Staffing/ Talent Acquisition professional with over fifteen years’ experience in full life cycle recruiting. Areas of specialty include, leadership, executive search, developing pipelines in healthcare, computer science, software engineering, data scientist, Cybersecurity, Cloud Architects, and various Intelligence fields and agencies. Relevant experience includes Metrics, Implementation and transfer of Applicant Tracking Systems, International staffing, team building and management, specialty search, resource and program management, strategy development and execution, and "high volume" corporate recruiting for various US contracts. Expert knowledge of State and Federal employment law, EEO, Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies. I am a strategic partner within the Defense Systems Sector at Leidos. I provide optimum customer service, succession planning, performance management strategies, training and possess the ability to facilitate stakeholder advocacy to achieve a business culture focused on employee relations, retention and our vision and values. Utilizing reports in workday communicate to key stakeholders Talent Acquisition recruiting statistics and metrics. I have supported many diverse programs at Leidos including programs supporting customers such as DOD, ONI, ODNI, INSCOM, NSA, NGA, CIA, DIA, and DHS. Special projects team to manage the change between Taleo and Workday. Lead Workday trainer once implementation was complete.

I supported the Aerospace and Defense Western Operations Division which included Colorado, New Mexico and southern California offices. Recruited and filled any and all new requirements for business proposal under bid and current backfill requirements, as well as supporting HR liaison functions with these offices. Managed the new implementation of recruitmax for TA.

I supported ITT IS National Strategic Technology Applications business unit as well as HQ employees located in the Colorado Springs area. I provide guidance for talent management, leadership and organizational development, as well as empower employee engagement. Recruited and filled over 100 positions in 2010. Created and trained all recruiters on the Best Athlete Recruiting process.This new process was implemented across the recruiting teams within ITT Information Systems to enable our recruiters the best possible approach for incorporating a team sharing environment as well as to enable continuity amongst the recruiting teams across the U.S. From 2006 to 2009 I supported several New Business units in Fort Sill, Oklahoma; El Paso, Texas; Omaha, Nebraska, as well as multiple sites in Colorado Springs, Co. These offices supported several DOD agencies. Interfaced regularly with these offices to enable the best communication and support for the outlying business units. Assisted business development managers within AES to select and source the most qualified candidates for multiple contracts in the areas listed above. Reviewed statements of work received from the customer to detail out job descriptions for immediate posting and recruiting. Because of the seamless transition of request for work turning in to qualified candidates the organizations I supported met, and exceeded all recruiting goals for 2008 and 2009 (91 hires for 2008 – 156 hires to date for 2009.) Highly task oriented with the ability to multi task many different aspects of recruiting and hiring.

Technical Recruiter for the Joint National Research and Development Contract at Schriever Air Force base. Deputy Site Lead for Boecore Inc, managing 9 Boecore staff on site at the JNIC.Primary contact for Staffing and Recruiting office, managing 25 separate subcontract companies that fill vacancies on the prime contract with Northrop Grumman. Communicating assignments of new job requisitions, offer, hire, and start date, in processing and out processing of all personnel across the contract. Developed relationships with hiring managers across 49 separate DOD Tasks or Projects. These relationships helped to proactively know when there was going to be movements across the contract before requisitions' were actually opened. Thus enabling a better turnaround for openings, and a better understanding of skill set needed to recruit and fill the openings.Received an outstanding on performance from the government customer for keeping the openings on the contract to within 4%.Developed Job Description samples across the contract, utilizing one format, edited and refined jobs descriptions to better target applicable candidates. Enabled employees within the contract whom were facing layoff, opportunities to stay within the contract by targeting them for other positions. This provided continuity and collaboration across the contract and throughout each area. Communicated staffing status and updates to Resource Manager through various reporting tools. These reports and matrixes were used to budget number of positions assigned to each subcontract teammate as well as the prime contract with Northrop Grumman. These budgets also communicated to our government customer when we had met our small business goals for the contract. These reports were essential in recruiting and staffing plans and assisting Task Order Leads with their groups staffing responsibilities.

Global IT Finance lead for current merger, acquisition, and divestiture projects. Developed statements of project scope. Defined project plans utilizing Microsoft Project and identified/ allocated internal project resources. Managed multiple staffing venues to find the skill sets required for projects that were not available internally. This enables quick turnaround on projects. Communicated project status, budget, and requirements to all levels of management and staff. Complete understanding of the intricate financial systems within Agilent, HP and Philips enabled a better divestiture/ or merger of the business solution.