Talent Acquisition Senior Technical

Kevin Luzan

Bothell, Washington ***** 708-***-**** **********@*****.*** LinkedIn

Senior Recruiter

Highly accomplished Senior Technical Recruiter and Manager with extensive experience in Full-Cycle Recruitment & Talent Acquisition, Sourcing, Screening, Interviewing, negotiating offers, onboarding, Mentoring, developing talent acquisition strategies and business objectives, high-volume hiring, executive recruitment, niche technical roles, optimizing recruitment workflows, enhancing candidate experience and fostering long-term relationships. Proven ability to optimize technical recruiting processes, enhance candidate quality, and reduce time-to-hire by leveraging data-driven recruitment strategies, AI-powered sourcing platforms, and advanced predictive analytics. Exceptional at fostering strong relationships with C-suite executives and hiring managers, aligning recruitment strategies with long-term business objectives

Core Competencies

Executive Search for Leadership Roles

Diversity & Inclusion Hiring Strategies & Candidate Engagement

Employer Branding & Candidate Experience Optimization

Behavioral Interviewing & Competency-Based Assessments

Cross-functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Communication

Market Intelligence & Talent Mapping, Predictive Analytics & developing Recruitment Efficiency’s, pipeline forecasting, Optimizing time-to-hire

Team Leadership & Mentoring

Tools

ATS Systems: Sendouts, FBR, Bullhorn, Taleo, Hire, Beamery, iCIMS, Greenhouse

Sourcing Platforms: LinkedIn Recruiter, Entelo, HireEZ, GitHub, SeekOut, Indeed, Social networking sites

Recruitment Analytics: Predictive Hiring Models, Pipeline Forecasting, Talent Neuron, LinkedIn Insights

Professional Experience

Meta/Facebook, Seattle Washington April 2022 - Present

Principal SWE Recruiter

Assigned on a temporary basis to assist in full lifecycle recruiting for Senior Software Engineers, IOS, Android and Machine Learning engineers between E4 to E6 level.

Sourced 90 software engineering candidates per week

Skill set ranged from Java, C++, Rust, Typescript, JavaScript and Python

Prepped engineering candidates daily to prepare them for the virtual loop.

Averaged 4 software engineering offer acceptances per month.

Exceeding performance ratings yearly based on high performance standards.

Had a 51% pass through rate from loop stage to offer stage

Collaborated with C-suite executives to align recruitment strategies with organizational growth objectives, focusing on long-term talent needs in emerging tech fields like AI/ML and cloud computing.

Averaged one Diversity/URM hire per quarter

Principal Leadership Recruiter

Meta Tech Recruiting (MTR) hires diverse talent globally to deliver innovative experiences and breakthrough technologies in Enterprise Engineering. Meta tasked me with leading a team of sourcers and high volume recruiting

Supported Executive leadership requirements ranging from M1 to D2 levels (Senior Managers, Vice Presidents and Directors) within NORAM

Led and collaborated weekly meetings with senior executives to update on all recruiting practices

Utilized AI-powered candidate screening tools (MetaBot), resulting in a 60% increase in quality of hire by improving candidate matching and assessment techniques.

Reduced closing cycle from 13 months to 3 months by strategically aligning with Senior Leadership in reducing roadblocks and improving hiring practices on specific technical roles

Averaged over 50% of placements based on diversity and underrepresented minorities

Documented and created a “Playbook” of strategic processes to better align to recruitment while following EEO compliance guidelines

Managed a team of eight Senior Technical Sourcers

Supervised and mentored a group of 8 sourcers and 2 coordinators while in Enterprise Engineering Leadership

Held meetings with hiring managers and Sourcers on discussing market data and talent pipelines

Led calibration sessions with the sourcers to maximize quality of resumes

Held a workshop on crafting outreaches to increase response rates

Led 1:1 weekly meetings to discuss monthly performance metrics

Amazon.com, Seattle Washington December 2015 – April 2022

Senior Client Lead Recruiter

Responsible for supporting WWCP, PARS, AMZL and WFS. During this time leadership was tasking me to split my time between being a client lead and also managing a team of full-lifecycle recruiters.

Supported over 150 non-technical requirements ranging from Program/Product Managers, System and Business Analysts

Strategically partnered with senior leadership with high volume closing of candidates

Closed on average 5-10 candidates per month

Utilized AI-powered candidate sourcing tool in iCMS, resulting in a 73% increase in qualified applicants

Time to fill averaged 38 days while filling over 120 roles in a 8 month period

Wrote MBR’s (Monthly Business Reviews) for NORAM/WFS on all recruiting metrics and presented to senior leadership monthly

Managed a team of recruiters (onsite and remote while active manager was on maternity leave)

Responsible for career development

Held weekly 1:1 meetings and monitored performance metrics with all members of the team

Held weekly informative team meetings with the recruiters offering business updates and celebrating wins across the team

Conducted training on sourcing techniques within the ATS (Beamery/ICMS)

Held monthly team building sessions to create a strong team dynamic and culture

Senior Technical Client Lead Recruiter

Supported the HS3C organization at Amazon solely responsible for recruiting Informational Technology talent within the Sustainability area of the business.

Supported over 50 technical requirements ranging from Business Intelligence Engineers, Machine Learning and Data Scientists

Held weekly meetings with senior leadership to identify talent and discussed challenges

Managed and mentored over 15 junior recruiters and sourcers

Reduced average time to fill (TTF) by 51 days using consistent communication across professional channels including LinkedIn and all social networking platforms

Averaged 2 Diversity/URM placements per quarter

Prepared compensation packages for prospective hires, and explained all benefits information to them.

Recognized as the top IT Recruiter in all of Amazon with 268 placements in 2019

Coordinated and conducted several offsite hiring events in Texas, Kentucky, Seattle and California that led to high volume hiring

Senior Technical Full Lifecycle Recruiter

Responsible for supporting the Worldwide Operations team responsible for full lifecycle recruiting in North America.

Supported over 100 technical requirements ranging from Software engineers, Technical Program managers and Software Development Managers

Held weekly meetings with Leadership to discuss talent pipelines and discussed sourcing and closing strategies.

Reduced Time to Fill (TTF) from 92 days to 44 days

Recognized as the top IT Recruiter in all of Amazon with 151 placements in 2018

Coordinated and conducted several offsite hiring events in Toronto, Oregon, Seattle and Illinois that led to high volume hiring

Senior Technical Sourcer

Responsible for supporting Elastic Block Storage and all their recruiting needs and recently been assigned a new team, Elastic Container Service within AWS. The ECS skill set is based on backend JAVA working on Dockers/Containers.

Sourced levels 4 through 7 for Software Engineers for AWS ECS/EC2

Exceeded hiring goals of over 5 candidates per month

Past metrics for phone screens to onsites 3 to 1 and 3.3 to 1 for onsite to accept

Led an AWS Diversity team on maintaining a 20% diversity onsite participation per month

Wrote a white paper outlining AWS sourcing strategy and presented it to senior leadership

Utilized LinkedIn Recruiter account to network and source senior engineers and software development managers

Created advanced Boolean sourcing strategies to identify diversity talent

Used LinkedIn Insights and Talent Neuron for talent mapping data and sharing it with hiring managers on a monthly basis

Created and maintained LinkedIn project folders and shared them with senior leadership on potential candidates for their open positions

Created sourcing reach-out email templates used on Outlook and LinkedIn Recruiter

Participated in weekly intake meetings with hiring managers to update pipeline reports

Created customized search filters in ICMS (ATS) for sourcing purposes

Responsible for training and mentoring entry level AWS sourcers

Performed prep calls for phone screens and onsites averaging 45 minutes per call.

Led bi-weekly sourcing sessions with EBS and ECS to create leads for the business

Utilized sourcing tools like Hiretual, Entelo and Google custom search to identify candidates

Senior Technical Sourcer

Performed high volume sourcing for Amazon AWS supporting the Elastic Block Storage team. Sourcing for Software Engineers and Senior Management. The skill set ranges from C, C++, and C # embedded engineers and JAVA Distributed systems experience.

Sourced full stack, frontend and Cloud Engineers

Averaged 500 cold reach outs per week, 15-20 intake calls and 4-5 on-sites per week

Created advanced Boolean logic and X-Ray searching to identify top talent

Exported candidate profiles to Excel to review and do mass email campaigns

Performed extensive talent mapping using LinkedIn Insights and Talent Neuron

Met hiring goals of 3+ candidates per month

Conducted 15+ technical phone screenings per week to qualify candidates to go to next stage

Utilized LinkedIn Recruiter account to network with senior developers, software development managers and engineers professionals

Joined networking groups on LinkedIn targeting specific niche technologies for recruiting

Identified email addresses utilizing Connectifier

Participated in weekly intake meetings with hiring managers to update pipeline reports

Presented metrics on a weekly meeting to the vice president of EBS

Utilized Monster, Indeed, Dice and social media for resume searching

Sentinel Technologies, Downers Grove IL July 2012 - October 2015

Senior Recruiter/Manager

Sentinel is a premier IT solution integrator in the Midwest. They provide data networking solutions ranging from VOIP, Datacenter to cloud. They are a premier partner with Microsoft, Cisco, VMware, IBM, NetApp and EMC Corporation.

Led and supervised a team of 10 recruiters and 2 staffing sales executives in

Created best practices and recruitment strategies for the IT organization.

Responsible for the development of the recruitment process, meeting with management, researching current business needs, and solving all recruiting issues evolved around the hiring process.

Recruited Senior level engineers ranging from Cisco Engineers, virtualization, datacenter, SAN Storage and Cisco Sales

Utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter account to network with senior developers, project managers, engineers and sales professionals

Responsible for running career fairs sponsored by Dice and Microtrain

Streamlining recruiting process doubling the amount of staffing positions closed that increased staffing sales from $1.8 million to 3.1 million

Created a 90 day onboarding training course for all new recruiters that included ATS training

Education/Certifications

Moraine Valley College, Business Administration

AIRS certification

SHRM

LinkedIn Certifications

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