Recruitment Leader for BMO Canadian Personal & Business Banking across the enterprise Branch and HQ line of business. Previously led enterprise Capital Markets & North American Commercial Banking recruitment organizations.Previously led professional/executive search teams responsible for delivering a "Best in Class" recruiting experience across the BMO North American footprint for BMO Capital Markets & Commercial Banking.In partnership with the international leadership team, driving Talent Acquisition alignment across our North American Search practice, while ensuring an excellent talent acquisition experience for business groups, hiring managers and candidates. Established in 1817, BMO Financial Group is a highly diversified financial services provider based in North America. With total assets of $537 billion and approximately 45,500 employees.

Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition for Discover Financial Services, headquartered out of Riverwoods, Illinois. Managing a team of highly functioning Talent Acquisition professionals strategically servicing the Business Technology, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Corp. Risk and Marketing/ Marketing Analytics business groups.Driving successful Talent Acquisition strategies through high engagement, superior business accumen and proven execution strategies.Talent Acquisition leadership over high profile recruiting initiatives including DFS Capital Planning CCAR.

Director of Talent Acquisition responsible for developing talent acquisition strategies and deploying resources in 23 regional markets in the US and Canada. Creating an "intelligence driven" Talent Acquisition function by driving actionable applicant tracking data and deploying resources. Created a metric-driven resource strategy for a decentralized organization built around the cornerstones of Candidate Experience, Process and Business Intelligence. Repositioned corporate recruiting resources to strategically partner with internal clients, driving up engagement, satisfaction and reducing external spend by 90%. Additional responsibility for Talent Management initiatives for $20M Sales Producer development program designed to drive and develop new talent for the organization.

Site Leader of Talent Acquisition for Experian's offices, located in Schaumburg, IL. Provide leadership and recruitment expertise across Marketing Solutions, Credit Services and other Business Units on a national basis. Rebuilt the hiring process for Marketing Services achieving a more efficient recruiting process and better candidate experience. Strategically moved business units away from reactionary recruiting to a more strategic "hire on demand" philosophy reducing time to fill and reducing agency spend.Work with Executive Leadership across business units to build / execute recruiting strategies for various high profile projects including; construction of a Consulting/Professional Services Practice, building an Enterprise Sales center of excellence and development of vertical market strategies.

Key component of a Corporate Recruiting rebuild after an unsuccessful outsource plan. Reestablish recruiting/client group relationship, metrics and standards. Corporate Recruiting Consultant specializing in Capital Markets, IT, Analytics, and others. Company filed chapter 11 in April of 2007, and my role was transformed to more of a resource consultant to assist displaced associates with resources for transition.

Managed the recruitment efforts for the western region of the U.S. In charge of staffing 40+ field offices and managing a team. I managed a team of recruiters and researchers, maintaning high measurables, metrics and KPI's. In addition, I supervised the Corporate Recruitment Team( 7 people). I Maintained high level interaction and support such client groups as; Enterprise Risk Management, ADS(IT),Accounting & Finance. Interaction with Sr Level management for strategic as well as tactical hiring goals.

LEDGENT, Formerly Abacus Staffing for Accounting, - March 2004 to October 2004 (Rehired- Torrance, CA)•Responsible for full life cycle recruitment of accounting and financial professionals in both contractual and permanent positions.GENSERO, – March 2003 to December 2003, Contract•Contract recruiting for small start up assisting HR Managers in their hiring techniques and methods. Abacus, Currently LEDGENT- March 2002 to March 2003- Closed Chicago Office•Responsible for full life cycle recruitment of accounting and financial professionals in both contractual and permanent positions.INTELITECH, August 1997 to March 2002•Hands on technical recruiter and Team Leader, managing the production of a 10 recruiter and 4 salesperson staffing team •Introduced and implemented multiple sourcing strategies including: direct sourcing, Internet recruiting, internal & external referral programs.AEROTEK/ ONSITE COMPANIES, -September 1995 to August 1997