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Washington, Dc, Us

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Lead global search teams and partner programs for Ashoka, the world's first and leading social entrepreneurship organization. Ashoka acts like a venture capital firm for the citizen sector, helping to accelerate their growth and solve society's most pressing problems. Ashoka built a community of over 3500 Fellows in 70 countries, of which 3 were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work.

In partnership with Ashoka and Ekyam Impact Foundation at Ashoka, Project Impact Hire is enabling a data cooperative of leading social entrepreneurship organizations to pool their networks of changemakers, enable cross-sector shortlisted candidate sharing for jobs, fellowships and internships at scale. Shared talent accelerates shared impact. We are ending the war for talent, and beginning the collaboration for talent for the social sector. Through this new form of collaboration, we aim to help changemakers find the most meaningful and impactful work at which they can be successful, and help organizations achieve full equality and inclusion in their workforce to thrive in the 21st century.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Connecting open-source, big data systems infrastructure engineering talent to the right opportunities. Building long term, collaborative relationships with systems infrastructure and applications engineers. Providing career advice based on 20 years of recruiting world-class engineers, beginning with Unix kernel developers and the first wave of distributed, object-oriented software engineers with strong connections to VC and angel investors. By partnering with the engineering and data science team on data driven hiring, we have a patent pending on a new sourcing technology. Received peer recognition with my very own bobblehead!Started out as the sales recruiter for North America, and later built a team sales recruiters resulting in the hiring of over 150 sales professionals in nine months in Mountain View, Chicago, New York, Toronto and Dublin, Ireland, tripling the size of the sales force. Singlehandedly recruited the first sales development team, 30 people in 45 days. Spearheaded the first program to utilize these sales development reps in recruiting, which strengthened our sourcing efforts and improved the reps' success when they moved into full sales roles as they had first hand knowledge using the product. Pioneered hiring manager engagement technique which was utilized in the creation of Linkedin's Hire Manager Share product. Considered expert in the LinkedIn Recruiter product and use of social media in recruiting by clients and candidates alike.

Westminster, Co, Us

Ensured the quantity and quality of all talent worldwide for GPS industry pioneer and leader for nine years. Built GPS and mobile software, mechanical and hardware engineering teams ranked as the industries best. Helped company in time of rapid expansion from $400M to close to $2B. Recruited first business leaders in Russia, China and the Netherlands. Using only Linkedin, I recruited VP of Engineering, Chief Intellectual Property Officer, VP of HR, Chief Accounting Officer and General Counsel who are all still with the company. I was among the initial group of Linkedin Recruiter product customers in 2007, leading to being selected to Linkdedin's first Recruiting Advisory Panel. Today, I'm proud to say that Trimble is ranked among the top 25 fastest growing high technology companies worldwide.

Created and led 50 employee recruitment process outsourcing service division - eRecruiter. Clients included: Apple, Cisco, Covad, Dell, Google, KPMG, Trimble, Conexant, GetThere

Executive and technical recruitment for wireless communications and object oriented telecom software company, TCSI, (Nasdaq: TCSI), which went public in 1991. TCSI had a unique business model, "invention on demand", and was responsible for many firsts including first digital cellular chip set and first CORBA based network management system. Esteemed for having entrepreneurial technical talent, many of those I recruited were founders or first engineers at start up companies including Weblogic (now BEA Systems), Ask Jeeves, Remedy and Covad.

Chicago, Il, Us

Hong Kong based executive search consultant

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

o Helped create and gain passage for environmental superfund legislationo Co-led a Cornell University ILR School's project to alleviate job loss challenges faced by unemployed auto workers by providing basic career counseling services which ended up being a key component of landmark plant closing legislation