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Irvine, California, United States

Spearheaded national sales recruitment strategies, implementing innovative solutions to enhance recruitment processes and user experience. Led a dedicated team of 17 recruiters and coordinators, focusing on national sales professionals and managing diverse hiring needs across in-house, remote, and 1099 positions.•AI Recruitment: Streamlined processes with AI, boosting efficiency and user experience.•Team Leadership: Led 17 recruiters, driving successful national sales campaigns.•Hiring Excellence: Managed lifecycle for diverse sales roles, ensuring top talent acquisition.•Methodology Boost: Enhanced recruitment methods, improving operational outcomes.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Functioning as the Managing Director for the development and launch of Poached Shifts, I led a fantastic team as we prototyped and launched the first App-based RPO solution designed for the Hospitality Industry. • Responsible for creating and launching a National App-Based On-demand workforce.• Commercialized and launched scaled operations hosting 1K shifts in the first 90days• Product Owner and liaison to technology for product integrations • Onboarding of 50K users during the soft launch • Created (CX) design, validation, testing, and feedback programs

12 Cities Within 6 Western States

As the first company Director, I helped build the BlueCrew Recruiting and Operations Protocols. Directly overseeing Biz Dev, Recruiting, and Client Relations for the Western United States.Primary achievements:• Building Sales/Recruiting/Management teams • Developed a successful high volume Recruiting program • Maintained High contact client communications • Ran entire Staffing Operations as a 100% Remote App-Based business

Nevada, United States

Responsible for managing all BPO, RPO, and Managed service agreements with FedEx and Zulily. Personally signed and managed RPOs and MSPs for Jet.com, Panasonic, Tesla, and several smaller partners. Growing annual revenues to exceed $37.5M GARPrimary achievements:• Direct account ownership of National MSPs and RPOs• Team building, Sales, Recruiting, and Account Management growth plans• HR, operations, including strategic workforce planning, goal cascading, performance management, Staffing, and benefits administration• Managed and led a multi-disciplinary team in the development, contract phases, and launch of a five-year $80M project

Reno, Nv

Directly managed the RPO and Managed Staffing service agreements with Amazon.com. Annual revenues for services averaged $25.3M GAR.Primary achievements:• Full lifecycle management of 2300 annual workers for Amazon.com • Built RPO to attract 15K and process 8K annual applicants• Developed a Safety program reducing OSHA recordable rate by 92%

Reno, Nevada Area

Renew Corporation is where we launched and drove business growth for the Private Equity / Venture Capital Practice in several small local and online-based businesses. • Anticipated and identified market trends• Identified underproducing businesses with unique challenges or bottlenecks• Actively sold and deployed strategies/solutions to overcome these hurdles. • Developed successful lead generation strategies • Created and sold service packages that enabled customers to use Renew Corp as the provider for the newest software technology.

California

Working with three hospitality companies, I held positions as the General Manager and Launch Manager.• Managed all Guest services• Sales departments• Forecasting and P&L’s• Rebranding franchises • Ground up opening of 17 properties • Brands included - Marriott - Embassy suites - Crowne Plaza Resorts - Best Western - Days Inn - Extended Stay America