SR US IT Recruiter, BDM and Accounts Head.
SR US IT Recruiter, BDM and Accounts Head.
SR US IT Recruiter, BDM and Accounts Head.
avvarisrao@gmail.com
Sr US IT Recruiter, BDM and accounts Head.
Mobile: +91 8500297545 +1 248-432-6799
Current location: Hyderabad
http://www.linkedin.com/in/srinivasa-rao-2a7988162
IT/ ITES/ Dot.com/ Telecome/ Wireless /Infrastructure/ Software and E-Commerce projects / BPO/ KPO/ US
IT Staffing Projects and Online Bidding, Govt Tenders Specialist.
Personal Profile
Global C-Level Executive with vast experience in Business Development, Turnarounds, Business Strategy,
Sales & Marketing in B2B & B2C, B2G, G2B, e-Commerce& e-governance Sales with the vision and leadership
insights to strategically plan, direct and control company operations to capitalize on emerging business
opportunities. Expertise in providing breakthrough leadership to achieve corporate strategies, build coalition
to support business growth and implement and manage change to drive organizational performance. Vast
experienced in growing businesses, business restructuring, formulating new strategic initiatives.
SUMMARY
US IT Recruitment Specialist with 15+ years of rich experience in BDM, Recruiting and sales, H1
transfers, opt, cpt recruiting
Worked with federal requirements, state government requirements, vms portal.
Expertise in entire recruitment life-cycle from obtaining the job opening, researching the opening,
sourcing the candidate, pre-screening, technical interviews, client contact/feedback, negotiations,
closing the hire and maintaining the candidate in the position for Permanent/Contract positions.
Recruited almost all spheres in IT Technologies.
Proficient in recruiting techniques like Head Hunting, Cold Calling, Networking and Internet based
recruiting tools.
Good Negotiation and Closing skills with strong emphasis on Candidate & Client Relationship
Management.
Write specific client job descriptions; prepare candidate profile specification; place recruitment
advertisements in applicable portals for response
Focus on optimization of Resource utilization and make a good match of skill, role, organization
needs and employee aspirations.
Excellent problem solving, interpersonal, networking and communications skills.
Experience in selection and recruitment across functions in Information technology.
Experience in handling multi location bulk recruitment events including walk-ins.
Handling employer and employee database. Responsible for making the recruitment related
process documents and manuals. Collect information from the top management regarding the
policies and procedures.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:
Responsible for Full Life Cycle of Recruitment, which include the following:
Overall Responsibilities:
Recruitment, training, Developing and implementing HR strategies and initiatives aligned with the
overall business strategy of the company.
Recruitment of consultants /Freelancers/non-salaried employees.
Design and deploy incentive model to motivate employees.
Coordinate and develop training course material.
Framing policies and procedures.
Bridging management and employee relations by addressing demands, grievances or other issues.
Managing the recruitment and selection process.
Support current and future business needs through the development, engagement, motivation and
preservation of human capital.
Develop and monitor overall HR strategies, systems, tactics and procedures across the organization.
Nurture a positive working environment.
Oversee and manage a performance appraisal system that drives high performance.
Maintain pay plan and benefits program.
Assess training needs to apply and monitor training programs.
Report to management and provide decision support through HR metrics.
People Oriented and result driven.
Demonstrable experience with human resources metrics.
Knowledge of HR systems and databases.
Ability to architect strategy along with leadership skills.
Excellent active listening, negotiation and presentation skills.
Competence to build and effectively manage interpersonal relationships at all levels of the
company.
Excellent computer knowledge and presentation skills.
Successful previous experience as a Sr HR / HR Head.
Good communication skills both verbal & written.
Team Management.
Strategic Planning.
Time Management.
Excellent Communication skills (English, Hindi & Telugu).
Risk and crisis Management.
Task Manager ( Go getter).
Training and skill Development.
Train/Lead both Sales& Recruiting team (15+ members). Responsible in driving them to identify suitable
openings by cold calling, referrals, social media or web portals and monitoring their work quality &
ability to meet the targets.
o Responsible to run an end to end recruitment cycle, understanding and analyzing the client
requirements & different skill sets.
o Conducting phone screens, including completing pre-qualifying questions and selling potential
candidates on location, position, and company
o Establish and maintain relationships with hiring managers (End-Customer), gather information
regarding temporary openings from hiring managers, research appropriate pay rates/bill rates for
assorted positions in a variety of locations throughout the US.
o Developed robust pipeline of candidates to encourage proactive recruitment and to affect shorter
time-to-fill. Sourced& recruited candidates through various mechanisms (direct, internet, referrals,
networking, university placement offices, etc.)
o Ability to write Boolean queries and innovate search terms on commonly used job boards such as
Dice, Monster, CareerBuilder, etc.
o Conducting review meeting on regular basis to understand individual contribution of recruiters and
helping them to improve their performance.
o Resourceful in identifying prospective clients, developing business contracts and leverage our
internal resources for advancing business. Successfully developed major prime vendors /
implementing partners to the organization. Few prestigious vendors to work with are ‘KFORCE’,
‘COMSYS’, ‘SQA’, ‘MODIS’, ‘ELIASSEN GROUP’ & so on.
o Responsible for marketing the existing consultants through bulk mailer campaign, Job postings &
groups.
o Partnering with client-facing recruiters and hiring managers to understand the hiring need, building
targeted sourcing plans to pipeline.
o Maintaining relationships with key candidates and specific talented pools and developing strong
executive candidate relationships.
o Discussing requirements with consultants and repositioning resumes according to requirement and
consultants comfort
o Identified potential consultants on fast moving skills and prepared the pool of consultants for
future requirements.
o Sourcing candidates from a variety of sources, with a strong emphasis on LinkedIn, Hiretual, Indeed, Git
Hub, Talent Hub, Clearancejobs.com, social media, and search engines: Google Chrome,
postjobfree,Google groups, HireITpeople, Google X-ray, advanced Boolean searching strings and niche
job boards.
o Conducted daily scrum with the team to talk about the recruiting pipeline and accurate reporting to
senior management.
o Tracking day-to-day sourcing activity in applicant tracking and candidate relationship management
systems.
o Helped convert W-2 hourly consultants to staff positions and encouraged them to take extensions
to increase company profitability.
o Hands on experience with Job Portals (Monster, Career Builder, Dice, Corp2Corp, Temp4Hire).
o Expert in handling all work authorizations for United States- H1B, L1, EAD, TN, GC etc.
o Strong grasp of commonly used recruiting industry jargon- C2C, 1099, W2, CTH, etc.
o Created and maintained assignment track sheets as per the company standards and submitted to
the Management.
o Maintaining inventory of consultants on different skill sets, locations, experience levels.
Achievements
o Strategically placed consultants on high volume technical recruitment projects. Placed multiple
technology roles and reporting directly to the CEO and to the Vice President.
o Managed company's recruitment for all clients and Vendors. Successfully fulfilling the duties of -
Recruiting / Account Manager and Senior Recruiter/Trainer and a Delivery Manager.
o Facilitated by Hiring Managers and the Delivery Leads and ensure effective delivery and Quality.
o Constantly be involved in vendor coordination- assign requirements and be responsible to follow-
up on progress consistently successful in increasing revenue, profitability, productivity, and quality.
o Successful in creating Brand Image by getting prestigious Tier 1 vendors (TEK SYSTEMS. KFORCE,
MODIS, SQA….)
Iron Mountain, Cisco, Bank of America, Kroger (E-Commerce company), Doller Tree (E-Commerce
Company), Telenor, Teradata, Paypal, Chevron, Dell Technologies Inc, Mozaic Group, Boost Mobile,
Turner Broadcasting, Viacom, Bank of Montreal, epac, Ascent, Alkermes, American Airlines, ebay,
enterprise Solutions Inc, facebook, google, HD Supply, kTek, MDI Group, Tan Check Sonsolidated Inc,
4igatta,Pennsylvanis Dept of Connetions, FirstTek, Artech, CHReynolds, Cisco, National Fuel, Republic
Service, Rolta Advizex, Saturn Infotech, Savantis, SigmaTek, Slait Consulting, Insight Global, Toyoto
Financial Services, Stanford Healthcare, Bell, Advantasure, Olin, USAA, Union Bank, genuent, Pepsico,
Apple, Verizon, Merck, Catholic Health Initiatives, Rimini Street, HMS, United Airlines, Cable Labs,
ICANN, VISA, Dell, Kronos, Choice Hotels, First Billing, Vignesh Technology Solutions Inc, Nemo IT
Solutions Inc, VDART, ThreePADs, Ford Motors, MetTel, Matrix, Davita Kidney Care, Softek Solutions
and few more…
Implementing Partners:
Signature Consultants, Mondo, GlobalLogic Inc, Collebara, Modis Engineering, Enterprise Consulting
Services, Kelly IT Resources, DIVERSANT LLC, Teksystems, Net2source Inc, Ettain group, Princeton
Information, Harvey Nash, The Judge Group, Cyber Coders, NTT DATA Services, Sans Consulting
Services Inc, Net Matrix Solutions Inc, Park Hudson International, United Health Group, Insight Global
LLC, TSR Consulting Services Inc, Jobspring Partners, Ascendant Group, LLC,. Rider Consulting Inc,
Mozaic Group,HCL America, Wipro, Cognizant, eSolutions, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Tech
Mahindra and many more.
Mar 2007 – June 2008 Business Development Manager & Head Sales & HR Operations.
Makro Technologies Inc., US TOP IT Staffing Company
o Participated as MR for ISO 9001-2000 for ISO Certification. Doing Quality Auditing for ISO 9001-
2000
o Developing new clients and prime vendors adding new logos to the organization and taking
care of bench sales activities and fulfilling the target revenue.
o Maintaining up to date Data with Sugar CRM, HR applications, Auditing, ISO Process, CRM
Applications and Analysis, Reports writing, Recruiting and sales process, HR Business Control,
and process.
o Developed a set of performance metrics guidelines for the Sales, Recruiting and Human
Resources group.
o Preparing commercial negotiations and Managing NOCs, Vendor management and agreements,
arranging required new hire documents etc., and closing deals.
o Managing complete Hiring & Sales life-cycle for Bench, W2, C2C consultants and sourcing the
best requirements from diverse sources. Organizing and prioritizing tasks in order to reach set
goals also involved direct sales in US Staffing Services.
o Reviewing Purchase orders and agreements received for legal accuracy and getting necessary
changes. Analysing and routing agreements and purchase orders through appropriate
departments for approval. Assisting accounts department for correct Invoicing and billing.
o Alliances and vendors to provide low-cost valuable training via classroom training and
webcasts. Providing Training and Development to the team and conducting analysis.
o Performance Management Facilitated and coordinated new-hire training for all incoming
consultants..
Achievements
o Strategically placed consultants on high volume technical recruitment projects. Placed multiple
technology roles and reporting directly to the CEO and to the Vice President.
o Managed company's recruitment for all clients and Vendors. Successfully fulfilling the duties of
- Recruiting / Account Manager and Senior Recruiter/Trainer and a Delivery Manager.
o Facilitated by Hiring Managers and the Delivery Leads and ensure effective delivery and
Quality.
o Constantly be involved in vendor coordination- assign requirements and be responsible to
follow-up on progress consistently successful in increasing revenue, profitability, productivity,
and quality.
o Successful in creating Brand Image by getting prestigious Tier 1 vendors (TEK SYSTEMS.
KFORCE, MODIS, SQA….
And offices in Australia, Korea and USA. Now the company is gradually setting up operations in other
international markets.( http://www.micelectronics.com/ )
Responsible for generating revenue by selling their entire range of products and services to
Government, Defense, Public, private industries and SMB sectors across India and overseas clients.
Increased Pipeline Opportunities by 78% in 6 Months for Sterling and PCL Computer Hardware.
Grew revenue 156% in 10 Months.
Managed Large Accounts management and picked the highest volume of sales orders with 25% margins.
Developed fruitful relationship with industry leaders and key accounts.
Negotiated contract extensions and win sole-source contracts.
Conduct sales and marketing calls to book meetings with potential clients.
Manage product sales growth, individual sales effectiveness, and account base by reviewing sales
activity schedule.
Sending follow-up marketing materials and make follow-up monthly calls until the relationship is
established.
Performed client presentations articulating the value proposition of product, solution, and service
offerings
Shyam Printing and Marking Devices L-9, Thiru-VI-Ka Industrial Estate Guindy Chennai, Tamil Nadu
600032 is an subsidiary company of Shyam Group of companies. Manufacturing office automation.
Shyam group into Hotels and Restaurants, Food manufacturing, Textiles, Real Estates, Medical, Telecom,
Travel industry and many more.
Key Achievements:
Grabbed 1st highest value PO to the organization from the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Mr. N.T
Rama Rao within 7 days of joining.
Consecutively 24 month’s topper in sales out of 60 member’s team across PAN India.
Shyam Printing and Marking Devices is a Patent company from Shyam Group into manufacturing office
automation products in Chennai.
EDUCATION:
- 1984 - Basha Praveena in Hindi from DBHP Sabha. (3 Year Graduate Degree)
- 1985 - B.Com from Andhra University. (3 Year Graduate Degree)
- 1991 - Business Administration Management from APPC (18 Months PG Diploma)
- 1992 - Computer Methods and Applications from KCC (18 Months PG Diploma)
- 1992 - Computer Applications & Programming from Microsoft (18 Months PG Diploma)
- 1979 - Type Writing in English (80 Words per Minute)
- 1984 - Type Writing in Hindi (50 Words Per Minute)
- 1996 - Amateur Radio Telegraph License: Ministry of Telecommunications & Information Technology,
New Delhi. Year of Completion in 1996. Licence No: AMT-9716 Valid up to 31st Jan, 2034. Call Sign:
VU3ATK.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
MS Office, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Outlook, Internet. Proficient in Microsoft / IBM based
PCs, Servers, Workstations, Software, Hardware, Networking, Operating systems of DOS
2.66 to 6.22 /Win-3.1 / ME /95 /98 /98SE /XP /Win-2003 / Novel Netware 4.01/NT/ Linux &
Unix.
Product Exposure: Intel and Xeon processors and Servers of IBM, COMPAQ, HP and Acer
similarly in Desktop range and Notebooks etc., Also have exposure in Networking products of
Cisco, D-Link, Bay networks Routers, Switches and Hubs for LAN and WAN/WLAN
/DAS/NAS/SAN/connectivity/ Security Firewalls/TCP IP/ etc.,
Experience in Operating Systems: Win-3.1 / ME /95 /98 /98SE /XP /Win-2003 / Novel Netware
4.01/NT/ Linux & UNIX.
Experience in Languages: Basic, COBOL, Pascal & C, FORTRAN, dbase, FoxBASE.
Experience in Packages: Lotus-123, Word Star, dBase, FoxBASE, Fox view, FoxPro, MS-Office,
MS-WORD, MS-Excel, MS-Works, Corel Draw, Free- Hand Designer, Animation Pro, AmiPro,
Page Maker, Ventura, Auto CAD etc.,
Experience in Tools: Disk Manager, PC Tools, Form Tool, Norton Disk Doctor & Utilities, Anti-
Virus Packages such as MacAfee, Symantec, Kaspersky, Trend Micro and Security firewalls etc.,
Experience in Hardware Services: Fault finding trouble shooting and Servicing of all IBM
compatible Machines, DMP's, Inkjet & Deskjet printers, Assembling of complete PC's etc.,
Experience in Software: Installation of above said operating systems, packages, languages and
multimedia packages and drivers etc.,
Experience in Communication products: Installation and operation of Voice/data /fax/modems
and wireless communication products such as UHF, VHF, HF Radio Equipment assembling,
operating and designing and assembling of required antennas and installations etc.,