Working with Taking Charge's Best Path to Your Best Career Group Program to empower job seekers and side-giggers by:* Passionately provide community expertise, aiding Wendy as we help community members successfully achieve their career goals.* Conduct mock interviews to support community members in preparing for interviews.* Provide my recruiter eye as community members update their resumes.* Support community members in being confident and ready to showcase their best selves in a difficult job market.

* Contract work for entrepreneurs and small businesses working on hard-to-fill jobs with niche talent.

Won grant after pitching a small business idea. Completed a 9-week boot camp program to start a new enterprise. • Stealth startup, boot-strapped side hustle outside of recruitment and tech that uses the principles. I learned in those environments.

* Split time between five AKQA North America offices and leading recruitment for Potato, a startup studio they acquired. * Grew Potato’s USA office size by 47% in the first year.

• Hired in Product, Software Development, Product, Design, Strategy, Production, Business Analysis, and helped with Interns. • Top hire rating within the People team. Close rate of the difficult/hard-to-fill roles, averaging 3 per month. Go-to software recruiter in the USA with a deep understanding in building technical product teams.• Ongoing research and recommendations for the Talent team in strategies, tools, and techniques adopted worldwide by AKQA and their parent company WPP. Trained Talent team in Boolean and other sourcing methods. Helped fellow recruiters source passive talent and build competitor maps.

Startup creating an AI hiring platform for game developer talent.• Managed Talent- Grew the Rupie team by 150% in one year. Ownership over anything that touched the candidate and client side. Hands-on full cycle recruitment. Hired, trained, and directed a global team of recruiters and sourcers. Internal hires also included developers and sales.• Product and Strategy Advisor- Grew new client studios using the platform by 220%. Recommend features and provided guidance. Generated innovative ideas from product offerings to engagement. Created metric analysis and competitive landscape reports to all key stakeholders and investors.• Public Speaking and Content Development- Partnered with Flatiron school on how software students can break into the gaming industry and interviewed with a gaming podcast on the same subject. Created from ground up, metrics, recruiting processes, scripts, best practices, and hiring strategies.

• Hired mid-career to senior-level Full-stack Software Engineers, Account Managers, and interns. • • Supported product and design hiring. Increased company size by 45%.• DEI focus, targeted the top 10% of computer science talent.• Provided an overview of recruitment strategies to inform and make recommendations to founders.• Conducted campus recruiting for interns and full-time employees at top technical schools within the USA.

● Found and hired top software talent for mostly the backend/machine learning team. Grew this core team by 40% where previously they struggled to hire for five years prior.● Positions filled: Server and Full-stack Engineers, Payments Engineering Manager, Sr. Product Manager, Sr. Machine Learning Engineers, Data Engineers, Product Tool Developers, Head of Business Analytics, Recommendations/ Search ML Engineering Manager, Client-side Development Manager.

● Advised founders on Interviewing Process and Job Offers.● Recruited for software engineering.

● Special projects, including helping with DEI research used in training, layoff reassignments, and recommended and test new hiring services. Also partnered with an emerging mobile studio creating their first new game..● 53 hires in one year. Roles included: Head of Technology for Mobile, Technical Directors, Director of Engineering, Art Directors, Director of Product, Creative Directors, Software Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, Media Buyers/Planners, Game Advisors, Content Editors, and Artists.

● Managed all hiring-related projects for the North American offices of an Israeli startup company. ● Product trained in Israel and educated headquarters team on best practices in recruitment and retention for USA employees. Grew USA team by 40%● Helped with employee cultural exchange program between these two countries. Developed hiring processes, and quadrupled diversity hires. ● Graduated from AppsFlyer Academy in Israel.● Started the first student internship program in the USA.

● First, only full-time onsite recruiter for the Americas, supported five regional offices, including Canada. ● Filled USA offices by 40% with a wide variety of new employees including Software Engineering, Design, Art, Analytics, Product, Education, Finance, Operations, Sales, Legal, Technical Support, and Advertising.

Tanium is a security and systems management solution that allows real-time data collection at an enterprise scale. Tanium Inc. provides network solutions for enterprises and offers client-server architecture services. In this role as Tanium's Recruitment Consultant:● Reviewed Tanium's hiring goals and created a flexible Recruitment Strategy.● Evaluated HRIS and ATS packages and other tools to execute Tanium's hiring goals.● Made best practice recommendations for their recruitment processes.● Point of contact between Tanium and NetSuite for TribeHR implementation.● Captured employee information, referrals, and applicants into Tribe HR.● Updated the hiring status of candidates put through a newly created system.● Reviewed, screened, made recommendations, and documented my notes on resumes and applicants.● Created and posted job descriptions.● Recruited and closed key role; Director IT (Top Secret Clearance required) as well as supported other open roles for; Director of HR, Office Manager, NetSuite Contractor, Technical Account Managers, and Sales Managers.

Acquired by Workday● Positions filled include: Big Data Visualization Engineers, IT Systems Administrators, Field Architects, and Engineering Interns.

● Full cycle recruiter for a sophisticated development group started by senior engineering executives within Sony. most successful groups within Sony today. This group (SNEI) built a ubiquitous, integrated, cutting-edge gaming, video, and music service.● Created a recruitment plan and sourcing strategy for the leadership team and key stakeholders.● Roles I filled:: Senior Technical Program Managers Technical Program Manager, Senior Front End Engineers Associate Front End Engineers, Japanese speaking Whitebox Quality Assurance, and Blackbox Testers.

Full life-cycle recruiter for a successful mobile gaming company. Positions filled: (1) VP of Engineering, (2) Front-end Game Engineers (3) Product Managers, (2) Sr. Software Engineers, (2) Backend Server Engineers, (2) Game Designers, (2) User Acquisition Marketing Managers, (2) Game Testers, (2) Engineering Interns, (1) Customer Support Representative, (1) Game Artist, and (1) Office Coordinator.

● Supported full lifecycle recruitment for Big Fish as they acquired Aware Games. ● Filled key roles in engineering and on the studio side.● Expand and grew the Oakland office by 50%.● Increased brand recognition through events, networking, and social media.

● As an Account Manager did business development, managed client accounts, then fulfilled the business I won by filling jobs.● Executive Recruitment for executives with banks and related financial services in the Pacific West. ● In this role spent my time sourcing, gathering referrals, and, networking for retained, and engaged search. ● Cold-called executives who had a book of business worth millions.

● Worked on a large variety of contract openings, mostly filling IT roles for major companies across the USA.● Partnered with Vendor Managed Systems, and internal recruiters, and Human Resources for the entire hiring process and contract duration. ● Built out teams for specific projects with many of these clients rolling out new products. ● Sourced, cold-called new talent, interviewed, conducted background and reference checks, and updated weekly metrics reports for management.