Irvine Valley College

US Army Paratrooper

As a seasoned recruitment specialist with a passion for connecting talent with opportunity, I thrive in the dynamic realm of talent acquisition. My journey in the field of recruitment has been marked by a commitment to excellence, a keen eye for identifying top-tier candidates, and a dedication to fostering meaningful relationships with both clients and candidates alike.

At Sourceowls.com, I serve as a pivotal link between exceptional talent and innovative companies seeking to grow and thrive. With a deep understanding of the ever-evolving landscape of recruitment, I employ a strategic approach to sourcing, screening, and selecting candidates who not only meet the job requirements but also align with the unique culture and values of our partner organizations.

My expertise extends across various industries and skills, allowing me to adapt to diverse recruitment needs and effectively address challenges with agility and precision. Whether it's identifying niche technical skills or sourcing executive-level talent, I approach each recruitment project with unwavering enthusiasm and a commitment to delivering results that exceed expectations.

Beyond my role in recruitment, I am also deeply invested in supporting the mission and vision of Sourceowls.com. As a champion of our platform, I actively engage with clients and candidates to provide personalized support and guidance throughout the recruitment process. Whether it's offering insights on market trends, providing interview preparation tips, or facilitating seamless communication between stakeholders, I am dedicated to ensuring a positive experience for all involved.

Driven by a genuine desire to make a meaningful impact in the lives of individuals and the success of organizations, I am proud to be part of the Sourceowls.com team, where innovation meets opportunity, and talent meets its match.

Source Owl

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Safari for the Soul has several locations and has been successfully providing unforgettable experiences since 2019. After building four successful glamping sites, Safari for the Soul is on its way to franchising our unique one-and-only free hanging glamping stays. www.safariforthesoulglamping.com

Safari for the Soul Glamping

Chief Glamping Officer

I was tasked to build out 2 new verticals from scratch for Reddit, Corp Security/ Privacy&Assurance. Built out all verticals within these two business lines to include App Sec, SOC, IRD, Cloud Sec, Privacy, Risk, Compliance, and Governance Engineers/ Analysts and Sr managers. Built out all recruiting processes that directly impacted these teams by being an SME and resource to create tangible processes that hire teir 1-level candidates while retaining 0 percent attrition for all hires. Introduce and lead diversity hiring for Women in Tech as well as build out business leadership introduction across the entire platform. Maintain 100% close ratio on all offers extended.

Reddit, Inc.

Talent Acquisition Partner 

Principal Recruiter

Endurance International Group (NASDAQ: EIGI) helps millions of small businesses realize their dreams. The company equips small businesses worldwide with products and technology to power their online web presence, email marketing, mobile business solutions, and more. Endurance’s best in class family of brands includes Constant Contact, Bluehost, HostGator, Domain.com, BigRock, SiteBuilder, and Impress.ly, among others. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, Endurance employs more than 3,800 people across the United States, Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit endurance.com.

Endurance International Group

Principal Recruiter,Talent Acquisition

•	Providing corporate recruiting leadership for several technology verticals within Groupon
•	Rebuilding business relationships through developing KPI’s and deliverables
•	Roles recruited include: Everything Prod OPPs, Mobile SDE’s Android / iOS, SDET and PMO, Data Science Roles, from IC to VP level.
•	Enhanced diversity and employee recruitment efforts
•	Developed Meetup Recruiting process
•	Developed additional Sourcing strategies 
•	Helped Develop Global Candidate Care program.

Groupon

Sr. Recruiter, Global Talent Acquisition

Providing corporate recruiting leadership for global Sales, Marketing and technology business units within Actian. 
Responsible for full-cycle recruitment of Big Data Analytics platforms to include all levels of sales and pre-sales, Marketing, Hadoop Developers, Java Developers, UI, Developers, Cloud Computing Software Developers. Building internal Recruiting processes within the supported business, for present and future hiring and retention. 
Actian Corporation enables organizations to transform big data into business value with data management solutions to connect, analyze, and take automated Action across their business operations. The Actian Big Data Analytics Platform enables users to process data directly on Hadoop and move the data to the record setting Actian high-performance analytics engine without any MapReduce or SQL programming. Actian is headquartered in Redwood City, California with offices in Austin, New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, New Delhi and Melbourne. We are a profitable, well-funded pre-IPO company with award-winning products and thousands of customers.

Actian Corporation

Sr. Recruiter Big Data, Global Talent Acquisition

Providing Corporate Recruiting Services to a global leader in technology as part of the Manpowergroup Solutions RPO team.

Responsible for full-cycle recruitment of Cloud Computing Software Developers, Firmware Engineers, and Program Managers in the SSD space. 
Technologies recruiting for include: SSD, embedded C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Linux Shell Scripting (Kernel).

ManpowerGroup Solutions RPO

Sr Recruiter

Recruited to build and support the Austin talent advisor team within Charles Schwab giving direct access to all Austin Business Units.
Provide full-cycle recruiting / sourcing across a 20-25 reqs. 
Tasked to locate qualified candidates while providing superior customer service to Charles Schwab clients.
Supported IT Mobile, Web, Desktop and Mainframe Global IT Software platform across 18 different Business Units.
Partnered closely with all Hiring Managers to identify skills/traits of desired candidates through scoping contract meetings 
Liaison and Project Manager with team assisting in finding top-notch candidates using creative sourcing strategies.
Roles recruited include:  Associate Software QA, Staff Software QA, Software Sr. Managers, SCRUM / Agile Directors, Java, .net Programmers, Developers, BSA  Sr Staff Business System Analyst, Sr. Manager Internal Communications, Technical Director Information System Engineering; Supported CA, AZ, CO, TX, IL, OH, FL locations

Randstad / Charles Schwab

Sr Technology Recruiter

Recruiting Global Sales / IT / Marketing and Legal positions to include individual contributors, Sr Managers and executive level positions..

Responsible for the strategic sourcing and recruiting of SMB, Large Enterprise and Global Micro Device technologies. I am looking for Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance and Services folks, so if you are interested in hearing more about AMD and the Fusion technologhy please reach out to me directly 512-602-6298 or scott.newman@amd.com  
For current job openings, please visit:  http://www.AMD.com/careers 
Scott Newman
Marketing, Operations & Corporate Services
Global Talent Acquisition

Sr Contract Recruiter

•Responsible for the strategic sourcing and recruiting support of SMB, Large Enterprise, Global Storage, and Sever technology.
•Recruited Pre-sales System Engineers, Storage, Server Blade/Fabric Specialists , Product Specialist II, III, and IV, Software Enterprise Technologists, Software Solution Specialist, Account Executives, and Engineers. 
•Selected to lead all recruiting efforts within Dell's acquisition group for two very high visible Storage Hardware and Software related New Acquisitions. 
•Selected as lead recruiter to interface directly with President of new acquisition and Internal Dell recruiting mgmt. team with sole responsibility for recruiting and sourcing strategies. Responsible for multiple weekly status reports with senior management, strategic sourcing, and active participation in weekly discovery sessions. 
•Given direct access to develop and deliver recruiting strategies and develop rapport with C-level, VP, to Director personnel from acquisition team 
•Responsible for the strategic sourcing and full-cycle recruiting of 54 requisitions across 14 managers; hired 34 candidates within the first 4-months. 
•Voted Contractor of the month for November 2010.Received over 5 Dell Manager LinkedIn recommendations for excellent service and exceeding expectations. 
Please visit www.dell.com for employment opportunities or contact me directly at 949-228-2949
Scott Newman
Talent Acquisition 
Dell | Human Resources, U.S.A

Dell

•Provided Ev3 with the highest quality medical engineering candidates in the Medical industry
•Supported 6 managers and approximately 15-20 reqs.
•Sourcing and recruiting for all positions using creative and passive networks i.e.  LinkedIn / LinkedIn user groups, Octane, Facebook, Myspace, Google, Gadball, personal network of candidates.
•Sourced & Recruited: Manufacturing, R&D, Project, Production, Design, Quality , Mechanical, Support Engineers, Master Scheduler, Production Planner,  Sourcing Managers, Regulatory Affairs Specialist, Cost Accountants, Finance  Manager, Marketing Manager, Sales / Customer Support Specialists,  Oracle DBA
•Closed 19 positions in 4 months ( 2 in the first week)

Ev3 Neurovascular Division, Irvine, Ca

Sr Contract Recruiter Through Infusion Recruiting

Recruited to assist in launching office in Austin, TX.; originally recruited from Mission Viejo, CA. corporate office  
Responsible for passive recruiting and sourcing across multiple industries to include; Semiconductor,  Medical Device,  Alternative Energy, Government & Defense, Enterprise Software,  and Interactive and On-Line Media and Financial Services.

Successfully sourced and recruited both functional and technical roles to include: Application Engineers, Subcontracts Administrators, Java Developers, Test Engineers, LAMP, .Net, Oracle developers, Medical R&D, Manufacturing, Project/Quality Engineers and C / C++ Developers ASIC Design Engineers Power and Audio Design Engineers, Embedded Engineers.

Power LinkedIn User and very skilled in leveraging Web 2.0 and Social Media tools for identifying new candidates.

Enterprise and Technical Sales Positions recruited for Include:
Presales Engineer/Oracle and SOX/Governance Software firm- LogicalApps (acquired by Oracle)
Senior Enterprise Sales Executive- I2 Technologies (was RiverOne Software)/Supply Chain 
Senior Supply Chain Sales Executive- UGS ($1b Supply Chain Software firm)
Emerging Media and OnLine Advertising/Senior Sales and Marketing 
Director of Content & Licensing- MediaFLO USA AE- MTV/Gametrailers.com
Director of Sales-Oracle Consulting firm-Abaris Inc. Senior Software Sales Manager- Workflow Solutions Software/BPI-Integrien Software (start-up)
Senior Account Executive-Disaster Recovery Solutions-Sungard Availability Services ($1b DRecovery) Senior Software Sales-Enterprise Software-Viacore

Infusion Recruiting Solutions

Talent Acquisition Manager

•Provided Panasonic with the highest quality Engineering & IT candidates in the Avionics industry. 
•Supported 15 hiring managers and approx. 20-35 reqs monthly. I am facilitating full life cycle recruiting while dealing with all aspects of the hiring managers /candidates needs from writing the job description to writing and negotiating offer letter. 
•Recruited both active and passive candidates ranging from Project Managers, Software Engineers, System Engineers, Architects, Mechanical Engineers, Product support Engineers, Hardware Engineers, Design Engineers, Quality Engineers, Test Engineers Director of Engineering, Engineering Managers, Reliability Engineers, EMI Test engineer, RF Antenna Engineers, Power Supply Design Engineer, Business Analysts, Product Managers, Marketing Managers, Oracle 10g / 11i Developers/DBA’s Oracle business Analysts, Oracle Financials / HRMS/  Java Developers, C/C++ Developers and LAMP Developers.
•Closed 78 positions

Panasonic Avionics Corp

SR Recruiter

•Responsible for senior level sourcing and full-cycle recruiting of Project Managers, CRM, Application Architects, Java/J2EE Developers, Software Engineers, System Engineers, ERP professionals (Oracle and SAP) and very senior .Net developers and architects.
•The recruiting emphasis is largely aimed at securing top talent disciplined in the latest Microsoft technologies, including web based application development, infrastructure, database and large scale project management, Cisco Security

Structure Networks

Contract Recruiter

•Responsible for senior level sourcing and full-cycle recruiting of to include Project Managers, CRM, Application Architects, Java/J2EE Developers, ERP professionals (Oracle and SAP) and very senior dot net developers and architects.
•The recruiting emphasis is largely aimed at securing top talent disciplined in the latest Microsoft technologies, including web based application development, infrastructure, database and large scale project management.
•Managing 5 clients and directing new client’s talent needs.

speakTECH

Sr Contract Recuiter

Volt Services Group

•	Responsible for recruitment via in person and phone interviewing of all contract/perm. consultants with primary focus on Senior IT disciplines to  include Project Managers, Director of IT, Application Architects, Java/J2EE Developers, ERP professionals (Oracle and SAP) and dot net professionals
•Conduct in depth in-person technical interviews, negotiate rates/salary with candidates, develop/close comprehensive contract rate proposals and permanent fees w/prospective employers
•Assisted in the implementation of recruitment strategies and candidate referral programs
•Direct sourcing of candidates using a variety of internet tools including resume databases, industry association links, Linked In, Lead411, and other referral techniques
•Assist in the scheduling and coordination of consultant/candidate interviews with the client
•Perform reference checks and assist in the negotiation of salary, hourly rate and offer acceptance