Alex L.

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Program Specialist – Global Talent Acquisition @ Velera
Arlington, VA, US
Alex L.'s Location
Arlington, Virginia, United States, United States
About Alex L.

Alex L. is a Program Specialist – Global Talent Acquisition at Velera. He possess expertise in leadership, powerpoint, social media, student recruiting, public speaking and 33 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Alex did an exceptional job in locating me and setting up discussions for a role. His ability to search, locate, communicate with speed and integrity makes him a one of the best recruiters I've been privileged to work with in my career."

Alex L.'s Current Company Details
Velera

Velera

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Program Specialist – Global Talent Acquisition
Arlington, VA, US
Website:
velera.com
Employees:
4602
Alex L. Work Experience Details
  • Velera
    Velera
    Arlington, Va, Us
  • Paypal
    Progam Specialist - Global Talent Acquisition
    Paypal May 2023 - Present
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Responsible for transformational projects across global talent acquisition touching technology, operations, process and strategic alignment. Coordinated, managed and delivered high visibility projects in collaboration with strategic partners cross the business.• Audited, updated, and created talent acquisition program documentation for its internal knowledge sites.• Leveraged SharePoint, Excel, PowerBI, Eightfold, and Workday as platforms for collaboration and analysis.• Developed and maintained detailed project plans, including setting targets for milestones, and adjustingschedules and targets on the project as needed.• Strategically partnered, engaged, innovated, and built solid relationships across GTA leadership and crossfunctional partners/teams and the HR/PayPal ecosystem.(Contract worker for Akkodis)
  • Microsoft
    Operations Program Manager
    Microsoft May 2022 - Jan 2023
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Operations Program Manager Engineering Talent Acquisition - Operations TeamTechnical Solutions:+ Leveraging technology applications to empower Engineering Talent Acquisition in managing their interviews, hiring events, candidate pipeline, and other key initiatives.+ Administrated the department’s SharePoint sites and supported 120 site pages, site permissions, and user support.+ Revamped the existing SharePoint pages to increase ease-of-use and accessibility scores by 150% though user testing.+ Leveraged PowerBI, Power Automate, and PowerApps to improve operational efficiency within engineering recruiting.Business Operations & Project Management:+ Led several operations projects simultaneously through goal setting, iterating, and delivering with project teams.+ Curated and released content for department-wide trainings, newsletters, and communications.+ Volunteered as an Xbox Game Camp mentor and created career enablement resources for the program.
  • Microsoft
    Program Manager - Hiring Events
    Microsoft Jan 2020 - May 2022
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Events Program Manager & Projects PM Customer Obsession: The ability to learn about customers' perspectives, show empathy to their experiences, and incorporate these insights into their decisions and deliverablesManaging, optimizing, and scaling processes for internal stakeholders to achieve hiring demands; and fostering inclusive hiring practices to bring forth diverse perspectives. Managing relationship between stakeholders from various internal teams, with varying levels experience to execute success for event day.Overseeing the end-to-end coordination and success of high volume hiring events. Managing multiple event days per month or a certain geo location. As many as 300 candidates a month. Leveraging data streams provided by ops teams to monitor events current events and capacity plan for the future. Partnering with recruiting stakeholders to provide real time and post event feedback, reminders and recommendations. Leading, monitoring, launching projects that primarily lead to process optimization and efficiency for the event PM’s. Tracking success, progress, & KPI's. Investigating reported issues and challenges with a data first mindset to understand the landscape and needs of events in your scope. - Event Program Management & Coordination- Technical recruitment & sourcing- Cleared Hiring Events & Sourcing Strategy - Atlanta Hiring Events & Sourcing Strategy - Started events for this geo. Growing the offering from ~30 candidates a month, to ~300 a month interviewing for this geo. - Leveraged Power Automate, Power BI, MS Project and various other productivity tools to create content, dashboards, and automations that drove clarity saved time for the event PM team and other partner teams- Talent market consultation & direct hiring manager engagement
  • Capital One
    Senior Technical Recruiter - Cyber
    Capital One Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
    Mclean, Va, Us
    Technical Recruitment🔐 Sourcing, recruiting and interviewing potential candidates for hire.🔐 Client Management/interaction with hiring managers. 🔐 Administrative tasks to adhere to the required process, policies and compliance steps (OFCCP).🔐 Project Management - organize and manage recruiting tasks. 🔐 Special projects, ongoing training, meetings. Recruiting for: Information Security Office (Consultants), Application Security (AppSec & Pen Testing) & Vulnerability Management
  • Booz Allen Hamilton
    Technical Recruiter
    Booz Allen Hamilton Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
    Mclean, Va, Us
    Recruiter for the Cyber DivisionContractor of Foxhound Partners
  • Scope Group
    Cybersecurity Technical Recruiter/ Account Manager
    Scope Group Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
    Identifying, engaging, and connecting with top cyber/infosec talent via phone, email, LinkedIn, social media, and networking events.Continuously learning about the cybersecurity industry by attending events, reading blogs, and networking with talent.Building and maintaining long-term, authentic relationships with top cybersecurity professionals and established Scope Group clients.Consulting with and interviewing talent to understand their professional objectives and goals.Leading talent through the hiring lifecycle from identification, negotiation, initial close, interview coordination, offer, and final close.
  • Fireeye, Inc.
    University Relations Technical Recruiter/Program Coordinator
    Fireeye, Inc. Jun 2015 - Jun 2018
    Milpitas, California, Us
    The CompanyFireEye has invented a purpose-built, virtual machine-based security platform that provides real-time threat protection to enterprises and governments worldwide against the next generation of cyber attacks. These highly sophisticated cyber attacks easily circumvent traditional signature-based defenses, such as next-generation firewalls, IPS, anti-virus, and gateways. I assist in managing the full cycle recruiting process for FireEye's IGNITE intern and New College Graduate program, including sourcing, screening, interview process management, maintaining candidate relationships, extending offers, closing candidates, hiring top university talent from our target schools. Focusing primarily on attracting and recruiting top students for cyber crime incident response, digital forensics and offensive security internship and new grad positions. Experience recruiting on technical internship roles in the US, Ireland, Amsterdam, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates. Outside of technical recruiting, responsibilities have also included:- Planning and executing the IGNITE internship program's east coast events such as technical talks, team building activities, and fun outings. - Using quantitative and qualitative metrics to determine the target universities for the intern program.- Building and maintain relationships with east coast target university career departments and professors. - Being a content contributor and editor a monthly newsletter to keep candidates engaged year round.- Assisting in general HR processes including filing labor code forms, I9 verification's, and on-boarding.- Assisting with internal communications by improving and maintaining SharePoint pages.
  • Captains' Educational Enrichment Fund
    Assistant Director Of Human Resources
    Captains' Educational Enrichment Fund Jan 2014 - Feb 2015
    Newport News , Virginia , Us
    The CEE Fund is both a student, and a registered 501(c)(3) organization that is dedicated to furthering the education of Christopher Newport University students, both personally and professionally, as a supplement to their traditional coursework. With the expansion of the portfolio, the CEE Fund will fund student scholarships within the CNU community. Part of our traditional coursework can be found through our Educational Program.Screened applicants in the interview process for all general members. Conducted the interview process for executive board positions. Created and issued surveys to improve job satisfaction to implement new policy and created an online application process for potential new members.
  • Fireeye, Inc.
    Hr Talent Acquisition Intern
    Fireeye, Inc. Jun 2014 - Aug 2014
    Milpitas, California, Us
    The CompanyFireEye has invented a purpose-built, virtual machine-based security platform that provides real-time threat protection to enterprises and governments worldwide against the next generation of cyber attacks. These highly sophisticated cyber attacks easily circumvent traditional signature-based defenses, such as next-generation firewalls, IPS, anti-virus, and gateways. The FireEye Threat Prevention Platform provides real-time, dynamic threat protection without the use of signatures to protect an organization across the primary threat vectors and across the different stages of an attack life cycle. The core of the FireEye platform is a virtual execution engine, complemented by dynamic threat intelligence, to identify and block cyber attacks in real time. FireEye has over 2,200 customers across more than 60 countries, including over 130 of the Fortune 500. Responsibilities include sourcing using various methods, researching previously unused and niche sourcing websites and job boards and resources to reach a larger professional network. Assisted recruiting professionals in scheduling interviews with candidates. Assisted in the recruitment process from opening job requisitions through sourcing to scheduling interviews and helping candidates get hired. Gained experience in Newton ATS, EchoSign and LinkedIn Recruiter.
  • Christopher Newport University
    Event Staff
    Christopher Newport University Sep 2012 - Jan 2014
    Newport News, Va, Us
    Managed and prepared rooms for the events of over 200 student organizations. Assisted in the sound and visual preparation for large scale events on campus.
  • Psi Upsilon Fraternity
    Philanthropy Chair
    Psi Upsilon Fraternity May 2013 - Dec 2013
    Indianapolis, Indiana, Us
    Created and organized 3 philanthropic events throughout the semester raising over $800 for Movember.com, a charity for mens health awareness and Habitat for Humanity, a Charity that works with building homes and helping the local community. Managed a 6 member philanthropy committee.
  • Psi Upsilon Fraternity
    Public Relations Chair
    Psi Upsilon Fraternity Jan 2013 - Jun 2013
    Indianapolis, Indiana, Us
    Responsibilities included all of the fraternity advertising for all campus involvement events. Other tasks included establishing and expanding the Psi Upsilon chapter's online social reputation through social media, networking and establishing media and advertising agreements with other organizations on the Christopher Newport University campus. Created 'The Owl' the quarterly released newsletter for all active brothers.
  • Goochland United Soccer Association
    Youth Soccer Coach
    Goochland United Soccer Association Jun 2010 - Jun 2011
    Managed a fifteen-member team for two seasons. Arranged practices and games for my team and assisted in arranging practices for a dozen other teams from the association.

Alex L. Skills

Leadership Powerpoint Social Media Student Recruiting Public Speaking Event Planning Sourcing Cooking Computer Security Communication Negotiation Team Leadership Outlook Talent Management Facebook Research Ethics Psychology Microsoft Office Microsoft Word Career Counseling Microsoft Excel Social Networking Project Coordination Wordpress Time Management Social Inclusion Customer Service Onboarding Journalism College Recruiting Events Coordination Technical Recruiting Teamwork Research Twitter Youth Mentoring Philanthropy Mindfulness

Alex L. Education Details

  • Christopher Newport University
    Christopher Newport University
    Psychology
  • J Sargeant Reynolds Community College
    J Sargeant Reynolds Community College
    Associate'S Degree
  • Sir John Leman High School, Suffolk, England.
    Sir John Leman High School, Suffolk, England.
    High School Diploma

Frequently Asked Questions about Alex L.

What company does Alex L. work for?

Alex L. works for Velera

What is Alex L.'s role at the current company?

Alex L.'s current role is Program Specialist – Global Talent Acquisition.

What schools did Alex L. attend?

Alex L. attended Christopher Newport University, J Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Sir John Leman High School, Suffolk, England..

What skills is Alex L. known for?

Alex L. has skills like Leadership, Powerpoint, Social Media, Student Recruiting, Public Speaking, Event Planning, Sourcing, Cooking, Computer Security, Communication, Negotiation, Team Leadership.

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