I lead the talent team function at Heirloom and do hands on recruiting for the engineering, innovation (research science, capital projects, product management, strategy, finance, legal, and commercialization teams. Join us in our mission make low cost direct air capture mainstream!

Twelve is a new kind of chemical company built for the climate era. Our breakthrough technology eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential products. We are a team of scientists, engineers and problem solvers on a mission to fundamentally shift the way the world addresses climate change and lead the transition to a fossil free future with our carbon transformation technology.-Managed a team of recruiters supporting Productization, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Product Development, IT, and Finance-Mentor, coached, trained, and developed entry level recruiters including developing new recruiting training and onboarding plans-Successfully lead Executive searches for VP of Manufacturing an VP of Supply Chain as well filled four Senior Director roles for the Product and Engineering orgs-Developed process improvements across hiring for Capital Projects, Product, Engineering, and Manufacturing team-Worked cross functionally to develop a hiring plan for new manufacturing operations plans-Scaled the Productization organization from zero to 40 employees during my tenure

Started with Livongo (Start-up) in February 2019 and was acquired by Teladoc Health in October 2020, is empowering people with chronic health conditions to live better and healthier lives.•Leading recruiting initiatives at scale for R&D including Software Engineering Backend, Front End, Mobile, Security, Data Science, Web Development and much more.•Mentoring, training, and leading/developing a recruiting team of Recruiters, Sourcers and Coordinators across R&D and Technology functional areas. •Partnering with all levels of management, HR, Finance, Compensation, Onboarding, and Immigration on national and international hiring.

Primary Lead Recruiter for Autonomous Driving R&D teams. •Led recruiting function for Machine Learning Engineers, Research Scientists in AI/Deep Learning, DevOps, Software Engineering, QA, and Product.•Partnered with hiring leaders to recruit and fill all engineering roles for Autonomous Driving team. Managed interviews, process, offers, and recruiting deliverables for two large engineering organizations.

•Filled 100% headcount for Siri Speech Team as the sole recruiter for a highly visible platform in the Apple ecosystem. Partnered with hiring leaders to build the Advance Technology Group that launch many Siri smart devices.•Hired Research Scientists in the areas of Language Modeling, Acoustic Modeling, Machine Translation, Deep Learning for Audio/Speaker/Speech Recognition for ASR and Text-to-Speech Systems.•Hired Software Engineers in the areas of Machine Learning, NLP, embedded systems, iOS or Android, Full Stack Web Applications, and distributed systems, as well as data infrastructure (Hadoop, Spark, MapReduce).

•Built the recruiting infrastructure, recruiting strategies and led the recruiting team. Hired the Executive Leadership Team. Reported directly to the CEO/founder. •Built out software engineering, product management, sales, and marketing. Help grew company from a 12 employee start up as the first recruiting professional to being acquired by Intuit. •Hired Senior Software Engineers, DevOps, Front End, UX, and QA for Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, and CI/CD.•Managed external recruiting agency, recruiting function, including immigration process, and onboarding.

•Received numerous awards for Outstanding Candidate Care for Facebook's and Instagram's infrastructure teams. •Mentored and helped developed 3 Junior Recruiters and 4 Sourcers•Led large recruiting events and helped launch Talent Camp for new recruiters and sourcers.•Lead Recruiter for Software Systems Infrastructure Engineering and also led recruiting initiatives for the Ads org.•Responsible for reporting on recruiting data to Engineering VP’s

•Hired Software Development Engineers (SDE) for Amazon’s product search team•Full cycle recruiting for software engineering and Data Science in areas such as Information Retrieval, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing to develop the advanced search platform that powers Amazon's Product Search technology.•Filled 100% of budgeted headcount for the Product Search team, Software Engineers, TPM’s, Product Managers, and Research Scientists in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.

•Sole recruiter responsible for test engineering, release engineering, and other roles in Engineering Productivity. Top 10% in recruiter stats.•Hired for AI, machine learning, cloud, infrastructure, and data engineering for a variety of business units

•Recruited for product development, software engineering, business operations, and finance/accounting teams.•Worked closely with hiring managers on strategic sourcing plans. •Sourced passive candidates using LinkedIn, GitHub, Blogs/Forums, User Groups, Developer groups, and Boolean string searches.•Recruited Software Engineers for Android Team. Filled 12 open roles in 2 months.•Filled many technical positions including: Android Software Engineering, Software Architects, Test Engineers, Product Managers, UX, User Experience Designers/Interaction Designers, Financial Analysts, Business Systems Analysts, and Accountants.•Hired for finance, accounting, sales, marketing, and IT

•Hands-on Manager responsible for hiring, managing, mentoring, and building a world class recruiting team.•Managed a team of 9 including Recruiters, Sourcers, and Coordinator. • Recruited technical/non technical candidates for various companies such as Maxim Integrated Circuits, Cisco Systems, T-Mobile, Wells Fargo, and Designs by X. Performed fully cycle recruiting: sourcing, pre-closing, and placing candidates in various focus areas• Recruited software, hardware, ASIC design, and network engineers • Recruited embedded SW Engineers and SW Developers coding in Java, C++, Python, C, C#, Java Script, MySQL and PHP.

• Sourced and hired Front/Back End ASIC Design Engineers, and Software Engineers• Recruited highly technical candidates for Software, Hardware, Test, Systems, and ASIC Design Engineering. Closed highly coveted candidates in a very competitive market. Filled a very difficult search for an ASIC Backend Designer.

• Recruited the best engineers for a fast growing business unit. Filled 50 requisitions per quarter or 200% of target, double the average production. • Recruited Senior Software, Hardware, Test, Systems, and ASIC Design Engineers • Partnered with hiring managers on all aspects of Recruiting and Hiring. Advised Engineering Managers on staffing and interviewing best practices.• Performed full cycle recruiting including sourcing, pre-screening, technical interviewing, obtaining feedback/hiring decision, and prepared offers for Executive review.• Closed candidates and handled all offer negotiations. Escalated exceptions and special approvals to Business Unit VP**Recruiter for some of these technologies: SONET, ATM, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, Ethernet, embedded software, NMS, SNMP, layer 2/3 networking

•Started as recruiter and worker my way up to Management. •Hands-on Recruited for Alcatel-Lucent, Carrier Access Corporation, Cerent Corporation, Cisco Systems, 3Com, Bay Networks, Oracle, Norte Networks, Tellium, Ciena. •Supervised a team of 4• Researched, sourced, cold called and recruited for hardware, software, ASIC design, test, manufacturing, field service, customer support, marketing, and sales engineering. • Produced over $30,000 in monthly billings; managed relationships with hiring managers/human resources staff. Supervised/coached/developed a team of 3 recruiters. Made 32 placements in year 2, and 39 in year 3.• Top 10% earner in company

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