Scott Brightman Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Formerly Tax Defense Network

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• Responsible for the full life cycle recruitment of candidates for our information technology division.• Cold call candidates via resume searches, job postings and internal database searches. • Phone and in-person interview candidates to determine if they are qualified for certain openings.• Conduct face to face interviews with local candidates that are interested in being represented by our company.• Responsible for developing and maintaining candidate pipeline for niche positions by consulting and strategizing with hiring managers regarding job requirements, candidate profiles, candidate selection, and compensation.• Verbally extend job offers to candidates.• Directly source and screen passive candidates for volume and niche requirements.• Negotiate pay rates and salaries with candidates• Terminate candidates if they do not meet and exceed client expectations.• Continuously network through industry contacts regarding recruiting trends, alternative sourcing methods, and best practices.• Track all candidate submittals, interviews, notes and offers via our applicant tracking system.• Areas of recruitment expertise include accounting, finance, insurance, human resources, customer service/sales, data entry, project managers, business analysts, quality assurance, software developers, application developers, software architects, database administrators, database developers, desktop support technicians, network/systems administrators and Salesforce.com professionals.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• Established consultative relationships with line managers to ensure talent needs are anticipated and that the appropriate recruitment strategies are in place to meet hiring manager needs.• Attend weekly staffing and hiring manager meetings to include candidate status.• Identify decision-making leadership within the business and build strong relationships in order to understand long-term hiring plans and uncover additional areas of opportunity.• Manage the offer negotiation process, providing compensation recommendations that are competitive with the external market and consistent with internal guidelines.• Responsible for college recruiting for 15+ universities and coordinating visits to said programs. • Identify best-in-class vendors in assigned business area(s); developed and maintained relationships with vendors and engaged as needed. • Conducted audits for both client and corporate compliance.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• Challenged to build Web.com’s presence and drive sales in the US.• Successfully achieved an increase in awareness and sales growth through a top-down sales approach (penetrating C-level and VP executives).• Presented customized services aligned with IT business needs of potential and existing clients. • Currently on target to exceed quota of 8 new logos for the year.• Currently on target to exceed 1.5 M revenue target for the year. • Developed strategic partnerships with multiple clients, resulting in managing their consulting services. • Responsible for lead generation, qualifying opportunities, and closing our IT solution opportunities (full sales life cycle). • Strong relationship building and hunting of new business. • Achieved significant results by upselling additional services and expanding more lines of our business to existing accounts.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• Promoted in 2014 to manage full life cycle of HR functions for the entire Salesforce.com practice line. • Successfully worked with Senior Management across all Service Lines/Business Units, to identify and implement innovative techniques in assisting with the identification, recruitment, and securing of top talent within the industry. • Since promotion to Manager of Talent Acquisition, I have reduced monthly costs by an average of $2,100 through resource management. • Led team to 94% acceptance rate on offers current YTD.• Reduced time to hire on average by 8 days. • Reduced consulting management/service fees by up to 33%. • Effectively partnered with and made recommendations to Executive Management, such as cost avoidance, resource management, and salary realignment. • Extensive experience in providing executive coaching, to assist in the management of employee relations. • Successful in national and international recruitment. • Experienced in onboarding and off boarding employees throughout the organization across numerous practice lines and departments. • Streamlined and implemented numerous HR initiatives including new PTO structure, pay changes, benefits updates, and other strategic internal changes.• Strong knowledge of industry standards, trends, competition, policies, and best practices.• Subject matter expert in overall talent acquisition of all of Astadia’s core capabilities. • Company administrator for online/social media recruitment tools such as Linked In Recruiter, Dice, Monster, Zip Recruiter, The Ladders, and Virtual Edge. • Successfully recruited for all business units and hired staff with skill sets that translated across multiple practice lines.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Astadia Privately Held ; Management Consulting industry Astadia is a great place to work!We are a leader in the cloud and marketing automation / systems integration industries with strong partnerships with such pioneers as Salesforce.com, Zuora, Informatica, Eloqua, and other top SaaS (Software as a Service) technologies. We continually strive to surpass our competitors with the breadth and depth of our business and technology integration solutions, mobile development expertise and our notable Microsoft Gold Certified Partnership. Every day, we deliver comprehensive marketing and technology solutions to customers large and small, around the world and across all industries. Our success comes from investing in the latest technology and continually refining our skills. Highly relevant in today’s continually advancing IT market, our services address the widest possible demands of our customers’ organizations. With one of the largest global footprints in the salesforce.com and cloud ecosystem, Astadia has the ability to deliver business solutions for the Hybrid Enterprise – today’s companies working with a mix of legacy, distributed and cloud technologies. Our employees work with industry leaders, the latest and greatest technology, and some of the most forward-thinking companies in the world. Members of our team experience a variety of opportunities to learn, grow, and expand their expertise through client engagement work, formal training, and collaborative initiatives with fellow team members.Join the team and be part of a company that partner with global and North American clients and technology companies, delivering the promise of the cloud and the results that today’s businesses demand.Microsoft 2012 Top US Enterprise Services PartnerSalesforce.com Platinum PartnerMicrosoft Gold PartnerEloqua Platinum Partner

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• Exceeded company goals (Top 10 recruiter in Florida) for number of referrals, leads, and enrollments. • Identified and resolved student inquiries/issues, to the mutual satisfaction of student and company. • Employed admission practices that met regulatory agency and company ethics standards.• Maintained and kept accurate student files and records.

• Successfully identified, recruited, and hired IT Professionals with multiple skill sets for both local and national accounts. • Repeatedly exceeded company goals including resume submission, in-house interviews, and hiring totals on a weekly and monthly basis. • Effectively found professionals with numerous skill sets and backgrounds including but not limited to, .NET web development, Java, Quality Assurance/ Testers, Business Analysts, IT Project Managers, Tier 1-3 Help Desk, Tomcat, Arc GIS, Dynamics AX, SQL 2008, ScrumMaster professionals, SCCM, Websphere Portal, SAS, Siebel, Oracle, IIS, and VMWare.• Utilized numerous recruiting tools, such as using Recruiter Workbench, Bullhorn, Monster, Careerbuilder, Facebook, LinkedIn, and The Ladders.• Recruited numerous individuals to work such as H1B, L1, L2, EAD, green card and U.S. citizens.• Managed all compliance related tasks during the onboarding process for domestic and foreign employees.

Jacksonville, Florida

• Inside sales experience identifying leads and closing deals related to the companies mortgage portfolio. • Provided conflict/dispute resolution to both internal and external customers.• Successfully completed internal management training, mandatory for promotion within the organization. • Successfully trained and coached numerous employees to ensure their success. • Obtained NMLS license.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business Management

Florida Bright Futures Scholarship, recipient * American Maritime Officers Scholarship, recipient * Douglas Milne/NFFRFA Scholarship.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration, Management And Operations