Tom Forbes Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Client Lead Recruiter for Amazon Device Software team. My job responsibilities include closing candidates, influencing debriefs, and weekly reporting to VP of Engineering, Directors of Engineering, Principal Engineers, General Managers and Sr. Engineering Managers. I also unblock Sourcers, execute process improvement projects for the recruiting team, and more.I also spend time sourcing software engineers to work on some exciting and innovative tech.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

***** THREE TIME AWARD WINNING CLIENT LEAD *****As a senior client lead and having a lower requisition load during the quarantine/COVID period, i shifted most of my attention to project management and oversaw the adoption of more efficient hiring and recruiting practices while maintaining expected recruiting metrics. ➢ Partnered with mid-level and senior-level engineers to create a take home test as an initial step in the hiring practice that will save over 700 man hours per year used on technical phone screens.➢ Project managed the creation of new diversity boolean bank for consumption by all recruiting.➢ Coaching 4 sourcers to be productive during this COVID crisis.➢ Successfully recruiting Senior Managers, Senior Staff/Principal Engineers and Architects.➢ Current Owner of tech hiring for three separate business groups under the Climate Corp engineering umbrella - Geospatial, Backend/API and Data Analytics

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

At Climate Corp, I lead the US National recruiting efforts for Geospatial, API/Backend and Data Analytics teams. Partnered with the business to create recruiting strategies, best practices, headcount planning, organizational changes, on-boarding, and led creative ideas on how to strengthen candidate pipelines across all teams.➢ Recipient of the BBOY(Better Because of You) Award for Q1 2020. ➢ Recipient of the BBOY(Better Because of You) Award for Q2 2020➢ Ran domestic recruiting events in four major geographic markets working with 8 hiring managers. ➢ Successfully managed to raise the hiring numbers 3 fold.➢ Oversee 4 sourcers and hold them to their expected metrics.➢ Successfully recruit against SDE, SDM and PMO profiles at various levels (SWE2 and above).➢ Mentor other recruiters and Sourcers on best practices.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Responsibilities Include:• Advise Kindle’s “Publisher-to-Reader” engineering teams and provide guidance on talent mapping and sourcing (referral drives) for business needs for SDE1, SDE2, SDE3, TPM, SR TPM, SDM and SR SDM talent pools.• Plan and manage national recruitment campaigns. Specific tasks include: establishing goal metrics and timeframes and coordinating with different stakeholders to ensure deadlines are met.• Analyze and prepare recruiting weekly data reports for both recruiting managers and business stakeholders.• Led entire technical sourcing team for Kindle Content in hires and onsites since joining team in April of 2017.• Create onsite hiring events/blitzes with up to eight candidates, coordinating interview loops and interviewers and also assigning focus areas/competencies.• Maintain healthy candidate pipelines across assigned reqs while also assisting other teams within Kindle Content and International Consumer in dire need of candidate flow.• Assisting other recruiters architecting and implementing “out-of-the-box” recruiting and candidate interview preparation methods.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

SPECIALTIES: V1 Project Initiatives and Team Building || Cloud || Mobile || Big Data || Micro Services Architecture || UX/UI || Distributed Systems || AWS || Virtualization || NoSQL|| Azure Stack || PaaS || SaaS || Google Cloud || SOA || Full Stack Engineers || Salesforce || Teradata• TOP ACCOMPLISHMENT: Led Entire Team in offers and offer-accepts across 5 quarters. • Provide full-cycle technical recruitment for multiple top 10 U.S. Tech Companies.• Recruiter Representation on all HM- Client Intake, Calibration and Debrief calls/meetings. • Technical knowledge of the full-stack and through every layer of the software development/operations/networking and systems engineering environments, including DevOps/Cloud Support, Product Management and Deployment • Met or exceeded KPI and billing quotas every quarter. • National Passive Search: Boolean Architecting, Entelo, Hiretual, Google X-ray Search, Strategic Networking, LinkedIn Technical Groups & Tech Blogs • Applicant Tracking System: Customized SalesForce Recruiting CRM - Process Flow, Management & Reporting • Actively participate in client onboarding, intake calls and daily SCRUM meetings

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MetaJiva: A technical recruiting and staffing company primarily focused on sourcing top technical talent across North America through innovation and automation.• Focus on sourcing and client support for a number of Northwest based technology companies such as the Microsoft, Walt Disney Internet Group, Attenex, Teleca, Wet Paint, UIEvolution, HomeTeam, Print Inc. and many others. I also actively participated in process development and agile recruiting methodologies. • Special projects included participation in the iterative software development process. • Additional applicant tracking systems and CRM's included Taleo and Salesforce.com• Typical profiles included Imbedded Software Engineers Systems Engineers, NOC Engineers, etc. • Placed 80-100 cold calls per day followed by: resume review, interviewing, pre-closing, phone interview scheduling with the daily use networked MS Outlook.• Interfaced closely with internal teams, supported process development.• Actively participated in the “Requirement Gathering” and “Resource Planning” with clients.• Successfully delivered results consistent with client standards and imposed deadlines.