Paramjeet Bhui Kaur

Email: pamkart@gmail.com                                                                              

Cell no: 214-603-0516

Requesting for Remote/Virtual positions only

 

Summary:

A skilled creative and result-oriented Corporate Telecommunication and IT Recruiting professional with commitment to creative recruitment and client service. Over 13 years of cumulative experience in Customer Service, HR , Public Relation, Sales and Marketing for the IT, Media, Aviation and Pharmaceutical companies. Leadership qualities with strategic vision and an ability to juggle multiple priorities, seeking a position as Sr. Recruiter to utilize my skills and professional strengths in a renowned organization. Work with a dynamic team and  responsible for sourcing, engaging and retaining new clients, recruiting exceptional candidates, and leading the business opportunity process from beginning to end. Have company signed new tenders and projects with best sourcing provided.

 

Professional Strengths:

 

Ø       In-depth knowledge of the policies and procedures of projects and business management.

Ø       Hire top Telecom, Aviation, Semiconductor, Wireless, Engineering, Manufacturing and IT Software/Hardware Engineering talent and meet quarterly hiring targets.

Ø       Source active and passive candidates through employee referrals, networking, internal databases, contact lists and research.

Ø       Responsible for sourcing external candidates in support of the Big Data organization.

Ø       Conduct Training and Development, Implemented New Processes

Ø       Able to interface with all levels of employees and management. 

Ø       Able to communicate with mgmt. to identify hiring requirements, job specifications, job duties, qualifications and skills.

Ø       Ability to understand and communicate technical information's on different SW languages.

Ø       Proven recruiting experience in a corporate environment implementing a wide range of staffing programs.

Ø       Provide a fast and high-touch experience for every candidate from application stage to offer, evaluating skill level, driving the interview process and offer process, including reference checks, salary recommendations and closing of candidates.

Ø       Proficiency with Project Management and Applicant Tracking tools(CBIZ,ADP,JOBVITE,TALEO,EXCEL)

Ø       Possess excellent interviewing, Strong negotiation, sales and candidate evaluation skills.

Ø       Flexible and resourceful, using solid organizational, time-management and planning skills to deliver consultants on time/on budget and able to work under minimal supervision.

Ø       Hospitality industry experience with people management and revenue responsibilities.

Ø       Demonstrated the ability to motivate, coach and mentor a diverse and geographically fragmented team, to achieve set goals.

Ø       Strong written and oral communication skills including fundamental presentation skills and demonstrated ability to articulate ideas clearly and appropriately influence others.

Ø       Demonstrated ability to establish and adhere to priorities in a fast pace environment.

 

Technical Skills:

 

MS Office Suite, Visio, Requisite Pro, Rational XDE, Rational Rose, Rational Clear Quest, MS Project, QA, IT Business Analysis, Recruiting life cycle.

ATC: CBIZ, Taleo, ADP, Excel, CBIZ

Vendor Manager:  Tapfin (NSN), Econometric (Ericsson), ARP System, JobVite (Google, Juniper etc.), Taleo, Tenrox, ADP

Major Clients: Google, Ericsson, NSN, ALU, CenturyLink, Sprint, Frontier, RigNet, Metasolv, Verizon, HP, Amazon, Credit Suisse, American Express, Southwest Airline, BrightHouse, Humana, Juniper, VES, Frontier, Sigma Systems, RigNet , ViaSat, Verizon , Windstream, XO,AT&T .

 

Major Search Portals: CareerBuilder, Corp-Corp,Telecom carriers , Telecom Recruiters, Google Boolean Search, Indeed, Talent Search, LinkedIn, Dice, TechFetch and Monster

 

Filled Positions:

Filled several position such as Salesforce.com/SaaS, System Engineers, PeopleSoft Developers, Network Engineers, Microsoft Office Specialist, Architects, Cognos Developer, MS Consultants with Security Clearance, SharePoint Developers, Java Developers, Project Managers, Accountant, HR Head, Desktop Support, .Net Developers, Information Analyst, Business Analyst BI , Tester, J2EE , Java WebSphere Commercial Lead, Java Developer TIBCO, Java J2EE Frontend developer, ITSM Remedy, Google Fiber, Google S/W Dev, Appian Developers , CI/CD Developer, Automation Developer, BI Data Modeling Analyst/PM, MDM Data Modeling Architect, MDM Solution Architect. OSS/BSS Presales Architect, Open Stack Developer, IT Cloud Developer SME (Linux, JBOSS, Apache, Tomcat and IIS) OSP Design Engineers, FTTX Eng., Lead Scientist, Network Eng., OSS/BSS Lead Architect, Solution Architect, Telcordia Developer Sr. Systems Engineer (UNIX, LINUX, VMware, Cloud), Metasolv Developer, BSS Domain Expert, J2EE, Oracle Apex, Oracle IAM /OAM ServiceNow Dev/Tester, BI Developer, Project Delivery Manager, Change Management Manger, Soln Architect ,Technical Lead ITSM (Remedy), PMO Six Sigma Belt, Solution Architect BPO, Sr Tibco Developer, SA Enterprise, MLDB-Oracle DBA, Requirement Engineer / Product Owner Delegates, OPENSTACK Technical PM, Openstack SDN/NFV Architects/Developers, DBA (Technical), DBA with GIS experience and many other IT

 

Telecom Related Positions : Network Engineers, Test Engineers, RF Engineers,2G3G Engineers, I , LTE Design and Optimization engineers, Installation and integration engineers, Backhaul Engineers, Field Test Engineers, Site ACQ Engineers, Construction Eng., Project Coordinators, Oracle DBA , SAS Administrators/Programmers, Network Administrator, Mechanical Engineers, Senior Network Consulting Engineer, IBM Instructional Designer ,Tech Support- Ciena DN7000, CN2600 or CNX-5 –Telecom, Ciena WDM, Ciena 5500/6100/4200  family (5100/5200 Advanced Services Platform all DMW products, Sprint deployment project with Cisco CRS-1, Optical/Transmission engineer, Sr. OSP Engineer, Cloud Architect, Order Management and Catalog Solution Architect, Order Management and Catalog Software Developer, GIS - OSP Engineer, Senior OSP Engineer, Sr Tibco Developer, NOC engineers, Construction managers, Site Acq. Mgr., Fiber Optic Engineers.

 

Hires: If client responses well then weekly 4-5 hires

 

Positions Handled at one time: Up to 23 and minimum from 5-18

 

Professional Experience:

 

Confidential (Contractor Remote)                                                                                            Aug 2014 – Till date

Sr. Telecom Recruiter

 

Engineering leadership has been with the company for 10 years or more. works on SOW’s providing Product Engineering Services, Product Support Services, Testing Services, Silicon and System Design Services, Recruitment for SOW projects .Company has tie up with major OEM’s and accounts like Google,IBM,Dell,Intel,Microsoft,GM,Verizon,AT&T,Samsung,Emdeon,SME's,Cisco,Enphase,GoPro,Microsoft,Netsnapper,Gogo,IPC,Mirantis

 

Responsibility:

As a Sr. Recruiter I was working directly with the clients and handling ATT, VZ solely, dealing directly with Account Directors and VP’s. Maintaining the target I manage to close the positions within few days.

I was responsible for full life cycle Information Technology recruiting for numbers of IT and Telecom clients Nationwide, Primarily supporting Information Technology and Telecommunication PRF and have placed candidates within many different industries in a broad range of roles. Attended meetings with hirer management and prepared daily report and lead presentation in the meetings.

 

 

GTA Global Telecommunication Associates (Contractor Remote)                                    Sep 2014 – Aug 2014

Sr. Telecom Recruiter

Global Technologies Associates a Global IT and Engineering Services Company with Over 15 years, their core service offerings revolve around Network and Network related services for Utilities, Telecom service providers and OEMs. In the telecom segment the company provides Network Services to Telecom Operators, OEM's and Tower Companies. Has been home to telecom-savvy business, OSS BSS, Software Development wireline and wireless and provide business and Architect solutions technical leaders from the market including talents from several leading OSS/BSS product vendors and System Integrators. Work with implementation partners like NSN, ALU, Sprint, Ericsson, Juniper, Google CenturyLink, Sprint, Frontier, RigNet, Metasolv, Verizon, HP, Amazon, Credit Suisse, American Express, Southwest Airline, BrightHouse, Humana ,VES, Frontier, Sigma Systems, RigNet ,ViaSat, Verizon , Windstream, XO .

 

Responsibility:

As a recruiter I was responsible for full life cycle Information Technology recruiting for numbers of IT and Telecom clients Nationwide, Primarily supporting Information Technology and Telecommunication PRF and have placed candidates within many different industries in a broad range of roles such as technical support, MDM Architect, Transformation Projects , IT Merger projects, IT Legacy Projects, IT software development, testing, business/data analysis, Systems Engineering and Administration, Networking, PM, Architecture, Executives, and everything between.

 

Blue Telecom Dallas TX                                                                                                          May 2013 – Aug 2014

Sr. Telecom Recruiter/Source Manager (Contract)                                                                                       

Blue Telecom is a telecommunication engineering company that offers mobile engineering solutions (wireless device lab. IOT test, network field test, GPS test, UI management support) and system engineering solutions (network migration, network deployment & installation, operation & management technical support and network optimization) for the telecommunication industry. The company has collaborated with major device vendors and infra-network vendors and has joined a variety of iconic wireless product projects such as LTE smart phone products on Nokia, Ericsson ,Verizon Wireless, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, Regional carriers, etc. and Samsung LTE network roll out project and Clearwire WiMAX network deployment. I am working on Samsung, NSN, and Ericsson requirements on mobile, deployment and system side.

Ø       Responsible for full life-cycle recruitment which includes developing search strategies, sourcing, pre-screening, interviewing candidates, and closing on candidates

Ø       Built relationships with internal managers and employees.

Ø       Gathered information regarding the specific companies and employee culture.

Ø       Managed several national projects from a staffing perspective; including sourcing, qualifying, background checks, driving record checks, salary negotiation with both the candidates and managers and, travel arrangements by working with HR.

Ø       Worked with Recruiters and Recruiting Managers to ensure an appropriate pipeline is generated for tough to fill roles with particular skill set requirement.

Ø       Helped find resources for all sourcing, internet, local market, geographic market, industry trends.

Ø       Communicated and documented updates on the consultants and generate a candidate pool with updated information.

Ø       Trained and mentored new hires within our organization.

Ø       Prioritize needs and discuss work load with team in the meetings.

Ø       Helped develop creative recruiting and sourcing strategies.

Ø       Built and maintained professional relationships with potential candidates.

Ø       Established clear strategic plans with both candidates and managers to set expectations regarding the proposed job description, location, duration and, compensation on a national level.

Ø       Qualified requirements with internal managers and end customers to provide quality and customized needs.

Ø       Work with senior management to define and implement strategic and tactical plans and concepts in order to effectively prioritize daily tasks

Ø       Follow up on employee performance ,address and document employment issues where needed, following company policy by closely working with HR

Ø       Working with HR and Manager related to client requirement and consultant issues.

 

GTL Dallas TX                                                                                                                       Dec 2012 – May2013

Sr. Technical Recruiter (Contract Remote)

GTL, a Global Group Enterprise, is a leading Infrastructure Services company focused on telecom and Power.

In the telecom segment the company provides Network Services to Telecom Operators, OEM’s and Tower Companies. In the power sector the company offers EPC services, Distribution Franchisee and Smart Grid solutions to Utilities and distribution companies. GTL offers tailored and measurable Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), consulting solutions specialized in Telecom services offer a full life cycle of consulting and technology that generate a competitive advantage for clients. Responsible for AT&T, Verizon, Samsung, NSN, and Ericsson accounts.

 Responsibility:

Ø       Responsible for full life-cycle recruitment which includes developing search strategies, sourcing, pre-screening, interviewing candidates, and closing on candidates.

Ø       Use creative sourcing strategies and be able to develop a pipeline of potential candidates through various sourcing techniques (including but not limited to networking, user-groups, professional affiliations, cold calling, job postings, job boards, LinkedIn, networking, referrals, Boolean searches and resume mining). 

Ø       Provide a fast and high-touch experience for every candidate from application stage to offer, evaluating skill level, driving the interview process and offer process, including reference checks, salary recommendations and closing of candidates.

Ø       Proven recruiting experience in a corporate environment implementing a wide range of staffing programs.

Ø       Managing off shore recruiting team.

Ø       Conduct conference calls, meeting for the daily output/submission report.

Ø       Making sure the on-boarding process is followed like making sure candidates fill I-9, w4, offer letter is signed, getting NDA, Invention agreements signed, Company insurance forms are signed etc.

Ø       Responsibilities include calling on candidates and prime vendors, developing corporate account relationships, presenting consultants, negotiating & finalizing contracts.

Ø       Building new clients and maintaining existing clients’ relationships by finding and catering their requirements in time. 

 

Avion Systems Dallas, TX                                                                                                           Jan 2012 – Sep 2012

Corporate Telecom Sr. Recruiter (Contract)                                                                                                    

Avion Systems is an Atlanta-based, global technology firm, specializing in converging communications, broadband network services, solutions and innovations. With two distinct practice areas, centered on the Telecom and Technology sectors, Avion provides value-added network planning, design, installation, optimization and deployment services in helping to implement network infrastructures worldwide for companies such as AT&T, Sprint Nextel, EarthLink, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, Nokia Siemens, and Nortel for Third Generation (3G) technologies such as GPRS and UMTS along with emerging technologies such as Wi-Fi and WiMAX. Responsible for AT&T, Verizon, Samsung, NSN, Alcatel Lucent and Ericsson accounts.

 

Responsibilities:

Ø       Responsible for screening, selecting and submitting, re-routing and maintaining the passive /active candidate profile in the Ericsson dashboard/tools.

Ø       Strategic sourcing & recruitment of Senior Network Engineers to work as consultants for AT&T, Ericsson Sprint and Nokia qualified candidates required experience with Wi-Fi, GSM,UMTS, LTE, ATM, WiMAX Frame, MPLS, QoS, Optical, Secure Network Integration, Installation, Field Eng.,  Field Testers, Construction Mgr., Site Acquisition Mgr., Network & Systems Operations Management and current CISCO certifications CISSP, CCIE, CCDP or CCNA and software developers (Java,Oracle,.Net, C++)

Ø       Monthly Quota 4 hires (included employee transfers), schedule interviews, negotiate salary, make offers and complete reference checks, drug screen and background check.

Ø       Proven recruiting experience in a corporate environment implementing a wide range of staffing programs

Ø       Submit and upload the IT/Telecom Engineers, Software and Hardware developers, Engineer profile using the Ericsson Dashboard, ARP tool.

Ø       Check the status and active details of the expected interview and hire from the Ericsson tools.

Ø       Handled the tasks of maintaining proper records of the candidates in the database system of the organization using CBIZ (Applicant Tracking tool)

Ø       Posting candidates resumes on major job boards and updating them regularly.

Ø       Searching on job sites (Monster, Dice, Indeed, Telecomcarriers.net, Career builder,) to find suitable positions for existing consultants and communicate vendors through phone & mails.

Ø       Submitting resumes of the consultants to the clients and scheduling interview for them.

Ø       Responsible for preparing and coaching candidates for interviews.

Ø       Assigned the tasks of negotiating offers with candidates to meet target gross margins of the organization

 

Yasmesoft   Dallas, TX                                                                                                    July 2006 – December 2011
IT Recruiter (Perm)

Yasmesoft is a global provider of software development and IT services offers a full lifecycle of consulting and technology services with global capabilities by offering business and technology advisory services to help companies analyze and improve business operations and strategies. Yasmesoft has offshore capabilities across multiple locations in India, Philippines, and Eastern Europe. They offer a world-class application development, maintenance, migration and integration facility to the clients with IT Solutions and Internet Strategy. Responsible for Oil and Gas industry, HP, Verizon

Responsibilities:

Ø       Handled the tasks of screening, selecting and submitting candidates to job orders.

Ø       Sourcing for candidate with experience in IT quality assurance, web development, application / software development (strong C++), .NET, Oracle, Mobile Testers, Wireless Consultants and Java experience.

Ø       Maintained database of highly qualified candidates and follow-up with existing candidates.

Ø       Maintained the database of new consultants arriving, getting their resumes ready as well as keep track of contract details (project extensions, start & end dates) for existing resources.

Ø       Assigned the tasks of utilizing on-line database, candidate referrals, internet and networking to identify potential candidates.

Ø       Searching on job sites (Monster, Boolean search, Corp-Corp, Career builder, LinkedIn) to find suitable positions for existing consultants and communicate vendors through phone & mails.

Ø       Assigned the tasks of negotiating offers with candidates to meet target gross margins of the organization

Ø       Maintained constant communication with Hiring Managers for completing recruitment process

Ø       Responsibilities include calling on candidates and prime vendors, developing corporate account relationships, presenting consultants, negotiating & finalizing contracts.

Ø       Circulating Hotlist to vendor list.

Ø       Keep track of candidate arrival to bench (at least 3 weeks before) and getting their resume ready to market.

Ø       Building new clients and maintaining existing clients’ relationships by finding and catering their requirements in time. 

 

Bank One, Houston, TX                                                                                                          Feb 2003 - June 2004          

Business Analyst/QA  

Bank One Corp is the nation’s fifth largest bank holding company providing a broad range of financial operations. Scope of the company was to converted online Mortgage Loan Processing system from a Manual system to an automated system and integrated to retrieve existing customer data from legacy systems for its real estate portfolio, which could encompass the entire life cycle of a loan starting from identifying a deal right up to loan closure.

Responsibilities:

Ø       Identified and validated high potential business opportunities for stakeholders.

Ø       Gathered business Requirements, analyze data/workflows, defined the scope and progressed from problem Statement to well-documented Designs

Ø       Used Rational Unified Process (RUP) for streamlining the team’s development activities and analyze the business requirements utilizing Rational Req Pro as a user.

Ø       Worked through SDLC from Requirements, Analysis, Design, and Implementation through Testing.

Ø       Created and maintained a project schedule using MS Project showing all target dates for deliverables and also created complete development plans that included functional specifications, requirements engineering, Use Case modeling, risk assessment and mitigation, internal and external workflow.

Ø       Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases and facilitated weekly meetings with the review teams to continuously improve the QA process.

Ø       Used power point presentations for conducting walkthroughs with the stakeholders.

Ø       Performed Negative testing to find how the functions and variables perform when they encounters invalid and unexpected value by testing on mock data.

Ø       Performed systems testing prior to the product launch.

Ø       Involved in creating and running test cases for Cross-Browser testing.

Ø       Performed User Acceptance Testing upon completion of integration testing before installation of the application on user environment.

Environment:  MS Project, MS Office Suite, Outlook Express, UML, XML, Java

 

Emcure Pharmaceuticals, Bombay, India                                                                               April 2000 - Dec 2002                                 

Pharmaceutical Sales Executive/Recruiting - Area Manager

Emcure Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage company has expertise in creating, researching, manufacturing and marketing formulations of solids orals, injectable, liquids, creams and ointments.

Responsibilities:

Ø       Developed customer action plans that utilize profiling data, current productivity, sales potential, and return on investment to drive revenue and prioritize call strategies

Ø       Promoted services by establishing a network of relationship with Gynecologist, physicians, pediatricians, cardiologist, Endocrinologist, ENT specialists ,support staff, hospitals and RM

Ø       Successfully designed and implemented strategies that significantly increased customer access

Ø       Developed territory reorganization that effectively uses daily itinerary to maximize selling time Manage territory of 480 target medical professionals

Ø       Stock check with the area wholesalers.

Ø       Took account ability and achieve business results tracking and analyzing progress, responding to changing market Received letter of promotion within six months of job as area manager.

Ø       Built annual sales from start-up to Rs 50,000. Identified niche market that delivered above-average returns, in many cases adding more than 20% to profit margin.

Ø       Account Service: Developed relationships with decision-makers that led to major contracts (e.g., Well-Known Hospitals, Clinics, numerous medical office buildings).

Ø       Hired sales, marketing personnel, Interviewed and placed.

Ø       Expense Management: Negotiated supplier discounts on purchases of raw materials; implemented quality control system to control labor expenses at well-below industry average.

 

Air Atlanta/Air Mauritius

Flight Attendant (International Airlines)                                                                                   Oct 1995 - Feb 2000

Air Atlanta Icelandic is a service company driven to meet the goals of its customers. The company has nearly 30 aircraft in its fleet and employs nearly 1.000 people. Air Atlanta Icelandic holds the JAR-OPS1 and EASA PART-145 operators certificates issued by the Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration to the standards of the pan-European Joint Aviation Authorities. Air Atlanta Icelandic the leading ACMI operator in the world with over 20 years’ experience of wet-leasing.

Ø       Trained on L1011,Boing 747,727,Airbus 310/340,Jets in Singapore ,India

 

Education:   Bachelor’s in Commerce – SNDT Women’s University –Bombay India 1997

                      Diploma in Pharmacy – BVIT –College of Pharmacy – Bombay India 1994

                      Certified Medical Coder –AAPC, NCHS - CCI of Dallas Campus-Dallas, TX 2014

 

Certification:

AAPC certifications encompass the entire business side of provider care, with physician coding (CPC®), the hospital outpatient facility (CPC-H®)

 

·   Certified Professional Coder (CPC) –AAPC (American Academy of Professional Coders)

·   Certified ICD-10-CM –AAPC (American Academy of Professional Coders)

·   Certified Billing and Coding Specialist (CBCS) - NHA (National Health Career Association)

·   Certified HIPPA Regulations

·   Certified Medisoft (Insurance billing and coding software)

·   Certified CPR (AHA) - American Heart Association

·   D. Pharmacy – B.V.I.T –College of Pharmacy, Greater Mumbai – Maharashtra India.

 

                     LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pub/pam-kaur/68/9/8a0