Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is a digital banking platform that puts its 1.9 million members' financial goals within reach. With intelligent borrowing, savings, budgeting, and spending capabilities, Oportun empowers members with the confidence to build a better financial future.Responsibilities include full cycle recruiting and most importantly sourcing, recruiting, closing the best candidates on the planet. Sole recruiter in the US and also helping our recruiting efforts in Mexico as well. I'm a search consultant by trade and take a very tactical approach to all openings. Responsible for all aspects of recruiting for Cyber Security, Engineering (AIML), Data Science (Product), Product Engineering, Executive Recruiting, SW Engineering (Java Full-stack).

E-Base Technologies, Inc. is a leading global professional services firm providing the highest quality IT Services and Solutions at low cost to a broad spectrum of public and private sector clients around the world in the Technology, Financial, Government and Education sectors. Recruiter/HR Generalist Responsible for all human resource activities for the company. Provided technical expertise on human resources programs and policies which supported the firm’s strategic and business goals of attracting, retaining, motivating, and rewarding high quality staff. Additional responsibilities included recruitment, compensation, benefits, employee relations, organization development, training, HRIS, compliance, relocation, policy and program development. • Assisted and supported the entire recruiting team in the US and India. • Designed and implemented recruiting process and for the permanent and consulting services. • Prepared, processed and distributed payroll for 50 plus employees. • Responsible for managing all external vendors. • Managed a team of 12 employees (5 recruiters, 5 sourcers & 2 coordinators).• Responsible for all aspects of business development and marketing.

AOL is a leading-edge web services company, including a network of premium and niche content sites, and an extensive offering of world-class tools and platforms. AOL's business spans the Internet with online and local content, innovative products and valuable services for consumers, publishers and advertisers. With one of the industry's largest advertising networks, AOL engages consumers with online advertising services on both AOL's owned and operated properties and third-party websites. In addition, AOL operates a premium subscription-based access service in the United States. Sr. Contract Recruiter (Mobile) Responsible for all technical recruitment (i.e. sourcing, recruiting, offer letters, DB management, partnered with hiring managers for weekly meetings, attended and presented selected candidates to hiring committee, attended colleges and social networking events, etc.) for the mobile, AIM, mail and Aboutme.com teams located in Silicon Valley. I was brought on board to help staff up AOL’s mobile division. In charge of implementing sourcing and recruiting strategy to help bring in top talent in to the company for all of tech recruiting. Positions included front-end and backend web developers, web architects, iOS developers, Apps developers (Android & iOS), UI designers and HTML5 engineers. Required skills for the positions included (JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, JQuery, Android, iOS, CSS, JSON, AJAX, #C, Perl, Bash, UNIX, Linux, MySQL, Sybase, MongoDB, Apache/Tomcat). • Directly responsible for hooking AOL into mobile Monday and hosted an event at AOL • Helped improve response time/feedback from hiring managers and to candidates to 48 hours • Filled 2- 3 openings per month and filled mission critical roles in 30 days or less • Responsible for training and managing team of sourcers • Built entire mobile applications team from 4 to 30 employees

Samsung Telecommunications America researches, develops and markets a variety of personal and business communications products throughout North America including handheld wireless phones, wireless communications infrastructure systems, fiber optics and enterprise communication systems. Sr. Technical Recruiter (Mobile) Sole recruiter responsible for staffing the entire R&D Mobile Labs .Conducted full cycle recruiting i.e. recruiting, sourcing, research, scheduling, reference checking, interview write-ups, on-going candidate follow- up (written and phone), editing job postings, offer letter generation, interview documentation follow-up, etc. Conducted all staffing assignments and activities in compliance with sensitive intercultural needs, company policies and government regulations. Worked with the Director of Staffing in optimizing the use of outside temporary and contract consulting agencies to achieve maximum cost effectiveness and quality in production of externally sourced candidates. Recruited mobile engineers with the following disciplines: J2ME Platform Development, Android, MIDP 2.0 & 3.0, JSR, JVM, CDLC, SVG, Graphic Library Internals, Multimedia, Embedded Linux, Windows Mobile OS, Symbian, Palm, Nucleus, C, C++, BSP, HAL, RIL, TAPI, Open GL-ES, etc. • Built BSP team that worked on the Nexus S, Galaxy Tab and Windows Mobile 7 phone • Recruited key players for Samsung’s new developer forum (http://innovator.samsungmobile.com/) • Report directly to the lab’s VP Eui-Suk Chung (Creator/Inventor of the Samsung Blackjack Smart Phone) • Recruited and staffed up entire Windows mobile engineering team from 1 to 20 employees. • Built the labs new mobile Android platform and applications team.

J&R Granite is a boutique search firm that provides retained/executive search, contingent placement and contract services. Founder & Managing Partner Duties included business development, recruiting, sales, marketing, customer service and accounting. Planned, organized and directed a wide range of job training activities to ensure all employees maintained and enhanced their skills. Developed new business strategies, conducted market analysis, designed new and improved methods for marketing services through various new and traditional media. Clients included RippleTV, SolFocus, RagingWire, GuildCafe, SkyHook Wireless and Dionex Corporation to name a few. • Filled all open searches in 60 days or less. • Generated revenue in excess of 500k in first year of business. • Maintained world class service to clients which in return resulted in 50% repeat business. • Recruited top director out of Google not fully vested to take an offer from a start-up client. • Filled CFO search for RagingWire and VP of Engineering in less than 45 days.

Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. The company's top products are routers and switches; Cisco's switch line includes equipment based on Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and ATM technologies. Lead recruiter in charge of all recruiting activities for the entire manufacturing/ops business unit. Recruited for positions such as NPI Engineers, NPI Program Managers, Quality Engineers, Process Engineers, Supply-Chain & Commodity Managers, Test Development Engineers and Buyer/Planners. Lead team of sourcers to ensure the success of building a pipe-line of talent for all present and future needs. Created weekly reports to ensure the entire team of recruiters, sourcers and coordinators exceeded all metrics. Consulted with VP’s and hiring managers regarding department needs, forecasting opportunities and provided the highest level of communication between hiring managers and HR leadership. • Directly responsible for turning around the entire Product Ops group in less than 90 days. • Consistently held and managed a req load of 50 plus. • Directly responsible for filling all positions within 45-60 days to meet the SLA. • Responsible for all executive and mission critical openings for all of manufacturing. • Received promotion to Manager of recruiting after 90 days

Google's breakthrough technology and continued innovation serve the company's mission of "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful. Google is widely recognized as the "World's Best Search Engine" and is fast, accurate and easy to use. Contract Recruiter- Diversity (IT-Operations) Responsible for diversity recruiting for IT/Operations related positions. Positions consisted of Linux, Unix & Windows Systems Administrators, Helpdesk Administrators, IT Field Technicians, Data Center Technicians, Database/Web Apps Administrators, BI Reporting Engineers, Hyperion Developers, Data Modeler/Warehouse Engineers, Senior DBA’s, Ops Tech Writers, Billing Application Engineers, IS Production Engineers, Network Engineers and HW Ops Managers. Responsible for building pipe-line of passive candidates through research, sourcing and recruiting efforts. Utilized sourcing techniques to find such candidates through, job postings, resume banks (Monster, HotJobs, Dice), search strings on search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Dogpile and MSN; cold calling into competitors, inbound resumes, employee referrals, “diversity engineering groups”, job fairs, Colleges, etc. Conducted market research on diversity candidates in the market place. Created weekly reports on progress for management to track interviews, hires, rejected offers, etc. • Directly responsible for boosting diversity interviews from 30% in all US Google datacenters. • Responsible in helping build mass volume of diversity candidates not only for IT/Ops, but throughout the entire organization. •Built direct relationships with schools, businesses and organizations to help develop top-notch candidate pipe-line. •Created sourcing solutions to help ensure proper support for 10 plus recruiters •Sourced, recruited and filled all open positions within 45-60 days

Vestas American Wind Technology is a driving force in the development of the wind power industry. Vestas’ core business comprises the development, manufacture, sale, marketing and maintenance of wind power systems that use wind energy to generate electricity. Contract Recruiter Reported directly to the VP of HR. Assisted in developing, implementing and coordinating policies and programs in the area of personnel administration to include employee benefits and services, employee relations, including recruiting (full-cycle), behavioral interviewing, safety & health, wage and salary administration. Utilized numerous techniques to attract talent such as: job boards, cold calls, resume banks, competitors, employee referrals, etc. Researched labor statistics/laws in such states as IL, CA, WY, TX, TN, MN & NY to ensure that Vestas was in compliance. • Managed and held over a 100 + requisitions at all time. • Managed all 3rd party vendors and relationships successfully. • Worked with managers (“C” level down) to plan and implement change with a focus on ensuring effective employee communications. • Recruited and built a pipe-line of candidates for Vestas’ parent company in Denmark. • Grew employees (technical personal) from 100 to 250 and consistently met all forecasts and dead-lines.

Founded in Silicon Valley, Executive Advantage Group, Inc. provides retained executive search services for a wide range of clients across the United States. Executive Recruiter Conducted top-down retained search. Reported directly to the managing principals (former partners at Heidrick &Struggles & Stratford Group). Responsible for all search execution – i.e. research management, lead generation, wrote job specifications, candidate development/ assessment, candidate interviews, candidate presentation, and client feedback . Filled positions from Board of Director, Officer Level to Vice President, Director, Manager and even key individual-contributor level. Serviced such clients as Pixelworks, Vsource, Endevco, CenterSpan, Oracle, Cisco, DixXNetworks, Unicru, Federation and Meggit USA to name a few. • Consistently managed a requisition load of 5-10 searches at all times. • Achieved biller of the year two years in a row • Filled 90% of searches with-in 90 days. • Made 50 plus cold calls per day. • Sourced and recruited CEO for www.cleanpak.com