CERTUS SOLUTIONS is a full service IT staffing, contract, and direct hire agency located in Tulsa Oklahoma. Certus Solutions will focus on delivering specialized technical skills across all technology platforms, and across all industry verticals. The initial service offerings of Certus Solutions, will be delivered with known clients in the Oklahoma area and in surrounding states. After 40 years working in this field and in this area, the Principal of Certus Solutions has an extensive network of previous employees and consultants, some of which are now engaged in IT management roles within their current employers. Certus Solutions, "The Right Choice..................For All of Your Staffing Needs!"

At Stonebridge I performed a number of roles. I manage the ADS organization which includes development related project work in .Net (web and windows projects), workflow and electronic forms projects, Sharepoint customization projects, and I resource strategic projects managed by our clients. I am also responsible for most of our Microsoft related technology recruiting, screening, and hiring processes. I manage the programatic relationship between Stonebridge and Microsoft, to insure our contiuned compliance with and adherance to the requirements for continued Gold Competency in the Microsoft Partner Network, and am responsible to make sure we continue re-certifying on an annual basis in our four Gold Competencies of Business Intelligence, Content Management, Portals and Collaboration, and Software Development.

* Responsibility for growing this IT solutions and consulting company and day-to-day management of the P&L, the sales staff and the recruiting staff. * Turned this company into a Managed Microsoft Gold Partner and aligned tightly with Microsoft on its account development activities in Oklahoma. Delivered services and project implementation consultants to corporate and small and medium business clients. Achieved five (5) areas of Microsoft Competency, and managed our Microsoft partner relationship.* Responsible for selling project and staff leasing services to a region inclusive of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky and Texas. This office averaged between $2.5 and $3.5 million dollars in annual revenue.* Responsible for client prospecting, RFP’s, project work and IT services sales and marketing.* Responsible for client contract negotiations.* Acquisition, delivery and management of technical personnel to staff contracts to these clients.* Acquisition, training and management of recruiting, sales and administrative people to staff and support this office.* Complete profit and loss, budgetary/forecasting and financial responsibilities.

* Responsible for start up from scratch of regional office to continue provision of services to a region inclusive of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas. * Responsible for client prospecting, RFP's, project work and services marketing.* Responsible for client contract negotiations.* Acquisition, delivery and management of technical personnel.* Acquisition, training and management of recruiting, sales and administrative people to staff and support this regional office.* Complete profit and loss, budgetary/forecasting and financial responsibilities for an annual P&L of $3-4 million.

* Responsible for establishment and operation of an internal full charge bookkeeping and payroll operation to handle all accounting, P&L, G/L, P/R and personnel administration for the company.* Continued responsibility for internal recruiting organization.* Continued responsibility for sales, marketing and employee management at various MTW clients.* Continued responsibility for prospecting, contract negotiations and acquiring new clients.* Complete budgetary and profit and loss responsibility.

* MTWC became a stand-alone 5 office region during this period and I purchased an eequity position in this $5 million dollar P&L.* Responsible for screening, hiring, and training of recruiting staff.* Responsible for hiring technical personnel for all client project requirements across company.* Conducted daily training seminars on recruiting techniques.* Interface between marketing and recruiting on all openings and candidates.* Continuing responsibility for marketing and employee management at MTW's second largest client.

REGIONAL MANAGER* Responsible for all sales, marketing and business development activities in an eight state geographic region controlled from Kansas City, MO.* Responsible for client prospecting, qualification and closing large consulting project engagements.* Responsible for client contract negotiations.* Acquisition of technical personnel for these clients and client troubleshooting.* Complete budgetary, profit and loss responsibility for over $1.5 million dollar profit and loss, regional office.MANAGER, Contract Hire Service Line* Responsible to hire, manage and train a 36 man group of Recruiting Specialists and Senior Recruiters, to screen and hire technical IT consulting personnel. This corporate recruiting group was responsible to service 15 branch office locations nationwide, and fulfill client project staffing requests.* Responsible to hire/fire, train and career develop this staff.* Conducted daily training seminars for recruiting/hiring techniques.* Developed and implemented a corporate video tape training program for both recruiting and marketing staff encom¬passing over 60 thirty minute video tapes.ACCOUNT MANAGER * Responsible for new account prospecting, client contact, marketing, and contract closure activities.* Acquisition of technical IT personnel for these clients.* Participated in the development and implementation of a corporate marketing manual. This manual became the step-by-step training manual for a staff of sales personnel distributed in over 15 offices nationwide.* Participated in the development and implementation of quarterly marketing department training seminars.

* Responsibility for identifying, qualifying and closing multi-million dollar client contracts for IT consulting services.* Acquisition of technical personnel for these clients, client troubleshooting, field training for new sales and recruiting personnel.* Initiated, developed and implemented a European recruiting program to acquire IT personnel in Europe from airline companies, and expatriate them to the United States, for consulting assignments in major airline and finance clients..* Initiated, developed and implemented a corporate wide career development program used to orient, manage and motivate over 250 client based technical Consultants.REGIONAL STAFF CONTROLLER* Branch office responsibilities in Detroit and Chicago for client management of major accounts. This role included screening, interviewing and hiring of technical consultants, delivery of those consultants to client projects, management of projects and project teams of these consultants, and managed and maintained client satisfaction of those delivered services.* Discovery of new client project requirements and defining of client technical project needs.* Managed all facets of acquisition and delivery of technical personnel assigned to client projects in major accounts.* On site technical and administrative management of technical consultants, assigned to major accountsSENIOR RECRUITER* Responsible to identify, screen, recruit and hire technical IT consultants. I was responsible for both telephone and in person interviewing and offer packaging of over 750 IT consultants, responsible for development and implementation of a corporate wide, videotaped recruiter training program encompassing interviewing techniques, telephone utilization, in person interviewing, candidate screening, offer packaging, closing techniques, etc.* Developed nationwide regional recruiting program, which established regional candidate databases in 12 satellite offices for this company.