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How to Attract Passive Job Candidates and Why I Prefer the SHRM Approach
How to Attract Passive Job Candidates and Why I Prefer the SHRM Approach
By Eric Ryals- (Diversity and Inclusion Focused- Unicorn Finder )
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How Big is the US Staffing Industry Compared to Other Countries?
How Big is the US Staffing Industry Compared to Other Countries?
By Eric Ryals- (Diversity and Inclusion Focused- Unicorn Finder )
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How to write about yourself professionally for a solid executive bio.
How to write about yourself professionally for a solid executive bio.
By Eric Ryals- (Diversity and Inclusion Focused- Unicorn Finder )
Contributions
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Calling all Global CIO's ________________________________________________________________ I am sourcing on 2 Global CIO's ( different companies)…
Calling all Global CIO's ________________________________________________________________ I am sourcing on 2 Global CIO's ( different companies)…
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Data Strategy takes a day to give back to the Nashville community! The Caterpillar Financial Business Information and Data Solutions team recently…
Data Strategy takes a day to give back to the Nashville community! The Caterpillar Financial Business Information and Data Solutions team recently…
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- Calling all Post Sales CTO's- __________________________________________________________________ - Large SAAS base products delivery executive…
- Calling all Post Sales CTO's- __________________________________________________________________ - Large SAAS base products delivery executive…
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Experience & Education
Licenses & Certifications
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Nationally Certified Resume Writer (NCRW) certification
The National Résumé Writers' Association
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Volunteer Experience
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Group Facilitator and IT Recruitment
CIO Forum
- Present 22 years 7 months
Science and Technology
The business goals have changed and CIOs are now tasked with trying to find emerging opportunities to drive value throughout the enterprise. The CIO Forum is an event that is a unique opportunity for leading IT thinkers to collaborate on current industry challenges and trends.
My role here is to listen to member's story, plug them into one of our key note speaking events, support back office needs and be a resource for our member to rely on for their individual company executive search…The business goals have changed and CIOs are now tasked with trying to find emerging opportunities to drive value throughout the enterprise. The CIO Forum is an event that is a unique opportunity for leading IT thinkers to collaborate on current industry challenges and trends.
My role here is to listen to member's story, plug them into one of our key note speaking events, support back office needs and be a resource for our member to rely on for their individual company executive search requirement's. -
Key Note Speaker
Technology Association of Georgia
- 4 years 6 months
Science and Technology
"Alignment of Your Companies Recruitment and Technology"
1. Industries
2. Technology stacks/silos expertise
3. Best team foundation to support your technology silos
4. How to deal with bottlenecks
5. How to stay focused on IT/Recruitment trends
6. How to (re)focus on compliance (HR and IT)
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Key Note Speaker
North Carolina Technology Association (NC TECH)
- 1 month
Science and Technology
4 STRATEGIES TO BUILD A STRONG OFFSHORE TEAM-
1. Know your hiring needs
2. Engage with the right offshore partner
3. Don’t compromise on quality
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Volunteer/KeyNote Speaker
CIO Prespective
- 10 years 2 months
Here's how to start your IT career in eight steps :
1. Research roles and positions.
2. Create a short list.
3. Learn to code.
4. Work on an open-source project.
5. Enroll in education.
6. Network with IT professionals.
7. Freelance for experience.
8. Be ready to answer technical questions. -
Guest Speaker
Greater Nashville Technology Council
- 1 month
Science and Technology
CRM enablement using the Salesforce focused platform
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Keynote Speaker
CIO Forum
- 1 month
MODERN EXECUTIVE’S GUIDE TO GETTING THE JOB AND BUILDING THEIR CAREER
Courses
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Accounting and Business classes
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Projects
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Offshore/Onsite Outsourcing
“Shadow” Resource Model- Stones Offshore Resource Model also provides for the allocation of apprentice resources termed as "shadow resources" who work alongside the experienced team members and learn the project environment, processes, and tasks.
Grooming shadow resources along with the main resources helps to build up redundancy to mitigate attrition risks. This also facilitates a smooth transition of these resources to the core team when required and provides coverage for other core…“Shadow” Resource Model- Stones Offshore Resource Model also provides for the allocation of apprentice resources termed as "shadow resources" who work alongside the experienced team members and learn the project environment, processes, and tasks.
Grooming shadow resources along with the main resources helps to build up redundancy to mitigate attrition risks. This also facilitates a smooth transition of these resources to the core team when required and provides coverage for other core team resources when needed. I have done this and still continue to do this for a few clients based here in Atlanta, GA area. It is the best way to do offshore. -
Application Development
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Development
We plan, design, build, test, implement and seamlessly integrate applications across the enterprise. We are laser focused on defect prevention and quality. We stick like glue to time lines and budgets.
Maintenance
Rely on Charter Global throughout the entire maintenance lifecycle of existing IT applications. We offer 24/7 support for applications, systems and databases helping you to boost productivity and minimize downtime. We provide all levels of support services…Development
We plan, design, build, test, implement and seamlessly integrate applications across the enterprise. We are laser focused on defect prevention and quality. We stick like glue to time lines and budgets.
Maintenance
Rely on Charter Global throughout the entire maintenance lifecycle of existing IT applications. We offer 24/7 support for applications, systems and databases helping you to boost productivity and minimize downtime. We provide all levels of support services for proprietary and off-the-shelf applications delivering app stabilization, bug fixes, upgrades, patches, tune-ups and on-going enhancements.Other creators -
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Tokenization
Major hospitality client and we have been helping with stream line a major encryption solution and also help them focus on their tokenization which will most likely take another 2-5 years but the effort has so far been a great success!
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PEGA Implementation
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Pega software revolutionizes the way organizations serve customers and automate work by empowering business people to create and evolve their critical business systems. Many of the world’s leading organizations use Pega to drive revenue growth, improve customer experience, and enhance operational efficiency. Pega’s unified offering is recognized as a leader in CRM, BPM, and Decision Management. Pega works with existing systems and accelerates time to value with a wide range of industry…
Pega software revolutionizes the way organizations serve customers and automate work by empowering business people to create and evolve their critical business systems. Many of the world’s leading organizations use Pega to drive revenue growth, improve customer experience, and enhance operational efficiency. Pega’s unified offering is recognized as a leader in CRM, BPM, and Decision Management. Pega works with existing systems and accelerates time to value with a wide range of industry applications.
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Salesforce Implementation
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- Streamline business processes and maximize services and solutions.
- Integrate Salesforce with custom applications, databases, ERP, and CRM systems.
- Synchronize CRM systems, migrate from legacy CRM systems, and broadcast ERP data into your CRM system. -
BI and BW Projects
Enterprise information. It's your most valuable corporate asset. We help you turn raw data into meaningful and useful information. Our BI and DW systems deliver operational insights that lead to smart corporate decision-making. We understand what's at stake here and design world-class systems with a team of over 100 experts in data acquisition, modeling, management, mining and more. Our solutions are robust, reliable, scalable and secure.
Data Warehousing services that I have handled…Enterprise information. It's your most valuable corporate asset. We help you turn raw data into meaningful and useful information. Our BI and DW systems deliver operational insights that lead to smart corporate decision-making. We understand what's at stake here and design world-class systems with a team of over 100 experts in data acquisition, modeling, management, mining and more. Our solutions are robust, reliable, scalable and secure.
Data Warehousing services that I have handled include:
Project definition, development strategy, project planning
System architecture creation, hardware/software recommendations
Functional requirement definitions
Data Extraction from disparate sources
Operational data store construction
Data transforming and cleaning
Multidimensional database design
Data warehouse or subject data mart data loading
Applications installation for queries and reports
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PCI Recertification
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We are very well diverse at security projects and PCI is just one of the many projects that we have handled in the past 2 years. My companies goal is to help get you ready for things to come and also offer you different ways to help you with other security projects or organizational steps to better their company.
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Business Intelligence Project
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Smart BI and DW means better ideas and decision-making
-information. It's your most valuable corporate asset. We help you turn raw data into meaningful and useful information. Our BI and DW systems deliver operational insights that lead to smart corporate decision-making. We understand what's at stake here and design world-class systems with a team of over 100 experts in data acquisition, modeling, management, mining and more. Our solutions are robust, reliable, scalable and…Smart BI and DW means better ideas and decision-making
-information. It's your most valuable corporate asset. We help you turn raw data into meaningful and useful information. Our BI and DW systems deliver operational insights that lead to smart corporate decision-making. We understand what's at stake here and design world-class systems with a team of over 100 experts in data acquisition, modeling, management, mining and more. Our solutions are robust, reliable, scalable and secure.
Charter Global Data Warehousing services include:
Project definition, development strategy, project planning
System architecture creation, hardware/software recommendations
I was able to do a few different steps which I listed below--- Functional requirement definitions
-Data Extraction from disparate sources
-Operational data store construction
-Data transforming and cleaning
-Multidimensional database design
-Data warehouse or subject data mart data loading
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QA/Testing Project
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We put software to the test
Charter Global provides a full range of testing services through its dedicated Testing Services Center. We leverage SEI-CMMI and ISO 9001:2000 quality frameworks to provide high performance testing and technology solutions to companies around the world. We deliver comprehensive testing services through the application of robust processes and scientific methodologies. We deliver quality assurance in a highly reliable, highly cost-effective fashion. Some areas of…We put software to the test
Charter Global provides a full range of testing services through its dedicated Testing Services Center. We leverage SEI-CMMI and ISO 9001:2000 quality frameworks to provide high performance testing and technology solutions to companies around the world. We deliver comprehensive testing services through the application of robust processes and scientific methodologies. We deliver quality assurance in a highly reliable, highly cost-effective fashion. Some areas of specialization:
Web site testing
Java application testing
Web and application GUI testing
Performance testing
Application functionality testing
Middleware testing
Automated test-case generation
-- I was able to help one of the leading payment processing companies out by focusing on their QA/Testing Service which included application functionality testing, middleware testing and automated test-case generation. The project was a total sucess and allowed up to develoment the tools nessary to streamline the QA process and make testing issues a thing of the past.Other creators -
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SAP ECC migrating to S/4HANA
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We took the client from their old SAP ECC platform and migrated to S/4HANA. We went through the typical steps to make this project within budget and within our project timeframe. Steps like...
Step 1: Pre upgrade planning. ...
Step 2: Pre upgrade activities. ...
Step 3: Upgrade execution. ...
Step 4: Post upgrade activities. ...
Step 5: User acceptance testing. ...
Step 6: Go live. ...
Step 7: Post production support. ...
Honors & Awards
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D&I Program Winner Award
SHRM
This is an award given to Vertek and I for our amazing D&I Programs. Mainly for things we have done for many of our clients for the last 7+ years doing D&I program.
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Client Awards
18 different client companies
Many of our clients have given us an awards every year for doing a better job than our competitors.
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Best in Staffing Award
SAI
We won this award 8 times in a row!! This is a big award where we have won out of 1200 other firms
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Recruiter of the year award
Recruitment Trend Magazine
This is a word that is given by our candidates and clients.
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Top Preformer Award
CDI Corp
This award was given because of my ability to out preform other sales individuals.
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Pinnacle Society
Pinnacle Society
Society that honors individuals that hit over $1 million per year in sales.
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Top Preformer Award
The Pinnacle Society
Test Scores
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Salesforce Admin Training/Overview
Score: 85
Took this test since I was the Salesforce admin for my firm.
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Prove IT
Score: 89%
.Net and C# (terminology)- general description proficiency
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PROVE IT
Score: 99%
General Technology
Languages
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English
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Organizations
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The Pinnacle Society
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