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Farmington, Ct, Us

Middletown, Connecticut, Us

AI Engineers is a rapidly growing civil engineering firm with a 30+ year track record of success. We have 430+ employees and are experiencing double digit YoY growth.We provide a wide range of civil engineering services, with deep expertise in transportation projects and bridge design and inspection.I lead recruiting for our 11 offices in North America

Reid Engineering, part of the StaffWorks family of companies, provides perm and contract engineering support to companies. Our clients range from fortune 100 companies to local production facilities.I lead the engineering recruiting for Reid.

Remote First, Us

I lead the DevOps Recruiting Team, lead the efforts to build out the security teams and the PMO, and hired for Rust and Java Dev Teams.I train and mentor junior recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators in:• How to source, screen, and close candidates• Salary and stock option conversations• How to get to yes• How to spot a future problem• Hear what a candidate means, not what they say• Letting the candidate tell you why they are right or wrong for the roleI personally hired over 250 engineers, I:• Lead DevOps, Security, Project Management and new initiative recruiting• Hired for DevOps (Core Infrastructure, Site Reliability, DevSecOps), Security (Application, Offensive, Asset and Vulnerability Mgmt), Technical Project Mgmt, Development (Rust, Java, JS, Python, Kotlin), DBAs, Data, Opps, Leadership (CSO, Director, and Managers), Product, GTM, and unique roles• Inherited 3 departments and 25+ teams struggling to scale and improved their volume of hires per month by 10x • Drove standardization efforts for the assessment, interview, offer, and hiring process in order to improve efficiency as the departments scaled• Led Tiger Teams partnering with leadership to build out a process for filling new roles before passing them off to junior recruiters• Selected to own recruiting for an acquisition that had hired zero people in 3 months. Built out the full hiring process and hired 28 people in 8 weeks. • Reduced time to fill by 75%• Reduced agency dependency by 95% and streamlined the vendor process• Increased candidate flow by 900%• Hired 250+ people including: • 35 leaders and 20+ first time unique hires • Built 8+ programs from scratch • 1 of only 4 Rust Crypto Quant Developers in the world as a very passive candidate

New Britain, Ct, Us

Brought in to staff up a plant expansion • Hired 50 people in 70 days • Filled trades roles that had been open 2+ years • Increased candidate flow over 300%

Metairie, La, Us

I lead Talent Acquisition for GCR Inc and PCC Technologies.• Managed offshore recruiting team• Managed vendors, reducing vendor spend by 70% in 3 months• Managed 70+ Openings across 10+ sites• Led process improvements and cost reductions• Improved ability to collect and use data for decision making• Worked with hiring managers to improve both time to fill and the candidate experience• Improved the applicant tracking system Greenhouse increasing candidate applications over 800%• Filled a wide range of Java, DevOps, SQL, .NET, SaaS, Project Mangers, Development Managers, and Cyber Security Engineers • Filled 3 mission critical revenue losing positions in the first 60 days

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Mission Systems Engineering RecruitingJoined on a 6 month contract to help grow a department with a critical order backlog that was stuck at 150 engineers.• Developed relationships with managers throughout the organization• Mentored junior recruiters• Increased submission to hire ratios by driving candidates through the process efficiently and closing candidates that were previously being lost• Expanded candidate pool through networking and headhunting, using data mining techniques to pull candidates from competitors • Hired 72 Degreed engineers in 6 months for key roles helping to expand the department to over 230

Hyderabad, Ts, In

Manage North American Talent Acquisition:• Lead a multisite team to drive Cyient’s Growth• Managed 12 recruiters in 4 locations, developed 4 entry level recruiters• Lead a 4-member offshore sourcing team• Filled leadership positions• Drove cultural change, merger integration and a solutions mentality• Built and mapped out a North American recruiting plan/strategy• Led diversity, inclusion, and branding initiatives• Managed 500+ openings across 30+ locations• Project managed the relaunch of a previously failed applicant tracking system• Designed interim metrics tracking program.• Reduced cost per hire by 35% and time to fill by 50%• Increased qualified candidate flow by 39%• Department Rep and point person on the Workday improvement team

Singapore, Sg

Working manager for North America Strategic Accounts with reports in both India and North America. Train, develop, mentor and lead a multi-cultural and cross functional team that is driving strategic accounts growing 30-45% a year.• Personally managed 100+ permanent job openings at a time, from entry level to global leadership• Hired an average of 20 people a month, top quarter was 73 permanent hires• Sourced, screened, and negotiated with 800+ hires• Led between 2 and 15 multi-site direct reports managing 385+ job openings• Provided leadership project level support on major initiatives• Built the North American Leadership Team, including hiring 5 GMs• Led the expansion into new market verticals• Traveled globally training recruiters, creating lesson plans and process instructions, role playing• Trained, developed, and mentored recruiters, including my replacement as lead recruiter• Drove down cost per hire to $800, leading the industry and roughly 16% of our competitors• Led the North American adaptation and improvement of a low-cost applicant tracking system• Led diversity, inclusion, and branding initiatives

Singapore, Sg

Driving candidates into QuEST’s Global Pipeline to meet our rapid expansion through headhunting, job boards, and a network of referrals. Leading North American Recruiting for the Leadership Development Group. Process Mapping and Driving Best Practices and a positive environment, and workflow. Training and mentoring junior recruiters and offshore team members in recruiting, headhunting, Monster, LinkedIn, and Boolean Searching. Campus outreach and college recruiting. Resident Quest Global Evangelist. Set QuEST’s record of 73 Permanent hires in a Q2 of 2015. Hired 5 General Managers, led the expansion of our technical leadership.

Drive recruiting and site management for IT projects throught CT, NY, and NJ. We specalize in .NET, Datawarehousing, Networking, Corporate Data, Security, Security Audits, Small Business Support, and Cabling.

Recruiting and Account Manager

Troy, Michigan, Us

Helped Kelly reenter the CT market after a multi year absence. Established new relationships, rebuilt old ones, and partnered with other Kelly Divisions to cross sell services and act as a solution center for large companies recruiting needs.