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Dowd Consulting is a boutique executive recruitment firm and technical recruiting consultancy. Over fifteen years of both agency and in-house/corporate technical recruiting, executive search. A strategic partner to executive teams and senior management of select clients to develop staffing strategies and implementation plans that drive results. Thoughtful and effective for top talent full-cycle recruiting. A passionate connector with strong expertise in relationship management and cultivating strategic partnerships to propel my clients to the next stage of growth.Clients include: Autodesk, Alembic, 2K Games, Capital One, Percolate, WCIRB, Scholastic, Gap, Inc., Sephora, Data Analysis Inc, Scholastic, California People Search, Stealth start ups, Arise, Specialties: • Building high performance teams in SaaS, cloud infrastructure, cloud operations, cloud security, product development, product management, data science, engineering, sales, machine learning, marketing, customer success.• Executive Search in high tech / software services.• High touch employee, consultant and client engagement.• Global talent acquisition, sourcing and management, full-cycle to the close. Creative sourcing techniques - Social media, passive candidates, deep-dive research.• Augmenting companies in high-growth mode or in transformation.• Infrastructure set-up including ATS selection, process and work-flow improvement, employer branding, diversity and inclusion strategy and planning.• Pipeline management with insights, metrics, data.• High touch employee, consultant and client engagement• Start-up ventures,

Avenue Code is an IT and Engineering consulting firm focusing on software development using agile methodology to develop eCommerce platforms to help their customers keep pace with the ever growing online business opportunities. Advised on business operations, Recruiting as well as fostered relationships with executive management of eCommerce clients. Executive leadership, served on Board of Directors based in SF HQ. Hired trained, managed and coached a staff of eleven Recruiters and Sales / Business development staff. Mentored staff on service delivery, best practices and used performance management tools to drive metrics and achieve targets.Offices in San Francisco, New York, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte

7N is a privately owned Danish consultancy specialized in large scale IT and Engineering projects world-wide. 7N targets best in class freelance consultants and executives in all areas of the SDLC to parachute in and solve complex, mission critical problems.Launched the US HQ to expand business nationwide for executive search and consulting practice. Clients: Frog Design, IDEO, Gilead Sciences, McKesson, Gap, Yahoo, SFDC, Splunk, McAfee, Intel, Intuit, PayPal. Set up entire infrastructure from scratch.Served on International Board of Directors. HQ in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Anchor and equity Partner to launch the San Francisco operation. Managed a team of five to provide high touch executive search, direct hire and consulting services to a variety of fortune 500 clients and start-ups for IT and Engineering projects. Clients included Yahoo, Frog Design, double Twist, Genentech, MobiTV, Asurian Mobile, Telenav, Cisco, Qualcomm and others.

President & CEO –(3/99 – 10/01)US Director – (2/98 – 3/99)Turned around a < 1 million dollar operation to over 30 million dollars in revenue in three years by successfully re-launching the US Headquarters for S.Com in San Francisco, Miami Operations for Latin America and project office in Mexico City. Hired, managed and steered a staff of 48 internal employees and over 300 external consultants to establish S.Com as the market leader in the provision of technical staff for wireless network implementation projects to major Telecom and Fortune 500 companies with satellite projects in 38 countries. Developed and maintained client relationships responding to dynamic staffing requirements and providing on time, high-level staffing solutions. Clients included: Ericsson, Nortel, Qualcomm, Nokia, Lucent, Vodafone, Siemens, GlobalStar, Leap Wireless, Verizon, Cisco.Served on Board of Directors for S.Com, Inc in the US and S.Com Ltd (based in U.K.).

Directed business development and recruiting delivery initiatives for IT and Telecom contract and exec search staffing solutions for teams in San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Sydney (Aus.) and Boston for Fortune 500 accounts.Expanded business opportunities in both US and Australia resulting in 75-100+% growth year on year.