Employment

August, 2007 -  Present
President

Recruiting and Consulting firm acquiring Top Engineering Talent for clients to include ClariPhy Communications, Symwave, Luxtera, LSI Corporation and AMD.
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, Ca
Senior Staffing Consultant Remote Contract
Responsible for hiring critical talent for LSI s Storage Products Group and Network Storage Products Group. Digital, Analog, Mixed Signal, Hardware, Firmware, Product Marketing, Program Management, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Fellow, Director and VP NSPG RAID, SAS, SATA and Fibre Channel. Product Areas HBA s, Internal and External RAID, Storage Virtualization and Standard and Custom Silicon.

Leverage social networks, groups, organizations and Google searches to identify and research top talent.

Invited to conduct VirtualEdge Advanced Recruiter Training. Coached LSI Recruiters how to improve their quality of searching for top talent which resulted in improved time management.
Co-Lead the Project Scoping, Business Process Planning and Implementation of ADP s VE Pilot, Candidate Sourcing and Pipelining module.

August, 2007 -  August, 2008

Talent Acquisition Site Leader Contract - reporting to the VP of Talent Acquisition and Diversity.

championed change management, partnering with TA Professionals, HRBP s and Executive Leaders, to drive recruitment best practices. Lead hiring manager training writing effective job descriptions, taught effective and compliant interview techniques, assessment and selection of top talent, pipeline and sourcing talent, effective closing and negotiating and improved hired candidates time to productivity on-boarded.
Effectively scoped and designed global Talent Acquisition process maps, partnering with TA focus groups, from Pipeline/Sourcing to On-Boarding A-Z. Asked to participate in IBM s HR processing mapping with Global Human Resource Leaders.
Hired to re-configure and re-implement a single Applicant Tracking System VirtualEdge to all AMD sites globally Canada, Germany and APAC.
Increased AMD s standards to meet compliance requirements by enhancing security features in their Applicant Tracking Software addressing Global Data Privacy Laws, OFCCP and Affirmative Action and EEO.
Managed a team of 3 recruiters supporting recruitment efforts for AMD s West Coast CPU and GPU businesses.

February, 2007 -  February, 2007
Senior Manager

Responsible for global talent acquisition.

May, 2005 -  May, 2007
Worldwide Director

Lead Marvell s recruitment strategies and metrics globally. Met with Marvell s CEO and Executive Leadership Team on a weekly basis to discuss Staffing initiatives to meet their talent acquisition goals.
trained Marvell s Intel xScale Business leaders on Marvell s staffing processes. Requested by Marvell s ELT to the travel to Israel to assist in the integration.
Defined and implemented cohesive recruitment strategies to meet Marvell s growth initiatives by 1.
Automating and implementing Marvell s First Global Applicant Tracking System VirtualEdge Professional .2. Developed a competitive edge leveraging Social Networks linkedin, Job Boards and Direct Marketing Campaigns.
Implemented Executive Level Recruitment Program partnering with VP HR and Marvell s founders C-Level, VP and Director for WiFi, WiMAX, BT, Cellular, Wired, Storage HDD Devices, Analog and Advance RF worldwide.
Built and managed a team of 12 highly skilled technical recruiters and sourcing recruiters which hired over 1000 people in 2006.
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Decreased time to hire from 73 days to 53 days on average which resulted in Marvell s Management to hire quicker. Improving Time to Market.

Coached Marvell s management to take a systematic approach to interviewing. Resulted in improving candidate experience and quality of hire.

Lead recruiter training on advanced talent acquisition techniques 1. Taught how to do advance searching techniques and Google strings.

Improved Marvell s employment brand internally and externally. Evangelized Marvell s internal Employee Referral Program ERP to increase submittals.
Managed and created Marvell s College Recruiting program. Increased Marvell s awareness on multiple campuses targeting the best and the brightest.
Implemented effective Vendor Management program decreasing utilization of outside agencies by 80% globally.
Engaged and Managed Marvell s External Staffing Partners which increase search results and quality of their submittals.

June, 2000 -  June, 2005

Promoted to Senior Manager, Global Search hired a number of Broadcom Executives at the Director and VP levels.
Instrumental in identifying 27 key people for a new start up Hard Disk Drive group hired in 120 days.

Recruited key architects for the PHY layer organization which commands 60% market share.
Responsible for recruiting talent for Broadcom s Mobile and Wireless, mobile handset and Bluetooth groups.

Global Staffing Manager, Business Unit Recruiting
Managed a team of 12 12 Business Unit Recruiters responsible for all of BRCM's Global Talent Acquisition efforts in North America, Europe, Israel, India and all of APAC Greater China, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea and Japan.
implemented a Business Unit Recruiter or Sourcing Recruiter recruitment strategy that reduced time to hire average from 74 days to 59 days in 6 months.
Averaged 400+ hires per year for 2002 and 2003. In 2004 my team hired 680
Participated in the evaluation of multiple applicant tracking systems selecting Virtual Edge Professional eTrack.
Implemented effective Vendor Management program decreasing utilization of outside agencies by 85% globally.
Engaged and Managed Broadcom s External Staffing Partners which increase search results and quality of their submittals.

Senior Technical Recruiter
Lead best practices in the areas of identifying and recruiting top Engineering and R and D talent across all of the BRCM businesses.
Implemented candidate source generation strategy that penetrated the competitive market spectrum for all levels of recruits.
Executed a search strategy encompassing employee referrals, directory and association mining/networking, on-line postings, internal candidate databases and direct research/name generation.

Pre-screen, qualify, conduct competency-based interviews, extend offers, negotiate salary and relocation issues to close offers in a timely manner.
Focused on problem solving negotiations and conflict resolution in the workplace.

Strong organizational and follow up skills. Ability to maintain composure in a high volume environment.
Recruit for Worldwide and Domestic positions VP NA Sales, Account Managers, FAE s, Product Marketing Managers, LAN Gigabit Ethernet, SAN, Fiber Channel, WAN fiber-optic, SONET, Cable Modem/STB, RFIC and Advanced Analog and Wireless 802.11 a/b/g WLAN, bluetooth.

Strong understanding of labor laws, EOE and immigration employment issues.

January, 2000 -  January, 2000
Senior Contract Technical Recruiter

Supported 5 key groups : MIPS, CTO, Microcontrollers, SSG Software Services Group and DFT.
Managed job requisition load of 75.
Recruited on average 10 - 15 candidate hires/month as a top recruitment producer.
Developed strong relationships with manager and co-partnerships with respective hires.
Recruited, sourced and evaluated resumes passing them onto respective managers. Developed and implemented creative sourcing strategies and educated managers on the current market.
Maintained a strong sense of follow-up and follow through with managers and candidates.
sourced direct-hire candidates using a variety of methods, cold-calling, advanced internet searches, job board postings, job fairs and internal referrals.
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Source, pre-screen, qualify, conduct competency based interviews, extend offers and negotiated salary and relocation issues to close offers in a timely manner.

Recruited for key technical skills in VLSI Design, Hardware and Software environment, ie Senior Architects, Principal Design Engineers, Design Engineers, Design/Verification Engineers, DFT, Physical Design Engineers, CAD, Layout and Embedded Software Design Engineers.

September, 1994 -  September, 1999
Team Manager

Chosen to start CCI Information Technology Team in Dallas, TX which grew to $500K billable business in 8 months.
Clients ; Nokia, Citizen Telecom, Nortel, Texas Instruments, Raytheon, EDS, Perot Systems, Tricon Global PizzaHut, CompUSA, Southland Corp etc.
Elected as CCI s top revenue producer for 95, 96, 98 and 99.
Managed a team of 5 Executive Consultants. Personally recruited, coached and mentored the CCI Information Technology Team.
Instrumental in designing and implementing best practices for account management, generation, sourcing, recruiting strategies and offer closure.
Placed Oracle, UNIX, SQL DBA s, Programmers Legacy, Mainframe, Wintel and Web, Application Engineers, Firmware Engineers, Network Engineers, Management, Directors and CIO s etc.

Education

Miscellaneous
Senior Executive Consultant
Managed the entire process from account management, sourcing, recruitment and offer closure.
Placed Senior and Junior Finance and Accounting executives in Fortune 500 companies and Big 5 Consulting Firms : Ernst and Young, Anderson Consulting, Deloitte and Touche, KPMG, Rockwell Semiconductor/Conexant, Cisco Systems, Qualcomm, Airtouch Cellular, LA Cellular, Nextwave, AST Research, Beckman Instruments, etc.
Executive Consultant
Placed 3 candidates in my first month joining CCI.
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