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Lead daily operations of Physician Sourcing Specialist team, recruit Physician Advisors, manage GME Strategies and oversee retained, contingent and locum tenens firms for the enterprise.

Recruiting top academic and clinical physicians for the leading academic institution in the Southwest.

Identify, qualify and provide physician and Advance Practice Provider candidates for 67 hospitals and 200+ private practices by utilizing internal and external candidate management databases (RMS) as well as social media tools to ensure provider staffing levels and recruitment goals.Recommended qualified physicians to hospital, practice and/or C-suite executives for employed and relocation opportunities. Oversee screening, interviewing and processing of candidates to assess strength of qualifications and training against job requirements resulting in contract offers with negotiated terms for physician and APP candidates.I currently oversee enterprise-wide search for General Surgery, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Neurological Surgery, Cardiothoracic, Cardiovascular and Vascular Surgery physicians. Previous specialties include Obstetrics & Gynecology, Gynecology Oncology, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Anesthesiology, Radiology, Radiology Oncology, Pulmonology Critical Care and Dermatology.

Identify decision-makers and develop relationships with “C-level” healthcare executives to acquire new business agreements for retained physician recruitment searches.Utilized excellent written and verbal communication skills to gain access and build rapport with hospital administration, group administrators and/or senior partners within rural territory to effectively present information and respond to questions accurately using a variety of venues including cold-calling, webinars and face-to-face meetings.

Acquired new business by identifying, developing and maintaining a network of relationships for new mortgage lending and refinance opportunities consisting of Realtors, builders and personal contacts.Provide exceptional customer service by putting forth a comprehensive knowledge of complex banking products such as community lending programs utilizing down payment, closing cost and first-time home-buyers assistance programs while maintaining a strong commitment to professional ethics.Profile prospective borrowers and analyze financial/credit data to determine financing options and counsel customers of the appropriate product and pricing.Manage and track customer sales data using CRM database software.

Met and exceeded sales objectives increasing specialty sales (26%) and margin (3.8%) on overall store sales of $19,000,000 by effectively managing Sales Specialist and driving corporate merchandising standards.Increased per ticket average over 10% by building and maintaining rapport with key customers and identified new customer opportunities while experiencing a 13% reduction in traffic due to a market incursion in a “highly challenging” location.Responsible for interviewing, selecting, training, developing, mentoring, supervision and performance reviews of 15 Sales Specialist and 100+ store personnel.

Sold, planned and managed implementation of asset tracking system at a Dallas-area audio/visual company. The project was designed to improve customer service, business processes/rules and provided quicker, more consistent customer implementations while tracking company inventory.Created the business plan, conducted interviews with customer team to analyze business problems, perform needs analysis, define business requirements, determine necessary system enhancements, provide guidance and set expectations for business objectives and reported milestones to customer.

Managed the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner -- Hosting and Application Services program through a series of structured business and architectural consulting sessions with internal and external constituencies (up to and including the Director-level) to ensure the company’s business model and applications were ready for service-based delivery.Created and administered project plans and schedules for new product development, enhancements and maintenance projects for Application Center 2000, Commerce Server 2000, BizTalk Server 2000 and Oracle product releases and trained the sales, marketing, support and engineering departments.Conducted presentations/meetings involving management from business units, strategic partners, third-party service providers and major vendors to promote the decision-making processes including strategic/tactical planning of the product roadmap and subsequent allocation of technical resources.Defined and reported monthly metrics against development costs, employee utilization, forecasting and process cycle times to department directors and other senior-level managers.Audited the company software licenses to ensure compliance with intellectual property licensing agreements and built a database to track software assets. Ensured and managed pre-release access to beta products and technologies from enterprise partners (Microsoft and Compaq).Conducted project resource performance reviews.