Aug 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Chicago Area

• Scaled the Chicago tech hub from 30 to 200+ employees across back-end, mobile, and product engineering roles, including leadership hires (2 VPs, 4 EMs, 4 Staff Engineers, 9 Senior SWEs, etc.)
• Specialized in recruiting across payments, fintech, and financial products, leveraging market insight to identify and close top technical talent
• Exceeded quarterly hiring KPIs and reduced time-to-fill through data-driven prioritization, optimized workflows, and proactive pipeline development
• Drove 32% of all hires via creative sourcing and partnership with technical sourcers, building diverse passive pipelines across engineering and leadership roles
• Maintained a 93% offer acceptance rate by driving a high-quality candidate experience and ensuring timely decision-making
• Delivered 30%+ diversity hires across engineering and technical functions through targeted sourcing and selection strategies
• Acted as a strategic hiring partner to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders (Finance, People Ops, Benefits, Onboarding, Legal), aligning hiring with business objectives
• Collaborated with SVP/Head of Chicago to align recruiting strategy with growth targets and present market insights informing headcount decisions
• Designed hiring plans and supporting materials (job descriptions, onboarding frameworks) across technical and commercial roles
• Onboarded and coached new recruiters to ensure alignment with best practices and consistency in execution
• Contributed to global redesign of the recruiting operating model, increasing agility and reducing hiring silos across offices
• Founding member of the Neurodiversity ERG, supporting inclusive hiring and workplace strategies

Dec 2021 – Aug 2022 · 8 mos · Greater Chicago Area

• Averaged 10+ hires weekly across frontend, backend, full-stack, and data roles
• Handled upwards of 30+ requisitions within Software Engineering, Engineering Architects, Data Scientists, and Program Management
• Presented, trained, and supported recruiters across multiple teams on the Profile Based Hiring (PBH) process/model
• Recruited engineering and data-focused roles (Data Scientists, Data Analysts, and Data Engineers) to advance Microsoft’s Intelligence Platform initiatives
• Partnered with the Chief of Staff and Business Administrators to ensure the Intelligence Platform PBH model continued to successfully progress and improve
• Executed the Intelligence Platform Profile Based Hiring statistics on Diversity & Inclusion for hire-ups to analyze
• Successfully negotiated offers with candidates by highlighting the companies culture, benefits, and room to grow
• Scheduled requisition kick-off calls with Hiring Managers to ensure an understanding of the requisition, compliance being met, and best practices

Oct 2021 – Nov 2021 · 1 mo · Greater Chicago Area

• Delivered a 32% sub-to-interview, 44% interview-to-hire, and 15% sub-to-hire ratio, maintaining a weekly margin of $5,547 in the first six months
• Achieved 26 hires and 59 interviews in the first eight months for major clients including LinkedIn, Salesforce, AT&T, Walgreens, Caterpillar, and Square
• Recognized with the “Top Duck” Recruiter Award for two consecutive months for outstanding performance
• Managed full life cycle recruiting across Technical, Project Management, HR, Procurement, and Finance positions
• Built and maintained strong relationships with hiring managers and stakeholders to align on requisition needs and candidate profiles
• Consistently exceeded weekly, monthly, and quarterly submission and placement goals while managing 10–15 requisitions weekly
• Achieved 26 hires and 59 interviews in first eight months for major clients/companies such as LinkedIn, Salesforce, AT&T, Walgreens, Caterpillar, Bank of the West, Square, Exelon, Avalara, amongst others

Feb 2021 – Oct 2021 · 8 mos · Greater Chicago Area

• Swoon is an award-winning staffing agency with an innovative method to recruitment. This method has earned us a proven track record of placing the best and brightest talent with temporary and direct-hire opportunities at Fortune 1000 companies throughout the United States and Canada.
• We are a career hub that’s unlike any other! We live by our mantra “Listen. Place. Care.” To us, it is essential that we listen to our clients’ and candidates’ needs and put in the legwork to make sure that our placements are always a perfect match. We form relationships, not just connections, and we pride ourselves on our contractor care initiatives.
• Our Awards:
• 2016-2021: Best of Staffing Award for Client Satisfaction – ClearlyRated
• 2014-2020: Best & Brightest Companies to Work for in the Nation Award - The National Association for Business Resources
• 2020: Best & Brightest Companies to Work for in Chicago – The National Association for Business Resources
• 2016-2020: Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America – Inc. 5000
• 2020: Allegis Global Solutions Strategic Partner
• 2019-2020: 50 Fastest Growing Women-Owned Company – The Women’s President’s Organization
• 2016 & 2020: Fastest-Growing Staffing Companies in America – Staffing Industry Analysts
• 2014-2019: Best Staffing Firms to Work for in the Nation Award – Staffing Industry Analysts
• 2019: Best of Staffing Award for Temp Satisfaction - ClearlyRated
• 2018: Best Places to Work in Chicago – Chicago Business Journal
• 2018: Top Company Cultures Award – Entrepreneur

Jul 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Chicago Area

• Managed full life cycle recruiting including sourcing, screening, and offer negotiations
• Recruited for IT (primarily Project Management), Higher Ed, and Healthcare roles domestically and internationally
• Sourced and placed candidates with clients including Deloitte, Huron, Navigant, Allstate, and NBOME
• Successfully filled IT positions such as project managers, coordinators, scrum masters, and directors across technical and strategic functions
• Supported onboarding, HR processes, and internal operational improvements, including optimizing Excel tracking systems and evaluating new recruiting tools

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos · Greater Chicago Area

• Dovenmuehle Mortgage, Inc. is one of the leading mortgage subservicing companies in the United States specializing in servicing loans on behalf of commercial banks, savings banks, credit unions, insurance companies, mortgage banking companies and state and local housing finance agencies nationwide.
• Dovenmuehle was founded in 1844 and is the oldest mortgage banking company in the Midwest and one of the oldest mortgage companies in the United States. Dovenmuehle subservices residential, commercial and multifamily mortgage loans for borrowers located in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Territories.

May 2016 – Sep 2016 · 4 mos · Greater Chicago Area