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Founded Active with AI to source and recruit AI talent for startups and high-growth companies. Active with AI provides top AI talent for all industries and disciplines globally. We simplify your AI hiring, making it faster, easier and 80% more affordable vs. big agencies. We uncover AI talent in areas including, but not limited to Data Science & Analytics, Machine Learning Engineering, Natural Language Processing, and AI Research & Development. AI talent includes Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Research Scientists, Natural Language Processing Engineers, Computational Linguists, R&D Engineers, Computer Vision Scientists, Deep Learning Engineers, Applied Scientists, UX Researchers, AI Solutions Architects, Bioinformatics Engineers, Senior Program Managers, Chief Technology Officers and Chief AI Officers.

Lead a large global research team of Research Analysts (US, Canada, India, The Philippines) for executive client search (C-suite, SVP level). Team included 50 in North America, and 50 internationally.Responsible for building a strategic roadmap for market intelligence, market research and talent acquisition strategy and initiatives. Lead and continuously improved and maintained accurate talent and market data to influence hiring and talent decisions. Lead key talent initiatives in the executive search research process. Integrated as a leader within the talent team and provided first rate services to the business and talent teams. Understood and reported on talent supply and demand, compensation trends and the competitive landscape in general. Researched and provided guidance regarding candidate pipeline channels and tools across roles and regions. Drove new and innovative passive talent sourcing strategies. Ran DE&I Desk - providing market research, market intelligence and training for hiring diverse talent. Developed LinkedIn Champions program partnering with LinkedIn to extract hidden talent across the platform.

Hired to build and operate a brand new, dedicated talent sourcing function for a 12-person global executive recruiting team supporting positions across all functions in the US, Canada and Europe.Sourced executive talent globally at the AVP, VP, SVP, Head and Chief levels (technology, sales, digital, finance, healthcare, supply chain). Built new executive talent sourcing function to partner with recruiters and technology leaders across all service lines in technology areas including cloud, digital strategy, (AI) artificial intelligence, (IoT) Internet of Things, (BPS) business process services, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce and AWS.Developed proactive talent database (JazzHR) pipelining target candidates and competitive intelligence from digital, management consulting companies (Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, McKinsey).

Provide sourcing solutions including talent sourcing and name generation to clients nationally focused on technology, sales, healthcare, finance and government. Sourcing execution for finding resumes, profiles, names, lists, groups and directories using advanced web search with boolean (Google, Bing), social and business networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter), custom candidate messaging and engagement via email, text, social and phone, and strategies for utilizing ATS/CRM. Talent sourcing projects include: sourcing for finance and technical positions including Oracle and Salesforce, TS/SCI Full Scope Polygraph requirements for Software Engineers and Network Engineers, Sales sourcing for several markets including New York, Chicago and San Francisco, and sourcing for Director level, charitable, sales-focused positions nationally.

Hands-on, requisition carrying role, sourcing across sales, IT and products and software development groups. Managed 2 Talent Sourcers, 2 Technical Recruiters and 4 Talent Acquisition Associates.Day-to-day management of sourcing program and team producing active candidates nationally across lines of business including sales, IT, products and software development and finance. Responsible for building dedicated social recruiting program and team executing social media content and web marketing campaigns for employer brand across LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and Instagram. Managed and redefined recruiting technology including Candidate Relationship Management (CRM), building a proprietary database for active and passive talent, career site redesign and mobile recruiting optimization, video interviewing platform, cutting interview travel costs, and employee referral technology and program, driving relevant candidates to open positions from internal employees. Oversaw vendor management including selection and strategies with candidate systems (Taleo, Talemetry), major job boards (Careerbuilder, Monster), job search aggregators (Indeed), niche career sites (TheLadders, Dice, ZipRecruiter) and open web (TalentBin). Worked with HR to define and develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) for all recruiting, sourcing, coordinator and business partner functions. Collaborated with recruiting groups for technical search expertise and recruitment marketing, implementing pipeline generation efforts. Team focus on data and analytics for new-hire quality, decreasing attrition, decreasing cost per hire and decreasing time to fill.

Provided sourcing and recruiting services to Fortune 500 companies and high growth organizations. Lead projects centered on talent sourcing, social recruiting, mobile recruiting and ATS and CRM technologies. Partnered with recruiting leaders and human resources to implement leading edge talent management, recruiting operations and sourcing. Client projects include the following below.Microsoft: Managed strategic staffing requirements for Microsoft's commercial and public sector government groups. Sourced for the commercial team "100 hires in 100 days" sourcing program. Built brand new social communities on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Directed social media recruiting campaigns for public sector.PwC: High-level sourcing project for PwC’s assurance, advisory and tax practices. Involved identifying and recruiting talent that didn’t leave a “digital footprint”. Helped create best practices “sourcing placemat” for recruiting and sourcing team utilizing social networks, search engines and online groups.IBM: Architected sourcing program to pull talent from 100’s of online sources, including blogs, LinkedIn and Google. Program reduced agency spend and time-to-fill for “TPDO” Talent Pipeline Delivery Organization. UnitedHealth Group: Executive Sourcing for IT, finance, healthcare & insurance requirements. Trained sourcing team on Twitter and Google.Disney: Sourced for experienced technical professionals and executives for Disney Parks and Resorts Online. Worked with recruiting team and technology vendors to implement new CRM database for sourcing passive talent.ADP: Sourcing for high-volume sales, finance, accounting and payroll positions. Social recruiting training to recruiting staff of 125+. Implemented “no cost” sourcing programs reducing agency spend and time-to-fill.

Sourced and recruited information technology professionals for staff augmentation and client projects in various technical backgrounds. Client projects included web, client server, networks, software packages, operating systems and mainframe. Developed and maintained a large active candidate pipeline. Implemented numerous sourcing strategies across job boards and internal ATS. Conducted phone sourcing to uncover hidden talent not available in our ATS, our network or on paid resources and databases. Coordinated and participated in multiple technical job fairs. Helped to develop a quality recruiting process with the recruiting team.

Intern for the THX division of Lucasfilm. Worked in the marketing department conducting global surveys of movie patrons in theaters utilizing THX equipment and technology. Worked with Vice President, Marketing and marketing team in California, along with theater owners in multiple countries to conduct surveys, collect, analyze and report on findings.