Jul 2021 – May 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Led recruiting efforts for software, electrical, and hardware engineering teams associated with Dojo (AI training chips powering FSD), Self-Driving / AI, Tesla Bot, Cell Engineering (4680 battery production), and vehicle platforms.
• In addition to managing a full-time recruiting team, I oversaw a university recruiting team and manager for some time, helping to engage the next great generation of Tesla talent for our Cell Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Materials Engineering, and Energy Engineering verticals at Tesla.

Nov 2020 – Jul 2021 · 8 mos

• Hired to help scale our Cell Engineering (manufacturing batteries for our EVs and more), Autopilot Hardware (the hardware to enable self-driving vehicles and other projects), and Autopilot Software (the software enabling self-driving vehicles and other projects like Tesla Bot) teams in Texas and California. I played a key role in driving recruiting efforts for the initial build out of our Cell Engineering / 4680 program at GigaTexas, back when the factory was mostly a foundation and a few beams in the ground.

Sep 2016 – Sep 2020 · 4 yrs · Greater Los Angeles Area & San Francisco Bay Area

• Focused on helping to foster effective alignment between Netflix's engineering efforts and studio efforts. Recruited for the Content Engineering as one of the foundational members of our recruiting team. Encoding Technologies, Media Cloud Engineering and Post-Production Engineering teams were areas I covered extensively. Encoding Technologies won several Emmys across the course of our partnership for their technical work. I also dabbled with Product Design, Product Management, Production Operations (UCAN, LATAM, and EMEA), Executive-level searches, and more.
• I also had a hand in organizing events, employer branding efforts (you might even see me in some of our YouTube videos), testing new recruiting tools, and interviewing & on-boarding new members of the recruiting team.

Feb 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Sourced, recruited, and interviewed the next great additions to the Fandango/Rotten Tomatoes team. Full-cycle recruiting, covering Tech (predominantly engineers, with some operations and leadership positions thrown in the mix), Business Intelligence (engineers, analysts, and beyond), Creative (designers, video editors, motion graphics designers, and content curators to name a few), and Executive (mostly at the senior director and VP levels). Made over 150 full-time hires in addition to countless contract hires, with an average req-to-fill rate of 26 days.
• Led recruitment branding initiatives (through public speaking, event sponsorship/hosting, SEM, banner ads, and more), applicant tracking system (ATS) integration into Fandango, and recruitment-oriented process improvement for Fandango all while hiring, training, and managing a team of Recruiting Coordinators and Sourcers. Handled an individual req load which at times exceeded 40 open positions.

Feb 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Sourced, recruited, and interviewed the next great additions to the Rotten Tomatoes team (a subsidiary of Fandango). Full-cycle recruiting, covering Tech, Creative, and Editorial roles.

May 2014 – Jan 2015 · 8 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Promoted in May 2014 to solely manage and oversee the Salaried Professional Services (SPS) program, a loan-hire consultancy practice for the Los Angeles market. Grew practice from roughly $5k per week in gross profit margin to over $13k per week, ranking as high as the 8th in the company out of of over 300 offices nationwide.

Jan 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Responsible for recruiting, interviewing, and placing application development professionals in contract and contract-to-hire positions with our clients. Sourced for candidates in the .NET, Java, MEAN, and LAMP stacks. Exceeded recruiting expectations, managing to graduate from the Success Through Excellence (STEP) program several months ahead of schedule.