Lead Global Diversity Technical Recruiter

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Cid Mba *****.**@*****.***•

Baltimore, MD • 443-***-****

Lead Global Diversity Technical Recruiter

Results- and data-driven professional with 8+ years of experience leading recruitment across technical and non-technical roles to identify uniquely accomplished individuals to guide forward at a global level. Certified Diversity Recruiter; demonstrated success in increasing diversity hiring competence among hiring managers. Skilled at working directly with Hiring Managers to conduct intake meetings, craft sourcing strategies and provide guidance on opening up requisitions as well as giving the Hiring Managers feedback on the talent market and D&I strategies of related companies. I work also with HR Business Partners, Immigration Specialists, and Relocation Experts to achieve common goals. Proven success building strong pipeline of candidates through talent market research and reviewing inbound applicants. Leverage multiple sourcing tools, such as LinkedIn Recruiter (Boolean search), Monster, Calendly, and Hiretual/HireEZ as well as provide services with various Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS’s), including Workday, Lever, and Taleo. Building and maintaining C-suite relationships with management to attain key corporate objectives. Expert at integrating diversity sourcing strategies into candidate development strategies. Areas of Expertise

• Technical Recruiting Operations

• Screen Profiles/Resumes

• Strategic Planning & Execution

• Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

• Diverse Pipeline Development

• Team Player & Leadership

• ATS: Workday, Lever, Workable, Taleo

• Working with Hiring Managers

• Presentation & Multi-tasking

• Sourcing Strategies Development

• Recruitment, Selection & Networking

• Talent Acquisition & Management

Projects & Accomplishments

● Led North America’s D&I strategy by researching competitors’ D&I Reports and centralizing the gathering of market intel from Recruiters’ conversations with candidates, making our company the first to know of other companies’ compensation structure and philosophy changes, potential layoffs, sentiments so as to respond well ahead of the rest of the market

● Leveraged data to drive business performance and deliver data-driven story-telling to team and upper management by pulling internal systems reports and conducting external research to create and deliver data-driven presentations

● Led the creation and delivery of interviewer training in order to standard the interview process and increase candidate experience

● Participated talent market research that resulted in strategic change to move roles from Denver to Toronto

● Partnered with Hiring Managers (from Directors to SVP’s) to open requisitions, get the requisitions approved, conduct intake meetings, post jobs and craft sourcing strategies.

● Recruited Software Engineers to design and maintain Nasdaq’s stable C++ and Java low latency core trading systems and matching engines, as well as sensitive down to last competitive millisecond of transaction processing time.

● Championed collaborative efforts in suggesting to legal team and upper management to open a new office in Romania.

● Recruited & interviewed candidates across Java, Angular, React, C#, .NET, Terraform, CloudFormation, VMWare, Azure, GCP, AWS, Databricks, C++, Python, Go/Golang, Salesforce Developers, Solutions Architects, MDM, Master Data Management, Mobile Developers, Swift, iOS Developers, Android Developers, UI/UX, UX Researchers, JavaScript, Systems Operations Engineers, Security Clearances, Ruby, ROR, Ruby on Rails, ML Ops, Data Scientists, AI/ML, and Data Engineers. Career Experience

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, Nasdaq, Baltimore, MD Apr 2021 – Present Lead full life cycle recruiting, such as leading intake meetings with Hiring Managers, sourcing, screening, and scheduling candidates as well as negotiating salaries, closing, and onboarding new hires across US and Canada and collaborating with TA Partners globally including APAC and EMEA. Develop and implement sourcing strategies in fast-paced environment with high volume of requisitions by collaborating with Hiring Managers. Manage diverse slate of candidate pipeline for executive and non-executing recruiting. Key accomplishments;

● Mentored junior TA team members, Coordinators and Sourcers as well as Senior TA members on tech recruiting

● Provide dedicated support to dozens of cross-functional Hiring Managers in filling their requisitions and being a Talent Partner to them, including helping them with the technical steps of opening requisitions, getting Finance approvals, etc

● Recognized big data and cloud computing, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP technical and process talents to form systems for managing millions of capital markets financial transactions daily, leveraging data streaming, parallel processing, and data lake storage with reliable Data Stewardship, Governance, Security, and Business Intelligence.

● Recruited Market Surveillance Specialists to apply algorithmic analytics unto extracted financial trading data to uncover unusual trading patterns and evaluate against financial regulatory standards.

● Enhanced diversity hiring numbers and slate across North America by 20%+, including women in engineering, Vets, Latinx, and African Americans.

● Pulled weekly pipeline reports to present to the various Hiring Managers.

● Supported with launching campaign to re-engage 16K past candidates and evaluated vendors and recruiting techs

● Built teams via recruiting within a FinTech space and around Blockchain enterprise offering Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist, IBM (via the acquisition of Taos), Baltimore, MD Nov 2020 – Mar 2021 Appointed cloud experts to transfer distributed on-prem data centers to cloud with thousands of nodes. Recruited Practice Leaders specialized in intersection of data analytics and reporting with cloud. Identified experienced talent across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Key accomplishments;

● Worked directly with Hiring Managers both within the company and at the clients

● Delivered exceptional teamwork services for finding hands-on automation experts to develop CI/CD pipelines, implement Terraform on cloud and VMWare environments, execute Ansible from scratch, and wrote Ansible playbooks.

● Headed effort to position company as leading expert in cloud infrastructure and platform with hundreds of experts in space like no other company in entire world; leading to acquisition by IBM.

● Played integral role at company to assist with SpaceX (Elon Musk’s company) find talents for setting up Infrastructure for latest rocket launch.

● Appointed DevOps and infra tech talents to facilitate with building SpaceX's rocket launch infrastructure; initiated idea of venturing more and more into data in addition to infrastructure. Lead Technical Recruiter, Accenture (via the acquisition of Knowledgent), Baltimore, MD Sep 2018 – Jun 2020 Associated Accenture’s Growth Model with talent acquisition requirements of the Data Business Group (DBG). Employed technical consultants and executives who generated and improved millions of dollars’ worth of new business and P&L. Onboarded thought leaders for steering setting of trends in entire data and analytics industry. Key accomplishments;

● Supported Hiring Managers (up to Level 2 Managing Directors) including delivery weekly pipeline reporting presentations to the department meetings

● Led positioning Accenture’s Data Business Group (DBG) talents as Modern Data Engineering (MDE) leaders in entire world.

● Directed end-to-end functions of recruitment of top technical and data talents to Data Business Group.

● Teamed up with data architecture Managers and Associate Directors to lead cloud migration and data systems modernization initiatives for Accenture’s clients.

● Supported with establishing whole new business unit (Data Business Group) by hiring various talented employees. Senior Recruiter, Success Hired, San Francisco, CA (Contractor) Jun 2013 – Sep 2018 Oversaw full life cycle technical recruiter working overall technical and IT requisitions by partnering with distributed team and conducted technical interviews to activate passive candidates. Thrived in the fast-changing requirements of Hiring Managers. Key accomplishments;

● Worked hand-in-hand with Hiring Managers across various clients including at Silicon Valley to receive job descriptions and requirements, edit them to optimize for the market and conducting intake meetings

● Hired technical talents; Software Engineers, Frontend, Backend, Full stack, DevOps, QA, Directors, VPs, and Executives.

● Recognized hidden technical talent through implementation of creative alternative search techniques online and in-person. Education

Master’s Degree in Management Expected in 2024

Harvard University, Cambridge, MD

Bachelors in Biochemistry

University of Pennsylvania (Upenn, Ivy League), Philadelphia, PA Languages

French & Swahili (Fluent) Spanish (Proficient) Igbo & English (Native) Some Diversity Keywords I Use In Sourcing:

• Sorority and fraternity searches

o Female - Greek system

• (“Alpha Delta Pi” OR “Alpha Gamma” OR “Delta Alpha Omicron Pi” OR “Alpha Phi” OR “Chi Omega” OR

“Delta Delta Delta” OR “Delta Gamma” OR “Gamma Phi Beta” OR “Kappa Alpha Theta” OR “Kappa Delta Chi” OR “Kappa Kappa Gamma” OR “Pi Beta Phi” OR “Sigma Kappa”) o African American - Greek system

• (“Alpha Kappa Alpha” OR “Alpha Omega Nu” OR “Alpha Phi Alpha” OR “Alpha Gamma Phi Delta” OR

“Delta Sigma Theta” OR “Groove Phi Groove” OR “Iota Phi Theta” OR “Kappa Alpha Psi” OR “Omega Psi Phi” OR “Phi Beta Sigma” OR “Phi Delta Psi” OR “Sigma Gamma Rho” OR “Zeta Phi Beta”) o Hispanic - Greek system

• (“Alpha Pi Sigma” OR “Alpha Psi Lambda” OR “Gamma Alpha Omega” OR “Gamma Phi Omega” OR

“Gamma Zeta Alpha” OR “Kappa Delta Chi” OR “Lambda Alpha Upsilon” OR “Lambda Pi Chi” OR

“Lambda Pi Upsilon” OR “Lambda Sigma Upsilon” OR “Lambda Theta Nu” OR “Lambda Upsilon Lambda” OR “Omega Phi Beta” OR “Phi Iota Alpha” OR “Sigma Iota Alpha” OR “Sigma Lambda Upsilon”)

• Organization searches

o African American - organizations

• (NSBE OR “black engineer” OR NSMBA OR “black MBAs” OR AAWIT OR “African American women in technology” OR NAACP OR “black chamber of commerce” OR “African American chamber”) o African - religious organizations

• (“African Methodist Episcopal Church” OR “American Baptist Churches USA” OR “American Baptist Home Mission Society” OR “United Church of Christ” OR “United Methodist Church”) o Hispanic - organizations

• (“National Society of Hispanic MBA” OR NSHMBA, “National Council of Hispanic Women”, “Society of Mexican American Engineers & Scientists” OR MAES, “National Council of La Raza” OR “NCLR”,

“Hispanic Women’s Corporation” OR “Hispanic woman”) o Female - organizations

• (WITI OR “women in” OR “grace hopper” OR “anita borg” OR “girl geeks” OR “ACMW” OR SWE OR

“society of women” OR WIGI OR “digitaleve” OR systerz OR “women gamers”)

• HBCU search

o (“Bowie State University” OR “Clark Atlanta University” OR “fisk University” OR “Grambling State University” OR

“Howard University” OR “Jackson State University” OR “Morehouse College” OR “South Carolina State University” OR “Southern University Baton Rouge” OR “Spelman College” OR “Stillman College” OR

“Tuskegee University” OR “Xavier University”)

• Diversity Groups within Tech Companies

o ("Women@Google" OR "Hispanic Googlers Network" OR "Black Googlers Network" OR "Women@Microsoft" OR "Blacks@Microsoft" OR "LadyEng" OR "UberMosaic" OR "Los Ubers" OR "UberHue" OR "Women of Uber" OR "UpLyft Women" OR "UpLyft Unidos" OR "Latinos@Amazon" OR "Warriors@Amazon" OR

"Women@Amazon" OR "Women in Finance Initiative")

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