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San Mateo, California, Us

Bridgepointe is a tech advisory firm that helps bridge the gap between tech investments and business goals. For two decades, we've helped mid-market and enterprise clients make quicker, more informed tech investments.We'll help you save time by shortening the procurement process while saving money and increasing ROI. We work with 150+ suppliers to simplify the process of planning and procuring the tech solutions you need to meet your tech and business needs. Bridgepointe Technologies teams of Network Transformation, Date Center/Cloud. Cyber Security, Wireless Networking, Unified Communications/Contact Center and Customer Experience Subject Matter Experts provide Strategic Advisory Services that provide value by providing infrastructure technology solutions that address both the highly technical details with the specific needs of the business while greatly reducing CAPEX/OPEX

New York, Ny, Us

• Recruitment of information technology professionals as staff augmentation and project consulting resources that delver professional services to global financial, large pharma and health care clients. • Extensive use of Greenhouse ATS for full cycle candidate recruiting processing stages from initial contact, pre-screening qualification for technical skills and compensation requirements, candidate write-up (why I think the candidate is a good fit for the position), scheduling of internal technical and culture fit interviews, resume preparation for client submittals, scheduling of client interviews, compensations negotiation and closing candidate on offer acceptance, background check for client on-boarding, days 1 start date instructions.• Creation of pipeline of active and passive candidates with LinkedIn recruiter to proactively build relationships with the candidates that have the difficult to find technical skills sets our clients consistently required• Technology focus for Enterprise Networking (WAN/LAN), Legacy and Next Generation Software Defined Data Center Infrastructure (SDN/SDDC) for Private Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Public and Hybrid Cloud for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Network Firewall, Cyber, Web Proxy/VPN and Cloud Security, Load Balancing, Perl/Python/Ansible Scripting for Network Automation Functionality (NFV) and Wireless Networking.

Iselin, New Jersey, Us

• Managed full cycle recruiting (attracting, vetting, interview scheduling, rate negotiation, advisement, encouragement and placement) of consultants for contract, contract to hire and permanent positions with Intuitive Technology Partners clients. • Provided Staff Augmentation services that accurately matched candidates with the appropriate level role for Information Technology professionals with technical skill sets, knowledge and experience for the following but not limited to roles.HIGHLIGHT ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Placed Technical Professional that made a key contribution to Intuitive’s elevation to Preferred Vendor (Tier 1) Status at Fannie Mae.

Increasing revenue for staff augmentation and professional services with the delivery of highly skilled technology business professionals.Partnering, developing and executed strategies for attracting and hiring world class Information Technology teams that provide technology advantage gaps with competitors. Creating Trusted Advisor relationships with a vast network of client facing information technology professionals that deliver solutions that satisfy both technical challenges but also address the specific needs of the business.Strong Business Development experience gained through establishing collaborative relationships with clients, that added value by decreasing the interviewing and hiring processes by presenting only candidates that met the client's exact requirements. Specialization with aligning leading Software Defined Data Center and Application Automation Specialist with enterprise clients for the delivery of highly available services.

Shrewsbury, New Jersey, Us

• Lead Technical Recruiter for establishment of a virtual consulting staff for the delivery of Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) Services primarily for Cisco ACI Software Defined Networking Services.HIGHLIGHT ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Successfully recruited SDDC services Practice Leads and contractors to deliver Cisco ACI Starter Kit and long-term Plan, Design and Implement (PDI) projects that is projected to increase billable revenues by 1M in F/Y 2017 and increase to over 2M in F/Y 2018.

New York, Ny, Us

• Established strong relationships with client Hiring Manager’s through listening and asking questions to learn as precisely as possible, what candidates will be the right fits for Presidio’s clients from both a technical and cultural perspective and then delivering them to achieve complete client satisfaction.• Created extensive data base of active and passive information technology and project management professionals that all recruiters where able to utilize through Applicant Tracking System (Job Diva) that contributed to the success and growth of the entire Presidio Staffing team.HIGHLIGHT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Top Recruiter for 5 years that consistently generated recurring revenue for between 20 to 30 billable contractors that generated over 4M in annual revenue and more than 1M in gross profits from 2014 – 2016.• Credited with over 150 placements of highly talented contractors that represented the Presidio Brand with clients located in the New York City area as well as throughout the United States. • Contributed to the establishment of Presidio as an Approved staffing vendor by recruiting top talent to clients such as BNP Paribus, Univision, Credit Suisse, Fitek, Con Edison, Bloomberg and others that had never used Presidio staffing services in the past.

Edison, Nj, Us

Primarily focused on contributing to the establishment and growth of Tekmark’s emerging financial services and communications service provider clients with project based technical resource delivery, consultant staff augmentation and permanent placement services within the following technical disciplines:HIGHLIGHT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Identified and recruited four ultra-low latency financial data center infrastructure architects and application delivery systems engineering consultants to Bank of America.• At the request of the hiring manager, I successfully led the recruiting effort that delivered six consultants to Thomson Reuter’s data center infrastructure migration project. • Contributed to the establishment of our growing business with AT&T by delivering IP mobility application architects and OSS performance assurance test engineers to a project that other agencies had failed to identify the required talent.

Fairfield, New Jersey, Us

Recruited and hired top internetworking infrastructure consulting talent from initial sourcing, interview preparation and coordination, coaching, persuasion, encouragement, compensation negotiation through to final resource delivery. HIGHLIGHT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Hired over 200 highly skilled professionals from mid-2006 through 2009 for the delivery of business advisory and technical consulting services to very demanding Fortune 500 clients by networking and establishing an extensive pipeline and database of candidates.• Built a 14 member “road warrior” consulting staff to represent Cisco Advanced Services at Tier 1 Service Providers that billed over 4 million dollars for professional services.• Provided the capability for ThruPoint to be recognized as a leading provider of Service Creation Consulting Services by recruiting a 12 - member team of SIP and Session Border Controller Subject Matter Experts and technical marketing executives.• Staffed the 24 members of the team of ThruPoint consultants at Morgan Stanley.• Conceptualized and implemented a proactive recruiting process that provided the constant availability of the appropriate resources needed to capture revenue opportunities while decreasing costs per hire.• Trained, coached and mentored less experienced internal recruiters, enabling them to have the capability to self-manage the full recruiting process. This allowed me to execute on the highest priority staffing needs of the company.

Bs, Network Communications Management

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