SUMMARY

• A Senior Recruiting Consultant - utilizing new and established methodologies and strategies to increase reduce costs, improve retention, diversity, on boarding, college's internship programsand streamline hiring processes to create a competitive advantage.
• I comprise substantial working knowledge of Federal and State employment labor laws. I possess extensive recruiting experience for Corporate and Global Confidential 500 corporations, medium-size and start-up companies. Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Medical Device, R&D Software/Hardware Development, Information Technology, E-commerce, Energy, Manufacturing, Aviation, Aerospace, Defense, Government and Telecommunications

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Oracle Data
• Nortel Networks
• Extranet Access
• Extranet Connection Manager
• Platinum SQL
• Platinum Explorer
• Lotus Notes
• Adobe Illustrator
• PhotoShop Graphics and Web Research Publisher). Well versed in Internet/ASP applications
• Boolean Logic
• AIRS training various software applications including MSOffice Suite
• ATS-Kenexa BrassRings iCIMS
• Peerless
• Hiring Tools
• Webhire
• Recruitmax
• Vurv
• Virtual Edge
• PeopleSoft
• TaleoX Business Edition 7.5
• PeopleClick
• Ceridian
• ISearch
• Recruiting Solutions
• Knowledge point
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Google
• Boolean
• MySpace exclusive job and other search engines; Flip
• Jigsaw
• YouTube
• Jobster
• Digg
• Ziggs
• Spoke
• Techies
• Sales-Genie
• Recruiting Blogs
• RedBook
• Hot-Gigs
• Guru
• Computer-Jobs
• Meetup
• Craigslist
• Medzilla
• Joopz
• Software Contractors Guild
• Ladders
• StumbleUpon
• Job Central
• Squidoo
• Slashdot
• Idealist
• Scribd
• Indeed
• Simply Hired
• Docstoc
• VisualCV eMurse
• Doostang
• Pipl
• Crunchbase
• Various Technology Councils
• AIRS
• ERE
• Associations
• Universities
• User Groups
• Blogs
• Job Spiders
• Diigo
• Evernote
• Broadlook Diver/Eclipse/Profiler/Mapper eGrabber Google Alerts
• Skype
• PRWeb and Friend Feed.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Recruiter

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create and implement employee relations polices and help increase employee satisfaction
• Devise a list of procedures and practices for hiring new employees and managing our staff
• Establish an orientation procedure for onboarding new hires and training them to meet the needs of the company
• Communicate with employees about benefits program, compensation, employment visa, and other facets of fair employment
• Approve and schedule PTO and SL based on employee need and company requirements
• Respond to questions or complaints from employees in a timely fashion
• Manage all other HR department personnel
• Placed mid-to-high level (Senior Cancer Scientist, Associate Bioinformatics Directors, Oncologist, Statistical Oncology Informatics, Directors)
• Vigorous R&D candidate’s pipeline with oncology, neurology, genetics, genomic focus.
• Extensive experience in acquisition of candidates with Phase II /IV cellular therapeutics.
• HR Generalist functions - Employment laws, benefits, On-boarding, etc.

Senior Consultant

Confidential - Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for full life-cycle recruiting (Director, Principle Engineers, C#, Java, C++, Cloud Engineers, Quality, Software Technical Leads) process including sourcing and identifying candidates, telephone screening, in-person interviews, technical testing, reference and background verification, submittal to client, salary negotiation and new-hire training.
• Develop, plan, and implement recruitment strategies and activities to meet hiring objectives for assigned territory and job vacancies. Build relationships with key sources of candidates in assigned territory including colleges, community resources, and other sourcing channels. Plan and implement special recruitment marketing events to build knowledge of Escher and its career opportunities.
• Manage end-to-end hiring selection process for assigned job vacancies ensuring consistent application of company process, selection criteria, and policy. Activities include posting jobs, screening resumes, testing, selection interviews, candidate assessment and facilitation of selection decisions.
• Maintain thorough documentation for all candidates to support EEOC and diversity requirements. Introduced and utilized a broad array of resources in order to target active as well as passive candidates.
• Major participation and involvement in numerous staffing development strategy sessions

Senior Recruiter

Confidential - Trumbull, CT

Responsibilities:

• Leads initial consultations with hiring managers on requisition definition and potential sourcing strategies of high level Pharmaceutical, Confidential, Oil, Gas, Energy, I.T & Sales (iOS Engineers, UI/UX Developer, Product Managers, Technical Architect/Cloud, Android Software Engineer, Android QA/ Developer, Engineer Android User Interface Software Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer - Security Expert - US/International-R & D - Director of Immunology, Associate of Lupus, Sr. Scientist/Principal, Pharmacometrics, Biostatistician, Senior Statistical Programmer, Genetics, Bioinformatics, Diabetes Educators, Clinical Research-Cardiology, Molecular Diagnostics, Senior Manager-Clinical Operations - Exploration Geologist, Drill-Site Engineer, DoD-Intel, Cyber Security ) candidates.
• Place mid-to-high level (Bio-Pharmaceutical, Scientist, and Engineers) candidates within major pharmaceuticals companies.

Senior Consultant

Confidential, Kalamazoo, MI

Responsibilities:

• Development full-cycle recruit plan for 6 (Spine, Orthopaedics, Corporate, Instruments, Medical & Neurovascular) Stryker Divisions to attract mid-to-high level (Engineers, Project Managers, IP Legal, Sales & I.T.) candidates.
• Recruiting strategy, which included direct sourcing from competitors, Internet sourcing, employee referrals, job board ad/posting, and in-depth candidate mining/ research.
• Work closely with hiring managers throughout hiring process and providing coaching/ training where required.
• HR Generalist- Onboarding, Employment Laws, Benefits Program, etc.
• Skilled to study the candidates’ resume beyond the key search words and asking intelligent behavioral based interviewing questions to evaluate their technical skills, education, work history, personality, salary requirements, and abilities based on hiring needs and culture fit.

Senior Recruiter/Consultant

Confidential - Andover, MA

Responsibilities:

• Provided full life cycle recruiting (source, screen, interview, and close candidates) for the Medical Device division.
• Worked directly with hiring managers to identify and hire qualified Medical Device, I.T, Sales & Engineering candidates.
• Drove recruiting strategy, which included direct sourcing from competitors, Internet sourcing, generating and encouraging employee referrals, job board ad/posting, and working research.
• Run and analyze business area/ function diversity data to determine appropriate areas of focus and develop appropriate strategies to increase diversity and inclusion aligned with enterprise wide D&I strategy
• Led R&D project of Software Engineer the areas of embedded real-time software engineering (requirements analysis, design, testing), data structures, algorithms, and C/C++ language (or other middle to high-level language).
• Set-up and execute campus recruitment efforts to top college/universities potential candidates.
• Managed relocation, visas, background checks, drug screening & EEO.

Senior Recruitment Account Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Evaluation of Medical Device Sales, I.T & Engineering candidate credentials to match to the requirements of position.
• Consult with Hiring Manager to assess most appropriate sourcing strategy e.g. internal/external, search firm, agency.
• Work with Hiring Manager to review and confirm Engineering, Sales, I.T & Financial job descriptions.
• HR Generalist functions - Employment law, immigration, diversity program, benefits, etc.
• Manage relationships with search firms, agencies, recruitment portals, etc and other organizations (ADA guidelines) to effect timely and thorough sourcing of high quality candidate pool
• Work with Hiring Manager and Third-Party vendors to manage efficient candidate assessment/ interview process (utilizing COE recruitment toolkit).

Senior Recruitment Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Build pipelines of talent based on their labor market expertise, particularly in the fields of chemistry, biology, computational biology, bioinformatics, translational medicine, proteomics, and pharmacology,
• Effectively engage, pursue, and convert candidates, both at the PhD and non-PhD levels.
• Act as a senior, Strategic Business Partner to exclusive Department Directors.
• Actively conduct interview training techniques for Senior Management in select divisions.
• Provide information on NIAID / NCI (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / National Cancer Institute) policies, benefits, opportunities to agencies, colleges, and prospects.
• Set-up and execute campus recruitment efforts to top college/universities potential candidates.
• Engage in sourcing for diverse talent by identifying resources, networks, organizations that can create pipelines to diverse talent within various lines of business (R&D, Confidential, Support Functions, etc).
• Develop strategies for the external diversity outreach that will support our workforce/talent strategies.
• HR Generalist functions - Employment law, immigration, diversity program, benefits, etc.
• Drug discovery process for a vigorous R&D candidate’s pipeline with oncology, neurology, immunology focus.
• Extensive experience in the recruitment of candidate with Phase II /IV cellular therapeutics.