Scott Newman

Austin, TX

949-***-****

ad0p68@r.postjobfree.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/joinscottsnetwork

Career Summary:

Accomplished and results-driven Corporate Recruiter with 15 years of extensive experience in high-end corporate recruiting. Proven track record of successfully sourcing, engaging, and hiring top-tier talent for prestigious organizations across diverse industries. Adept at managing end-to-end recruitment processes, from identifying staffing needs to onboarding exceptional candidates. Deep expertise in executive search, talent acquisition strategy, and candidate relationship management. Professional Highlights:

● Identified as a highly versatile Lead / Principal recruiter: Supported up to 25 managers, 50-58 requisitions, across 7 business Units; hired over 140 candidates in a 19-month time frame.

● Strong ATS system experience with Kenexa, MaxHire, Taleo, cBizOne, VirtualEdge, Jobvite, GreenHouse, and several other proprietary systems

● Consistently considered a trusted advisor/partner, building solid Business Line / Manager relationships restoring or creating Talent Acquisition credibility.

● Facilitated recruiting process while building teams for 3 startup divisions.

● Designed Service Level Agreements, and KPIs for Recruiting, Sourcing, Candidate, and Business Units.

● Very Strong SaaS, AWS Cloud, GCP, Security, SalesForce, Hadoop, Software development, Python, Perl CI/CD, Kubernetes, Big Data Sales/Pre-sales, Executive, Marketing, and G&A recruiting experience.

● Managed a team of 5 direct reports

● Built Candidate Care Experience that was adopted and implemented throughout a billion-dollar organization

● Successfully built out diversity and inclusion programs from scratch. Professional Experience:

Reddit 5/2021 – Present

Principal Recruiter:

● Tasked to build Reddit's Corp Security, Privacy & Assurance, and Trust teams from scratch.

(SOC Engineers, App Sec, Cloud Sec, Privacy /Assurance Engineers and analysts, Compliance Analyst / Engineers, Governance, Risk Analyst/Engineers, Detection, IR, and Mobile Sec teams in preparation for IPO)

● Supported CISO directly with Director and Manager level hires to include building out everything Trust-related.

● Trained Security teams on LinkedIn sourcing capturing a 20% referral increase.

● Built out a Security team of 12 AWS cloud security engineers, 2 Directors, and 2 Managers in 5 months.

● Implemented company-wide Reddit business impacts

● Built/managed internal/external resources for diversity hiring specifically Women / Vets in tech.

● Created a candidate sharing platform for the recruiting team resulting in 27 shared candidate hires.

Endurance International Group 9/2016 – 3/2021

Principal Recruiter

● Led all Technology and Marketing recruitment activities for 5 separate brands across 20 locations totaling 1.2 billion in revenue.

● Tasked to build out the Development, Product, and Scrum teams (68) that migrated from a Perl monolith to AWS using Python. Breakdown into Microservices storing in Docker / Containers, using Kubernetes to migrate onto AWS cloud products.

● Developed and Launched candidate care experience increasing candidate hiring and satisfaction from interviewing to onboarding.

● Developed Internal development career path for all verticals of technology increasing internal promotions from 4% to 27%.

● Developed and launched recruiting process for all business lines creating a consistent and dependable deliverable of end-to-end talent support.

● Created and trained on interview best practices for hiring managers and interview teams.

● Organized, sponsored, and built Meetups and networks for all business lines to include diversity and inclusion.

● Developed and launched a pipeline sourcing model to keep a consistent flow of candidates for redundant roles.

● Developed internal/external marketing and branding processes to increase employee referrals that moved the company from 11% to 32%.

● Maintained 15-20 reqs at any one time.

● Positions Supported: All levels of Cloud-based Product, Engineer, Program, UI/UX, Marketing Security Infrastructure, AI/ Data Science Architects/Developers Groupon Remote 8/2015 – 9/2016

Sr. IT Recruiter

● Provided corporate recruiting leadership for several technology verticals within Groupon

● Rebuilding business relationships through developing KPIs and deliverables

● Roles recruited include everything Prod OPPs, Mobile SDE’s Android / IOS, SDET and PMO, and Data Science Roles, from IC to VP level.

● Enhanced diversity and employee recruitment efforts

● Developed Meetup Recruiting process

● Developed additional Sourcing strategies

● Helped Develop the Global Candidate Care program. Actian Corporation: Austin, TX 3/2014 – 8/2015

Sr Recruiter Big Data Global Talent Acquisition

● Providing corporate recruiting leadership for global Technology, Marketing, and Sales business units within Actian.

● Responsible for full-cycle recruitment of Big Data Analytics platforms to include all levels of Hadoop, NSQL Developers, Java Developers, UI, Developers, Cloud Computing Software Developers, SaaS Engineers / Architects, Sales and Pre-Sales, Marketing

● Built internal Recruiting and forecasting processes within the supported business, for present and future hiring and retention.

● Led vendor management efforts reducing vendor list from 27 to 4 while adding vendor process redirecting all interactions with the business into the ATS system and directly to TA. Reduced cost per hire by 65%

● Created employee referral process and roll out generating a 20% increase.

● Established Manager and candidate care programs. Seagate / AllState Manpower Group RPO, Austin, TX 4/2013- 3/2014 Sr. IT Contract Recruiter

● Provided recruitment of SSD (Solid State Drive Startup division) Cloud organization for New Product Introduction on both the Hardware and Firmware / Middleware sides.

● Roles recruited include Application Developers, .Net / C# /Python / UI Software Developers, Test Engineers, Production / Product Managers, Program Managers, Snr. Quality Engineers, System Engineers, Embedded Developers, Material Project Planers, Oracle BA / Developers.

● Developed candidate tracking process accepted by 3 business units.

● Successfully built out 4 teams to include 2 Directors and 2 Snr. Managers and 3 team members per team.

Charles Schwab / Randstad Sourceright, Austin, TX 11/2012- 4-2013 Sr. IT Contract Recruiter

● Provided full cycle recruiting in Taleo across a 20-25 req. load to locate qualified candidates with a passion for providing superior customer service to Charles Schwab’s clients

● Support IT Mobile Applications, Web Applications, Big Data, and Global IT Software platforms across 18 different Business Units

● Roles recruited included: QA Engineers, Software Sr. Managers, SCRUM / Agile Directors, Software Java, .net, C#, Python Programmers / UI/ Developers, Business System Analyst; Supported CA, AZ, CO, TX, IL, OH, FL locations

AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) Austin, TX 12/2010 - 11/2012 Senior Staff Recruiter

● Tasked to support SG&A & PMO functions to include Sales, Marketing, Finance, IT, Facilities, Legal, POM, GOE, and Supply Chain placing 102 candidates in 2011

● Built and trained on SLAs for Hiring Managers, Recruiters, Sourcer’s, and Recruiting Coordinators

● Designed and Managed workflow and ATS self-serve solutions and processes for all supported Business Units

● Responsible for creating and implementing sourcing strategies for US as well as global talent pools in Asia Pacific and Latin America

● Managed an average req. load of 40-55 with 58 placements from 1/2012- 6/2012.

● Facilitated onsite one-day IT career rush using social media resources and networking resulting in 13 onsite offers.

Dell Round Rock, TX 5/2010 – 12/2010

Senior Contract Recruiter

● Responsible for the strategic sourcing and recruiting for SMB and Large Enterprise, Global Storage, and Server Sales technology-driven business units

● Responsible for the strategic sourcing and full-cycle recruiting of 54 requisitions across 14 managers; hired 34 candidates within the first 4 months

● Recruited Pre-sales System Engineers, Storage, Server Blade/Fabric Specialists, Product Specialist II, III, and IV, Software Enterprise Technologists, Software Solution Specialist, Account Executives, and Engineers

● Selected to lead all recruiting efforts within Dell's acquisition group for two very highly visible Storage Hardware and software-related acquisitions. Infusion Recruiting Solutions, Austin, TX 11/2008-5/2010 Senior IT & Engineering Recruiting Manager

● Responsible for passive recruiting nationally for emerging technology clients across multiple industries including; SaaS Software, Cloud Computing, Mobile Applications, Devices, Enterprise Software, and Digital Media

● Successfully sourced and recruited both functional and technical roles to include: Application Engineers, Java Developers, LAMP, .Net, C#, Business Analysts, Senior Sales and Manager to Director roles

● Power LinkedIn User and very skilled in leveraging Web 2.0 and Social Media tools for identifying new candidates

Ev3 Neurovascular Division, Irvine, CA. 6/2008-10/2008 Senior IT & Engineering Recruiter/Contract

● Supported 6 managers and approximately 15-20 reqs.

● Sourcing and recruiting for all positions using creative and passive networks i.e. LinkedIn, Octane, Facebook, Google, Gadball, and personal network of candidates.

● Sourced & Recruited engineers: Sales Engineers, Manufacturing, R&D, Project, Production, Design, Quality, Mechanical, Support Engineers, Master Scheduler, Production and Sourcing Managers, Regulatory Affairs Specialist, Cost Accountants,

● Closed 15 positions in 4 months (2 in the first week) Panasonic Avionics Corporation, Lake Forest, CA. 6/2007-6/2008 Sr. IT & Engineering Contract Recruiter

● Supported 15 hiring managers and approx. 20-35 reqs monthly, full life cycle recruiting

● Recruited both active and passive candidates ranging from Account Executives, Project Managers, Software Engineers, System Engineers, Architects, Embedded Engineers, Product Support Engineers, Hardware Engineers, Design Engineers, etc.

● Provided 1 to 2-day turnaround on requisitions by utilizing senior sourcing techniques Structure Networks, Inc., Tustin, CA. 3/2007-6/2007 Sr IT Recruiter/Contract

● Responsible for senior-level sourcing and full-cycle recruiting of Project Managers, CRM, Application Architects, Java/J2EE Developers, Software Engineers, System Engineers, ERP professionals (Oracle and SAP), and senior .Net developers/architects

● Secured top talent disciplined in the latest Microsoft technologies, including web-based application development, infrastructure, database, large-scale project management, and Cisco Security.

Volt Technical Services, Orange, CA. 11/2005 – 01-2007 IT Recruiter

● Responsible for strategic recruitment of difficult-to-fill contract and Full-time IT and Engineering professionals via personal network and traditional headhunting

● Primary skill sets recruited include Project Managers, Directors of IT, Application Architects, Java/J2EE Developers, ERP professionals (Oracle and SAP), and Engineering professionals

● Conduct in-depth in-person technical interviews, negotiate rates/salary with candidates and hiring managers, develop/close comprehensive contract rate proposals and permanent fees with w/prospective employers

SparkNet Technologies, Lake Forest, CA. 2/2002 – 11/2005 IT Recruiter

● Responsible for recruitment of all contract/perm. consultants with a primary focus on Senior IT disciplines including Project Managers, Application Architects, Java/J2EE Developers, ERP professionals (Oracle and SAP)

U.S. Army, 82nd Airborne - Professional infantryman/paratrooper.

● Squad Leader of 7. Expert Infantryman Badge awarded. Education:

Associate degree at Irvine Valley College, CA.

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