Walla Walla University

Talent Strategy Leader  -  Organizational Designer

Portland, Oregon, United States

As a part of core leadership, hired to create business and people strategies for innovation labs representing the fastest growing revenue centers for The Home Depot. Built a talent team that grew 4 locations 3x in North American.Responsible for scaling the teams at 4 innovation labs (technology startup acquisitions):•	QuoteCenter (e-commerce, in Vancouver, WA)  -  March 2016 – present•	BlackLocus (predictive analytics and data science, in Austin, TX)  -  August 2018 – present•	Askuity (merchandising intelligence and data science, in Toronto, ONT)  -  March 2019 – present•	TechShed (e-commerce, in San Mateo, CA)  -  Jan 2018 – June 2019Accomplishments and responsibilities:•	As a member of the leadership team, created each business unit’s first talent vision, OKRs and roadmap.•	Created 7-person technology talent acquisition department.•	Partnered cross-functionally with HR and the business in a highly-matrixed organization based in Atlanta.•	Created diversity strategies (65% of all new hires are diverse candidates).•	Partnered with General Managers to create scalable organizational designs and workforce plans.•	Defined and implemented software toolset needed to support rapid expansion at each location.•	Designed and executed employment brand marketing initiatives including meetup and corporate sponsorships, recruiting events and social media (Medium, Facebook, Indeed, StackOverflow and LinkedIn).•	Led creation of outsourced global services partnerships (KForce, TEKsystems, Apex).•	Monitored hiring budget to ensure good stewardship of company resources.•	Reduced time to hire from 90 to 43 days and cost per hire from $10k+ to $3k.

The Home Depot

Manager, Corporate Technology Talent Acquisition

Personal tips to get healthier. We want to help you become a better version of yourself!Accomplishments and responsibilities:•	Hired to establish the recruiting practice and build the team.•	Collaborated with the CEO and leadership to develop and achieve “people ops” objectives and goals.•	Developed hiring efficiency reports to improve hiring processes.•	Built a team of iOS engineers, interaction designers, engineers and data scientists.•	Trained interviewers and established talent acquisition toolset.

Addapp Corp

Consulting VP of Talent

Manage your email + tasks + calendar all in one app! Proud to say I was one of the first users; since early Alpha! Handle is my most-used App: for work, play and even some exciting international volunteer work. Runner-up at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013.Accomplishments and responsibilities: •	Partnered with primary investor (Menlo Ventures) to establish the recruiting practice and build the team.•	Collaborated with investors and the founder to develop and achieve “people ops” objectives and goals.•	Built a team of iOS engineers, javascript engineers, UX/UI Designers and VP of Marketing.

Handle, Inc

Founded in 2003, Silver Key partnered with industry leading venture capital firms to build technology teams for startups through direct hire and RPO business models. Founded the business, established operational and accounting/P&L best practices, hired and trained onsite and remote recruiters and operations staff.•	Became the vendor of choice for multiple industry leaders, including Siri (acq by Apple), Teros (acq by Citrix), McAfee, PureStorage, AsterData (acq by Teradata), QuoteCenter (acq by The Home Depot), 1Mainstream (acq by Cisco), Embrane (acq by Cisco) and Tropos Networks (acq by ABB). •	Developed relationships with industry leading venture capital firms, including Menlo Ventures, Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital and Mohr Davidow Ventures. •	Created SOPs for the business, developed finance and accounting processes.•	Managed recruiting teams in Vancouver, Spokane and Charlotte, NC.•	Led 3 startups in creating talent acquisition practices while filling key leadership roles.•	Built full-desk recruiting teams in executive search, technology, UX, sales, marketing.•	Instilled a culture of innovative recruiting through the early adoption of LinkedIn (2003), TalentBin (2010), AngelList (2011), Connectifier (2012) and Outreach.io (2013).

Silver Key

President

ProMed Search Firm focused on recruiting for pharmacies. As co-founder of Promed, created the recruiting practice at a time when the industry was going through heavy merger and acquisition activity, creating high demand for pharmacists.•	Negotiated national preferred status vendor agreements with the top 3 market leaders in long-term care pharmacy: NeighborCare, Pharmerica, and Apria Healthcare.•	Established the recruiting practice and hired and trained the first 6 recruiters (4 onsite, 2 remote).•	Created SOPs, best practices, documentation, toolset and KPIs.•	Once ProMed was established as the leader in LTC pharmacy search, I expanded the firm’s client portfolio into recruiting for clinical pharmacy positions at The Cleveland Clinic and numerous US hospital systems.

Promed

Co-Founder, Executive Vice President

As employee #9 at this full-desk technology recruiting firm, successfully completed and closed searches for technical and executive positions in the SF bay area. Became the firm’s top producer in my first month of employment and was ultimately given responsibility for leading a team of 3 recruiters.•	Successfully completed the firm's first executive searches and led the engineering recruiting team in billing.•	Fastest recruiter to earn “Green Lamp” award for $100,000 billed during a single month (7-time winner).•	Billables totaled $840,000 in 2000; $625,000 in 2001.•	Established company records for monthly and annual billables.

Jivaro Professional Headhunters

Senior Headhunter

Responsible for special event fundraisers and annual giving programs.•	Hire #3 in a new Philanthropy Services department created to secure funding to expand the hospital’s Cardiac Health program and establish an endowment fund for the Chaplains Program.•	Increased annual funds raised by the Annual Golf Benefit from $35,000 net in 1997 to more than $100,000 net annually in both 1999 and 2000.•	Raised more than $250,000 through two employee giving campaigns for hospital and United Way programs.•	Raised more than $20,000 annually through the annual Angels & Bows Hospice Holiday Benefit.•	Established and cultivated relationships with a wide array of individual donors, corporations and volunteers.

Mike Lee