Debra S. Email & Phone Number

Campbell, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Converted to Full-Time and supported a number of different areas. I focused on strategic sourcing, client management, candidate experience, negotiating compensation and closing top talent for hard to fill positions. I consistently hired 5 Senior to Principal level Engineers per month.Recruited for:•Software-as-a-service(SaaS) •Platform •Infrastructure •Artificial Intelligence (AI) •Machine Learning (ML) •Full stack Developers •Back-end Services •Front-end Web •Site Reliability (SRE) •Developer Operations (Devops)•Scalability and Reliability •Software Developer in Test (SDET)Recruiting Accolades:•Debra, thank you for being a cornerstone for our business, and keep up the stellar work! I appreciate everything you do, and stepping up where needed, when needed •Debra, We were 100% confident you would hit it out of the park and you delivered. Such a critical part of our business. Thanks for building the team that is going to be absolutely essential to our long-term success, and companies solving tough problems in our world with our tech. I can see our stock price going up in the years to come, because of the hires you are making and team you are building now.•Debra has been phenomenal for our hiring goals into the new team that I have been putting together. She has worked very hard reaching candidates, delivering them a consistent and clear message on the team, getting them onsite and following up on offers. She has worked through many hurdles in our offer process and always did a phenomenal job keeping the candidate up to date and engaged through this tedious process. She is very passionate about hiring top talent and I wouldn’t be able to achieve my team goals of hiring three top scientists and machine learning engineers into my team in the last couple of months without her help. She is one of the best recruiters I have ever come across.

San Francisco, California, Us

Hired as a contractor to support Splunk's Cloud 1st initiative as they made the monolithic to microservices migration. I focused on strategic sourcing, client management, candidate experience, negotiating compensation and closing top talent form hard to fill positions. I consistently hired 5 Senior to Principal level Engineers per month. Recruited:•Software as a Service (SAAS)•Artificial Intelligence (AI) •Machine Learning (ML) •Backend (Back-end) Services •Frontend (Front-end) Web

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Supported Autodesk's SAAS migration from monolithic to microservices.Recruited: Senior and Principal level engineers

Strengths include client management, relationship building, candidate experience, negotiating compensation and closing candidates. Love working with team that have trouble hiring. Hired approximately 130 Nesters over the past 4 years. My decline rate is low at approximately 2%.Sourced/Recruited •Industrial Design, Creative, UX/UI Design, Research, and Writers •Nest Cloud Services and Nest Cloud Security •Project and Product Management •Mobile Applications •Front-end Web •Back-end Services •Product Marketing •Product Management •Production •DevOps •NOC •Supply chain •Business Logistics and Operations •Data Analytics •Customer Support •Call Center •Product QualityRecruiting Accolades:•Debra's energy, enthusiasm, and seemingly sincere love of Nest is a huge inspiration. She is a true "Salesperson" of Nest and it rings through to the candidates we work with. I find candidates she has spoken to are more well-versed on the roles and excited about the opportunities.•Debra is very personable to work with and I continue to hear extremely positive feedback from candidates that we have targeted and hired with her help. They often cite her engaging nature and persuasive recruiting abilities.•Debra has done a great job recruiting for our team. She brought in some really great talent over the last year. There were many times that we didn't have any leads on candidates and she was able to source and close on some great talent. She does a great job understanding our org and our needs for each position. She also can really close the deal once we have the right person selected. Everyone really enjoys working with Debra during the recruiting and hiring process.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

MobileIron was an early pioneer in BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) - mobile security and management for smartphones and tablet computers,Recruited: senior level Front-end and Back-end Engineers and Mobile Application Developers

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Converted to Full-Time, promoted to Technical Recruiter for Security, Mobile and Developer BU’s.Partnering with SVP's, VP's, Directors and Managers.Recruited:•Distinguished Engineers for Security and Mobile •Sr. Director Product Marketing for Security and Mobile •Product Managers (PLM's) for Security and Mobile •SW Engineers for Cloud (SAAS), API/SDK, Virtualization, Kernel, Java, UX, Firewall, ALG, NAT, SSL VPN, IPSec, IKE, PKI, VPLAN, SA3, Linux, Unix, FreeBSD.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Hired as a contractor to Support Foundation Technology (FT), Infrastructure Products Group (IPG) and Human Resources (HR). I partner with the recruiters and/or hiring managers and pride myself on getting results.Things I do to get the job done:• Re-writing job descriptions so they yield the desired candidates • Developing search strings that yield the desired resumes • Breaking down a target group to find key talent • Developing the candidate pipeline • Courting passive and active candidates • Cold calling, relationship building, pre-screening candidatesSourced:• Security Engineers: SSL VPN, IPSec, IKE, PKI, ALG, Firewall, VPLAN • SW Engineers: Cloud (SAAS), Virtualization, L2/3 Switching, Routing, QoS, Packet Forwarding • Routing Protocol Developers: IP routing and MPLS • Kernel Engineers: BSD Kernel, Linux, Unix and Virtualization • Signal Integrity Engineers: Component, Systems level and SerDes • Mobile Gateway Engineers: GGSN, PDN, G3PP and Mobile IP • Manufacturing: Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Dev Test • Managers/Directors: Engineering, Product and Program

Cupertino, California, Us

Built and maintained relationships with VP of Engineering, Engineering Managers, and Candidates and closed 60+ openings.Recruited: Firmware, Systems, Communications, Graphics, Storage and Human Input Device teams.Recruited for •CPU Software •HW/SW Integration •Board/Chip Bring-Up and Reference Boards •Systems integration and Management •EFI, BIOS, BootRom, and ACPI Power Management •WiFi Access Points and Base Stations• Graphics and GPU’s• Device Drivers: OpenGL, Bluetooth and USB.• Mass Storage: internal/external RAID, SATA & PATA• HID and Communications Device Firmware: USB, Bluetooth, Multi-touch, Keyboards and Mice.

Reston, Virginia (Va), Us

The Talent Research team’s charter was to place Executive Talent and fill senior tuff jobs that were not closing. My job was to define our targets, find and court the talent to close these positions. Worked across all Business units: Security, Communications and Content. I was employee #1 on VeriSign’s Talent Research team and I was hired to help take the company to the next level. It was a critical time in VeriSign’s history as they were moving to their “One VeriSign” concept that would bring all their acquisitions together under the one umbrella

Cupertino, California, Us

The research team was responsible for bringing in fresh talent for the areas you were supporting.The services we provided to recruiters were:• Breaking down a desired company• Putting org charts together for target companies• Cold calling, relationship building, pre-screening candidates• Developing search strings that would yield desired resumesI supporting the Hardware, Core OS, Development Tools and Platform Experience groups looking for: • PCB Architects, Systems Integration Engineers, Power Management Engineers• Compiler, Kernel, File Systems and Kerberos Developers/Architects• Systems and OS Performance, Benchmarking, Tools Engineers

Hired to get this Recruiting Start Up off the ground and profitable. Only employee for the 1st 9 months doing everything: Business Development, Sourcing, Recruiting, Closing, and Billing. I placed full time and contract staff! After 9 months I had turned this into a profitable business. Ran the company for one year before leaving to try Contracting as a Corporate Recruiter. Companies I hired for and built relationships with are:ATL Technologies (acquired by AMD) Modulus Video (acquired by Motorola)Network GeneralWISchip International

Provo, Ut, Us

Recruited by Novell to work as a Software Engineer I at their San Jose site. Had one great year of employment before the Industries down turn in 2001. Worked on Novell's "One Net" concept where the client could pull a WIndows, Mac, or Unix flavored workstation out of the box, connect it to our Netware Server and start saving and retrieving their files!

Ms, Engineering Management And Leadership: Engineering Focus: Security, Distributed And Wireless Systems

Bs, Information And Computer Science