Lead and develop a high-performing talent acquisition team, overseeing the full-cycle recruiting process and building robust talent pipelines across multiple business units.Partner with HR and business leaders to harmonize hiring practices, enhance employment branding, and support strategic initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions.Drive continuous improvement in recruitment strategies by leveraging technology, identifying key metrics, and ensuring compliance with regulations.

Recruitment and consulting business focused on transforming talent acquisition strategies. With 24 years of experience, I partner with organizations to optimize recruiting processes, build high-performing teams, and implement data-driven solutions for attracting top-tier talent.

Hired to lead the transformation of VMware’s Global Sourcing function across all regions and business units. Responsible for the design and activation of critical global strategies, focused on the identification, engagement, and assessment of highly qualified, diverse talent for current and future needs. -Led a complex global operation consisting of 90 Sourcers, 14 Managers and 3 Program Managers. -Streamlined & Restructured the Talent Discovery (TD) team which included: *Defined organizational alignment, charter, goals, FY priorities and development of strategic roadmap. *Established meaningful qualitative and quantitative Talent Discovery Sourcing metrics. *Talent discovery sourcing capacity, time to fill, source of hire, DEI slating, interview/offer KPI’s*Designed and built standard reports and dashboards to track operational performance, provide visibility to leadership and drive decision making based on data and insights. *Streamlined global processes and swim lanes to drive efficiency.*Established service level agreements to align to VMware’s principles and stakeholder requirements to deliver end to end hiring plans.*Created 2 Candidate/Engagement Manager roles to 1) drive our CRM campaigns with meaningful touchpoints from VMware 2) drive automation in our database, and 3) increase consumption of existing talent.-Led operational improvements focused on automation and process redesign to enable scalability and velocity. -Built vendor management engagement and processes for working with external staffing agencies.-Provided mentorship, guidance, and career development to both managers and individual contributors.

Led a global team of 13 recruiter and 2 recruiting managers to deliver strategic talent acquisition support to the Customer Experience and Success (CXS) organization. -The CXS recruiting team connects top talent with opportunities that align their skills, interests, potential and aptitude. -Hired and built out a team of top recruiting talent. Hiring efforts included Talent Branding Strategy, Market Insights & Intelligence, Proactive Pipelining, Sourcing, Offering and Onboarding. -Drove diverse and inclusive end-to-end recruiting practices and acted as a DEI thought leader. -Demonstrated an aptitude for problem solving, creativity, ingenuity and diplomacy when partnering with stakeholders, and business partners. -Through partnership with our hiring managers and leaders, we hired the best as efficiently as possible, while providing excellent customer and candidate experience and driving diverse and inclusive interview practices.-Provided data backed analysis to leadership and other key stakeholders to help drive strategic talent decisions and identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement.-Leveraged strong influencing skills through data presentation and analysis and was a trusted advisor to my VMware stakeholders and business partners. -Ensured operational excellence, focusing on quality, process efficiency and cost of delivery.-Collaborated with key players (Compensation, Finance, HRBPs, Leaders and TA) to ensure alignment, healthy partnership, and unified approach in the support efforts to our customer groups

Effectively transform the way Microsoft builds awareness, attraction, and engagement with differentiated talent across the globe, by empowering our Talent Acquisition organization with a distinct and consistent approach to their recruitment strategy.-Develop and share broadly a Social, Events, Diversity and Disability strategy within Microsoft that leverages the Global Talent Acquisition priorities.-Develop strategic multi-channel sourcing solutions, designed to identify, attract, and secure robust and highly qualified pools of talent for the company for our 1,300 recruiters in Global Talent Acquisition. Managing team of 5-8 PM’s. -Conceptualize, develop, and implement innovative talent engagement strategies to drive candidate consideration (Social Ads, Stories, Event brand presence & activations). -Increasing diversity pipeline of talent through execution of EDEN Events (External Diversity Events for Networking), social amplification, content curation, tier 1 diversity Events (NBMBA, Prospanica, Grace Hopper, etc), virtual events, autism/disability, and military hiring programs. -Discovery and pilots of new tools that will allow for broader amplification, candidate identification and exposure.-Manage and build capability of high performing team, accountable 1.2M program budget and deliver data insights/reports to talent acquisition leaders WW. Detailed Program Information: -Microsoft Military Affairs/MSSA Program: http://military.microsoft.com/training/mssa/ -Microsoft Autism/Disability Hiring: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/cross-disability/hiring.aspx-Microsoft Autism Program (Fast Company Article): https://www.fastcompany.com/3062835/hr/microsoft-autism-hiring -Microsoft Codess: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/codess -Microsoft Women Think Next: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/womenthinknext-Microsoft Tech Roots: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/techroots

Led staff of Senior Staffing consultants to drive hiring within Microsoft's Services Headquarters and Commercial Technical Services organization.Candidate generation/account management/social networking strategies. Effectively communicated business strategy and goals. Hired and developed direct and in-direct teams ensuring delivery of strategic recruitment and workforce plans for current and future talent requirements. Managing a team of 7-10 recruiters. Drove strategy and delivery of hiring targets, including diversity & inclusion – approximately 350 -400 internal and external hires, annually. Increased external and diversity hires year-over-year. Target 3:1 interview/offer ratio, 45 days to fill, 8.7+ Candidate & Hiring Manager satisfactionLeveraged data intelligence to conduct hiring/attrition analysis, define productivity gaps, build candidate pipelines and to inform the direction of consultation to business leaders around approach to talent acquisition and retention. Designed and delivered a Services-wide global Rebranding/Marketing effort, depicting Microsoft Services as a destination employer. Deployed Services content for WW Staffing teams. Developed strategy and led Social Networking training for global Services, resulting in dramatic increases in LinkedIn networks and external talent acquisition.

Senior Recruiter for Microsoft Customer Services and Support - Escalation Engineers in Platforms, Exchange, Live Meeting and OCS.Managed the end to end hiring process across a variety of clients in the Services organization, building strong relationships with the business and developing a deep understanding of the talent landscape.Successfully partnered with Business Leaders, Hiring Managers and HR Partners to ensure alignment between the staffing strategy and business objectives.

Staffing Consultant for Microsoft Search (www.live.com and BING). Development positions.Sourced for candidates through various candidate generation techniques; job sites, proactive competitive research, internet techniques and direct sourcing/networking. Screened, interviewed and cultivated relationships with prospective candidates.Negotiated and close offers; typically, in a highly competitive market with top competitors being Yahoo and Google. Worked with client to determine staffing needs, recruiting budget, business priorities and strategy.Continually met/exceeded hiring goals, customer satisfaction and diversity targets.Mentored junior team members, led and drove various operational excellence projects across staffing team.

Oversaw WW Sales operations for a CCTV company.