Lead Technical Recruiter

Cody Cox

*** ***** ****** **. **********, TX ****8

Mobile: 512-***-****

Email: *********@*****.***

Summary

Talent Acquisition Professional with 15 years of experience in technical recruiting and leadership. Adept at leading teams, while effectively being an individual contributor. Proven experience in making key business decisions, while implementing effective strategies for recruiting, including process implementation, sourcing, market and compensation analysis. Extensive experience in designing and implementing formal training programs organization wide for Executive, Technical, Early Talent and New College Graduate programs.

Experience:

Talent Acquisition Lead – (CPU/Engineering)

AMD

March 2020 to Current

Led a growth initiative to increase headcount by 1,100 individuals over a 3 year period.

Personally recruited 220 individuals including all positions at Fellow, Sr. Fellow, Director and Vice President levels.

Manage a team of 16 individuals including Talent Acquisition, Talent Acquisition Operations, Sourcing and Scheduling.

Responsible for managing all talent acquisition for AMD’s CPU Engineering Organization.

Managed Business Unit Relationship up to AET Level Communication for Talent Acquisition.

Led Organization wide effort to design and implement the first formal Talent Acquisition training program at AMD.

Co-led initiative to design and implement the first formal Early Talent and New College Grad training program at AMD.

Talent Acquisition - Lead Recruiter

Northwestern Mutual

January 2019 to March 2020

Hands-on Lead responsible for supporting Talent Acquisition for the Engineering and IT organizations of Northwestern Mutual in our Milwaukee Headquarters and New York office.

Led an initiative to revamp Northwestern Mutual's talent acquisition strategy for hiring technology talent as part of our Digital Transformation.

Helped to implement a process based, strategic workforce planning centric hiring strategy.

Reduced Technology group time to hire from 90 days to 45 days.

Individually supported our Investments, Products and Services group, which was our most highly visible and influential organization.

Closed 15 positions per quarter with a specific focus on Software Development, AI, NLP, and Computer Vision.

Talent Acquisition Lead

Apttus

February 2017 to January 2019

Responsible for supporting all Talent Acquisition for the Engineering, Cloud and IT groups for the United States within a fast-moving private Software (SaaS) organization.

Took over responsibility for supporting Talent Acquisition for the Central and Eastern United States for all Professional Services within the organization.

Took over responsibility for managing Talent Acquisition for the UK, EMEA and APAC Regions for the organization including the management of GDPR rollout.

Individually supported standing up and staffing the Austin Technology Acceleration Hub.

Hired nearly 100 Engineers in Austin and Palo Alto with a focus on Cloud Architecture and Engineering (AWS), Software Engineering, NLP and AI.

Division Director

Beacon Hill Staffing Group

June 2014 – February 2017

Responsible for launching and leading the Beacon Hill Technologies Central Texas Offices

Established the Beacon Hill Technologies Brand in a non-existent market.

Grew the Austin market to $2.7M in Revenue and $990k in Gross Profit during the second full year in operation.

Generated $930k in Sales Gross Profit and $370k in Recruiting Gross Profit for FY 2016.

Signed 17 MSA’s within the Austin market to provide contract, contract to hire and permanent staffing.

Recruited all direct-hire roles.

Member of the Beacon Hill Technologies Corporate Training Initiative that was responsible for creating Beacon Hill’s first documented training program.

Member of the Beacon Hill erecruit committee that was responsible for managing suggestions, upgrades and changes to erecruit’s source code for delivery to market.

Delivery Market Manager & Client Relationship Director

Kforce Inc.

January 2013 – May 2014

Provided Technology, Business Consulting & Staff Augmentation services to clients to help achieve their business and technology goals.

Managed a team of as many as 9 recruiters.

Responsible for the training of all newly hired recruiters for the Austin, San Antonio and Austin Markets.

Created $1.25M in Gross Profit as an individual producer in 2013.

Technical Recruiter

Kforce

January 2009 – December 2012

Top 10% Gross Profit Producer within Tenure Range for 4 years.

Produced $4M in Gross Profit in the first 4 years.

Executive Recruiter at Page & Associates

October 2008 – December 2009

Sourced and made initial introductions to C and SVP Level Candidates for a boutique Executive Technology Search Firm.

Responsible for sourcing a future Dell CIO and 2 future CEO-in-Residence at Austin Ventures.

Education:

Rocky Mountain College

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

Double Major: Biology – Kinesiology & Chemistry

2x 1st Team Frontier Conference Selection in Basketball

2x 1st Team Frontier Conference Selection in Football

2x 2nd Team All American in Football

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