Jan 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos · India · On-site

• Senior Talent Advisor – Customer and Business Operations (Jan 2023 – Till date)
• Talent Advisor (Jan 2021 – Jan 2023)
• Business Unit’s Anchored: Go-To-Market & Global Support, India
• Partnered with Senior Leaders and BU Heads on forecasting staffing needs, strategic planning and establishing a talent acquisition strategy.
• Lead a Hiring POD comprised of sourcers, schedulers & recruiters. Delivered QBR’s Quarter on Quarter. - Owned E2E engagements with the BU.
• Successfully recruited 160+ professionals, including a significant 32% women hires, maintaining an impressive 90% offer acceptance rate. Established partnerships with 50+hiring managers, resulting in a commendable Time to Fill (TTF) of 50 days for half of the hires.
• Played a pivotal role in spearheading diversity hiring initiatives for the Go to Market Business Unit in India, accomplishing a notable 40% recruitment of women in the Sales BU, in alignment with VMWare's 2030 Diversity Hiring goal.
• Projects & Initiatives
• 1.DEI Project: Effectively led a team of 4-5 members for 4 consecutive quarters,
• orchestrating a successful VMWare Connect for the Global Support team with a turnout of
• over 150 attendees. Co-hosted a LinkedIn Careers Meet engaging over 80 Sales professionals from the Solution Engineering Space & ensured seamless cross-functional
• collaboration across global teams during the implementation of these events. Implemented effective post-event strategies resulting in approximately 5 conversions, utilizing the event-generated database across VMWare Diversity PODs..
• 2. GO Hiring & TAR : Executed e2e training and process implementation of a Business Model change with 100% adoption in 3 quarters.
• 3.Participated in hiring for the VMWare’s Nakshatra program, Aspiring Manager Training Program & DELL-VMWare-Lowe’s Mentor connect program.
• 5.Integral part of the core team, contributing to talent acquisition leadership by conducting
• interviews and providing valuable mentorship to incoming team members.

Apr 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• (B’lore, India: Nov’20 – Jan’21 & Bay Area: April ‘18 –Aug ’20)
• BU’s supported: Data Center business unit(DCBU), Service Provider business unit(SPBU) and Core Hardware Group(CHG)
• Partnered with Business Unit heads on forecasting staffing needs, strategic planning and establishing a talent acquisition strategy.
• Actively worked with Hiring Managers to gather requisitions, derived specific hiring plan and managed a positive candidate experience through the hiring process.
• Identified (job boards, LinkedIn, applicant tracking tool, cold calling and referrals), engaged and screened high tech candidates in the most competitive market in the world.
• Hand-in-glove partnership with HR business partners on HR practices, immigration and International hiring.
• Proven ability to manage a high volume of varied positions while maintaining excellent quality slate.
• Requisitions supported in the areas of Networking, Cloud , Hardware and Storage.
• Focus on- Software Engineers/Senior Software Engineers/Technical Leaders.
• Network/Security Engineers.
• Engineering Managers, Web Developers/UX Engineers.
• Quality Assurance/Test Engineers and Product Managers/TME’s.
• ASIC Design & Verification Engineers/Tech Leads

May 2010 – Jan 2015 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

• Clients handled – Tech Mahindra, DELL, HP, CTS
• Managed a team of 5-8 IT recruiters. A stakeholder in periodic review of IT staffing processes of the company.
• Managed all aspects of IT Recruitment – Gathering requirements from the clients, assigning the requirements, consolidating the resumes and sharing as per the client’s requirements. Feedback follow-up, scheduling the interview’s, post selection CTC negotiations and Rate negotiations with the client, offer generation follow up till the candidates join.
• Client Management- Managed vendor relationship with the respective POCS on a regular basis on various aspects of their staffing needs.
• Sr.IT Recruiter, May 2010 – March 2012.
• Sourced and screened resumes for various IT requirements (Permanent and Contractual Staffing) from Clients.
• Conduct initial short listing of the candidate by evaluating them through telephonic interview for skills, communication, stability, confidence, suitability to the project and fit to the compa-

Nov 2009 – Apr 2010 · 5 mos

• Internal Recruitment of Executive Recruitment & Client Requirements for BFSI Sector – Permanent Hiring.

Jun 2008 – Dec 2008 · 6 mos