John Lindesmith Email & Phone Number

Canton, Ohio

As a contract staffing back-office service, FoxHire (formerly Top Echelon Contracting) has been helping recruiters and staffing firms make contract placements since 1992. We become the Employer of Record for the technical, professional, and healthcare contractors recruiters place, handling all of the legal, financial, and administrative tasks associated with the placement. FoxHire can place contractors in all 50 states.Experience includes all areas of human resources, financial management, accounting, payroll, state and federal laws, legal contract reviews, benefit administration, and sales and marketing for the placement of professional contractors in 50 states.As Vice President of Product, my responsibilities include:Provides vision and direction to the development team and stakeholders throughout the project and creates requirements Defines product vision, road-map and growth opportunities internally and with other products in the staffing industryAssesses value, develops cases, and prioritizes stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategyFocus on helping recruiters adapt their business models to included contract staffing in the technical, professional and healthcare sectorsDevelop ways to increase speed and efficiency to help automate processes and launch new products to help make contract staffing quick and easy for all in the staffing industrySpeaker and Trainer for industry conferences such as Staffing World, Colorado Staffing Association, Missouri & Kansas Search and Staffing Association, New England Association of Personnel Services. Ohio Staffing and Search Association and Top Echelon Connect.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Manage all New Product Development projects for Heinz Consumer Products Frozen Food portfolio including Smart Ones, Ore Ida, Bagel Bites, TGIF Snacks, and Nancy's brands. Also manage Heinz Yellow Mustard projects as well.Launched over one hundred new projects for Heinz Consumer Products and Foodservice customers Lead weekly Stage Gate meeting and weekly project calls to align on new projects and provide weekly updates to launch each project on time, on scope and on budgetCreate and execute project timelines to ensure that all projects are getting completed on time, in scope and within budget.Prioritize and resource projects accordingly and escalate issues appropriately when critical dates are at risk for every project in five different business units throughout HeinzSaved thousands in MUDA financial risk by controlling material management run-out for all Heinz Portion Control factories Worked with cross functional teams to develop processes to improve speed and efficiency for getting new products into market, which includes improving project activities and efficiency during transition of entire Heinz North America to SAP

Columbus, Ohio Area

Columbus, Ohio Area

Supervisor of Intramural Activities that contains 40 sports and 20,000 participants yearlyTrain, develop, and manage over 300 officials yearly while also making sure games run smoothly on nighty basis OSU Intramural official for basketball, flag football, and umpire for softball working 20 hours a week

Canton, Ohio Area

General Laborer, working 40 plus hours weekly providing services to help the steel mill run smoothlyAssisted with Slag Sales, the Part Ordering process, and part inventory on daily basis

Columbus, Ohio Area

Used Join Commission report to help find trends between nurse overtime hours and preventable harms in the hospitalProvided detailed report and presented findings to Nationwide Children’s Hospital top executives

Canton, Ohio Area

Summer Internship working in various departments within Kenan including Billing and Safety DepartmentsWorked 40 hours per weekHighly productive and efficient in contributing to success of department goals