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(He, Him, His)  Talent Acquisition Leader at Nerdery

Demandbase

Senior Recruiting Consultant

Pano is a venture-backed early-stage climate tech startup that is the leader in wildfire early detection, leveraging the latest advancements in IoT, AI, satellites, and SaaS software to deliver actionable intelligence to customers. Pano leverages mountaintop cameras and satellites to detect the first traces of smoke and put real-time fire images in the hands of asset owners and first responders to speed up containment.

Pano AI

Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant

It is such a great opportunity to work alongside so many smart and driven individuals from all over the globe. My talent challenge here is that prior to joining their applicants all came from their newsletter leaving the workforce to be somewhat homogenous. My focus is on hiring with diversity and educating a different talent pool about our employer brand offering. 

While my role is primarily focused on building and growing global Talent Acquisition, I also support our small People Ops team by handling many HR Business Partner duties. Below are some of the projects I have worked on and built out in my time at Plex:

• Successfully grew the company from 100-165 in nine months, hiring across 23 countries
• Championed the implementation of Greenhouse ATS and provided comprehensive training to ensure staff proficiency
• Created and delivered Interview Training to Hiring Managers and teams, enabling consistency and impartiality throughout the hiring process
• Strategized on employee life-cycle management (with a focus on Attraction, Recruitment, Onboarding, and Retention)
• Played an instrumental role in Headcount planning using ChartHop, leading to more strategic staffing decisions
• Developed strong partnerships with vendor providers on HRIS, EOR, Benefits, and 401k, ensuring seamless delivery of these services
• Conducted thorough comp analysis using tools such as Radford, Option Impact, Pave, and Carta, gaining crucial insights into staff compensation globally
• Designed and presented onboarding to all new hires, ensuring they were quickly integrated and aligned with organizational objectives

Plex, Inc.

Talent Acquisition Leader

Overseeing all aspects of the recruiting function for a midsized digital consultancy. Working closely with the leadership team to implement long and short-term recruiting strategies in addition to advising internal stakeholders on how to retain talent. I'm a strong relationship builder who is passionate about growth with a focus on diversity. 

‣ Led a distributed team of amazing recruiters to scour the US for the most passionate individuals!
‣ Developed strategic hiring plans with a focus on diversity and growth (resulting in 45% of all hires being from under-represented groups and a 25% reduction in time to hire.)
‣ As an individual contributor, focusing primarily on leadership openings within the company (director and up)
‣ Regularly met with and advised leadership on candidate marketplace, hiring decisions, and headcount planning. 
‣ Developed interview training and methodologies to screen for talent who align with our core values
‣ Working cross-functionally to drive process and grow the staff as a talent partner

Nerdery

‣ Working as a full desk recruiter managing clients and candidates

Robert Half Technology

Recruiting Manager

With an extensive background in IT and a passion for technology, I shifted my career into recruiting to aid in talent acquisition for well-funded and rapidly growing startups in the SF Bay Area.

My network is broad and I can help your organization from Associate to C-Level:

‣ Front-end, Back-end, and Full-stack Engineers
‣ Mobile Developers
‣ Big Data
‣ UI/UX Designers
‣ Product Management

HeadHunters, Inc.

Lead Technical Recruiter

‣ Queue manager for all technical issues 
‣ Developing issue handling policy and procedures resulting in a reduction of backlog from 5k
tickets to zero with daily resolution of all inbound issues 
‣ Mentoring new hires to create service consistency and enable free knowledge share 
‣ Developing training materials and procedures

Intuit

IT Supervisor

‣ Technical writing for internal knowledge base
‣ POC for conference room management (EMC and Powershell)
‣ Testing software and network rollouts. Issue documentation and sending out bug reports.
‣ Managing high volume ticketing queue
‣ Reaching out to other departments to expedite process

Salesforce.com

Technical Support Supervisor

‣ Group lead managing 5-10 employees
‣ Company-wide software and hardware deployment 
‣ Developing deployment and training procedure and content/media
‣ Managed all technical issues escalated to my team and provided individual solutions
‣ Company-wide software and hardware deployment. 
‣ Developing learning content for iPad new iOS
‣ Provided Mac/Windows/iOS/Blackberry technical support and training during the deployment of the Google Applications across all Genentech users
‣ Analyzed and revised knowledge base articles
‣ Coordinated personal training sessions to boost utilization of Google Applications

Capgemini

Senior Technical Consultant

‣ Technical consultant for small businesses 
‣ Managing customer relationships and expectations
‣ Educating and implementing technology to create signature workflow solutions for small businesses and individuals

Self Employed

Technical Consultant

‣ Software and hardware troubleshooting
‣ Strong experience communicating with expert and non-expert users
‣ Extensive troubleshooting and repair on Apple computers, Handhelds and PC
‣ Developing relationships with users to assist their small businesses and home offices
‣ Training employees to keep them up to date on technology

Apple Retail

Creative

‣ Booking the studio with artists 
‣ Recording
‣ Editing
‣ Creating original pieces of music

Matt Englund