Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · United Kingdom · Remote

• Senior Talent Partner (Contract) — Automattic
• Automattic (makers of WordPress and other open‑source platforms)
• Designed global candidate experience flow and automation for consistent, scalable hiring
• Used funnel data to streamline the process and reduce hiring friction
• Built tracking for pass/fail reasoning and sourcing performance
• Hosted bi‑daily syncs with engineering leadership
• First point of contact from first touch to offer close
• Identified blockers in the process and used data to present to the stakeholders and suggest solutions

Feb 2023 – Dec 2023 · 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• CommerceHub (now called Rithum) is the world's largest e-commerce platform that
• helps global businesses with their sales and logistics.
• Contract to scale the Engineering and Product teams across Europe.
• Key Impact:
• Increased hire rate from 18% → 65% through process redesign
• Built 4-stage interview model: intro → tech task → live tech → HM final
• Created live hiring tracker used in weekly exec reporting
• Presented hiring blockers to stakeholders, along with solutions. Soulutions was agreed upon, which led to a better candidate experience and more hires
• Delivered full candidate lifecycle, including negotiation + onboarding
• Met company hiring targets in Portugal and Spain

Aug 2022 – Feb 2023 · 6 mos

• NFT Port is a start-up company that invests in NFTs across the Blockchain Space
• Duties:
• Was hired to help the stakeholders build a backend engineering team
• Created a hiring process
• Sourced backend engineers with Web3 experience
• Candidate management from sourcing to offer stage
• Daily stakeholder management and hiring updates

Feb 2022 – Aug 2022 · 6 mos · Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

• Bitpanda is a digital platform that has grown massively throughout Europe. It is
• now one of the biggest trading platforms. I joined during the start-up phase.
• Embedded to support rapid hiring across Engineering and Product during a high-growth phase.
• Key Responsibilities & Impact:
• Designed full hiring process from the ground up (role qualification → sourcing →
• interviewing → offer)
• Created calibration docs, interview question banks, and hiring manager
• alignment flow
• Hired 4 Product Managers + 2 Full-Stack Engineers before market downturn
• paused scaling
• Maintained full data tracking: time-to-hire, conversion rate by stage, time-to-fill,
• NPS, sourcing channel effectiveness
• Built stakeholder trust through daily async reporting + weekly deep-dive sessions

May 2021 – Feb 2022 · 9 mos · Berlin, Germany

• Joined Trade Republic to help them build their Tech Engineering Managers and SRE team within the Crypto space
• Hired some very key Engineering Managers into the business
• Recruited the SRE team from the very beginning and sourced and hired the SRE Director which was a big milestone within the company
• Full recruitment cycle
• Set up the recruitment process.
• With sdata, I was able to change the process by showing the management team what was not going well in the process
• Stakeholder and candidate management and communication
• Daily meeting with management to show our progress and what needs to be actioned
• Daily sourcing and headhunting skills.

Apr 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

• We partner with tech companies and games studios to help them achieve their hiring goals. Since 2013, we've scaled teams for 100+ businesses in Europe and North America via our flexible, subscription-based or pay-as-you-go recruitment solutions 🌍
• Our people have first-hand experience and proven capability hiring at all stages of growth; from stealth-mode startups through to hyper-scale and IPO. This gives us deep insight into the many roadblocks companies face when scaling their teams - and how to solve for them effectively ✅
• We've shaped, iterated and productised a set of cost-effective, plug-and-play recruitment services that can fast-track your path to hiring success.
• Our “Embedded” and “Source” services allow you to ramp up recruitment or sourcing capacity quickly - whether it be tech, commercial, operations, or games hiring - with the flexibility to increase or decrease our support as your needs evolve. Or level up your Talent Acquisition function through our modular, on-demand “Advisory” offering.
• The future of recruitment teams is fluid - a hybrid mix of permanent in-house resources and reliable, flexible external support 🤝
• Founders, Talent Leaders and Venture Funds choose to work with us and have continued recommending us to their networks year-on-year as a trusted scaling partner. Why? Because we treat recruitment as a craft. We care deeply about making a long-term impact. And we’re driven by our #1 company objective; to deliver an exceptional service to our customers 🙌
• Want to hear how we could achieve hiring success together? Drop me a message here on LinkedIn, or reach out to us at any time via www.scede.io 🙂

Oct 2020 – Apr 2021 · 6 mos · Belfast, United Kingdom

May 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

Mar 2019 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs · Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• Delivered full-cycle recruitment for Deloitte's UK Tech, Data, and Product teams.
• Sourced candidates using boolean, market maps, and ATS intelligence
• Designed and managed full process: intake → sourcing → interview scheduling → offer negotiation
• Created performance trackers to assess quality of hire and team feedback
• Partnered with hiring managers to refine job specs and expectations
• Conducted post-hire feedback reviews to improve future hiring strategies

Jun 2018 – May 2019 · 11 mos · Belfast

• Sourcing Specialist providing recruitment support to Banking. We are always interested in talking to experienced candidates with strong backgrounds in this sector.

Jun 2011 – May 2018 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Belfast, United Kingdom

• Recruiting Permanent staff throughout Northern Ireland.
• Business Development
• Interviewing
• Advertising
• Sales
• Placements

Sep 2010 – Jun 2011 · 9 mos

• Was an account manager for NIjobs.com in Belfast. Here I was to bring in new business and renew clients accounts. I found this enjoyable and met targets every month, However I missed recruitment and re-joined Premiere People.

Apr 2009 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Recruiting members of staff for companies throughout Northern Ireland. Here I generated new leads and placed people into permanent positions on a monthly basis.

Sep 2008 – Apr 2009 · 7 mos

• I recruit both Temporary and Permanent staff throughout Northern Ireland. The main sectors are Contact Centre and Public Sector. My aim is to keep delivering an ongoing professional service to new and existing clients.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs

• Recruited Temporary staff on a weekly basis ranging fro 20 – 40 employees