LINDA ANDERSON, USA Citizen

Contract, Sr. Technical Recruiter (Remote)

Southern California

951-***-****

adk1j9@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/employpeople

SUMMARY

FULL-CYCLE, FULL-STACK, TECHNICAL RECRUITER – 18 years’ experience in Human Resources.

Middleware, Embedded / Firmware, IoT, a little Semiconductor, (Product Development, R&D, Software / Hardware Development, and I.T. Operation positions) Full-cycle: Front/Back-end, Mobile, Data Stores, Web Servers, I.T. Operating Systems, Big Data environments with high-volume-interactive capabilities in both technology and management. Automotive, Telecommunications, Mobile Device industries.

APPLICANT TRACKING SYSTEMS (ATS):

MS Office Suite 2016 - Spreadsheets, Taleo, Oracle, ADP, CareerBuilder, Recruit-Max / Vurv. Bullhorn, BrassRing, LinkedIn. There are others, but – for the most part, these ATS represent the highest percentage of use.

JOB BOARDS:

LinkedIn (LION Certified) CareerBuilder, Monster, DICE, Stack Overflow, and specialty sites.

CERTIFICATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS:

AIRS (ACIR, CDR) 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2015.

75 User Groups,

LinkedIn Seminars (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016)

OCEMA (Member since 2000) SPHR (1998, not up to date)

PERSONAL:

Dedicated Human Resources professional specializing in Employment / Recruiting practices with extensive HR-experience. My professional experience is the technology industry within “Product Development, R&D, IT-Operations and Product Marketing”. Experience gained in diverse situations ranging from start-up ventures, extraordinarily successful turnarounds, to high-growth organizations.

WORK STATUS: Currently searching for a Remote, Contract opportunities. Work status 1099 or C2C. For C2C as an independent contractor, I have all the legal documentation to work through iEmploypeople LLC. This is a legal company of one-person. Will consider contract opportunities only. USA Citizen. Please no relocation. I reside in Southern California, Inland Empire, between Orange County and San Diego.

REMOTE OFFICE: Full-home-office with all the latest and greatest equipment to include Webcam capabilities / speakers, Microsoft Office 2016, Dell Tower and dual monitor interactive screen setup with the highest speed internet

RATE: Discussed during a telephone meeting. 1099 or C2C.

EDUCATION:

University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario – Canada.

Bachelors: Business Administration, Concentration in Human Resources

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Summary - Contract Assignments: Southern California – 15-years

2007 to Present - Sr. Technical & Executive Recruiter with HR-Generalist experience.

Client contract assignments are listed with an asterisk next to the below listed company name.

CONTRACT ASSIGNMENTS: W-2, 1099 and Corp-2-Corp.

During the past 14-years my experience spans a verity of assignments 80% Software Development (in Product Development, R&D, Core Development, IT-Operations and Product Marketing). Some hardware related industries with an emphasis in Automotive OEM, and Tier 1 &2 Software Developer, Mobile and Telecommunication environments. All assignments are full-cycle, full-stack within fast-paced, high-volume technical recruiting. All efforts have been recruiting the highest-level candidates within the technology industry for contract and direct-hire positions.

*Google Developers Studio – ASG LLC, Mt. View, CA. (Remote, Contract – FT- (40+hours a weeks))

3-months: December 2020 to Present

Sr. Technical Recruiter, Contract

Product: ASG LLC: Engineering solutions and facilities for Digital Media, Entertainment, and Broadcast that bring your creative concepts to life.

Location: Remote – Mt. View, CA. – Recruiting within the USA

Positions: Titles: Front-end, Back-end, Full-stack Software Engineers. Data Engineers. UI/UX. Training Specialist. Technical Writers. Program Managers. Web and Mobile responsive design.

Technical Environment:

Full-Stack, Front-end / Back-end SW Engineers: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, NodeJS, TypeScript, XML/YAML. Java, Go, Python, Git, JSON, SQL, Unix/Linux. Android platform. Data Engineers: Java, C++, Go, Python, API / Data crawler, Data-modeling, data architecture, data platform development and optimization. Full SDLC. Technical Writer & Training Specialist: Hands-on Android and Java / Kotlin.

*Polaris Industries – Sunnyvale, CA. (Remote)

1-year, 10-months) 3/2019 to November 2020

Sr. Technical & Executive Recruiter.

Products: Polaris Industries is global powersports leader in off-road / on-road vehicles, motorcycles, and snowmobiles. High volume recruiting.

Locations: Remote work. Recruiting USA. Four locations, Northern California, Minn., MN, Seattle, WA, Detroit, MI

Positions Titles: Infotainment, Connected Vehicle, Digital Product Design, Autonomous driving, Bluetooth / Audio, Vehicle Tracking, Cybersecurity, QA, GPS and Executive search: Individual contributors and Technical Leads / Managers and Directors - Sr. Embedded SW Engineer's, UI Software Engineers (Leads & Managers) - Digital Product Designers - Sr. Director Software Engineering, Cybersecurity Connectivity Engineer, Security QA Engineer’s, - etc., etc.

Technical Environments:

Embedded Linux, ARM, Communication protocols. Vehicle cellular connectivity. Wired & Wireless communication. Cybersecurity. QA/Test, Digital encryption, and signature technologies. CAN Stack Software, Automotive Diagnostics. Expert level Embedded Bluetooth / Audio. C/C++ (Embedded & Middleware) ARM, CAN, Qt/QML, Linux, UI/UX, HIL. IoT, Cloud, SaaS, Full-stack, backend & frontend. Big Data, Web Servers, Data Stores...etc.

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*Eximius Design – San Jose, CA (Remote)

6-months: 8/2018 to 3/2019 – Contract, Sr. Technical & Executive Recruiter – C2C

Location: Remote. USA

Environment: CPU Semiconductor industry & Automotive Industry.

Eximius is a Project Staffing company dedicated to the CPU Semiconductor Industry, and Automotive industry. Mobile and Big Data related projects.

Technical Environment: Full-cycle, full-stack. Recruiting / Sourcing for SENIOR LEVEL Engineers. Sr. Software Engineer (Automotive), QNX OS, SW Engineer C++ or Python for Autonomous Driving, RTL Design Engineers, ASIC RTL Design Engineers, DFT Engineers, Design Verification Engineers, Physical Design Engineers. For projects at: Google, Facebook, Marvel / Cavium, Micron, and Intel.

*Dover, Environmental Solutions Group – (Remote)

Worked C2C (Software for the Automotive / Truck Industry)

11-months: 8/2017 to 7/2018 – Contract, Sr. Technical & Executive Recruiter

Product: Dover Inc. has several divisions in the USA. Two new division dedicated to software development in real-time fleet video monitoring to include GPS-Navigation / LBS. Location tracking in real-time. Big-data cloud analytics. All used for security, safety, and recording of same.

Locations: Worked remote. Two divisions: Software Developers

o3rd Eye, Austin, Texas

oClairvoyant Software, Phoenix, Arizona -

Environment: Full-Stack, Full-Cycle Technical Recruiting

oProducts: Real-time Fleet Safety Video Monitoring. CAM (Drivers’ Behavior), Mobile Vision, (RT Recording) Security & Surveillance, (VMS) Radar (Automotive Doppler Microwave Technology – Object Detection, Collision Avoidance) – Security Software, Big-Data, Cloud, Analytics

Technical Environment: It varies, but mostly, IoT, SaaS / Cloud, Big Data, Telematics, Automotive/Truck (Infotainment, Connected Vehicle, Diagnostics) Telecommunications, (Wireless, Mobile, GPS, Location Finder, etc.) Security…. Etc. OO Software.

Software: Middleware and Embedded. Full-stack, full-cycle to include: Front/Back-end, Data Stores, Web Servers, Big Data (both technology and management) Operating Systems (SW Engineers, Architects, IT, Systems Engineers, etc.) Mobile (Objective-C, Java / Android, .Net / C#, Silverlight and much more.

Accomplishments: Hired: Director of Operations, VP of Engineering, QA Director, and Several (10) Sr. Embedded / Middleware / A LOT (18) Full-Stack: Software Engineer’s, (6) Product, Project, Program Managers, (3) Technical Support, Network Support and (3) UI/UX Design Engineer. ETC.

*Karma Automotive, Costa Mesa, CA. (On-site & Remote) –1099 & C2C.

2-years: 4/2015 to 5/2017 – Contract, Sr. Technical Recruiter (with HR-Generalist duties as well)

Product: This company was purchased from Fisker Automotive with a name change to Karma Automotive.

OEM, Automotive Manufacture of luxury hybrid vehicles.

Technical Recruiter for systems architecture, development and integration of Infotainment and vehicle intelligence in electric vehicles. Technology innovations in connected car, streaming media, navigation, audio/voice/telephony, displays, human-machine interface, platform strategies, advanced driver assistance systems and automated driving interfaces.

Environment: Start-up. Infotainment, Navigation, Vehicle Diagnostics, Connected Car, Entertainment, Communications, Mobility, Systems Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. Start-up department with no formal processes in place at start-date. Karma employed 91 team members. Three recruiters took company from 45 to 853 employees in two years

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Accomplishments / Open Requisitions: Lowest 23 at the highest 75 open positions in this high-volume business unit for Product Development, reporting to the VP of Electrical Engineering.

Placement Percentages: Total placements: 192. 20% Employee Referrals. 20% Applicants on iCIMS. 50% LinkedIn Networking (Private Account) 10% Job board search.

oPlaced 162 team members within: Infotainment, Connected Car, Diagnostics, Electrical Systems, Systems Architecture, Vehicle Data Systems, QA. All very senior level SW/HW Engineers with a master’s degree as a preference. Enterprise Application Development environment. SaaS, Cloud, and high-volume data solutions environment. Agile/Scrum.

oPlaced 5 team members in Program / Project / Product Management.

oPlaced 10 team members in IT-Operations.

oPlaced 8 team members in Change Management

oPlaced 4 Vice President level executives.

oPlaced 3 SAP Engineers on SAP Implementation team.

ATS / Recruiting Tools: iCIMS (iCIMS Formal training) Company subscribed to job boards: DICE, CareerBuilder, and LinkedIn.

*Spireon, Inc., Irvine, CA (Remote) – Worked 1099 (Software for the Automotive / Truck Industry)

6-months: 9/2014 to 3/2015 – Contract, Sr. Technical Recruiter.

Product: This company is a software developer and a hardware provider of fleet tracking devices for large companies to include (GPS) navigation and turn-by-turn location tracking. FedEx, UPS, Retail Grocery Stores, Oil Companies for instance.

Environment: Start-up HR Department. Technical Recruiting. Full-cycle desk. Middleware and Embedded SW Engineers for Product Development and Product / Program / Project Managers.

Accomplishments / Open Requisitions averaged: 12/15. Successfully placed 32 team members in 5-1/2 months to include new and replacement positions.

Technical Environment: Sr. Systems and SW Engineers, Product/Project/Program Managers. Microsoft Full-Stack.

ATS / Recruiting Tools: Bullhorn, MS-Office, DICE

*Teltrac, Anaheim, CA. – Worked 1099 (Software & Hardware for the Automotive / Truck Industry)

3-months: 4/2014 to 7/2014 – Contract, Sr. Recruiter and HR-Generalist

Product: This company was dedicated to developing vehicle tracking software for the financial automotive / truck lending industry. Individuals with poor or no credit history the lender would install a device under the vehicle to track the location. This position was to assist with staffing while the regular recruiter was on leave.

Environment: Technical Recruiting. Full-cycle recruiting with HR-Generalist. Sourcing through offer letter generation. Remote, worked from home, 1 day a week onsite. Software provided to commercial credit and financial industry to track vehicles.

Accomplishments / Open Requisitions: Hired to assist HR-Manager with technical recruiting. 18 new positions. Sr. Software Engineers. Due to growth and added business. Projected 6-month assignment. Accomplished staffing goals in three months by adding staff for 18 new positions and 4 replacement positions. Designed and implemented a formal recruiting / staffing process for HR-Manager.

Technical Environment: Microsoft Stack. Middleware, C/C++, SaaS, Cloud

ATS/Recruiting Tools: MS-Office. LinkedIn (Private account)

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*M86 Security, Anaheim, CA (Remote) – Worked C2C

6-months: 9/2013 to 3/2014 – Contract, Sr. Technical Recruiter

Product: This company was an international cyber security software provider.

Environment: Start-up, no formal recruiting process in place. Technical Recruiting. Remote 4 days a week, onsite 1 days a week for meetings. Hired to assist HR-Manager with technical staffing. Full-cycle deck to include technical recruiting and HR-Generalist responsibilities. R&D, Product Development, and IT-Operations.

Accomplishments / Open Requisitions: Hired: Hired 60 team member to include new and replacement team members. Accomplished staffing goals. 10% Employee Referrals, 30% Applicants, 50% LinkedIn Networking, 10% Job Board Search on DICE.

ATS/ Recruiting Tools: MS-Office, Excel for reports and tracking candidates. Job Board was DICE. LinkedIn (Private Account) Desktop: MS-Office

Technical Environment: Unix, Microsoft stack. SaaS, Cloud

*Experian, Costa Mesa, CA. Worked W-2 through internal agency.

5-months: 3/2013 to 8/2013 – Contract, Sr. Technical Recruiter

Product: Experian is an international credit history provider. I was hired to work with the VP of Software Development for the staffing of several new projects dedicated to security, big-data, cloud, and IT-Operations. After 5-months the projects (to include all staffing for other areas) was placed on-hold by International Corp Headquarters. All contract recruiters in the USA were dismissed due to staffing hold and pending USA employee layoff.

Environment: Fast-paced, projected high volume Technical Recruiting. Internal application development for security software and Big-Data projects. IT-Operations for desktop support and NOC, and Finance for Analyst. Projected 1-year plus assignment.

Accomplishments / Open Requisitions: When I started, we had 40-new positions for immediate hires this was projected to grow once management released / approved staffing forecast for the USA to 100 open positions.

After 4-months a “hold” was placed on USA staffing, I managed to stay another month because of in-process placements. Accomplished the placement of 25 positions. 15 in Application Development for Security project and 10 in IT-Operations.

ATS / Recruiting Tools: Taleo. Job Boards: CareerBuilder, Monster, DICE, LinkedIn.

Technical Environment: Unix, Microsoft Stack. SaaS, Cloud. High Transaction Big Data Technology.

*Networks in Motion, Aliso Viejo, CA. (On-site & Remote) Work status: 1099 for 1-year and C2C for 5 years. (Software for the Automotive and Telcom Industry)

6-years: 2/2007 thru 1/2013 – Contract, Sr. Technical / Executive Recruiter and HR-Generalist. Acquired by: Telecommunication Systems, Inc. Torrance, CA. (TCS – 2012)

Product: NIM was a Software Developer dedicated to the development of GPS/LBS for the commercial industry such as AT&T and Verizon cell phones and BMW, Tesla, Mercedes for automotive turn-by-turn (GPS) telematics. For the Government NIM worked with the Navy for GPS/LBS thru TeleCommunication Systems Division.

Environment: Full-cycle, fast-paced, high volume, fast growth. Start-up. Hired by Director of HR for Technical Staffing in R&D, Product Development, QA, IT-Operations and Executives. Started this assignment at NIM with 45 employees’ and took company to 420 employees. Work onsite until space was limited, worked remote for last 3 years. Drove to NIM as needed for meetings. For the last two years of this assignment NIM increase their business to include Telematics, and Infotainment as a Tier 1 GPS / LBS Navigation and Location provider to the Automotive OEM industry.

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Accomplishments / Open Requisitions: This is originally projected as a 6-month assignment not including replacement positions. Had 25 new open positions on arrival, within one-week due to an awarded project with Verizon the open positions increased to 100 over-night. Assignment extended to 1-year and kept getting extended thereafter. Accomplished staffing goals. Assisted Director with implementation of a formal staffing process. Implemented formal hiring manager and team meetings regarding recruiting update. Hired 370 new positions and about 80 replacement positions with QA, Product Development, Core R&D and IT-Operations. All senior level engineers. SaaS, Big-data high volume data transaction environment.

Placement result percentages: 30% Employee Referrals, 60% LinkedIn, Social Media, and User Group networking. 10% Job boards search and advertising.

oProduct Development: Placed 225 team members onshore USA and offshore. China, and Russia. Placed 50 team members in Telematics / Infotainment.

oQA: Placed 80 team members

oCore R&D: Placed 70 team member.

oIT-Operations: Placed 30 team members to include: Desktop support, NOC, and Client Support.

oExecutives: Placed 6 (Director and Vice President)

ATS / Recruiting Tools: MS-Office and Taleo. Company subscribed job boards: Monster and DICE. LinkedIn (Private Account)

Technical Environment: Middleware and Firmware. GPS/LBS Commercial Division: SaaS, Cloud. Front / Back-end. Client/Server, Data Stores, Web Servers, IT-Operations, Big-Data, and Mobile. Windows, Unix/Linus. Agile/Scrum, C/C++, C#, Objective C, Java, .NET, JavaScript, Python, Perl, CSS3, HTML5, JQuery, JSON, iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, QNX/RTOS,

TSC Division FPGA, Hard-Drives, Sr. Embedded SW Engineers, Design Engineers, Controllers, Architects, Product Managers.

ONLINE RESOURCES CONSULTING GROUP – Newport Beach, CA. – Agency - Regular-FT-Benefited

2-years: 3/2005 through 2/2007 – Recruiting Manager, and Sr. Technical Recruiter. Full-time Regular.

Environment: Contingency Staffing – Technology Industry. Fast-paced, high volume staffing. Clients: BNC Mortgage, Epicor Software, Canon R&D USA, Teltrac and Spireon. Supported the owner with high volume sales on the recruiting side of the business. Individual contributor for a full-cycle desk and management of 4 to 5 recruiters.

Accomplishments / Open Requisitions: Average of 15 open requisitions at all-times. Close percentage of 75%. Responsible for the placement of 80 Contractors and management of 4 recruiter. Implemented daily staffing meeting. Implemented weekly staffing meetings with sales and recruiting and review of open requisitions and challenges. Managed benching process and assigned positions to recruiting team. Performance reports, hiring, firing, and client meetings with owner.

SOLSTICE CAPITAL – Irvine, CA. - Mortgage industry – Regular-FT-Benefited

1-year: 3/2004 thru 3/2005 – Director, HR and Recruiting. Full-time Regular.

Environment: Full-cycle Human Resources and Recruiting. Three divisions: California, Nevada, and Arizona. Start-up department. High-growth, fast-paced. As the HR-Director my responsibilities included: Staffing, Benefits, Payroll, Facilities, ER, Compensation, Performance reviews, etc.

Accomplishments: Took company from 102 to 470 employees. Researched and Implemented a formal staffing process. Hired and trained 6 direct reports in Benefits, Payroll, and facilities. Hired an HR-Generalist. Researched and implemented ADP for payroll, and a benefits broker. Solely responsible for recruiting. Researched and implemented ADP for ATS.

Open Requisitions: Team Leads, Loan Offices, Processors, Underwriting, Accounting, Administrative, etc. Accomplished all staffing requirements.

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