Providing High Caliber Talent When The Mission Is CriticalGalaxy Technology Hires is an engineering and technology recruitment firm, headquartered in Houston, Texas, with a small team of highly specialized, niche Recruiters and Sourcers. We provide custom solutions to our clients with everything from name generation and sourcing, to research and organizational mapping, to full cycle recruiting. We offer retained search, contingent search, executive search, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) services.The firm was founded in order to assist world class, game-changing and forward-thinking companies with their critical hiring needs. These are the professionals that enable cutting edge companies to achieve the impossible, and only a dedicated, multi-tier search effort will ensure landing this high caliber talent. We support various fields and industries with niche recruitment needs, but our specialization lies within engineering and technology, including entry-level to senior experience-level, as well as leadership and executive roles.

Citadel utilizes a diverse business platform to provide global asset management & multi-strategy hedge funds to individuals and institutions. The firm was founded in 1990 by Kenneth Griffin, billionaire entrepreneur, who had a satellite dish installed on the roof of his dorm at Harvard in his sophomore year, in order to receive stock quotes.As a Senior Talent Partner, I support recruitment efforts for our global, long-term quantitative strategies and equity quant research team. I'm mostly interested in connecting and engaging with experienced Mathematical and Quantitative Finance professionals. I also am seeking super smart, technical individuals from outside the industry, with STEM education backgrounds, that may have interests in these technical areas, or that have hands-on experience with analyzing quantitative data, developing statistical models and algorithms, applying machine learning techniques, and/or performing quantitative risk management and assessments.

Led all recruitment efforts for our Texas rocket development facility. This included all levels of experience, from entry-level to senior-level experienced engineers, managers, and senior leaders. In addition to leading experienced recruitment efforts for all engineering hiring needs, also recruited for all other business, support, and operational areas required, which increased rapidly over time, as we grew the site from under 150 employees, to over 600 total. Led recruitment efforts for our launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Traveled regularly to launch site in Florida for meeting with hiring teams and local HR team there. Additionally, traveled regularly to HQ in L.A. for syncing up with recruiting team and leadership, as well as for training and development opportunities.Trained hiring teams how to effectively and strategically partner with recruiting. Implemented tailored and customizable processes and solutions to various needs and scenarios for these remote sites, which were more industrial, operating 24 hours/day. Built TX/FL recruiting team from ground up.Led focused effort for university-level outreach and campus recruiting, specific to the Texas location, including recruitment and outreach for our local internship programs. This primarily included schools in the southern region, as well as targeted skill sets across the nation, at institutions proven to provide top 5% talented individuals. Maintained relationships with university contacts in various departments, in order to stay in-the-know about top-notch students that were standing out above others within their respective programs. Also, leaned on departmental contacts for assistance with disseminating marketing materials, as well as advertising materials for upcoming info sessions and company presentations, in addition to other on-campus events we organized for students to meet with our recruiters and engineering teams.Much more to share from being part of this world-class recruiting team...

ARES provides products and services to government agencies (NASA, DOE, DoD, DHS, USAF), government contractors, Aerospace, and Fortune 100 companies. I was responsible for all recruiting in the following office locations: Houston, TX; Denver/Colorado Springs, CO; Albuquerque, NM; Los Angeles, CA; Arlington, VA; Dulles, VA; Cleveland, OH; Huntsville, AL; Tullahoma, TN; and Florida.By taking a very proactive approach to recruiting and staying very in sync with Business Development efforts, I was able to have people ready to hit the ground running when government contract awards were announced.

International Recruiting Consultant for several large and fast-growing, upstream Oil & Gas companies. Most of my recruiting assignments were RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourced) arrangements, where myself, and/or a team of recruiters and sourcers would add to, or augment an existing internal recruiting team, or become that internal corporate recruiting team, which may be missing during a rapid-growth period for that particular company. We often were utilized as on-demand recruiting support that could be scaled up and down as needed to meet and surpass hiring goals within a given timeframe, in order to meet project ramp-up deadlines.Some of my repeat clients included: Schlumberger Oil Services Co., WesternGeco, ION Geophysical, Cameron Subsea, and Siemens Energy.Other shorter-term clients included: Rohm and Haas, Owens-Illinois, BMC Software, NetQoS, and Microsoft Gold Partners.Recruited all of clients' hard-to-fill, technical positions as well as other less technical, but key, strategic roles.Recruited for Oil & Gas Exploration & Production positions both onshore and offshore, including: Senior Drilling Engineers, Well Site Supervisors, Rig Managers, MWD and LWD Engineers, Reservoir Engineers, Subsea Drilling Engineers, Completion and Workover Engineers, Subsea Design Engineers, Geologists, Geophysicists (seismic data processing, interpretation, depth imaging, acquisition, etc), Petrophysicists, Project Planners, Project Schedulers, Project Engineers, and also operations managers.Other engineering and technical positions recruited for include: Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Reliability Engineers, Quality Engineers, Quality Managers, Software Engineers, Network Engineers, BMC Remedy Architects, MOSS Developers, .NET Developers, SQL Database Architects, Gas and Steam Turbine Design Engineers, Power Engineers, Piping Engineers, Pressure Vessel Design Engineers, Process Engineers, Instrumentation and Control Engineers, Drafters and Designers.

Assisted in the recruiting of 500+ engineers for Dell's R&D organization, known as the Product Group and World Wide Procurement (PG/WWP) in 2006.Trained by Professionals to use AIRS for name generation and other methods of sourcing and identifying the best experts in the industry.Developed strategic sourcing efforts in order to find passive candidates for a variety of engineering positions including: software developers/engineers, hardware developers/engineers, and OS/BIOS programmers.Assisted in managing a variety of projects to boost recruiting results of the recruiting team (over 25 recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators).Improved Business Processes by analyzing breakdowns and bottle necks in the flow of candidates through the entire recruitment process.

Assisted with international and national recruitment and onboarding processes for bringing new graduate students into UT's MBA Program, from across the world. The Red McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, is repeatedly one of the top business schools in the nation, and it has a very high percentage of international representation across its variety of MBA tracks.