John Bryan Bacalso is a recruitment professional with over 8 years of experience in IT recruitment. He has worked in Singapore for the past 5 years at companies like Jobline Consultancy and Forte Employment, where he was responsible for end-to-end recruitment including understanding requirements, sourcing candidates, coordinating interviews, and managing the hiring process. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Office Administration from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines and certifications in recruitment.
Avid learner, I am into coding and web development and am currently looking for an opportunity to switch career into a technical field, ideally in web design and development. I am taking classes to learn more about HTML/CSS/JavaScript
Avid learner, I am into coding and web development and am currently looking for an opportunity to switch career into a technical field, ideally in web design and development. I am taking classes to learn more about HTML/CSS/JavaScript
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Program / Project Manager with a successful record of managing full project life-cycle initiatives. Expertise includes a combination of both Application Development and Infrastructure experience. I’ve acted as both developer and then App Dev PM while with the State of Missouri. I rate my SDLC experience as an 8/10 as I personally did VB development and acted as the PM for entire application delivery from development through SQL and into production. An exceptionally strong Program / Project Manager with the following qualifications:
• PM experience covers product planning, scheduling, testing, change management, implementations and ROI analysis
• Successfully managed projects for domestic and international corporations including BP, State of MO-DOR, Salton/Toastmaster
• Recognized for surpassing corporate and customer expectations for quality and focus by configuring, implementing, training, mergers and acquisitions
• Experienced in handling projects in rapidly changing functional, procedural and engineering environments including international offshore (Brazil, Columbia, UK, Trinidad, Argentina, Mexico) testing/development teams
• Provides disciplined, assertive, tactful leadership to resolve challenges in an efficient, cost-effective manner
• Skilled in developing and maintaining strong customer relations and fostering cohesive, consensus-building project team interactions
• Recognized for being a highly-motivated, self-directed, enthusiastic project manager with a positive, creative attitude for balancing schedules, costs and priorities
• Recognized as an “idea leader” with flexibility to handle assignments with analytical test equipment and to develop quality assurance best practices/processes
• Excels in developing and maintaining project plans without being dependent on technical resources for input.
• Successfully transitioned to a portfolio of 65 projects International with a blend of waterfall and agile teams with ~$75 million budget. Overseeing multiple vertical project managers, business analyst, functional analyst, and working with the communications team. All in a ~2 month onboarding to the account.
• Apply communication strategies to engage International-level stakeholders in order to understand product objectives, customer service processes, development teams, and define strategies for opposing developing techniques to timely and with budget constraints. Supports SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) as the “Release Train Engineer.
• Manage the flow of value through the program and value stream Kanban’s to increase outlook into new work and into the work flow. Establishing connections among the Portfolio, Journey mapping, value stream, and programs levels.
Highly motivated creative business and marketing industry professional with a gift for designing and leading effective marketing events and creating effective strategies. Ability to provide innovative research and implement timely strategies to improve community value. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills which ensures efficient collaboration with a diverse group of individuals. Desiring to match my academic, creative, and professional sales and marketing skills for this employment opening. I hope to offer your company the beneficial skills of creative event planning, public relations, critical thinking, leadership, sales, time-management, and organizational capabilities.
1. John Bryan B. Bacalso (LTVP holder with
LOC)
Address : Blk.578, #10-1943, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 560578
Mobile# : 82998353
Email Address : jabee_06@yahoo.com, johnbryan091011@gmail.com
Career Overview:
CEI Certified Recruitment Professional with over 8 years of Recruitment experience, 5
years in Singapore Workforce with specialization in IT Recruitment.
Summary of Qualifications:
• More than 8 years of Recruitment experience
• Close to 2 years of customer service / call center or helpdesk experience
• Willingness to learn and grow with the company
• Possess strong passion in IT
• Able to communicate with different types of people in all levels.
• Willing to work on shifting schedules or traveling
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Jobline Consultancy Pte Ltd Singapore
Senior Recruitment Consultant
June 2010 – June 2015
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Responsible for IT recruitment from understanding the requirement, sourcing of
qualified candidates, coordination of interview, to hiring process.
• Proactively liaise with Clients to gather more information about the requirement to
serve them effectively and efficiently
• Responsible for the delivery of service for the customer based upon customer
requirements.
• Maintains clear and concise daily activity recording.
• Review, screen and analyze resumes to fulfill the role expectations and requirement
defined by clients.
2. • Ensures services are delivered and to the satisfaction of the customers, mainly
involving in staffing/ recruitment.
• Part of the team who holds responsibility for achieving the highest level of Customer
Satisfaction.
• Provide consultancy services to candidates and clients
• Maintain and build good relationships with existing clients
• Ensures a strong and seamless relationship by maintaining communications to the
team.
• Handled candidate’s portfolio and take charge in endorsing their profiles to perspective
clients
- Handled IT recruitment for various clients in SI and end user environment:
• System Integrator Companies
• IT Vendor Companies
• Outsourcing Companies
• Academe/ Universities
• Banking or Financial Institutions
• Government Ministries
- Handled recruitment for the following positions :
• Server Administrators / Engineers (Windows, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and Linux)
• Datacentre Engineers
• VMware Engineers / Cloud Computing / Virtualzation Engineers
• Network Professionals
• IT Security Professionals
• Desktop Support
• Helpdesk Support
• Service Delivery Manager
• IT Operation Manager
• Project Manager
• Presales Consultant
• Post Sales Consultant
• Solution Architect (Infrastructure)
• Team Lead
• SAP Basis
• Etc.
Forte Employment Pte Ltd Singapore
Recruitment Consultant
3. February 2010 – May 2010
Roles and Responsibilities:
Responsible for end to end recruitment from drafting the job description to
advertisement, coordination of interview, and offer process.
Conduct formal interviews via telephone-screening or face to face interviews with job
applicants
Arranges interviews for the client.
Prepares Letter of Offer to selected candidates and Letter of Rejection to unsuccessful
candidates
Developing new business through cold-calling and networking
Sourcing suitable candidates for the client.
Check time sheet and Process payroll of the temporary staffs
Application of Employment Pass for foreigners.
Do other task assigned by supervisor
TELUS International Philippines (Call Center environment)
Dell Financial Services Account
Technical/Customer Service Representative
November 2008 – February 2010
Roles and Responsibilities:
Provide quality service to customers over the phone and email.
Answers customer’s queries, give out information about the account
Assist customers in creating profile online.
Provide 1
st
level troubleshooting of customers account online, experience includes
creation of the account, resetting of passwords and deletion of the account.
Provide basic technical troubleshooting for Dell Computers & Laptops.
Resolve customer’s issue efficiently and effectively.
Escalate calls to 2
nd
level support team if necessary
Analyze, answer questions, and provide solutions or recommendation to address
customer’s issue.
Log the issue into the system, monitor, process/follow up and ensure that issues are
closed within SLA.
Do call out, update and keep customer’s posted to manage their expectation
Assist customer on how to read their statement.
Explain how finance charge is being calculated for every billing cycle.
4. Apply no interest promotion to accounts that are eligible to have such promos but were
not processed.
Ensuring Customer satisfaction and deliver the best financial service to each and every
customer in the quickest possible time.
Accenture Manila Delivery Center
Recruitment Assistant
February 2005 – November 21, 2008
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Responsible for IT recruitment from understanding the requirement, sourcing of
qualified candidates, coordination of interview, to hiring process.
Administration of personal, leave, attendance and training records.
Assist in payroll processing
Conduct formal interviews via telephone-screening and face-to-face interviews with job
applicants
Arranges interviews for management levels. Prepares Letter of Offer to selected
candidates and Letter of Rejection to unsuccessful candidates
Conduct Orientation for the new employees.
Responsible in consolidating the number of respondents to the ads which was released
in a weekly basis
Responsible in consolidating the statistics of old and new incoming CVs
Responsible of entering candidate’s data in the company’s database.
Responsible in doing the monthly reports such as:
• CVs Forwarded to Projects – I consolidate the weekly reports when the
month ends.
• CVs Received from different Sourcing Channels – I consolidate the
weekly reports when the month ends.
Maintain a tracking sheet of the CV’s encoded.
Updates the status of the candidates in the database.
Handles the validation of CVs from ERP channel and Vendor channel (CVs from these
channels are being treated as urgent CVs and should be prioritized).
Responsible in maintaining records of the candidates from different projects
Monitor and keep track of the employees assigned to different projects.
Responsible in doing the reports from collected data from different projects
about the performance of the employees.
Train or coach the new members on how to validate the CVs.
Jollibee Food Corporation
5. Service Crew/Cashier
November 2003 – April, 2004
Roles and Responsibilities:
Take customers order and assemble the food.
Responsible in maintaining the cleanliness and orderliness of the store.
SKILLS:
Knowledgeable in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Basic knowledge in PC trouble shooting
Typing
Stenography
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
College : Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Bachelor in Office Administration
Sta Mesa, Metro Manila (Graduate)
(2000 – 2004)
Exams Passed : Civil Service Board Passer
Career Service Exam (Professional level)
Passed (80% ave.)
Taken at Juan Sumulong High School last April 10, 2005
Certificate of Employment Intermediaries (Basic)
with EFMA (CEI)
Passed
NTUC Trade Union House Singapore 189556
July 2012
Personal Particulars:
Name as per IC: Bacalso John Bryan Bedayo
Race: Filipino
Gender: Male
6. Nationality: Filipino (LTVP holder sponsored by a Singapore PR spouse)
-Eligible to work in Singapore by applying a Letter of Consent (LOC)
Date of Birth: 06/06/1983
Identification No.: G6400487K (FIN)
Marital Status: Married
Availability: 1 month
Reason for leaving: looking for a better career prospect
7. Nationality: Filipino (LTVP holder sponsored by a Singapore PR spouse)
-Eligible to work in Singapore by applying a Letter of Consent (LOC)
Date of Birth: 06/06/1983
Identification No.: G6400487K (FIN)
Marital Status: Married
Availability: 1 month
Reason for leaving: looking for a better career prospect