Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · United States

• Maintaining direct, client-facing relationships to ensure alignment with technical and business requirements.
• Overseeing team performance, mentoring junior recruiters, and driving delivery excellence across accounts.
• Managing sales and account responsibilities for select clients, building long-term partnerships, and consistently meeting business objectives.
• Work with local and national technical consultants to identify contract, contract-to-permanent and permanent positions in the area’s of IT, Business Applications, Finance & Accounting, Telecommunications and Engineering.
• Network with local User Groups, Technical Schools and Technology Specialists to grow and enhance the technical personnel community.
• Source potential candidates by utilizing Experis’ database, referrals, User Groups, job boards and advertising.
• Maintain a best in class screening process by meeting all candidates for the interviews, conducting reference checks and administering technical tests when necessary.
• Maintain strong relationships with technical personnel through consistent communication, honesty and loyalty.
• Serve as point of contact for career coaching, resume enhancements, pay rate negotiations, benefits and payroll questions.
• Met all production goals; established myself as a trusted advisor to my talent community.
• Track job orders and initiate recruitment for new roles paying close attention to high priority opportunities
• Refer job order leads and hiring manager names to Account Managers
• Be familiar with industry trends, including client, market and unemployment conditions
• Be fully educated on account processes & policies to ensure 100% contract compliance
• Track/communicate new technology trends
• Strategize with team members; assist and come up with best recruiting practices

Jan 2020 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Vienna, VA

Oct 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

Sep 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr · India

• Worked as a Corporate Trainer of Hardware, A+, N+ CEH, CCNA, CCNP, Windows Server 2016, RHCE, RHCA, Windows 7 and Windows 8, Windows 10.
• Installing, Monitoring and Maintaining Local Area Network.
• Installing and configuring the peripherals, components and drivers.
• Resolving tickets on network and service provisioning.
• Network cabling, dressing, labeling and troubleshooting network drops onsite.
• Provided technical support on hardware and software related issues to remote production sites.
• Configured EIGRP for Lab Environment.
• Created VLAN and Inter-VLAN routing with Multilayer Switching.
• Configuring and troubleshooting desktops, laptops and servers.
• Installation and Configuration of Cisco Catalyst switches 6500, 3750 & 3550 series and configured routing protocol OSPF, EIGRP with Access Control lists as per Network design and IT Policies.
• Academic Management
• Oversee, organise and develop the core activities of teaching, research, examining, advising and other service activities and of commercial exploitation and knowledge transfer, consulting with all departmental colleagues, where appropriate.
• Ensure that the department’s responsibilities to students in respect of admission, teaching, progress and pastoral care are met.
• Facilitate and promote the development of intra- and inter-disciplinary academic activity (in teaching and research).
• Teaching
• Account for and manage, in collaboration with the course directors, the effective delivery of programmes and modules.
• Ensure that the quality and standards of programmes within the department’s remit are maintained and enhanced.
• Support innovation in course design and delivery, learning, teaching and assessment methods.
• Contribute to the teaching undertaken within the faculty/department.

Jan 2017 – Sep 2017 · 8 mos

• Sr. Corporate Trainer of Cisco, Microsoft, Palo Alto, Red Hat Linux and VMware at Rooman Technologies.

Sep 2016 – Jan 2017 · 4 mos · Aligarh Area, India

• Cisco Administrator and Windows Server Administrator.

Nov 2015 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos · India · On-site

• A+, N+, CCNA, CCNP, WINDOWS SERVER 2003, WINDOWS SERVER 2008,2012, Palo Alto Network Firewall, Windows Server Administration, Cisco Routers and Cisco Switches, Install and support LANs, WANs, network segments, Internet, and intranet systems.
• Install and maintain network hardware and software.
• Analyze and isolate issues.
• Monitor networks to ensure security and availability to specific users.
• Evaluate and modify system's performance.
• Identify user needs.
• Determine network and system requirements.
• Maintain integrity of the network, server deployment, and security.
• Ensure network connectivity throughout a company's LAN/WAN infrastructure is on par with technical considerations.
• Design and deploy networks.
• Perform network address assignment.
• Assign routing protocols and routing table configuration.
• Assign configuration of authentication and authorization of directory services.
• Maintain network facilities in individual machines, such as drivers and settings of personal computers as well as printers.
• Maintain network servers such as file servers, VPNgateways, intrusion detection systems.
• Administer servers, desktop computers, printers, routers, switches, firewalls, phones, personal digital assistants, smartphones, software deployment, security updates and patches.
• Installation of OS and different types of roles in OS.
• Knowledge about patching, OS hardening and troubleshooting
• VMWARE Related knowledge i.e. Vcenter,SRM, HA, DRS, dvSwith configuration etc.
• AD, DNS, MS failover and NLB Cluster configuration and management
• Knowledge about Exchange 2013 Concepts, configuration and management
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills; experienced in applications and Microsoft Server 2003/2008.
• Skill with most Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 commands/utilities. Familiarity with most system administration tools and processes;
• Ability to solve problems quickly and completely.

Sep 2015 – Aug 2016 · 11 mos

• Palo Alto Network Firewall, Windows Server Administration, Cisco Routers and Cisco Switches, Install and support LANs, WANs, network segments, Internet, and intranet systems.
• Install and maintain network hardware and software.
• Analyze and isolate issues.
• Monitor networks to ensure security and availability to specific users.
• Evaluate and modify system's performance.
• Identify user needs.
• Determine network and system requirements.
• Maintain integrity of the network, server deployment, and security.
• Ensure network connectivity throughout a company's LAN/WAN infrastructure is on par with technical considerations.
• Design and deploy networks.
• Perform network address assignment.
• Assign routing protocols and routing table configuration.
• Assign configuration of authentication and authorization of directory services.
• Maintain network facilities in individual machines, such as drivers and settings of personal computers as well as printers.
• Maintain network servers such as file servers, VPNgateways, intrusion detection systems.
• Administer servers, desktop computers, printers, routers, switches, firewalls, phones, personal digital assistants, smartphones, software deployment, security updates and patches.
• Installation of OS and different types of roles in OS.
• Knowledge about patching, OS hardening and troubleshooting
• VMWARE Related knowledge i.e. Vcenter,SRM, HA, DRS, dvSwith configuration etc.
• AD, DNS, MS failover and NLB Cluster configuration and management
• Knowledge about Exchange 2013 Concepts, configuration and management
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills; experienced in applications and Microsoft Server 2003/2008.
• Skill with most Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 commands/utilities. Familiarity with most system administration tools and processes;
• Ability to solve problems quickly and completely.
• Ability to identify tasks which require automation and automate them

Sep 2011 – Oct 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Central Academic Head, IT Corporate Trainer, Network Engineer in Aptech Computer Education.
• Worked as a Corporate Trainer of Hardware, N+, CCNA, CCNP, MCITP, MCSA, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
• Installing, Monitoring and Maintaining Local Area Network.
• Installing and configuring the peripherals, components and drivers.
• Resolving tickets on network and service provisioning.
• Network cabling, dressing, labeling and troubleshooting network drops onsite.
• Provided technical support on hardware and software related issues to remote production sites.
• Configured EIGRP for Lab Environment.
• Created VLAN and Inter-VLAN routing with Multilayer Switching.
• Configuring and troubleshooting desktops, laptops and servers.
• Installation and Configuration of Cisco Catalyst switches 6500, 3750 & 3550 series and configured routing protocol OSPF, EIGRP with Access Control lists as per Network design and IT Policies.
• Academic Management
• Oversee, organise and develop the core activities of teaching, research, examining, advising and other service activities and of commercial exploitation and knowledge transfer, consulting with all departmental colleagues, where appropriate.
• Ensure that the department’s responsibilities to students in respect of admission, teaching, progress and pastoral care are met.
• Facilitate and promote the development of intra- and inter-disciplinary academic activity (in teaching and research).
• Teaching
• Account for and manage, in collaboration with the course directors, the effective delivery of programmes and modules.
• Ensure that the quality and standards of programmes within the department’s remit are maintained and enhanced.
• Support innovation in course design and delivery, learning, teaching and assessment methods.
• Contribute to the teaching undertaken within the faculty/department.

Jan 2010 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos

Sep 2006 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos

• I worked on Desktop Machines installation and configuration, LAN Configuration, WLAN Configuration, Desktop Support issues, broadband routers configuration and troubleshoot, access points configuration and Troubleshooting.