Subject Matter Expert, advisor and consultative business partner supporting Retail Technology, E-commerce and Security business groups across the United States for Walmart Corporate IT.Leader and individual contributor focusing on full life cycle Talent Acquisition targeting passive, senior level Technology professionals with 10 plus years’ experience management level and above.Responsible for leading and developing junior team members to include PMs, Coordinators, Recruiters and Sourcers.ATS and CRM [ Avature ] training partner.Responsible for developing and maintaining HR Business Partner relationships while working together supporting senior internal business leaders and their resource needs.Walmart Technology branding and Social Media focus

Member of The Global Talent Acquisition Team supporting internal hiring managers across 30 hiring groups in support of all IT Corporate requirements for Chicago area and nationwide.Responsible for the ongoing training support to India Talent Acquisition helping implement Sourcing best practices.Manager and individual contributor responsible for leading IT Sourcing Teams including training, development and delivery.Sourcing from both traditional and non traditional resources for some 25-68 requirements at any given time.Focused primarily on developing strong pipelines of both active and passive candidates with main emphasis on networking, referrals, cold-calling and web 2.0 approach.Responsible for branding of Aon name and attracting top talent by membership and attendance at various technology functions and associations including PMI, CJUG, CNUG, IIBA and TDWI.

Responsible for sourcing, recruiting and placing IT professionals in a VMS environment supporting Fortune 50 financial and healthcare clients in the Chicago area.Key responsibility was to drive direct hire talent acquisition through passive non-job board recruiting.Responsible for TransTech branding through networking events, association meetings and technology forums.Attended 25 outside Technology events including providing interviewing presentations to attract talent.Coached and mentored junior staff on the way to recruit passive candidates, the use of non-traditional recruiting sources, and the importance and art of building candidate relationship.Worked closely with recruiting vendors in support of VMS requirements.

As Regional Corporate Recruiter with Volt Technical Resources, Thomas supported 12 offices in 7 states in the Midwest and Toronto, ON. in the IT, Engineering and Life Sciences verticle.Key responsibility was Volt branding through associations, technical organizations and business events in an effort to market the company and attract top talent.Use of traditional and non-traditional recruiting strategies with emphasis on passive recruiting.Responsible to attract candidates for the following positions including but not limited to: Account Managers, Area Managers, Regional VPs, Recruiters, Directors, Program and Project Managers, Administrative staff. Direct daily interface with all levels of hiring managers through the Senior VP level.