Feb 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

• Leading and building the recruiting function at Harvey.
• Scaled from ~65 employees to over 350 from March 2024 - May of 2025
• Scaled the Talent Function from 5 to 19

Jul 2021 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Providing talent related consulting for Start Ups and Venture Capital Firms.
• Previous Clients include:
• Block Party
• Rylo
• Supporting sourcing and recruiting for engineering and design
• Acquired by VSCO
• Wish
• Sequoia Capital
• Clickup
• Interim Head of Talent
• CloudTrucks
• Supported efforts to grow total head count from ~40 employees to over 100 within 4 months
• Grew the recruiting function 1 to 6
• Onsite to offer ratio of 83%
• Coached junior recruiters to help in up-leveling/mentoring
• Starlight (Lambda Labs)
• Conviction

May 2021 – Oct 2021 · 5 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Craft Venture Portfolio Company
• During the part time 5 month engagement:
• Responsible for leading and developing the recruiting team and function.
• Recruiting team grew from 5 - 14
• Company scaled from ~330 - 660
• Implemented Applicant Tracking System
• Valuation grew from $1 billion to $4 billion
• Increased response and close rates across all functions
• Partnered with internal teams and executive search firms to recruit VP of Engineering and VP of Finance.
• Provided 1:1 coaching for members of the talent team.
• Supported HR Business Partners to create compensation bands.

Nov 2018 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Hired as the first Talent Partner with a focus on recruiting and creating mutually beneficial connections throughout our portfolio.
• Activities Include:
• Managing and executing on executive searches
• Partnering with our founding teams to support on sourcing mission critical hires
• Working with the investment team on investment due diligence
• Connecting both current and possible future investments with helpful individuals in the Craft Network.
• Growing and maintaining a network of recruiters to aid in our portfolio's ability to become self sustaining in their talent functions/efforts.

Jul 2017 – Mar 2018 · 8 mos · Menlo Park

• Primarily focused on supporting our earlier stage companies with their recruiting efforts.

Jul 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Hired as the first recruiter to support hiring efforts to scale eero from 30 - 60 within 5 months as a one person recruiting team.
• Performed all sourcing, scheduling, closing and hiring manager coaching.
• Eventually built and led a 4 person recruiting team which scaled eero from ~60 to 160 within 16 months. (Primarily Engineering)
• Acquired by Amazon

May 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Connecting external talent to our great team at Medium and facilitating meaningful interactions.
• Scaled Medium from ~50 to 95 employees within 11 months.
• Managed a team of 2 (recruiter and recruiting coordinator)
• https://medium.com/medium-eng
• https://medium.com/jobs

Sep 2013 – Apr 2014 · 7 mos · Menlo Park

• #WINNING

Feb 2013 – Jun 2013 · 4 mos · San Francisco

• Hired as the first recruiter to build out the recruiting process and branding while simultaneously executing on tactical day to day recruiting efforts.
• Scaled Medium from 20 to 40 employees within 2.5 months.
• Responsibilities Include:
• Coordinating and scheduling (yes I am my own RC)
• Sourcing
• Managing recruiting process
• Strategically planning for Medium's employee growth
• Creating and promoting Medium's Employer Brand
• Implementing ATS and scheduling tools to increase efficiency.

Oct 2012 – Jan 2013 · 3 mos · San Francisco

• Spearheading the Yammer recruiting integration into Microsoft and managing the Yammer Division's recruiting efforts.

Oct 2010 – Oct 2012 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Hired as the first recruiter to build out Yammer's engineering and sales recruiting strategy and employment brand. Optimizing Yammer's recruiting process, implementing best practices, and effectively building Yammer's world class recruiting team (from myself to a team of 21 globally), which grew Yammer from ~60 employees to over 450 and the eventual acquisition by Microsoft within 24 months. This was the best 2 years of my life.

Jan 2010 – Oct 2010 · 9 mos

• Primarily responsible for staffing Android Google X and Japanese Products Focused Teams at Google.

Aug 2009 – Jan 2010 · 5 mos

• Identifying top performers for Netflix's Research and Development Organization. And yes I was fired.

May 2007 – Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Responsible for identifying and recruiting top technical talent for Salesforce.com. Clients groups include Research and Development and Quality Engineering.

May 2006 – May 2007 · 1 yr

• Senior Staffing Consultant supporting Hotmail, Windows Live Groups, Adcenter, Search Labs and Many Core. My responsibilities include sourcing, applicant tracking, compensation negotiation and candidate closing.

Aug 2004 – May 2006 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Providing a full gamut of Hiring Services for my portfolio of clients. I specialize in engineering recruiting, specifically software, both consumer and enterprise.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 · 0 mo

• Prospecting, cold calling and selling in support of Verisign Payment Gateways and SSL certificates. Daily duties included making 100+ cold calls per day in support of the sales organization.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 · 0 mo

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr

Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr

• Cleaning Cisco's sales data.

Jun 1993 – Jun 1997 · 4 yrs · Mercer Island WA

• Buying and selling concert tickets by leveraging the local newspaper's classified advertising section. More people were flipping pages than logging on.