Ronnie Bratcher

Current

Senior Contract Recruiter/Principal at Arete Alliance, LLC

Past

Contract Recruiter at Z=mc2
Candidate Generation Recruiter at Search Wizards at Microsoft Corporation
Senior Contract Recruiter at Human Initiative Inc.

Senior Contract Recruiter at Gary Associates Inc.
Resource Manager at B2B Workforce
Senior Recruiter at Experient
Senior Recruiter at Management Decisions Inc.
Recruiter at Kforce

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Education

Montreat College

Recommended

8 people have recommended Ronnie

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

Websites

Ronnie Bratcher’s Summary

With 13 years of Executive Management/Human Resources experience and 10 years of recruiting experience with primary focus being Information Technology, I have established creative recruiting process patterns within the recruiting life cycle highly adaptable to any business vertical. My experience in management brings value into the recruiting process by creating sourcing methodologies, candidate and client relationships and hands on experience of business life cycle processes.

Ronnie Bratcher’s Specialties:

Recruiting, Sourcing, Networking, Relationship building, Social Media,
Feel free to network with me at ronnie@aretealliance.com

Ronnie Bratcher’s Experience

Senior Contract Recruiter/Principal

Arete Alliance, LLC

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

Providing full life cycle recruiting solutions on a contract basis. Contact me for more information!!
Contract Recruiter

Z=mc2

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

January 2009 — November 2009 (11 months)

Z=mc2, Atlanta, GA (1/09-2/09 & 7/09) (Virtual Based)
Client: Confidential- a leader in the field of benefits administration software
Contract Recruiter
* Short term project to quickly indentify and hire a Web Application
Developer focused on strong C#, ASP.NET, AJAX and Web
Services background.
* Responsible for sourcing, recruiting, qualifying and submission of
potential prospects to the client.
* Leveraged several tools to identify targeted candidates based on
client’s profile. (User Groups, Social Media, Search Engines and
Job Boards)
* Contract completed with a successful hire in 4 weeks.
Candidate Generation Recruiter

Search Wizards at Microsoft Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

August 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 5 months)

* Responsible for sourcing, recruiting and pre-screening candidates
(Senior Consultant, Architect, Project and Program Manager
levels) for the following umbrellas of Microsoft Consulting Services:
Solution Services Team (SST), National Delivery Team (NDT),
Operations Team and Public Sector Team.
* Managed the entire recruiting life cycle
* Geographic location-all US
* Project resulted in 56 full time hires
* Hired 14 Architects and 2 Practice Management level positions
* Technologies recruited for: MOSS (Microsoft SharePoint Server), EPM (Project Server 2003/2007), SMS/SCCM/SCOM/MOM, C#, VB.NET, .NET Framework 3.0, Web Services, XML, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Visual Studio.NET, SQL Server, BizTalk Server, Host Integration Server, Project Server, Internet Information Services (IIS) Server, Windows 2000/2003 Server, SOA, WCF, WF, Microsoft Dynamics, ITIL/MOF, Security, ALM (Application Life Cycle Management Architects), Virtualization, Notes Compete and UC Voice- MCS/LCS
Senior Contract Recruiter

Human Initiative Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

November 2006 — August 2007 (10 months)

Currently assisting a global operations management consulting firm in recruiting Project Managers with expertise in Supply Chain, Asset Management and Organizational Effectiveness processes.
Senior Contract Recruiter

Gary Associates Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Insurance industry)

October 2006 — November 2006 (2 months)

* Retained to source and recruit a CFO (bi-lingual in Spanish/English) for a major
Medicare/Medicaid Insurance provider located in San Juan, PR.
* Utilized existing leads that were provided from a sourcing team to cold call and
network with potential candidates.
* Developed a recruiting strategy to find additional leads to recruit and network with.
Resource Manager

B2B Workforce

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

July 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 5 months)

* Currently hiring professional SAP consultants for
projects in the US and Canada for major Global Consulting
firms.
* Completed Project Hiring Solution for Bearingpoint.
Integrated with SAP recruiting team to help build the
permanent staff in the organization's Public Sector
Practice.
* Completed a Project Hiring Solution for Accenture in
staffing SAP professionals as permanent employees for the
organization.
Technologies recruited for:
SAP (SD, MM, FI/CO, QM, CRM, ABAP, BW, PM, WM, PP, Basis, HR, PLM, XI, Netweaver, Security), Siebel, Oracle, J2EE, BA, Project Managers, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, UI, Graphic/Interface Designers, Technical Recruiters
Senior Recruiter

Experient

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

June 2002 — July 2004 (2 years 2 months)

Responsible for full life cycle recruiting of IT professionals staffing projects and providing staff augmentation for business partners nationwide.

Specific responsibilities include candidate qualification, verification of references, preparation of candidates for interviews, candidate maintenance, cold calling and lead generation.
Senior Recruiter

Management Decisions Inc.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

August 2000 — June 2002 (1 year 11 months)

Responsible for locating, recruiting, and maintaining IT professionals to meet the contract technology requirements of Atlanta based Fortune 500 clients for a three-time INC 500 placement firm, specializing in client server development.

Responsible for full scope of recruiting activities including sourcing, networking, interviewing, evaluating and recommending Information Technology professionals to Fortune 1000 clients.

Recruiting experiences include data mining, cold calling, closing techniques, reference checks, utilizing search engines, newsgroups, networking, resume preparation and relationship building.

Conduct training sessions for peers along with mentoring activities to new members of staff.

Areas of recruiting expertise included ERP, CRM, EAI, Oracle Applications, J2EE technologies, Project Management, Quality Assurance, and n-tier client server based applications.
Recruiter

Kforce

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; KFRC; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

July 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 2 months)

Provide staffing solutions in the Information Technology sector.

Responsibilities include sourcing candidates, interviewing, matching, resume preparation and closing techniques.

Successful in building relationships with candidates and providing solutions during their career transitions.

Integrated career management solutions strategy on the web.

Recruited entire spectrum of the Information Technology sector.

Ronnie Bratcher’s Education

Montreat College

BBA , Management

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Recruiting, Cycling, Outdoors, Cooking, Car Mechanics, Photography

Ronnie Bratcher’s Groups:

Electronic Recruiting Exchange
Technology Association of Georgia Recruiting SIG- Committee Member
SHRM-Atlanta
MyLinkedinPowerForum (Yahoo Groups)
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