Member of REI’s Headquarters Talent Acquisition team focused on recruitment for the Product, UX, design, marketing and engineer positions in a high growth environment.* Partnered and collaborated with hiring leaders and business partners to lead hiring strategy and effectively manage full-life cycle recruiting across assigned divisions resulting in hiring quality talent in an efficient recruiting process. * Implemented recruiting strategies for hard-to-fill UX and Product roles, working closely with hiring managers to identify passive candidates through networking and creative sourcing techniques. * Achieved 100% positive hiring manager feedback survey results.* Contributed to TA Programs including Hiring Manager Strategy, Candidate Experience SLAs and REDI hiring initiatives for continuous improvement. * Selected and trained to co-facilitate Managing Bias in Hiring training for retail hiring managers in support of REI’s mission to become an inclusive, anti-racist, multicultural organization.

Gaia is the world’s largest subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) provider of transformational media, dedicated to empowering you in body, mind, and spirit, we have a unique opportunity to drive meaningful change in our world through streaming content that awakens and transforms. Led hiring and onboarding processes for full life-cycle recruiting.* Created, developed, and managed an equitable and consistent recruiting, hiring, and onboarding process.* Collaborated with hiring managers to identify and develop key outreach sourcing initiatives to ensure a constant pipeline of talented and diverse applicants in a very niche market.* Strategically balanced building pipelines from sourcing passive candidates & active candidates to reach hiring growth targets.* Hired, developed, and led a small talent acquisition team to minimize the need for outside agencies assistance for full-time positions.* Significantly improved the quality of hire for each position by building and transforming end-to-end talent functions that enhance business goals ensuring a superb candidate/employee experience* Evaluated the candidate experience process with data-driven metrics and plan for continuous improvement in effectiveness and efficiencies while promoting culture, joy, and laughter.

We started Wikiwiki to redefine how business and talent connect to propel growth! Wikiwiki Recruiting is a recruiting / headhunting / talent acquisition firm, we are a group of professionals focused and passionate about assisting our clients in finding the best talent that will propel them to achieve their strategic goals and initiatives. We identify trends, opportunities, and threats in the niche industries we focus in. We are equally driven to place our candidates in their next career move, that will harness their experience and maximize their growth. We specialize in Technology driven companies from eCommerce, small - medium size start-ups, and bigger fortune 100 companies. Specialties range from creative innovative positions, to engineering, Business Intelligence, eMarketing, Data Warehousing, IOS experts, and other technology specific positions. In these areas we work with all positions from C-level, executives, to the hands on experts. Identifying, finding, and securing the right talent in a quick time frame that allows you to focus on what you are best at. We engage with clients that aren't just interested in filling positions. They have a strong interest in building a Talent Acquisition strategy that includes: Culture Building, Employment Branding, Hiring Smart, and fine-tuning their hiring process to insure both efficiency and that they are hiring the best candidates.Roles/Industries filled: Technical Architects(Java,Hibernate, Spring, PHP), Sr. Developers, UX(JavaScript JQuery, Angular.js, Node.js) puppet, html 5, JavaScript, mongoDB, iOS, android, mobile app, Project Managers, Product Managers, Client Partners, Analytics roles of all levels, Sales Executives in technical, digital marketing and all industries. Big Data, UI and Designers. Marketing: Media Planners,Media Directors, Group Directors. eCommerce (IBM WebSphere, Magento, Demandware, hybris) Social media, Security and all things Digital. We love start-ups and high growth companies!

I drive the strategy, passion and most importantly hands-on execution of the recruiting engine at Build.com. In other words, I recruit exceptional talent for our growing, highly competitive, agile & continuously evolving environment. I was hired as a Lead Technical Recruiter and shortly after starting became responsible for all recruitment efforts. I developed from scratch: Recruiting strategy and process improvement, employment branding, culture development, social recruiting, university relations, internship program, coordinating all recruiting events, and created candidate pipeline in all departments, identified areas of cost savings, & eliminated the need for 3rd party staffing agencies. I was responsible for coaching & training existing and new hiring managers on best practices for interviewing and employee retention to meet their business needs. I hired, trained, and managed the recruiting team that was responsible for staffing,sourcing, headhunting, social recruiting, negotiating, on-boarding and new hire orientation. My job is to recruit AWESOME talent in a Fast Paced environment. Ensure that candidates are a culture fit and can add value, get them through the process so that they can do what they are passionate about, and what makes our company innovative and successful. Roles/Industries filled: Vp's, Directors, Sr. Account Managers, Engineers, programmer, IT, project managers, QA, software support, SEO clerk, PPC clerk, Affiliate clerk, CSE clerks, e-mail marketing, Cisco network engineer, security engineer, data warehouse, data modeler, business intelligence, Developers, full stack/ UI - SharePoint, node.js, Java ,Ruby, Rails,PHP, LAMP, Python/Django, HTML5, JSON, javascript, magento, node.js, angularjs, Jquery, joola, coldfusion, Linux Admins, Windows Admins, ERP, Business Systems Analysts, BI, QA, SQL, DBA, Mongo, Systems Analysts, Systems Engineers, customer service, sales, marketing, finance, HR, brand managers, data, and more.

Focused on managing staffing initiatives such as: Talent Acquisition & On boarding Technology Solutions, Assessment Solutions, Performance Management Technology, Solutions Survey, Employee Engagement, Recruitment Process Design, Employment Branding, Recruitment Management Solutions and Talent Management.Responsible for service delivery, implementation support, and architecting recruitment solutions to support the clients staffing needs. Primary responsibilities were to coach and mature internal talent, improve client relationships, and manage profitable P/Ls. Responsible for managing headcount planning, salary recommendations, interview and selection best practices, internal equity adjustments, approval processes, employee transfers, and HR guidelines.Responsible for developing and managing 210 different accounts Nationwide. Handled all issues as it related to documentation for the facility, housing, payroll, clinical and nonclinical termination as well as extensions of assignments. Negotiated contracts with new and existing clients (hospitals) to provide with travel RN’s. During this role increased annual revenue more than 76% and retained 100% of customers at risk.

Spearheaded strategic business initiatives to fuel growth, strengthen internal capabilities, and propel market expansion of an start up company that is now a billion dollar corporation. Responsible for tripling the size of the company in less than a year. Planned and executed a Nationwide Technology & Sales roll out. Developed creative business plans while incorporating brand through marketing strategies on win/win solutions and successful strategies for company growth. Advised CEO, VP's & Directors on headcount planning, salary recommendations, interview and selection best practices, internal equity adjustments, approval processes, employee transfers, and HR guidelines.Partnered with the hiring Manager, VP’s, and Directors on requisition fulfillment, increasing effectiveness of our recruitment process, improving productivity and candidate quality, minimizing the time to fill turnaround cycle of the hire, identifying areas of cost savings for recruiting, guiding managers in meeting short term and long term talent acquisition needs.Responsible for hiring and training a world class recruiting team that was effectively staffed high level candidates, in a very agile, dynamic, fast paced and rapid growth environment. Reported directly to the CEO. - Staffed an entire Network Operation Center NOC / Data Center, with Tier I, Tier II, & Tier III - Sourcing, networking, relationship building, direct recruitment, headhunting of high level Executives and Engineers: Established Account Managers big books of business, VP's, Directors, Senior managers, Software Engineers, Web Developers, Network engineers, System administrators, Oracle DBA's, Graphic designers, Data Warehousing Engineers, Business Intelligence Engineers, Data Modelers, Architects, Professional service engineers / consultants Engineers along with Management.