Volora Bridget Howell

Volora Bridget Howell
483 Mountain View Avenue
Orange, New Jersey 07050
Tel: 973-414-9279

Independent Contractor

SUMMARY

Over 22 successful years in HR, specializing in domestic and international Sourcing and full lifecycle Recruiting… finding passive and non-passive candidates.

Experienced in planning, developing, implementing and participating in comprehensive recruiting programs. Management and training of recruiters and HR staff. Broad knowledge of Technology Placement. Successful experience includes, but is not limited to Sourcing and Recruiting all levels and disciplines of professionals within Information Technology, Financial Services, and Professional Services.

Strong background with Internet sourcing and recruiting to include techniques taught by AIRS trained professionals, the leading firm on Internet Recruitment Strategies. Competent with Flipping, X-ray, advanced Boolean searches, etc. Experienced with Kenexa, I-Grasp Restrac, Webferret, Resumix, Copernic, and JobDiva. Recruiter and others.

Specialize in recruiting and sourcing in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and IT industries. Providing services nationally for both clients and candidates, cultivating strong relationships within this community. Provided on-site/off-site recruitment service on hourly fee basis; also performed executive retained searches.

Qualifications:

10+ years of biotech/pharmaceutical
Conduct full cycle recruiting to include candidate sourcing, development, presentation, salary negotiation, compensation studies, and offers and interviewed and screened candidates, with a 90%-100% placement rate.
Experienced in developing job descriptions and creating profiles.
Conducted job fairs, seminars, training, and benefits orientation for employers.
Performed criminal check, credit check and testing candidates from colleges and universities as well as technical training institutions.
Responsibilities include attending job fairs and career conventions, developing job descriptions, user-groups, sourcing, research, and sales.
Recruited for the following positions: Technology, Clinical Trials professionals, Management, , Medical Writers, Quality Assurance, Biostatistics and Biometrics, Communications, Public Relations, IT, Sales and Marketing.
Biotech/Pharmaceutical/Medical Device Client: Cytokenetics, Luipold Pharmaceuticals, Martek , Sarah Cannon, Novavax, RTI International , Cardinal Health, Baxter Healthcare, Organon Pharmaceutical, Memory Pharmaceuticals, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Acorda Therapeutics, Pharmacia, Novartis, ImClone Systems, The Medicine Company, aaiPharma, Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Forest Labs, Aerotek Scientific, Sepracor, Wyeth, Hartz Mountain and Eisai Medical, Medarex, Memory Pharmaceuticals.
Technology Clients: Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, CNBC, Schoolnet, ADP, Comcast

Pharma Search Partners-Blythewood, South Carolina

February 2008-- Present Virtual Clinical Recruiter

Pharma-Search Partners is a pharmaceutical recruiter and staffing agency for companies seeking highly skilled professionals; Biotech/Pharmaceutical/Medical Device Client: RTI International , Pro- Rhythm, Hoana Medical, Cardinal Health, Baxter Healthcare, Organon Pharmaceutical, Memory Pharmaceuticals, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Acorda Therapeutics, Pharmacia, Novartis, ImClone Systems, The Medicine Company, aaiPharma, Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Forest Labs, Aerotek Scientific, Sepracor, Wyeth, Hartz Mountain and Eisai Medical, Forest Labs..

Recruitment of Immunologists, ,Oncologists, Biostatistics, Clinical Data Management, CRA’s Medical Directors, Cardiologists, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, Clinical Programmers, Firmware , Developers, Quality Assurance, SAS Programmers .

Verizon Business-

2007- 2008

USA Senior Recruiter/ Lead Sourcer for Verizon Business Premier

Responsibilities are: Direct Sourcing, Name Generation, Candidate Development,

Cold Calling, full cycle recruitment Nationwide for Verizon number one business practice.

Developed National diversity recruitment strategies for the Premier business group.

Liaison with V.P, Directors, Sales Managers and Human Resources.

Sales engineers, System Architects, Sales ,Marketing, Executive Management

Amgen

2006 – Present Life Science Recruiter- Diversity Assignment Global Marketing Directors

RTI International, Clinical Health/Drug Discovery Corporation

Virtual Senior Life Science Recruiter

RTI International May 2006- December 2006

Healthcare : Recruitment of candidates a spectrum of innovative services that encompass drug discovery and development, outcomes research, product valuation, public health, and health policy research.

Drug Discovery – Recruitment of all facets of drug discovery and development, from synthesis and design to toxicology and metabolic analysis to comprehensive clinical trial and drug assessment services

Environmental and Natural Resources: Setting environmental standards, conducting research, and providing scientific, technical, and policy analysis

Economic and Social Development: Epidemiologists, Biostatisticians, and Women’s Health

RTI has 7 international offices, 5 Regional clients are government and private sector. New Program Development for Engineering Technology Unit Director, Water Resource Managers (Civic Engineers)VP of Genomic, Epidemiologist, Bioinformatics, Biostatisticians, Quality Assurance, Bioinfomatics, VP of Genomic, Scientists, Director of Health Economics, Director of Energy, Biostatistics, Clinical Safety, Drug Safety, Medical Writers, Director of Health Economics, Water Resource Managers, Director of Energy, Electrical Engineers.

Schoolnet New York, New York

January 2006- April 2006 Virtual Technology Recruiter

Project Managers, Developers, Director of Hosting

Keane Associate- New York, New York

Technology Virtual Recruiter Goldman Sachs – July 2005- February 2006

Recruited for technology positions: Java , Weblogic, Struts, EJB , Sybase Developers

Comcast Corporation- Holmdel, NJ

Virtual Technology Recruiter -July 2005- September 2005

ISP AIP Architect, IP System Engineers, Provisioning Engineers

ADP – Roseland, New Jersey

Contract Financial /IT Recruiter February 2005- April 2005

Lease Accountant ,Sr. Accountant - Lead Accountant - Senior Financial Auditor - Assistant Controller - Sr. Director Financial Policy - Sr. Director Financial Compliance ,VP of Corporate Development, Oracle Financial, Genesys, Nortel, Xenix and Unix AIX Administrator, SOX Compliance,

CNBC- Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Contract Financial Producer Recruiter

November 2004- January 2005

Responsibilities include the recruitment of Segment, Associate, and

Financial Producers for CNBC. Project Manager (IT), graphic designer (IT)

Duties include sourcing, interviewing screening applicants.

Cardinal Health Scientific –Somerset, New Jersey

7/2004-11/2004 Virtual Recruiter
Recruited for Formulation and PreFormulation Scientists, Analytical Scientist, Pilot Plant Technicians, Director of Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, Project Manager, Project Coordinators, Data Technicians.

Organon Pharmaceuticals-Roseland, New Jersey
10/2003- 12/2003 National Sales Recruitment & Diversity Recruitment
Primary and Specialty Care sales recruitment for 12-15 openings nationwide. Completed assignment one week ahead of schedule managers, sales representatives.

Aerotek Scientific –Parsippany, New Jersey

2002-2003- Life Science Virtual Recruiter

Regulatory Affairs: VP of Regulatory Affairs, Regulatory Affairs Associate

Clinical Science: Medical Directors, CRA, Monitors, Operations Directors

aaiPharma, Natick, Massachusetts
11/2001-10/2003
Virtual Life Science Recruiter
Recruited for QA auditors, Trainers for CRA’s, Director of Biometrics, QA Manager and other clinical and non-clinical positions.

The Regulatory Affairs Company-San Francisco, California

2001-2002- Regulatory Affairs Recruiter

AdOne- New York, New York
9/2000-9/2001- Director of Technical Recruitment/Corporate Technical Recruiter (Consultant)

Technical Recruitment of over 20 openings.

Reported directly to the CTO and COO. 100% placement.

Recruited for: Java Developers, Network Engineers, Project Managers, Technical Writers, Database Consultant, Oracle DBA, Oracle Financial Consultants.

Roche Pharmaceuticals, Nutley, New Jersey
6/97-12/2000
Technology Recruiter (Consultant)

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Recruited for SAP Special Assignment without agency assistance (internet recruitment, direct-sourcing, user-groups, built a large database, referrals). Positions included: SAP, ABAP Developers MM, PP, Oracle DBA, SAP MM PP, FICO Analyst: Business Process Analyst, Peoplesoft Project Leader, Oracle 2000 Developers Oracle, Oracle DBA, MS II Engineers, HP UNIX Specialist: Systems, Cisco Network Engineers. Reported directly to HR Manager.

LAN Search Inc. One World Trade Center, New York, New York

1999 –1987 Senior Technology Recruiter

Cisco Systems- Account representatives System Engineers, Network Architects 1996-1998

3-COM- Account Managers, Network Engineer Pre/Post sales

Wellfleet- Account Executives

Bay Network Systems-Pre/Post, Sales Executives

Microsoft Corporation: 1991-1998

Sales, Network Engineers, Messaging Developers, Pre/Post Sales Engineers

Database Consultant SQL,

Synoptic: Pre/Post Network Engineer Sales Executives, Philadelphia Pa. 1991

Cabletron Systems: Pre/Post Network Engineer, Sales Account Representative 1990-1998A

Proteon Systems- Network Engineer, Sales

ChipCom- Network Engineer Pre/Post Sales

Computer skills: MS WORD, EXCEL, OUTLOOK, Kenexa, Brassring, Restrac

Education:

Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA
Master’s degree - Business Administration

Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Bachelor of Science - Journalism/Public Relations, June 1977

Grahm Junior College, Boston, MA
Associates - Broadcast Journalism, June 1975

Airs Trained Source Point

Trained at Sourcecon 2007

Trained in Broadlook Technologies

Trained ZoomInfo

Professional Associations:

Member Cisco Alumni
Linkedin Lion Member-directly linked 3300 members

Spoke, ERE Network , Facebook
Oracle User Group
NYNMA (New York New Media Association)
Founder of the Regulatory Groups (over 400 Members)