Specializing in freelance/FTE recruiting and career coaching within creative, marketing, artificial intelligence, cyber security, non-profitClients: Clever Creative, Blackthorne Consulting, Conversant.ai, Possible, Blink UX, Fullstack Academy, Future for Us, Upwardly Global, Microsoft, Starbucks.Partnering with clients to identify their hiring goals, talent retention, sourcing and candidate experience process. Mentor talent as a career advisor, leveraging the feedback from hiring managers; for candidates who are establishing themselves as the best within the creative space.Collaborating with non-profit organizations to lead workshops around branding 101, and professional development.

Vitalize Kitsap supports and empowers individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities. In a dynamic and fast-paced environment, I lead human resources initiatives and support programming to ensure there is alignment with the organization’s mission.• Maintaining and updating the employee handbook and employment policies.• Managing sick leave and paid time off requests, including distribution and processing.• Ensuring compliance by maintaining state and federal employment notices.• Serving as the primary point of contact for staff and volunteers on employment-related questions, collaborating with the Executive Director (ED) for accurate resolutions.• Updating job descriptions and partnering with the founder on staffing strategies.• Managing end to end recruiting process.• Overseeing onboarding processes for new employees and volunteers, coordinating with the ED.• Collaborating with program leads to plan and execute daily member activities on and offsite.

(Furloughed/ Layoff) As the recruiting director at Blink, evangelized the talent recruitment function and worked with leadership development, diversity, sourcing, and recruitment management across UX Research, Design, Sales and Program management, and marketing functions.- Led the hiring and onboarded additional team members to the recruiting team. - Awarded “Doing Great Things Award” in 2021, 2022 and 2023.- Built a high-performance recruitment team, with 56 new hires in 2022, closing 4.5 hires a month.- Guided and empowered direct reports in providing the right recruitment training, sourcing methods, and tools for finding top candidates.- Spearheaded inclusive hiring and recruitment process with an agile human-centered approach and brought in the right team members, in the midst of high growth.- Redefined ATS system, making sure we are acquiring correct data for reporting hiring metrics, resulting in achieving our diversity hiring metrics for 2022. - Re-designed and led Interview and diversity hiring training monthly.- Worked very closely with HR, Finance, and C-level leadership in setting hiring strategy, forecasting, and forecasting goals/metrics/KPIs for all departments.- Leveraged community and university partnerships, DEI platforms, and meetups for employee engagement, sourcing, and posting jobs. - Partnered with the marketing and HR team in launching our first “Hiring at Blink” blog.- Drove planning for Seattle Women in Tech 2023- Embracing Equity within Women in Tech: Bridging the Gap event at Blink UX, along with being a panelist.

Lead studio recruiting while balancing budgets (with finance) and growth (with senior leadership). In addition, mentoring new recruiters and guiding leadership to support a fast-growing team.- Diversified expertise beyond design, into product management, public relations, marketing, development and content. Formalized an onboarding process for FTE hires while partnering with hiring managers for qualifying new candidates.- Set up work streams to understand recruitment metrics and manage service level outcomes for team. Took over vendor management with outside agencies and streamlined processes for onboarding contractors.- Worked closely with the Finance team in establishing bill rates. Improved placement rate by 50%; placed 60 FTE and contractors.

Specializing in recruiting top creative talent for UX/IxD/VisD contract work.Design Recruiting Lead, Microsoft—consulted with HMs for potential talent as well as close collaboration with onsite teams. Also extended help to filling positions for Amazon, Starbucks and other fortune 500 accounts.Built a solid talent pipeline by establishing an event committee to collaborate with local design organizations and schools to source top creative talent. High performer, consistently hit quarterly goals with 3-5 placements/month on Studios and Staffing side of the business. Bringing in ~0.5 million revenue from placements.

Led university-wide recruiting efforts for SCAD, for undergraduate, graduate andcertificate programs for the Savannah & Atlanta campuses.Successfully managed the SCAD recruiting budget of over $250,000.Increased application rates by 60%. Represented SCAD at international high schools anduniversities promoting SCAD programs, reviewing portfolios, conducting presentations andone-on-one guidance sessions with candidates.Improved talent acquisition success rates by 50%. Liaison with School of CommunicationArts (i.e., Graphic & Advertising design, Illustration & Sequential art) to improve crossdepartment collaboration.Designed and led community education and leadership development workshops for SCADstaff and students.

Worked with recruitment directors on quarterly and yearly enrollment goals to Identify, design and implement new recruitment strategies for talent sourcing.

Organized and implemented recruitment programs as well as facilitated on-campus tours for prospective students and parents.