Thomas Confort

Current

• Director of Talent at CourseAdvisor

Past

• Senior Contract Technical Recruiter at Monster Worldwide Inc.
• Senior Contract Technical Recruiter at Nokia
• Senior Contract Technical Recruiter at Citrix Systems Inc.

• Senior Contract Technical Recruiter at Aspen Technolgy Inc.
• Director, Recruiting and Resource Management at Whitbread Technology Partners
• Senior Technical Recruiter at Starpoint Solutions
• Principal, Contract Technical Recruiter at Think Human Capital Inc
• Senior Recruiter/Account Executive at Darwin Partners

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Education

• Rochester Institute of Technology

Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Thomas Confort’s Summary

Consultative HR with an emphasis on Recruiting and Hiring Process, Candidate Delivery, and Quality of Requirement. Offering extensive experience developing productive relationships with all levels of candidate and management Highly skilled in Relationship Development and Internal Process Management. Have created Compensation Grids and Internal Equity Systems through salary surveys, job matches, benchmarking, and evaluations.

Thomas Confort’s Specialties:

Strong working knowledge of ERP (SAP, Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft), Advanced Software Development, Enterprise Architecture, Web Technologies, and Database Technologies (including Business Intelligence, Data Analysis and Modeling, and Data Warehousing).

Thomas Confort’s Experience

• Director of Talent

  CourseAdvisor

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  Supervise and deliver all phases of the Recruiting, Hiring, and Staffing Planning Function at a Market Leader in the SEM / Education marketplace. Developed and designed documentation for Hiring and Recruiting Process. Trained Management in Interview Technique, Interview Team Management and Production Team Configuration. Coordinate and Schedule all Interviews and Presentations by Candidates in Technology, Statistical Data Analysis and Modeling, and Internet/ Email Marketing. Meet regularly with Executive Level to determine procedure and protocol in Hiring, Firing and Retention. Negotiate Candidate Salary, Bonus, and Benefit Requirements. Also define and deliver all Immigration Requirements.
  
  Technologies include:
  Development: Ruby on Rails, Java, Perl, Web Services (SOAP, XML-RPC, REST)
  Database: Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, SQLServer2000/2005

• Senior Contract Technical Recruiter

  Monster Worldwide Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  April 2008 — October 2008 (7 months)

  Supervise and deliver all phases of the Recruiting Function at the Global Leader in Career Consulting and Online Staffing/Recruiting. Responsible for as many as 30 Requirements, I met with Hiring Managers, sourced for Technical Candidates, and coordinated the Recruiting and Hiring Process from start to finish. Serving 15 Hiring Managers in the US and Europe, I staffed projects in CRM, Software Development and QA, and Project and Product Management.
  
  Technologies include:
  Development: Java, J2EE, C#, HTML, PHP, CSS, XML, UML, ASP.net
  CRM: Siebel, Performance Tuning

• Senior Contract Technical Recruiter

  Nokia

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2008 — April 2008 (4 months)

  Supervise and deliver all phases of the Recruiting Function for the fastest growing division of the Global Leader in Handheld Communication Devices. Responsible for as many as 40 Requirements, I organized and executed 2 Employment Events and coordinated all Global Recruiting and Hiring efforts for the division. Working closely with the General Manager of the division I created and implemented Recruiting and Interview Process. Serving 12 Hiring Managers on 3 continents, I directed the Process for roles in Program, Project and Product Management, Software Development and QA, and Networking/UC/UM.
  
  Technologies include:
  Development: Java, C#, C++, Ajax, CSS, HTML
  Mobile Development: J2ME, Windows Mobile, UC/UM

• Senior Contract Technical Recruiter

  Citrix Systems Inc.

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2007 — January 2008 (7 months)

  Supervise and deliver all phases of the Recruiting Function for 2 divisions of one of the Global Leaders in Streaming Software Solutions and Server Virtualization. Handling up to 30 Requirements and coordinating the process between 2 corporate locations, I organized Corporate Recruiting Process and chaired weekly Recruiting Status Meetings. Developed positive and efficient working relationships with 12 Direct Hiring Managers and implemented Internal Referral and Internal Promotion programs to reduce Recruiting costs. Responsible for maintaining Recruiting Agency relationships and submittals.
  
  Technologies include:
  Development: Java, C#, C++, related Microsoft Technologies
  Operating Systems: Windows, Linux
  Server Virtualization: XenServer, Hypervisor

• Senior Contract Technical Recruiter

  Aspen Technolgy Inc.

  (Computer Software industry)

  April 2007 — July 2007 (4 months)

  Supervise and deliver all phases of the Recruiting function for the R&D group of the Global Leader in Process Manufacturing Software Solutions for the Energy Industry. Handling up to 25 Requirements simultaneously I forged working relationships with over 10 Hiring Managers, scheduled and executed weekly status meetings, and completed all elements of the Recruiting and Hiring Process. I successfully developed and implemented new Recruiting and Hiring Process, and managed all candidate and manager interaction in that Process.
  
  Technologies include:
  Software Engineering:
  Development: Java (J2EE), Microsoft (.net), C, C++
  Database: SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle, (Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing)

• Director, Recruiting and Resource Management

  Whitbread Technology Partners

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; ZANE; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2006 — April 2007 (11 months)

  Supervise and deliver all phases of the Recruiting and Resource Management function at a CAP Level Implementation Partner for Oracle Corporation and the Oracle E-Business Suite. Responsible for all activities related to recruiting and resource management for all three Divisions of the firm, Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft/JDE, and Advanced Middleware (BI, DW, SOA, Fusion, etc). Interaction with Practice Directors and Managers to create detailed Statement of Work. Create and process detailed Job Requirement listing, Post Requirement on Job Boards and Industry Publications, and process, screen and interview applicants. Created a custom Salary Grid for the Northeast region to help better project costs of resources in our marketplace over the Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft/JDE and Advanced Middleware markets.
  
  Responsibilities include:
  -Coordinating managers and directors to Create Requirement
  -Effect all issues regarding recruitment, interview process, and hiring process
  -Chair several corporate weekly meetings concerning recruiting and resource management
  -Interact with executive level on hiring strategy, process, and goal setting.
  -Become part of the Oracle EBS community through Partner meetings and functions

• Senior Technical Recruiter

  Starpoint Solutions

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2005 — June 2006 (1 year )

  Supervise and execute all phases of Technical Recruiting and Placement Process for new and existing clients. Working with the top companies in the Financial and Asset Management community I source, qualify, interview and present candidates directly to the hiring managers. Also supervise the interview process and provide timely feedback to both the client and candidate.
  
  Responsibilities include:
  -Developing Statement of Work
  -Sourcing and Interviewing Candidates
  -Coordination of Client/Candidate Interview Process
  - Technologies include:
  ERP - SAP (ABAP, ALE, IDOCS, and Netweaver)
  Development - Java, J2EE, VB, C++, PB, COBOL
  Database - Oracle, DB2, SQL (Development, Data Modeling, and Administration

• Principal, Contract Technical Recruiter

  Think Human Capital Inc

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2000 — June 2005 (4 years 10 months)

  Senior Contract Technical Recruiter
  
  Clients included:
  Fresenius Medical Care, Lexington, MA (SAP, Netweaver, Java, Lotus Notes and Domino)
  Foliage Software Systems, Burlington, MA (Java, J2EE, Datawarehousing and Data Modeling)
  Charles River Systems, Boston, MA (Java, PB, Embedded Systems)
  Litton/Tasc, Reading, MA (C++, Java, Database Architecture, RTOS)
  NY Life, NYC, NY (C, C++, GUI and Web Development, Mainframe and Legacy Systems)
  JPMorganChase, Lowell MA (C++, RTOS, Embedded and Legacy Systems)

• Senior Recruiter/Account Executive

  Darwin Partners

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1998 — July 2000 (2 years 1 month)

  National Account Manager for several Fortune 100 clients at a $100 million Technology Consulting and Staffing Firm.
  
  Client list include:
  -SBC Communications
  -Viacom/CBS/Blockbuster
  –American Electric Power
  
  Responsibilities include:
  -New Account Development
  -Extensive candidate screening, including phone interview and thorough reference checks.
  -Establish Requirements for Consulting and Staffing Services directly with Hiring Managers

Thomas Confort’s Education

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  AS , Management

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