Specialist in conducting proactive searches to identify, source, and attract hard to find talent. Expert in the full range of recruiting activity from research, cold-contact, candidate development and presentation through negotiation, closing and successful onboarding while assuring the best possible candidate experience. Responsible for conducting the end-to-end recruitment process from sourcing to applicant closure. Used Boolean searches to identify elite engineering talent by top 50 CS schools, target companies, groups, and tech stack. Successfully identified and recruited software engineers with different specialties including UI, Business Logic/Application tier, Applied Science, Research Science, Data Science, and/or Data Engineering. Front End, Back End, Full-Stack, Platform (Java-High Throughput/Distributed Systems/Web Services/REST APIs), Infrastructure, and SDET/QA engineers. Approached, intrigued, engaged, and closed passive talent using compelling narratives, uncovering unmet needs/goals/aspirations, rapport building, and excellent salesmanship. Screened qualified applicants for computer science fundamentals, domain experience, relevant production experience, tech stack (languages/libraries/tools/etc), as well as communication skills, and cultural fit. Proactively market top candidates to Engineering Directors and Managers to uncover existing needs and opportunity costs as related to engineering headcount and production schedule goals.
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Sr. Technical Talent Acquisition | Cloud, Full-Stack, Ai And Ml, Product And Data HiringConsultantUnited States
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Senior Talent Acquisition ConsultantConsultant Mar 2024 - Present
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Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant - Engineering (Saas -Cloud - Distributed Systems)Fireeye, Inc. Jun 2022 - Apr 2024Milpitas, California, UsSr. Talent Acquisition; Engineering (SaaS - Cloud - Distributed Systems)Working as an remote contractor supporting a full desk. Drafted job descriptions and created new job classifications.- Identify potential candidates by sourcing passive company contacts, cold calls and thru job board postings.Assisted applicants through the interview process including scheduling,emailing, confirmations, and any onsite interactions, and offers.Handled extensive recruiting and advertising; composed job descriptions and handled resume screenings/initial interviews. Working on and filled roles for UI, UX, Frontend -Backend Developers, Kernel Development, Workload Container Security (Kubernetes), Threat & Detection Engineering, Program & Product Management, ICS/IoT, Fraud & Identification, & E-commerce. Filled positions from Sr. Director, Manager, Principal Engineers to various lower level IC roles.Well versed with recruiting for various programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, Golang, C/C++, and Operating systems such as Windows, iOS, and LinuxApplicant Tracking Systems – Workday -
Senior Talent Acquisition - Engineering (Saas - Cloud - Distributed Systems)Abnormal Security Feb 2022 - Jul 2022Las Vegas, Nevada, Us(Was part of RIF) Join the team responsible for best-in-class advanced email security.- Drafted job descriptions and created new job classifications.- Identify potential candidates by sourcing passive company contacts, cold calls and thru job board postings.- Assisted applicants through the interview process including scheduling, emailing, confirmations, and any onsite interactions, and offers.- Handled extensive recruiting and advertising; composed job descriptions and handled resume screenings/initial interviews.- I directly worked on and filled roles for UI, UX, Cloud Dev's, Backend Dev's, Content, Threat Detection, Public Cloud Workload Container Security (Kubernetes), Engineering Program Management, Product Management, ICS/IoT, Fraud & Identification, E-commerce & FedRAMP. - Filled positions from Sr. Director, Manager, Principal Engineers to various lower level IC roles.- Well versed with recruiting for various programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, Golang, C/C++.- Operating systems such as Windows, iOS, and Linux. -
Senior Talent Acquisition - Engineering (Saas -Cloud - Distributed Systems)Crowdstrike Mar 2020 - Oct 2021Remote, Us- Drafted job descriptions and created new job classifications.- Identify potential candidates by sourcing passive company contacts, cold calls and thru job board postings.- Assisted applicants through the interview process including scheduling, emailing, confirmations, and any onsite interactions, and offers.- Handled extensive recruiting and advertising; composed job descriptions and handled resume screenings/initial interviews.- Helped the CPSG Sr. Director build the CWPP product group for CrowdStrike, building team size from 0 to 50+ engineers after 16 months. This was for CrowdStrike’s platform that processes billions of events every day from millions of sensor deployments to capture behavioral detections based on container threats- I directly worked on and filled roles for UI, UX, Cloud Dev's, Backend Dev's, Content, Threat Detection, Public Cloud Workload Container Security (Kubernetes), Engineering Program Management, Product Management, ICS/IoT, Fraud & Identification, E-commerce & FedRAMP. - Filled positions from Sr. Director, Manager, Principal Engineers to various lower level IC roles.- Well versed with recruiting for various programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, Golang, C/C++.- Operating systems such as Windows, iOS, and Linux. -
Senior Talent Acquisition - Engineering (Saas -Cloud - Distributed Systems)Palo Alto Networks Jun 2018 - Mar 2020Santa Clara, California, UsWe are one of the fastest-growing security companies in the market because of our deep expertise, commitment to innovation, and game-changing security platform focused on bringing an end to the era of breaches by uniquely integrating our Next-Generation Firewall, Advanced Endpoint Protection, and Threat Intelligence Cloud.Responsible for the Sourcing and Recruiting of Highly Skilled candidates to create the 1st Open Sourced Cybersecurity Platform (Cortex). - Drafted job descriptions and created new job classifications.- Identify potential candidates by sourcing passive company contacts, cold calls and thru job board postings.- Assisted applicants through the interview process including scheduling, emailing, confirmations, and any onsite interactions, and offers.- Handled extensive recruiting and advertising; composed job descriptions and handled resume screenings/initial interviews.- I directly worked on and filled roles for UI, UX, Cloud Dev's, Backend Dev's, Content, Threat Detection, Public Cloud Workload Container Security (Kubernetes), Engineering Program Management, Product Management, ICS/IoT, Fraud & Identification, E-commerce & FedRAMP. - Filled positions from Sr. Director, Manager, Principal Engineers to various lower level IC roles.- Well versed with recruiting for various programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, Golang, C/C++.- Operating systems such as Windows, iOS, and Linux.Managing Recruiting and Sourcing Strategy to identify talent with expertise in Streaming, Index/Query, Data Lake, API and Full Stack Development in React, Node JS. These roles include Technical Leads, Directors, Managers, Architects and Principal Software Developers -
Sr. Talent AcquisitionBlizzard Entertainment Sep 2015 - May 2018Irvine, Ca, Us-Technical recruiting responsibilities across multiple departments including Battle.net platform, Major League Gaming (MLG), Classic Games teams, and our Security Org (Physical and Application Security)-Recruiting has been focused on Product Management, Project Management, Software Development, Infrastructure, UI/UX design, Game Development, and application security -
Hr/Talent Acquisition & StrategyFlipagram (Now Tiktok) Jul 2014 - Sep 2015Los Angeles, Ca, UsRecruited by the Founders and CEO of Flipagram to scale the initial team from 15 to 110 across Engineering, Product, Design departments for our mobile video/social network (over 200 million users) and a $75 million investment from Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins with Michael Moritz and John Doerr joining our board.Reporting directly to the CEO & CTO we collaborated to design/execute recruiting strategies and interview processes that led to 95 new hires while significantly raising the hiring bar by personally recruiting and hiring passive candidates from Google, Facebook, Apple, Spotify, Twitter at this dynamic startup.Responsible for presenting and closing all candidate offers as well as detailed overviews of benefits, stock options, sign-on/bonus plans, and relocation assistance.Flipagram was acquired by TikTok in March of 2017.Positions recruited: Software Engineers (Platform, Mobile, Front-End and DevOps),Data Scientists (Search and Relevance) Head of Mobile Engineering, Head of Product Design, Head of Product Growth & Analytics, Product Managers, UI/UX Product Designers. -
Technical Staffing Lead /Talent Acquisition & StrategyJawbone Jul 2012 - Jul 2014Jawbone, Sunnyvale & San Francisco, CA Lead Corporate Recruiter- Technical/Non-Technical Principle Recruiter for the following positions: Hardware, Sensors, Systems, Mechanical, Materials, SW/FW, Marketing, Finance, Operations, and Program Management.• Supported business as staffing lead and engineer business partner during tenure.• Sole recruiter in company for first year supporting both locations.• Full cycle recruiting responsibilities for all positions. Sourced & screened passive candidates, scheduling interviews, prepared negotiated and extending offers.• Staffing vendor management – Managing vendors (agencies, search firms, research firms etc.) coordination of high volume staffing needs, interviews, offers, and onboarding.• Assisted in hiring and growing company from 150 employee’s to over 500 by the end of 2013 (19 months)• Work closely with executives and hiring managers to get clear understanding of requirements & budgets.• Decision maker in choosing and implementing company’s first ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems – Jobvite).• Lead recruiter responsible for Sunnyvale engineering office (130 engineers), included support for the Chief Technology Office.
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Sr. Technical RecruiterApple Inc. Feb 2011 - Jul 2012Cupertino, California, UsFull cycle recruitment for Apple WW Operations supporting iPhone & iPod.Product Quality Managers (NPI & Sustaining)Failure AnalysisQuality Data AnalysisTechnical Program ManagementManufacturing/Process EngineersProduct Operations (NPI & Sustaining)
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