Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos

• Founder and recruiting partner to growth‑stage companies, building founding teams and advising on hiring strategy, recruiting process optimization, and competitive positioning.
• Built founding engineering teams; e.g., hired 5 engineers (Head of Eng, 2 Backend, 2 Frontend) in 45 days for a ticketing eCommerce platform.
• Clients include, Sega America, JPL/NASA, MrBeast’s Feastables, Spotter, Cube Software
• Advise founders on compensation bands, competitive positioning, and role scoping, resulting in fewer declined offers and more accurate role definitions that sped up sourcing.

Apr 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Culver City, California, United States · Hybrid

• The Spotter platform provides Creators with transformative capital, innovative AI productivity software, expert knowledge, and a supportive community.
• Led technical recruiting and sourcing strategy, optimizing workflows, decreasing time-to-hire by 33% and increasing candidate acceptance rates to >90%. Filled 5 data science and engineer roles in the first 45 days
• Cut reliance on staffing agencies, saving over $400K annually.
• Built out multiple teams including Generative AI Data Scientists, Analytics, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, and DevOp/Cloud Engineering.
• Grew the Data Science/GenAI and Analytics teams by 40%
• Built the DevOps/Cloud engineering team from scratch (from 0 to 5)

Jul 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · New York, United States · Remote

• EdTech startup that partnered with universities to provide interactive STEM learning tools. Aktiv was acquired by Top Hat, an industry leader in online learning.
• Owned full-cycle recruiting across engineering, go-to-market, and G&A roles, scaling headcount from 9 → 20+.
• Hired across engineering (mobile, backend, frontend, Computer Algebra Systems engineers) and non-technical roles (product, UX/UI designers, marketing, e-learning designers).
• Reduced agency dependency by 90% and cut cost-per-hire by 60%+ by implementing in-house sourcing, screening, and interview processes, including international hiring in India, Ukraine, Poland, Argentina, Brazil, and the Philippines.
• Improved candidate quality by partnering with CTO/co-founder to strengthen technical assessments and prescreening.

Nov 2020 – Jun 2021 · 7 mos · Remote

• Filled aging mission-critical engineering roles and provided strategic sourcing support for high-visibility projects.
• Led sourcing for the NASA Perseverance Mars Rover landing event, attracting 300+ attendees resulting in an increase of engineering applicant volume by 15%.

Oct 2016 – Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States · On-site

• Fullscreen Media (a Warner Bros. Discovery company) was a series-D social content startup that provided creative, strategy, and marketing services for both Youtube creators and brand clients in order to grow, engage, and monetize their social audiences.
• Initially hired as a consultant to drive technical recruiting during an aggressive growth period (22 hires in ~100 days) then hired full-time as a recruiting lead to support all business verticals including technology, social & digital talent, operations, marketing, communications, and finance
• Led a 3-person recruiting team driving full-cycle recruiting, implementing data-driven strategies that cut time-to-hire by 30%, raised offer acceptance to >90%, and saved $300K+ annually by reducing agency reliance 80%

Jul 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Los Angeles, California, United States · On-site

• Description:
• Partnered directly with enterprise organizations to solve urgent and complex technical hiring needs. Led full-cycle recruiting and passive sourcing strategies for both cleared and non-cleared roles across engineering, tech, and business teams.
• Key Projects:
• Sony Pictures Entertainment
• Embedded within the Global Talent Acquisition team as the sole technical sourcing partner. Supported hiring across Technology, Creative, Production, Marketing, Sales, and Business Operations. Implemented modern sourcing strategies using internal ATS mining, Boolean search, and social aggregator tools.
• Northrop Grumman
• Supported the Mission Systems division on cleared and high-priority roles. Filled 16 hard-to-close technical positions within the first 60 days, including Embedded Systems, Cybersecurity, and Software Engineers. Earned a “Kudos” award as the top-performing contractor.

Jun 2007 – Jul 2015 · 8 yrs 1 mo · El Segundo, CA · On-site