SUMMARY:

Tenacious technology agnostic recruiter with 10+years of experience. Excellent client interfacing skills with C - Suite executives; ability to attract, build and retain relationships with niche skill candidates; extensive experience in recruiting high volume, senior engineering and digital positions. Possesses a deep comprehension of software engineering across all OO languages, distributed systems, grid computing, cross platform mobile engineering, gaming, front end engineering, database engineering, N-Tier architecture, TDD, Agile/Scrum/ Waterfall methodology, business intelligence visualization tools and relational databases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology: OO design patterns, hash maps/tables, cloud storage, data structures, binary trees, algorithms, run time analysis, data structure composition, garbage collections, grid computing, pair programming TDD, Angular.js, Backbone, Coffee Script, Mocha, Parsley.js, Knockout, and bootstrap.js, Selenium, Cucumber, Core Java, C++, C#, VMC, MVVM, Scala, Ruby, PHP, iOS, SDK, Android (ADK), Unity, Python, Hadoop, cloud computing, RESTful, SOA, SOAP, API's, Oracle, Sybase, SQL, ETL, PL/SQL, Tableau, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Talent Acquisition Partner

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the full life cycle recruitment for the technology organization utilizing their ATS iCIMS to ensure OFCCP compliance with all candidates
• Tasked as the technical recruitment SME to partner the across the technology organization to advise on the current recruiting process, redefine job requirements, advise on the current market rate compensation, and how to improve current interview processes that would yield a higher successful hire ratio.

Confidential, New York, NY

Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Managed the full life cycle recruiting/sourcing process from inception to completion for 20-25 highly technical engineering at once.
• Screen and technically evaluate a high volume of applicants using their ATS iCIMS to identify the top talent that while adhering to all OFCCP regulations.
• Recruited DevOps developers to help migrate all applications to a cloud based, highly scalable secure cloud infrastructure structure, along with technical candidates with experience using NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Redis for increased scalability along with Hbase API and JSON for integration.
• Specialized in identifying developers with an expertise in Java, Python, PHP, GO, heavy RESTful API integration experience, along with Big Data developers that utilized Apache Hadoop and Spark.
• Sourced passive Native iOS develops and Android developers that utilized Android Studio to add a cloud based back end along with Java 7 SDK, utilized selenium Webdriver as their automated testing tool.
• Additional Roles included: Application Architects, SDE-T’s, Web 2.0 front end developers, middleware architects and developers, API developers, JavaScript Engineers, Java, Scala, C++, and C# along with all other
• OO developers, TDD engineers and Software & Mobile Engineering Managers.
• Deep Technical acumen yielded accurate, rapid screening of senior level engineering candidates,
• Delivered only highest quality candidates the hiring managers, resulting in a high submittal to offer ratio.
• Conducted searches within the extremely large internal databases with 1300 internal users. In conjunction with Google Boolean searches, .doc/.pdf resume searches, scrappers, x-ray screening, flip screening, LinkedIn Recruiter, and Stack Overflow, set up resume alerts, personal network for referrals, GitHub, Blogs, group memberships, social media blasts and attending industry networking events and keeping abreast of emerging technologies and insight of the competitive landscape in order to strategize where to obtain passive talent from.
• Acted as a consultative partner with engineering mangers and CEO and other C-suite executive on recruitment and hiring process across Software Engineering, Mobile Development, Testing, and executive level technical roles.
• Introduced and executed advanced recruitment strategies to in corporate Confidential 's best hiring practices and leadership principles to yield the highest caliber of candidates.
• Extensive use of Outlook 2013 Calendar; responsible for scheduling interviews with 8+ participants in different time zones.
• Responsible for job description creation, collaboration with HRBP and finance, approval chain completion, recruitment of candidates, responsible for of all aspects of travel and interview coordination for international candidates and extended domestic and international relocation packages.

Confidential, New York, NY

Lead Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Lead technology recruiter to establish a recruiting practice specifically for the New York Market vertical due to my recruiting and sales experience for senior technical roles and liaising with C-level technology executives in Digital Media/Technology and various startups using Cloud and Digital based technology.
• High volume recruitment and portfolio review for Digital Interaction Designers, I/UX developers/designersDOM experts, IA's, Native iOS & Android applications developers, AngularJS, open source web frameworksHadoop, Java, Application Architects, Middleware developers, C#. /NET, C++, JS engineers, OO developers Hadoop, Ruby, Django, Scala,
• Utilized creative sourcing techniques, including x-ray reaching, flip searching web scraping, blog recruitmentGitHub, ODesk, etc.
• A demonstrable expertise in ad-hoc, complex web search string generation, optimized use of search engine specific
• Boolean operators across all leading web data, social and search platforms.
• Extensive knowledge of social network platforms, online communities, conferences and other potential sourcing pools used to isolate senior-level technical talent
• Responsible for all client facing interaction and qualifying very technical technology requirements, recruitedscreened all candidates for very high volume accounts, handled up to 50 requirements solely at a time Scheduled coordinated approximately 30-40 interviews a week, including feedback and submissions between the client and candidate, responsible for the entire cycle from qualifying the requirements from the client, the candidate screening and recruitment and closing of the candidate and all related contract negotiations

Confidential, New York, NY

VP /Full Desk Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• High volume recruitment for very technical roles such as Core Java, Application Architects, Middleware developers, C#.NET, C++, JS engineers, Hadoop, Ruby, Django, Scala, Python Interaction Designers, GUI developers, IA/UX, IA's, Cocoa, Objective C, Cactus for Windows mobile development, native iOS applications developers, AngularJS, open source web frameworks, Hadoop, MongoDB.
• Cultivated new relationships with hiring managers, qualified positions, understood their current business bjectives, acted as an advisory during the hiring and interviewing and screening process.
• Utilized creative sourcing techniques, including x-ray reaching, flip searching web scraping, blog recruitmentGitHub, ODesk, etc.
• Built relationships with C-level technology executives in Media/Finance/Technology and various startups.
• Managed full life cycle recruiting including, sourcing via LinkedIn, referrals, references, negotiating salariesand fee agreements with clients and the delivery of the offer to the candidate.
• A demonstrable expertise in ad-hoc, complex web search string generation, optimized use of search engine specific
• Boolean operators across all leading web data, social, and search platforms.
• Extensive knowledge of social network platforms, online communities, conferences, and other potential sourcing pools used to isolate senior-level technical talent.
• Negotiated consultant contracts with their party or sole proprietorships with regards to rate, durationsextensions, relocation, H-1 transfer, etc.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Performed extensive recruiting for front office Senior Software developers with heavy focus on technologies such as: C/C++, (Windows & UNIX/Linux), C# and Core Java.
• Provided high-level recruitment for technology positions within all asset classes including: Fixed Income
• Prime Brokerage, Equities, Credit and Derivatives within tier one Investment Banks.