Nikki B. Bell

510-***-****

adfynk@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: Senior level full lifecycle recruiter seeking challenging recruiting role in earlier stage startup environment to help build great team(s). Proven track record of developing successful recruiting strategies based on creative sourcing techniques, candidate pre-screening tactics, pre-closing and strong offer closing techniques. Strong collaboration and communication skills with all levels of the Organization. I prefer to headhunt,all of my candidates!

EXPERIENCE

Neato Robotics (Contract) January 2018 –

Talent Acquisition Consultant

Positions: Headhunting, Robotics Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, DevOps, Embedded Systems Engineers, Mechanical Engineers and Technical Program Managers. Toyota Research Institute (Contract) May 2017 - October 2017 Talent Acquisition Consultant

Hired by the COO of Toyota Research Institute (Autonomous Driving/Robotics) to quickly build pipelines of top talent in the autonomous vehicle space. Supported 3 locations: Los Altos (HQ) Cambridge, MA and Ann Arbor, MI. Personally headhunted: Simulations Engineers, SLAM/Cloud Engineers, Autonomous Driving SWE, Machine Learning Engineers, Planning/Control Engineers and Mechanical Engineers. OPEN X / Cyanogen (Contract) May 2016 - April 2017 Talent Acquisition Consultant

Senior Recruiter providing high touch and consultative recruiting experiences for technology companies seeking a fast “time to hire” results by building talent pipelines through direct sourcing. Insured high touch candidate experience while delivering full lifecycle tactics

(sourcing, cold-calling, headhunting, interviewing, hiring manager guidance, compensation negotiations, and onboarding).

Positions filled: Java Developers, Full Stack /Back End, Automation Test Engineers, Platform Engineers, Product Managers and Levels of Engineering Managers, Big Data Platform, Machine Learning and Android developers.

Workday (Contract) November 2015 - April 2016

Sr. Technical Recruiter /Business Advisor

Formerly (Identified) now known as the SYMAN: "Big Data" analytics team within Workday. Referred by former CTO of Identified to join the Syman team and support data normalization technologies, search relevance, insights, recommendation systems, and machine learning. Positions: Engineering Managers, Principle SWE, Platform Engineers/Architects, Full Stack Engineers, ML Engineers.

Active Hour (Contract) March 2015 - August 2015

Head of Talent/ Sr. Technical Recruiter

Lead recruiting efforts for this Palo Alto based payment provider startup. Positions: (Mobile) IOS and Android Developers (Native), UI/UX, Head of Data Science, VP of Engineering, Data Analyst and DevOps Engineer.

Yapstone

October 2013 - March 2015

Lead /Technical Talent Acquisition

Reporting directly to the VP, People to provide recruitment support for the VP of Product /CTO and the Director of Engineering for this Payment Service Provider. Positions: Java Developers (Full Stack) Sr. SWE in Test, UI Developers, Data Engineers, IT Support, Product Managers, Account Managers and Director of Security. Identified/Acquired by Workday

January 2011 - September 2013 Head of Technical Talent Identified makes it possible for jobs to search for people, rather than the other way around. Reporting to the Founders and CTO, chartered to ramp up this amazing "Big Data Analytics" start-up’s engineering team. Created and executed the engineering recruiting process: Sourcing, company positioning, identifying candidate decision drivers, qualifying competencies and cultural fit and most importantly job offer negotiations/closings. Positions: Data Scientist, VP Products, Data Engineers, Machine Learning Engineer, Front End/ Full-Stack Developers, Ruby on Rails, Java, Scala and Python Developers. Apple Computer

July 2010 - October 2011

Senior Technical Recruiter /iOS Wireless Division

Technical Recruiter responsible for domestic and international recruiting for IOS Wireless Technology team (IPOD/IPhone).

Positions: Baseband Engineers, Telephony, Audio Security, Big Data Hadoop, and Java Developers.

Marvell Semiconductor

May 2009 - July 2010

Senior Technical Recruiter

Supported the VP of Engineering for the Wireless Products Group. Embedded SWE, Window Drivers, WLAN, Bluetooth, Validation, Test and Quality Assurance roles. Symantec Corporation - September 2007 - January 2009 Sr. Technical Recruiter Recruitment for Embedded, Network and Security Engineers. VmWare

March 2007 - September 2007

Senior Technical Recruiter

Supported VP of Engineering of the ESX Server team. Headhunted: Unix/Linux Engineers and Windows Engineers.

Symantec Corporation

June 2006 - March 2007

Senior Technical Recruiter responsible for domestic recruiting for high req. teams - Enterprise Vault/Netbackup and Technical Support Organizations. EDUCATION:

Golden Gate University

BA in Human Relations – 1997

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