Mohd Imaan Naiyer

• Recruiting and delivering strategic, tailored solutions for SLED projects (mainly focused on county, educational institutions/infrastructure, municipalities, and public health projects), along with working on SIs like TCS, Infosys, Tech M, etc.
• Individually managing end-to-end TA/recruitment solutions, from gathering the projects/requirements to sourcing, screening, evaluation, interview preparations, interview follow-ups, offers, and start, ensuring 100% delivery to customers, leading to post-start activities, including 15-day/monthly candidate follow-ups, concluding in smooth retention of clients for me, and candidates for clients.
• Positions involved recruiting for K-12 education school systems, high-end niche IT, infrastructure and cloud, network/security/cybersecurity, data/BI solutions, H/W engineering roles, and AI/ML services.
• Leveraging my certifications and professional training in Generative AI using advanced version tools like GPT, Grok, and Deep Seek, and making a perfect sync and merger with the needs of TA/Recruitment, resulting in a better TAT.
• Involved with the Proposal Team, collaborating with the Vendor Manager, preparing and winning bids for projects, and preparing documentation (RFPs, RFQs, RFAs).

• Hired to establish the Core IT-Focused SLED Recruitment/TA team with Cogent while they are expanding their operations in IT after having great success in the non-IT SLED public sector.
• Recruited and managed delivery for top-notch talent solutions for more than 10 Federal Agencies, 35 state clients, involving multiple IT niche positions for multiple county projects, municipality roles, and educational institutions, including both K-12 and higher education. For reference or more clarity, please refer to my client portfolio, sharing a section of work I did here.
• Involved in day-to-day catering and serving super niche complications for a top-notch IT position, and achieving a few projects and offers on top-notch IT roles (ex-NG911 Fire Department NY Leadership Team or Super Tech Cyber and Security Analyst for the State of NY - Operation of Tech and Innovation Department, Drupal Architecture for the County of SBC, or GIS Architecture FDNY supporting NG911 upgrades), placing teams on educational institution projects in IT/non-IT functional areas, as well as the non-IT niche side involving setting up a team of Infra Engineer Windows, SharePoint, and MS Suite Engineering Team set up for CPS - Chicago Public School K-12 ELA, higher education, and public university programs. Hiring involves program managers, directors of K-12 programs, highly skilled professors, career advisors, student cafeteria staff (for TUSD - Tucson Unified School District), tutors, trainers, language coaches, and experts.
• Mentored and guided the IT TA/Recruitment team on SLED, federal projects on qualitative resume approaches, TAT, maintaining the candidate pool database, screening, pre-interview preparations with tech experts, and overall trained and led from scratch the existing team of non-IT recruiters who migrated to IT recruitment teams, as well as the new hires for the IT SLED division, including interviewing them.
• The Collab and Supported IT Proposal Team in project bid submissions and winning projects in the state of Texas helped achieve the Texas Department of Health and Human Services - DIR TX, Department of Agriculture project, and successfully delivered talent to various departments through winning bids on these projects. I was also directly involved in creating RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
• Direct involvement in the Cogent University program, helping to train students for visas, managing the IT certification program, and bench selling them to new opportunities aligned with the skill set.
• Leveraging my certifications and professional training in Gen AI using advanced version tools like GPT, Grok, and Deep Seek, and making a perfect sync and merger with the needs of TA/Recruitment, resulting in a better TAT.

• Promoted thrice within 30 months, transitioning from TA Lead to TA Service Delivery Manager, while continuing to contribute hands-on to talent sourcing and recruitment for high-priority IT roles in both the public sector and the commercial sector.
  Led end-to-end recruitment for top system integrators (SIs) like Infosys, HCL, and Tech Mahindra, managing million-dollar project accounts while overseeing 30+ recruiters and 4 to 5 team leads, resulting in the delivery of $MM projects during my time with eTeam.
• Supported Deloitte on state and county government projects, delivering critical IT talent solutions to meet the staffing needs of public sector clients in the SLED space.
• Spearheaded the development and submission of RFPs, SLAs, and contract negotiations for public sector staffing, ensuring compliance with government procurement standards, and delivering successful contract renewals.
• Provided strategic guidance to the recruitment team, while focusing on client engagement and maintaining long-term relationships with clients, ensuring the fulfillment of staffing requirements and project delivery goals.
  

• Focused on hands-on recruitment for complex, niche IT, and security-related government projects, utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter and RPS for sourcing and attracting top-tier talent.
• Led a team of 8 to 9 recruiters, providing guidance on best practices for screening and evaluating candidates, ensuring alignment with project requirements for state and federal projects.
• Delivered IT hiring solutions for high-priority projects across state and federal government agencies, particularly focused on states such as Connecticut (CT), Florida (FL), Arkansas (AR), Louisiana (LA), Illinois (IL), and major clients like the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and NYCHA.
• Played a key role in scaling recruitment efforts by implementing streamlined processes for screening and onboarding talent, resulting in reduced time to fill, and improved quality of hire for critical government contracts.

Team Lead Recruitment - ASK Consulting - (July 19 - June 20)||Recruitment Specialist, the Judge Group (Jan 19 - July 19)||Team Lead Recruitment / Recruitment Specialist - ClifyX (formerly known as Matrix Technology) July 17 - Jan 19.||Technical Recruiter - BSL Consulting (Dec 15 - June 17)

Genral Responsibilities over this period and clients:

End to End recruitment efforts for high-end IT roles across Infrastructure, Network, and Security, specialising in sourcing top-tier talent for system integrators and global IT firms.

Collaborated closely with major clients, including HCL America, TCS, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, TATA ELXSI, KPMG, LTI, and Capgemini, as well as the states of CT, CA, TX, and NY, ensuring the recruitment of highly skilled professionals for large-scale IT throughout a decade of my tenure. In recent years, I exhausted all the Gen AI tools to maximize recruitment results faster, if not better, with the AI Lead Recruitment and Delivery Team, which consisted of sizes ranging from 10 to 25 recruiters, both direct and indirect, including a few leads.

Bulk hiring expertise for admin and engineering, super solid results in submitting through candidate referrals, expert-level recruitment on public projects, SLED candidate pipeline creation, along with maintaining fresh talent regularly. Ability to work on multiple closing roles at a time through some Gen AI, as well as advanced recruitment and TA techniques.