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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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..
• 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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