Sales Manager

RESUME

Val Baldwin *** Gay Road Aptos, California 95003 831-***-****

OBJECTIVE: To make a significant contribution to the Recruiting efforts of a growing

company.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Over fifteen years of successful technical and sales recruiting experience in Silicon

Valley. Has repeatedly placed numerous technical personnel at many local high tech

companies. Effective listening and communication skills; proven relationship building

skills. Ability to simplify complex situations and clarify staffing-related issues. Capable

of performing under pressure, with excellent follow-up to achieve goals. Proven

leadership, organizational and problem-solving skills; successfully hired, trained, and

managed technical recruiters.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Baldwin & Associates Aptos, CA July 2007 to present

Principal working as a Senior Technical Recruiter and Staffing Consultant on various

assignments at Modulus Video(now Motorola), Tablus, GuardID Systems, Lussori,

Vimo, and Coupons.com. Placed multiple personnel at all companies; primarily

Software, Hardware, and SQA Engineers, as well as Sales and Marketing. Worked

directly with both the founders and the VP’s of Engineering.

Modulus Video, Inc. Sunnyvale, Ca May 2004- June 2007

Staffing Manager

Modulus Video is a leading technology startup company designing advanced digital

video compression products for both SD and HD TV. Successfully recruited over 45

permanent full time employees, primarily in Engineering, to the company. Modulus

Video was acquired by Motorola in June 2007.

Entrabase, Inc. Campbell, CA August 2002 to January 2004

Director of Business Development

Entrabase is an ecommerce service provider focusing on reselling ecommerce and

hosting services to Chambers of Commerce and other business aggregators. I closed our

first two customers, Clackamas County and Leadership Associates as well as adding

numerous small businesses to our client list.

Stratford Group, San Jose, CA October 1998 to June 2002

Director of Technical Recruiting

The StratfordGroup is a retained executive search firm with 14 offices nationwide.

Recruited and placed 20 key personnel for high tech start up in Mt View, Ca (Solid

Information Technology). Including:

VP Sales, (2) Dir of Sales, Sales Manager, Inside Sales Manager, (4) Senior Sales

Account

Executives, (5) Insides Sales Account Managers, (2) Dir of Prod Mkting, Dir of IT, and

Dir of HR.

Successfully managed through performance and relationship building to develop one

client from the original 4 searches to ultimately winning and performing successfully on

20 searches.

Generated $750K in personal revenues in one year; ranked #4 in Executive Search

Consultants out of 70 Consultants nationwide.

EDUCATION: Masters in Counseling Psychology from University of Santa Clara

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from San Jose State University

REFERENCES: Excellent references from Founders/CEO’s, and VP’s of Engineering

available upon request.

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