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 Responsible for Artech’s national recruiting infrastructure including recruiting and support personnel, methodologies, processes and tools. Partner with Regional VPs to develop recruiting and service delivery strategies. Ensure the recruiting infrastructure is quickly scalable and flexible enough to align recruiting teams with clients’ geographic- and skill-specific programs Responsible for all recruiting services – currently overseeing the methodology and tools used by Artech’s CORE (Centralized Operations and Recruiting Excellence) offshore team as well as the Rapid Deployment Task Force. Overarching objectives are to drive enterprise-wide recruiting strategy, manage training and implementation of processes for all new and existing recruiters, and ensure consistent use of standardized recruiting methodologies. Provide leadership visibility into recruiting performance and encouragement of continuous sharing of recruiting best practices Work as a key strategist in assuring quality deliverables to Artech’s enterprise clients, and ensure all necessary resources are in place and the recruiting practice remains at optimal levels to key clients

 Provided client governance and account management support to Fannie Mae by developing strong partnerships with the internal MSP team to understand Fannie Mae’s contractor needs from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. Based on this knowledge and understanding of upcoming projects, this information is shared with the Sr. Service Delivery Manager enabling the recruiting team to develop a skills inventory for the pipelining of candidates via Artech’s GEM system. Additional responsibilities include overall governance of the compliance metrics, and processes and procedures surrounding Artech’s engagements with Fannie Mae  Provide leadership to a team of 27 local and international individuals, which encompasses two divisions servicing commercial and government clients with staff at varying levels including technical recruiters, a technical recruiting associate and an account associate  Meet weekly with individual recruiters to review prior week’s candidates entered into the database, submittals to clients, interviews with clients, pending starts, current challenges and goals for the upcoming week while utilizing actual metrics retrieved from internal database for validation Provide several multi-week training sessions each year covering various topics such as an 11-session, in-depth breakdown of each step in the full recruiting lifecycle, an 8-week IT technical skills analysis, and a 15-session daily miniseries outlining our internal database’s capabilities in addition to ongoing, hands-on mentoring and regular role-playing Facilitate daily meetings between recruiters and account managers where requirements are recapped, commitments for delivery are made/fulfilled, feedback is requested/given and challenges/opportunities are discussed Perform annual performance evaluations; quarterly analyses of advancement toward professional, personal and financial goals; and monthly assessments of progress toward quota attainment

In March 2011, EDGE Professional Services was acquired by Artech Information Systems.

 Managed all recruiting activity and designated priority levels (requirement assignments, phone calls, in-house interviews, submittals, client interviews and new hires) as well as interacted with business development team (follow-up on requirement coverage, interviews and issue escalation) Trained and mentored recruiting team continually by discussing situations, role-playing when necessary, etc. to make them effective, efficient recruiters Performed hands-on recruiting such as sourcing, interviewing, negotiating, closing and resume tailoring to aid recruiting team in their efforts, ensuring candidates were technical, personal and organizational fits for the opportunities on which they were presented Assigned requirements using a “smart round-robin” process which allowed diversity of skillsets being handled by each recruiter and ensured a fair distribution in number of requirements being worked individually Acted as management-level interviewer for nearly all in-house candidates brought in by recruiting Prepared reports and metrics for weekly staff meetings with executive management Maintained list of all previously vetted candidates to provide quick access to qualified potentials for new requirements Conducted “pick-up meetings” with the recruiting team regularly to discuss thoughts, ideas, processes, etc. as well as performed annual reviews and met with individual recruiters monthly and quarterly to evaluate progress toward yearly company and career development goals Pipelined potential recruiting candidates on an ongoing, proactive basis Operated recruiting division as a profit center, determined each team member’s value and made decisions accordingly Leveraged past experiences as account salesperson and branch manager to bring added value to Alltech outside of the recruiting division

Director of Operations, Vienna, VA Managed 10 recruiters, 4 administrators, 4 Senior Staff Managers, 21 Staff Managers and a Consultant Manager as well as overseeing 243 billable consultants Hired and trained new recruiters by developing and implementing a curriculum; mentored staff on closing situations/issues and conducted ongoing collaborative learning sessions Developed a recruiting process for the DC district from requirement ownership to applicable candidate activations and consultant starts Monitored daily staffing pipeline of over 200 reqs Wrote performance evaluations and salary reviews on an annual basis for a team of 15 as well as managed career development plans through regular meetings and status changes Coached the more seasoned team members and served as the point person for consultant/employee issue escalation/resolution for the district Aided in increasing retention and reducing turnover by managing the Consultant Care program, which included all salary/hourly employees, bench consultants and staff managers Ensured all processes and staff were compliant with ISO9001:2000 standards Functioned as the GSA representative for company for over five years Responsible for delivery of all professional services engagements as well as staff augmentation assignments Performed hands-on sourcing, qualifying and recruiting of candidates to assist recruiting team Approved commissions, offer paperwork and margin percentages of deals with full signing authority, while being responsible for the district’s operating income and budget of $39M  Provided customized pricing and boilerplate information for all RFI, RFQ and RFP’s Implemented the board which displays all ready list activations, candidates accepted, priority requirements, client interviews, starts, terms, net growth, and headcount to develop accountability from the sales and recruiting teams Responsible for all advertising, outbound recruiting and evaluation of sourcing sites

Managing Director, Atlanta, GA  Managed staff of account managers, technical recruiters and administration Achieved 56% headcount net growth of office while acting as a working sales manager Mentored sales reps by partnering on client appointments, reviewing req-interview-start ratios on a regular basis, and training on relative subjects Developed techniques for recruiters and created innovative methods/sources for finding new, high tech talent Planned and budgeted for the Atlanta office as well as maintained responsibility for its bottom-line and made branch profitable within four monthsDirector, Business Development, Vienna, VA Utilized cold/warm calls to generate new business Successfully established relationships with new and existing client base Targeted and prospected major users of consultants, which were mostly Fortune 500 companies Partnered with lead recruiter to form an efficient sales team Qualified client manager requirements to determine the urgency of their needs Supplemented the recruiting effort when needed in order to respond as quickly as possible to ensure optimal customer satisfaction

Sr. Account Manager, Chantilly, VA Gathered leads via current consultants, prospective candidates, referrals, past references, internet Prospected clients and ranked them according to consultant usage Built and maintained relationships with a core group of client managers Responsible for all negotiation between Vistech and customers regarding salary, compensation and fee percentages of new hires and existing consultantsRecruiting Manager, Atlanta, GA Thoroughly trained new recruiters who had no prior industry or recruiting experience Responsible for overall numbers/quota of the Atlanta office Acted as a working manager, still responsible for numbers as well as management of the office Handled negotiations between Vistech and its customers Worked as a mentor to aid negotiations between junior recruiters and candidates as well as those between newer sales reps and clientsRecruiting Manager, Dallas, TX Opened Dallas as a satellite branch in the “seedling” stage, acting as a working manager Responsible for all lead generation, sourcing of candidates as well as qualification of potential consultants, and closing of candidates to accept offers made by clients Established a fully functional library of all resumes Networked with other branches to find experienced candidatesSr. Technical Recruiter, Chantilly, VA Quickly learned computer consulting industry and all terminology Consistently maintained the best ratio of candidates presented to actual starts After only a four-month tenure at the company, conducted training for new recruiters  Held the record for the most starts in one month (15) and did so two months in a row Qualify candidates for specific positions and client requirements