Chris Kuehl Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

St. Louis County, Missouri, United States

United States

At Cisco, a global technology leader specializing in networking hardware, software, and telecommunications, I served as a Senior Technical Talent Advisor. My role encompassed full lifecycle hiring for Software Development and Infrastructure Engineering teams based in North America.• Lead hiring initiatives to build teams that incorporated GenAI and ML into Cisco security product offerings. • Grew in-house ‘startup’ engineering teams focusing on firewall and platform engineering. • Built technical teams around new product acquisitions. • Developed passive sourcing strategies identified niche talent utilizing Boolean searches, ATS farming and active referrals. • Guided Engineering business leaders through hiring process, influenced best practices, and coached interview teams. • Partnered with HR, Biz Ops and Total Rewards to ensure a seamless hiring experience. • Utilized data-driven insights to influence productive and OFCCP compliance hiring cycles.• Leveraged GenAI technologies for research, job postings, screening questions and interview panel education.Roles hired: AI/ML Engineering, Platform Engineering, Security (Engineering and Compliance), Data Engineering, Cloud, SRE, QE, DevOps, and Hardware. Also focused on leadership and business focused roles including Product Manager, Product Owner, and Scrum Master.Tools: LinkedIn Recruiter, LI Talent Insights, Avature, Eightfold.ai, Workday, Tableau and Hacker Rank.

United States

Cigna, a global health services company, entrusted me as a Senior Talent Advisor to help build nationally distributed teams across Technology Engineering and Data Science.• Designed and promoted an Agile-based, metrics-driven Talent Advisory team. Tracked and measured results against goals, filled talent pipelines for frequently hired roles and key technologies.• Utilized strategic consulting skills to guide hiring managers and business leaders. Shared both hard data (LinkedIn, Talent Neuron) and anecdotal evidence to persuade leaders to following TA best practices and ensure OFCCP compliance.• Collaborated with technical business stakeholders, HR, and Compensation to ensure a positive hiring experience.• Promoted staffing vendor relationships and utilized RPO/contract resources to ensure coverage during peak periods. • Completed Certified Diversity Recruiter (CDR) certification training and utilized advanced sourcing techniques to ensure diverse candidate slates and diverse interview panels.• Mentored TA employees and contract staff. • Developed passive and active sourcing strategies utilizing Boolean searches, ATS automation and pipeline development.• Provided feedback and coaching to interview panel teams to ensure a positive candidate experience.• Represented the company at educational forums, Hack-a-thons, and campus recruitment.• Identified alternate talent sources (Launch Code, Coder Girl) researched and introduced tools to support hiring initiatives.Roles hired: Software Engineering (Services, UI, UX, Platform, Cloud, Data, QA/QE, and DevOps); Security Engineering (Pen Testing, Threat and Vulnerability Management, Digital Forensics and Incident Response, Disaster Recovery); Executive Engineering Leadership (VP, SrD, Director) and Product roles including Product Manager, Product Owner, and Scrum Master.Tools: LinkedIn Recruiter, Avature, Workday, Taleo, Hacker Rank, Hire Vue, Talent Neuron and Phenom People.

Greater St. Louis Area

Express Scripts acquired by Cigna in December 2018. Responsibilities same as above.

Greater St. Louis Area

TD Ameritrade (formerly Scottrade) is a leading online brokerage firm that provides a wide range of investment and trading services to individual investors, traders, and financial advisors. As a Corporate Technical Recruiter, I was responsible for full-lifecycle recruiting for infrastructure engineering roles nationally.• Led and supported recruitment initiatives, defined sourcing strategy, and refined hiring processes.• Collaborated with business stakeholders, HR and Compensation to ensure a positive hiring experience.• Participated in Employee Resource Group programs related to internal hiring and early career employee mentoring.

Greater St. Louis Area

Bayer Crop Science and Innovation (formerly Monsanto) is a global agricultural biotechnology company known for its contributions to the development of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and crop protection products. As a Staffing Specialist, I developed and managed an IT infrastructure specific staffing program. • Achieved lower billing rates, a faster time to fill and greater vendor participation. • Expedited the hiring of highly sought after candidates and prevented shadow interviewing.• Identified and implemented process improvements and defined the metrics to measure the success.• Reduced the average time to hire from 45 to 18 days.• Reduced staffing expenditures by over $450K through rate negotiation.

Greater St. Louis Area

Sales and recruiting for select IT staffing firms in the greater St. Louis area.

Developed enterprise level supply chain applications for Anhesuer-Busch.

Ba, Computer Information Systems

Activities and Societies: AITP / President, Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity

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