Chris Bell's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Member Board Of Directors @ TALK Empowering talent acquisition leaders in the Greater Phoenix Area Phoenix, Arizona AreaSenior Executive Recruiter @ Microsoft Storytelling and making executive connections with the industry's top talent is what my role’s all about. My focus encompasses all phases of the recruiting process in partnership with the Engineering product groups. In addition, I have the privilege of leading & participating in global projects focused on platform implementation, training, process re-engineering and driving efficacy across recruiting operations.IC Leadership & Full Life-Cycle Recruiting | Technical Recruiting From March 2014 to February 2019 (5 years) Redmond, WAFounder/Chief Organizer @ Phoenix Talent Acquisition Meetup I started this meetup group with a goal of bringing together Phoenix/Valley area Talent Acquisition professionals to build a sense of community in our profession, learning & networking opportunities and forum to exchange best practices. Today we are 270 TA professionals and growing.If you're a TA Pro in the Greater Phoenix Area. Join us and connect at our next event here: https://www.meetup.com/Phoenix-Talent-Acquisition-Meetup/Leader of a Community of Recruiters in the Greater Phoenix area. From March 2016 to April 2017 (1 year 2 months) Greater Phoenix AreaSenior Corporate Recruiter @ T-Mobile My role was partnering with the SVP and her directs of the largest division, Customer Care. Typical roles included Business Analyst, Operations, Sr. Managers, GM for Call centers, etc. Full Life-Cycle Recruiting From April 2005 to September 2005 (6 months) Factoria, WAStaffing Consultant (Vendor) @ Microsoft Corporation My work involved owning a C-Suite relationship and partnering with his direct reports. Natural Interactive Services Division (NISD) was all about speech and natural language processing. NISD was a part of the early effort to produce natural language and machine learning products for Microsoft.Full Life-Cycle Recruiting From November 2004 to April 2005 (6 months) Redmond, WASenior Technical Recruiter @ Siemens I was recruited to Siemens IT Solutions and Services to work specifically on the Microsoft account. My role was to recruit developers and PM’s (Web, SW, dB & many others) into various business groups within Microsoft while developing solid relationships with the MS hiring managers. Full Life-Cycle Recruiting From 2004 to November 2004 (less than a year) Redmond, WALead Technical Recruiter @ Comforce Technical Services Recruited technical talent for various companies in the Pacific Northwest area. Companies like Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon, Testing Testing 123, Colbalt Group, Compaq Computer Corp., Accenture and various start-ups. One of the top 3 producers for the office and recruiting lead for my segment which was Information Tech. Leader of Recruiters performing Full Life-Cycle Recruiting From 2000 to 2004 (4 years) Redmond, WASenior Talent Acquisition Manager, Microsoft Stores Division @ Microsoft As the Retail Stores Business expanded, I made a decision to move back into a pure staffing role. I joined the team when we had 31 employees and 2 stores and left when we had >2500 employees and about 100 stores. My scope encompassed managing a team of recruiters around talent acquisition, HR projects and programs. I built a complete talent acquisition strategy that encompassed social media, diversity, operations, and branding for the field and corporate hiring that aligned to the business' objectives. A significant part of my role was building scalable processes that supported our business growth. Leader of Recruiters performing Full Life-Cycle Recruiting | Technical Recruiting | Sales & Marketing From April 2011 to March 2014 (3 years) Redmond, WAHR Business Partner/Head of Talent Acquisition for Microsoft Stores Division @ Microsoft Microsoft Stores was a pure startup within Microsoft. My role supported many work streams that spanned the HR Function & Talent Acquisition. Helped scale the business from 2 stores to 100 stores in 4 years while managing a team of 7 recruiters (FTE & Vendor). This included building the TA Strategy, managing a recruiting budget, implementing new processes and creating best practices for recruiting across all retail stores for North America while allowing for local market nuances.Leader of Recruiters performing Full Life-Cycle Recruiting | Technical Recruiting | Sales & Marketing From March 2010 to March 2011 (1 year 1 month) Redmond, WAExecutive Recruiter, Strategic Recruiting Team @ Microsoft Working out of the office of the Chief Technology Officer my role focused on recruiting industry luminaries. The luminaries that create technical domains and have visions that drive change throughout the world through their innovations. We viewed ourselves as change agents for the company. Meaning we stayed on top of the new trends, emerging leaders & technologies. This allowed us to create opportunistic hiring opportunities in areas that Microsoft was not thinking about and/or needed to be in.Full Life-Cycle Recruiting | Technical Recruiting From July 2007 to March 2010 (2 years 9 months) Redmond, WAStaffing Consultant @ Microsoft Recruited to Microsoft supporting the Windows and Internet Explorer division. I partnered with Key Executives and developed strategies for filling all open headcount. My average requisition load was 86.Full Life-Cycle Recruiting | Technical Recruiting From September 2005 to July 2007 (1 year 11 months) Redmond, WaSenior Executive Recruiting Manager @ Microsoft Leading a fantastic team of executive recruiters partnering with the Go-to-Market (GTM) Americas Business (GSMO, WCB, and MCB). Focus areas: Sales, Services, Marketing, Technical Product Marketing, Customer EngineeringTeam Leadership | Search ownership