SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years' experience of high quality talent acquisition and management.
• Focusing on state of the art sourcing techniques.
• Consistent, flexible, team player with a high commitment to personal excellence.
• Consistently partner with cross functional groups, within virtually all departments.
• Meet with hiring managers, gather requirements, turn info into a recruiting doc.
• Measure success; meet w/ hiring managers - discuss sourcing/recruiting challenges.
• Conduct interviews, investigate and provide salary information as needed.
• Recommend candidates for hire and advancement.
• Work as both Sourcer and full cycle recruiter.
• Boolean Xrays into sites like LinkedIn, GitHub, Facebook, Twitter, etc. as needed.
• Google Custom Search engines and browser extensions such as PropeliQ, Connectifier and Connect6.
• Specialist in finding passive candidates with an imaginative array of sourcing tools.
• Worked in career fairs, outside events, including college, online and personal.
• Have recruited passive and active candidates here and abroad.
• This includes H1 countries as well as those which use other immigration methods.
• ATS: Includes ICIMS, Taleo, Airs Sourcepoint, Virtual Edge, Bullhorn, Compas, PC Recruiter, E-REC.
• Industries: Commercial software/hardware engineering, telecommunications, manufacturing, aerospace/avionics, health care, medical devices, wireless, Internet, e-commerce, on-line media/digital advertising, interactive media, networks, data services, banking, energy/alternative energy, consumer electronics, gaming and mental health etc.
• Departments: Executive, Software Engineering/QA/IT/OPS, UI/UX, Big Data, DevOps, Mobile, Program/Project Management, Analysts - all stripes, Hardware Engineers, Embedded Engineers, Sales/Marketing/Business Development, SEM/SEO, 3D Illustration/Rendering/Design, CAD, Finance and Accounting Mental Health, and many more...
• Enthusiastic ambassador for the companies and cultures I represent.

EXPERTISE:

Exceptional Sourcing Techniques, Relationship Building, Negotiation/Closing, Cross Functional Team Building, Salary Negotiation, Technical and Non-Technical Recruiting, Hiring Collaboration/Planning, Clear Communication and Leadership.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Linked-In, Twitter, Global IT Architect Association, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server Group

ACM Sig Chi

Linked PHP'ers

IxDA Seattle

.NET Developers Networking Group

UX Professionals

Sharepoint Experts

SPUG (Perl User Group) hose In Media

Perl Mongers

Code Poets - Web and UI Developers

SeaJug

Intellectual Property Professionals

Java EE

Facebook

Java Developers

LinkedPHPers

Spoke

Ruby on Rails

Boolean Strings

RoR Open Source Network

Front End Developers Group

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• I returned to began an engagement with Confidential, a staffing and consulting firm serving the IT needs of companies in the Healthcare, Telecom, Software Engineering, Communications, Cloud, Data and other arenas.
• I work across platforms and time zones to provide candidates in the most rapid and efficient time possible. This is a full cycle position, finding candidates, qualifying them, presenting, negotiating and closing both perm and contract openings.
• I utilize my expert sourcing skills, along with the totality of my other skills to find the right people, prepare them and close deals.
• I also act as trainer to the other recruiters for sourcing techniques and strategies.
• Big Data expert for the firm, I recruit for Big Data Developers, Big Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Big Data Architects, Analysts, etc. as well as Cloud projects - Saas, PaaS, Iaas, Azure, AWS.
• Also involved in Network/Voice/VOIP/Security Engineering roles and many and various other roles as they come up.
• Technologies regularly searched for are Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapReduce, MapR, Kafka, HDFS, Hbase, Cassandra, MongoDB, MarkLogic, Impala, DynamoDB, etc, Talend, Pentaho, Pig, Hive, Spark, Sqoop, Tableau, HiveQL, SparkSQL, Platfora, Splunk, Java, Ruby Ruby/Rails, Go, Erlang, Scala, DataStage, Informatica, Abinitio, Data Lake and many other technologies in or, in some cases, related to Big Data projects. AWS (EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, EBS, ElastiCache, Route 53, CloudWatch, IAM, ElasticSearch, CloudSearch etc.), Azure (Virtual Machine, Container Service, Cloud Services, Container Service, Virtual Network, Load Balancer, CDN, SQL Server, DocumentDB, SQLaaS, HD Insight, Data Lake Analytics, Azure Active Directory, etc.)

Confidential

Sr. Technical Sourcing Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Hired into a newly created position in which I am the source of candidates for many roles.
• Developed a new, systematic approach to sourcing new candidates to fill open positions and build pipelines.
• Using established as well as new techniques to find consistent pools of candidates.
• Better job board sourcing, Boolean X Ray's into an ever growing number of sites is usually just the beginning.
• Social Media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter), technical repositories, niche sites, such as GitHub, Stack Overflow etc. - and always on the lookout for new sites and techniques, like including the Connectifier and PropeliQ,and varous other chrome extensions.
• Applicant tracking system used is Taleo as well as Bullhorn. I scour Sourcing and Boolean specialty sites, attend sourcing conventions and try new techniques uncovered.
• Positions recruited for include Developer, QA, SDET, Solution/Tecnical Architect, Technical/Functional/Business Analyst, Program/Project Manager, Cloud (AWS/Azure- See FocalPointe for Details), DevOps, Network/Network Security and many more.

Sr. Recruiter

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Recruiting, placement, mentoring, HR administration and on-boarding of candidates for a number of companies throughout the U.S.
• Includes a number of on-site/ corporate assignments, along with in-house/agency style work when not in the field. Includes:
• Sourcing and recruiting for roles in the medical, mental health, telecommunications, software and aerospace fields.
• Talent sourcing, technical/non-technical roles. Seattle, Portland, Austin, Cambridge, MA. Produced results as part of hiring events in Seattle and Detroit.
• Sourcing/recruiting, Technical Roles. Predominantly iOS, Android Developer roles.
• Full cycle recruiting, Western half of the US, others where needed.
• Mainly technical Roles. Senior developers (Java, Android, iOs), Ops, Program/Project Managers and many, many others.
• Participated in numerous hiring events, both on-line and personal. on-site with the company
• “Boolean Sourcing Guru”, Speech Recognition Team, Core Office apps. Sales and Technical Roles.
• Full cycle recruiting tech and creative/interactive. Created strings and testing for most filled roles.
• Full cycle recruiting for roles in Beijing, China. Technical and non-technical roles.

Confidential

Sr. Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Full cycle recruiting for a wide variety of positions. Started out with the Engineering and IT teams, recruiting for all positions in those departments, eventually recruiting in marketing/sales, program management, UI/UX.
• Software Developers, Web Developers, IT/OPS, Dev Ops, Help Desk, Quality Analysts etc. Eventually moved into Program Management, UI/UX, Sales, Marketing and Accounting roles.
• Essentially made part of the Engineering team, included in all Engineering team functions, made Administrator of the Seattle Perl User Group, finding and organizing speakers for this monthly meeting.
• This was unprecedented and very productive in the recruiting function.
• Represented company at different functions across the area, including OSCON, Linux Fest, etc.
• Participated in a number of hiring events across the region, like UW and other skills centered events. Began as contractor, went on to full-time role.

Confidential

Sr. Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Corporate and contingency recruiting for permanent and contract candidates.
• Business development, sourcing, recruiting and placement of candidates in various engagements with a number of companies in an agency environment
• Also, several significant on site/ corporate engagements through Confidential, sourcing and hiring for engineering/IT positions (Software Engineers, Web Developers, UI/Usability, Dev Mgrs., SDETs, QA/Testers, Admins etc.), Telecommunications, Engineers, Program Managers, Sales/Marketing/Biz Dev, Business Analysts, Finance and Accounting.
• Many others. On-site corporate roles include:
• Remainder of time (approximate 2/3rd's of total time) spent in a contingency/agency configuration with Confidential Partners. Recruiting and business development for full-time/perm and contractors/consultants for Software Engineers, Testers, Development Managers, Web Developers, Flash Developers, DBA's, Database Developers, Systems Engineers, NOC Techs, Network Managers/NMS Architects, Telecommunications Engineers (various), Network Administrators, Help Desk, Project Managers, Program Managers, Biz Analysts, BI/Data Warehouse, Sales Executives, Sales Directors, Marketing Executives, Marketing Directors, Business Development Executives, Product Managers, SEO/SEM, Affiliate Managers, Account Managers and Directors, Administrators, Accountants, Controllers, Financial Analysts, Customer Service Reps, HR, Recruiters, Hardware Engineers, Embedded Engineers, Fuel Cell Engineers and many others, from individual contributors to Directors and VP's.

Confidential

Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Member of the Software/Hardware Group as a Technical Recruiter.
• Pro-actively source potential candidates for nationwide clients.
• Obtain and review resumes of prospective contractors.
• Recruit technical contractors, from all sources, both direct and indirect
• Interview and qualify by skill and by geographic and professional ps
• Successful networking for contractor and manager referrals.
• Qualify and customize job openings.
• Screen candidates prior to submittal for job openings
• Negotiate rates with both the client and the contractor.
• Manage Oxford-employed contractors for the contract duration.
• Conduct skills and development meetings for recruiting staff.