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Tustin, Ca, Us

Irvine, California, United States

Golf Daddy is disrupting the golf simulation game and putting the game into golf simulation. This is a haptics and perception product combined to give more than large simulators at a fraction of the cost.

Santa Ana, California, United States

Hired 250+ poll workers for Orange County's2024 presidential primary.

Orange County, California, United States

Lead hiring for our application layer C++ engineers working on graphics, simulation, and autonomy. Also lead design and UK hiring taking advantage of my previous experiences with global and art hiring. Served as administrator of Linkedin for the recruiting organization.We utilized Lever as an ATS, Chathop for postion approval and organization management, and Rippling as an HRIS system.

Orange County, California Area

Lead efforts in recruitment for game development for Diablo IV, Diablo Immortal, Hearthstone, and an unannounced mobile project.Held 50+ positions at any given time. Averaged 70 hires annually for skilled developers.Positions included technical, vfx, 2D, 3D artists, writers, production, software engineering, outsource management, and executive leadership. Hired heavily internationally bringing and hiring on location for candidates from Korea, Russia, Poland, and Brazil. This ranged from hiring through various Activision entities or 1099 contract of which I introduced company first policies during the COVD pandemic. This at the time required facilitation of testing abilities for developers to be successful across continents with our game dev tools. This also included foreign contract negotiation.Grew Diablo IV visual effects team from 3 to 15 in the span of 2 years. The estimated time to fill put this accomplishment at 4+ years of which I cut in half.We utilized Jobvite and I participated in the transition to Workday.

Orange County, California Area

Hired internship classes of at a high water mark of 100 students across the entire Blizzard organization this included all game teams (World of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Hearthstone, Starcraft, and World of Warcraft).Grew relations in current circuit of identified highly acclaimed game development schools and created new relationship with new additions to the evolving landscape of game development higher education. Two schools that were influential that I created significant relationships with were Ringling and Art Center.Travelled across the nation speaking with top game developers at our nations top institutions. Often times these events would attract crowds of hundreds of students. This included creating presentation materials for the organization and specific game dev disciplines.

Orange County, California Area

Lead recruiting for Marketing, Business Development, Branding, and Community departments worked directly with VPs to build out capabilities for print, physical, partnership and promotions, event, and community development.I started our LATAM hiring offices form scratch. This included creating contracts which adhered to the hiring laws of Mexico as this is where the regional office was located.

Orange County, California Area

Attracting Talent from near and far for Blizzard Entertainment. Working with games and recruitment teams to procure gaming industry professionals including but not limited to Artists, Quality Assurance, Producers, Project Managers, Release Managers, Engineering Managers, Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, Technical Artists, Games Designers, Web Front and Backend Engineers.Expert level sourcing techniques including utilizing Google docs and and analytics to track candidates in a cost effective mobile environment and utilizing analytics to better focus our job advertising budget. #1 Linkedin user for the last 2 years among our our 12 recruiting seats maintaining a 20% response rate through the course of my history on Linkedin recruiter. Boolean ninja, they never saw me coming...

Orange County, California Area

Worked for University Relations to schedule and coordinate interviews in addition to Identifying best fit candidates for Internships in programming, design, production, art, and animation.Moved into sourcing design and art candidates through my good eye for creative talent.

Report and regressed bugs for the World of Warcraft Environment and Combat teams. Assisted in development of a performance testing tool for fps tests. Started a series of team building events that was eventually utilized by the entirety of the Blizzard QA team.

Orange County, California Area

Assisted customers with World of Warcraft account issues.Trusted with money order transacting.Acted as team point.

Orange County, California Area

Serviced accounts and loans for Teachers.