Matt Leighton Email Address

Managing Director Recruitment Ops

Established in 1990, Open Systems Technologies has been the definitive leader in supplying technical engineers to the New York financial services community since its inception. Our original emphasis was with Unix O/S and distributed technologies. Much of the financial industry at that time, were committed to proprietary operating systems. Our unique ability in understanding this new technology offered Open Systems a competitive advantage as computing environments transitioned and moved forward. In 1995, we expanded into the Massachusetts region, providing candidates to both the financial services sector, and the computer services industry in Boston's route 128 area. Clients welcomed the opportunity to work with a firm who supplied engineers combining top-notch technical skills with specific domain knowledge of their applications. Applicants appreciated our knowledge of advanced technology and our ability to place them in a well suited match. In the past five years, we've continued to expand both our philosophy and methodologies across the country. With offices in Philadelphia, Houston, and Chicago, we continue to service the top-tier financial institutions in search of rapidly shifting technical disciplines. Currently we have 1300+ consultants, and a permanent placement division with an unceasing demand for qualified technical engineers.

I graduated from New York Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's degree in Business Management. I have been in the recruiting field for approximately 3 years. I began working on various hardware roles including desktop support as well as systems and network administrators. My prior professional IT experience includes project coordination and account management. Early in 2010, I found a great company Bluewolf that allows me to do so much more than I had in previous IT-related roles. Since then I have re-focused my recruiting objectives and broadened my technical expertise. I now effectively recruit and identify qualified IT professionals including software engineers, enterprise architects, project managers, business analysts, database administrators along with much more talent across the ever-changing Information Technology community. I really enjoy working with the highest caliber of clients in so many different industry verticals from Finance to Retail and everything in between. Finding that perfect match of talent, working side by side with our great sales team on requirements they attain and being able to provide the ideal candidate to fill the role is a very rewarding and distinctive feeling.