SUMMARY:

• 4+ years of experience into IT Recruitment. Results oriented with a solid track record of outstanding sourcing, recruiting, execution, and monitoring with the ability to support multiple simultaneous open positions and experience in recruiting. And proactively sourced candidates using tools such as: LinkedIn, Dice, Monster, CareerBuilder, LinkedIn, Indeed, Google groups and Glassdoor.
• Sourcing Information Technology professionals for both contract and full time positions for candidates for positions such as Application Developer (Java/J2EE, .NET/C#, WPF, JavaScript, Mobile, Cloud), Database Developer (Oracle/PL/SQL, SQL Server), Business Intelligence Architect (SQL Server SSRS/SSIS/SSAS), Business Intelligence Developer (COGNOS/Business Objects), Middleware Administration (WebLogic/WebSphere), Application Support (UNIX/Java), QA Analyst (Back End ETL/SQL Testers, Automation Engineer AND Manual Testers), Business Analyst (Front Office/Market - Credit Risk) and Project Manager (Infrastructure/Application Development).
• CLIENTS: Credit Suisse, JPMC, Bank of America, Millennium Partners Financial, Liquidnet, Citadel, BNP Paribas, Google, Bank of New York, Lazard, Citigroup, Deloitte, MetLife.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

RECRUITER

Responsibilities:

• Conducting full life cycle recruiting for IT professionals (contract and direct hire): Sourcing, Resume Submission, interview, offer negotiation and closed candidates for assigned requisitions.
• Source new candidates through inbound lead follow-up and outbound cold calls and emails
• Source new candidates through job boards: LinkedIn, Indeed, etc
• Understand job description needs and requirements for each role and project
• Route qualified opportunities to the appropriate sales executives for further development and closure
• Research candidates, identify key players and generate interest
• Cold call into businesses for business development
• Occasionally attend networking event
• Team with channel partners to build pipeline and close deals
• Source, phone interview and submit quality candidates in a timely manner
• Post positions using job boards

Confidential, NY

SENIOR TECHNICAL RECRUITER

Responsibilities:

• Conducting full life cycle recruiting for IT professionals (contract and direct hire): Sourcing, Resume Submission, interview, offer negotiation and closed candidates for assigned requisitions.
• Setting up the candidate interview with the client and coordinate interviews with account managers and candidates
• Following up with candidates for offer discussion and acceptance.
• Ability to generate a high volume and high quality pipeline of candidates under very tight timelines.
• Ability to maintain strong relationships with recruiters and account managers.
• Perform checks, employment verifications, and request background investigations on applicants.
• Utilize applicant tracking system (ATS) Bullhorn, Indeed, Dice, Monster, LinkedIn, CareerBuilder, Boolean Search and other tools for sourcing.
• Edit and reformat resumes as needed and added relevant keywords to increase candidate match to positions.
• Generating and maintaining database of all resumes received through various sources.
• Working with different candidates (US Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD, H1B, OPT, CPT).
• Conducting recruitment interviews and providing the necessary inputs after the debrief process
• Utilizing phone system for cold calling and networking.
• Met with candidates in-person or via SKYPE to forge a stronger bond with candidates.
• Mentored junior recruiters.

Confidential, NJ

TECHNICAL RECRUITER

Responsibilities:

• Conduct full life cycle recruiting for IT professionals (contract and direct hire) including sourcing candidates, through various outlets: Facebook, LinkedIn, user groups, and other creative means of networking to recruit.
• Prescreen and pre-qualify candidates with thorough phone screens and accurately match candidate experience to roles.
• Edit and reformat resumes as needed and added relevant key words to increase candidate match to positions.
• Interview, coordinate and prepare candidates for interviews with clients; negotiate offers and close hires.
• Prepare and organize on-boarding information, material and activities.
• Manage and track all verbal and written communication with candidates’ in applicant tracking system.
• Negotiate and implement contracts, rates and candidate submissions.
• Utilize phone system by cold and warm calls, networking, and building relationships with candidates.
• Develop and maintain relationships with third party employers to supplement recruiting efforts within a variety of industries; finance, brokerage,, pharmaceutical and insurance.
• Place IT professionals with a variety of clients in the finance, brokerage,, pharmaceutical and insurance industries; clients such as Credit Suisse, Bank of America, Citigroup, Deloitte, al Testing Services, and MetLife.
• Positions recruited: Placed Hadoop Developers, FDM/HFM Developers, Java developer, .NET Developers, Business Analyst, Market Risk Data Analyst, Data Architects/Data Modelers, Hadoop Architect, FDM Consultants, Tibco, Fortran, Linux Support Engineer, Oracle Developers, Quants, Engineers, DBA’s, BA’s, Project Managers, Development & Delivery Managers, QA staff, Trade Support, Production Support and Application Support.

Confidential

Back Office REPO Trade Support/ Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Performed testing of the ICI/IMPACT release by running scripts in AS400.
• Provided first line trade support troubleshooting issues, leading technical investigations and supporting mission critical platforms.
• Troubleshoot REPO settlement trade incidents for ICI/IMPACT (REPO).
• Front Line communication with the development team.
• Liaised with internal development teams as well as vendors to report on incidents requiring software changes.
• Produced and maintained knowledge base and documentation for WIKI implementation.
• Formulated solutions to reduce issue impact on the business users.
• Generated reports using SQL.
• Utilized JIRA to track and assign issues.

Confidential

Front Office Fixed Income Trade Support/Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Performed Quality Assurance of the systems with regression testing and Sunday checkouts after production releases.
• Provided first line support to the REPO, Securitized Products, and the Credit Default Swap trader’s and sale’s desk.
• Supported the lifecycle of a critical C#/.Net trade execution systems, sales execution and risk management systems.
• Updated user manuals with new application implementation.
• Utilized JIRA and other incident management tools to track issues to resolution.
• Created and updated wiki pages with new and reoccurring issues.
• Utilized UNIX commands check process, logs, directories, copy files, and check system performances.
• Created Pivot Charts for analyzing sales revenue numbers and completed VLOOKUP’s - utilized Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Utilized relational database (SQL, Oracle, DB2, Sybase) and basic SQL syntax to generated daily ad hoc reports with for the Middle Office Sales Team.

Confidential

Front Office CDS, Bonds Trading, Pricing/Risk Trade Support/Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Supported a mission critical C#/.Net Bond and CDS trade processing system, and a risk system.
• Performed dummy trades in the UAT environment with dummy books, CDS Curves, Cusips EV, Sales/Trader/Broker, different trade types - step-ins, allocations, swing trade, or internal trade, monitored different trade blotters in the process, approve/affirm trades.
• Liaised with E (electronic) trading team to install various ECNs on the traders’ machines and support STP broker trader trade flow and to troubleshoot trade flow outages, or incidents.
• Rolled out various ECN applications such as (MarketAxess, Citi Velocity) and liaison with help desk to install Bloomberg.
• Utilize Jira and other incident management tools and ticketing systems to track incidents to resolution.
• Liaised with technology teams for desktop/display issues, trade data issues, application connectivity issues, installation/configuration for rollouts to entire desks.
• Liaised with MO/BO business and technology teams to create and give access to firm accounts, or trade books and troubleshoot trade performance processing issues with detail step by step solutions.
• Documented common issues and procedures for team’s perusal or on internal wiki pages.
• Utilized SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase database for querying and generating of trade and CDS prices detail reports.

Confidential

Trade Support/Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Supported a mission critical VB and C# Forex Trading, position keeping, deal capture, and P&L system production environment.
• Utilized Jira and Remedy Ticketing System.
• Raised incident requests and managed change management request tickets.
• Reran and escalate AutoSys job failures to batch processing team.
• Escalated major application issues to various development teams.
• Tracked incidents and provide updates for request to the various incidents types; like counterparty booking issue, trade executing issues, application logic issues, P&L calculation issues and booking errors, position breaks, trade distributions breaks.