Keith Rouda Email & Phone Number

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Moorestown, Nj

Organizer members of the New Jersey Educators Association and affiliated unions to vote and campaign for Barbara Buono and several pro-education state legislative candidates.

Newark, Nj

Recruit, manage, and develop volunteers and volunteer leaders for persuasion, voter ID, and GOTV for Cory Booker's primary campaign.

New York, Ny

Organized owners of small, independent restaurants to promote a recycling program with city council members.

Appleton, Wi

Field Organizer for Senator Tammy Baldwin's campaign in Appleton, WI. Recruited and managed large numbers of volunteers for persuasion and GOTV phases of Tammy Baldwin's campaign. Built and maintained beneficial relationships with other campaigns, organizers, the county party, key opinion leaders, and candidates up and down the ticket. Carried out role of Phone Bank Captain for GOTV. Mastered Votebuilder, developing coordinated, prioritized call-time phone bank lists for volunteers and staff of DPW and Organizing for America. Participated in ticket distribution, volunteer recruitment, advance activities, and other efforts for principal and surrogate events including large rallies by President Obama, Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, President Clinton and Tammy Baldwin.

Developed and built progressive power for MoveOn's field organization in Kentucky.

Louisville, Ky

Present a liberal or progressive viewpoint on issues of the day that relate, in one way or another, to Louisville, Kentucky, or the area in general.

Talent Acquisition Integrated Talent Management Consulting. Applicant Tracking Systems.

Lead large-scale, multi-phase, cross-business unit Applicant Tracking System upgrade - SAP e-RecruitingConducted Employment Brand research and developed implementation planLead OFCCP compliance initiativeFacilitated High-Potential Employee Development program consisting of project management, mentoring, executive exposure, 360 evaluation, executive presentations on ethics, strategy, financials and business philosophy, and development and presentation of a real-life investment proposal for the executive committee.Evaluated under-performing recruiting functions, developed improvement plan, and consulted with the functions' management throughout the change process.

Recruiter on an outsourced recruiting engagement, focusing primarily on Information Technology positions and other professionals for Fortune 500 financial services company and a large consumer products company (see below).

Working for BrassRing, dedicated 100% to the Brown-Forman RPO account. Focusing primarily on IT and SAP professionals, along with some finance, marketing, sales, and other positions. Consulted on and improved employment branding and made applicant tracking system enhancements that improved recruiter efficiency, reporting, and candidate experience.

Managed a staff of 27 recruiters and 7 competency interviewers making 5,500 hires per year. This was a large outsourced recruiting engagement. For the year I was there, before the client and my company parted ways, I implemented the new recruiting model and process, managed a large team of recruiters and support staff, developed and maintained performance metrics using business intelligence tools, developed sourcing and diversity strategies, participated in all levels of strategic planning, participated in several team reorgs and expansions, and built and maintained relationships across HR and operations for a Fortune 500 company with business in all 50 states.

Led a large team of geographically dispersed recruiters to over 5,500 hires in a year.

In this position I initiated and led a project to standardize Kindred's very decentralized recruiting function and developed recruiting process standards, deployed a large applicant tracking system, and introduced a wide variety of online sourcing options. I participated in a variety of Human Capital Management initiatives and promoted portal technology and knowledge management concepts throughout the organization.

Brought in to provide organization and structure to a fledgling Interactive Marketing department. Formalized processes and led team through development of a major overhaul of GE Appliances web site as well as the acquisition and completion of web sites and upgrades for Thomson Consumer Electronics and a number of local web sites and interactive projects. Led a team of developers as well as a matrixed team of copywriters and art directors which enabled the agency to take advantage of business opportunities presented by the expansion of the World Wide Web.

Created Interactive Marketing capability for the Sager-Bell agency and led it to an early leadership position within the Louisville market for marketing-focused web development. Sager-Bell subsequently acquired by Creative Alliance where it provided all Interactive Marketing services for Creative-Alliance. Led acquisition and completion of web sites for Canadian Mist, Southern Comfort, Bolla Italian Wines, Fontana Candida Wines, Bushmills Irish Whiskey, the Gilmour Group, UniDial (now Lightyear) and others.

Mba, Business Administration

Bba, Marketing