Embracing my love of travel by traveling where I can, when I can. Countries visited in this phase of my wandering: South Africa, United Arab Emirates, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Iceland, Myanmar (Burma), China, Mongolia, Russia (as part of the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railroad).

Glu Mobile is a global leader in mobile gaming with offices in 8 countries. As the Head of Talent Acquisition, I am responsible for developing all strategic recruiting initiatives as well as system implementation, administration, and support.Responsibilities include but are not limited to: - Manage and direct recruiters in staffing activities to ensure an excellent candidate experience, drive consistent pipeline of qualified candidates, and efficient processing through onboarding. Ensure adequate staffing levels and hire/train new recruiters and contract recruiters as necessary.- Manage and cultivate Glu's Global employment brand through all channels ranging from social media, job postings, website, events, etc. - Develop and update recruiting processes and policies, in conjunction with HR leadership, to stay in front of talent acquisition trends.- Oversee onboarding and new hire experience and ensures a smooth hand-off to the HR Operations team.- Deliver recruitment services while managing an operational budget and exercising responsibility for costs, methods, and results. - Manage external relationships, including job boards, vendor partners, and third party agencies to ensure effectiveness.- Work closely with HR systems administrator and super users to ensure Application Tracking System is meeting the company's needs.- Regularly monitor and report on recruiting metrics. Provide information, feedback, trends and analysis to others in HR and executive management as appropriate.- Work closely with finance and HRBPs to ensure requisitions and staffing plans are aligned.- Participate in the development and delivery of recruiting and interview training.- Identify process improvements and provide best practices to global recruiting team.- Participate in development and drives implementation of global HR Programs.- Other duties and projects as assigned and needed.

I accepted a relocation assignment to help develop, implement, integrate, and support our Global Technology Recruiting teams on our newly developed proprietary applicant tracking system (ATS). Project Responsibilities:- Conduct new user system training to local Talent Acquisition and HR teams.- Provide Tier 1 customer support, perform administrative actions and report escalations to the Development team in Mountain View.- Help onboard and train new regional recruiting manager.- Identify and scope feature enhancements required for local team success.- Act as liaison between India business units and recruiting teams.- Report system and process inefficiencies back to TA leadership and make recommendations for improvement. - Generate reports and provide key stakeholders with live system activity and recruiter production data.- Analyze activity data and recommend hiring targets.

I was the Recruiting Program Manager for LinkedIn's Global Technology Recruiting team and reported to the Director of Global Technology Recruiting. GTR is the largest recruiting team in the company consisting of over 50 recruiters, sourcers, researchers, and specialists. My responsibilities include but are not limited to: - Provide strategic and tactical support for the team.- Onboard and train new team members.- Be the primary point of contact for all technical hiring data requests.- Track metrics, analyze historical data, and generate reports for engineering and company executives.- Consult on the development of a proprietary Applicant Tracking System.- Act as the point of contact for incoming process inquiries from outside business units.- Facilitate staff and engineering product stakeholders meetings.- Manage team communications. - Provide ad hoc reporting services for partnering TA teams. - Manage and mentor to our Campus intern.- Process review and documentation.

I was the primary West Coast recruiter on the team recruiting intern, Co-Op, and New College Grad hires for primarily our technical business units. The summer 2011 intern class was the largest in NetApp history with over 200 interns hired domestically, 119 at the Sunnyvale Corporate Headquarters. I am also working directly with the University Relations Program Manager and University Relations Specialist on UR specific initiatives including: - Program process development and documentation.- Improve corporate branding at target schools.- Campus relationship management.- New Hire Orientation development and administration.- Design and implementation of corporate Intern intranet site. - Working with managers to identify future hiring needs.- Attend campus events to promote company name, ideology, and program.- Schedule and coordinate special “off-season” campus events.

Took personal sabbatical to reevaluate, soul search, and travel the world.

I reported to the Sr. Manager, Global Programs and was responsible for designing, implementing, and managing specific Talent Acquisition programs and initiatives. This includes but is not limited to: Applicant Tracking System (ATS) management and integration, Global Vendor Management, Global background check process/policy, Contingent Workforce planning/management, EEO/AAP, and SOX compliance. Other responsibilities include: - Analyze current Talent Acquisition Programs and make recommendations for improvement. - Provide Technical Support on Applicant Tracking System and other internal systems. - Worked with Background Check Vendor to integrate BG Check process into ATS.- Design and support strategic project initiatives within Global Programs.- Project Manage the design and implementation of a Global Hiring and Background Check process and policy. - Help support Corporate Compliance programs.Update and document current HR processes and policies.- Provide training and support to Talent Acquisition teams, HR Business Partners, and Finance Operations team on new Program processes, policies, and procedures as needed.- Work with Global Procurement to design a Vendor Management program. - Analyze the existing Contingent Workforce plan, identify initiatives, and work with associated departments, vendors, and managers to optimize and document the process.- Assist in conducting bi-annual Temporary Labor Vendor audit.Work jointly with Mergers and Acquisitions in Global Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP). - Conduct internal OFCCP Audit.

I worked jointly with the Global Staffing Programs Manager and the Alternative Workforce Program Lead to provide ongoing support to eBay's global staffing teams. I also helped manage and monitor our external staffing vendors as well as manage the relationships with our international and domestic job boards and advertising partners. Other responsibilities included: - Provide Global new user training on our Applicant Tracking System and other internal systems.- Provide Technical Support on Applicant Tracking System and other internal systems. - Work with Background Check Vendor to integrate BG Check Process into ATS. - Answer process inquiries on how to secure Temporary Labor.- Help develop and implement a campaign designed for hiring managers and vendor users that includes in-depth training sessions on how to secure Temporary Labor.- Work with the Alternative Workforce Program lead in the development and implementation of an AWF (non-employee) tool designed to automate the hiring process.- Help design and write technical documentation for company Alternative Workforce Intranet page. - Negotiate job board purchases for Staffing Business Units.- Compile metrics reports tracking user activity to ebaycareers website. - Work with Staffing Business Units and Job Board Vendors to design online marketing campaigns. - Gather data from all Staffing Business Units regarding current hiring processes and policies and help work to make them more efficient.- Helped conduct quarterly Vendor audits and maintain quarterly scorecards on vendor performance and manager satisfaction. - Work with Procurement in writing Vendor contract renewals and Request for Proposal (RFP). - Write and publish internal technical training and user guides as well as record technical training videos.

Interacted directly with hiring managers and on-site VMS practice managers. Performed all aspects of job including but not limited to: contract negotiation, new business development, sales, conflict-resolution, requisition assignment, etc. Managed team of three recruiters.

I was one of the top recruiters within the company working on the primary New Business Development team. I demonstrated success in full-lifecycle Technical, Administrative, Finance, and Human Resource recruiting. I am proficient in active and passive sourcing; cold calling, interviewing, and salary negotiation. I also participated in our Salesforce.com initiative to help make company processes more efficient and user friendly. I also helped with documenting recruiter user guides to our internal software packages. Have set company quarterly and monthly records for placements and have experience recruiting full time and contract requirements.

Was personally recruited to help open new branch office in Mountain View for this Capitola based Engineering Firm. I coordinated all aspects of Contract Technical Staffing as well as New Business Development. Responsibilities included: Sourcing and interviewing prospective candidates, candidate and client contract and salary negotiation.

Hired as a technical recruiter for the Mountain View office. Specialized in Database and Network Administrators. Conducted in-house and phone interviews with perspective consultants seeking permanent work as well as contractors. Negotiated salary and benefits, as well as length of employment. Also aided in the hiring process of new personnel. Interviewed possible new employees and reported directly to the regional and branch managers.