I work with early stage and mid-range companies for talent acquisition strategy and execution.Partner with start-ups and small companies to recruit for hard-to-find professionals. Searches have varied from VP of Engineering, Co-Founders to Engineering (software, electrical and mechanical), Product, Marketing, and technical interns. Experience with G&A hires from cost accounting to office manager. Discuss and implement hiring plans and create strategies with founders and/or managers to work through a staffing strategy from hire to succession planning. Uncover growth opportunities, as well as discuss in-house talent that could be promoted within groups or in the company.Develop diversity and college recruiting programs at the inception. Human resource compliance, help with EEOC tracking, set up tools, talent attraction programs and share guidance with what benefits are more attractive to employees. Partner closely with in-house HR or use my knowledge to share with newer hiring managers in what to do and what to avoid.

Worked with early stage funded companies to expand their staff and help address their business needs. Identified, selected, and presented candidates. Helped create Human Resources "in a box" for small start ups prior to hiring their own in-house solution.Clients included Redbubble, Tennmen Digital, Tapulous and Xoopit.

Passive talent searches for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) for Google.com which ensures 99.9999% of availability and uptime for search, gmail, voice, data, adwords, etc. Select, engage and screen technical talent globally for offices in: Mountain View, Santa Monica, Seattle, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, New York, Zurich, London, Dublin, Bangalore and Sydney.Discovery and selection of executive level candidates for Google.com global operations which included Sydney, London, Dublin, Bangalore, and Zurich with strong hands-on computer engineering backgrounds. Focus on networking (the full seven layer stack) - interoperability, systems administrators and C++/C/Python programmers.

Hired in with an elite group of researchers for the hard-to-find candidates and do corporate research as needed. Worked on several executive level searches from reverse engineering to finance. Was tasked with identifying top talent and competitors. Did both behind the scenes as well as executive and candidate interface.Searches included VP, Director level as well as highly specialized positions in Marketing, Engineering and Finance.

Worked with the Quickbooks and Quicken product groups to find product managers, marketing both in and out bound, as well as market research, corporate communications across corporate marketing function.Partnered with 5 recruiters for hard-to-fill searches in MA, AZ, TX and CA.Special project roll-outs for web based marketing, SEO and SEM.