Bridget O'Connor ⭐ Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test.

Delray Beach, Florida, Us

Boutique recruitment agency specializing in cybersecurity talent. 🔹 Founded this agency to leverage the combination of security subject matter knowledge I gained serving on TLO’s security team (previous position detailed below) and my technical recruiting expertise. 🔹 Assist companies nationwide in locating security personnel in a very competitive market. Known for high offer acceptance rate and assisting my clients’ in improving their Time to Fill and Diversity-focused metrics. 🔹 Recruited for a variety of positions including: Cybersecurity Analysts, SOC Analysts, Security Engineers, Threat Hunters, Pen testers, Cloud Security Architects, Blockchain Security Analysts, Application Security Engineers, System on Chip (SoC) Security Architects, Cryptographers, Network Security Administrators, White Hat Hackers, Malware Analysts, Data Security Analysts, and Internet of Things (IoT) Security Architects.

After previous company, TLO, was sold, I devoted my time to assist a phenomenally talented actor and motivational speaker, Sean Berdy, in his personal quest to inspire others in the world. Sean had received widespread critical acclaim for his portrayal of the “Deaf James Dean” character, Emmett Bledsoe, on ABC Family’s Peabody Award-winning drama, Switched at Birth, during its five-season run and now wanted to launch a motivational speaking tour to inspire others and promote programs teaching his native language, American Sign Language (ASL).🔹 Oversaw day to day business affairs for Sean and singlehandedly planned, launched, and executed Sean's ASL Champions Tour visiting colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. Sean's motivational speeches were so well received by the students, staff, and public attending his widely sold out events that a second tour was needed the following year to satisfy the influx of new colleges requesting tour stops.🔹 Following the motivational speaking tours, Sean secured a starring role in the wildly popular Netflix series original, The Society, and I returned to my first love, recruiting.

TLO created revolutionary online investigative systems driven by proprietary technology and petabytes of data that protected people, searched for abducted children, and prevented costly fraud. 🔹 Having previously demonstrated my abilities and tireless work ethic as the Director of Recruiting in the founder’s previous company, Seisint, that was sold for $775M, I was one of his first hires when he started TLO. Served as the principal recruiter during my entire employment. Built a supremely talented and diverse team without the aid of outside talent agencies. 🔹 Served on Seisint’s security team. As our company possessed personally identifying data on nearly the entire adult population of the United States, protecting that data was of paramount importance. Not only recruited the talented individuals who secured the systems but served on the Security team that provided security training to our employees, implemented internal security policies, assisted with quickly shutting down bad actor phishing expeditions, and executed IT and data vendor audits. I would later leverage this security subject matter knowledge and interest by founding a boutique agency specializing in cybersecurity talent.🔹 Recruited for founder’s philanthropic efforts including a child protection software system which tracked the exchange of child pornography images on the internet. That system, which was provided absolutely free of charge to law enforcement in over 100 countries around the world, has been credited with thousands of children being rescued from child predators, tens of thousands of child predators arrested, and hundreds of thousands of cases of child abuse estimated to have been prevented.🔹 Our ultimate quest to take TLO public was sadly ended by the untimely death of the founder. Company was then restructured and prepared for sale. Stayed with the company and shepherded the employees through this difficult period until the company’s successful sale to credit giant, TransUnion.

2000-2002 · 2yrsLeveraged my computer science knowledge and founded this staffing firm specializing in providing top-shelf technical talent. Worked with companies from technology start-ups to Global technology leaders to fill mission-critical positions.🔹 Earned a strong reputation among client hiring managers for always fully familiarizing myself with their technology and team dynamics and filling their requisitions with quality talent in an expedited manner. 🔹 Was routinely approached by senior management from my top clients requesting I lead up their internal recruiting efforts. I accepted two of those offers (see Seisint below and TLO above). At the request of Citrix’s senior engineering management, I also personally assisted internally with a year-end staffing push at their Ft. Lauderdale headquarters to fill critical positions, many of which had been open for several months. Along with one other recruiter, completely cleared the slate by filling ALL funded engineering positions before the end of the year. Following that assignment was encouraged by Citrix’s engineering leadership to fill a new position managing their newly outsourced (to Spherion for 3 years) north and south America talent acquisition efforts. Am not a believer of outsourcing such an important function as recruitment so I respectfully declined.

Having previously served as Seisint’s top talent vendor (see BKO Personnel above), was personally offered the position of Director of Recruiting by Seisint’s Founder. Seisint had created a massive online investigative research system and was preparing for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) anticipated to be valued near $1 billion.🔹 Tasked with aggressively ramping up personnel to support launch of the flagship online product, Accurint (still a leading product today), and prepare for the upcoming IPO. Directly sourced nationally and hired top shelf talent for both technical and non-technical positions needed to transition the company from a start-up to an established, growth-oriented company.🔹 Completely revamped company’s ineffective talent strategy. Slashed hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs from the recruitment operating budget while nearly tripling the size of the company.🔹 Collaborated with the hiring managers to improve inefficient interview processes. Designed an on-line testing site to administer skill tests/programmer challenges specific to open technical positions. Efforts resulted in ability to scale our recruiting efforts, increased productivity among our technical personnel, and reduced talent acquisition costs.🔹 In lieu of an IPO, Seisint was later sold to British giant Reed Elsevier, parent company of LexisNexis, for $775 million.