Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

Apr 2019 – Sep 2019 · 5 mos · Around the world

• 21 country trip around the world. Vegan news reporting, hiking, and planning the start of our business.

Mar 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 2 mos · United States

• At AdAstra, we catalyze the innovations that future generations depend on – by building the teams behind the breakthroughs.
• We’re trusted by leading hard tech startups and investors to connect top talent with world-changing missions.
• As Co-Founder and CEO, I lead our strategy, partnerships, business growth and talent advising for frontier technology companies across space, climate, and defense. We’re trusted by leading startups and investors to connect top talent with world-changing missions.
• I also advise select space startups on people operations and team-building strategy.

Feb 2018 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

Jan 2017 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Long Beach, California

• Optimize talent acquisition processes and lead the team to an annual time to fill average of 12.1 working days (healthcare industry average: 48.3 working days).
• Design talent acquisition strategy, including processes to re-engage previous applicants for new positions, mass outreach initiatives and communication templates, a survey and process to relocate employees for hard-to-fill positions, and many more.
• Train talent acquisition team on best practices resulting in an average rate of two days to touch all applicants (national average: 14 business days).
• Create and maintain a dashboard to report cost of hire, cost per source, sources of hire, and more to direct budget optimally.
• Direct a culture shift to utilizing talent acquisition as a marketing tool, and building a strong employer brand.
• Maximize return on vendor expenses, manage vendor relationships with LinkedIn, Indeed, iCIMS, CareerBuilder.
• Substantial revision of job advertisements to market perks of employment and give realistic job preview.
• Train hiring managers on successful utilization of ATS and talent acquisition procedures. This includes the creation of user guides and extensive training materials.
• Lead the team to a 42% annual increase in LinkedIn page views and followers.
• Plan and implement professional development and team building programs for the talent acquisition and human resources department.
• Personally sourced, recruited, interviewed and hired 122 of the core positions in my first 11 months, while concurrently leading the team to place 221 total core positions, 680 positions including floor staff. (Core positions: Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Primary Care Physicians, Registered Dietitians and Facility Managers).
• Project management in large software assessment and implementation.

Mar 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Santa Fe Springs, CA

• Founded a subsidiary for Ellison Technologies, turning a cost center into a revenue generating machine within the recruiting department.
• Developed internal staffing agency functionality to provide top talent (CNC Machinists, CNC Programmers, Machine Shop Managers, etc.) to Ellison Technologies’ customers.
• Produced additional substantial revenue from placements in the first sixteen months of operation.
• Created all AMC company marketing and promotional material and processes.
• Developed a large active base of industry specific members on LinkedIn and Facebook.
• Hired, trained and developed team of high volume recruiters.
• Built relationships with HR team and hiring managers of customer companies.
• Visited new manufacturing facilities regularly to understand company culture and processes.
• Project management in large software assessment and implementation.
• Created and managed iCIMS ATS database of niche CNC professionals.

Jun 2014 – Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Santa Fe Springs, CA

• Managed national talent acquisition team. Reported to VP of HR.
• Cut recruitment costs in half by internalizing and centralizing the talent acquisition function.
• Sourced, engaged, interviewed and hired CNC Field Service Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, CNC Application Engineers, Software Engineers, Sales Engineers, and corporate positions (marketing, finance, business development, telemarketing, etc.) for all US locations.
• Spearheaded the integration of iCIMS (Previously utilized Luceo) for improved data collection and metrics reporting.
• Trained recruitment team members to effectively source and recruit active and passive candidates.
• Worked closely with all national Hiring Managers to fill talent needs and coach on hiring processes.

May 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Long Beach, CA

• Provided recommendations for optimizing corporate recruiting through research and data analysis for Fortune 500 corporations.
• Provided strategy for employer brand promotion and improving candidate experience.
• Assessed corporate recruiting budgets, financials, and source-of-hire reports.
• Coordinated and participated in HR conferences and workshops (SHRM 2013 Annual Conference, SHRM Talent Management Conference 2014, Ethics Workshop, etc.).
• Managed client relationships with leaders of corporate talent acquisition.
• Provided strategy for employer brand promotion and improving candidate experience.
• Managed and measured social media outreach by curating content on current corporate recruiting and staffing topics.
• Worked with culturally diverse client companies.