This document is a resume for Sumaklos S. Rembert, MBA that highlights his experience in human resources, recruiting, employee relations, and organizational development. It summarizes over 15 years of progressive experience leading HR functions, reducing costs, improving processes, and developing high-performing teams. Key accomplishments include reducing agency spend, slashing time-to-fill, lowering turnover, and cutting overhead through strategic initiatives.

1. SUMAKLOS S. REMBERT, MBA
Phone: (786) 512-7198 ♦ Email: sumaklos@gmail.com ♦ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sumaklosrembert
“HANDS-ON” EXECUTIVE LEADER – HR, RECRUITING, EE RELATIONS, ORGANIZATIONAL / PEOPLE
STRATEGIES & DEVELOPMENT
Consultative Organizational Development / Turnarounds / CRM Best Practices / Recruitment & Retention Programs / Strategic
Planning / P&L / Startups / Employee Relations / Reorganization / Virtualization
SUMMARY: Award-winning results, multi-million dollar organizational savings, strong process improvements, & people development
Accomplished HR & Recruiting leader with extensive “hands-on” experience and consummate achievements building multiple “best-in-
class” organizations. A savvy team leader skilled in attracting the most qualified employees and matching them to career paths for which
they are best suited. Pivotal contributor to senior operating, strategy, and leadership executives, providing HR leadership for multiple
acquisitions, from due diligence to conversion. Innovative problem solver, strategic decision maker, strong communicator, and business
partner. Strong experience leading efficiency and cost effective cross-team process improvement and implementation. Seeking
challenging roles that require forward-thinking and innovative processes.
Employee Relations (ER) Full Life-Cycle Recruitment HR Information Systems (HRIS)
Negotiation & Cost Reduction Performance Management Training & Development
Corporate Branding Change Management Acquisitions & Alignment
Organizational Development (OD) Career Development Mentoring
Conflict Resolution Virtualization Initiatives Project Management
Policy Development Policy Administration Organizational Evangelist
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
GLOBAL PERSONALS, LLC. 9/2011 – Present
Head of HR / Recruiting / Administrative Teams
Provide full-service, human resources, recruiting, and executive leadership to a $100MM Internet/e-Commerce corporation with 10
service locations and approximately 175 employees. Engineer and execute corporate HR/Recruiting systems and practices while creating
and integrating strategic requirements that far surpass theoretical HR management responsibilities. In addition, maintained a full recruiter
desk with accountability of filling management, financial, technical, professional, hourly, college/intern, administrative, and other
positions.
• Reduced agency usage and spend to $0 from over $2MM annually, exceeding forecast.
• Reduced time-to-fill timeline by 90%, increased quality of hire by 85%, decreased attrition rates by 75%, and improved satisfaction
levels by 80% after launching several employee rewards/mentoring/benefits programs (i.e. GP Pay-It-Forward, Volunteer Award,
Town Hall Hero, and others) Initiatives
• Attained and maintained 99% worldwide employee placement rate; lowered annual turnover rate to 5%
• Implemented both the Company’s HRIS (ADP) and Talent Acquisition (Taleo) systems thus saving $150,000 annually.
• Reduced organizational overhead by 40% via SWOT (re-org) to improve efficiency and business integrity.
• Overhauled benefits program by consolidating providers as well as negotiating contracts. Successfully maintained benefit costs with
minimal annual increase in premium over 3 years with a savings of $80k in year one.
• Performed Merger & Acquisition restructuring for the split from World NetMedia and entities.
• Negotiated and lead the design overhaul of the company’s internal/external career site at $350K less than the IT proposed solution.
WORLD NETMEDIA, LLC. 4/2007 – 9/2011
Chief HR / People / Recruiting Officer- HQ Miami Beach, FL (*role was performed overlapping w/ Synovus from 04/07-12/07)
WNM is an 18-company, $200MM Internet/Media conglomerate with over 500 exempt/non-exempt employees and contractors in over 15
US locations. Architected HR & Recruiting departments as well as supervised a staff of 12. Developed and established performance
management, conflict resolution and disciplinary policy, recruitment (sourcing) and retention guidelines or experienced as well as college
grad, intern, and coop hires. Implemented cutting-edge benefits plans, work-life balance, incentive pay, rewards & recognition, and
training programs. Created and implemented grassroots Recruiting/Sourcing and HR programs to increase quality of hire along with
properly aligning the overall field offices with the Corporate footprint and vision. Managed corporate training & mentoring program. In
addition, maintained a full recruiter desk with accountability of filling management, financial, technical, professional, hourly,
college/intern, administrative, and other positions.
• Reduced agency usage and spend to $0 from over $4MM annually as well as TTF rates by 80%.
• Educated workforce and reduced sexual harassment claims by 17% within 6 months of training.
• Introduced Corporate Change Training Initiative as training for all leaders to increase employee engagement and retention.

2. • Chaired the implementation of ADP Workforce Now from Ultipro Workforce, which saved over $270,000 over 3 years.
• Reduced payroll processing, benefits administration, recruiting, administrative, and performance management costs down by 30%.
• Reduced workforce time waste by 60% by streamlining the company’s first formal PTO time and accrual policy.
• Reduced overall salary usage by 35% by developing and implementing the company’s first University/Campus recruiting program
(and internship) for employees and interns from the nation’s top 10%, 4-year universities (including Canada).
• Developed and implemented company’s first employee referral/retention program, team building, and incentive plan.
• Performed Merger & Acquisition restructuring for the split to Global Personals, NetMedia Enterprises, and other entities
• Negotiated and lead the design overhaul of the company’s internal/external career site at $500K less than the IT proposed solution.
SYNOVUS FINANCIAL CORPORATION 9/2006 – 12/2007
Sr. Corporate Recruiter / HR & Team Services – HQ Columbus, GA (*transitioned from role overlapping w/ WNM from 04/07-12/07)
Financial services holding company with more than $27 billion in assets based in Columbus, Georgia. Synovus provides commercial and
retail banking, as well as investment services, to customers through 30 banks and more than 330 Synovus offices in Georgia, Alabama,
South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee.
• Conducted extensive recruiting duties with accountability of filling 300+ management, financial, security, temporary, technical,
professional, hourly, college/intern, administrative, and other positions.
• Developed and implemented “new” hiring and recruiting strategies for business units: Synovus Securities, Finance/Accounting/Tax,
Compliance, Legal, HR, Security, Travel, Executive, Trust, Globalt, Innovative Solutions and other organizations
(VURV/RecruitMAX ATS).
• Managed complex portfolio/program management. Utilized creative recruitment strategies to achieve required staffing levels such as
internet recruiting, passive (active) candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, negotiations, agency-use reduction to $0, time-to-fill
shrinkage by 60%, relocation packages/planning, candidate selection in a fast-paced environment.
• Developed relationships and maintained contact with executives and managers, internal and external candidates.
• Analyzed recruiting vehicles to promote best practices in recruitment in support of company initiatives such as diversity, Internet
recruiting and employee referral programs.
• Partnered with HR Business Manager to insure best practices were followed in compliance strategy (EEO).
• Developed and implemented the placement of employment advertising in utilizing a variety of sources and recruiting vehicles to
include the internet, professional services, community programs, referrals, marketing, and other tools.
• Established strong relationships with executives and managers to become a business partner in strategic staffing plans.
SPHERION CORPORATION (Randstad Technologies) - HQ Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2/2004 – 9/2006
PRACTICE DIRECTOR-SOUTH FLORIDA REGION 3/2006 – 9/2006
Managed SMB (Small-to-medium sized business) sales and recruiter revenue in the South Florida Market (PeopleSoft ATS) for this $2
billion dollar leader in the staffing and recruiting industry with over 10,000 employees with more than 3000 clients. Managed both
personal production goals ($100K annual quota) as well as South Florida recruitment team goals with respect to achieving direct hire sales
targets. Recruited organically internal talent and redesigned all staffing functions to support an increase of net operating income from a
departmental chargeback.
• Managed and increased total sales growth by 30% in the direct hire practice for the South Florida Recruiter Market, including
proactively acquiring local competitive intelligence, identifying opportunities for practice enhancements, coaching, mentoring, and
encouraging collaboration between Recruiters with respect to client and candidate leads.
• Managed 6 Direct Hire Recruiters for 5 locations within the South Florida market (confidential, executive, & in-line searches).
• Responsible for RPO process staffing from engagement through metrics and project management.
• Provided weekly recruiter activity tracking via conference calls, PeopleSoft, and Salesforce.com
• Managed overall recruiter performance along with the ramp-up of new recruiters 25% faster than the normal Spherion average
• Recommended and implemented new policies and programs in support of organizational change. Partnered with Management on
coaching and mentoring. Provided training in the areas of interpersonal communication, leadership development, strategic planning,
and team development.
CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC. (RPO to Spherion), HQ Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 2/2004 - 3/2006
N.A. RECRUITING OPERATIONS MANAGER – RPO (*concurrent via SFN from 2/04-3/06 above)
Managed Team Services, professional recruitment, operations management, and sourcing for a multi-billion dollar cloud technology
company with more than 10,000 employees. Partnered with Citrix Business Units: IT & Infrastructure, Technical Support, Customer
Care, Admin/Legal, Finance & Accounting, HR, Sales & Services, Engineering, and Education. Served as the SME for ATS (BrassRing,
PeopleCLICK) as well as trained managers and HR/Recruiting users.
• Served as a key member of NA Leadership Team and Recruiting Leader to corporate HQ with dual reporting to SVP, HR and District
Director.
• Reduced agency usage and spend by 85%, improved quality-of-hire by 65%, decreased cost-per-hire by 45%, and improved TTF rate
by 80% while averaging 350+ hires.
• Managed 6 sourcing, 6 client/non-client facing recruiters and an administrative staff of 3 to cultivate a unified, values-based culture
and brand in the NA region.
• Devised staffing practices that achieved an average of 15% departmental revenue growth yearly over 2 years.

3. • Streamlined talent management, leadership development, and performance-based compensation processes across the team to improve
efficiency and performance results.
TECHNISOURCE INC. (Randstad Technologies) – HQ Fort Lauderdale, Florida 11/1999 - 2/2004
SR. LEAD TECHNICAL RECRUITER /BUSINESS DEV MANAGER *3/2001 - 2/2004
Sr. LEAD TECHNICAL RECRUITER *9/2000 - 3/2001
TECHNICAL RECRUITER *11/1999 - 9/2000
Provided technical recruitment expertise to Fortune 500 clients in both the private and government/defense sector (40 offices in the US &
Canada). Developed recruitment sources, strategies, conducted heavy cold calling, ran reference checks, generated referrals, verified
employment and academics, and negotiated full-time/contract rates, sales and offers. Managed the entire recruitment function across
multiple business units utilizing grass-roots recruiting and selection practices in a most cost-effective manner.
• Yearly average over $400K in GP Billing and earned 20 Recruiter-of-the-Month Awards
• Transformed large recruitment team of 10+ into a small, dynamic boutique via various training methods incorporating industry
knowledge, time management, interviewing skills, and requirement analysis.
• Managed 1 sourcing/non-client facing recruiter
• Partnered with VP of Engineering on Outsourcing projects in the Aerospace, Telecom, Electronics, Cellular, Military & Defense, and
Engineering spaces
PRIOR:
• Florida Dept. of Hwy Safety & Motor Vehicles (Fraud Examiner) 1998-99;
• The Ballen Detective Agency (Head Investigator) 1997-98
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION:
• Nova Southeastern University, H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business & Entrepreneurship: MBA (HRM) 6/2013: 3.54 GPA
• Cornell University (eCornell), School of Industrial and Labor Relations - 12/2010-1/2012
o Master Certificate: Human Resources: Selection and Staffing -5/2011
o Master Certificate: Human Resources Director -12/2011
o Master Certificate: Human Resources Directors Program (SHRM PHR/SPHR preparatory) -12/2011
• University of Phoenix: BS in Criminal Justice Administration degree 01/2005: 3.98 GPA
• Alabama State University: BS in Criminal Justice/Criminal Law - (Sr. classification attained w/ 110 credits trans UoPHX) and
Varsity Football 4 years, Varsity Track 2 years, Varsity Weightlifting 4 yrs.
• AIRS: AIRS Certified Internet Recruiter, AIRS Certified Professional Recruiter, AIRS Certified Diversity Recruiter
• LinkedIn Certified Recruiter Expert
• Six Sigma Yellow Belt from SixSigma.us
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS:
SHRM (National, Atlanta,
Columbus)
Habitat For Humanity Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. FBI – Fathers Being Involved
(Columbus Chapter)
HRABC – HR Association of
Broward County
Nova SE University SHRM Exec.
Board (fmr Info Sys Chair)
NAACP (Broward Chapter) Big Brothers Big Sisters of
America
NBMBAA Nova SE University Alumni Assoc. Youth Mentor / Tutor / Counselor NHRA -National HR Association
TECHNICAL & SYSTEM SKILLSETS:
Computer and keyboarding, Windows / MacOS, Citrix (MetaFrame, NFuse Applications), IE/Firefox/Safari/Google Chrome/Opera
Outlook Express/Outlook/Novell, Ultipro, Recruitmax/VURV, Taleo, BrassRing, Peopleclick RMS, Lotus Notes R4.0/4.5/5 and Lotus
mail, MS Office, Adobe Acrobat Professional, PeopleSoft (Knowledgesphere), ADP WorkForceNow