Nov 2025 – Mar 2026 · 4 mos · Greater London · Hybrid

• Founding team - leading on attracting, qualifying, interviewing and assessing talent.
• Context is everything.

Jan 2022 – Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Hybrid

• 🛡️ Scaled across UK, US and into Australia without loss in quality | grew from around 50-60 to almost 200
• ⏱️ Cut average time-to-hire from 65 to 31 days | including niche roles (FPGA, Chromium, AOSP)
• 💸 Saved up to £274k annually by reducing agency use (average annual saving of £172k)
• 🚀 Increased diverse hiring from 42% to 73% | Female hires from 17% to 36%
• 🎯 Exceptional YoY offer acceptance rates, from 93-100%
• 📈 91-97% 6-month probation pass rate | attrition rates 5-7%
• First talent/HR boots on the ground. Strategically built, developed and led scalable Talent function from ground up at Series B stage.
• Reported to COO (pre-acquisition) and CHRO (post-acquisition), regular collaboration with CTO, CEO, CSO & US GM.
• Complete design and ownership of full-cycle strategies in tech/engineering, SaaS, GTM, legal, finance, G&A/ops, etc.
• Spearheaded EVP strategy, coordinated marketing and digital teams to develop a first-class employer brand.
• Tech stack recruited: C/C++, Python, embedded systems (Linux Kernel, Yocto, U-Boot), FPGA design, development and verification, PCB design, Chromium & AOSP, DevOps (Kubernetes, Docker), Frontend (React, Node).
• Compelling reports for board level, industry trends and MI, salary research and benchmarking, competitor analysis.
• Maintained exceptional candidate experience, consistent strong feedback - led interviewer training and onboarding.
• Garrison’s UKVI Authorising Officer, managed visa sponsorships and compliance, and introduced offshore hiring.
• Co-founded and co-led EDI committee and gender-neutral hiring initiatives, resulting in step changes in diversity.
• Organised outreach programs and events for talent communities, N4P (e.g. Women Who Code, STEM internships).
• Drafting contracts, exit interviews, engagement surveys variation agreements, other docs/letters as required.
• Post-acquisition remit focused on M&A, integration activity harmonising policies, benefits, processes, etc.

Mar 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Hybrid

Feb 2017 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · London, United Kingdom · On-site

• 📈 Delivered 50/50 gender shortlists across key commercial functions.
• 🚀 Successfully led restructure recruitment campaign hiring 20 business-critical heads.
• 💬 Led Glassdoor score improvement initiative: 2.6 to 3.5 within a year.
• 🎯 Supported large-scale events including Silicon Milkroundabout and GradJobs Live.
• Full-cycle recruitment for Revenue, Operations, Digital Growth, Events and Travel business areas.
• Partnered with hiring managers to ensure fast, high-quality hiring decisions.
• Provided interview training, question packs, and best practice resources.
• Drafted job specs and managed multi-channel job advertising.
• Supported candidate experience with prompt and professional communication.
• Collaborated with finance to report and forecast recruitment spend.
• Delivered assessment centres for entry-level roles in AdOps and Events.
• Active member of internal diversity & inclusion group.

Sep 2013 – Feb 2017 · 3 yrs 5 mos · London, United Kingdom · On-site

• Part of a team of 3-4 person team, focused on IT/e-commerce roles across the group.
• Forged strong relationships with hiring managers across the group.
• Developed the Collinson brand and presence online, and developed new recruitment and HR processes.
• Source and pipeline candidates on a daily basis using appropriate channels including job advertisements, referral schemes, job boards/databases, etc.
• Collation and rationalisation of CV’s, applications, interviews, feedback and offers.
• I have been working with line managers to develop job descriptions, attractive and effective adverts, alongside interview strategies and technical/psychometric tests.
• Managed key stakeholders up to very senior levels.
• Recruited for positions to a very senior level, including Heads of department.
• Reporting on MI, including costs, time-to-hire, agency usage, etc.
• Together with my colleagues developed and managed a PSL of the best-performing recruitment agencies
• Planning and running of successful assessment days to identify the best talent at entry-level from partnership developed with City University.
• Completion of HR projects.

Sep 2009 – Sep 2013 · 4 yrs · London, United Kingdom · On-site

• Delivered for a range of clients including GlaxoSmithKline, Transport for London, Pearson Publishers, Nissan, Fujitsu, Network Rail, BP, the Metropolitan Police Service, Computacenter, the Health Protection Agency, and Phoenix IT Consulting.• Using direct recruitment methods to attract and pipeline candidates
• Writing concise advertisements to support role requirements
• Building a successful network of candidates to access current market information and gain referrals
• Attending client briefings for new resource requirements & providing a consultative service
• Building successful relationships with Clients and Contractors by taking an open and collaborative approach to requirements
• Conducting comprehensive and technically in-depth screening with potential applicants
• Ensuring full understanding of candidate skillset in direct relation to resource requirements to ensure candidates represented at most applicable level
• Using communication and influencing techniques to successfully negotiate and close suitable candidates
• Rapid adaptation to varying client requirements, across multiple accounts as and when required.

Oct 2008 – Jul 2009 · 9 mos

• Sold IT course packages provided by PPi Learning Services via face-to-face meetings and cold calling. Generated about £200k in gross fees for the company during this period.

May 2007 – Sep 2007 · 4 mos

• Assisted the HR department with data entry and filing. Responsible for general administrational duties, including the booking of, preparation and subsequent tidying of meeting rooms within the building, the ordering of new stock, and the sorting and delivery of mail around the 6 floor building. Spent time acting as receptionist at the building when required to do so as well.