OBJECTIVE:

• Seeking a Contract or Permanent Recruiter OR Sourcer position with a company where I can use my 10 plus years of World Class Recruiting and Sourcing Skills.

SUMMARY:

• Tactical sourcing and passive candidate recruiting/Mgmt. professional, that enjoys being a part of a solution for companies that are looking for top talent. In depth and meticulous research in finding sites that allow me to grab hold of candidates where traditional avenues have started to fail and decline in productivity. Consistently have finished hiring goals months ahead of planned targets.
• NETWORKING SITES /SOURCING AND PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Stackoverflow, Github, Eventbrite, Meetup.com, Rapportive, Recruitin, (Google XRAY string search) Aboutme, GameDev Meetup.com, Moby Games, NPI,Unix/Linux (Stack Exchange), YouTube, Slideshare, (Recruiters World, Sourcecon, Social Talent, Talent 44)
• Diversity Recruitment: Data.com, Jigsaw, National Society of Hispanic Core of Engineers, National Society of Black Engineers, National Conference Registry Database, Society of Women Engineering, Engineergirl.org, NSPE, HmmAction.com, WebCity Girls, WiSE, NSBE, STEM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bellevue WA

Sr. Recruiter/Sourcer

Responsibilities:

• 80% Direct Hire and 20% Contract/Temp or Contract to Hire
• Hands on with Sourcing, and Full Cycle recruiting constantly the offshore team, quickly build pipeline of candidates
• Weekly Metrics: 4 - 5 reqs, 10-12 subs, 3-4 interview request, Avg. 2-3 hires per month

Confidential, Redmond WA

Sr.Recruiter/Sourcer Account Manager

Responsibilities:

• Built pipeline for very Niche HW engineers for Surface and Xbox group, built pipeline for Azure, AI, SRE’s, SQL Architects, Android, Full Stack, Front/Back End Devs
• Spend lots of Face time with Stake Holders, partner with them closely, go over resumes with them, gather direct understanding of their team structure and Source candidates accordingly

Confidential, Redmond WA

Sr. Recruiter/Account Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with 2 main groups Halo team and GHRO Team Halo Team, built pipeline of very Sr. HW Recruiters for GHRO Team, did lots of client facing/account management - closed 8 deals for GHRO all were 18 month contracts / 2M. in revenue for company
• Halo Team: Environmental Artist, Game Developers, Support Engineers, Playtest co-ordinator, Rockstar SDE’s Front End/Back End with Solid Gaming background - build many pipelines and closed 3 positions

Confidential, Bellevue WA

Sr. Corporate Sourcer/Recruiter Consultant

Responsibilities:

• My Employer placed me here on a 4 month contract as a Sr. Sourcer/Recruiter I had worked as Sr. Lead Sourcer/Recruiter along with 2 offshore Sourcers
• Sourced and Built pipeline for Nurses, Physicians, Sr.Java Developers closed 9 very Sr. Level difficult positions. We still work with them for their Direct Hire requirements

Confidential, Bellevue WA

Corporate Recruiter/Account Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Met with hiring managers to qualify new job requirements and understand their business and product groups, work closely with Sourcing Team and continuously build pipeline of Front/Back/Full Stack Developers
• Introduced Harman to Microsoft GHRO, Recruiting, Sourcing groups, today Microsoft Procurement and Contractor Hub recognize and consider Harman as a strategic supplier for all GHRO, Recruiting and Sourcing requirements, filled over 10 Sr. Recruiter positions in course of 6 months
• Recruiting Top Executive Level candidates often assisted the Delivery team with fulfillment of SAP, Senior UI/UX Developer, Web Developers candidates.

Confidential, Bellevue WA

Recruiting Manager/Account Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Hired and managed new recruiting team from Scratch, hired 5 recruiters onshore and built offshore recruiting partnership
• Built this team to strictly manage Microsoft Contractor Hub Relationship as well as cater to all of Inspur’s Microsoft Managed Services requirements
• Role was divided into 3 areas Hiring and building new team/Client facing, new business and managing existing business/Hands on recruiting Sourcing/Closing candidates
• Types of positions: Front/Back/Fullstack Developers/Admin/Game Developers/HW Engineers, Audio/Video/HW, C++ Embedded etc.

Confidential, Bothell WA

Recruiter/Sourcer/Partner

Responsibilities:

• Hired and Built team of Recruiters and Sourcers Offshore also full hands on for closing tough candidates and consistently sourcing my own candidates.
• Negotiate, close and Hire SDET, SDE, Architect, PM, in technologies such as .Net, Java, C#, Oracle, .Net, SAP, cloud, azure, big data, RF Engineers, Sales Professionals, Manufacturing, SW in HW Engineer SDE’s
• Repeatedly placed hard-to-fill Solution Architect and Technical Delivery Manager roles for our key client. teams. Discussed possible people-solutions and submitted candidates to fulfill those roles, managed and maintained direct relationship with all the Hiring Manager’s

Confidential, Redmond WA

Branch Manager/Recruiter - Microsoft Account

Responsibilities:

• Managed and maintained direct relationships with Hiring Managers, Directors and GM’s at MS
• Developed strong Internet recruiting strategies to attract best talent, and played a hands on Recruiting Role to find Niche Developers, Architects and SAP level candidates.
• Developed HR processes, organizational and marketing strategies in a competitive A- and V- market.
• Created a Niche Exclusive Partnership with a company who are experts in Individuals within all areas of Test, this was very beneficial to our employees and customers and highly recognized by Microsoft.
• Directly responsible for managing the deliverables and preparing RFP’s coming from Microsoft

Confidential, Bellevue WA

BDM/Account Manager/Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Managed and maintained direct relationships with Hiring Managers, Directors and GM’s
• Organized/Sponsored Team Lunch’s and brown bag events on several occasions
• Met with hiring managers to qualify new job requirements and understanding their business and product groups. Identified key competitors, key competencies, soft skills, years of seniority and academic requirements required to work with existing and new teams. Discussed possible people-solutions and submitted candidates to fulfill those roles, managed and maintained direct relationship with all the Hiring Manager’s

Confidential, Seattle WA

Recruiter/Sourcer

Responsibilities:

• Working directly with hiring managers to define hiring goals and strategies
• Filled several positions in this 3 month contract, types of positions filled were Network Engineers, Web Developers, Wireless Engineers, Software Engineers, SATCOM Engineers, Systems Engineers, Software Testers

Confidential, Redmond WA

Senior Executive Recruiter/Account Manager

Responsibilities:

• Hire senior level talent for the India Development Center (IDC) in Hyderabad, India which focus’s on Product Development. Primary focus is to generate strong pool of candidates that are in US/Canada and willing to relocate to India. Candidates for IDC are generally headhunted and motivated as major portion of these candidates are passive and fall within the Hiring level of 63 thru 65 and go up to partner level roles
• Met with hiring managers to qualify new job requirements and understanding their business and product groups. Identified key competitors, key competencies, soft skills, years of seniority and academic requirements required to work with existing and new teams. Discussed possible people-solutions and submitted candidates to fulfill those roles, managed and maintained direct relationship with all the Hiring Manager’s
• Work closely with IDC executive managers to staff positions including General Managers, Directors, Product Unit Managers, Group Program Managers, Test Managers as well as leads and individual contributors in development, test and program management, a lot of these position’s offered ex-pat package’s with salaries exceeding 180K.
• Identify talent, manage interview loops, generate offers, close candidates and oversee relocation, work very closely with several agencies, Traveled to represent Job Fair booths that specialized for
• Jobs in India
• Product Groups Included: Windows Mobility Group, Ad Center, Casual Games, Products, Enterprise Networking, Duet, Microsoft Learning, Office and Business Applications, Professional Developers, RFID & Adapters, Data and Storage Platforms SQL, Unified Communication Group, Virtualization, Visual Studio Test Team, Windows Servicability, Windows and Windows live platform Group

Confidential, Factoria WA

Corporate Recruiter - Talent Acquisition Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included full life cycle recruitment for Application Developers, Java architects, RF Engineers, Project Mangers, SAP and Oracle Consultants, for nationwide requirements.
• Drive results of comprehensive search strategies to recruit senior and niche candidates in limited candidate spaces- including driving a business plan which is geared at building key competitive research, industry profile development, networking, direct sourcing resulting in hires
• Network and maintain relationships with key candidate communities for short and/or long term opportunities

Confidential, Sammamish WA

Senior Sourcing Consultant /Talent Aquisition Sourcer

Responsibilities:

• Source qualified candidates thru strong networking techniques and cold calling into corporations
• Work with Staffing Consultants and their clients “MS Hiring Managers” to properly facilitate candidate process within the Microsoft interviewing system.
• Working directly with hiring managers and stake holders to qualify recruiting requirements
• Sourcing using candidate databases- Internal database - CRM, referrals, event hiring Working with IT event's team, responsible for sourcing for different pipelines and successfully organizing and coordinating events to meet hiring needs
• Responsible for sourcing and building diversity candidate pool and hiring for different pipelines
• Sourced passive candidates for Microsoft Engineering Teams. My focus was finding rock star Software Development Engineers, with huge focus on Women Diverse candidates
• Primary focus is on Project Managers, Microsoft Application Developer, Application Architects, Security Architects, build pipeline
• Coordinate extensive interview loop for candidate. Negotiate salaries go over compensation and benefits package

Confidential, Renton WA

Recruiter/Account Manager

Responsibilities:

• Hired 15 offshore recruiters, trained them and managed the complete model plus do hands on sourcing and full cycle recruiting
• Independently manage day- to- day recruiting function to ensure adequate resources are employed to meet the hiring needs of each client.
• Specialize in Recruiting for Microsoft professionals such as .net, c#, sql, program manager, testers, Application Developers, Web Developers
• Skill sell ERP professionals from India and Mexico i.e. Oracle, peoplesoft, Java J2EE Developers, Skill Sell Benched H1 candidates
• Recommend / reject Software, Web Engineers to clients based on my technical evaluations
• Client list: Intel, Bank of America, Mentor Graphics, Household Credit, Washington Mutual, ITT Financial, Level Two, Bank One, Wells Fargo, Washington Mutual, Microsoft, AT&T Wireless