Matthew C.

Myers
4400 Chippewa Drive
Boulder, Co 80303
720-352-4242 Mobile
Objective
To secure a challenging and rewarding position in which I can contribute to a co
mpanys growth, employee retention, employee satisfaction, and ultimate industry
success.
Summary of Qualifications
I have been an enthusiastic and successful recruiter, consultant, manager, and d
irector for several local and national companies for over 20 years specializing
in staffing. In my present position as a Senior Staffing Consultant at Covidien
Respiratory Solutions, I have responsibility for corporate staffing for the cor
porate location in Boulder Colorado. Through my extensive understanding of peopl
e and business, I have refined a system of sourcing, screening, interviewing, an
d hiring candidates that has increased employee satisfaction and employee retent
ion with every company in which I have been aligned.

Employment
Covidien Respiratory & Monitoring Solutions July 2007-Present
Boulder, CO
Senior Staffing Consultant-Contract
On site staffing services at the corporate location in Boulder Colorado. Staffin
g
responsibility for Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, Research and Development,
Clinical,
and Training organizations. Started on a 3 month contract and am 1 of 2 remainin
g recruiters left out of 12. Managed requisition initiation, approvals, and post
ings, sourcing of candidates and pre-qualification of talent/skills, managed int
erview scheduling and processes, facilitated offer discussions with hiring manag
ers and HR Managers/Directors, managed candidates through offer acceptance, and
managed relocation directives and process to ensure smooth and seamless candidat
e on boarding.
Successfully partnered with HR Business Partners, Hiring Managers and Stakehold
ers to project a consistently valuable staffing and HR presence in the Covidien
organization.
Tasked with filling high profile hard to fill positions.
Routinely involved in staffing plan discussions/meetings to drive the success o
f the organization.
Tasked with managing all outside recruiting agency relationships.
Closely managed 3rd party relationship with Kelly Services in the Carlsbad offi
ce to ensure autonomy and successfully turned that relationship into a positive
one.
Formally trained new sales managers on staffing process, Esource, and onboardin
g of candidates.

Level 3 Communications November 2006-July 2007

Broomfield, CO
Senior Staffing Consultant-Contract
Worked on site at the corporate office of Level 3 Communications in Broomfield,
offering them permanent staffing services. Sourced, prescreened, and interviewed
candidates and successfully filled 113 positions in 9 months within the Enginee
ring, Information Technology, Wholesale Markets, Content Markets, and Business M
arkets Group divisions of Level 3. Consulted with hiring managers on best hiring
practices. Helped ensure hiring budgets and organizational group equity were ma
intained. Ensured proper headcount addition and replacement approvals were recei
ved. Responsible for the entire hiring process from formulating job descriptions
and requisitions, sourcing and prescreening talent, consulting with hiring mana
gers on proper interview techniques, and complete offer presentation and on boar
ding of new employees.
WhiteWave Foods (Dean Foods) February 2006-September 2006
Broomfield, CO
Senior Staffing Consultant-Contract
Worked on site at the corporate office in Broomfield and offered WhiteWave perma
nent and contract related staffing assistance. Helped define job descriptions, c
reated and refined recruiting processes, counseled hiring managers on hiring pra
ctices, sourced and qualified candidates, helped orchestrate offers to ensure ca
ndidate acceptance, ensured new employee satisfaction through counseling and coa
ching employees into new positions.
McDATA (Brocade) March 2004-February 2006
Broomfield, CO
Senior Staffing Consultant-Contract
Refined, managed, and maintained entire staffing and recruiting process for all
U.S. McDATA locations in all departments, to ensure more efficient and effectiv
e hiring practices.
Complete staffing life cycle responsibility from establishing hiring needs, wor
king with management to define position requirements and salary detail, posting
positions on Monster, corporate website, and industry specific job boards, sourc
ing and screening candidates, managing candidate responses, scheduled and conduc
ted interviews, counseled hiring managers and authorities on final hiring decisi
ons, prepared and presented offers, processed reference checks, drug screens, an
d background checks, negotiated salaries and start dates, processed and managed
new hire paperwork, and assisted with new hire orientation.
Counseled McDATA hiring managers, directors, and executives on interviewing pro
tocol/process, hiring practices, personality profiling and salary negotiations t
o ensure greater employee retention, employee satisfaction, employee productivit
y and improved corporate culture.
Was hired on a 2 month contract to work specifically with the engineering group
but was kept 20 months and given company wide staffing responsibility as my exc
eptional value and dependability to McDATA was proven.
Routinely had complete ownership of between 20-40 open positions at a time.
Outlasted 5 other staffing consultants that came and went during my tenure with
McDATA as I always perform at a high level with attention to detail.
Absolute Information Technology Jan 1999 to March 2004
Boulder, CO
Staffing Director/Owner
Independent contract, retained, contingency recruiting resource targeting Colora
do companies in need of staff augmentation and program/process development and i
mplementation. Staffed on an individual and project based level in Biotech/Medic
al, Engineering, Telecommunications. Clients included Finali, GE Access, McData,
Genomica, Access Health, Amgen, Gold Systems, Alpine Access, Requisite Technolo
gy, Powerworx Online. Human resource consulting including policy and procedure
definition and development, recruiting and hiring, and corporate culture assessm
ent.
Information Systems Consulting Corporation Aug 1997 to Jan 1999
Kansas City, MO
Regional Staffing Director
Successfully managed Denver office of national staffing company located in Kansa
s City.
Hired and managed 12 direct reports responsible for staff augmentation throughou
t the Colorado and Western territory. Created and maintained staffing based cons
ulting and project management processes on a national level and was responsible
for the generation of large revenues. Spear headed and managed efforts to create
a successful national consulting practice and presence.
Northern Lights Software LTD July 1995 to Aug 1997
Saratoga Springs, NY
Regional Consulting Manager
Sales and staffing consulting resource management responsibility for the Western
United States. Staffed and managed engineering and SQL based consulting and tra
ining resources. Developed and maintained direct partner relationships with Micr
osoft, Oracle, and Sybase. High level backend SQL database performance and tuni
ng, mentoring/training (offering Sybase, Oracle, MS SQL Server course instructio
n), data base administration, disaster recovery, project structural modeling, im
plementation/upgrading and Data Warehouse project lead direction.
Access Graphics, Inc. (GE Access) August 1989 to June 1995
Boulder, CO
Account Manager and Project Manager
Partnered with Value Added Resellers (VARs) in territories throughout the United
States with sales support activities through configuration of workstation and p
eripheral hardware and analyzing configurations for compatibility with existing
end user systems. Created demand for additional sales by linking new products wi
th existing customer system requirements in order to substantially increase reve
nue production for specified territories. Staffed, managed, developed, and direc
ted outside sales and project based consulting resources. Routinely moved into p
roblem geographies to build successful territories (IE Texas/Louisiana, Florida)
. Consistently over exceeded goals and quotas throughout my tenure and achieved
Presidents club each full year with Access.

Outstanding Professional and Personal References Available Upon Request.