed processes and provided recommendations for effective use of Microsoft Office & Applicant Tracking
• Attained additional experienced in training of four new recruiters in accordance with Agency policies
• Reported to HR Director and later, in-house Counsel
CST, KAVLICO, Moorpark CA, 2007 to 2008
Sr. Contract Recruiter
Interacted with all levels of management for Aerospace, Transportation & Industrial divisions of this EU company
Recruited / placed for the following: Engineers (ME, EE, AE, Project, New Grads), Program & Project managers, Sr. Financial Analysts, Lotus Notes Admin Developers, Business Intelligence Admin Developers, Director of Operations, Materials Manager, R&D Engineering Manager, Components Buyer & HRIS Analysts
• Exercised expertise regarding SDLC, ERP & MRP technologies
• As assigned, functioned as HR Partner
AVEEVA CORPORATION, Fremont CA, 2007 to 2007
Sr. SAP Recruiter
Recruited contract, contract-to-hire & FTE ERP/SAP professionals for positions Pharmaceutical, Entertainment, & Mass Market Distribution clients
MARSHALL & SWIFT, MDA, Los Angeles, CA, 2006 to 2007
Sr. Corporate Recruiter
Recruited Executive, Technical, IT Product, Finance & Accounting, & Construction / Appraisal Industry professionals: C, C#, JAVA, ASP. Net, SQL Server, COBOL, & IT Product Business Analyst positions, inclusive of vendor (external recruiters) management
COUNTRYWIDE FUNDING CORP, Malibu Hills, CA, 2005 to 2006
HR Consultant / Corporate Recruiter
Interacted with all levels of management
Managed, guided, & facilitated hiring process of Countrywide's "SMART" Peoplesoft/Oracle Enterprise implementation
Required to execute ERP SME (Subject Matter Expertise)
Consulted with all levels of hiring managers for position description definitions, needs analysis & recruiting; Interviewed candidates for SME & cultural fit
Coordinated hire of 60 + individuals inclusive of H1 hires & transfers
• Managed / recruited for up to 80+ open new hire requisitions, inclusive of vendor (external recruiters) management
PROSUM RMG, El Segundo, CA 2003 to 2005
Account Manager / Sr. Recruiter
Engaged for new business development: search fee, contract bill rate, insurance & master client agreements
SOURCE EDP/ KFORCE, Sherman Oaks, CA 1998 to 2003
Account Manager / Sr. Recruiter
Established & grew network of highly skilled IT professionals as per client needs for 3 southern California offices
Directly Interviewed or managed interviews of over 5000+ candidates: primarily in technical, IT/IS, WWW, ERP/MRP, finance, accounting and administrative positions
Selected and noted as new hire mentor –experience in training new recruiters
• KFORCE 2001 / 2002 Silver award winner
RECRUITING SUBJECT MATTER PRACTICES
• Windows (all versions) UNIX, SOLARIS, LINUX, MACOS 10.X
• . NET (C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL SERVER, LINQ, T-SQL, JQuery) JAVA / J2EE, C, C++, VC, VB, VBA
• ERP/MRP SAP, PEOPLESOFT / ORACLE (PL/SQL) JD EDWARDS, LAWSON
• Open source (PHP, MYSQL, HTML, XML, PERL)
• Methodologies: OO, Waterfall, Agile
• COBOL & other mainframe skill sets
• DBMS: design, dev, prod, test, Dev Admin & Production DBA & Hot Engineering
• SME’s, Business Analysts, IT Product Analysts
• Live Applications Support Engineers, SQL scripting
• WWW: look & feel, Information Navigation: Web design, GUI dev., production, testing, and QA inclusive of website performance metrics
• Change Management: Corporate Training & Communications skill sets, IT/IS auditors
• HRIS Analysts / Developers
• Finance & Accounting: Controllers, F&A Personnel & Contractors at all levels
• HR Directors, HR managers, Talent Managers, Recruiters, ER, Comp & HR partners
• Executive Assistants, Receptionists & Special projects personnel
• CFO, CIO, CTO, COO, Corporate Counsel, Corporate Recruiters
• Program Management: PMO, Program, Project Managers, Engineers & Coordinators
• Engineers (ME, EE, AE) PHD’S, MS & BS & MFG Engineers
• New College Grads
INDUSTRY PRACTICES
• Insurance / CRM
• Finance / Banking / ERP / Accounting
• Internet / Software Dev / eCommerce / Science
• Engineering / Electronics Components Manufacturing / MRP / Supply Chain
• Transportation
• Telecommunications / Wireless / Cable
• Entertainment
• Construction / Real Estate Appraisal
• Manufacturing / ERP / MRP
• IT / Medical IT / IT Hardware / IS / MIS / PMO
• IT Security / IT Administration / Storage Management
• Federal Government -Security clearance positions
• US Federal, California State / LA County Government
• Gaming –serviced 1 local client
EDUCATION:
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, Westchester, CA,
Certificate in Human Resources Management, 2010
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, UCLA, Westwood, CA,
BA Economics, 1982
LEADERSHIP:
Twice UCLA Alumni Association Chairman for Community College Scholarships
-Lifetime member
Sixteen year Martial Artist: 1st Dan; retired 2005
Linked-In user -noted as within group of first 300k member users
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