Senior / Lead Technical Recruiter - Full Lifecycle for over 15 years

Career/Professional Summary:

Extensive experience driving IT hiring initiatives across healthcare, entertainment, fintech, and consumer goods industries. An experienced people leader with expertise in full cycle recruiting and building corporate relationships that result in high-quality hiring for difficult roles. Demonstrated success in process optimization, diversity initiatives, and client relationship management to attract top talent.

Recruiting Tools:

• Advanced ATS: Workday HCM, iCIMS, Greenhouse, Taleo, BrassRing, SmartSearch, Recruitsoft, Lever, JazzHR, Crelate, Bullhorn

• Technology Proficiency: Google Sheets, MS Office Suite 365 (MS Word365 (and older), Excel), Peoplesoft/Oracle, Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Asana, MacBook

• AI Recruiting Tools: OpenAI ChatGPT, Claude

• Social Media Recruiting: LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, X (Twitter), YouTube

Experience:

*** Protection Security, LLC, California

Principal Talent Acquisition Recruiter, 2022 – 2025

Leadership & Team Development

• Led and mentored a team of 5 recruiters while managing comprehensive training programs.

• Maintained a full technical recruitment lifecycle for mid-staff level technical roles. Also, recruited functional positions pursuant to short-term projects.

• Managed high-volume recruiting efforts, with a 95% success rate in filling open positions.

• Innovated the recruitment process, reducing the average time-to-fill by 27%, using AI tools. Position originated through L. Williams Agency vis-vis SEIU 721 contract.

Strategic Recruiting Excellence

• Executed full cycle recruiting for mid-to-executive level roles, aligning talent strategy with organizational growth objectives.

• Built and maintained robust pipelines of passive and active candidates using advanced sourcing methodologies.

Key Impact:

• Dramatically reduced average time-to-fill for senior technical roles from 60+ days to 15 days.

• Provided significantly improved client satisfaction and project continuity through optimized processes.

Contract Assignments (3rd party subcontract):

Talent Acquisition Contractor, 2019 – 2020

A major retail store (2020)

• Executed targeted recruitment campaigns, reducing time-to-hire for technical roles by 32%.

• Collaborated closely with engineering teams to understand talent needs, resulting in a 20% better match quality for hires.

• Recruited for the following roles: Senior Software Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, Software Engineers, Product Managers, Program Managers, Software Engineering DevOps, Software Engineering.

A multichannel video programming distributor (2019)

• Specialized in sourcing technical talent, achieving a 50% fill rate for difficult-to-fill positions within 9 months.

• Filled 43 technical and leadership positions, managing 25 - 29 monthly requisitions.

• Success rate of 95% candidate offers accepted, and candidates employed in new contract / full-time roles within the business intelligence (DW) and engineering (WebApps & Content, Business Intelligence Solutions, Enterprise Data Warehouse Solutions, and IT Production Support).

• Achieved NPS 90 (measure of how candidates enjoyed their experience scaled from -100 to 100) through high-touch, transparent candidate communication.

Global Software Solutions, LLC

Principal / Lead Technical Recruiter, 2014 – 2019

Business Leadership & Growth

• Managed a team of 8-10 recruiters and coordinators whose primary focus was on recruiting the technological roles and government contracts. Responsible for the hiring, supervision, and training including executing the recruiting strategies that included Service Level Agreements.

• Partnered with company/customer leadership and hiring managers across different business units and locations in multiple technological and operations platforms for full lifecycle recruiting. This included sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, extending offers and negotiating compensation packages.

• Led full cycle recruiting strategy for 75 to 100 open (national) requisitions (monthly) across multiple business verticals.

• Ensured and prioritized client accounts and job orders/requisitions including rebalanced recruiting workloads.

• Identified customer needs and was continuously alert and responsive to changing customer business environment and needs.

• Conducted weekly/bi-weekly one-on-one with team members and perform account reviews with all Recruiters.

• Grew agency sales to over 300% of forecasted goals, establishing preferred vendor status with multiple key clients.

• Led full recruitment lifecycle for high-level technical roles, including cleared and non-cleared positions.

• Managed complex immigration processes (H1-B, TN processing, permanent filing) for foreign nationals.

Process Innovation & Optimization

• Established and tracked comprehensive KPIs (time-to-hire, quality-of-hire, retention metrics).

• Designed streamlined contractor onboarding process, resulting in 40% increase in new hire engagement.

• Mastered diverse ATS platforms including Google Hire, Swarm, Taleo, Crelate, Greenhouse, iCIMS, and Brassring.

Measurable Results:

• Reduced average time-to-fill from 60 to 45 days for senior technical roles

• Achieved 80% candidate success rate with shortlisted candidates reaching final interview stage within 3 weeks.

Prior to 10 YRS, Exp.

A boutique full staffing agency, West Los Angeles, CA

Senior Account Manager / Senior Technical Executive Recruiter

Strategic Account Management

• Managed full-desk technical recruiting and account management for 20-25 enterprise clients across diverse industries.

• Conducted detailed face-to-face interviews to screen ALL applicants and determine if the candidate was a fit for the clients’ needs.

• Delivered training workshops for new recruiter hires on sourcing strategies, reducing time-to-hire by 32%.

• Established and scaled a high-performing client base by securing new opportunities and maximizing current accounts.

Specialized Recruiting Expertise

• Executive Placements: CTO, CIO, VP, Director-level positions

• Technical Roles: Software Developers (C#, C++, Java, Full Stack), Cloud Engineers/Architects (Azure, AWS)

• Specialized Functions: Machine Learning/AI Engineers (Data Warehouse SMEs), DevOps, QA, Agile Consultants, Business Analysts, Project/Program Managers

• Consistently exceeded annual sales and placement targets, earning company-wide recognition and bonuses.

• Maintained an exceptional reputation amongst clients for delivering hard-to-find talent in competitive markets.

• Recruiting Tools: WebPas, Bullhorn, Zyfind/ZyLab; DICE,(CareerMosiac, Headhunter.net, CareerBuilder).

Education:

California State University, Los Angeles

Bachelor of Science, Business/MIS

Licenses & Certifications:

• LinkedIn Certified Professional–Recruiter, Issued 2013 - Expired 2017

• Corporate & Diverse Talent & Hiring, Issued 2025

• Tech Recruiting Foundations: Recruiting for Blockchain, Issued 2024

• Social Recruiting for Recruiters, Issued 2023

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