Sep 2025 – Jan 2026 · 4 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

• Joined GC AI (Series A start-up) as founding recruiter, helping build out their recruiting program and Engineering/GTM teams from scratch.
• Within my first six weeks, I hired over 6 candidates.
• As the founding recruiter at GC.ai, I built the company’s global recruiting function from the ground up at the Series A stage and researched and brought in all tools from early stages.
• Researched and brought in our entire recruiting stack, including Juicebox, LinkedIn Recruiter, built Ashby (ATS) out from scratch, BrightHire, and diversity tools such as Native Current.
• Maintained high-volume performance metrics, consistently sending 120+ weekly outreach messages, conducting 15+ recruiter screens, and coordinating 4+ virtual onsites per week.
• Owned the entire full-cycle recruiting across GTM and software engineering (AI/ML) roles—from sourcing and initial screens to driving debriefs, preparing candidates for onsites, negotiating offers, and closing top talent with creative compensation and equity strategies.
• Partnered closely with the executive team (CEO & Co-Founder/CTO) to define hiring strategy, budget, and headcount plans, improved the onboarding process, owned talent mapping, and implemented scalable processes, including standardized job descriptions and diversity-focused hiring initiatives.
• Used advanced sourcing strategies including in-depth Boolean searches on LinkedIn Recruiter, SOBO (Send on behalf of via Ashby), Google X-Ray searches, social media platforms, WellFound, Slack communities, email campaigns, sourcing jams with managers, and GitHub to accelerate pipeline generation.
• Built strong relationships with the CEO, CTO, and hiring managers, providing weekly data-driven insights, managing cross-functional recruiting projects, and contributing updates at company-wide All Hands.
• Conducted market research to identify emerging tools and programs, virtual hiring events, to strengthen our talent pipeline and support long-term, scalable hiring growth.

Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

• Helping YC and stealth start-up companies as an independent advisor!
• Advising YC and Stealth startups on building world-class talent foundations from defining their first hiring strategy to designing scalable recruiting processes that evolve with growth.
• Guiding founders through high-stakes hiring decisions, helping them identify the right roles, create magnetic job profiles, and attract top-tier candidates in competitive markets.
• Architecting early talent functions by introducing the right stack of tools (ATS, sourcing, assessment, automation) to streamline recruiting and boost founder productivity.
• Training and upscaling founding teams on interviewing best practices, candidate experience, and data-driven hiring so they can confidently run their own process.
• Acting as a fractional Head of Talent, partnering closely with leadership to reduce hiring friction, accelerate team building, and set the groundwork for long-term people strategy.
• Collaborating with operators to support portfolio companies with hiring expertise during moments of rapid growth or organizational change.
• Champion thoughtful, human-centric hiring, ensuring companies build teams that are not only high-performing but aligned, inclusive, and built to last.

Sep 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

• Blockchain & Web3!
• Joined Coinbase as a senior recruiter to build out their security engineering organization within blockchain security, vulnerability management, OS security, cloud security, staff security architects, offensive security engineers, application security engineers, security analysts, security/software engineering managers, and core backend engineers.
• Consistently exceeded monthly/yearly hiring goals, achieving a hiring rate of 2-3+ hires per month.
• Maintained high-volume performance metrics, consistently sending 120+ weekly outreach messages, conducting 15+ recruiter screens, and coordinating 2-3+ virtual on-sites per week.
• Owned the entire full-cycle recruiting across security and software engineering roles—from sourcing and initial screens to driving debriefs, preparing candidates for on-sites, negotiating offers, and closing top talent with creative compensation and equity strategies.
• Hired for niche roles based in the US, Canada, India, and Singapore (EMEA & APAC).
• Used advanced sourcing strategie,s including in-depth Boolean searches on LinkedIn Recruiter, SOBO (Send on behalf of), Google X-Ray searches, social media platforms, Discord, Slack communities, email campaigns, sourcing jams with managers, and GitHub to accelerate pipeline generation.
• Built strong relationships with the directors and hiring managers and led weekly stand-up syncs to review progress on roles, metrics, identify areas needing support, and address obstacles to business success.
• Conducted market research to identify emerging tools and programs, virtual hiring events, to strengthen our talent pipeline and support long-term, scalable hiring growth.
• Mentored numerous sourcers and recruiters who were new to security to help them ramp up and learn new domains.
• Effectively managed pipelines, funnel metrics, and performance data to evaluate sourcing and closing trends.

Jun 2024 – Sep 2024 · 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

• Joined as a founding recruiter for a 4-month contract at an early series A start-up to build out a recruiting program from scratch.
• Revamped the recruiting program at Anetac, implementing a new ATS/CRM system (Ashby), and creating a comprehensive hiring plan to guide recruitment efforts on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Took ownership of the end-to-end recruiting process, leading all aspects from sourcing, coordinating interviews, conducting recruiter phone screens, preparing candidates for on-site visits, attending debriefs, and closing candidates.
• Demonstrated exceptional negotiation skills, successfully closing candidates and leveraging creative strategies to secure talent, including offering competitive equity packages.
• Employed advanced sourcing strategies, utilizing in-depth Boolean searches through platforms such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Google, AngelList, levels.fyi, and GitHub. Additionally, I organized sourcing jams with managers and clients to identify top talent effectively.
• Successfully sourced and hired candidates for a range of technical and non-technical roles, including machine learning engineers, backend engineers, data engineers, security analysts, frontend engineers, sales, and quality assurance.
• Built rapport with high-level executives, including co-founders and head of engineers.
• Played a crucial role in establishing and nurturing relationships with key stakeholders, effectively managing overlapping projects and leveraging data to drive decision-making within leadership.
• Collaborated closely with the Head of HR/Finance to establish strategic hiring goals aligned with the company's budgetary constraints and facilitated the acquisition of new recruiting tools.
• Contributed to company-wide engineering stand-up meetings, providing progress updates, sharing data, and discussing the status of each role with upper-level executives.

Jul 2023 – Jun 2024 · 11 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

• Owner of Resume Buzzz a self launched career service that helps candidates with resume building, interview preparation, and career advisement.
• Check it out at resumebuzzz.com to learn more!

Jul 2023 – Nov 2023 · 4 mos

• -Took time off to travel and spend time in Europe after Uber layoffs.

Nov 2021 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

• Promoted to a principal lead role after just 3 months, responsible for leading a recruiting team focusing on Security Engineering, Technical Program Management, and Backend roles.
• Consistently exceeded monthly/yearly hiring goals, achieving a hiring rate of 3+ hires per month.
• Managed full-cycle recruiting process.
• Successfully built a recruiting team from scratch, establishing locations in North America, Amsterdam (EMEA), and India (APAC).
• Effectively managed pipelines, funnel metrics, and performance data to evaluate sourcing and closing trends.
• Utilized niche sourcing strategies such as in-depth Boolean searches on LinkedIn Recruiter, Send on behalf of (GEM/Entello), X-Ray searches, social media platforms, sourcing jams with managers/clients, and GitHub.
• Led a team of 6 sourcers and rercruiters in the field of security engineering and mentoring an additional 20 across Uber Maps, Artificial Intelligence, and TPM.
• Implemented a range of innovative sourcing methods and strategies for a team of 26 members.
• Conducted weekly stand-up syncs to review progress on roles, metrics, identify areas needing support, and address obstacles to business success.
• Responsible for training new sourcers and recruiters, tracking key metrics/SLAs, and conducting quarterly performance check-ins.

Jul 2021 – Nov 2021 · 4 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

• Re-joined Uber to build out their security/engineering sourcing and recruiting team from scratch.
• Exceeded monthly/yearly hiring goals at 3+ hires per month.
• Led a team of 4 sourcers and recruiters through security engineering and mentored an additional 13 across Uber.
• Managed full-cycle recruiting process.
• Led 4 different teams including Uber’s Security Engineering, Maps, Artificial Intelligence, and TPM across three different time zones.
• Utilized niche sourcing strategies such as in-depth Boolean searches on LinkedIn Recruiter, Send on behalf of (GEM/Entello), X-Ray searches, social media platforms, sourcing jams with managers/clients, and GitHub.
• Ran a weekly stand-up sourcing sync going over progress on roles, and what help is needed, roadblocks that need to be addressed to the business.
• Worked closely with upper executives including our CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) in giving monthly updates and going over all sourcing strategies and metrics within the number of recruiter phone screens, technical interviews, on-sites, offers, and offer acceptance/decline rate that my team has.
• Effectively managed pipelines, funnel metrics, and performance data to evaluate sourcing and closing trends.
• Utilized Salesforce/Beamery (CRM) and ICIMS (ATS) to manage and process candidates.

Aug 2020 – Jul 2021 · 11 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

• Revamped the recruiting program at Okera, implementing a new CRM system (Gem/Salesforce) and ATS (Lever/Greenhouse), and creating a comprehensive hiring plan to guide recruitment efforts on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Consistently exceeded monthly and yearly hiring goals, securing an impressive average of 3+ hires per month.
• Took ownership of the end-to-end recruiting process, leading all aspects from sourcing, coordinating interviews, conducting recruiter phone screens, preparing candidates for on-site visits, attending debriefs, and closing candidates.
• Demonstrated exceptional negotiation skills, successfully closing candidates and leveraging creative strategies to secure talent, including offering competitive equity packages.
• Employed advanced sourcing strategies, utilizing in-depth Boolean searches through platforms such as LinkedIn Recruiter, AngelList, levels.fyi, and GitHub. Additionally, organized sourcing jams with managers and clients to identify top talent effectively.
• Successfully sourced and hired candidates for a range of technical and non-technical roles, including platform engineers, front-end engineers, DevOps, sales, marketing, and finance.
• Built rapport with high-level executives, including the VP of Engineering, CTO, CEO, and hiring managers.
• Played a crucial role in establishing and nurturing relationships with key stakeholders, effectively managing overlapping projects and leveraging data to drive decision-making within leadership.
• Collaborated closely with the Director of Finance to establish strategic hiring goals aligned with the company's budgetary constraints and facilitated the acquisition of new recruiting tools.
• Contributed to company-wide engineering stand-up meetings, providing progress updates, sharing data, and discussing the status of each role with upper-level executives.

Jun 2020 – Jul 2020 · 1 mo · Seattle, Washington, United States

• -Volunteering with #hireblack as a career coach to provide resume reviews and ways to assist with interview preparation work!

Feb 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Recognized as a high-performing member of the security/engineering sourcing and recruiting organization, securing an impressive 36 offers for the 2019 fiscal year.
• Managed the entire full cycle recruitment process.
• Ranked among the top 3 out of 79 recruiters company-wide for generating the most offers across Uber TA.
• Effectively managed pipelines, funnel metrics, and performance data to drive recruitment success.
• Consistently exceeded monthly and yearly hiring goals, achieving an impressive average of 2+ hires per month, despite facing hiring freezes throughout the year.
• Played a crucial role in building a thriving security/privacy organization, resulting in a significant increase in office size from 100 to 188 employees during the fiscal year 2019-2020.
• Implemented innovative sourcing strategies, including in-depth Boolean searches through platforms such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Send on behalf of (GEM/Entello), X-Ray searches, social media, sourcing jams with managers/clients, and GitHub.
• Mentored and onboarded 20+ junior and senior sourcers and recruiters, fostering their professional growth and development.
• Received a hidden end-of-the-year bonus as recognition for outstanding performance from the head director of recruiting.
• Focused on securing niche senior leadership, engineering, security, and privacy roles within the team's scope.
• Achieved exceptional results in surpassing monthly and yearly hiring goals despite encountering hiring freezes.

Jul 2018 – Feb 2019 · 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Managed the entire full cycle recruitment process.
• Implemented advanced sourcing techniques, including in-depth Boolean searches through LinkedIn Recruiter, Send on behalf of (GEM/Entello), X-Ray searches, social media outreach, sourcing collaborations with managers/clients, and GitHub exploration.
• Recognized for outstanding performance as a top recruiter, successfully building and expanding security and backend development teams from their initial stages.
• Demonstrated exceptional leadership skills by mentoring and guiding multiple recruiters in their career development and enhancing their sourcing strategies.
• Enhanced recruitment efforts by developing an innovative program to attract skilled professionals in niche engineering, leadership, security, and privacy roles.

Jun 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bellevue, Washington

• Accomplishments:
• Lead recruiting in offers closed/spread.
• Focused on finding SDE’s, SDET’s, Game Developers (Forza/Bungie), Mobile Application Developers (iOS/Android), Full Stack Developers, Cloud Engineers (Azure/AWS), and Data Scientists.
• Handled all aspects of full cycle recruiting for corporate companies including Microsoft/Turn 10/Bungie, T-Mobile, and Visa.
• A top 4 metric driven performer of 22 total recruiters on all accounts.
• Tied for 3rd in company with starts from 2017-2018.
• Recognized by CEO/Strategic Delivery Manager in 2018 for holding 2nd most hires on Microsoft team (12).
• Of 22 recruiters, posted 4th highest company spread of sales exceeding $3,000 on 2018 hires.
• Met 50% of total starts quota set at 24 by senior management by first 4 months.
• Consistently averaged 11+ submitted candidates per week, received 5+ interview requests while yielding 1 start every 7-10 days.
• Worked in a fast paced environment in seeing a diverse amount of technical job descriptions averaging 15+ a week.
• Yielded a monthly hire rate of 3 or more hires per month.
• Managed a self-made Pipeline through “erecruit” in which included generating 90 qualified candidates in the first 60 days of employment.
• Developed ongoing recruiting strategies designed to identify and qualify candidates through cold calling, events, and various sourcing applications (Boolean Searches, CareerBuilder, erecruit, Facebook, GitHub, Google Search Engine, Indeed, LinkedIn Recruiter).
• Sourced/evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of candidates through phone interviews, negotiated rates and benefit packages, scheduled/confirmed interviews, accepted offers, and oversaw pre-employment onboarding steps.
• Held working relationships with all candidates in keeping them updated on current positions and new roles.
• Maintained strong relationships with managers to gain inside knowledge on new open roles and candidates to get referrals.

Jul 2016 – May 2017 · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed 75+ accounts and overlooked all online Cloud sales through a web based API and SaaS platform.
• Followed internal sales process in understanding API and how to negotiate and sell to businesses (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C).
• Weekly checked up on Saas platform and verifying correct distribution fees are being accessed.
• Generated new monthly and annual contracts through inbound lead process on acquiring Text-to-Speech (TTS) services.
• Produced quotes for commercial companies and individual project developers.
• Generated weekly pricing proposals for commercial companies and individual developers.
• Managed accounts through multiple CRM systems (Salesforce and Pipedrive).
• Specialized in online sales through CTI/IVR call centers, transportation centers, home automation security centers, company eLearning training courses, and announcement systems.
• Helped marketing team with monthly and yearly reports.
• Generated sales monthly analysis on lead generation and qualification process for marketing purposes.
• Analyzed new customer sales and creating business relations on marketing opportunities within blog entries and backlinks.
• Helped prepare Pay Per Click (PPC) monthly reports/analysis for marketing team to analyze.
• Overlooked Git websites for marketing text-to-speech (TTS) technology to developers.
• Self taught myself HTML in order to create Git profiles.

Jul 2016 – May 2017 · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Was responsible for new sales, new business with existing clients, and managing renewals.
• Managed over 150 commercial accounts while consistently developing new business.
• Was accountable for sales process (qualification, pricing, negotiation, closing, and post-sale management and invoicing).
• Continually developed strong account management skills and renews annual B2B and B2C contracts monthly through existing clients.
• Qualified new leads through inbound lead conversion.
• Generated contracts to a wide range of commercial businesses and government organizations including VAR, ASP, and OEM.
• Specialized in sales through CTI/IVR call centers, embedded devices, transportation centers, home automation security centers, company eLearning training courses, and announcement systems.
• Gained experience through multiple CRM systems. Works with both Salesforce, and Pipedrive daily in creating leads, managing accounts and running pipeline reports in which forecasts my weekly, monthly and quarterly sales results.
• Weekly generated estimates, invoices, and sales reports through QuickBooks.
• Continued to build strong relationships with senior executives and technical development team.
• Worked with senior management and CEO on generating pricing proposals and estimates for businesses.
• Was responsible for training new employees on sales process and how to qualify new leads to accounts.

Dec 2015 – May 2016 · 5 mos · San Jose, CA

• Managed 50+ accounts in which I updated information throughout Salesforce and Insightly daily.
• Analyzed data points in forecasting sales results weekly, monthly, and quarterly for senior management.
• Followed internal sales process on (qualification, pricing, negotiation, closing, and post-sale management and invoicing).
• Closed sales through both inbound and outbound calling.
• Daily prospected new leads for local dental offices and was in charge of conducting 175+ outbound calls weekly.
• Conducted outside sales in selling dental medical products to local dental offices throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Utilized QuickBooks in running sales reports, quoting, and invoicing clients.
• Overlooked marketing activities under director and successfully marketed products at public events to increase sales revenue.
• Worked with marketing director in creating company ads in which were placed in dental magazines throughout the country.

Jul 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Tempe, Arizona

• Made various cocktails and martinis.
• Worked extremely well in a fast paced environment.
• Developed outstanding communication skills and customer relationships.
• Worked with customers to resolve complaints or issues as required.
• Given lead shift, close and cash responsibilities.

May 2008 – Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Cupertino, CA

• Helped overlook new lifeguards
• Assisted with testing pool chemicals daily and ensured the safety of patrons
• Training certifications that I received from the American Red Cross included CPR/AED for the professional rescuer, First Aid, and the skills to be a professional Lifeguard.