San Jose City College

Santa Rosa Junior College

Sr. Technical Recruiter • Makes Hiring Managers Very Happy Every Time!

South Padre Island, Texas, United States

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Sr. Technical Recruiter

Brought back to Elevated Resources specifically to recruit for a Ruby / Ruby on Rails  team.  Looking for Jr. & Sr. Full-stack Rails Developers nationwide for a great client. Onsite & Remote teams with great, inclusive atmosphere.

Elevated Resources Inc

Part of my business with Local Reach Branding has been working with B2B companies in the restaurant services area.

One segment in particular where I have made a huge impact has been with restaurant hood cleaning companies nationwide.  Our marketing for hood cleaning companies has moved our clients to be the leaders in each of their marketplaces.

Hood Cleaning Marketing

Managing Partner

Applying my marketing and web development skills to aid small businesses to improve their marketing business.  Benefit:  We get more potential clients/customers to contact you on a daily basis in order to drastically increase the profits for small businesses.

Example:  One client that we started working with was getting 3-5 potential client calls per week.  After we improved their marketing content and re-marketing them to the right audience, they started to get 100-120 incoming potential customer calls per month.  This raised their sales from 90k per year to put them on track for $440,000 per year after only 5 months of new marketing!

Local Reach Branding

Managing Partner / Software Engineer

As an Officer and Co-Organizer of Southern California's largest Ruby & Ruby on Rails event, I have been responsible for developing curriculum for Ruby training classes, vetting and arranging speakers, event promotion, and logistics for the event.  Along with my partners, we've created a technical conference that grows by 50% year after year.

Our speakers and trainers list includes some of the world renown Ruby Developers. Many of them come back year after year to help us serve the Ruby community (which has always been our goal).

Los Angeles Ruby Conference

Co-Founder & Organizer of LA's Ruby & Ruby on Rails Conference

Managing recruitment for SDI.  Bringing on new Engineers to facilitate the growth of InnoVista Sensors new products.

Systron Donner Inertial -> The Inertial MEMS Performance Leader

InnoVista Sensors™

Recruiting Manager for Systron Donner (Contract)

Full Cycle Recruiter for Saama; handling US and international searches in all areas of the company including Sales, Marketing, Global Operations, Technical and Professional Support, Finance, IT, and Software Development.

Saama Technologies, Inc. is a pure-play data science solutions and services company, focused on solving the data management and advanced analytics challenges of the world’s leading brands.

Saama’s analytics solution framework, Fluid Analytics EngineTM analyses data from Big Data Ecosystems using over 2000 cutting edge algorithms to derive Business centric insights & Visualizations. Examples of Saama’s broad suite of Ready Analytics solutions powered by the FAE include Real World Evidence Analytics (Life Science), Customer Analytics (all industries), Insurance Fraud Analytics and Predictive Churn Analytics.

We turn raw data into analytics driven decisions, using data science to identify the micro-needles of valuable data in today’s digital haystacks. We focus on the complete life cycle of data insights from data management to advanced analytics. Saama’s platform agnostic approach leverages our customers’ existing data infrastructure to create actionable insights and enable business teams to answer critical business questions.

Currently hiring:
Hadoop Developers
Sr Hadoop Consultants
Sr. Informatica Developers
Informatica Consultants
Big Data Engineers
Big Data Technical Architect
BI Test Engineers
ETL Engineeers
ETL Developers
SQL DBAs
Project Managers
Program Managers
PMO Leader

Saama

Recruiter for Global Projects (Contract)

Full Cycle Recruiter for Rimini Street handling US and international searches in all areas of the company including Sales, Marketing, Global Operations, Technical and Professional Support, Finance, and IT.

Rimini Street is the leading independent provider of enterprise software support services. The company is redefining enterprise support services with an innovative, award-winning program that enables Oracle and SAP licensees to save up to 90 percent on total support costs over a decade, including saving 50 percent on their annual support fees. Clients can remain on their current software release without any required upgrades or migrations for at least 10 years. Hundreds of clients, including global, Fortune 500, midmarket, and public sector organizations from virtually all industries have selected Rimini Street as their trusted, independent support provider.

Rimini Street

Global Lead Recruiter  (Contract)

Senior Recruiter Consultant at VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company. VCE is the joint venture between EMC, Cisco, VMWare, and Intel.

Building the world's most advanced private cloud converged infrastructure platforms to create fully virtualized datacenters.

-   Transitioned to VCE in November 2014 due to their large volume of new engineering/IT/QA/PM headcount in plan because of VCE's success, growth and future product initiatives.
-   Source, recruit and partner with Leaders on new talent acquisition.
-   Encourage positive candidate experiences and building the local brand for employment and new talent attraction.
-   Partner directly with teams on recruiting niche hiring demands to meet their business initiative deadlines.
-   Establish a pipeline of candidates within programming/development/software engineering/PMs through networking and social media channels.
-   Coach Managers on their interview format to ensure a positive candidate experience and consistent bench-marking for final evaluation.
-   Promote and sell the company to each candidate I encounter for branding and future candidate attraction.

Engineering Recruiter  (Contract)

Supporting Hiring Managers in hardware engineering divisions at Xilinx to ramp up and find the most talented people possible for Xilinx's endeavors to create the next generations of awesome FPGAs.

Xilinx is committed to continuous expansion of these customer initiatives in future generations of Xilinx’s All Programmable technologies and devices.

Only Xilinx has the portfolio to enable design teams to develop All Programmable electronic systems. This expands their system value advantages, addresses the industry’s "programmable imperative" by reducing exploding design costs, and dramatically increases flexibility and lowers risk in a rapidly changing market environment.

Basically, Xilinx rocks and I'm very excited to help them achieve their goals and missions.

Xilinx

Staffing Sourcer (Contract)

Managed multiple outsourced solution teams providing full cycle recruiting for select clients. My teams were very successful in locating and recruiting very high caliber software engineers, analysts, scientists, researchers, product managers, etc.

Other than managing the onsite teams, I was tasked to locate the best passive & semi-passive prospective candidates for Ruby & Ruby on Rails positions and bring them through my step by step candidate development process.

I set company placement records and challenged other members of the team to do the same.

i-Hire

Senior Engineering Recruiter / Sourcer

I was the Lead Recruiter for an outsourced solution team which provided full cycle recruiting on-site for AT&T Interactive and <a href="http://yellowpages.com">yellowpages.com</a>.  I was very successful in locating and recruiting very high caliber software engineers, analysts, scientists / researchers, product managers, etc.

I was personally responsible for hiring over 50 technical professionals (in 9 months) and reshaping the image of <a href="http://yellowpages.com">yellowpages.com</a> / AT&T Interactive in the developer community.

Positions filled:
Ruby on Rails Web Development Manager
Sr. Ruby on Rails Developer
Sr. Tools Developer (Ruby)
Sr. R&D Team Developers (Ruby & Ruby on Rails)
Associate Ruby on Rails Developers
Web Development Project Managers
Software Product Managers
Web Analytics Analysts
Web Front-End Developers (with Ruby on Rails experience)
UI/UIX Developers (with Ruby on Rails experience)
Geo-Spatial Technology Scientist (with Ruby coding experience)

Senior Technical Recruiter - Specialized in developing Ruby team  (Contract)

Recruiting nationwide for technology professionals for high-tech firms. Specialty has been locating and helping to hire Ruby and Ruby on Rails Web Application Development professionals and Back End Ruby Developers for companies that need immediate results in finding top talent.

I am known for recruiting top Ruby & Ruby on Rails developers but I also provide solutions to locate and hire Lead Developers, Directors, and Technical Officers for my client companies.

I am a fan of Ruby and Ruby on Rails and am one of very few Technical Recruiters that actually codes in Ruby too. I have built Rails web applications on my own and was even an open source contributor to Rails 3.0.

Examples of work:

-  Saved <a href="http://Yellowpages.com">Yellowpages.com</a> / <a href="http://yp.com">yp.com</a> over $1.6mil in outside recruiting fees in less than 1 year.
-  Filled dozens of Ruby & Ruby on Rails positions at AT&T with Senior Ruby Developers & Senior Rails Developers in less than 60 days.
-  Placed Ruby on Rails Web Development Manager in 10 days.
-  Placed 5 Back End Ruby Developers in 25 days.
-  Found and placed Front End UI Developer with Ruby on Rails experience in 3 days.
-  Has placed Ruby Developers & Ruby on Rails Developers in companies nationwide for startups, Fortune 100 companies, and all sized companies in between.
-  Once found and placed a Geo-Spatial Technology Scientist (with Ruby coding experience) in 14 days! (the position had been open and unfilled for over a year!)
-  Has been the Lead Organizer of the Los Angeles Ruby Meetup since 2008.
-  Founder & Co-Organizer of the Annual Los Angeles Ruby Conference, which brings in top Ruby trainers/speakers from across the country and attendees from around the globe.

PROVEN RECRUITING SKILLS & TRACK RECORD in recruiting Ruby & Ruby on Rails Developers for my clients in California & nationwide.

JR Fent Recruiting, LLC

Senior Technical Recruiter - Specialized in Web & Mobile Application Development

As an IT Recruiter, I located and helped his clients to hire candidates such as ASIC Designers, Board Level Hardware Engineers, Embedded Software Engineers, among others. ASIC, FPGA, SoC, SystemVerilog, PCIe, SERDES, CMOS, Embedded C/C++ were skill sets consistently required.Also worked on software side: Programmers, Product Managers, QA Analysts, JAVA programmers, software engineers, C++ Programmers, J2EE developers, Javascript engineers, Ruby/Rails Web developers, Systems and Network Administrators, Desktop Support, Business and Data Analysts, etc.

Some of my accomplishments included: Highest value placement in company's history.  Best monthly placement record in company history.