May 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr

• Lead T-Mobile's veterans centric North Texas diversity chapter. It's a volunteer role dedicated toward engaging our veteran employees and allies providing opportunities to give back and recognize veterans in our local community. We have events in-house and also help the community--whatever our veterans are interested in. It's just a mechanism to give back with a veteran lens.

May 2017 – May 2019 · 2 yrs

• I recruit engineers to maintain and expand the wireless industry's best network. From switch technicians to RF engineers, if it has anything to do with the wireless network--I help hire it.

Sep 2016 – May 2017 · 8 mos

• Contract executive recruiter for America’s fastest LTE network; work on three (3) roles on average at any given time
• Meet goals for identifying 100 qualified passive prospects which includes contacting them regarding the role
• Utilize tools such as ZoomInfo, ContactOut, Prophet, Lusha and CRM (Invenias) to identify and deliver director, senior director and VP-level talent for all niche areas within Enterprise IT to include UX/UI design, digital transformation, PMO, SAP, customer service, finance and more

May 2004 – Sep 2016 · 12 yrs 4 mos · Richland/Kennewick/Pasco, Washington Area

• Ran staffing for a national security centric organization, placing Ph.D. hard to find talent including, nuclear engineers, physicists, chemists, biologists, electrical engineers, computational scientists, data scientists, counter intelligence, physical security and project management
• Specialized in locating hard-to-find talent and selling them on change; used a retained executive search approach to fill positions
• Fundamentally changed the way recruiting had been viewed across Battelle – eliminated the use of external search firms and introduced the use of progressive recruiting technologies (mobile apply, sourcing tools and tactics)
• Filled key executive roles at Washington State University, Oak Ridge National Lab, PNNL, Brookhaven National Lab and Idaho National Lab; averaged about 35-40 openings at any given time
•  Used Oracle e-Recruit as an ATS
• Primary contact for recruiting technology platforms including, LinkedIn, Direct Employers, Glassdoor, ResearchGate and ClearanceJobs
• Published and spoke regularly at staffing organizations including SourceCon, ERE and LinkedIn Talent Connect

Dec 2001 – May 2004 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Senior Recruiter/Recruiting Team Lead Commercial Banking (Dec 2002 – May 2004)
• Managed and acted as team lead for as many as three (3) recruiting professionals
• Provided recruiting and human resources support for the commercial banking department, considered to be a start-up division with 1000+ full-time employees; provided full life-cycle recruiting support for high impact sales and credit professionals with highly specialized skill sets
• Hired 96 professional commercial banking executives with a 24.9 days average time to fill ratio in 2003
• Used Taleo and Oracle as an ATS
• Created and implemented reporting and metrics for commercial banking recruiting team in 2003
• Managed recruiting budget; eliminated the use of outside search firms saving the organization hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees
• Recruiting Team Lead Home Loans (June 2001 – Dec 2002)
• Provided recruiting and HR support for the home loans and insurance services division, the number one mortgage lending business in the industry with included 20K full-time employees
• Provided full life-cycle recruiting support, worked with hiring managers on offers and HR issues outside the routine scope of the talent acquisition department in an effort provide world-class customer service.
• 250+ placements in 15-months, only five (5) placements using an agency; average of 20% of the roles were executive level
• Played a key role in growing the HLIS credit operations organization (40-plus to 300-plus staff in about 14-months)
• Hired, managed, and led three (3) recruiters in the Seattle location while assisting in the management of the recruiting budget
• Represented the HLIS division, 18K individuals, in developing content for Taleo implementation project
• Directed composition of 140+ job descriptions inputted into Taleo prior to November launch while leading the prototyping sessions to instruct recruiters on how to use the software

Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr

• (www.internap.com) Internap specializes in optimized routing of data for enterprise level customers. Specialized in locating and selling passive candidates on making a move to Internap. I interviewed, evaluated candidates, and made recommendations to hiring authorities. In addition, I assisted on the high-volume effort of hiring 250+ engineers in one year.
• Located and hired Director R&D (the most visible organization within this hi-tech company)
• Managed contract sourcing team (2 full-time on site vendor recruiters)
• Located and hired first two Senior Network Engineers hired by the recruiting group for a company specializing in optimized network routing.
• Used sites like Monster.com, Hotjobs.com, Headhunter.net and others to attract, locate talent.
• Located talent in Europe & Asia for Internap’s overseas expansion.
• Helped to hire 250+ employees in one year.

Jan 1996 – Jan 2000 · 4 yrs

• ROI International (www.roiinternational.com) is a retained executive search firm. Most of my tenure I spent conducting technical-related executive searches for our clients. (Sprint PCS, ADC Wireless, Plantronics, Superconductor Technologies, Cellnet, Mentor Graphics, Hyperion Communications and more). I was responsible for locating, evaluating and managing candidates throughout the hiring process.
• Retained first broadband wireless vendor
• Responsible for filling 46 positions with Hyperion Communications, only one of which was filled by newspaper or internet ad.
• Responsible for filling first position outside telecommunications for ROI.
• Conducted targeted search for engineers at all levels. Searches included (embedded software developers, RF engineers, hardware developers and more).
• Supervised junior sourcing & recruiting administrative assistants

Jan 1989 – Jan 1994 · 5 yrs

• U.S. ARMY – Various locations 1989 - 1994
• Journalist
• Wrote sports, features, news and editorials for four different award-winning newspaper publications and various external media. Served as a sports editor for two publications and assistant editor for one newspaper. Decided all forms of coverage. Set up interviews with subject matter experts. Researched information. Coordinated and participated in press conferences. Wrote news releases. Escorted press in battlefield environment during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
• Managed/supervised lower enlisted journalism staff at 2 different award winning newspapers.
• Winner of Keith L. Ware award for photojournalism excellence across U.S. Army