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United States

United States

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Delta Flight Attendant/IFS (Inflight Services)

Dallas, Texas, US

• Team Recruited and onboarded 110+ qualified employees in 9 months, increasing new hireretention rate by 10% and reducing time to fill from 91 days to 58 days.
• Implemented a headcount management system for executive leadership and Finance. Thisserved as the foundation for all future reporting/analytics.
• Created a streamlined onboarding process to improve employee experience during thiscritical period. Worked with vendors to integrate systems to automate manual data entry,which reduced new hire data errors by 95%.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Returned to T-Mobile to lead product/tech, recruiting teams. In the first 60 days, werevamped the end-to-end recruiting process. A new bar-raiser component was added forpeople leadership roles.
• Designed and operationalized an innovative high-volume recruitment process for SoftwareEngineers, reducing time-to-fill by 60% from 88 to 34 days on average.
• Managed RPO (Recruiting Process Outsourcing) implementation projects for bothTechnology & T-Mobile for Business recruiting, resulting in a more sustainable staffingstructure to support fluctuating hiring demands.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Rover believes everyone should have the opportunity to experience the unconditional love of a dog. We are aligned around a social impact mission of making the world better by empowering dog lovers to live happy and.
• Joined as the first Head of Talent for this mission-driven startup and expanded the team tobring all recruiting back in-house.
• Optimized ATS to include customized workflows, automated email templates, and candidatescoring, resulting in a 20% increase in feedback completion and faster response times

On returning from Amsterdam, I joined Facebook as leader of a team of 10 Recruiters/Sourcers supporting the Software Engineer pipeline in Seattle.

Amsterdam, Netherlands, NL

• Booking.com is the planet’s #1 accommodation site. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Booking.com has more than 173+ offices worldwide.
• Gained international experience with this opportunity to build a global sourcing function toensure robust real-time pipelines across disciplines and 80 locations.
• Created and delivered a sourcing training program for a pilot program to hire interntechnology recruiters. These recruiters ramped up to match experienced hires within 6months.
• Negotiated new contracts with key vendors (LinkedIn, Indeed, etc.) to optimize investments,resulting in $800K savings in 2017.

Bellevue, WA, US

Supported hiring initiatives for the Area Vice President's organization of approximately 4,000. With a team of between 4-9 Recruiters, we met our hiring goals and implemented a reimagined interviewing process, and trained hiring managers to be more effective interviewers.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Spearheaded the formation of T-Mobile's first centralized sourcing team, growing the teamof 3 to 15.
• Reduced agency costs by $2.27 million per year on average and the team directlyinfluenced a 25% increase in female technology hires.

Bellevue, WA, US

Together with my colleague, we managed all hiring for senior leadership openings (Sr. Managers - Directors) within T-Mobile's retail business. Additionally, I hired for Sales Operations, Loss Prevention, and Corporate Real Estate.

Seattle, WA, US

• Created a first-ever annual strategic staffing plan to support the rapid expansion ofStarbucks store construction and renovations.
• Reduced time-to-fill from 62 to 31 days and received an annual client-nominated award forbusiness partners.

Seattle, WA, US

Computer Software/Travel company. Primary focus included Corporate Travel, North American Operations, Marketing, Finance, SDE's, SDET's & STE's.