Specializing in sourcing and hiring top ASIC Design, Design Verification (DV), and Design for Testability (DFT) professionals to support Cisco’s AI/ML initiatives from a hardware engineering perspective. This strategic shift expands my focus to meet the critical demand for specialized hardware expertise essential to advancing Cisco’s AI/ML ASIC capabilities.

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When Push comes to Shove...A series of employment per W-2, I-9 contracting and contingency Recruiting.HEALTHEQUITY >Sr Talent Partner: Hired for "just in time" recruiting of Sr+ level technical talent due to a large “modernization" effort migrating their platform to the cloud focused on .Net technologies. Metrics include 6 Offers Extended with 4 Offer Accepts; weekly submit-to-accept ratios all above 90%.Full cycle recruiting incorporating ChatGPT and Video mediums to lead in streamlining the process allowing the ability to expand workload.Adapted/implemented expedited hiring process due to a large volume of needs as the project was in full swing upon being hired. Had to be a true "quick learner”CAREFIRST REHAB >Talent Acquisition Partner:Expeditiously dove in to learn a completely NEW industry to immediately make an impact carrying ALL job openings requiring a quick positive impact for a struggling business.Successfully extended four offers within a five-week timeframe, resulting in the recruitment of two Physical Therapists—an unprecedented accomplishment.Quickly discovered State Board list of ALL PT's licensed for state of NC offering thousands of names, titles and emails for efficient sourcing! Never done prior w/ this organization! Responsible for incoming applicants via Bamboo ATS; all outgoing proactive sourcing; creating and posting job descriptions; all prescreens and pushing fw to Onsite interviews per my suggestion.

Overseeing sales and support for specific territories focused on smart metering (AMI Solution) and various other related product offerings. Client focus is on Coops and Municipalities within my territoriesSteep learning curve of products, software and company-related services focused on offering presentation including hardware/products demos.Business Development; responsible for cold calling, presentations and product demosStrong focus on technical and engineering focus on LoRa protocols and even no infrastructure via Amazon Sidewalk.

Recruited to source for Twitter’s primary means of revenue, the Ads space focused on MLE and DS needs. Moved to Security and Privacy teams to accelerate “top of funnel” needs for urgent FTC-related roles primarily focused on SWE, QA, PM Management, and Staff level roles.Metrics include #1 producer for all of Twitter Ads space with over 25 OA and top 5 Twitter overall. Over 90%* submit-to-interview; exceeded D&I metrics.Designed and implemented a new “top of funnel” sourcing process created around a broken system greatly increasing time-to-fill and leading to top sourcing metrics (OE and OA) for the year 2021.In order to hit incredibly high #'s, I created and implemented a new program including a video recording that reduced the screening times from 20 to 15 min or less. In doing so, it also led to a better candidate experience increasing overall metrics and hires. Another means of creatively finding methods to hire more with less involved rolling out an internal program involving more Sr staff to assist in moving through "top of funnel" objectives and hence leading to overwhelmingly high onsite or final virtual interviews which of course leads to quicker and more hires...with less.

Recruited back to source for the Siri Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning needs across the board. Metrics include over 85% conversion rate from submit/interview; 86% interview-to-Offer; 87% Offer Accept. 48% Diversity OA.Domains included Conversational AI, ASR, On-device speech, and Apple’s version of federated learning and other security-focused needs.Continuous Improvement initiatives leading to recruitment/sourcing process improvement expediting “top of funnel” metrics, specifically OE/OA.

Hired and RE-hired (recruited to come back after completing initial contract)Hired to source from the most competitive market for the Alexa division – Applied Scientists in the Bay area. Successfully adapted and embedded in a new market with sourcing efforts resulting in 13 Offers Accepted, over a 72% successful conversion rate. “Raised the bar” sourcing rare, truly hard-to-find talent for the Bay area leading to the first successful external hire for a Sr AI Scientist within the Conversational AI (Dialog Management) group in 5-year history. Domain focus for Applied Scientists includes Machine Learning with a focus on NLP/NLU, Computer Vision, and ASR/Speech Recognition. Assisted in sourcing rare Deep Learning talent for a “confidential project” leading to the most successful submit-to-interview ratio including the only offer within a 12-month period of sourcing and interviews from a group of 4 recruiters/sourcers.

Successfully recruited to manage proactive sourcing needs for the high growth sector, AMP (Apple Media Products), focused on Apple Music, TV, iTunes and emerging technologies including new platform development products and services (private undisclosed information). Exceeded expectations: Met OE (Offer Extended) with 76% conversion to OA numbers for Sr Sourcer in my first year (not required or expected for year one recruiters due to intense learning curve). Created and implemented a brand-new sourcing process pipeline expanding Sourcing capabilities across formally divided divisions, including international. Successfully recruited high-volume talent from local Bay area companies including FAANG co’s, Adobe, Twitter, etc. Quickly adapted to previously unknown technology: Mobile market: iOS, Android, Objective-C, Swift, numerous frameworks, MacOS development technology base, Data Science, ML, algorithm development; NLP, KG, etc.

Hired to introduce a one-of-a-kind proactive sourcing process focused on traditionally “hard to fill” positions across the company (this role had never existed at SAS previously). Successfully “broke the mold” hiring across all domains and industry verticals including R&D, Marketing, Educational Practices, HR, Sales, Government sectors, Information Technology, etc. Was requested to focus on overseeing Emerging Technologies for the R&D sector. Successfully reduced time to fill by over 100% (100 to just over 43 days) while creating a “human touch” process never before seen in SAS and R&D. Focus: Software Engineers – Architects, Full Stack, Front End (UI/UX) using JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5; Mid-tier and Back-end developers using Java 8, RDMS (MySQL and NoSQL); RESTful API design; Dev- Ops; Cloud Platform focus (AWS) w/ Hadoop platform scalability; Low-level core platform services programming in C/C++; QA/Testing (CD/CI).Emerging Technology focus – Speech Recognition (dev, test and R&D); Deep Learning (Machine Learning) Algorithm development; IoT PM, Developers and SW Testers; Cybersecurity; RISK, Analytics (Research Statistician Developers) R&D, development using SAS, R or Python.

Contract: Assigned to source and recruit talent for Honeywell's Aerospace division at various locations across the country. Jobs in Engineering, Information Technology and most vertical divisions across the Honeywell Aerospace division.

I worked on various RPO's, projects and corporate staffing initiatives from a full life cycle recruiting perspective with an emphasis on my talent sourcing capabilities leading to my assisting others with their needs utilizing my sourcing capabilities.A list of clients are listed below and includes…ITRON (smart grid), XL GLOBAL SERVICES (FinTech), CUMMINS (vehicle engineering), ETC.PRIOR EXPERIENCE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST