Debra Thompson Email & Phone Number

Novato, CA, US

Financial Services, Accounting Brought in as a consultant to fill key positions critical to the success of the consulting division of Sensiba San Filippo, LLP, a leading Bay Area Public Accounting Firm.* Successfully filled critical hires including Senior Accountants, Staff Accountants, Senior Tax Accountant, Intacct ERP Implementation Consultants and Sr..

Responsible for recruiting Sales Force Architects, Accounting Managers, Senior Front End Developers, DevOps Developers, Architects and Backend Engineers for a national client base.

Davidson, NC, US

Management, Project & IT ConsultingHired for SF Bay Area recruitment efforts to recruit for open consulting positions for top Bay Area Banks including Wells Fargo Bank, First Republic Bank and Pacific Coast Bankers Bank. * Recruited and successfully placed Senior Project Managers, Technical Project Managers, Business Analysts, Business Process Engineers.

* Recruited top finance and accounting consultants for clients in Bio-Tech, Medical Device, Technology, Non-Profit as well as other industries. Specific positions include interim, contract or contract to hire CFO’s, SVP of Finance, Director of Finance, Controllers, Accounting Managers, Accountants and Bookkeepers.

• DAT & Associates, Sausalito, CA 1998 – 2001 & 2006 – 2013 Contingent and Contract Technical RecruitingSole Proprietor of contingent search firm during the dot-com boom and then restarted company in 2006 due to an.
• Placed the core engineering team at Glam Media including senior PHP engineers, Director of Engineering, Director of QA, Director of Data Analytics, Campaign Manager and Senior Account Manager for the ad operations.
• Since 2006 did contingent recruiting for Glam Media, ScoutLabs now Lithium, CurrentTV now Al Jazeera, Playdom now Disney, Turnhere, Pandora, FanIQ, Podshow, Ink2, PurePlay and Technorati.
• Placed Vice Presidents of Engineering at Current TV/Media and FanIQ.
• Placed Director of Linux operations and PHP developers at Podshow/Mevio.
• Worked closely with venture capital firms Hummer Winblad and Media Technology Ventures to recruit and hire engineering teams for their portfolio companies.

• Hicks Consulting Group, Walnut Creek, CA 2005 – 2006 Hicks Consulting Group is a contract recruiting firm that specializes in IT positions.
• Ranked top producer for placing high-level engineers, technical teams, and senior management.
• Met with clients to discuss hiring needs and to formulate job descriptions for engineering roles. Clients included Blue Shield, Wells Fargo Bank, Electronic Arts.
• Conducted full lifecycle recruiting, including sourcing and qualifying candidates, scheduling interviews, checking references, presenting offers and closing candidates.
• Recruited Vice President for Blue Shield, SAP Analysts for Wells Fargo Bank and Electronic Arts and a UI Developer at Infotone Communications.

• Brought in as Contract Technical Recruiter in 2004 & 2006 The leading blog search engine Technorati.com indexes millions of blog posts in real time and surfaces them in seconds. Worked as a contract recruiter for.
• In 2004 worked closely with the C-level executives to recruit the initial engineering team. In 2006 was rehired as the sole contract recruiter to fill Senior Engineering, Linux Operations and Product Director positions.
• Successfully recruited senior front-end and back-end developers, senior search engineers, Linux systems administrators, and technical product managers.

*Performed recruiting duties: permanent full-time expert in placing IT professionals at financial services companies, including Charles Schwab, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Montgomery Securities, Walker Interactive, Visa International and other Fortune 500 as well as mid sized software companies. *Partnered with recruiters to provide staffing solutions to.