San Jose State University

Fremont Christian School

Program Manager 2, Engineering at LinkedIn

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Senior Program Manager, Engineering

- Coordinate and schedule pick-up/drop-off for mail and office supply vendors, travel needs for notary and live scan services, and in-store scheduling of live scan appointments 
- Process new mailbox accounts, manage existing customer accounts, and file customer data in a safe, secure location certifying the highest level of confidentiality
- Manage travel expenses for notary and live scan services, handle the payment of monthly utility bills, and assess weekly expense charts for areas of improvement
- Streamline current services and introduce new services to ensure a greater customer experience and more efficient workflow
- Manage daily operations that include but not limited to customer support, membership enrollment, over-the-phone queries, account setup and closure, vendor maintenance, and staff training
- Greet and engage customers with a friendly, outgoing personality and attend to their service needs

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Program Manager 2, Engineering

Program Manager, Engineering

Launched in 2003, LinkedIn has become the largest professional networking site by transforming the world’s professional to make them more productive and successful. With more than 500 million members worldwide, LinkedIn upholds its mission of creating the first Economic Graph. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from: Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Premium Subscriptions, and Learning Solutions.

As a Recruiting Coordinator, I provide each and every one of our candidates with LinkedIn’s Best on Planet Candidate Experience. I team up with our recruiters, hiring managers, and interview teams to coordinate all processes from phone screens to onsite interviews to coordinating travel accommodations. 

In additional to my core role, I have taken up a variety of tasks to improve internal processes, onboard new hires, and participate in hiring committees. 

I support the recruiting cycles for a variety of engineering organizations: Applications, Mobile, UI, Tools, Test, Performance, SI, Data Mining/Machine Learning, Data Analytics, SRE and Global Ops.

RC Experience: 
Technical Recruiting: November 2016 - Present
Global Ops/IT Recruiting: March 2017 - Present
Campus Technical Recruiting: June 2017 - July 2017

Recruiting Coordinator Lead, Engineering

- Aided the lab instructor in creating new lesson plans, new demonstrations, and managed the laboratory class
- Enhanced students’ ability to grasp new information in an effective way by demonstrating live demos, study tips, and interactive exercises
- Assisted the students with their laboratory needs (configuring microscopes for bacterial/fungal analysis, plating bacteria on agar plates, creating agar plates, identifying organisms in the class, etc.)
- Instructed a class lecture/lab section of 20 students about “Carbohydrate Metabolism in Bacteria”

Microbiology Lab Teaching Assistant

- Produced bi-weekly reports to summarize findings and inform the PI of future next steps (back up with research from peer-reviewed articles)
- Interacted with research colleagues to find new methods / experiments to further the progress of my project
- Analyzed, composed and presented my research at the American Chemical Society Symposium at UC Santa Cruz in the midst of 100+ fellow scientists 
- Performed various techniques throughout my project: PCR, SDS-PAGE, protein purification, large scale bacterial growth, DNA isolation, gel electrophoresis, preparing media and agar plates

Undergraduate Student Researcher, Rascón Biochemistry Lab

- Scheduled and coordinated weekly meetings with 25-30 students (per semester) via Google Calendar and Google Docs
- Created and maintained large amounts of confidential data on a daily basis 
- Produced efficiency reports to monitor candidate experience and academic progress
- Cultivated long-lasting relationships with students and provided a great candidate experience at San Jose State University
- Collaborated with fellow Peer Advisors to implement new concepts (e.g. time management, proper notetaking, effective study tools, study halls, etc.) through weekly student meetings
- Planned multiple semester events for 1,000+ students and faculty (e.g. pizza socials, BBQ socials, Halloween movie nights, etc.)
- Budgeted and logged $2500+ in course-related sales (course readers, calendars, and practice exams)

Bharat Patel