Jason Cook Email & Phone Number

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Greater Atlanta Area

• Lead a regionally based (Southeast US) team of full-lifecycle recruiters as part of Fortune 500 corporate recruiting structure.• Identify best practices and share with my team how best to attract and convert talent as well as build ways to drive fresh, forward thinking talent solutions and recruiting strategies.• Maintain ultimate responsibility for partnering to comprehend the client’s business by function and domain and driving delivery to support growth. Work closely with functional leaders to build and deliver innovative approaches to identifying talent delivery channels for experienced hires.• Develop strategies and provide oversight to my recruiting team to implement and execute initiatives to drive candidate pipeline development. Partner with colleagues and Centers of Excellence to explore and recommend sourcing tools, techniques, and technologies to build talent communities.

Greater Atlanta Area

Served as a Contract Recruiter supporting Booz Allen Hamilton's Defense and Intelligence Group, initially on the National Agencies Account, then supporting accounts throughout the Southeast US. Booz Allen Hamilton, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading provider of management consulting, technology, and engineering services to the US government in defense, intelligence, and civil markets. They also serve major corporations, institutions, not-for-profit organizations, and international clients. In my role, I was responsible for full life-cycle recruiting. As part of this I would educate my internal clients on market trends, provide guidance on compensation packages, perform interviews to assess candidate's capabilities, manage the evaluation process and hiring decisions, provide candidate follow-up and feedback, and extend and negotiate employment offer packages.

Norcross, Ga

As the Vice President of Sales it is my job to provide the vision for growth and direction of sales for the entire company, as well as lead and mentor the sales staff. I oversee efforts to develop new partner relationships of online retailers who are looking for on-demand product solutions and technology in the exciting personalization and customization space. I can leverage the deep production assets I have available in our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility (including multiple HP indigo printers), and more traditional silver halide print operations, as well as a deep network of vendor partners. I manage complex, consultative sales to large, national retailers that involve multiple decision-makers, combining individual and cross-functional team efforts to win deals. Key to this is overseeing the Account Management team and their efforts to maintain the strong relationships we’ve developed with our partners through the years.EZ Prints Holdings, Inc. is a recognized expert in the personalization and customizable products market space. We partner with Fortune 100 retailers, leading content providers, traditional photo commerce sites, and many other web businesses of all sizes. We currently have partnerships and fulfill products for three of the top five web retailers in the world. Our state of the art manufacturing facility and headquarters is located in Norcross, Georgia (metro Atlanta).

Greater Atlanta Area

I am responsible for the execution of the sales strategy for merchant services within the Greater Atlanta Area. These services are headlined by the addition of our newest solution: The Clover Station and its suite of apps, and also includes offerings for merchants such as: credit, debit, check, and gift card processing solutions and products to regional and small businesses. I work with my team of 12 Business Consultants to develop them and help them in the achievement of my territory’s goals. These goals cover areas such as: sales quota, effective pricing and margin sustainability, regional branch relationship and lead generation. My focus is leading, mentoring, and coaching.

Kennesaw, Ga

Promoted to Client Partner, which demonstrates the highest level of sales success within Bradley-Morris as well as being a highly respected teammate as determined by the owners of the company. This position was selected by the CEO and COO directly to focus my efforts in serving the military hiring needs of my current and future clients on a national basis. In this strategic position, I am responsible for growing the business of national clients while managing a sales team to deliver the full spectrum of BMI services. This position demonstrates performing at the pinnacle level within Bradley-Morris, instructing and developing junior Account Representatives, and promoting BMI corporate culture.

In this capacity I was the Senior Client representative at our national HQ location in Atlanta, GA. I served as a clearing house for all day-to-day operational issues for our sales force. I was responsible for on-boarding training and continuous training. I was also charged with maintaining the moral and ethical direction of our group. I was part of a 4-member steering group which reported to the ownership of the company on all internal and external issues related to our client interfacing and our sales and consulting force. I was hand-picked for this role by the owners of the company. I served in this capacity in addition to my position as Executive Consultant.

I source ex-military candidates for jobs in Fortune 500 and emerging market companies nationwide. The types of candidates I specialize in are Engineers, Leadership, Project Management, Analysts, Technicians, Logisticians, Sales, IT, and Government Contracts. I also specialize in providing Diversity talent (over a third of our placements are Diversity candidates). I hold the top position in the Recruiting/Consulting/Sales arena of our company which is the largest of its kind in the industry.

I spent the majority of my time as an Officer in the US Army stationed in Germany. I was in the Air Defense Artillery (SHORAD or, Short Range Air Defense) attached to the 1st Armored Division and worked initially with the Stinger missile system on a variety of platforms. I was stationed at Wackernheim which is in the Mainz/Wiesbaden area (about an hour from Frankfurt) with 5/3 ADA (which reflagged to 1/4 ADA). While there I deployed as part of the initial US involvement in Bosnia and helped establish some of the first US presence there just outside of Tuzla. I finished my tour there as a Battalion Adjutant.Upon returning to the States, I finished the Advanced Course at Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX and stayed on in an operational role at the HQ for Air Defense for a few months until I left the service.I received my Airborne jump wings from Fort Benning, GA.