Jan 2016 – Jun 2021 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Redwood City, CA

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• Oversee global Talent Acquisition for Sumo Logic covering North America, APAC, and EMEA operations.
• Scaled Sumo Logic from ~200 to over 950 employees.
• Lead all talent strategy and growth from Pre-IPO through to a successful IPO in September 2020.
• Built Engineering, GTM, and University Recruiting teams.
• Lead employer branding initiatives across social media and industry events.
• Continued to remain hands-on, with ownership of strategic and leadership hiring efforts.
• In close partnership with Sr leadership and a Univ Relations Manager, I lead the strategy and build of Sumo’s Fresh-Grad and Intern programs, taking the program from 6-8 Interns per year, to 40+ Interns in the Summer and Fall, creating a feeder program for Fresh Grad hiring across Engineering and Sales.
• Successfully groomed and promoted 3 ICs to people leadership roles – Sourcing Manager, Recruiting Manager, and University Relations Manager.
• Managed a global team of 23 (Post-COVID RIF - team reduced to 15)
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Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr · San Mateo, CA · On-site

• (Platfora was acquired by Workday in 2016)
• Platfora was a 125-person, native Big Data Analytics platform for Hadoop. Platfora’s solution provided a self-service analytics platform, helping line-of-business people uncover new opportunities that were previously
• Owned global recruiting efforts across engineering and GTM functions.
• Lead a small team of 3

Nov 2011 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Brisbane, CA

• Responsible for all planning around hiring initiatives, both domestically and Internationally covering the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, China, and Hong Kong.
• Managed a team of 3 while remaining hands-on with day-to-day hiring.
• Administer the hiring process, including drafting job descriptions, managing job postings, interviewing candidates, offer negotiations, completing pre-employment testing and background investigations and on-boarding.
• Manage all contingent / temporary staffing needs.

May 2008 – Nov 2011 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Jose, CA

• Initially tasked with helping Yoh Services to build a team and launch a direct-hire division in Silicon Valley.
• Later, the Direct Hire and Contract divisions were merged and I was asked to step into a strategic account manager role, supporting large F500 accounts in areas of hardware, firmware and software recruitment covering test, development, embedded systems, etc.
• Responsible for full-cycle recruiting for Contract and Direct Hire opportunities • Achieved Diamond Club status for 2011.
• Technology placements include Engineers across both Software and Hardware engineering disciplines

Jan 2003 – May 2008 · 5 yrs 4 mos · San Jose, CA

• Launched Creative Directions Recruiting during a downturn in the economy, turning a profit in the first year in business.
• Focused on sourcing hard-to-find talent, managing key executive search engagements.
• As a whole, CDR focused on recruiting for requisitions within technical sales, software engineering, IT Infrastructure, and Marketing.
• Managed a team of 5 Account Managers/Recruiters
• Mentored and trained team members on the fundamentals of recruiting, sourcing talent, and client management.
• Personally carried a key client list, with ownership of the entire recruiting process from candidate identification to interviewing and qualifying prospective job seekers to presentation and close with client companies.
• Created and oversaw business strategy for Creative Directions Recruiting, devising innovative search methodology, locating niche posting boards, and screening processes to suit our individual client needs.
• Grew CDR from a single person entity to a 12 person company servicing the needs of start-ups and mid-market companies nationally

Jun 1998 – Jul 2003 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Sunnyvale, CA

• Grew revenue base from negative numbers to double digit profits, achieving the status of the most profitable branch in the bay area in 2000 and 2001.
• Actively pursued employment candidates through professional and personal networking
• Worked with hiring managers to develop employment requirements
• Analyzed staffing needs & provided personnel to companies ranging in size from small start-ups to F500 corporations
• Successfully planned and executed staffing solutions integrating advertising, telemarketing, internet sourcing, and Job Fairs
• Managed multiple branches, overseeing a total of 9 Recruiting/Sales Managers
• Maintained full P&L responsibilities for three branch offices. Operational responsibilities included: A/P, A/R, vendor management, lease negotiations/ renewals, etc.
• Prepared business plans, annual budgets and sales forecasts for each operation.
• Hired, trained and mentored all new branch personnel. Also managed all terminations and associated paperwork.