Nov 2023 – Mar 2024 · 4 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

• Fractional recruitment and talent acquisition advisory services to early stage startups and NFPs

Mar 2021 – May 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Joined Caseware at the outset of a major period of growth, rapid scaling and global expansion.
• Worked with multiple senior leaders and hiring teams to successfully fill a diverse range of complex engineering roles, primarily at senior Individual Contributor and Leadership levels (platform, product, cloud and infraops, data engineering and analytics)
• Contributed to rapid deployment of a new GTM function by delivering quickly on multiple roles, up to C-level, for revenue, pricing and sales leaders.
• Increased annual hiring in software engineering by 300%; 90% or more of all roles filled through headhunting and direct recruitment.
• Led recruitment for a newly formed Software Engineering Centre of Excellence in Colombia, and pushed forward to successfully fill senior and leadership roles in the face of significant obstacles and ambiguity.
• Ensure excellence in candidate experience through a well structured interview process, a strong feedback loop,and providing constructive communication at all stages.
• Work closely with HRBPs to ensure compliance, pro-actively problem solve, develop compensation bands, and ensure smooth onboarding. Good understanding of Canadian labour landscape, provincial employment standards, and immigration issues.
• Manage ATS to ensure data integrity, accurate reporting and decision making.
• Collaborate with TA team partners to implement best practices, process and automation across the recruitment function.

Nov 2020 – Feb 2021 · 3 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Brought on board to tackle a spike in recruitment needs for this scaling Canadian SaaS success.
• Successfully filled multiple roles in software engineering, build and tooling, and quality engineering.
• Exclusively used direct sourcing to fill all roles.
• Collaborate extensively with hiring teams to refine requirements, participate in technical interviews, and manage recruitment cycle from sourcing through to offer acceptance

Feb 2017 – Nov 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Doing Fractional Recruitment before it was called that:)
• Work with early and later stage start-ups and rapidly scaling SaaS companies: Coinsquare, Equibit, Vena Solutions, Benchsci to name a few).
• Engage with leaders at the C-level to deliver on hard to fill leadership and senior individual contributor roles in software engineering (full spectrum software development, data engineering, block-chain, infrastructure engineering, and product management).
• Able to adapt and deliver in fast paced environments where needs and priorities change quickly, and ambiguity is often the name of the game.
• Recognized for strong focus on values alignment: going beyond role related hard skills into critical areas of soft skills that reflect the unique values focus of each organization.

Jul 2010 – Jan 2017 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Toronto

• Agency recruiter, delivering on a diverse range of IT and software engineering roles for a broad range of clients: mid to large enterprises in banking, telecom, utilities, media, capital markets, insurance.
• Identify and develop new client accounts, and own 360 degree responsibility for successfully delivering top tech talent and ensuring highest levels of candidate and client satisfaction with the experience.
• Coach and mentor new team members on processes and best practices in recruitment.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2010 · 10 yrs · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Additional experience 2000-2010: Business development and Account Management in the technology services sector with Professional Services firms NTT Data (RIS, Keane), CapGemini (iGATE)