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Advisor, Angel, Consultant to tech founders, startups, investors, BODEmail me at rachel@cxowhisperer.co and send me a connection request

After founding and building Nubix for five years, I am transitioning the CEO role to someone new. My passion for Nubix remains steadfast, and I will continue to be involved as a special advisor.Building Nubix and bringing tiny containers and tiny services to life has been an incredibly challenging and rewarding experience. I am tremendously proud of the amazing technology we’ve created and everything we’ve accomplished to date. I remain deeply committed to the mission and I am confident that the team will continue to succeed and keep pushing agility to the farthest edge of the critical infrastructure. I’m excited about the future for Nubix and look forward to the next phase of growth.Over the past 18 months we validated our MVP with customers and partners across a wide range of industries and use cases. We have made key hires of Stephen Berard as CTO and Brian Dunlay as lead engineer. We've commercialized the Nubix platform to further simplify how developers build and deploy faster, smaller, and more secure applications on constrained edge devices. Nubix is actively working with customers, expanding the company’s developer program and building an ecosystem of hardware, applications and partners.

Founder and CEO of deep-tech industrial IoT software start-up. Raised $4.2m over seed, post-seed rounds from top tier tech investors and corporate venture funds, including Bee Partners, Engage, Chevron. Secured tier 1 industrial OEM equipment manufacturers as pilot customers, several patents secured for our RTOS (non-Linux) version of containers and microservices. Nubix is DevOps - CI/CD for the tiniest devices at the edge.Our physical world is powered by over 100 billion microcontrollers. These small devices are updated and managed by climbing up telephone polls or down into hazardous environments. Nubix enables developers to build software for these devices and for operations to manage them remotely at a wide range of customers including industrial, manufacturing, supply chain and resource companies. We make it as easy to build, deploy, secure and manage applications on devices at the edge as it is in the cloud.

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Acquired by iCIMs - January 2018https://www.icims.com/about-us/news-room/press-releases/icims-acquires-mobile-recruiting-platform-textrecruit

Rocana acquired by Splunk October 2017As COO I was responsible for: Finance, Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, People Ops and the organizational tools and infrastructure that kept the company running. As a fully geographically distributed company, we had the ability to hire the best people wherever they were in the world.Founded in 2014, Rocana (formerly ScalingData) closed a $15m Series B funding round in April 2015, lead by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and participated in by General Catalyst, Toba Capital, Paul Sagan, etc. Grew to 65 people in 18 states and 3 countries prior to acquisition.Modern infrastructure is dynamic and adaptive, requiring a new approach to monitoring. Rocana Ops is next-generation monitoring software that eliminates scalability and performance limits for analyzing and visualizing logs across your entire infrastructure, making it much easier and faster for IT staff to find, prevent, and solve problems.

Cloudera IPO in April 2017, merged with Hortonworks January 2019Built first internal Talent Acquisition function at Cloudera growing the company from 185 to 800+ in 18 months, phased out the 90+ external agencies and recruiters scattered across the organization/hiring managers who were creating tremendous distraction and adding no value (quality hires). Internal talent team was delivering 50+ directly sourced hires a month consistently meeting hiring quantity and quality goals - well respected and trusted by executives and department heads to deliver against hiring goals so they could deliver against business goals (product and revenue). Responsible for building/improving employment brand, culture, interview training, manager training, complete reimplementation of Jobvite/ATS, aggressive diversity initiatives, built international hiring team. Hiring costs well below cost-per-hire industry standards in one of the hottest spaces (big data) in one of the hottest, if not hardest, hiring geos (Silicon Valley). Created and reported on a multitude of hiring metrics weekly to BizOps Executive team.

Acquired by Corel• Founding executive of the Talent team, grew 770% in 12 months from 15 to over 130 • First non-founding executive to join ClearSlide. Designed and implemented hiring strategies and people operations to support a goal of 600% revenue growth and deliver against aggressive product development/delivery timelines• Defined hiring philosophy and Employment Brand, streamlined process optimizing for quality/scale/repeatability• Implemented effective sourcing strategies, including: social media, internet presence, enhanced employee referral programs, employment branding, positioning, marketing and external agency program• Developed and implemented weekly/monthly reporting, key performance indicators, success metrics • Grew Engineering from 0-15, Field Sales from 0-10, Customer Success 0-25, Director-VP-CxO roles 0-7• Revamped Employee Referral program, increasing referral related hires from less than 2% to over 15%• Owned Culture initiatives - monthly company meetings and happy hours, quarterly team building events, monthly collaborative lunch program, passive candidate open house, EcoGreen and Fit programs• Facilities Manager - identified and planned the build out of multiple offices across the US, all offices were 100% paperless and LEED certified

Acquired by Cisco 2012Sequoia backed WLAN start-up in San Francisco. Exclusive internal talent acquisition and HR consultant post-Series B. Sourced, interviewed and hired 100+ people nationally, strategically growing from 19, consistently overachieving against monthly/quarterly revenue targets. Aligned organizational development and hiring plan to business objectives, built a well respected employment brand capable of attracting high-quality candidates, implemented candidate experience best practices, interview standards and training across organization, selection criteria. Reported on a multitude of hiring metrics (cost per hire, time to hire, quality of hires, employee referrals, achievement against goals, etc)Partnered with VP WW Sales to align hiring goals to revenue targets, identifying gaps in skills, geographies, succession planning and hyper-scaleSolely responsible for all inside sales, field and channel sales, sales ops, technical support, executive and advisory board hiring requirements

Merged with and became Chemetry, still operating• 5th employee at Khosla Venture funded green/clean tech start-up, sequestering CO2 as a stable carbonate mineral in cement/building materials• Member of Calera’s leadership and operating team reporting directly to the CEO• Responsible for headcount strategy, workforce planning and recruiting delivery• Presented Key Hiring Initiatives and their status to the BOD in monthly/quarterly meetings • Hired 120 scientists, engineers, senior executives, industrial plant technicians and operators and individual contributors• Hired Senior execs, PhDs and Masters students with technical and scientific expertise in: electrochemistry, carbonate chemistry, materials science, process design, particle separation, geochemistry, emissions testing, etc.• Implemented creative sourcing strategies, established academic relationships with key target universities, identified and attended industry conferences, organized Calera management to deliver expert presentations to target audience to promote employment brand and generate awareness• Organized, hired and oversaw summer internship in 2009, 22 students participated• Responsible for the creation of recruiting reports, dashboards, and metrics – presented to the executive team weekly

Riverbed IPO September 2006In-house Senior Corporate Recruiter for a broad range of positions at Riverbed Technology including Marketing, Finance, Professional Services, Sales Operations, Legal and IT from individual contributor to VP level roles. Filled 42 positions in 5 months.

Acquired by Google August 2007.Peakstream, which made multiprocessor systems easier to program by leveraging Nvidia GPUs, was funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia, and then Foundation Capital prior to being acquired by Google. PeakStream offered the first commercially available software application platform to help technicians program high performance, multi-core and parallel processing machines. PeakStream was inspired by Stanford University's Brook Project on stream programming, which is a form of parallel computer design optimized for handling data-intensive images, video and other digital processing jobs.Built the team that was acquired into Google, added 12 people including: Compiler, Numerical, QA, Build/Release, GUI and Performance Engineers, Development Manager, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support and Application Engineers

Developed and implemented a structured recruiting process and interview skills training program for managers and interviewers to enable the team to hire 40 people in the first year. Department was 6+ months behind on hiring goals which was impacting VMware's ability to achieve revenue targets, I was able to get hiring caught up and ahead of schedule within the first 90 days while up-leveling new hire skills and abilities.Built a repeatable/scalable process to source, screen, interview and hire for a wide range of sales positions including: Territory Sales Managers/Account Executives, Director, Sales and System Engineers.

Recruited for fulltime (Class of) and summer intern Investment Banking positions.Coordinated on-campus presentations and social events for brand awareness, managed the interview and hiring process and recruiting budget. Responsible for relationship with top-tier universities nationwide which was critical to future class hiring requirementsFacilitated semi-annual workforce and promotion planning, salary and bonus review processes. Designed, developed and maintained Access database and extensive reports utilized by senior management to track confidential data and make critical decisions relative to headcount, promotions, semi-yearly reviews, bonuses and training, downsizing, global headcount, resource allocation and other special projects requested by senior executives. Recruiting was relocated to CSFB Global headquarters in NYC.

Educated clients on features and functionality of WeTalk’s highly customizable internet application implemented to manage and facilitate online communities (Blogging and posts).Conducted product presentations at industry conferences. Responsible for RFP, POC, project management – engaged dev team as necessary to ensure client satisfaction.Developed partnership, affiliate, sponsorship and advertising programs.Client sites included: David Bowie, The Hanson’s, The Yankees, Brandera.com and the Cleveland Browns.Company did not receive additional funding, closed in Jan 2001.

Provided in-depth information about competitive forces within the Semiconductor – Fab/Fabless industry. Identified key industry trends impacting business allowing management to strategically capitalize on business opportunities. Created a system to provide business managers with a constant pulse on industry trends and issues important to our business. Monitor and gather key industry intelligence, conduct related analyses, formulate and present strategic recommendations to inform management in decision making process.

Recruited for various technical positions including; desktop support, network administration/engineering, database design, software developers. Daily screening, interviewing and consulting of candidates on the job market and career opportunities. Met with managers and executives on a regular basis to determine current and future hiring needs based on growth projection and business needs of the company.

Designed and implemented a customized CRM application. Collected business requirements from Marketing, Customer Accounts, Sales, Customer Service. Implemented functionality to bill Mutual Fund companies for Investment Services for over 40,000 Client Accounts. Implemented the first Windows NT network in the state of California. The network I put in place allowed Jack White to go to 24/7 trading, allowing us to compete with a new start-up, and our main competitor, Charles Schwab.