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

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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 up to the Top Executive Level. 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; Internet industry)

  September 2008 — Present (11 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.

  (Public Company; MNST; 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; 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.

  (Public Company; AZPN; 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; 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

Thomas Confort’s Education

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  AS , Management

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