Chara Sullivan
Manager/Sr. Lead Technical Recruiter
1535 Old Taneytown Road

Westminster, Maryland 21158
Phone: 443-201-8535; E-mail: chara_sullivan@hotmail.com

 

I am seeking a Manger and/or a Sr. Lead Technical Recruiter opportunity.  I offer a prospective organization

12+ years combined experience in both corporate and agency settings, and 5 years in an educational setting.

This includes a variety of experiences placing Entry Level/VP professionals that require high-level clearances

for various agencies (NSA, CIA, ONI, DoD, DoE, NOAA, ICE, Dept of State, National Labs, and NASA). 

 

 

My specialties include, but are not limited to, the following:

· Manages project activities thru a life-cycle process as a PM, and/or a Sr. Lead Technical Recruiter.  

· Wrote recruiting practices, hiring contracts for new global company.

· Manages project activities thru a life-cycle process.

· Coordinates team activities to meet project milestones.

· Support staff to produce a business plan in accordance with the strategic plan, and operating budget.

· Prepares, implements, monitors, and updates the project plan. Identifies standards or requirements.

· Provides regular updates to Executive Management on the status of the project.

· Documents reasons for budget excesses for shortfalls.

· Predicts or manage change through the use of innovative methods.

· Apply effective leadership, management, and negotiation theories to everyday business challenges.

· Experience recruiting for Telecom, Satellite Communications, Cyber Operations, Scientific Engineers,

 HPC Engineers, Technical skills from Help Desk to Subject Matter Experts, and VP’s. 

· Requirements recruited for also included CONUS/OCONUS openings.

· Experience supporting hiring managers in geographically disbursed locations.

·                        Implement creative and advanced Internet sourcing techniques, such as: Linked-in, Social Networking, Monster, Cleared Connections, Clearance Jobs, Career Builder, Intelligence Careers, etc.

· Provide basic knowledge of HR Policies, Procedures, Employment Law, and Inter-Departmental Collaboration.  

· Write and post job ads for company’s openings.

· Assist in large-scale recruitment events.

· Contact candidates, profile and administer skill sets as needed, while helping candidates potential candidates understand the importance of updates required in resume and interview training. 

· Implement standardized interviews to simplify and increase efficiency of interviews to all candidates.

· Use MS Word to help reformat resumes and write additional updates as needed.

· Submit resumes and profiles to the Project Manager while selling the candidate.

· Coordinate and schedule interviews while trouble shooting and overcoming objections during the

course of the placement process.

· Implement tracking systems to keep a tracking record that includes, but is not limited to these (VMS): BrassRing, Taleo, and other various customized relational databases. 

· Contact references negotiate salaries, and document candidates’ information into the database.

· Coordinate information needed by the Security Officer for clearance checks that range from Secret

to TS/SCI with CI or Full Life Style Polygraphs.

· Send out offer letters to candidates as a Permanent, Temp-to-Hire and/or Contractor.

 

 

Intelligence Community

·       Recruited from Help Desk to VP, Director, and SME level utilizing TS/SCI, and/or ISSA with CI or FL

        Polygraphs. 

 

Locations: NSA, CIA, DoD, ONI, DoE, ICE, Dept of State, and NOAA.

 

 

Scientific Community/Environmental Sciences

·       Worked closely with VP’s and Director’s senior and most critical openings for the Scientific Community.

·       Requirements needed Masters and/or PhD degrees.

·       Activities ranged from cosmological studies to examining anthropogenic changes in Earth systems, to

        saving lives through satellite-aided search and rescue (SARSAT).

·       Ozone, Soil Moisture, Ocean Color, but not limited to which supported research and applications for  

        climate, atmospheric, and oceanic circulations, air quality, human health, and biospheric studies.

·       Increased the number of hires and revenues 1.4 Million in 8months.

 

Locations: NASA (Goddard) MD and Stennis Space Center, MS

 

 

National Labs

·      Worked closely with VP’s and Director’s most senior and critical openings for a variety and differing Computational Scientists with Masters and PhD degrees (e.g., the invention of efficient search and

       sort algorithms, techniques of parallel processing, etc.). The former is the use primarily of computation, rather than of theorizing or experimentation, to attain scientific knowledge. Scientists and engineers develop computer programs, and application software that model systems being studied and run these programs with various sets of input parameters. Typically, these models require massive amounts of calculations (usually floating-point) and were often executed on super-computers (HPC) or distributed computing platforms.

·      Recruited Software Engineers, Systems Engineers, Systems Administrators, and Numerical Analysis nation-wide for important underpinning techniques used in computational science.

 

Locations: Sandia National Lab (SNL), Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (PPPL), Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), Brookhaven National Lab (BNL), and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL).

    

 

Professional Experience:

Date: July 2, 2011 to Present

Company: ZSMI

Position: PM/Sr. Lead Technical Recruiter

·  Wrote recruiting practices, hiring contracts for new global company.

· Manages project activities thru a life-cycle process.

· Coordinates team activities to meet project milestones.

· Support staff to produce a business plan in accordance with the strategic plan, and operating budget.

· Prepares, implements, monitors, and updates the project plan.

· Identifies standards or requirements.

· Provides regular updates to Executive Management on the status of the project.

· Document reasons for budget excesses for shortfalls.

· Predicts or manage change through the use of innovative methods.

· Apply effective leadership, management, and negotiation theories to everyday business challenges.

· Sourced, contacted, and interviewed faculty willing to work internationally thru Howard Universities

Dept of Law and ZSMI.  Ghana is looking to mirror America’s Constitutional Law practices. International school targeted to start 2018. 

Date: March 16, 2011 to June 30, 2011

Company: General Dynamics

Position: Sr. Technical Recruiter/Contractor

·   Recruiting for Principal, Lead, and Senior: SWE, SE, DBE, DBA, SA, NE, SME’s, Cyber, Cloud,

and High Performance Computing Engineers.

·   Clearances from TS/SCI to TS/SCI with Full Life Style Polygraphs.

·   Openings were for CONUS/OCONUS.

RFL: GD lost bid on new contract 7 recruiters were laid off.

 

Date: April 3, 2010 to June 30, 2010

Company: Computer Science Corporation

Position: Sr. Technical Recruiter Lead/Casual Employee-Contractor   

·   Recruiting for Principal, Lead, and Senior: SWE, SE, DBE, DBA, SA, NE, ISSE, and Logistics. Clearances from TS/SCI to TS/SCI with Full Life Style Polygraphs.  Agency’s recruited for: ONI,

NSA, CIA, and ICE

RFL: End of Contract/Balancing year end budget

 

Date: July 2, 2009 to April 2, 2010

Company: Synergy Services-Computer Science Corporation   

Position: Sr. Technical Recruiter-Contractor

·   Recruiting for Principal, Lead, and Senior: SWE, SE, DBE, DBA, SA, NE, ISSE, and Logistics. Clearances from TS/SCI to TS/SCI with Full Life Style Polygraphs.  Agency’s recruited for: ONI,

NSA, CIA, and ICE.

RFL: CSC brought me on as a casual employee

 

Date: Feb 2009 to June 2009

·   Death in family, attending to father’s legal affairs out of state for several months.  Then started

 looking for another contract.  

 

Date: Sept 2008 to Jan 2009                                                                                                                            

Company: Arrowhead Global Solutions                                                                                                  

Position: Sr. Technical Recruiter-Contractor                                                                                                        

·   Sourcing for cleared candidates for various government solutions programs.

·   Worked closely with Project Manager’s openings located at NSA, and CIA.     

·   Cleared community with TS/SCI, and ISSA with Full Life Style Polygraphs.

·   Also worked on Satellite Communications, COMSAT, and VSAT for CONUS and OCONUS

requirements. 

RFL: Contract Ended                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

 

Date: June 2008 to Sept 2008

Company: Qwest Communications

Position: Sr. Technical Recruiter–Contractor

·   Sourced and recruited for telecommunications candidates including but not limited to the following:

Chief Network Engineer, Program Managers, Staff Program Control Engineers, Sr. Document

Control Analyst, Subcontract Administrators, Sr. Sales Engineers, Sr. Project Analyst, Lead Network Provisioner, Lead Pricing Analyst, Lead Tech Project Manager, Sr./Lead Operations Technicians, Business Development Principal, Sr. Program Control Manager, Program Management Manager, Sr./Lead Info Security Engineer, Lead Engineer (ISP) Outside Plant, and Systems Network Engineer IPv6.

·   Candidates were in the cleared community with as high as TS/SCI, ISSA, and CIP and/or FLS Polygraphs.

RFL: Contract Ended

 

 

 

 

 

Date: December 2007 to June 2008

Company: TAC World Wide/HP Federal Solutions

Position: Sr. Technical Recruiter-Contractor

·   Recruited for the following: Network Engineers, Systems Engineers, Subject Matter Experts, SWE,

J2EE, .NET Developers, SHAREPOINT Developers, Exchange Developers, and Database Engineers.

·   Candidates were in the cleared community with TS/SCI, and Full Life Style Polygraphs for NSA and CIA.

RFL: Contract Ended

 

Date: September 2007 to October 2007

Company: AT&T Government Solutions

Position: Sr. Technical Recruiter-Contractor/AXISS

·   Identify candidates and make contingent offers for AXISS bid.

·   Worked closely with Project Manager’s most critical openings that was located at NSA: Network Engineers, Systems Engineers, Subject Matter Experts, Telephony, Telecom Engineers, Info

Technology Project Managers, Configuration Managers, and Test Engineers. Identifying Project Managers, Program Support Specialists, Systems Administrators, Principle Network Engineer,

Contract and Financial Analyst, FSO Specialist, and FSO Associate.

·   Candidates were in the cleared community with TS/SCI, ISSA, and CI Poly and/or Full Life Style Polygraphs.

·   Recruited candidates for NSA, Dept of State, and Dept of Navy.

RFL: Company Lost AXISS and two other bids.

 

Date: January 2007 to September 2007

Company: DataDirect Networks

Position: Sr. Tech Recruiter-Contractor/HPC-Storage Solutions-S2A

·   Worked closely with VP’s and the Director’s most senior and critical openings: Director of IT,

Director of Tech Support, Director of QA, Program Managers, Staff Mechanical Engineer, HW

Engineers, System Engineers, Systems Test Engineers, DVT Techs and Engineers, Storage

Solutions Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Linux Clusters Architects, Tech Writer, Sr. Buyer,

Program Administrators Shipping and Receiving, Manufacturing, Industrial, and New Product Development.

·   Some candidates/hires worked as contractors at our National Labs across the country.

RFL: Contract Ended.

 

Date: October 2006–December 2006

Company: WINS 

Position: Sr. Tech Recruiter –Contractor Intel/Federal and Government Groups   

·   Work closely with Director’s most senior and critical openings: Professional Services, Technical

Support Consultants, Software and System Engineers, and Management Candidates on all levels.

·   Candidates were in the cleared community with ISSA, TS/SCI, and CIP or FLS Poly for the DoD

Agencies and Dept of State.

RFL: Sister was dying in the hospital in Indiana.

 

Date: November 2005-October 2006

Company: Express Professional Staffing/Science Systems and Applications, Inc.

Position: Sr. Tech Recruiter-Contractor/Scientific-NASA/Goddard 

·   Worked closely with Director’s senior/critical openings for NASA/Goddard: Scientific Programmers, Analysts, Engineers, and Management on all levels Atmospheric, Ozone, Earth Sciences, Soil

Moisture, Microwave, Aerosols, LTP, SESDA, JHU/APL, LDOPE, MODIS, Code 916, VIRRS,

NPOSESS, Satellites, LANDSAT, SARSAT, LDOPF, and Educational Outreach.

·   Recruited candidates for NASA/Goddard.  

RFL: Company lost large re-compete contract.

 

Date: March 2005-August 2005
Company: Willmont and Associates/DRC
Position: Sr. Tech Recruiter-Contractor-Intel/Federal and Government Groups

·   Worked closely with Director’s most senior and critical openings: Professional Services, Technical Support Consultants, Scientific Engineers, and Management on all levels.

·   Candidates were in the cleared community with ISSA, TS/SCI, with CIPs and/or FLS Polygraphs

for the CIA, NSA, and DoD Agencies.

RFL: Contract Ended.

 

Date: February 2004 to January 2005

Company: MECH

Position: Sr. Technical Recruiter/Contractor

·   Worked closely with Director’s senior/critical openings: Professional Services, Technical Support Consultants, Scientific Engineers, and various Managers on all levels.

·   Cleared community with ISSA, TS/SCI, with CI Polygraphs and/or Full Life Style

Polygraphs for the CIA, NSA, and DoD Agencies.

·   Recruited candidates for CONUS/OCONUS openings.

RFL: Company move and to work closer to home.
 

Date: November 2002 - December 2003

Company: PTP

Position: Sr. Technical Recruiter Intel/Federal and Government Groups

·   Placements are both in the cleared and non-cleared IT community.

·   Candidates were in the cleared community with ISSA, TS/SCI with CI Polygraphs and/or Full Life

Style Polygraphs for the CIA, NSA, and DoD Agencies. 

RFL: Company move and then decided to outsource.

 

Date: November 2001 to October 2002

Company: MRI, Hanover, MD.

Position: Technical Recruiter-Sourcer

·   Cleared community with ISSA, TS/SCI with CI Polygraphs and/or Full Life Style

               Polygraphs for the NSA, and DoD Agencies. 

·   Q and L clearances for the Dept. of Energy (DoE).

RFL: Federal funding was on hold therefore only contingent offers.

 

Date: August 2000-November 2001

Company: IIT INC., Tyson's Corner, VA.
Position: Sr. National Technical Recruiter

·   Work closely with Branch Manager's senior/critical openings: Professional Services, Technical

Support Consultants, Scientific Engineers, and Management on all levels.

·   Recruited for Satellite Communications CONUS/OCONUS for Menwith Hill, UK.

·   Candidates were in the cleared community with ISSA, TS/SCI, with CI Polygraphs and/or Full

Life Style Polygraphs need for CIA, NSA, and DoD Agencies.

·   Q and L clearances for the Dept. of Energy (DoE).

RFL: Closed office due to 911 events.

 

Date: November 1999 - August 2000

Company: TSI Technical, Tyson's Corner, VA.

Position: Senior Regional Technical Recruiter

·   Responsible for both permanent and contract placements nationwide.

·   Supported companies with .Com government contracts for CIA and NSA.  

·   Candidates holding the highest Security Clearances ISSA, TS/SCI, with CI Polygraphs and/or FLP.

·   Worked closely with colleagues in a team environment to ensure that client search and candidate

skills were compatible to one another.

RFL: TSI decided to close down technical branch do to .Com activities.                            

Date: August, 1998 - September, 1999

Company: TTL, Columbia, MD.

Position: Technical Recruiter

·   Permanent placements for various companies that supported government contracts ie, Verizon

and AT&T for telecom, CSC, Northrop Grumman, SAIC, and CACI, for IT ect., for NSA (Candidates

held the highest Security Clearances ISSA, TS/SCI, with CI Polygraphs and/or Full Life Polygraphs). .

RFL: Better Opportunity.

 

 

Education:

Pacific Lutheran University – Tacoma, WA.
BA, Degree in Music/Education

 

 

Client skill sets recruited for but are not limited to:

Cloud, Satellite Communications, Telecom Engineers, Cyber Engineers, Scientific Engineers, Intelligence Analyst, Subject Matter Experts, Sales Teams, Communications Engineers, Telephony Specialist, Project Managers, Contract and Financial Analyst, FSO Specialist, and FSO Associate, Linux Clusters, Kernels, Device Drivers, Fiber Channel, SAS, PCI express, Testing Tools: IOMETER, sgp_dd, PBC Boards, Chassis, S2A, Brocade, EMC, VERITAS, XEN, MCDATA, CLARIION, SYMMETRIX, Hitachi, Parallel File Systems, ADIC, GPFS, LUSTRE, POLYSERVE, NFS,MYRINET, INFINIBAND, SAMBA, FTP, VTL, NAS, SAN, SCSI, RAID, Software Virtualization, VMware, Controlled Circuits: FPGAs, CPLDs, and Microprocessors, Design Tools: CAD, Mentor, PADS, Pro E, VIEWLOGIC, SOLIDWORKS, VERILOG, AutoCAD, VHDL, Remote Sensing Data, IDL, GrADS, NCAR graphics, JDF,MATLAB, Weather/Cloud Models, WRF, CAM3, MM4, MM5, HDF, Ocean Color, LIDAR, Aerosols, HDF-EOS, Fortran, TERA-AGUA, MODIS, Ozone, Atmospheric, Soil Moisture, Microwaves, ONTOLOGIST, Formal Logic, Natural Language, Semantic Web, Knowledge Management, HPC SWE, Systems Engineers, Kernel Developers, C, C++, Java, J2EE, Swing, Java Beans, JSP, JBULIDER, MFC, Assembler, MPI, Open MP, Genetic Algorithms, Parallel Algorithms, Numerical Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, NT 2000, WIN, NT, UNIX, Sun Solaris, Alpha's, TRU64, DSP, HPC, IBM RS6000, IBM IRX, Mainframe, Multi-Threads, HTML, XML, UML, Rational Rose, API's, Clear Case, Clear Quest, API’s, SIGINT, ELINT, HUMIT, Embedded, Solutions Architects, .NET, CCIE's, RF, EE, Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, Legacy, VAX/VMS, Cold Fusion, Visual Basic, RUP, POPKIN, Requisite Pro, Software/Hardware Engineers, Object Oriented Methodologies, Agile, Oracle, Sybase, OOA, OOD, Perl, PL.SQL, Web Developers, Java Scripting, Fireworks, embedded graphics, Borland, CVS, Studio, Enterprise, Strut’s, Ants, DAO’s, DOCUMENTUM, DOOR’s, Dreamweaver, UNIX shells, ksh, csh), JFC, X/Motif, RMI, JAXP, DBE’s, DBA’s, Enterprise Management, DSP, VXWORKS, CMM, VP's Sales Reps, CMMI, Help Desk, A+, TC/PIP, ATM, T1, T3, SONET, Frame Relay, DWDM, Fiber Optics, FAR, DFAR, CAR, COTS, GOTS, DB2,  CM, Word, Outlook, MS Access, Power Point, Professional Services, Technical Support, Lotus Notes, Testers, FTK, Technical Writers, Consultants, VSAT, SATCOM, SARSAT, NSA IAM, INFOSEC, CISSP, CISM, SSCP, GIAC, CPP,CSP-RAS,  EnCase, HEAT, NMAP, VeVO, NeWT, Nessus, FISMA, C&A, NIST, Ruby on Rails, Reverse Engineer, ESM, Malware, Cyber Intrusion Analyst, Attack Sensing and Warning Analyst, ArcSight, Tcpdump, SNORT, SourceFire, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, PCAP, and Business Developers.