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Alpharetta, Ga, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Actively sourcing and recruiting, I am building Machine Learning, Data Science, and Data Engineering teams at scale to protect families and keep the internet safe.If you're a builder hungry to innovate and push beyond the mundane, this is your call. It's not about just coding; it's about redefining the digital landscape. If that's you, if you're ready to step out of your comfort zone and into a realm where creation meets revolution, let's talk. Connect, schedule, and let's make the extraordinary happen. Actively looking for leaders, innovators, and collaborators with experience:Apache Airflow Kubeflow MLflow TensorBoard RAG Retrieval-Augmented Generation Transformer GPT4 BERT RNN LSTM Encoder Decoder Attention Prompt Language model Fine-tuning Pretraining NLP Token Sequence-to-sequence Word embeddings Bidirectional Contextual Self-attention Embedding Inference Hugging Face OpenAI Attention mechanism Natural language understanding Generative AI Stable diffusion Recurrent neural network Semantic analysis Data augmentation Perplexity Transfer learning Text generation Style transfer Paraphrasing Fine-tuned model Hyperparameter Multimodal Multilingual Transformer architecture Text classification Knowledge graph N-gram Noise injection Few-shot learning Pretrained weights Prompt engineering Latent space Gradient descent Variational autoencoder huggingface

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I'm leading a global team of sourcers that empowers Twitter's Engineering Leadership to make critical hiring decisions with ease, speed, and confidence. By engaging with passive and active talent, this Technical Sourcing team fuels the hiring process with interested, educated, and qualified candidates.A few of my accomplishments include:- Spearheading the global Machine Learning and Research talent strategy at Twitter, collaborating with leadership to establish a global hiring strategy, and serving as the primary contact for all Research and Machine Learning recruitment efforts.- Overhauled and implemented a new hiring process and interview framework, redesigning existing methodologies to tailor a system specifically suited for AI domain recruitment.- Formulated an employer branding strategy that encompassed outreach and events (e.g., NeurIPS, NAACL, AML), enhancing the company's presence and attraction within the machine learning community.- Identified and sourced target ML companies for potential acquisition and acquihire, coordinating with Legal, Engineering, Research, M&A teams to pinpoint suitable candidates for Twitter's strategic growth in the ML and Research sectors.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Are you a software engineer looking to build and innovate? Do you see yourself stretching outside of your comfort zone?If you are an engineer and you answered yes, let’s connect and schedule a time to chat!Life's not about a job, it's about purpose. We believe real change starts with a conversation. At Twitter, your voice matters. Come as you are and together we'll do what’s right (not what’s easy) to serve the public conversation.

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing and assessment approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.- Recruits passive candidates and gauge both technical skills and chemistry of candidates for fit, and understand candidate motivation- Builds and maintains a network of potential candidates through proactive market research and ongoing relationship management;- Conducts in-depth interviews with candidates and demonstrates the ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios (1 offer to every 4.38 on-site loops);- Recommends and executes ideas and strategies that contribute to the long-range growth of diverse hiring strategies as a member of the DICE (Diversity Inclusion Champions for Equity) team, focused on implementing new recruiting processes and fine-tuning standard processes that fit within Amazon's mission to deliver raise BLNA/URM representation by 10% overall;- Ability to proactively network and establish effective working relationships, continually seek new sourcing options and develop creative approaches to delivering candidates to the customer;- Strong communication skills, organizational, and negotiation skills;- Ability to execute recruiting strategy, including employer promotion in the marketplace, candidate management, diversity sourcing, and interview process management.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

- Owns the full candidate recruitment experience, directly responsible for the overall recruitment, on-boarding, administration, coordination and evaluation of the human resource function.- Delivers 10+ qualified candidates each week to hiring managers with an 84% conversion from introduction to phone interview, 80% conversion from phone interview to onsite interviews.- Develops sourcing models and plans to generate a talent pipeline.- Works with managers to discern job requirements and then create job descriptions.- Continually contributes to the knowledge base of the recruiting group by leading bi-weekly recruiting lunch and learns and sharing new information about industries and talent pools or profile types.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Our goal here at RentPath is to innovate the apartment rental industry through engaging user experience and exciting new technology. Our team of Engineers are forward-thinking, world class and not afraid of cutting-edge technology. They are building and scaling systems that drive our applications and continuously improve our engineering practices. From adopting new frameworks and languages like React and Elixir to implementing machine learning in voice search engines are just some examples of the innovative technology that we use.The RentPath Engineering Team is looking for new members who are excited at the prospect of working on our portfolio of brands. We are proud to innovate and create new consumer experiences backed by reliable, performant code. We are diverse in the technologies we use, ranging from Clojure, Elixir, Ruby, and JavaScript, and are investing heavily in React / Redux and the BFF pattern. We are in the process of completing our move to continuous deployment, we leverage micro-services, and invest heavily in creating components that are reusable and provide a framework for our portfolio of sites.

Cupertino, California, Us

Check out the details for the two teams that I'm supporting here at Apple. If you have a strong Java background, we should be talking. If you have a strong NLP background, we should be talking.What is the Apple Media Products Core Services team?The AMP Core Services team provides APIs for our personalized and unpersonalized customer features to internal and external clients. Amongst other uses, these APIs are directly used on the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac and Windows by Apple applications such as the App Store, Apple Music, iTunes Store, Podcast, iTunes U, Videos, iBooks, Watch, Health, Maps. The nature of our work involves architecting, implementing and managing performant client server protocols. As part of providing these APIS we manage the core Content Index service and the Editorial service that houses all the meta data associated with content that we sell on the stores. We provide means to get a bulk feed of this content meta data through our Enterprise Partner Feed program.What about the Universal Media Team?We are seeking an outstanding applied data scientist to join the Universal Media Team responsible for building a comprehensive data platform for powering Universal Search, Siri, TV app, Safari search and more services across all Apple platforms. Candidate should be a self starting, energetic individual with excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with all levels of the organization. She/ He will take ownership of projects that focus on topics such as classification, attribute ranking, filtering, mapping or enriching of entity records or their data. Implement standard and proprietary algorithms for handling and processing data. Use distributed data processing and analysis methodologies. Work closely with engineers to implement solutions to the highest standard possible.

Peachtree Corners, Georgia, Us

Relus Cloud is an Atlanta-based AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, trusted by hundreds of organizations nationwide. We create an “all-in” approach to AWS and we empower clients with tailored public cloud, big data, people, and training solutions. Our practice areas include cloud migrations, DevOps, cloud managed services, big data solutions, as well as IT staffing and recruitment. Our Talent Delivery Practice focuses on filling the skills gap that exists wth many of our clients. Just like our Cloud and Infrastructure teams, we are architects, only we are building the most disruptive companies of our generation. We have a mission and immense dedication to build technology-focused companies of lasting value. You might find me focusing on:► Data Science - Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Python, R, MATLAB, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Search, Visualization► Open Source - Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Python, Django, Flask, Perl, PHP, Scala, Go, Erlang, Haskell, Clojure, Node.js► Java, C, C++, C#, .Net► Front-End - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Angular.js, Backbone.js, Ember.js, Knockout.js, jQuery► Microsoft .NET - C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, SQL, Azure► Mobile - Android, iOS, Mobile Web► Technical Operations - DevOps, QA, Automation, Operations

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Focused on thinking up new ways to find great people and engage our teams with great talent, I'm engaging with outstanding professionals that want to push the envelope and disrupt the status quo. At a glance, I focused on:- Manages efficient, fast-paced, full-cycle recruiting operations which support Kabbage’s rapid hiring growth.- Coach, develop and mentor US and India recruiting teams.- Partners with executives and hiring managers to thoroughly understand the company's hiring goals and plan effectively.- Create and execute a talent acquisition strategy aligned with Kabbage’s business objectives and culture in order to meet aggressive hiring goals, with a focus on proactive sourcing including social networking, internet research, cold calling, regular networking at events and conferencesArchitected and installed all new new processes, optimized the transition to, and deployment and use of Greenhouse ATS, and created reporting metrics.- Partnered with VP’s and Team Leads to build out and launch LinkedIn network referrals and direct hiring manager outreach.- Constructs job specs for hiring managers and managed posts to Indeed, LinkedIn, Internal and external job boards. - Managed vendor agreements and partnerships with vendors to support executive search, recruitment marketing, employment branding, and sourcing applications.- Implemented on-going quarterly outreach and marketing to passive candidates via Greenhouse and LinkedIn Recruiter.- Direct and oversee the use and implementation of tools, processes, and metrics related to performance management, succession planning, talent assessment, diversity and other related activities.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Working with VC & PE-backed companies, I specialized in the placement of top performing executives, recruiters, technologists, and engineers nationally. Frequently with working with Founders and Executive Leadership, I worked to maintain an extremely high standard, delivering proven high achievers who mesh with their culture and direction.Also, I love working with and leading my teams - teaching and training recruiters and sourcers to build high performance recruiting teams is my speciality!At a glance, I focused on:• Responsible for full lifecycle recruiting of enterprise sales executives, front-end & back-end developers, infrastructure architects, recruiters, human resource business partners, product managers, project managers, and C-suite leadership.• Created and led practice group for placing HR & Recruiting professionals.• Coached candidates and clients through the recruitment process in order to arrive at a mutually beneficial candidate placement. • Created a recruitment road map with hiring managers to set clear expectations of skill requirements, personality preferences, interview timeline and offer negotiation.• Designed and implemented repeatable sourcing and recruiting strategy training and onboarding for new recruiters and sourcers.• Researched and led transition from CBIZOne ATS to Bullhorn.• Utilized LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Indeed, Meetup.com, Dribbble, BeHance, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Slack, BitBucket, Instagram, and YouTube to create and engage online talent communities.Specifically placed a variety of professionals including:• COO• CTO• Vice President of Engineering• Vice President of Product Management• Vice President of Human Resources• Director of Talent Acquisition• Director of Data Science • Director of Product Management• Senior HRBP• Product Manager • UX Engineer • Python Engineer • Corporate Recruiter • Product Manager• . NET DeveloperAnd many more!

New York, Ny, Us

Initially contracted for 3 months to drive sales management and executive leadership recruiting for NY HQ including. Contract extended through onboarding of new VP of People. At a glance:• Focused on full-lifecycle that included sourcing, qualifying, and interviewing candidates all the way through offer and onboarding stages.• Designed and implemented sourcing strategies via LinkedIn, Facebook, Meetup.com, Indeed, and NY networking events to grow a diverse and qualified candidate pool.• Led team of 3 to open Phoenix, AZ, sales office in under 30 days.• Worked with hiring managers and C-Level leadership to establish a set of core competencies for each role on the Hospital Systems team and develop effective lines of questioning to be used during interviews. • Partnered with VP's, Directors and team leads to build out procedural guides for two new candidate sourcing initiatives (LinkedIn network referrals and direct hiring manager outreach). • Utilized analytics and tracking tools inside applicant tracking systems including Taleo, Greenhouse and LinkedIn Recruiter to provide team leadership with weekly/monthly/quarterly updates on pipeline and candidate sourcing effectiveness. • Assisted in the development of job specs used to attract talented applicants to Zocdoc via job boards and LinkedIn.

Cumming, Georgia, Us

I work with a team of experienced, certified recruiters who effectively and efficiently bring the right candidates front-and-center for ongoing talent acquisition projects with Fortune500, Deloitte Technology Fast500, privately-held Inc500, and emerging companies. These deep relationships in managed services, financial, medical (DMD/DME/DurableMedical & Pharmaceuticals), advertising, telecommunications, SaaS, technology, hardware, software, technology solutions, integrated media, and niche markets are testimonials to our pursuit and placement of exceptional talent. Fueled by passionate search consultants, scalable processes, and agile technologies, VMG offers a progressive solution to the need to attract and retain exceptional sales and marketing professionals. Instead of relying on the mythologies of traditional search, my team and I design, roadmap, execute, and guarantee to deliver exceptional professionals - ready for their next challenge - to their dream careers!

Bergenfield, Nj, Us

We do one thing, and we do it really well. We specialize in positions at the intersection of media and technology. Our focused approach provides our clients with the comfort of knowing that their search firm is knowledgeable about their business, its offerings, and all the intricacies inherent in an industry that is rapidly expanding and evolving.We help online companies scale in size catering towards fit of position and culture. Online Media, Online Advertising, Interactive Media, Emerging Media, Mobile Advertising, ), E-commerce, Emerging Technology (mobile wireless/PDA, IPTV Technology, Publishing, Agencies, Hedge Funds, Social Software (online networks, blogs, communities, virtual groups), Analytics, Sales, Marketing, Advertising Operations, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Start-Ups, Fortune 1000, VC-Funded, Investment Banking, Investment Research.Specialties: Software Engineer / Developer / Programmer / Analyst / Scientist / Researcher / Consultant (Ruby on Rails, RoR, Java, Core Java, J2SE, J2EE, J2ME, Hadoop, C#, Lucene, Solr, Flex, Salesforce, SFDC, HTML5, Javascript, PHP, Perl, Python, C++; Spring MVC, .NET Framework 3.5, VB.NET, ASP, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Sharepoint, GWT, TFS, J2EE, SAP, Oracle, SQL Server, Business Objects, Clearcase), Test Engineer, DBA's (Oracle, SQL Server, Peoplesoft), Business Analyst, Product Manager, Project Manager (PMP), ITIL, Architect, Mainframe Programmer/Analyst (Cobol, CICS, IMS, VSAM, DB2, JCL),

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Point Endeavors was born in 2009 out of a desire to create a full-service, customer-focused search firm. Our clients range from advertising & marketing agencies, Inc 5000 privately held growth performers, comScore250 web innovators, to international technology research organizations. We have filled positions including SEO gurus, SEM strategists, programmers, developers, project managers, information architects, and marketing managers.At Point Endeavors, we're all about providing Success with People. We provide recruiting solutions that fuel measurable, quantifiable results. As a boutique executive search firm, our practice is built around our current clients' needs, offering a client solutions based upon:• A full understanding of our clients needs • A thorough understanding of our clients company culture • A solid network of contacts in industry • Industry specific expertise My areas of specialization include:SEO (Search Engine Optimization)SEM (Search Engine Marketing)E-Marketing / eMarketingE-Commerce / eCommerceSocial Media SMO / SMM Usability (UX/UI - and the difference!!!)Mobile Application Development (Android, iPhone/iOS, and Blackberry)Programming (.NET, Java, Javascript, RoR/Ruby On Rails, Python)I specialize in Success with People: I take my time to learn about you, what’s important to you, and how we can best match you with the right opportunity. My goal is to know my clients' business goals and prospective candidates’ career goals so we can effectively and efficiently provide both with the means to grow. I do this to insure that my hiring clients meet or exceed their business plans and that my candidates achieve their career goals.

Cumming, Georgia, Us

• Identify, assess, and respond to clients’ sales recruiting needs to achieve 111% of plan in 2006, 127% of plan in 2007, and 129% of plan in 2008 while consistently exceeding monthly sales quotas by no less than 17% for the past 31 months.• Work a full desk from business development, to job order, to candidate search, to placement offering clients solutions based on budget, location, and deadlines.• Develop regional relationships into national contracts, increase existing business referrals, marketing plan, client satisfaction, and candidate success rates on account of ability to cultivate strong professional relationships, and the capacity to evaluate and qualify candidates.• Cultivate increase in new business 63% (2007) and 71% (2008) through face-to-face conferencing, managing expectations, aggressively pursuing competitors’ clientele.• Name, source, and headhunt into competitors without breaching recruiting guidelines.• Develop new practices for identifying the best talent and implement marketing campaigns to identify client needs by utilizing relevant technology and targeting methods (a variety of ATS & CRM solutions, Internet sourcing, marketing, networking, etc).• Pursuing building rapport with previously dissatisfied customers to regain their business• Executed expansion of sales-specific recruiting solutions into new markets: Birmingham(2007), West Palm Beach (2007), Los Angeles (2007), Orange County (2007), Raleigh(2007), Baton Rouge (2008), Phoenix (2008), Portland (2009), Seattle (2009), San Diego (2009), and San Francisco (2009).• Created training materials on company and client policies to train entry-level recruiters, sales representatives, and regional managers.• Promoted from Sales Representative to Regional Sales Manager in first six months.

New Braunfels, Texas, Us

• Advised, devised, and implemented computer training and increased productivity programs and seminars for Fortune 500 companies, small to medium businesses, and federal, state, and local governments and agencies.• Developed rapport with client management and maintain strong working relationships. Consistently identifies new sources of business.• Initiated detailed skill assessment of internet security protocols, network reliability, and employee productivity; produced variable means to accomplish reconciliation and implantation of clients’ goals, leading to a reliable base of referrals and loyal clients.• Set aggressive sales goals and inspired team members to achieve beyond their own expectations by surpassing subsidiary and company-wide sales record for consultant in their month ($126,535.00), while maintaining 15.4% personal sales growth for First and Second Quarters (Account Executive of the Month for January. March, and April 2002).