As president and founder, Ann-Marie Archer provides overall business leadership and vision to Archer & Associates.

A long-time member of the Pacific Northwest Business community, Ms. Archer has over 20 years experience in consulting, sales, management, and team building. Prior to founding Archer & Associates, she served as business manager for the highly respected BEST Consulting, where she recruited and managed consulting professionals and internal staff, hiring more than 400 individuals over a seven year period. After BEST Consulting, she became the Director of Business Development for Inteliant, where she consistently surpassed multi-million dollar business development targets. Ann-Marie has also developed, launched, and cultivated on-site consulting and staffing practices for Fortune 1000 Corporations.

At Archer & Associates, she builds relationships with her clients and candidates. This means everything from providing career counseling to managing a board of director's expectations. Just as importantly, she understands what company leaders need to execute their long-term strategies, and how their own success is measured — from the executive's charter to return on investment.

It is this knowledgeable, personalized approach and attention to detail that enables Ms. Archer to successfully meet the strategic staffing needs of her clients while contributing to the success of everyone involved.

Ms. Archer earned at B.A. in English Literature from Western Washington University.

Ms. Hoggard is a consummate professional with more than 10 years of administrative experience, ranging from Executive Assistant to Office Manager.

Prior to joining Archer & Associates, she was the Office Manager at Westfire Coastal, Inc, where she coordinated project and service contracts, provided sales support, and managed new employee paperwork and benefits, as well as many other tasks.

She is responsible for maintaining the president's calendar, scheduling candidates for client interviews, maintaining reports and internal databases, and client and project research. Her knack for organization, ability to learn new tasks quickly, and creative problem solving keep her in constant motion at Archer & Associates.

Ms Hoggard earned a B.A. in Business Management with an emphasis in Marketing from Western Washington University.

Ms. Muller brings a broad range of experience in professional and college recruiting, human resource management and program coordination to Archer & Associates. Her background includes managing the MBA and college intern program at Washington Mutual, attorney and college recruiting at Foster, Pepper & Shefelman, PLLC, and developing and delivering training to dislocated workers for King County.

Ms. Muller has a strong background in teaching and coaching and has developed curriculum for training HR Managers in legal issues that surround the hiring process.

She is particularly skilled in coaching managers through the recruiting and on-boarding process and is frequently praised for her open & honest communication skills and professionalism in her work.

In her spare time, Lisa is a committed volunteer with the Seattle Animal Shelter Foster Program, training and supporting foster parents and helping the community find their perfect canine companion.

Ms. Muller has her B.S. Degree in Political Science and has earned her Professional Certification in Human Resources.

Ms. Anderson brings more than 15 years of successful experience in training, coaching, organizational development, human resources, and recruiting to Archer & Associates. Prior to joining the company, she was the Regional Human Resources Manager for Seattle-based Guy Carpenter/Marsh & McLennan, a financial services subsidiary with 2,200 employees worldwide.

She has also worked with executives from a wide variety of industries, including technology, health care, manufacturing, retail, and financial services. Her clients appreciate her creative energy, dedication to achieving results, pragmatic optimism, and sense of humor.

Ms. Anderson earned a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Washington, and an M.A. in Counseling from UW as well.

Maria brings nine years of recruiting and sourcing experience from industry leading technology companies including Microsoft and Google. Most recently, Maria identified and recruited talented software engineers and inspired technical leaders into Google's Partner Solutions Organization. Prior to Google, she spent 8 years recruiting for product management, marketing and strategic business development at all levels and across all divisions of Microsoft. Maria works closely with hiring managers and staffing teams to understand a company's business, technical and cultural requirements, then applies creative and strategic sourcing strategies that deliver top-quality candidates and build exceptional teams.

Maria holds a bachelor of arts degree in English Literature from Rutgers University.

With more than 13 years in technology, Ms. Zenonian provides a powerful combination of technical recruiting expertise and industry knowledge. Prior to joining Archer & Associates, she specialized in recruiting high-level technical talent for Impinj, digiMine, Rivals.com, and Microsoft. Ms. Zenonian has earned her reputation as a top-notch recruiter by understanding the needs of her clients, conducting thorough candidate research, and accurately assessing candidate skill levels. She takes great pride in finding exceptional people who make significant contributions to the continued success of her client companies. Ms. Zenonian earned a B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing and Communications from Western Washington University.

Ms. Wendell is a Research and Information Expert who brings over 20 years of experience in knowledge management, recruiting and career development, marketing, and business development to her role at Archer & Associates. She is dedicated to finding information, turning that information into knowledge, and using the power of knowledge to guide companies in their strategic goals.

Her specialty is competitive intelligence research and analysis which enables her to add tremendous value in sourcing and candidate development. She also has a proven ability to develop and implement recruiting and sourcing strategies as well as employer branding and positioning for companies in all stages of development, integrating these with a company's business goals. Her love of networking, both online and face-to-face, has been greatly enhanced by her expertise in social media, networks, and software tools and allows her to effectively develop and nurture relationships with clients, candidates, and strategic partners.

Ms. Wendell is also a published author, specializing in local history. Her next book will be available in December. In her spare time she finds time to attend her children's endless sporting events, watch way too many movies with her husband, support her bookstore habit, and is hard at work writing the archetypal Seattle novel.

Ms. Wendell earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Washington State University and a Master in Library and Information Science from the University of Washington.