Zachary Wallis
San Diego,CA
Summary
Strategic Recruitment Manager with experience leading end-to-end hiring operations for school-based and healthcare organizations. Proven ability to scale pipelines for hard-to-fill, credentialed, and specialized roles while partnering closely with stakeholders to meet urgent staffing needs. Experienced with modern sourcing tools, outsourced recruiting models, and performance-driven recruiting operations.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Recruitment Manager
Supplemental Health Care
07.2025 - Current
- Lead end-to-end recruiting operations for school-based clients, supporting multiple districts and educational partners
- Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements and hiring timelines for Special Education Teachers, Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, and School Nursing roles
- Execute sourcing strategies for specialized and hard-to-fill roles using LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, Zoom Info, and Vivian
- Manage internal and outsourced recruiting resources to scale candidate pipelines
- Screen and interview candidates, assessing credentials, experience, and role fit
- Oversee full-cycle recruiting from intake through offer and onboarding coordination
- Monitor pipeline health, time-to-fill, and ATS accuracy
Independent Talent Acquisition Specialist/Perm Placement (Remote)
DTRT Healthcare Consulting and Advocacy
04.2019 - Current
- Source passive and active candidates for a variety of healthcare roles.
- Ensure the candidate file is complete.
- Experience with filling IT roles.
- Assist with training of talent acquisition teams both in US and Abroad.
- Providing excellent candidate and client experience.
Senior Licensing Specialist, Care Operations and Onboarding
Bicycle Health Medical Group
07.2022 - 11.2024
- Promoted to leadership role in July 2023, overseeing a team in the licensing department and managing behavior health provider licenses in a different department across 10 different states.
- Managing licenses in our main provider department for over 25 medical providers across multiple states, ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations.
- Enhance reporting processes for expiring credentials and licenses and ensuring day-to-day department operations run smoothly.
- Fostered strong relationships with medical providers (MD’s DO’s PA-C’s NP’s etc.) guiding them through licensing and onboarding to ensure a successful start with Bicycle Healthcare
- (Remote)
Lead Credentialing Specialist
Howard Sloan Search
02.2022 - 05.2022
- Oversee staff of 3 credentialing coordinators.
- Acts as a liaison between the medical board and the provider when applying for a license, obtaining updates and reporting progress.
- Assess state requirements, interpret licensing applications, and facilitates completion of applications.
- Partner and follow up with external customers to complete the licensing process
- Utilize communication skills to obtain necessary documents, completion of deadlines, and partner with operations and medical staff services department
- Negotiate with licensing parties to ensure timely processing.
- Assist in resolving licensing issues as needed.
- Ensure providers are licensed to practice in the state they are hired to work in.
- Comply with operating policies and procedures including the facilitation of license requests and use of company resources.
- Assist with resolution of provider issues.
- Verify Physician and Midlevel Credentials.
- Maintain confidentiality of all licensing and provider information.
Client Relationship Specialist
Cross Country Healthcare
07.2020 - 02.2022
- Full desk recruiting for allied travel nursing. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Recruiting, sourcing, and communicating with candidates.
- Source candidates through internal database and other search engines.
- Interviewing.
- Onboarding.
- Credentialing.
- Maintaining Compliance.
- Managing Payroll.
- Communicating with clients regarding candidates to ensure excellent customer/client experience.
- Manage 15 or more client accounts.
Travel Allied Healthcare Recruiter
Cross Country Healthcare
12.2019 - 07.2020
- Communicates with the Hospital Account Manager and traveler regarding traveler availability, open positions, and assignment changes.
- Ensures that schedule availability of all active travelers is updated, and documentation is entered into system to make sure all travelers are interviewed quickly.
- Collaborates with other departments and candidates to ensure that the travel employee begins assignment on time.
- Ensures that travel staff is compliant prior to placement.
- Maintain accuracy of travel information in the ATS.
- Responsible for developing a growing pipeline of potential travel candidates by utilizing a variety of recruiting sources effectively.
- Generate and actively recruit referrals from current and former allied travelers.
- Maintain consistent contact with travelers while on assignment to keep customer service levels high by troubleshooting, counseling and problem solving when necessary.
- Maintain and retain travelers through weekly quality control calls and career path communication to ensure continued satisfaction and retention.
- Communicate with Director of Recruitment on any issues that arise with a travel candidate while on assignment that could lead to the cancelling of the assignment.
- Consistently meet or exceed established goals both individually and departmentally.
Education
ASN - Respiratory Therapy
PIMA Medical Institute
Mesa, AZ02.2018
No Degree -
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZTimeline
Recruitment Manager
Supplemental Health Care
07.2025 - Current
Senior Licensing Specialist, Care Operations and Onboarding
Bicycle Health Medical Group
07.2022 - 11.2024
Lead Credentialing Specialist
Howard Sloan Search
02.2022 - 05.2022
Client Relationship Specialist
Cross Country Healthcare
07.2020 - 02.2022
Travel Allied Healthcare Recruiter
Cross Country Healthcare
12.2019 - 07.2020
Independent Talent Acquisition Specialist/Perm Placement (Remote)
DTRT Healthcare Consulting and Advocacy
04.2019 - Current
ASN - Respiratory Therapy
PIMA Medical Institute
No Degree -
Arizona State University