Michael Rieves Email & Phone Number

Ann Arbor

GDI is a trusted Talent Partner to the IT sector of business in the Midwest. We've found our success over the last 26 years by developing true relationships with both our clients and candidates. Understanding needs and aspirations with a 360 degree view, we're able to help our clients/candidates grow and prosper with the right people in the right seat. GDI's clientele ranges from second stage startups to some of the largest enterprises in the Midwest.

Rochester Hills

Responsible for recruiting Engineering, Information Systems, and Supply Chain professionals for Fiat/Chrysler, General Motors and John Deere. This involved all aspects of the recruitment life cycle.

Plymouth Mi

Sole Recruiter responsible for the placement of contract IT professionals for Thirdware’s customerFord Motor Company. Responsibilities included the full life-cycle of recruiting, customer interaction and employee support.

Clarkston Mi

Responsible for the recruitment and placement of IT and Engineering professionals on both a contract and direct placement basis. Also responsible for the development of our own customer book of business resulting in placements both permanent/contract with new customers.Extensive involvement in customer and candidate pricing and salary negotiations.

Southfield Mi

Performed all phases of the candidate recruitment process which lead to the successful contract placement of high-end IT professionals within our Automotive customer base.This involved initial candidate sourcing, generating candidate interest, selling Synova, interviewing/qualifying candidate skill set, providing interview prep, performing reference checks, negotiating salaried offers, fully explaining benefits and completing New Hire paperwork. Other responsibilities included:-… Show more Performed all phases of the candidate recruitment process which lead to the successful contract placement of high-end IT professionals within our Automotive customer base.This involved initial candidate sourcing, generating candidate interest, selling Synova, interviewing/qualifying candidate skill set, providing interview prep, performing reference checks, negotiating salaried offers, fully explaining benefits and completing New Hire paperwork. Other responsibilities included:- Coordinating and placing L-1 and H-1 candidates.Responsible for all paperwork and for fully understanding all issuses within the process. For L-1 candidates performed screening of technical skills for out of country IT professionals.- Coordinating the activities of off-shore recruitment teams and conducting interviews and providing training for new Recruiters.- Attending customer meetings to pro-actively define up-coming contract personnel and project software development needs.-Providing Corporate Recruiting expertise to find Senior Business Analysts and Project Managers for internal opportunities with our software project based division Altimetrik. Show less

Executed all aspects of the candidate recruitment process to place high-end IT professionals on local and national levels for customers such as State of Florida, AT&T,State of Michigan,Federal Government, Blue Cross and Chrysler Corporation.This involved initial candidate sourcing, generating candidate interest, selling V2Soft, interviewing/qualifying candidate skill set, providing interview prep, performing reference checks, negotiating salaried offers, fully explaining benefits and completing… Show more Executed all aspects of the candidate recruitment process to place high-end IT professionals on local and national levels for customers such as State of Florida, AT&T,State of Michigan,Federal Government, Blue Cross and Chrysler Corporation.This involved initial candidate sourcing, generating candidate interest, selling V2Soft, interviewing/qualifying candidate skill set, providing interview prep, performing reference checks, negotiating salaried offers, fully explaining benefits and completing New Hire paperwork.Other responsibilities include: -Sourced, recruited and hired hard to find Embedded Software Developers and Senior level J2EE resources for crucial internal projects for Chrysler. Show less

Executed all aspects of the candidate recruitment process to place high-end IT professionals on local and national levels for customers such as IBM, American Airlines,Ford Motor, Blue Cross and Chrysler Corporation.This involved initial candidate sourcing, generating candidate interest, selling Synova, interviewing/qualifying candidate skill set, providing interview prep, performing reference checks, negotiating salaried offers, fully explaining benefits and completing New Hire paperwork.Other… Show more Executed all aspects of the candidate recruitment process to place high-end IT professionals on local and national levels for customers such as IBM, American Airlines,Ford Motor, Blue Cross and Chrysler Corporation.This involved initial candidate sourcing, generating candidate interest, selling Synova, interviewing/qualifying candidate skill set, providing interview prep, performing reference checks, negotiating salaried offers, fully explaining benefits and completing New Hire paperwork.Other responsibilities included: -One of the initial three people who started the division from a zero revenue base and Synova is currently at 100 million.-Direct marketed and placed contract IT professionals with Blue Cross/IBM/Ford/Chrysler. This involved either face to face or phone presentations with customer management.-Mentored new Recruiters. This included creating and writing training materials.-Developed and documented processes for Q1 and ISO initiatives. -Expanded and supported exsisting customer relationships and accounts with both Ford/Chrysler.-Provided initial "spot buy" placements which helped lead to both the Ford and Chrysler IT blankets.-Developed and expanded sub-contract company relationships to help support national accounts.-Recruited and placed between 20 to 60 IT professionals in a given year over the course of employment with Synova. Show less

Initial Recruiter to join a team of three to create a contract IT staffing business in Michigan for CDI. During this time the team grew our business from zero billable contractors to over 700 in the Metro Detroit area. Career progression was as follows, Recruiter(2yrs), Sr Recruiter/Account Mgr.(11yrs). Highlights included: _Performed all aspects of Recruiting to place IT professionals on contract with Ford, Chrysler and other Tier 1 Automotive suppliers. -Performed as an Account… Show more Initial Recruiter to join a team of three to create a contract IT staffing business in Michigan for CDI. During this time the team grew our business from zero billable contractors to over 700 in the Metro Detroit area. Career progression was as follows, Recruiter(2yrs), Sr Recruiter/Account Mgr.(11yrs). Highlights included: _Performed all aspects of Recruiting to place IT professionals on contract with Ford, Chrysler and other Tier 1 Automotive suppliers. -Performed as an Account Manager to grow our IT contract business with Ford within their Engineering Computer Center, Building 3/5 and Testing Labs. Roughly doubled CDI's headcount in these facilities.-Provided Account Management for a joint initiative between IBM Canada and Ford Motor. Grew the team to 20 billable employees over a year and one-half time frame. Also responsible to handle all employee HR needs and pricing negotiations.-Traveled for three straight months to help establish new offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis/St. Paul.-Hired and trained new Recruiters. Defined and documented the Recruiting process. Devloped Recruiting training manuel.Lead and managed recruiting initiatives to meet customer objectives. Show less

Sourced and gathered names of IT professionals within every major U.S. market.Lists were published and sold to Recruiting firms.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English

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