Duane Willis Email & Phone Number

United States

Springfield, Missouri, United States

Springfield, Missouri, United States

As a member of the Talent Innovation Lab, an internal team of talent advisors and strategists focused on driving continuous improvements across our recruiting organization. We deliver talent analytics and insights, market research, competitive intelligence, and strategy services.• Mentored three individuals. Provided training/guidance with analytic tools, data modeling and developing key metric formulas. • Designed the Executive Recruitment Team Dashboard using MS Power BI. This dashboard is for our Team Leaders to review their team’s key metrics and insights. Included data from multiple data sources.• Lead all efforts to track, manage, and improve Cognizant’s talent analytics and insight capabilities through design and redesign of tools, processes and competences. Designed our critical metrics/insights for our Corporate Sales Hiring initiative. • Apply design-thinking principles to solve complex business problems and deliver insights on people processes through quantitative analysis.• Analyze data, as well as be part of the design, implementation, and delivery of the Lab's products and research services. Check data, modeling and research results for quality.• Conduct wide-ranging searches and synthesize information to draw out key insights for use in our innovation programs. By analyzing one of our largest Business Units, I identified the misuse of Agency referrals that was costing the company over two million dollars. • Craft insights that are practical and actionable, grounded in Cognizant's recruiting workflows. Would meet with Team leads each Quarter to review their scorecards. Recommended areas of improvement.• Collaborate with peers, vendors and partners in North America, Latin America and India as part of international initiatives. Designed Gamified systems usage across Latin America to reduce compliance issues and improve data quality and reporting.• Lead HR technology product evaluations, assessments, and manage vendor relationships.

Springfield, Missouri Area

Cognizant Technology Solutions : Manager – Cloud Apps & Taleo Oracle Solutions Practice(2015-2017)Lead OBIEE Reporting with Taleo and HCM reporting projects. These efforts have included, requirements gathering, design and testing. Oracle OBI development included reports and dashboards. Development is with Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.9.0.Dashboards:• Recruiter Scorecards• Recruitment Audits Key Analytics:• Time to Fill Applicant Flow Requisition and Candidate Bottlenecks• Time to Hire Source of Hire Effort Lost• Requisition Aging Offers Candidate Career SiteIn addition to report development and conversions, I trained customers how to use and develop using Oracle BI Answers.

Springfield, Missouri Area

Oracle: Principal Consultant (2001-2015)Lead Consultant and/or Project Manager on multiple large-scale Oracle Taleo Recruiting implementations, optimizations, process re-engineering and Oracle Validated Integration implementations. Style focuses on Client Relationship Management and Business Process Design, ensuring that clients are provided with the best solution possible to meet their business needs. Experience across a wide range of industries and scale (500 to 100K+ Employees).Over the course of 24 months and 40 migration customers, reviewed new Taleo features and how to use those features within the recruitment process. With my ability to lead the project team and maintain high levels of customer satisfaction led to very successful upgrades. This resulted in me receiving the Taleo Consulting STAR Award.Functional Consultant Role:• Large Technology Company, Global Recruiting Implementation• Large Retail Company, US Recruiting Implementation• Large Healthcare Company, US Recruiting Implementation• Large Higher Education, Staff Recruiting Implementation• Mid-Size Banking, Local Recruiting Implementation• Mid-Size Restaurant, Hourly Implementation• Mid-Size Retail Company, US Recruiting Implementation Global Recruiting and Optimization/Migration Projects in the following industries:• Professional Services• Banking/Finance• Retail• Healthcare• Telecommunications

Springfield, Missouri Area

Resumix – Implementation Consultant (1996 - 2001)• Project manager & Implementation Consultant for Resumix Applicant Tracking system. Implemented customers in multiple industries.• Implementation Consultant – Led the Department of Defense with their upgrade from Resumix Proprietary database to Oracle Database.• Ad hoc report development

Greater St. Louis Area And San Antonio Tx

SBC Communications: Information Systems (1988-1996)• (Manager) Support and System Administrator of the Resumix system.• (Programmer/Analyst) Developer of Leadership Development Program system. This system was used by the Company executives to track and manage Key employees for Leadership Development. MS Access• (Programmer/Analyst) Ad hoc report development • (Programmer/Analyst) Technical support for the development of the Career Path Internal Employee Job Posting System. UNIX, ORACLE and SQL