Robert Shawhan

ad3ywu@r.postjobfree.com

408-***-****

San Jose, Ca

Senior Recruiter in a wide variety of business environments. Successful in building organizations with stellar talent as well as implementing streamlined, highly functional processes. Always interested in developing opportunities for aggressive recruiting campaigns with clients or client groups.

Experience

Senior Recruiting Consultant

Invitae

December 2022- December 2023, San Francisco, CA

Invitae is a leading medical genetics company with the mission to bring comprehensive genetic information into mainstream medicine to improve healthcare for billions of people.

Focused on building out the Software and Cloud Development teams leading high-impact technology projects to create and run the systems on which Invitae is built. Successful hires of

numerous Software Engineers, Bioinformatics Engineers as well as key leadership positions in Software and other teams.

Senior Recruiting Consultant

Guardant Health

August 2020- November 2022, San Jose, CA

Recruiting for the leading precision oncology company helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary blood tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics.

Focusing on leadership recruitment of Software, Bioinformatics disciplines, Business Development, HR, Marketing and related positions.

Senior Director of Talent Acquisition

Automation Anywhere

August 2017-June 2020, San Jose, CA

Automation Anywhere is the leading developer of robotic process automation (RPA) software.

AA Enterprise caters to companies looking to deploy a digital workforce composed of software bots that complete business processes end-to-end.

Helped to build best-in-class recruiting function globally, minimizing agency dependency, increasing referral and recruiter sourced hires during "hyper-growth" phase. Major role in growing company from 300 to 2000 in less than 3 years.

Hired key executives globally and built out technical and customer support divisions.

Built out complete Recruiting teams from scratch in APJ and EMEA, grew US team and hit major hiring targets during 2019 and early 2020

Senior Staffing Manager

Ruckus Wireless

September 2013 – August 2017, Sunnyvale, CA

Recruiting world class talent to one of the hottest wireless companies going - Ruckus Wireless is a pioneer in the wireless infrastructure market, enabling carriers and enterprises to stay ahead of the exploding demand for high-bandwidth applications and services.

Implemented internal recruiting process after years of heavy agency dependency.

Won over key stakeholders to embrace internal recruitment model, made key placements in Engineering and Engineering leadership, Sales and other disciplines. Implemented employee referral program, monthly & quarterly metrics, hired local teams to support US, APAC and EMEA.

Senior Recruiting Consultant

Juniper Networks

January 2013 – September 2013, Sunnyvale, CA

Senior recruiting of Engineering Developers for Security and other business units for Juniper Networks, provider of high performance IP Network services and products.

Critical recruiting for west coast offices, focused on Principal level and above

Engineers for security and UI disciplines.

Key hires: Multiple Directors Security Engineering, Principal software developers, UI Development leads.

Sr. Recruiting Consultant

Ericsson IP Broadband Division (Redback Networks)

October 2007 – January 2013, San Jose, CA

Senior recruiting support of Engineering and other units for Ericsson IP Broadband, provider of next generation networking solutions for IP based services and communications. Strategic recruiting for various types of technical and management professionals for west coast headquarters. Assisted with behavioral interview training for San Jose site and implementing enhanced metrics for recruiting team.

Key Hires- Directors of Software Development for multiple divisions within Ericsson.

Multiple Principal Level Engineers for networking, software, QA, IT and other disciplines.

Award for top recruiter in region (2x)

Recruiting Consultant

Juniper Networks

November 2006 – October 2007

Senior recruiting support of IT and other business units for Juniper Networks, provider of backbone routers and network communications products. Full cycle recruiting of all levels of candidates for west coast and other regional offices. Hired multiple IT and software engineers-

over 70 hires in 11 months.

Education

UC Santa Barbara

BA, Mass Communications

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