Douglas Garay Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California, Us

Emeryville, Ca, Us

Gracenote is a Nielsen Media Company.• Facilitate strategic, full life cycle staffing for global B2B entertainment data and user experience products related to Music, Video (linear television, on-demand, and streaming), Sports, Automotive, and Personalization (advertising) • Skills supported include Software Engineering, Data Science, Big Data, Data Platforms, Data Analytics, Product, Applied Research, and Content• Also supported Customer Experience, Finance, Accounting, and Sales • Locations include the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Queensbury, Tampa, Dallas, Chicago Minneapolis, and Kansas City. International includes Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, the Netherlands (Holland), and Germany. • Tools expert including Applicant Tracking Systems, interview tools, recruitment platforms, and reporting. ATSs included Successfactors, Taleo, iCIMS, Jobvite ("owner," global implementation), and Jobscore. Recruiting and reporting tools include HireVue, Hired, Visier and Phenom.• Coordinated the local Intern program• Non-recruiting duties included conceptualizing and producing the Gracenote Jam, an annual company-wide team building exercise, concert and party celebrating Gracenote musicians and film makers, "coffee houses" to maintain engagement during the COVID quarantine, and organizing quarterly "Tech Talks" featuring industry experts• Persevered through mergers, acquisitions, and splits from a global staff of less then 400 (SONY), to Tribune Media (1,800), Nielsen (48,000) and finally Nielsen Media (16,000 heads).

New York, Ny, Us

Please see "Gracenote" job description above. Nielsen acquired Gracenote in 2016.

• Oversaw staffing process for contract and full time employees. Processes include sourcing, screening, writing submittals, checking references, negotiating offers. Also responsible for writing job descriptions, advertising, maintaining job boards. • Primary focus was Information Systems and Information Technology, with additional recruiting in Pharmaceutical and Biotechnical fields• Primary client was Yahoo. Other clients include companies related to Nano Technology, Insurance, the Travel Industry, Databases and Consulting companies. • Worked on-site contracts while employed with Encore• Helped coordinate free lance recruiters, free lance sales force, Sourcers and hourly staff• Responded to bids and RFPs• Account Management• Other duties included managing 3rd party vendors, assisting with collections and payroll, and terminations

• Responsible for creating staffing processes and staffing responsibilities for first-round, VC-funded Analytical Software Company (I-Impact), a later stage International Trade Portal (MeetChina.com), and well-established, profitable component manufacturing company (CoorsTek). Worked as the only recruiter at I-Impact and MeetChina.com, and was a team member at CoorsTek.• Active in full recruitment lifecycle, including writing and posting job descriptions, sourcing, interviewing (phone and in-person), writing and negotiating offers, closing candidates and writing offer letters. Active in on-line recruiting, networking, cold calling, compensation, and equity. Knowledgeable in Employment Law (Federal, California, and Texas) and ISO issues.• Placements included technical PeopleSoft implementation team at CoorsTek, QA, Director of Product Management, DBA, System Engineers (Application Developers), ETL Engineers, System Administrator, Documentation Specialists, Accountants, Controller, Legal Council, sales, and Receptionist at I-Impact, and Java Engineer, HTML Engineer, Software Engineer, and Creative Director at MeetChina.com. • At I-Impact, hired eight full time and five contract employees in two months• Selected and coordinated third-party recruiters and agencies at I-Impact

• As a member of a five person staffing team, responsible for hiring approximately 400 new hires and contractors in six months.• Active in full recruitment lifecycle.• Focused on Operations (Network Administrators, Engineers and Security, Oracle DBAs, UNIX (Solaris and Linux) Administrators, Directors and Project managers), Support (Technical and non-technical) and Business Intelligence (ETL Engineers, Data Warehouse Engineers, Data Modelers, Data Miners, Statisticians, and Directors). • Coordinated third-party recruiters and agencies.

Zurich, Ch

• Recruit for Network Administrators, Engineers and technicians, System Administrators, Web Developers, Software Engineers, program managers, project managers, telephone and desktop technical support engineers, IS/IT Engineers, ECO analysts, and customer service representatives in both contract and direct hire positions. • Clients include Yahoo!, eBay, Excite, @Home, iPass, Cisco, AirTouch, Sony, XEROX, PeopleSoft, Apple, Adobe, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), National Semiconductor and more.• Coached Manager and other recruiters through implementation of recruiter databases and requisition tracking software, as well as other technologies.• Rewarded as Regional Technical Recruiter of the Year based on number of placements. Region included the Silicon Valley, the Peninsula, and San Francisco. (1998)

• Responsible for sourcing, recruiting and qualifying Disaster Assistant Employees at FEMA’s National Teleregistration Center.• Helped to create and implement recruitment processes at the Teleregistration Center as a test case for all of FEMA.• Team was recognized by President Clinton in his State of the Union address (1995) for restructuring FEMA’s hiring process, which was eventually implemented in most FEMA branches. • Also aided in disaster deployment and payroll processing.

Master Of Arts, Communication And Human Resources

Bachelor Of Arts, Communication And Geography