Sales Marketing

MARK APTON

**** ******** **. ***** *****, CA. ***51

(H) 408-***-**** (C) 408-***-****

******@**-*********-*********.***

EDUCATION: Bachelors Science MIS, San Jose State University

OBJECTIVE: Contract Recruiter/Staffing Manager in the high tech industry

SKILLS; Ability to identify top talent, particularly the more sought after passive

candidates. Engineering/Operations/Marketing recruiting, but capable of recruiting all

positions, from receptionist to CEO. Able to facilitate, negotiate and close tough deals as

an unbiased 3rd party. Reduction of dependence on outside agencies by doing nationwide

and international searches using advanced sourcing and tracking systems which include

Airs and Etrak. Ten years of experience dealing with INS hiring issues.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Mobilygen Corporation : -11/05 – Present

Contract Recruiter

Full cycle corporate in-house recruiting for all software & hardware development (ASIC,

semiconductor, fabless), sales and marketing.

Broadcom Corporation : -7/05 – 11/05 San Jose, CA

Contract Recruiter

Full cycle corporate in-house recruiting for all software & hardware development (ASIC,

semiconductor, fabless), sales and marketing.

Raza Microelectronics : -3/05 – 7/05 Cupertino, CA

Contract Recruiter

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Full cycle corporate in-house recruiting for all software & hardware development (ASIC,

semiconductor, fabless), sales and marketing.

Siemens Media Division : -12/02 – 3/05 San Francisco, CA

Contract Recruiter

Full cycle corporate in-house recruiting for all departments including software

development, operations, sales and marketing. The Siemens Media flagship product

called Colledia is a digital asset management systems (video over IP) for the broadcast

industry. I am familiar with broadcast post production tools like Miranda, Avid, Pinnacle,

Probel, Quantel, Grass Valley, Harris Automation and Louth.

APTON ASSOCIATES,: - 4/02 - 12/02 Santa Clara, CA

Independent Recruiter

Contingency placements; contract and direct for a select list of

exclusive clients in high tech. Clients include entertainment hardware,

enterprise software and military/aerospace companies.

Nvidia, Inc.: -12/99 - 4/02 Santa Clara, CA.

Technical Recruiter

Partner with Dept./regional staff to develop and implement recruitment and retention

plans, including projecting recruitment needs, identifying and coordinating recruiting

sources, and monitoring effectiveness of sources. Use of direct sourcing, industry

networking, internet, resume database, employee referrals, and appropriate trade and

industry organizations to recruit and perform in-depth interviews for a successful

preparation and presentation of the offer package.

Netformx, Inc.: - 6/99 - 12/99 Los Gatos, CA.

Contract Recruiter

Sourcing, recruiting, interviewing, including internet and direct methods for

network design software marketing department, including product, sales, and

tech-support managers. Thorough knowledge of compensation, benefits, training and

success factors and implications as they relate to staffing. Manage agency relations.

Support projects that impact the staffing department.

Macromedia, Inc.: - 3/99 - 6/99 San Francisco, CA.

Contract Technical Recruiter

Sourcing, recruiting, interviewing, including Internet and direct methods for

Online Multi-player Game Developers and Producers, web tool developers and

software engineers.

Zeitgeist Data Systems, Inc.; - 11/98 - 2/99 Mt. View, CA.

Technical Recruiter

Conceive, design, and implementation of recruiting strategies including Web-posting

and other advertising, job fairs, and channel recruiting Proven abilities in staffing

including gap analysis, use of automated staffing systems, reporting, measurement and

processes.

Hitachi Data Systems, Inc.; - 9/98 - 11/98 Santa Clara, CA

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Contract Technical Recruiter

Develop and implement staffing strategy including; posting, interviewing,

sourcing and matching for Marketing/Sales Department i.e. Product Support

Managers & Performance Analysis.

SmartSource, Inc.; - 6/98 - 9/98 Santa Clara, CA

Contract Technical Recruiter

Develop and implement staffing strategy including; posting, interviewing,

sourcing and matching for a staffing agency. i.e. Network Control Center

Engineers and Administrators

Career Designs, Inc.; - 6/98- 9/98 Burlingame, CA

Contract Technical Recruiter

Develop and implement staffing strategy including; posting, interviewing,

sourcing and matching for a staffing agency. i.e. DBA's, Unix Administrators

and Release Engineers.

Midcom Corporation, Inc.; - 9/93 - 6/98 Palo Alto, CA.

Technical Recruiter

Provide commercial, industrial, aerospace, manufacturing and gaming industry clients

with H/W and S/W programmers and engineering professionals as well as related

technical personnel. Type of candidates sourced were Unix applications developers and

systems engineers, mechanical engineers, biotech, embedded real-time developers, web

developers, course developers, auditors, financial analysts & accountants.

Training; Immigration, E.A.P Crisis management

Semco, Airs, Focus Institute of Technology

Memberships;

HRCA

http://www.aa-technical-recruiter.com

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