Feb 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Utopia Labs : Leaders in harnessing Enterprise Data
• Responsible for scaling Niche Junior, Mid Level and Senior talent from scratch for Utopia Labs which is an R&D Product division of Utopia Global Inc.
• Individual Contributor, Mentor and Talent Advisor
• Working towards building a strong network of talent and build quality pipeline
• Working on various tools and sources to attract right kind of talent
• Explore google extensions, free talent platforms to engage and scout talent
• Brainstorming on various other strategies and sources which has uncommon pool of talent for better and fast outcomes
• Believe in building brands, company, culture, work and people
• Who can reach out to me for the current roles I have
• Professionals having minimum 2 plus years of hands on industry experience
• 1. MS, MTech, ME students from institutions like IISC, IIT,'S, NIT'S, BITS, MITS, PESIT, RV, IIIT'S BMS, ISI,
• 2. PHD's and Post Docs from above mentioned institutes and foreign institutes
• Professionals who have strong passion to work on new age products across technologies and having a research, innovate to product thought process will be helpful for us

Feb 2017 – Jan 2018 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for End - End hiring of Senior Niche talent for Finlabs (Fintech, Innovation Labs) across geographies
• Skills hired
• Data Scientists - NLP, ML, Python, R Programming, Image Processing, Text and Data Mining
• Robotics / RPA : Blue Prism - Ui-path - Automation Anywhere
• Block-Chain / Bitcoin / Crypto Currencies : Distributed Ledger / AI / ML / DL based Algorithms
• Oracle : OSB Developers and Architects
• Java : Full stack and UI/UX and YUI, WRIA leads and architects
• Devops : Chef, Puppet, Hudson, Jenkins, Ansible
• Won appreciation for scaling Oracle OSB, WRIA Architects and Data Scientist from Managing Director

May 2016 – Feb 2017 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for End - End Market Research for scouting Software Partners for Niche Talent Staffing Programs of various clients of sapient
• Dealt with legal team for negotiation on clauses and NDA and MSA agreements
• Streamlined contingency staffing process
• Scouted ready to start, bill and deploy niche talent across various technology stack - Java Full stack - Microsoft Full stack - Devops - Tibco - UX / UI (Angular.js, react.js, node.js)

Jul 2015 – May 2016 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Won "Manager Choice Award" for scaling up Sterling commerce mid and senior level requirements for IBM ISL - E-Commerce division.
• Recruited and on-boarded 37 plus candidates (Java, J2EE, Sterling)
• Scaled IBM - ISDL - Linux Technology Center with Linux Kernel Programmers and leads
• Scaled IBM Security - Tivoli - IDM - IAM
• Scaled IBM ISDL - ISV- System Integration - Devops etc
• Scaled IBM Foundry Cloud - IBM Bluemix (PaaS) (SaaS) - (IaaS) - Developers, leads and architects

May 2013 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for Catering to niche requirements of clients like,
• Bigbasket - Responsible for scouting/adding the client and scaling their entire technology team
• Accenture Technology and Consulting
• Cognizant Technology and Consulting
• Greatwest Global
• ANZ,
• Brillio
• and many more

Sep 2009 – May 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Business Development
• Start-up Recruitment Solutions
• Domain / Technology Specific Recruitment
• Presently handling clients in Telecommunication - Cloud/Virtualization Semiconductor Domain.
• Addressing client critical requirement - position include Research (PHD - MS - ME from Premier Institutes) and Experience - Machine Learning - Statistical Signal Processing - Image Processing - Cognitive Radar - Predictive Analytics - Text Mining - Data Mining.
• Good at Professional networking and Competency Mapping - Linkedin - Twitter - Facebook - OCC Club
• Our Success Stories
• Successfully built core technology team of (1 Architect - 1 TL - 1 SSE - 2 SE) on Cloud Computing for one of the Start-up company in Pune.
• Successfully Placed critical resource requirement on VOIP Phone Development and IPV6 - IKE IPsec - HTTPS for a start-up company in Bangalore.
• Preferred vendors for 2 major Semiconductor companies working on Soc - Network Home Appliances - (DSL Product Base)
• Pioneer in sourcing niche talent in below mentioned technology space with huge professional network gained by industry experience
• Data Communication (TCP/IP / RSVP / RIP /IPV6/IPV4 / -VPN/IKE /OSPF/BGP/SNMP/ LTE / OFDM)
• VOIP/SIP/VOIP Phone/DECT/QSig / Diameter / Radius.
• WLAN/WiFi/WiMax Atheros/Qualcomm/Broadcom/Marvel/Connexant/Huawei) --
• Semiconductor - VLSI - VHDL - AVDSL - ADSL 1 ADSL2 - SOC - ASIC
• Cloud Computing / Virtualization - C Programming - Algorithms - Data Structures - Python
• We place professionals at mentioned locations
• UAE - Abu Dhabi - Dubai - Saudi Arabia - Lebanon
• USA
• India

May 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

• As an Associate Manager responsible for handling few Banking accounts of HCL was instrumental in hiring Mid and Lateral level professionals.
• Skills Handled - Sun Technologies - Summit - Business Analyst - Commodity and Trading
• Domain - Banking - Investment - Treasury - Core Banking.
• Additional Responsibility - Handled Niche requirement for COE - Center of Excellence and delivered successful hires at an organizational level.
• Got appreciation mails from Vice President of BFSI Vertical for fulfilling critical revenue and value based requirements

May 2006 – May 2008 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• Was responsible for Handling complete End - End Outsourcing which involved Vendor Scouting - Management and Appraisal - it also involved Staff Augmentation and Project Outsourcing - Wetting Legal Agreement related to Fixed Price Projects - Time and Material Projects.
• Involved in permanent recruitment for Network and Product Business Units which involved skills like Data Communication - GSM - GPRS - CDMA - WLAN - Wi-Fi - WiMax - Mobile Apps Development and Testing - DSP - OMAP - ARM - Video and Audio Codec
• Responsible for arranging Due Diligence Meeting which involved interaction with VP's - Program Managers - Business Development Head - Technology Leads
• Ensured the PO is released in-line with the SOW and Business Proposal and deadlines met and Payments released based on successful milestone acceptance

Feb 2005 – Mar 2006 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

• Taking care lateral requirements of one business unit, which deals with high-end technologies wherein resources are rarely available in the industry.
• Strategy planning to achieve numbers required for successful completion of the Products.
• Vendor interaction to source resources – drive and motivate them to source quality resumes, give presentation to vendors on technical specifications of the requirement, provide them information with regard to target companies.
• Preparing and issuing of offer letters – follow-up with candidates and motivate them to join as per our project requirement.
• Successfully handled campus recruitment – Identify good colleges, Contact college placement officers, explain our specification, take available dates for campus activity, and conduct online test. Conduct manual test if necessary infrastructure is not available.
• Well experienced in conducting walk-in interviews in various cities.(Lateral)
• Made sure that I maintained good database and also handle employee referrals to their satisfactory levels by providing them timely feedback. Motivated employees to refer more candidates.
• Supported other business units when required.
• Participated in policy revisit by providing some inputs which made policy more candidate and management friendly.
• Feel good Factor – Recruited 25 candidates for one of the key development project. (Project name can be mentioned in the interview).
• Have developed good rapport with managers, technical panels as well as employees which helps to fill the gap between Technical Managers and recruitment executives and also help in sourcing more quality employee references.
• Good understanding of corporate recruitment life cycle in terms of Business plans. Understanding products, requirements, forecasted numbers, source, shortlist, schedule, interviews, salary negotiations, offers and maintaining pipelines(backup)

Oct 2004 – Feb 2005 · 4 mos · Bangalore

• Taking care of HP - ASDU requirements.
• Strategy planning to achieve required target.
• Coordinate with Practice Head, Managers and respective Technical Panel to ensure smooth functioning of recruitment process.
• Conduct HR round of interviews in the absence of my manger in consultation with Practice Head and authorized managers - Which lead to complete the recruitment cycle at the right time.
• Vendor interaction to source resumes - brief them about the requirement in detail.
• Issue offer letters and ensure joining of candidates on the targeted date.
• Establish and maintain good rapport with managers and technical panel.
• Successfully conducted walk-in.
• Feel good factor - Recruited 36 high-end – SAP technology professionals within 15 days for which I got appreciation from respective managers - Reference can be provided.

Oct 2001 – Sep 2004 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

• Role – Technical Recruiter
• Recruiting IT Professionals on contract as well as permanent positions in India and abroad.
• Working for clients like Accenture, Logica CMG, Digital -HP,
• Sony India, Robot Bosch, GE, HCL, Infogain, Mphasis, LG Soft.
• Short listing Resumes according client specifications.
• Client interaction for the purpose of interview schedules and follow-up with candidates till he/she joins our clients.
• Good technical knowledge required for IT sourcing
• Good understanding of client requirement.
• Well versed with different job portals like Jobsahead.com, Naukri.com, Monster.com, and Dice.