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Houston, Texas, Us

Co-Lead of the LOGCAP V (EUCOM/NORTHCOM) contract. Total value to KBR in excess of $6B across 10 years. Over 6,000 person headcount.Manage a team of three to five recruiters, directly responsible for training, quarterly evaluations, annual salary reviews, disciplinary action, and reporting.Distribute workload and establish recruiter verticals to ensure a high volume of hires.Successfully created and managed Tiger Teams to execute short term, high visibility assignments.Interview and hire both full-time recruiters for ongoing needs, as well as temporary recruiters for surge support. Crafted multiple reports to track metrics and enable rapid, accurate response to ad hoc data requests.Collaborate with and significantly improved communications with EUCOM onsite HR.Worked to establish new SOP’s between recruiting, HR and Program Management that significantly improved multiple metrics including overall monthly hires, time-to-offer and time-to-start.Developed a Job Description Library and re-wrote all LOGCAP job descriptions to institute corporate consistency and compliance with all applicable laws.Collaborated with the Data Analytics Team to ensure accurate reporting.Created multiple, engaging training seminars and presented them.Participated in KBR’s Front Line Leader training program.Successfully engaged with KBR’s mentorship program, becoming both a Mentor and a Mentee.Traveled to Australia to assist in a multi-day career fair.Created over 100 CRM projects, facilitating cross program collaboration and candidate sharing.Source, screen, hire and pipeline for challenging roles.

Chantilly, Virginia, Us

Support the Macfadden USAID contract, consulting with hiring managers as well as program leadership on require-ments, recruiting strategy and process.Source, screen, schedule interviews, and hire personnel for a variety of positions supporting the Bureau of Humanitari-an Assistance (BHA).Provide recruiting support on various OCONUS contracts including the AFCAP program, BLISS and OMSS.Work with management in interpreting PWS’s, ensuring contract compliance with appropriate minimum qualifications.Develop and maintain reports for each Task Order to track status and progress.Write job descriptions, developing clean, consistent language and formatting.Mentor and train less experienced recruiters.Train new recruiters to use the Workday ATS.Maintain a constant pipeline of new candidates and keep existing candidates warm while maintaining continual com-munication with them.Collaborate with the recruiting team to ensure that all positions are filled as quickly as possible and that every candi-date is placed where they will be most effective.

Herndon, Virginia, Us

Led a team of three to four Recruiters working on multiple programs with positions across the globe.Partnered with VP’s, Directors and Hiring Managers on recruiting strategy, planning and execution.Spearheaded new contract wins, ensuring that programs were fully staffed on day 1.Coached and mentored my team, working with them to develop their skills for future career growth.Acted as a lieutenant to my manager, handling reports and providing guidance to other team members as well as run-ning or participating in meetings for my manager when she was unavailable.Wrote job descriptions and developed job requirements.Responsible for timesheets, bonuses, goal setting and annual evaluations.Generated new reports from raw data, developed presentations and convinced senior leadership across multiple verti-cals within ManTech to attempt a new recruiting strategy which saved over $300,000 in RPO fees and increased overall recruiting effectiveness by over 25 percent.Drove the hiring and deployment process, working with the PMO team as well as deployment coordinators and my team to deploy new employees as quickly as possible.Assisted the team in expediting all hiring actions.Sourced, screened, and hired candidates for IT positions around the world.Worked with BD on proposal efforts, offering recruiting/workforce guidance, Letters of Intent and signed contingent offers.Participated in the User Acceptance Testing for the migration to Workday, as well as during 2 additional updates that ManTech underwent.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

• Lead Recruiter for Michael Baker International's Professional Services (Overseas).• Manage and support a team of two recruiters and one recruiting coordinator.• Partner with senior leadership to establish urgent needs.• Develop and execute recruiting strategies to provide trades people and engineers for overseas deployments.• Generate weekly, monthly and ad hoc production reports for the team.• Write job descriptions and develop job requirements.• Full life-cycle recruitment of national strategic hires to include roles in engineering through Human Resources.• Develop and maintain a pipeline of Cleared American Workers.• Advise management and leadership.• Drive the hiring and deployment process to meet our customers’ needs as swiftly as possible.• Leveraged for IT roles when other recruiters were unable to uncover qualified candidates.

Falls Church, Va, Us

• Developed and drove the recruiting strategy, process and staffing plan for the Liberia Ebola Treatment Unit project (CNMETU) which was recently awarded Program of the Year. Identified and deployed over 140 employees into Liberia within 60 days.• Lead the Union 3-Iraq recruiting strategy and activities. This program’s success was considered key to PAE’s subsequent award of additional DoD projects in Iraq.• Personally deployed 71 Secret and Top Secret cleared personnel into Iraq in less than 10 months. • Supported multiple simultaneous projects and proposals. • Collaborated with management in the development of metric goals for the Global recruiting team.• Participated in the development of past-performance reports in multiple proposals.• Coached and trained junior, mid-level and senior recruiters in recruiting methodology as well as PAE processes and procedures.

Cary, North Carolina, Us

• Support multiple Fortune 500 technical teams with top quality software development talent.• Work with Account Managers as well as Hiring Managers to flesh out descriptions and determine the best fit possible.• Source candidates using multiple online resume databases, LinkedIn, referrals and networking.• Format resumes, schedule interviews, and prepare candidates.• Make offers and assist new hires in settling into their new roles.• Use Fieldglass to submit and track consultants to Freddie Mac.

Delray Beach, Florida, Us

MicroTech provides Technology Services, Network Systems Integration, Product Solutions, Cloud Computing, Unified Communications & Collaboration, Cyber Security, Mobility, and Social Media Solutions as well as leadership/management skills courses, business simulations and vital industry certifications as part of MicroTech University to both public and private sectors — managing more than half-a-million technology users daily. A prime contractor of over 100 Federal projects and more-than-25 procurement vehicles, MicroTech offers access to 2500 vendors and a million technology products and services across the government.• Support multiple simultaneous projects and proposals. • Positions ranged from Interns to Software Engineers to SVP level roles.• Work directly with management and C-staff on new hires and future hiring goals. • Coach and train junior and mid-level recruiters in recruiting methodology, processes and procedures. • Source and screen candidates for suitability against open and contingent positions. • Maintain contact with hiring managers and candidates throughout the hiring process. • Introduced and manage the company’s recruitment social media including Twitter and Linkedin to increase brand recognition as well as connecting with additional, passive professionals. • Manage expectations of candidates as well as managers. • Schedule interviews, relaying post-interview impressions in a coherent, respectful fashion. • Check references, negotiate salaries, generate offer letters.• Relied on to produce candidates for the rarest skill-sets necessary to the company.• Ensure that the company remains OFCCP compliant. • Majority of positions required cleared professionals.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Performed as a full life-cycle recruiter, supporting four Vice Presidents, eight Directors and a total of 37 hiring managers. • Conducted informational meetings with managers to narrow the scope of searches and to assist them in generating more specific job descriptions.• Used SmashFly to post positions to outside sources, Taleo for applicant tracking. • Sourced across numerous job boards. Responsible for sourcing, screening and assisted in scheduling of interviews.• Negotiated salaries with candidates, partnered with hiring managers to develop offers and generate them. • Set-up four interview days, each with over 50% offer ratios. • Primary focus of all positions was Accounting/Finance with specific interest in professionals with Big 4 Accounting Firm backgrounds.

Reston, Virginia, Us

• Supported three Executive Vice Presidents, five Vice Presidents, and all of their Directors, Program Managers and Project managers totaling more than 30 hiring managers. • Sole recruiter for CACI's Cyber Security Group, providing full life-cycle recruiting of Information Security and Information Assurance professionals across the country. • Sourced and screened both cleared and uncleared professionals throughout the nation. • Worked with managers to develop strong job descriptions that clearly laid out the needs of the assignment, helped to sell the position, described upward mobility, and detailed the expectations of the position to potential candidates. • Delivered screened, interested and qualified candidates to managers in a timely fashion. • Negotiated salaries and continually closed candidates on salary, benefits and expectations throughout the recruitment process, yielding improved offer to acceptance ratios. • Managed expectations with managers, gained their trust and became the Subject Matter Expert that was depended upon regarding recruiting and Human Resources issues. • During large ramp-up efforts, worked with managers to plan interview events. Had sole responsibility for events as large as 42 scheduled interviews in a single day. The largest of these events had just 2 weeks of lead time to setup the event, source, screen, and schedule all interviews. This involved engaging over 20 managers and team leads as well as working with VP's and Directors to ensure all open positions were filled during the event. These 42 interviews resulted in 23 hires ranging from Network Architects to Requirements Analysts and Software Developers. • Trained and assisted junior and senior recruiters in CACI tools and methodologies. • Maintained relationships with new hires to obtain referrals, and ensure a seamless transition into their new role.

Reston, Virginia, Us

• Full life-cycle recruiting including sourcing, qualifying, interviewing and closing. • Used online searches, referrals, internet databases, and cold-calling to produce high quality candidates and fill open client positions as well as contract opportunities. • Maintained close contact with all potential candidates in order to develop a pipeline of quality professionals in a highly competitive niche market. • Used “outside-the-box” methods to reach and place Contracts Professionals.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

• Full life-cycle recruiting to include sourcing, qualifying, and closing. • Provided a high level of attention, scrutiny and feedback in order to create and maintain strong candidate/recruiter relationships, as well as prove value to PSS clients. • Through both internet databases and referrals, matched quality technical professionals with positions ranging from Java Developers to Network Architects. • The vast majority of these positions required at least DOD Secret clearances and up to TS/SCI clearances. • Many positions involved nationwide searches and remote placements. • Performed in-house interviews, reference checks, resume clean-ups and direct client contact.

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• Responsible for sourcing technical professionals from multiple sources, including the web, and internal databases. • Contacted, and negotiated with potential employees and contractors, set up interviews and checked references. • Recruited IT professionals for both commercial and government clients across the country. • Many positions required clearance levels up to TS/SCI. • Within one month was assigned as sole recruiter on the America Online (AOL) contract. America Online (AOL) did all outside recruiting through PeopleClick a vendor management system (VMS). Drove account growth such that Kforce went from the 8th highest billing vendor in AOL’s program to the 6th. Preformed at a consistently high level in both candidate quality and response time. Averaged over 2 candidates submitted to the client per day and averaged more than three hires per month with AOL.