Rick West
Vice President, Client Services And Enterprise Delivery at Summit Tech Partners
Sheffield, England, United States
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Top SchoolRick West is a staffing and talent acquisition executive with two decades of experience leading national recruiting, delivery and client services for large enterprises and Fortune 500 accounts. As Vice President roles across Summit Tech Partners, The Judge Group and Open Systems Technologies, he’s built centralized delivery models, offshore RPO programs and regional recruiting centers that scaled MSP/VMS accounts and improved P&L performance. He combines hands-on technical recruiting expertise with strategic program leadership across industries including financial services, healthcare, and retail, and is comfortable engaging at C-suite and operational levels. An early contributor to open-source tooling, he has hands-on back-end experience—having contributed events integration and test improvements to the Masonite Python web framework—demonstrating a rare blend of delivery leadership and practical engineering empathy. Educated in marketing with international study experience, Rick is known for turning complex hiring and delivery challenges into repeatable, scalable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Perugia Italy Study Abroad Program, Perugia Italy Study Abroad Program at The Umbra InstituteBachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Marketing, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Marketing at Arcadia University
Github Skills (13)
application-framework10
masonite10
eventing10
web-framework10
git-repository10
app-framework10
eventsource10
event-emitter10
python10
repos10
event-sourcing10
testing9
configuration-management8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MasoniteFramework/masonite
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
The Modern And Developer Centric Python Web Framework. Be sure to read the documentation and join the Discord channel for questions: https://discord.gg/TwKeFahmPZ
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Rick contributed to the Masonite framework by adding an events provider to the providers list and merging changes from the 'develop' branch. They made changes to test files related to request handling, suggesting a focus on framework functionality. Furthermore, the user updated the `setup.py` file to incorporate `masonite-events`, indicating a role in integrating and maintaining framework dependencies.
pythonpython-webdiscordframeworkdiscord-channel
rickwest/laravel-sportspress-api
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
A Laravel read-only client for the SportsPress REST API (v2)
Contributions:2 releases, 16 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
apiwordpressphpsportspressread-only-laravel
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