International Lead Recruiter for medical providers and facilities in Latin America and Spain

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Warehouse and dispatch manager for a fleet of large capacity trucks, safely supplying construction materials for the greater Houston area.

Dispatch Manager

 Successfully managed the travel, accommodations, payroll, and scheduling for a an electrical and instrumentation team of over 50 individuals
  Utilized performance evaluations in order to properly place the proper professionals in the most adequate positions
  Processed billing and purchasing requests for materials between the clients and the Construction Manager
  Successfully served as the interim Construction Manager in his absence after a very short period of training and experience
  Processed quotes for potential clients pertaining to future projects

Administrative Services Coordinator

As the Senior Contract Negotiator and Quality Control Supervisor, managed the US Army Liaison Office at the Military Entrance Processing Station in Houston, the fourth largest in the Country.  Served as an executive liaison to leaders from over 40 recruiting centers (and over 300 recruiters) in Southern Texas  Utilized broad scope of industry knowledge toward directing forward-thinking talent acquisition processes, including recruiting, training, mentoring, and managing a top-performing team of 6 staffing specialists and 2 junior managers.  Partnered with leadership team and increased productivity by embedding a new candidate processing strategy in the business.  Responsible for improving process efficiency by identifying irregularities and defining roles and responsibilities of hiring team.  Conceptualized and implemented performance measurement metrics to achieve team quarterly/annual goals.  Developed and enforced policies and procedures to ensure consistency with corporate objectives and accurate performance audits

Regional Talent Acquisition Manager

 Managed recruiting teams in extremely challenging and remote environments covering the eastern sea board regions of Puerto Rico, including two of its remote islands and various counties in Northern New Jersey.  Entrusted over peers to establish a new recruiting center in a historically nonproductive environment with the goal of penetrating and dominating the market from competitors.  Achieved 99% hiring rate, attaining recognition and enriching negotiations skills in strengthening recruitment and filling positions.  Improved Center rankings by 70% in 3 year tenure  Ensured compliance with legal/safety requirements to maintain a 100% incident free workplace.  Strategically steered solutions-focused talent acquisition, proactively forecasting workforce needs.  Partnered with a 350+ member recruiting force to strengthen recruitment efforts and reduce time and cost per hire. Built communications channels with managers to provide resourceful advisement.  Applied strong leadership abilities as HR Generalist handling on-boarding, record keeping, and benefits administration.

Regional Talent Acquisition Supervisor

Responsible for leading the redesign and rebuilding of Springfield Recruiting Company’s South Hadley recruiting center from the ground up, including successfully breaking into 4 major market segments, achieving a 35% volume iincrease within only a 6-month period. Maximized the use of Applicant Tracking Systems to accurately and efficiently recruit, therefor saving valuable time for new lead generation. Played a vital role in developing and executing business unit talent acquisition strategies encompassing all operating procedures, candidate networks, and pipeline, along with screening, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring top-notch talent. Conducted new hire onboarding procedures, which included company culture, EEO, risk assessment, benefits, and sexual harassment training. Built the college recruitment strategy and sustained mutually beneficial public relations among educators and civic leaders by participating in career fairs and internship programs. Based on productivity and efficiency, was selected as the top Company Recruiter after 1 year tenure

Recruiter Manager / Recruiter

As the Battery Fire Direction Chief I served as the executive operations manager. Charged with the positioning, tracking, general over sight, and accurate targeting information for 9 rocket/missile launchers and 3 smaller platoon level fire direction centers. Operations also included ammunition inventories, unit movement, battlefield tracking, security planning, digital communications establishment, and personnel health and welfare. During garrison operations mostly served as the headquarters platoon sergeant managing over 25 junior enlisted and non-commissioned officers. This position was awarded to me as a Sergeant due to my professional experience and superior technical knowledge, the position is normally filled by a Sergeant First Class, two ranks above mine at the time.

Operations Manager-Battery Fire Direction Chief (BOC)

As the Battalion Fire Direction Chief I was charged with the operation management, training, planning, tracking, targeting, combat simulations, and Battlefield planning for 81 rocket/missile launchers as well as 3 Battery Operation Centers and 9 Platoon level Fire Direction Centers. This position was reserved for Master Sergeants due to its immense responsibility and sheer size of the operation. None the less it was awarded to me as a Sergeant, three ranks below the Army requirement to my professionalism, accomplishments and technical knowledge. I was selected over every senior non-commissioned officer in my organization to fill this position, and I performed as expected with three years of successful garrison and live firing exercises without a single error or safety related accident during my tenure.

Operations Manager-Battalion Fire Direction Chief

As a platoon level fire direction chief I was selected over 60 peers to assist in the development and fielding of the HIMARS weapon system over a 3 year period. During this period I was directly supervising 3 junior enlisted Soldiers and managing the planning and execution of combat simulations, training, and execution of simulated combat operations for the the battle testing phases of the system for 3 launcher sections which included 9 other Soldiers and Non-commissioned officers. With our input and rigorous simulations we were able to identify and help refine the system to what it is today with many of my operational procedures still currently used. During the fielding phase I conducted land to land and air to land operations from simple dry runs to live fire exercises for US senators and Pentagon personnel which led to the approval and integration of this system into the Army's arsenal.

Operations Manager- Platoon Level Fire Direction Chief

As the fire direction computer operator I was charged with the general maintenance, servicing, upkeep, and driving of our tracked vehicle the M577A2. A turbo-charged diesel power train with a complex drive train and hydraulic steering system, and an on board has online powered generator. Technical duties included constant training on the fire direction software and communications equipment to ensure its readiness and consistency when deployed for training exercises. Map reading and battlefield tracking was also a large part of my duties as they prepared me for the future roles.

Fire Direction Computer Operator

This was my first duty station after 5 months of extensive technical training at Fort Sill Oklahoma, the Army's Field Artillery Headquarters. Shortly after my arrival this unit received orders to be deactivated and unfortunately all planned training was cancelled. As a result I did not experience very much on the job training during the short time that I was stationed there. My responsibilities were as follows. As the fire direction computer operator I was charged with the general maintenance, servicing, upkeep, and driving of our tracked vehicle the M577A2. A turbo-charged diesel power train with a complex drive train and hydraulic steering system, and an on board has online powered generator.

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