Talent Acquisition Data Center

Full Cycle Corporate Talent Acquisition & Recruitment

Senior Talent Acquisition March 2024 - June 2025

Jones, Lange & Lasalle (JLL)

Development of recruitment strategies within the data center & critical facilities field that supports multiple clients & locations across the US.

·Currently in an individual contributor role with Team Lead responsibilities implementing data center sourcing strategies for clients such as CyrusOne, Fanatics, Principal Financial, USAA, Charles Schwab, Cognizant, Zurich/Farmers, Prudential, PwC, CommScope & other Fortune 500 accounts within JLL

·Full-cycle recruitment of Data Center mechanical/electrical/plumbing engineers & IT technicians across Critical Facilities, Operations, IT & Executive fields within mission-critical environments

·Mentoring newly-onboarded JLL recruiters, assisting them with processes with regards to candidate profiles, Boolean-string searches, & sourcing of candidate profiles within various job boards, diversity training & general SME consultation as a point-of-contact for junior recruiter for questions & advice regarding daily recruiter responsibilities

·Building out candidate pipelines campaigns & implementing internal database & external job boards strategies to develop evergreen candidate sourcing from scratch

·Responsible for sourcing & engagement of data center & mission-critical facilities talent across the US, with a primary focus in Northern Virginia, Phoenix, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Seattle, & Northern California markets

·Company-wide initiated layoff

City of Grapevine (Contract)

Technical Project Manager July 2023 – March 2024

Technical Project Manager responsible for the creation, direction & implementation of various IT-related strategy & implementation project initiatives across all City of Grapevine's municipal departments

·Establish, drive, monitor & integrate SOPs with KPIs toward continued performance of project deliverables, management of project operations, determination of alignment & concise decision-making for project planning, policy & execution

·Communication (oral & written) with various multi-disciplined project team leads & stakeholders to ascertain project and/or policy initiatives, compliance, approvals, risks, deliverables, stakeholder feedback & guidance toward transformational delivery

·Guidance offered to the executive leadership team in shaping project justifications, budgeting, financial feasibility, business impact assessment, cost estimates, associated risks, governance procedures, departmental resources, compliance & oversight of project initiatives

·Coordination of project planning & management of detailed technical plans that facilitate integration of IT projects across verticals within architectural, telecommunications, structural & civil engineering

·Conduct in-house & external stakeholder meetings to ensure continued communication effectiveness with project team-leads that align toward the projects’ scope of work

·Led onsite presentations to drive focus & commitment from various department leaders & staff toward IT projects that depend on user engagement to ensure compliance & completion of established KPIs

·Contract work completed

Prime Video & Amazon Studios

Team Lead & Senior Technical Recruiter March 2021 – July 2023

Hybrid individual contributor & team-lead within the Prime Video team responsible for the software development souring for the Prime Video roles that support multiple Amazon business units across the US

·Building out candidate pipelines & tapping into industry resources to develop evergreen candidate pipelines from scratch

·Promoted recently to a team-lead role to assist with the development & continued training of newly-onboarded recruiters to the PV team that focuses on their development of talent acquisition strategies within the corporate offices of Amazon’s streaming platform

·Execution of bar-raising strategies toward the generation of quality & high-volume Software Developer talent that exceeded currently Amazon metrics of assessments sent, assessments passed, onsite interviews, inclined votes & accepted offers per month

·General management of talent sourcing, identification, outreach, assessment management throughout the entire end-to-end Pathfinder process

·Currently represent the D&I (Diversity & Inclusion) training for a team of 30 recruiters on best practices with regards to targeted diversity/inclusion sourcing, candidate messaging, D&I engagement & tracking

·Company-wide initiated layoff

CyrusOne, Inc January 2017 – August 2020

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

Sole recruiter for a publicly-traded global data center responsible for the entirety of the company’s requisitions within IT, critical facilities, critical operations, telecommunications, commercial construction & commercial real estate (REIT) environments across the US

·Created the entire recruiting process & activities that included talent assessment processes with candidate sourcing, screening & interviews, scheduling interviews, final candidate assessments, verbal/written offer negotiations & presentations, onboarding & general candidate best-practices through Workday

·Managed as many as 45+ requisitions simultaneously while focused on delivering the highest quality of candidate experience & hiring manager satisfaction within internal & outside vendors like CBRE, Cushman & JLL

·Creating recruitment metrics to identify areas for operational improvements within the recruiting process, track daily sourcing progress & enact candidate engagement activities

·Weekly reporting of recruiting activity to senior leadership on specific recruitment activities like time-to-fill, candidate flow, interview scheduling, final candidate selection, verbal/written offer negotiations & other recruitment processes

·Provided guidance as part of the Total Rewards team to senior leadership & Human Resource teams on compensation metrics for candidate salaries & benefits based on applicant market research within geographic areas across the US, existing employee comps, candidate interview analysis & third-party recommendations from Radford/Aon & NAREIT

·Company-initiated layoff

Roles filled within the company included:

Operations Engineers & Technicians: MIssion-critical facilities & operations managers, engineers, project managers & data center engineers & technicians

Network Engineers & Technicians: Network, solutions, IP/IX, optical & telecom field engineers & technicians

IT Engineers & Developers & Architects: (AI/ML, AWS, Azure, BIg Data, .Net, JS, LAMP, MEAN, SaaS, DevOps/UI & UX)

IT Business Systems: Salesforce, Workday & Yardi developers, engineers, administrators & specialists

IT Security: Cybersecurity directors, engineers, analysts & administrators

Accountants: Accountant & CPA-Level candidates in GL, SOX, revenue, consolidations, project cost & commercial property from publicly traded, F1000, Big Four firms or privately held companies with over $1 Billion in assets

Sales: Global & strategic business development, account managers & lead generation specialists

Human Resources: HRBPs, HR Generalists & HR Coordinators

Executive: C-Suite executives, vice presidents, directors & senior managers

Modis (an Adecco, Inc Company) October 2015 - January 2017

Division Director

Full-Desk Recruiter & Team Lead Manager with staffing & business development responsibilities for Software Development, IT Network Engineer & UI/UX Graphic Design developers for permanent & contract placement

·Hired, trained & led a team of 6 full-desk recruiters to develop activities toward recruiting & account management best-practices, with a focus on sales & staffing in software, digital & networking environments

·IT staffing of developers, engineers, architects, senior managers & administrators of:

·Application development within .Net & Java environments that included Full Stack ASP.Net & JavaScript, Angular, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby & other open source languages

·Specialized developers within Salesforce & Workday environments

·Network engineers, Telecom Engineers, Field & Data Center Technicians

·Specialized Network Engineers & Architects within IP/IX (interconnectivity), Optical & Transport

·UI/UX, Front End & Graphic Designers with Angular Developers

·Android, iOS & Windows Mobile Developers

·Network, Systems & Security Architects/Engineers/Administrators

Associations/Organizations

Community Health Charities (Board Member)

Strategic Network Partners-Founder

Tech Titans

TrailHead Salesforce

Geek Meet

Education

Business Administration, Oklahoma City College

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