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Orange County, California Area

• Utilized social networking strategies, Boolean search techniques, and creative sourcing methodologies to identify, attract, and sell coveted roles at QLogic.• Successful in placing candidates into key management and engineering roles through cold-calling.• Tasked to source hard to find technical talent across many business units of QLogic. • Sourced product managers, ASIC design engineers, ASIC design verification engineers, firmware engineers, signal integrity engineers, and software engineers for the HSD and SSD groups.

Greater Seattle Area

• Partnered with various hiring managers and leaders in developing recruiting and direct sourcing strategies for the Prime and Traffic groups at Amazon.• Sourced over 1600 software development engineers (Java, J2EE, and C++), software development engineering managers, and technical program managers over a ten-month period.• Utilized social networking strategies, Boolean search techniques, and creative sourcing methodologies to identify, attract, and sell coveted roles at Amazon.com.

Orange County, California Area

• Partnered with the Director of Human Resources, VP of Operations, Director of Operations, and Manufacturing Manager in creating a cost-effective business process. • Managed various vendors in benchmarking strategic business objectives. • Managed employee relations function, hiring and terminations, onboarding, and immigration needs of the manufacturing facility. • Processed immigration documents for employees requiring special work visa arrangements. • Created, developed, and managed full life-cycle technical recruiting practice for the company.• Created, developed, and managed campus recruiting and university relations programs for the company. • Negotiated and drafted Master Services Agreements with service vendors.• Responsible for direct placement of 67% of regular and contract hires for the company over the course of 4 ½ years.• Technical positions recruited for included, but not limited to, embedded systems software engineers, manufacturing engineers, quality engineers, test engineers, and firmware engineers.