Full Cycle Corporate Talent Acquisition & Recruitment

City of Grapevine

Technical Project Manager August 2023 - Current

Technical Project Manager responsible for the creation, oversight & direction of various IT-related strategy & implementation project initiatives across all City of Grapevine's municipal departments

·Establish, drive, monitor & integrate Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) toward continued performance of project deliverables, management of project operations, determination of alignment & concise decision-making for project planning, policy & execution

·Communication (oral & written) with various multi-disciplined project team leads & stakeholders to ascertain project and/or policy initiatives, compliance, approvals, risks, deliverables, stakeholder feedback & guidance toward transformational delivery

·Guidance offered to the executive leadership team in shaping project justifications, budgeting, financial feasibility, business impact assessment, cost estimates, associated risks, governance procedures, departmental resources, compliance & oversight of project initiatives

·Coordination of project planning & management of detailed technical plans that facilitate integration of IT projects across verticals within architectural, telecommunications, structural & civil engineering

·Conduct in-house & external stakeholder meetings to ensure continued communication effectiveness with project team-leads that align toward the projects’ scope of work

·Led onsite presentations to drive focus & commitment from various department leaders & staff toward IT projects that depend on user engagement to ensure compliance & completion of established KPIs

Prime Video & Amazon Studios

Team Lead & Senior Technical Recruiter March 2021 – August 2023

Hybrid individual contributor & team-lead within the Prime Video team responsible for the software development souring for the Prime Video roles that support multiple Amazon business units across the US

·Building out candidate pipelines & tapping into industry resources to develop evergreen candidate pipelines from scratch

·Promoted recently to a team-lead role to assist with the development & continued training of newly-onboarded recruiters to the PV team that focuses on their development of talent acquisition strategies within the corporate offices of Amazon’s streaming platform

·Execution of bar-raising strategies toward the generation of quality & high-volume Software Developer talent that exceeded currently Amazon metrics of assessments sent, assessments passed, onsite interviews, inclined votes & accepted offers per month

·General management of talent sourcing, identification, outreach, assessment management throughout the entire end-to-end Pathfinder process

-Currently represent the D&I (Diversity & Inclusion) training for a team of 30 recruiters on best practices with regards to targeted diversity/inclusion sourcing, candidate messaging, D&I engagement & tracking

CyrusOne, Inc January 2017 – August 2020

Senior Talent Acquisition (REIT/Data Center Recruiter)

Sole recruiter for a publicly-traded global data center responsible for the entirety of the company’s requisitions within IT, critical facilities, critical operations, telecommunications, commercial construction & commercial real estate (REIT) environments across the US

·Created the entire recruiting process & activities that included talent assessment processes with candidate sourcing, screening & interviews, scheduling interviews, final candidate assessments, verbal/written offer negotiations & presentations, onboarding & general candidate best-practices through Workday

·Managed as many as 45+ requisitions simultaneously while focused on delivering the highest quality of candidate experience & hiring manager satisfaction within internal & outside vendors like CBRE, Cushman & JLL

·Creating recruitment metrics to identify areas for operational improvements within the recruiting process, track daily sourcing progress & enact candidate engagement activities

·Weekly reporting of recruiting activity to senior leadership on specific recruitment activities like time-to-fill, candidate flow, interview scheduling, final candidate selection, verbal/written offer negotiations & other recruitment processes

·Provided guidance as part of the Total Rewards team to senior leadership & Human Resource teams on compensation metrics for candidate salaries & benefits based on applicant market research within geographic areas across the US, existing employee comps, candidate interview analysis & third-party recommendations from Radford/Aon & NAREIT

Roles filled within the company included:

Operations: Critical facilities & operations managers, engineers, project managers & data center technicians

IT (.Net, JS, LAMP, MEAN, SaaS, DevOps/UI & UX/Big Data/ML): .Net & Java engineers, developers, architects, data scientists, managers & administrators within AWS & Azure cloud environments per customer specifications

IT Business Systems: Salesforce, Workday & Yardi developers, engineers, administrators & specialists

IT Security: Cybersecurity directors, engineers, analysts & administrators

Accountants: Accountant & CPA-Level candidates in GL, SOX, revenue, consolidations, project cost & commercial property from publicly traded, F1000, Big Four firms or privately held companies with over $1 Billion in assets

Sales: Global & strategic business development, account managers & lead generation specialists

Human Resources: HRBPs, HR Generalists & HR Coordinators

Executive: C-Suite executives, vice presidents, directors & senior managers

Specializations: Solutions engineers, IP/IX engineers, optical engineers & telecom field technicians

Modis (an Adecco, Inc Company) 2015 - 2016

Division Director

Full-Desk Recruiter & Team Lead Manager with staffing & business development responsibilities for Software Development, IT Network Engineer & UI/UX Graphic Design developers for permanent & contract placement

·Hired, trained & led a team of 6 full-desk recruiters to develop activities toward recruiting & account management best-practices, with a focus on sales & staffing in software, digital & networking environments

·IT staffing of developers, engineers, architects, senior managers & administrators of:

·Application development within .Net & Java environments that included Full Stack ASP.Net & JavaScript, Angular, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby & other open source languages

·Specialized developers within Salesforce & Workday environments

·Network engineers, Telecom Engineers, Field & Data Center Technicians

·Specialized Network Engineers & Architects within IP/IX (interconnectivity), Optical & Transport

·UI/UX, Front End & Graphic Designers with Angular Developers

·Android, iOS & Windows Mobile Developers

·Network, Systems & Security Architects/Engineers/Administrators

Associations/Organizations

Community Health Charities-Board Member

Strategic Network Partners-Founder

Tech Titans

TrailHead Salesforce

Geek Meet

Education

Business Administration, Oklahoma City College

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