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LivaNova has launched a finance transformation initiative to standardize global processes and governance models to support and sustain LivaNova’s long-term strategic vision. Drive business case creation, support the Finance Organization with project delivery, and own integrated process mapping to support strategy enhancement implementation and business across Livanova.

Houston, Texas Area

Nine years at Livanova, built the North American recruiting team up, managing both in-house and RPO teams to discover and nurture talent across all functions. Experience in all facets of recruiting, such as sourcing, recruiting, closing, candidate experience, diversity, compliance, events, and branding with a strong aspiration to innovate the Talent Acquisition Function! Breaking the norms in recruiting, disagreeing with the status queue, and committing to delivering results. Improving the recruitment experience - both for internal team members and candidates!Supporting extensive process management and process efficiency work, including leading the assessment and re-design of the end-to-end recruiting process along with leading and managing a small team. Led the design and implementation of the current applicant tracking system (Workday Recruit) and other recruiting software tools. Conducted our international User Acceptance Testing. Working closely as a business partner with C-Suit management. Supported full-cycle recruiting from initial recruitment to onboarding for the business.

Houston, Texas Area

Substantial interaction with hiring managers to determine sourcing strategies and expectations of finding the best candidate. Create interview guides for the hiring team and educate the hiring manager on how to conduct effective interviews. Selected to be part of the LinkedIn’s Recruiter Certificate Group which is responsible for determining topics/speakers for upcoming recruiting events and to thoroughly evaluate new LinkedIn tools. Instrumental in bringing "Performance-Based Hiring" concepts to hiring managers to increase interview accuracy. Convert traditional internal job descriptions into marketing/performance profiles which help candidates get a better understanding of job expectations. Selected to be Project Manager for an electronic New Hire Onboarding solution (TBE) which allows new hires to complete any necessary paperwork before their start date. Created new programs such as SMS text congratulations, new hire lunches, personalized digital welcome sign, hand-written thank you notes, itinerary schedules, and bios for interview team. Assisted in the redesign of our corporate career site. A key contributor to the implementation and selection of a new applicant tracking system (TBE & TEE).

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for full life-cycle recruitment of 300 regular full-time hires. Also, filled over 130 specialized hard-to-find technical skilled employees directly to our payroll.Specialize in developing sourcing strategies for the selection process which includes advertising, search engine optimization, pay per click, screening, interviewing, Facilitating post-interview feedback and candidate selection, reference checking, and extending and negotiating the offer. Identify and qualify "passive candidates" through direct sourcing from targeted companies, in-depth internet research (Google X-Ray, ZoomInfo, Conectifier Advanced Boolean Search), social networking (LinkedIn, Facebook, Social Talent, Twitter) and employee referrals.

Attracting, sourcing, and placing Administrative and Accounting/Financial Professionals in the Greater Houston Area Led a team of motivated recruiters while vigorously recruiting and placing high caliber professionals for Robert Half Clients on a Contract/Contract to hire or permanent basis. Impact direction, training, development, and motivation to the Administrative and Accounting Industry. Created, coordinated, and implemented recruiting strategies to facilitate the client’s needs while ensuring speed to market. Successfully maintained or exceeded revenue growth consistent with RH targetsKey Accomplishments: * Promoted to Division Director of OfficeTeam within eight months of employment, was ranked 8th in the world for sales performance in 2008 and successfully grew our South Houston Office by 20% in a downturn in 2009.* Instrumental in creating and implementing job posting presentation templates and assisting in the efforts to launch the first partnership in the US between a global networking organization and a Staffing Organization. This partnership enabled our top recruiter’s to have access to training on a daily basis, ultimately allowing our team the ability to mine new resources for Top Talent in minutes.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Psychology

Activities and Societies: Dean's List Neuropsychology EmphasisCompleted

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Psychology

Activities and Societies: PHI THETA KAPPA (Honor Society)Completed