Ray Abresch Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, WI, US

UpFront is a consulting firm working with local companies as an extension of their HR/recruiting team. We help connect job seeking professionals with exceptional career opportunities. We provide solutions that work, our focus is Engineering, Production, Accounting/Office and Executive positions.

Company focused on Contract, Contract to Hire or Direct hire positions within Manufacturing. The main focus was on office, production and engineering positions.

Owned by CPI, Strategic Resources was absorbed into Service First one of the many larger sister companies of CPI in July of 2020 due to Covid and the lack of staffing needs. CPI owns multiple staffing firms in the Milwaukee area. Strategic Resources was started with 1 employee in December of 2016, I grew it to 21 employees and opened 3 offices over 3.5.

Owned by CPI, Argus focused on Local Engineering, Office and Production positions. I started a Engineering Division, also took over a office in Madison to help expand. The Madison office was rebranded to Strategic Resources and continued to expand the business under that name.

Westchester, Illinois, US

New to the Wisconsin area we introduced the company as a player in the market for Engineering, Production and Office staffing for contract, contract-to-hire and direct hire opportunities. We also sold engineering services to assist with design projects.

This company had been working in Skilled Trades and Engineering for about 15 years, they wanted to expand into IT staffing to give the company more avenues to increase profit.I was hired to start the IT division. I was involved in the hiring, and development of our sales and recruiting teams. I held training sessions for all employees as well. After.