Sr. Technical Recruiter *Strategic Sourcer * Career Consultant

KPIT – Kaiser Permanente Information Technology
11/2007 to present
Lead Technical Staffing Consultant – Assigned to 3 major business units. Staffing support of growth in Chief Process Improvement for Executive Directors, Program Managers, Solution Consultants, and Solution Enterprise Architects using software methodologies; AGILE, Scrum, Six Sigma, ITIL, and COBIT, ISO 9000. The second unit is Health Plan staffing JAVA, Web Hibernate, and Websphere developers, Project Managers, and Quality Assurance resources. The third unit is Business Infrastructure staffing Business Consultants, Documentation Specialists, Sr. Software Developers with Cache Middleware expertise. This role requires unique sourcing, recruiting and account management responsibilities that incorporates OFCCP compliance, and immigration assessments, national relocation processes, and salary negotiations in a fast paced competitive technical marketplace.

MICROSOFT
7/2007 to 10/2007
Contract Technical Recruiter/Strategic Sourcer – (virtual) National recruiting campaign targeting senior IT, software developers, develop in test and Program Managers with Unix, Linux, .Net, C#, ASP and C++ technical experience. Using own personal computer loaded with search specific software tools, VISTA and XP, MS 2007 for quick Outlook name generation, data mining, and report generation of pipelining. Able to source my own candidates and fully develop candidates. Working directly with Hiring Managers and HR to maximize the selection and staffing process. Using proprietary ATS that operates much like Vurv and Resumix.

ASK.COM (IAC Search & Media)
10/2006 to 7/2007
Contract Technical Recruiter/Strategic Sourcing for Vertical Search, Blog lines, Platform customer-facing technology teams. My assignment involves developing recruiting strategies that provides efficient solutions for various technical and management requisitions. Gathering detailed specifications from HR and management, sourcing, identifying, recruiting, pre-screening and interviewing software engineers, network engineers, DBAs, data warehouse, business intelligence, software architects and managers with expertise in Java, AJAX, Hibernate, Spring, Ruby On Rails, Hyperion, SAP, Oracle, C++, and C#, .NET, XML, Linux development expertise. This includes data structures, data mining, machine learning, text mining, algorithms, parallel and distributed systems and peer-to-peer networks technology for scalable systems. Particularly involved in account management for each search to hire.

YAHOO
4-2005 to 4-2006 Contract Technical Recruiter in the Talent Acquisition Department – Sr. Recruiter/Sourcer of software and IT developers and analyst, managers, senior architects and performance engineers for the Search Technology group, and Yahoo Media Group, Platforms and Finance teams. Technology: JAVA, C++, PERL, UNIX, Linux, PHP, Win32, Oracle11i, PHP, DHTML, and Agile methods.

SUN MICROSYSTEMS – Scalable Systems Group
6/2004 to 4/2005
Contractor Staffing Project Manager -Sr. Recruiting Consultant Project Manager and Staffing Consultant reporting directly to the VP of Engineering and Development for Scalable Systems. Providing strategies for aggressive staffing and hiring of technical resources. Supporting 22 hiring managers within the Sunnyvale-CA, Burlington-MA and Austin-TX design centers for ASIC, Verification, SRAM, SERDES, RTL, DFT, Synopsis, FPGA, logic, Board level, physical design, IC design, microprocessors engineers.

Successful management and prioritization of 70 critical development and management requisitions. Strategizing with hiring managers, cold calling, Internet sourcing, interviewing, presenting offers and negotiating salaries. To date, successfully recruited and staffed 63 engineers and managers to develop next generation software and hardware products. Playing a key role and presenter on management meetings on recruitment concerning job descriptions, behavioral interviewing, and the selection process.

Spearheaded a “Drum Up Enthusiasm” recruitment campaign designed to encourage employee referrals, morale and team building. Presenter on weekly agenda of executive management meeting to discuss staffing methods and any pass down communication regarding Applicant Tracking and other strategies. Consulting with managers and project coordinator on the In-house Career Invitational Job Fair. Hired the majority of the candidates in the division on this project. Consulting with team and managers on recruitment and resource planning in today’s market. Searching and recruiting software developers with JAVA, VxWorks, J2EE, MS SQL and Oracle Software, ASIC, logic, DFT verification engineers. Managed recruiters in the outplacement efforts of downsizing corporations. Scheduled and managed recruiter’s progress reporting system twice weekly.

SABA –Human Capital Development Management (HCDM)
12/2000 to 2002
Saba is Business-to-Business Software - Human Capital Development Management Project Manager/Staffing Consultant – Responsibilities included developing cost effective strategies and staffing plans with management for the R&D, Information Technology, Finance, Product Marketing and National Sales departments. Direct sourcing and recruiting initiatives for hard-to-find software developers as individual contributors up to director level resources. This is a large-scale software development environment using JAVA, C++, XML, J2EE, EJB, SAP, Siebel, Oracle, CRM and Graphical User Interface technology. The remaining recruiter out of five to staff across the board positions in software and management, quality assurance, release/configuration, performance and technical documentation. Staffed Systems Analysts, Oracle Database Administrators with tuning, replication and 24/7 production of Clarify and other enterprise software applications.

EXCITE, Redwood City, CA
10/10/99 to 12/00
Broadband Internet Portal Project Manager/Sr. Staffing Recruiter (Contract) – Responsible for spearheading the growth of entire the Toronto, Canada Network Operation Center (NOC) staffing 43 network support engineers, the Headquarter Operations team staffing 28 system administrators, and the @Work First Data Gateway Project department staffing 21 software developers. Developed ad content for hiring campaigns and negotiating multiple salaries at the same time. Staffed Oracle DBAs, Networking Engineers, Content developers, Graphical User Interface (GUI) designers, Data mining, Unix (Solaris) Systems Administrators and Project Managers for a high volume, 24/7 e-commerce environment. Contributed to global staffing while supporting 18 managers and directors in Development and Network Operations. The technology was JAVA, C++, PERL, and Oracle on a Unix Sun Solaris.

REEL.COM (E-commerce Video -DVD),Emeryville, CA
4/99 to 10/99 Reel.com is a strong e-commerce company that involved high-volume with mission critical transactions. Sr. Technical Staffing (Consultant) – Reported to the VP of Development gathering detailed specifications, developing strategies with management, and driving the process. Sourcing, recruiting and staffing senior technical resources. The individual contributors experienced in programming with recent expertise in C++, MFC, Visual Basic, and JAVA script, OLTP, Active Server Pages (ASP), COM and D/COM with Windows NT SQL server. The networking administrators require Cisco routers, 24/7, PIX firewall Internet security, LAN/WAN network design. The quality assurance engineers require SILK and/or QA Partner, automation, stress, functional and performance testing. Database administrators with SQL server replication and tuning expertise.

COMPAQ/TAMDEM Computers, Cupertino, CA
08/97 to 3/99
Sr. Recruiting Consultant – Responsibilities include gathering detailed specifications from managers. Building teams, developing and implementing results oriented recruiting strategies with hiring managers to attract system software and hardware engineers, IT and product marketing personnel. Conducting weekly meetings for status and progress updates for 14 managers and 50 positions. These searches were for cross platform environments including C++, C and Oracle technology on Windows NT, MAC/OS and UNIX based systems.

HEWLETT PACKARD – Compiler Systems,Cupertino, CA
01/97 to 8/97
Sr. Engineering Recruiting Contractor – Heavy sourcing, recruiting, pre-screening and reference checking and developing recruitment strategies to attract compiler and system software engineers for 14 managers. The software engineers staffed had compiler, applications and systems software expertise in C++, JAVA, C, FORTRAN, and Visual Basic with run-time, Linker, dynamic front-end and back-end optimization. Extensive use of Restrack system. Generated weekly status reports using Excel. Staffed more that 47 engineers and managers.

VLSI Technology –Semiconductor, San Jose, CA
11/95 to 12/96
Sr. Engineering Staffing Consultant – Initially recruiting for three business units managing 60 requisitions and servicing 15 managers. The project required recruiting and staffing for wireless communications (ATM/fast Ethernet, LAN/WAN networking), digital video Set-Top-Box DVD, CPU architects and project leaders with ASIC design, Logic design, MPEG 2/3 and AC3 audio technology for PowerPC in this fast-paced environment. Fast paced and demanding semiconductor environment.

APPLE COMPUTER R&D Technology, Cupertino, CA
11/94 to 11/95
Sr. Engineering Recruiting Consultant – Began with the Apple eWorld Internet Service Business Unit. Building the team by cold calling and staffing software engineers using C++, UNIX development, configuration managers, program/manager, technical writers and editors. Retained to service the Apple Core/OpenDoc Technology and R&D software departments to recruit front-end compiler and optimization engineers and managers.

RADIUS – VISION SYSTEMS, San Jose, CA
11/93 to 11/94
Sr. Recruiting Consultant – Recruiting MAC and Windows software and hardware and Q/A engineers, lab managers, and documentation control specialists. This was prior to the migration of SuperMAC and Radius. Develop ad campaigns, interviewing multiple candidates, strategizing with managers, references checking, presenting offers to candidates and handholding candidates.

THE SANTA CRUZ OPERATION INC., santa Cruz, CA
05/93 to 11/93
Sr. Staffing Consultant – Contracted to recruit and staff 60 requisitions during the ACE Consortium – a joint venture between DEC, SGI, Pyramid, Compaq and SCO. Recruiting software developers for GUI and networking developers with X11, OSF/Motif, IPX, LAN/WAN, X.25, O/S kernel, device driver development and sustaining engineering.

SUN MICROSYSTEMS – SPARC R&D (twice), mountain View, CA
01/93 to 4/93
Engineering Recruiting Consultant – Gathered detailed specifications from managers in the hardware design team for SunSparc’s Next Generation of computers. Recruiting IC designers, CAD verification engineers, quality test engineers and managers. Sun Microsystems (SMT) manufacturing 01/92 to 11/92

Other assignments and recruiting experiences

LSI Logic - Semiconductor, Fremont, CA, 12/90 to 11/91

Aspect Telecommunications – ACD Telephony San Jose, CA, 01/90 to 07/90

Pacific Bell –Telecommunications, San Ramon, CA, 01/87 to 10/89

U.S. Marine Corps – Recruiter Sergeant (E-5) San Diego, CA
Honorable Discharge

Education:
Taleo Applicant Tracking System - 2009
Attended SOURCECON1 2007 in Atlanta – September 10-14, 2007.
An intensive conference for recruiting and sourcing minds to learn and enhance Internet recruiting and sourcing techniques and tools for critical sourcing challenges in our current corporate staffing market.

Enrolled in Master’s Program at The Graduate Theological Union – U.C. Berkeley campus B. A in Marketing Management Degree Program – Indiana University, Northwest campus

Additional Training:

• AIRS (Google for IT)
• VURV - ATS
• Sun Sparc UNIX for Users
• Icarian HR Staffing Tool ATS
• Taleo ATS
• I recruitment - ATS
• Windows NT for Users
• MAC O/S for Users
• Xerox Professional Selling Skills III
• Restract ATS
• Conflict Resolution for Managers
• Resumix ATS
• MS Office, Access, PowerPoint, Excel
• Projectix ATS

Personal Data: Enjoys reading The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Technical Business Journals and otherbusiness literature.