John A. Childs, Msee, Bsee, Cir Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

I enjoy engaging with a recruiter having a difficult search. First step is to have an extensive conversation with the recruiter that involves determining what the REAL requirements are. This is a required step because most often Required skills stated on the job description turn out to only be Preferred Skills; Preferred Skills turn out to be Required Skills; and then there are Required Skills that are not stated anywhere in the job description. This process answers the question, "when do you want to know what the hiring manager is really looking for?"In writing the Boolean string for a position, I typically go through 3 to 15 iterations, testing the string at each iteration in a database before I feel the optimum string has been achieved.Then I take the selected string and write 5 variations of the string going from Tightest String (fewest results, but most accurate); then Tight, Medium, Loose, and Loosest (most results, but less accurate),That's my hand-off to the recruiter.. From that point going forward, it's up to the recruiter to take the process forward.I don't do strings for Google searches. For those I would refer you to Shally Steckerl, Founder of the Sourcing Institute Foundation, www.thesourcinginstiture.com or Irina Schmaeva, founder of www.BooleanStrings.com.john@johnchilds1.com

Dallas, Texas

"In any area of life, there's nothing less important than the score at half-time. If you're behind, don't give up. If you're ahead, don't let up. Finish. Your best days are yet to come!" John Childs, CONTACT: john.childs1@verizon.net• Technical Sourcer at HUAWEI R&D USA, Santa Clara group. [contract ended Mar 2015]• Recruiting R&D software technology candidates from Director level to individual contributors focusing on next-generation multimedia, storage and IT/ICT infrastructure products for a wide and varied array of innovative disruptive technologies.• Selected Positions Sourced:Big Data (& Analytics), PaaS (Platform as a Service), Cloud Computing, OpenStack, OpenShift, Storage/File Systems/Dedupe, SDS (Software Defined Storage), AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure, All-Flash Array, Linux Kernel, SDN (Software Defined Networks), NFV (Network Function Virtualization), LTE Algorithm Experts, Copywriter, next-generation multimedia, and IT/ICT infrastructure products for a wide and varied array of innovative and disruptive technologies

PUBLICATIONS & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:SourceCon/ERE Published Article: Boolean In Disguise: LinkedIn Recruiter’s Cure for the Common Boolean Blues http://www.eremedia.com/sourcecon/boolean-in-disguise/SourceCon/ERE Published Article: Fame, Fortune, and a Free Happy Meal http://www.eremedia.com/sourcecon/the-boolean-five-all-stars/SourceCon/ERE Published Article: The Case of the Questionable Quotation Marks http://www.eremedia.com/sourcecon/solved-the-case-of-the-questionable-quotation-marks/SourceCon/ERE Published Article: Solved! The Case of the Questionable Quotation Marks http://www.eremedia.com/sourcecon/questionable-quotation-marks/Speaker at SourceCon Seattle: Oct 2-3, 2013Conducted Identified Recruit Webinar (company out of business, took site down)http://info.identified.com/boolean-101-webinar-registration.htmlSpeaker at 2015 Social Recruiting Seminar - May 11 - 12th in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Dallas, Texas

• There were 100+ BlackBerry recruiters world-wide. When they had a difficult time filling a position, it was escalated to the ten person Strike Team to source hard-to-find candidates.• Positions included embedded software, RF, baseband, antenna, Director level positions in software product management, "bare metal/lights out" systems administrators, displays, cameras, IT, networking and any other positions pertaining to the design and manufacture of wireless cell phones.• Taught Boolean classes worldwide to BlackBerry recruiters via Webex...

Dallas, Texas

• There were 100+ Raytheon recruiters world-wide. When they had a difficult time filling a position, it was escalated to the ten person SWAT Team to source hard-to-find candidates.• The SWAT Team established by Raytheon Corporate to recruit for difficult-to-fill technical defense positions across this conglomeration of six companies, a vast spectrum of positions that ranged from electronic warfare to missile guidance systems, to finding a Bio-Hazard Safety Engineer for Azerbaijan. Also recruited patent attorneys with BSEE.• As a sourcer I wrote Boolean search strings for all the recruiters on the SWAT Recruiting Team.• New reqs came to me first and followed the sequence of interviewing the hiring manager with the recruiter present. Then I would break down the technical req into terms that the recruiter could relate to. Next step was for me to write Boolean strings for the other recruiters. This was my full time job. We were very successful. • Taught classes on Boolean recruiting in various U.S. locations of Raytheon.• Designed specialized Applicant Tracking System just for the SWAT Team. I wrote the program for the applicant tracking system consisting of approx 4000 lines of Excel Visual Basic code.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• TRAVELOCITY - Southlake, TexasRecruited VP IT, VP Marketing, Project Manager, Software Engineers, Software Test Engineers, Call Center Managers.• JOHN CHILDS & ASSOC, INC. – Contingency Technical Recruiting• E-TALK Irving, Texas Sr. Technical RecruiterCall Center software company selling to Fortune 500 companies such as Dell, Compaq, IBM, Xerox, and Ford Motor Company.Position recruited: Manager of Channel Sales, Direct Account Executives (NYC, Seattle), Sr. CTI / VOIP / TELEPHONY Software Engineers, Product Marketing Managers, Software QA Manager, Attorney, Paralegal, Product Support Specialists, and Admin Assistants.

9/98 – 10/01 eJOBS, INC. Dallas TX. Sr. Technical Recruiter & Project Lead eJobs, Inc. was a project-based IT/Telecom recruiting firm in which project recruiters are “landed” on-site and work side by side with the technical/engineering hiring managers. (eJobs went out of business Nov ’01)• GNUBI COMMUNICATIONS - Project Lead on-site. Fiber optic test equipment.• NEWGISTICS (“RETURN VALET”) - Co-Project Lead for a dot.com start-up.• ANDERSEN CONSULTING - Project Lead recruiting dot.com candidates.• FRESH AMERICA - Project Lead for for staffing an accounting and HR department.• HART INTERCIVIC - Project Lead for web-enabled city government document imaging.• SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY - Project Lead for staffing a R&D center for in Pittsburgh PA• Boolean Tutorial: developed and taught class on power Boolean database searches for internet recruiting...

Dallas, Texas

Senior Technical Recruiter

Semincondutor recruiting for R&D and Corporate business units.

11/95 - 4/98 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS (Contract) - Consultant / Technical Recruiter,

Semiconductor Staffing.


Previous positions were in semiconductor / electronics sales and sales management.

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Bsee / Msee, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi (Eng Scholastic Fraternity) and Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Eng Scholastic Fraternity)

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi & Eta Kappa Nu