Mike Romain ✔ Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, Us

Providing Exceptional IT Recruiting services to companies both large and small. Able to take on hard to fill positions locally and nationwide. Contact me if you need help staffing a team, or if you are a top IT professional seeking your next great position!Adept at filling highly specialized positions:*SAP Functional, Techno-Functional, and Technical Consultants*Software Developers and SW Engineers - Full stack, single / dual tier, specialized*Enterprise / Solution / Domain Architects*Security Engineers*AI/ML Developers*Data Scientists / Database Engineers / DBAs / Big Data Developers*Project and Program Managers*Support / Systems Analysts*Hardware Engineers

Hired to establish and run, from scratch, a recruiting team, processes, and procedures for a new office in a large international firm. Starting with a laptop, zero consultants, and no processes in place, single handedly implemented a recruiting strategy resulting in a successful recruiting system and a staff of 200. Significant achievements: Took an office with zero billing and no recruiting systems into a team of recruiters and sales staff with yearly sales of $20M. • Created marketing strategy targeting specific companies, teams, and managers for placing IT consultants and direct hire placements• Created recruiting related presentations for Directors, VPs, and CEO• Established from scratch a team of SAP consultants for Fortune 50 client spanning SAP Functional, Techno-Functional, Technical, Basis, and Security positions• Established team of 10 recruiters, 5 sales, and 2 admin staff• Coordinating with immigration attorney, created system of visas including H1-b, L1-a, L1-b, L-2, B-1, TN, E-3, OPT/CPT• Wrote process and procedure manuals and summaries for recruiting, visas, benefits• Coordinated with overseas teams to leverage offshore staff for onshore, offshore, and onshore/offshore hybrid teams• Drove recruiting and hiring of internal recruiting and sales staff • Evaluated and implemented applicant tracking system• Helped create benefits and payroll systems

Significant achievements: Took an office with zero billing and no recruiting systems to profitability within 6 months.

Responsible for establishing and leading a team of recruiters, building relationships with Microsoft hiring managers and candidates. Worked directly with Microsoft managers to determine their needs and provide them with the best possible candidates for contract and outsourced project-based work. Sourced candidates for wide range of IT position types. Consistently attained and surpassed placement goals, while maintaining positive work relationships. My manager called me a “cornerstone” of the 45 recruiters on our team based on my performance. Worked with direct reports and sales staff to maximize placements and revenue. Significant achievements: Led a small team of recruiters that increased market share at Microsoft from less than 5% to 35% in 3 years, resulting in 40M in yearly revenue. Set team record of placements for a month (26), surpassing previous record of 18 placements.Team recruited for candidates in the following categories• SW & HW developers • SW & HW test engineers• SQL DBA & developers • Support Analysts• Web developers • PMs• Network Engineers • Builders

Recruited Tech Writers, Programmer Writers, Tech Editors, Content Editors, Indexers for IT clients in the greater Seattle area. Clients ranged from startups to software Giants.

Ba, Applied Math

Mse, Civil And Environmental Engineering