Vickie Pasoquen manages Global Contingent Labor and Professional Consulting Services sourcing at CrowdStrike, where she focuses on solving operational and commercial friction points across enterprise technology and extended workforce programs. Working within an organization that protects roughly 60% of the Fortune 500, and has an ARR of over $5B, she partners with Data Engineering, IT, Risk Management and other key business teams to secure the specialized talent they need—clearing operational friction while keeping budgets in check. With over 17 years in sourcing across CrowdStrike, Itron, IBM, and Accenture, she focuses on building workable, sensible standards that give teams the clarity they need to move fast and stay aligned. Her hands-on work untangles Contingent Labor & Services helping hiring managers balance speed and compliance. She focuses on practical fixes for common workforce headaches—standardizing fragmented rate cards, improving vendor management visibility, and ensuring teams can onboard specialized talent quickly while mitigating risk. Vickie’s philosophy is built on active listening, transparent data, and finding common ground between technical stakeholders, finance leaders, and external vendors so everyone walks away with an arrangement that actually works in practice. Vickie lives south of Austin, Texas with her husband John and step-daughter Beatrice.