Kirk has over 12 years of sales production and sales management with six years in the IT staffing and consulting industry. He managed and produced in an IT staffing and Consulting division of a Fortune 500 strategic staffing company that consistently ranked in the Top Five divisions worldwide (100+ offices). Kirk was consistently recognized as one of the Top Ten individual producers worldwide for the same Fortune 500 staffing firm (300+ producers worldwide). Kirk graduated from the University of Memphis with a Bachelors degree in Finance.

Brian graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor's degree in accounting and is a CPA with over eight years of experience in accounting and project placement. Brian spent four years in the audit division of Arthur Andersen in the Atlanta and Nashville markets where he specialized in the manufacturing and healthcare industries. Brian began his career in placing financial and accounting project consultants in 1999 with a multi-billion dollar national firm. As the Division Director of the Nashville operations, Brian was responsible for leading a team of account executives in placing and managing CFO and Controller level consultants on special project and interim assignments where they consistently ranked amongst the top five offices across the country. In November 2002 he founded Continuum Search with Jay Hollomon which merged with Vaco Resources in January 2004 to become Vaco.

Cheryl is celebrating her 5th year as a Technical Recruiter after spending 15 years in the IT Industry. She came to Vaco with a broad range of experience including IT Director, Project Manager, Programmer, Independent IT Consultant, IT Field Support and Help Desk Analyst. Her functional areas of IT experience included healthcare, customer support, project management, independent consulting, telecommunications, manufacturing, travel industry, staffing & legal among others. Cheryl has been one of the top producers for Vaco Technology during her tenure with the company and is a graduate of the University of Memphis with a degree in Computer Science Education.

Gassia joins the Vaco MidSouth team with a very successful track record as a Technical Recruiter. She has over 6 years in the industry and, in her previous role, was the top producer three years in a row for the Memphis and Jonesboro territories. Prior to recruiting, Gassia was an Assistant Professor of Science Education at the University of Memphis. Her education includes a BA and MA from California State University Fresno, and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. An avid runner, Gassia has completed 4 marathons and 4 half-marathons

Jessica started her accounting career as a tax accountant at the largest locally owned accounting firm in Memphis where she prepared individual, trust, estate, and partnership returns. She graduated Cum Laude from Tennessee Technological University with a Bachelor’s degree in accounting. She received her Masters in Business Administration from the University of Memphis. In 2002 Jessica was appointed to the Tennessee Board of Regents to serve as the only student Regent. She served on the Committee on Finance & Business Operations and the Ad Hoc Committee on Capital Outlay.

Chris joins Vaco with seven years of experience in enterprise application, database and network design. Most recently serving as an IS Director, he managed and oversaw the intricate details of both networking infrastructure and development. His team was responsible for significant, cutting edge projects including IP telephony design, building fully-fault tolerant networks, and designing an enterprise workflow and document routing system. Prior to that, he served as an applications manager responsible for full lifecycle design, implementation and rollout of one of the first Web Service enabled applications. His primary areas of expertise are application design, infrastructure planning, security and performance. With this real world experience, he is able to understand his clients technical requirments and make the right consultant match for their critical project needs.

With over 11 years of Information Technology experience, Diane is a valuable asset to the recruiting team for our Memphis office. She is a native Memphian and spent 4 years living in Hawaii where she worked as a Project Manager and Market Research Analyst for the Bank of Hawaii. Diane's industry experience includes banking, medical and service industries. She has held positions from Sr. Software Support to Project Manager and has extensive experience in database analysis and design, business intelligence, reporting, application development, and quality assurance. Diane's experience as an IT consultant coupled with her understanding of the client's business and technical requirements makes her a highly sought after recruiter in her market.

Sha began her accounting career as an auditor in the Memphis practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers and specialized in the Consumer and Industrial Products and Services industries. She later transitioned into the role of campus recruiter for PwC and identified top students at universities in the Mid-South area for full-time and intern roles in PwC offices across the country. Sha was part of a national recruiting team that contributed to PwC's being voted the #1 public accounting firm by students on campuses nationwide for the last five consecutive years. Sha is a native Memphian and graduated from the University of Mississippi Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Accountancy and Cum Laude with a Master of Accountancy.