SUMMARY:

Proven IT recruiting and client relations professional able to enhance the draw of talent while maximizing results to maintain overall effectiveness of standard business practices.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: Skilled with the industry’s latest applicant tracking systems, CRM’s, search techniques, collaboration and communication tools.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Corporate Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Sole corporate technical recruiter at Confidential, responsible for full lifecycle recruiting efforts of all IT positions within the company.
• Focus areas are software engineering, IT infrastructure, data science, business intelligence, quality assurance, robotic process automation and executive level IT management roles.
• Main point of contact for all recruiting activities to the IT Director, VP, SVPs of Technology and CSO.
• Manage relationships and coordinate recruiting efforts with outsourced staffing vendors.
• Assist mortgage and operations recruiting team when needed to source for underwriters, loan processors and closers.
• Utilizes Jobvite, MS Teams, GitHub daily.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Lead Sourcing Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical sourcer supporting Confidential ’s Customer and Marketing Hux product and service delivery teams.
• Focused on sourcing talent in the areas of data science, data engineering, software engineering, marketing science, advanced analytics and DevSecOps.
• Led offshore sourcing analysts who were responsible for talent market research and talent sourcing. Guided the SA’s on how to conduct talent research from sources such as GitHub, Kaggle, Meetups, Stack Overflow and White Crow.
• Participated in diversity hiring initiatives, identified top diverse technical talent through user groups, Meetups (PyLadies, Women in Machine Learning, Diverse Coders) and other diverse talent pools online.
• Responsible for testing talent acquisition tools, evaluating, tracking results and providing recommendations.
• Utilized Taleo, Avature CRM, MS Teams, MS Office, TextRecruit and Zoom daily.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Senior Sourcing Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Provided active, passive and diverse technical talent to several GE business lines such as Digital, Aviation, Power, Renewable Energy, Oil & Gas and Transportation.
• Roles sourced for include data scientists, data engineers, data and information architects, data visualization engineers, software architects, identity management engineers, risk analysts, cyber security researchers, digital auditors, incident responders and director of cyber security.
• Position is a hybrid of sourcing and full lifecycle recruiting.
• Utilizing Brassring, Ascendify CRM and Yammer daily.

Confidential, Research Triangle Park, NC

Principal Talent Acquisition Sourcer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing technical talent to multiple business units such Cloud, Analytics, Watson IoT. Watson Education, Information and Cyber Security, Digital Business Group, Blockchain, Softlayer, CIO and Transformation & Operations.
• Supported multiple acquisitions including Clearleap, The Weather Company, SoftLayer, Silverpop Systems, UStream and Aspera.
• Participated in Confidential ’s diversity initiatives and coordinated with the diversity recruiting team.
• Recruited active and passive candidates such as software engineers, web developers, dev/ops, big data, cloud engineers/architects, cloud site reliability engineers, IoT specific roles, security architects, systems engineers, database developers, SAP, QA, Agile leaders, data warehouse architects, developer advocates, sales and financial systems developers.
• Actively promoted Confidential career opportunities and company culture on several social media channels as well through online diversity job fairs and online user groups.
• Utilized Brassring and Smashfly CRM, Slack, Sametime, Zoom, Mural and Rally daily.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Senior IT Staffing Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for full lifecycle recruiting of IT professionals in various industries such as entertainment, broadcast media, financial services, B2B/B2C e - Commerce, consumer electronics, mobile and online video gaming, apparel manufacturing and nonprofit.
• Established and maintained pipeline of talent for a broad range of IT openings such as software engineers, web developers, UX/UI designers, cloud, web analytics, SEO/SEM analysts, QA analyst and engineers, technical lead and director level positions, database administrators, video game programmers, business analysts, project managers, product design/management, network engineers, help desk/tech support and HR talent acquisition.
• Established and managed relationships with numerous onshore and offshore 3rd party suppliers and negotiated contract rates.
• Sourced candidates through a variety of methods such as social media, online job boards, professional networking, a large established internal database and by promoting a successful referral program.

Confidential, Cypress, CA

Senior IT Staffing Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• IT sourcing for a list of clients focused in industries such as automotive manufacturing, entertainment, financial services, office product manufacturing and local municipalities.
• Recruited IT talent spread across the spectrum of Information Technology that included software development, database administration, business analysis, project management, IT management, software quality assurance, cloud, web analytics, governance and compliance and web application/website development.
• Responsible for sourcing candidates for contract, contract-to-hire and perm career opportunities.
• A direct point of contact for several clients throughout the full talent acquisition lifecycle.
• Established and managed relationships with numerous onshore and offshore 3rd party suppliers and negotiated rates.
• Mentored junior recruiting staff on sourcing techniques, developing candidate relationships, rate negotiation, closing skills, use of online resumes databases and application tracking system.

Confidential, Torrance, CA

IT Contract Vendor Management/ Corporate Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Managed the IT staffing vendor program with a labor spend of $50M at the onset which grew to $75M.
• Interfaced directly with CIO regarding contract and full-time hiring issues for the IS division.
• Re-engineered tiered vendor structure to consolidate and centralize agency services while maximizing draw of talent. Issued multiple vendor RFP’s and reduced agency vendor pool from 75 down to 14 prime vendors.
• Championed new vendor management system to monitor overall performance of agencies and quality of candidates while implementing practices to significantly reduce costs.
• Established service measures to reduce fall-off rates from vendors.
• Created a system that allowed IS division cost centers to share contract resources across the organization during downtime as an alternative to hiring more contractors.
• Assessed viability of IT candidates submitted by vendors to determine caliber of applicants prior to submittal via behavioral interviewing.
• Recruited for full-time positions for the IS division via direct recruitment of passive and active candidates for information technology, mid-tier, management, and executive positions.
• Interfaced and partnered with technical hiring managers to create job descriptions, compensation guidelines, and negotiate offers extended to candidates.
• Participated in addressing and handling issues for contract staff as part of Associate Relations; acted as liaison between company and contract staff.

Confidential, Culver City, CA

Branch Manager

Responsibilities:

• Hired, trained and managed a team of Information Technology and Engineering Recruiters and Account Managers.
• Assessed production and developed staff to improve performance and address deficiencies.
• Managed daily operations of branch office: budget, invoicing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and monitoring of all branch activities.
• Generated business via cold calling, presentations, and regular on-site field visits.
• Recruited candidates for open requisitions by direct sourcing, internet sourcing methods, referral-based recruiting and an extensive in-house candidate database.
• Directly managed numerous clients and trained, evaluated and managed account managers.
• Assisted in establishment of offshore technical recruiting center to replace local branch.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Technical Recruiter and Account Manager

Responsibilities:

• Placed candidates on both perm and contract assignments in the Information Technology, Engineering and Biomedical fields.
• New business development through cold calling and on-site field visits.
• Maintained current client and candidate database updating constantly with current needs.
• Recruited candidates for open requisitions by developing creative internet sourcing methods, referrals and in-house database.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

V.P. of IT Staffing

Responsibilities:

• Established a new IT staffing division within a temporary and executive search firm.
• Hired and trained team members in all aspects of acquiring technical talent.
• Negotiated and approved compensation agreements of all employees.
• Negotiated and approved all fee agreements between the recruiters and clients.
• Maintained a full lifecycle recruitment desk alongside team to provide leadership.
• Created and implemented strategy for print and online advertising.
• Delivered weekly reports on sales/production of all company employees.
• Conducted quarterly performance reviews of the recruiting and account management team.
• Developed new business and reactivated inactive and idle accounts.