Meet the Team
Why Recruiter Central?
We are your sourcing guide. Each business has unique challenges in sourcing, hiring and retention. Our goal is to help your business succeed with either the talent we source or the training we provide. At RecruiterCentral, it’s all about you and your success.
HIRE THE BEST TECHNICAL TALENT
LEARN HOW TO BE A WORLD CLASS SOURCER
ASK QUESTIONS AND GET ANSWERS
Meet Our Team
Luke Doubler
Founder and President
Luke Doubler is an innovator in talent sourcing. He has trained 1000s of corporate and agency recruiters to be the best at what they do: source talent to achieve a purpose. His listen first, transformational leadership style and commitment to peer development is unique in the recruiting industry.
Notable Career Accomplishments:
- 15+ years of corporate and agency recruiting leadership
- Hundreds of speaking engagements on recruiting, sourcing and digital marketing topics ranging from national audiences to local meet-ups
- Lead sourcer for Target.com and executive search team
- Developed corporate in-house sourcing and recruiting models for Cargill, Schwans, and Target
- Guest blogger on various HR and recruiting publications
Testimonials
“I have worked with luke for years. He’s a fantastic mentor, and hired absolute key talent for target.com.”
– Elwin Loomis, Director Software Engineering, target.com
Alex Plechash
VP of Executive Search
Alex Plechash, a top graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and former Marine Corps TOPGUN fighter pilot, came to RecruiterCentral as an accomplished business executive with over three decades of experience in hiring and managing people across a broad spectrum of industries including Financial Services & Investment Banking, Petrochemicals, Defense and Technology. Alex’s real-world experience brings a new and very practical approach to finding talent from a hiring manager’s perspective.
Notable Career Accomplishments:
- Built an Institutional Investment Banking branch from the ground up in Minneapolis
- Hired, trained and managed the first Oracle Client Services office in Chicago
- Member of the executive team which received the prestigious President’s award at Pepsico
- Ranked the number 1 executive nationally across his peer group at Exxon
- 1st in his class among all Marines in his Annapolis class
Testimonials
“Alex is very mission focused, highly ethical, and selfless. He is a high energy executive with great leadership skills. It is always a pleasure to work with him as he is focused on what is best for the organization. I always look forward to an opportunity to work with him.”
– William Neill – Global Alliance Program Manager, Veeam Software
Tara Lis
Technical Sourcing Leader
Tara Lis has been an expert in recruitment and sourcing for the last 10 years. Touching a little bit of everything Tara has sourced and recruited 100’s of candidates within information technology, cyber security, accounting, finance, engineering, and strategy. Tara prides herself in building relationships with each of her candidates and finding the perfect long term career fit where they can make the most impact and fulfill their goals.
Notable Career Accomplishments:
- 10+ years of recruitment and sourcing experience in both agency and corporate settings
- Sourced candidates for some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies in the Twin Cities including Target, Best Buy, Land O Lakes, Macy’s, Ecolab, and The Toro Company
- Helped build Target’s cyber security team post data breach including Executive level roles
- Trained and mentored recruitment teams on how to effectively source the right candidate reducing time to fill rates
- AIRS Certified Social Media Recruiter (2014)
Testimonials
“Tara works hard to recruit the best possible talent for the companies she works for and takes her job a step further by also continuing a relationship with those she recruits. It is not often you can find someone that can not only do their job, but go above and beyond to build a rapport with fellow employees and recruits.”
– Shannon Dahl, Ma Director of Student Success at National American University
Peter Do
Divisional Director of Technical Recruiting
Peter Do is the divisional director of technical recruiting. His focus is to ensuring that clients requirements are delivered with high quality output and driven toward client satisfaction. He has a 16 + years of IT and E-commerce experience to apply these skills to source the best technical talent on the market.
Notable Career Accomplishments:
- 16+ years end to end Global E-commerce experience at Digital River.
- Focused and dedicated to the Microsoft Stores Vertical
- Managed and prioritized the operations development team for production sites to mitigate and resolve issues that arise.
- Lead the implementation of global reporting and site monitoring/health of for early detection for bugs defects and incidents end to end.
- Managed onboarding high profile new products, sites, and API’s for enterprise companies on a global basis
- Documented complex end to end e-commerce process flow and break points for one source of truth knowledgebase for team members to train and reference to.
- Lead the stores data migration to clients new platforms. Consist of multimillion data points.
Testimonials
“Peter is driven toward client satisfaction, digging into issues through their resolution and has led endless bridge calls, managing the client through to a comfortable conclusion point. Not only leading client facing requirements, but in managing a development team focused on problem resolution, peter has shown that he’s able to focus on delivering solutions on both sides of the coin.”
– Cinnamon Whaley Senior Project Manager, Digital River
Heather Upgren
Recruiter
Heather Upgren brings 15 years’ experience in sales leadership from companies like USA Today, Beautycounter and State Farm. As a dedicated mother to her two children (Charlie and Claire) and wife (Dustin), Heather brings an amazing ability to source and search hard to find candidates.
Mindy Wozniak
Recruiter
Mindy Wozniak is a highly motivated and versatile professional with years of leadership and training experience. Consistently striving to advance her knowledge to provide helpful guidance. Focusing on personal and professional development while creating long lasting relationships. She aims to use strong research, communication and promoting skills to capture the best candidates in the job market while staying enthusiastic and well-connected.
Mindy has several years of experience in environmental health, safety compliance & operations and is very passionate about improving the health, safety and environment within our communities.
Notable Career Accomplishments
5+ years as a Safety Manager and Injury/Accident reporting officer
Onboard safety training for staff members and managers (Hazmat Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) Training, OSHA and FRA related training)
Currently in the process of completing the certification for a community Peer Specialist (A Certified Peer Specialist offers peer support to people receiving services related to mental health and/or substance use challenges).
Cara Dee
Recruiter
Cara Dee spent several years working for a top mechanical contractor, followed by owning/operating a yacht brokerage business and lastly working in sales in the real estate industry.
Cara has successfully transferred her work ethic and honesty from her diverse background, including entrepreneurial opportunities, business and project management, into the field of recruitment. She brings a level of customer service that her clients are able to trust and depend upon. Strong communication and follow-through are her top priorities during the recruitment process.
Integrity, honesty, technical expertise and superior customer service are the core principles that guide her in pairing employees and employers. She welcomes the opportunity to share her enthusiasm with you.
Notable Career Accomplishments:
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Industry experience working for a top mechanical contractor; interfacing with engineers and project managers
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Lead 15 mechanics as their service coordinator and managing top priority government and hospital clients
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OSHA 30 hour certification; working at new construction sites and renovation sites, including the Pentagon
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Established and operated a successful yacht brokerage specializing in sportfishing and commercial vessels; utilized extensive research to help buyers find the right vessel for their personal, or business needs.
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Honed vetting skills in pairing buyers/sellers with agents as an inside sales agent in real estate