Michael Castardi
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Jason Belknap
We hired Michael as a Contract Recruiter to help us through a hiring surge. He did a fantastic job and would highly recommend him.
Mark Herold SPHR
Michael made an enormous difference to our business! We had a lot to accomplish with our talent acquisition process. Michael came highly recommended and when I met him, I knew that he was the person for the job. His knowledge and skillset enabled him to quickly access our situation and implement improved processes with hiring managers around the globe. He is a trustworthy innovator that helped us, in a competitive market, reduce expenses, reduced time-to-fill and set ourselves up for years to come. I highly recommend Michael as a technical recruiter, consultant, and manager. Trust his process and he can make a difference for you.
Jason Belknap
We hired Michael as a Contract Recruiter to help us through a hiring surge. He did a fantastic job and would highly recommend him.
Mark Herold SPHR
Michael made an enormous difference to our business! We had a lot to accomplish with our talent acquisition process. Michael came highly recommended and when I met him, I knew that he was the person for the job. His knowledge and skillset enabled him to quickly access our situation and implement improved processes with hiring managers around the globe. He is a trustworthy innovator that helped us, in a competitive market, reduce expenses, reduced time-to-fill and set ourselves up for years to come. I highly recommend Michael as a technical recruiter, consultant, and manager. Trust his process and he can make a difference for you.
Jason Belknap
We hired Michael as a Contract Recruiter to help us through a hiring surge. He did a fantastic job and would highly recommend him.
Mark Herold SPHR
Michael made an enormous difference to our business! We had a lot to accomplish with our talent acquisition process. Michael came highly recommended and when I met him, I knew that he was the person for the job. His knowledge and skillset enabled him to quickly access our situation and implement improved processes with hiring managers around the globe. He is a trustworthy innovator that helped us, in a competitive market, reduce expenses, reduced time-to-fill and set ourselves up for years to come. I highly recommend Michael as a technical recruiter, consultant, and manager. Trust his process and he can make a difference for you.
Jason Belknap
We hired Michael as a Contract Recruiter to help us through a hiring surge. He did a fantastic job and would highly recommend him.
Mark Herold SPHR
Michael made an enormous difference to our business! We had a lot to accomplish with our talent acquisition process. Michael came highly recommended and when I met him, I knew that he was the person for the job. His knowledge and skillset enabled him to quickly access our situation and implement improved processes with hiring managers around the globe. He is a trustworthy innovator that helped us, in a competitive market, reduce expenses, reduced time-to-fill and set ourselves up for years to come. I highly recommend Michael as a technical recruiter, consultant, and manager. Trust his process and he can make a difference for you.
Experience
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Virgin Galactic
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United States
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Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Sr. Talent Acquisition Consultant to Virgin Galactic
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Sep 2022 - Present
Internal staffing consultant for the world's first commercial spaceline, our purpose is to connect people across the globe to the love, wonder and awe created by space travel. Virgin Galactic is comprised of hundreds of dedicated and passionate professionals — including rocket scientists, engineers, and designers from around the world — united in creating something new and lasting: the world’s first commercial spaceline. A spaceline for Earth. Our team brings decades of experience from organizations like NASA, traditional aerospace firms, and other Virgin companies.
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PowerPlan, Inc.
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United States
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Software Development
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200 - 300 Employee
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Senior Talent Acquisition Partner (Contract)
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May 2021 - Jul 2022
For more than 25 years, PowerPlan has helped North American energy companies make the right financial decisions that improve lives and powers the world. Through our industry-leading expertise, innovative technology, and vast experience listening to and working in tandem with our customers, PowerPlan software sets the standard that CFOs can count on for financial clarity for energy organizations of all sizes. • Sourced and hired various corporate positions to include passive solution consultants, implementation consultants, architects for tax, accounting, asset management, support, training, and platform professional services business units. • Administered ICIMs databases, negotiated compensation, interfaced with various VPs and directors to fill open requisitions, managed onboarding, and acted as a fill-in while the hiring manager was not available. • Participated in a recruiting team of three (3) who filled over 100 positions while increasing candidate quality.
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Imagine Communications
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United States
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Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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400 - 500 Employee
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Senior Talent Acquisition Manager (Full Time, Reorg / Reduction in workforce)
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Jan 2019 - 2021
Managed hiring initiatives for ICC that provided technology solutions to television broadcasting networks in 185 countries. • Administrator and integrator of iCIMs, EBI, and Auriconet candidate tracking and background verification software.• Sourced, interviewed and hired over 200 technical staff in one year.• In charge of extending all employment offers, and interfacing with managers in 81 offices globally while coordinating the onboarding of new hires. • Develop and actively participate in process improvement discussions with Pillar leads and assist in the development of hiring processes and strategies.• Maintain and report on data, conduct weekly meetings with various management on all global hiring activity.• Actively recruited, direct sourced, for all technical positions in the P&N, AdTech, and Corporate positions. • Selected, negotiated, and managed third-party and vendor relationships.• Trained and on-boarded full-time and contract recruiters in Denver, Texas, and Canada.• Team player who is a hard-working, highly organized, professional with strong communication skills and comfortable working with all levels within the organization.
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Contract Corporate Recruiter
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May 2018 - Dec 2018
Transitioned to a full-time employee January 2019.Full-stack and life cycle recruitment to include process development.
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ESG & MCS
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United States
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Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant
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Aug 2007 - Apr 2018
WARBIRD CONSULTING PARTNERS Direct sourcing recruiter for professional services. Assisted the company with recruiting for Consulting Services. • Primary responsibility was to assist the General Service Administration (GSA) with identifying various information technology, finance, and accounting consultants that have specialized skills in the areas of Risk Management & Corporate Governance, Financial Management, Program Management Consulting, Fraud Examination, FBwT, and Government Accounting skills. • I provide consulting services and support for various Federal and State government agencies including sourcing, and submission, and assisted with onboarding to include updating ICIMS, background checks, and conducting reference checks. Government Recruiting Services for Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) U.S. Department of the Treasury, Small Business Administration (SBA), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Department of the Navy (DON), United States Coast Guard (USCG), Department of Labor (DOL) and EXIM Bank. Healthcare Recruiting Services for: Various hospital systems to include Baptist Healthcare of South Florida, and Wake Forest Baptist Health. STRYKER • Spearheads the hiring initiatives for the entire R&D of new product development for the Stryker Incubation Medical Technology corporate business unit. • Full lifecycle recruiting including all aspects of Human Resources. • Recruiting focus is biomechanical, electromechanical, and mechanical engineers coupled with computer and software-based programmers, engineers, etc. Hired robotics professionals out of the automotive industry. • Recruited professionals that will change the way medicine is practiced in the future. • Trained to interpret Gallup pre-employment assessments and disseminate results to the management team for “fit” within the organization.
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MCS, Inc.
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Senior Contract Recruiter
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Aug 1998 - Apr 2009
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United States Army Reserve
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United States
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Armed Forces
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700 & Above Employee
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Air Traffic Control Specialist, Logistics, HR
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1980 - 1986
Assigned to the 145th Helicopter Ambulance Div. Interface with main tower to control UH1 helicopter services. Honorable Discharge Assigned to the 145th Helicopter Ambulance Div. Interface with main tower to control UH1 helicopter services. Honorable Discharge
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Education
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Frankfort Schuyler
High School