Objective

• To collaborate with middle management and executives in the capacity of a Director, Manager, or Senior Recruiter. To design, implement, and manage a recruitment business process which will yield a diverse and best-in-class candidate pool for stakeholders to consider and employ. I am available immediately for contract/consulting opportunities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. I am also considering full-time positions.
• Available to interview via phone, Skype, or WebEx initially due to extensive U.S. travel
• Client VP and C-level references available upon request

Summary

• An outgoing, professional, even-keeled, driven, and collaborative Talent Acquisition Manager/Senior Recruiter with 20 years of corporate-side, consulting, and agency-side staffing experience within the Boston marketplace
• Extensive, national following among seasoned software and related IT professionals
• A strategic HR business partner who can design and execute on recruiting strategies that yield results within a high performing, dynamic environment. A seasoned IT and Financial Services Recruiter who can identify inefficiencies within an HR business process and develop and implement solutions that increase productivity

Specialties: IT and Financial Services Recruiting, Hiring Manager Relationship Management, Data Management, Recruiting Business Process Development and Implementation, Creative Sourcing, Diversity and Inclusion Recruitment and Education, Staffing Analytics, Social Networking, Employment Branding, Executive Search, Campus Recruiting, Applicant Tracking Vendor Selection, Staffing Agency Vendor Selection and Process Management

Experience

Confidential

• Award-winning international organization focused on delivering a full suite of consulting, advisory, and human capital solutions to the technology, media, banking, and telecommunications sectors. NP Group has just started to grow their U.S. footprint.
• Employed as a Director of North America and Contract Senior IT Recruiter for four months to hire and develop an IT recruiting team for implementing RPO solutions for NP Group's client, Infosys, LLC. These RPO solutions include a blend of campaigns where 30 or more Software Engineers interview at one time as well as traditional recruitment efforts including daily sourcing and interviews with stakeholders. Their clients include Apple Computer, Goldman Sachs, and Comcast.
• Manage, coach, lead, and evaluate a team of seasoned IT Recruiters.
• Conduct candidate sourcing and screening of Senior JAVA and Microsoft .NET Engineers for client and manage full-life recruitment process.
• Meet with stakeholders to conduct client intake sessions and set parameters for RPO campaign, reporting, and on-boarding. Report on candidate activity on a weekly basis.
• Results: Employed 15 candidates to date with anticipation of hiring 40 candidates in January and 40 in February based on current applicant flow.

Confidential

Contractor, Senior Technical Recruiter

• Short term assignment to help client attract highly skilled and experienced Principle and Senior C Desktop Development Engineers, GIS Geographic Information System Engineers, UI Developers WPF , and MS SQL Database ADO.NET Developers
• Leveraged my 20 years of IT recruiting experience and national IT network in developing a pool of highly qualified and seasoned Engineers - all having some exposure or experience in C , ADO.NET, WPF, WCF, SQL, Infragistics, GIS, and related Microsoft stack development tools.
• Managed full-life cycle recruiting process from requisition approval through interview process.

IT Environment: C , GIS, WPF Windows Platform Foundation , WCF, MS SQL, ADO.NET, Silverlight, Infagistics NetAdvantage Suite, XMAL, MVVM, OOP, T-SQL, Prism, MEF

Confidential

• Lead Technical Recruiter Consultant responsible for Cengage's Global Product Technology staffing in four states Massachusetts, California, Michigan, and New York
• Collaborated with CIO and IT hiring managers in recruiting and facilitating the hire of JavaScript angular.js, backbone.js, Node.js , J2EE, and C .NET, and SQL database developers. Collaborated with leaders of Infrastructure in recruiting and facilitating the hire of cloud computing, desktop support, telecommunication, and network engineers
• Worked among a team of experienced HR professionals including Compensation, HR Generalists, and Benefit Administrators to provide the business stakeholders a transparent, highly functioning, and results driven human resource department
• Facilitated the hire of 36 information technology JAVA and UI Angular Engineers within 16 weeks

IT Environment: JAVA, Hibernate, JavaScript backbone.js, angular.js, angular.js , SQL, Mongo DB, NoSql, Could Technologies AWS, Rackspace, Google Cloud, Citrix XEN

Confidential

• Boston Financial offers consultative expertise and industry-leading investor services.
• Contractor Talent Acquisition, all disciplines
• Information Technology/Product Development/Business Operations, Investment Services, Legal, Audit, Finance, and Compliance
• Sole Recruiter Consultant for all home office staffing needs for this 40 year old investment transfer agency/record keeper
• Collaborate with CIO, VP of Product and Operations, and VP of E-Business to recruit and develop a diverse candidate pool of talent and to acquire highly sought after Sales, Information Technology, Investment Researchers, Social Media Consultants, Systems and Application/WEB Engineers, IT Project Managers, and IT Business Analysts.

IT Environment: JAVA, JSF, Eclipse, Liferay Portal, Hibernate, MyBatis, Velocity Templates, JDOCS, JUNIT, SQL, SEO, Social Media talent

Confidential

• Self-employed as an Executive Recruiter and Contract IT Recruiter/Consultant within the information technology, P C insurance, and asset management industries.
• Senior Consultant and Owner of Staffing Agency
• Conducted and managed executive search and placement of highly sought after information technology and commercial line/inland marine underwriting talent within the insurance industry

IT Environment: Classic ASP VB 6.0 C , COM/DCOM, SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Office 365, Exchange, Lync Server, Windows 2008/2003 Server, VM Ware, JAVA, IBM stack environments

Confidential

Based in Boston, CSN Stores began in 2002 and has grown rapidly into a Top 3 online U.S. retailer of home and office goods with 600 employees.

Consultant - Senior IT Recruiter

• Collaborated with CSN founder and IT Vice President to recruit Senior Internet Developers and Infrastructure Engineers for this 350M on-line retailer
• Facilitated the interview process and recruited over 30 Senior Internet Developers/Infrastructure Engineers

IT Environment: Classic ASP VB 6.0 SQL Server 2008, JavaScript, FreeBSD, PHP, Lighttpd web server

Confidential

Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation has provided automobile insurance to New England drivers for nearly 25 years.

Consultant - Senior IT and Insurance Recruiter

• Collaborated with Senior Plymouth Rock Assurance's PRAC full time Recruiter and Director of HR in acquiring Software Architects, JAVA Developers, Data Architects, and insurance Business Analysts for PRAC's e-commerce IT business initiatives
• Assisted in the recruitment of executive talent including a CUO and other C level talent

IT Environment: J2EE JSP, SOA, Mule ESB, SOAP, RESTful, Websphere, MQ Series, Oracle, DB2, SQL, BI

Confidential

Consultant - Senior IT Recruiter

Collaborated with TriZetto middle and executive management team to define national information technology staffing needs, recruitment strategy, and to implement a consistent and transparent recruitment process across U.S. operation 5 remote offices

IT Environment: C J2EE JSP, JSF JBOS .NET COM/DCOM

Confidential

Consultant - Senior Insurance Recruiter - Inland Ocean Marine Underwriting Through Veritude, Boston, MA

• Managed full life recruiting process for Hanover's fastest growing line of business, Inland Marine Insurance Specialty
• Implemented national talent acquisition strategy and process that resulted in the hire of several, hard-to-find, Senior Inland and Ocean Marine Underwriters and Service Technicians

Confidential

Consultant - Senior IT Recruiter Position through Ajilon Consulting, New York, NY

• Managed full life cycle IT talent acquisition for TF Corporate, Investment Banking Investment Management TF Global Sales, Marketing Service and TF Equity, Fixed Income Retail Wealth Management units
• Partnered with Thomson executive management to define human capital needs and to implement talent acquisition program to achieve hiring goals

IT Environment: Oracle Sybase MS SQL Server .NET C J2EE JSP, JSF JBOS

Confidential

Consultant - Senior Investments/Operations Recruiter

• Along with a team of staffing professionals, managed front, middle, and back office recruitment and HR operations for this 2.8 billion dollar asset management firm
• Facilitated hiring of experienced investment talent such as: Project/Program/Portfolio Managers, Business Analysts, Transfer Agency/Mutual Fund Administration Specialists, and Wholesalers Licensed Series 6, 7, 63 talent

IT Environment: J2EE Websphere, Hibernate, JSP, JSF, Oracle 9i/10g

Confidential

On-site Client Consultant - Senior IT Recruiter Confidential

With over 1.4 trillion in assets under administration, Investors Bank serves some of the most prestigious investment management firms in the world. Confidential

• OneBeacon is a multi-billion dollar property and casualty insurance company and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of White Mountains Financial Services.
• Managed full life cycle staffing for these multi-billion dollar under asset financial service firms
• Collaborated with Senior Officers to build productive business partnerships
• Reported hiring statistics, EEO, time and cost per hire, and other recruitment related data to senior management

IT Environment: MS SQL Server J2EE Oracle 9i/10g

Confidential

Full Time - Senior IT Recruiter

Led full-life cycle IT recruitment for this student loan servicing company

IT Environment: J2EE Websphere, Hibernate, JSP, JSF, Oracle 9i/10g

Confidential

Full Time - Senior Recruiting Consultant US Operations and IT

• Led IT and life insurance operation recruiting for this multi-billion dollar financial services organization
• Collaborated with executive leaders to design and implement company's strategic sourcing strategy including its diversity in recruitment strategy
• Contributed to the building of a 130 person information technology development office in Tampa, Fl which led to a significant decrease in cost per hire
• Sourced active and passive talent through database marketing techniques, internet recruiting, and traditional newspaper/radio advertisement
• Built relationships with college career centers and students throughout New England and Ireland
• Developed and implemented preferred vendor program and managed HR vendor relations
• Reported hiring statistics, budget projections, salary surveys, EEO-related data, benefits administration, and employment law related topics to executive committee
• Managed an international college internship program via the University College Cork UCC in Cork, Ireland. Recruited and hired 3rd year college software engineering students for summertime internships programs at John Hancock in Boston.
• Managed all campus recruiting for John Hancock. Recruitment included on-campus recruiting events, collaborating with collage career center staff and Deans of Engineering Schools.

IT Environment: J2EE Oracle 9i MS SQL Server Informatica MF COBOL COBOL

Confidential

Full Time - Insurance and IT Recruiting Manager

• Designed and implemented all talent acquisition policies and procedures for startup insurance operation
• Directed company-wide recruitment function for insurance sales/product distribution and IT operation
• Designed and implemented a diverse and national recruitment sourcing strategy that resulted in hiring over 500 people in 3 years
• Managed new hire orientation and two Recruiters
• Facilitated several company-wide human resource events

IT Environment: JAVA Cold Fusion MS SQL Server Oracle Crystal Reports, on-site data farm