RAUL D. VELEZ

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925-***-****

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Sr. Technical Recruiter/Sourcer

OBJECTIVE: Seeking a full-time direct (or contract or contract-to-hire) Sr. Recruiter/Sourcer (Technical and/or non-Technical) opportunity ideally located in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. PROFILE

• Over 20+ years of experience in sourcing and full-life cycle recruiting technical and non-technical talent

• Proven track record of producing qualified candidates using various methods including: networking, cold calling, several ATS systems, social media, LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search strings, as well as out-of- the-box sourcing tools such as Entelo, Connectifier, Aevy, Latville, Vettery, and AmazingHiring

• Experienced sourcing and recruiting: HR, Operations, Manufacturing, Java Software Engineers, iOS Engineers, Android Engineers, Principal System Architects and Product Development Engineers, plus others.

• Collaborate with all levels of management to develop creative and effective sourcing plans

• Proven success interacting with all levels of hiring managers (i.e., providing candidate feedback during interview debriefs, training Hiring Managers in effective candidate interviewing, and strong candidate negotiation skills)

• Comfortable working within fast-paced, metrics-based environments PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tesla Motors Fremont, CA 10/19 – 04/20

Sr. Sourcing Specialist

Provide extensive sourcing support to Recruiters in Manufacturing for various positions involving Equipment Maintenance Technicians, Tool & Die, Construction Superintendent, all at various levels. Using sourcing tools such as Avature, CareerBuilder, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, LinkedIn Recruiter, SocialList, as well as Boolean search strings.

Qualia (start-up) San Francisco, CA 06/19 – 09/19

Sr. Corporate Contract Recruiter

Hired to work together with a Recruiting Manager and assist in the technical hiring of critical Full-Stack Web Development Engineers at various levels. Using Greenhouse as the ATS, as well as LinkedIn Recruiter, SocialList.io, Vettery, Entelo, Indeed, Connectifier, and Boolean search strings.

BitTorrent/TRON Network (start-up) San Francisco, CA 12/18-03/19 Sr. Corporate Contract Recruiter

Hired to add additional recruiting/sourcing support to an existing Technical Recruiter. Inherited 8-10 reqs in both tech and non-tech roles (mostly Sr Software Engineers, Android Engineers, Product Designers, etc.) Using JobVite (ATS), as well as LinkedIn Recruiter. I introduced Connectifier, SocialList, and PostJobFree to use in addition. Extensive collaboration utilized with several of my Hiring Managers and HR.

Raul Velez Resume

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Topcon Positioning Systems Livermore, CA 06/18-10/18 Sr. Corporate Contract Recruiter

• Provide full life-cycle technical and non-technical recruiting for 12 Hiring Managers with a requisition load of 20

• Use sourcing/recruiting resources such as iCIMS (ATS), ZoomInfo, Indeed, PostJobFree, Social List and LinkedIn Recruiter, and Boolean searches

• Filled 10 Engineering roles within first 90 days Lam Research Fremont & Livermore, CA 09/17-06/18

Sr. Contract Talent Sourcing Specialist

• Partnered with three Sr. Recruiters to create sourcing plan for critical manufacturing and engineering positions: Material Handler, Assembler, Test Engineer, Production Planner, Master Scheduler, and Manufacturing Engineer.

• Executed extensive sourcing strategies utilizing existing tools and resources including LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, along with out-of-the-box sourcing tools: Aevy, Entelo, Connectifier, Latville, and AmazingHiring

• Helped to fill an average of three (3) positions a month during the nine (9) months I was there. Microsoft San Francisco Bay Area 06/17– 08/17

Sr. Contract Talent Acquisition Sourcing Specialist

• Supported Microsoft Recruiters and our Western Sales Teams by presenting world-class, external technical sales talent in the areas of Cloud (Azure)

• Contract ended due to miscalculation of Microsoft new hire headcount Juniper Networks Sunnyvale, CA 03/16-02/17

Sr. Contract Diversity/Talent Acquisition Sourcing Specialist

• Partnered with a Lead Diversity/Talent Acquisition Recruiter,

• Sourced and recruited critical engineering positions: DevOps Engineer, QA Engineer, Sr. Java Engineer, Technical Support Engineer, Mechanical Design Engineer, and Sr. IT Cloud Engineer.

• Hired two-three Engineers per month.

Bracket Computing (start-up) Mountain View, CA 09/15-03/16 Sr. Contract Talent Sourcing Specialist

• Partnered with a Staffing Manager to create sourcing strategies for critical engineering positions such as Sr. IT Cloud Engineers, Security Engineers, and Technical Support Engineers. Verizon San Francisco, CA 03/15-08/15

Sr. Contract Talent Acquisition Specialist (Virtual)

• Sr. Sourcer part of team of three Sourcers supporting Verizon Recruiters in hard-to-fill positions for their San Jose, San Diego and Palo Alto, CA locations

• Positions filled include: DevOps, Big Data Principal and Application Engineers, and .NET Architects/Developers

Wello.com (start-up) San Francisco, CA 10/14-03/15 Sr. Contract Technical Recruiter

• Hired various levels of Software Engineers and other key positions for this health and wellness company eventually acquired by Weight Watchers.

• Worked alongside VP of Engineering, along with two Founders of Wello to identify key hiring goals

• Researched, joined and attended relevant Meet-up groups to promote open positions Raul Velez Resume

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TP-Link Research Institute San Jose, CA 06/14-08/14 Sr. Contract Technical Recruiter

• Hired to staff core engineering team for new subsidiary of large global company with headquarters in China

• Work closely with a Sr. HR Generalist and three Hiring Managers to hire mid to high-level engineers in the areas of Embedded Software and Android

JDSU Milpitas, CA 03/13-06/14

Sr. Contract Technical Recruiter

• Onsite Recruiter for worldwide telecommunications company supporting the largest business unit within JDSU

• Collaborated with VP of HR and Staffing Account Manager to devise successful hiring plan

• Supported multiple Hiring Managers with an average of 20 open requisitions at varying levels

• One of top three Recruiters in monthly client hires while part of a team of eight Recruiters. Recognized monthly as top Recruiter with the most hires on a team of eight averaging 4-5 hires a month.

• Received many accolades from my Hiring Managers and HR team. Dell Austin, TX 10/12-02/13

Sr. Contract Sourcer/Recruiter (Virtual)

• Consulted with four Dell Recruiters in the areas of Global Operations and Software Development

• Sourced and recruited: Java Software Engineers, iOS Engineers, Android Engineers, Principal System Architects and Product Development Engineers

Futurestep, Inc. (a Korn/Ferry Company) (Virtual) 04/11-07/12 Sr. Contract Technical Recruiter

• Provided full-cycle recruiting for new Futurestep client for the hospitality/resorts industry in Las Vegas

• Sourced and recruited: Chief Application Architects, Lead Application Architect, Lead Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Architects, Sr. Enterprise Architect, and Sr. Application Architect OTHER SKILLS:

Behavioral Based Employment Interviewing Resumix (ATS) Advanced Internet Recruiting Strategies (AIRS) I & II PeopleClick (ATS) JobVite (ATS) Entelo (sourcing)

Brassring (ATS) Aevy (sourcing)

Connectifier (sourcing) MaxHire (ATS)

Jobvention (sourcing) Latville (sourcing)

HireDesk (ATS) PeopleSoft (ATS)

Searcher Express (ATS) InfoGist

AmazingHiring (sourcing) SAP

iCIMS (ATS) Greenhouse (ATS)

Vettery Slack

Avature (ATS)

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