Currently leading a surge/sprint recruitment effort to find and hire data center Regional Cost Managers and other niche roles in the highest priority hiring initiative undertaken by Microsoft in the past two years.

Other Experience (Counseling and Human Services)• Certificated School Counselor serving large student populations and their families while attaining a Ph.D. in Psychology. • Private business owner in Counseling and Human Services before recruiting career. Education/Hobbies• BA/Masters/Ph.D. in Psychology - U. of Idaho/Seattle Pacific University. • Track & Field world class athlete; Scholar-Athlete of the Year title award. • 4X Ironman triathlete (1.2-mile swim/112 mile bike race/26.2 marathon). • 28k+ followers on LinkedIn publishing articles on hiring and employment. • Volunteer and resume review for immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees. • Coach for multiple sports.

• Tasked with revamping PayPal's interview process for efficiency, candidate experience, and resource optimization, a 50% time-savings cut was realized throughout all phases of the recruitment process. • Led talent mapping and strategic recruitment planning with weekly updates to senior business leaders. • Full desk recruitment for the Honey and Venmo product lines. • Sourcing, selecting, hiring diversity hires combined with teaching diversity and inclusion best recruiting practices. • Mentored/Coached junior level recruitment staff. • Led interview training and sourcing strategies to leadership and stakeholders. • Identified trendsetter ideas by researching industry and related events, publications, and announcements, tracking individual contributors and their accomplishments. • Considered for a Recruiting Lead role but was impacted my layoffs.

• As a consultant, I led the charge on extensive diversity hiring efforts for cloud computing and AI, fostering a surplus of diverse software engineers to catalyze innovation.• Presented competitive analysis through visualization charts. • Assisted and helped lead the “Profile Based Hiring” events increasing diversity hires exponentially during a nine-month period. At times, having a surplus of diverse candidates ready to join engineering teams. • Bi-weekly senior leadership metric oversight and presentation regarding hires for various teams. • Part of a three-person team planning community outreach programs to discuss AI and Cloud computing for greater impact when strategizing future head count needs.

• First Recruiter hired to create the entire recruiting ecosystem along with all executive recruiting efforts. • Developed a skills-based interview process, optimized business intake meetings, Choose ATS and interview guides, 30-60-90-day check-ins with new hires along with developing entire employment packages.• Led a scrappy team of four in recruitment for fintech engineers. • Executive Recruitment. • Career coaching and counseling to ensure retention for new hires.

• Tasked with increasing hiring three-fold for this social media startup. Increased the Engineering Organization by 130% in the first year. • Collected recruitment data for senior leadership regarding the Bay Area and best to initiate a remote workforce. • Sourced, interviewed, and negotiated salaries with a retention rate of over 95% during a time in the Bay Area where retention rates were less than 40% for Engineers in most companies.

• Full desk Recruiter for the Fintech brand of Payments and Enterprise Risk & Security Organizations specializing in workforce planning. • Top team performer with 79 hires for the calendar year, and a 97% offer acceptance rate. • International Recruitment for the London and Prague offices. • Led weekly recruitment metric meetings with senior stakeholders and leaders. • All onboarding assistance for new employees, increasing employee retention to 96% past the one-year mark and promoted to Executive Recruiting role.

• Full Cycle Senior Recruiter specializing in cyber security recruiting domestically and internationally. • Led a successful referral drive for the Payments Platform Organization, increasing the headcount by a respectful 17% for the business quarter. • Mostly domestic recruiting until asked to set up referral programs for the Australia office.

• Hired to assist in recruiting sales professionals of all levels for this series B start-up company. • Established scrappy recruitment tactics with small to no budget.

• Full-desk agency recruitment with constant and urgent timelines and KPIs. • Trained, mentored, and oversaw the recruitment activities of new agency recruitment staff. • Account Manager for new businesses totaling millions of dollars in revenue.• Metric development for contractors onsite.