Sales Engineer

MILANN RUDDY

**** ****** ****** ****, *** JOSE, CA 95117, 408-***-****, **********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Over 17 years of Experience in full lifecycle recruiting for technical and non technical talent at all levels. Five of those years in a corporate environment.

• Strong phone skills, initial contact and closing

• Experienced in Corporate Start up environments ,identifying, recruiting and hiring staff at all levels

• Diverse industry experience in: High Tech, Entertainment, Retail, Food Services, Hospitality, Bio-Informatics, Software, telecommunications, Semiconductor.

• Strong cold calling and telemarketing experience.

• Excellent interviewing and skills assessment abilities.

• 6 years of technical recruiting for Technical Sales professionals, SW Engineering (embedded and applications levels), Technical Project Management, Product Marketing, Business Analysis, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Technical Executives at the VP level.

• 10+ years of experience in recruiting non-technical talent in Sales, Finance and Accounting, Administrative, HR, Marketing, and Management at the VP levels

• Experience using various types of ATS and contact management software.

Employment

01/07 TO PRESENT-CONTRACTOR RECRUITER/SOURCER

10/11 to 12/11-Contractor through Spherion ,now Randstadt for Zazzle, Inc.

Worked directly with Production managers in various manufacturing departments to determine hiring objectives for busy retail season. Interviewed and hired seasonal production staff. Hired over 300 workers over a 2 month period.

1/11 TO PRESENT Lava Entertainment Group San Jose, California

CORPORATE RECRUITER(C0NTRACT)

• Identifying , Sourcing, Recruiting talent for start up in entertainment industry for Film, Resort and gaming co. In San Jose .

• Wrote, edited and posted requisitions to various job boards and websites.

• Main areas: Marketing, Sales, General Clerical, Accounting and Finance, Management positions

• Worked directly with Owner/CEO and organization managers at all levels to understand the business needs in terms of hiring.

• Phone screened and scheduled candidates appropriately.

O7/10 TO 12/10 Mindsource Mt View, California

TECHNICAL RECRUITER/SOURCER (C0NTRACT)

• Identifying , Sourcing, Recruiting technical talent for clients in Bay Area

• Wrote, edited and posted requisitions to various job boards and websites.

• Managed candidate pipeline, updated ATS (proprietary system)

• Main areas: Java Software Engineer, Systems Engineers, Mobile Developers for

Perm and contract positions.

03/10 TO 07/10 Aerotek Milpitas, California

RECRUITER/SOURCER (CONTRACT)

• Identifying , Sourcing, Recruiting and hiring onsite for Flextronics manufacturing.

• Involved in offer process and onboarding. Interacted with hiring managers daily

• Wrote, edited and posted requisitions to various job boards and websites.

• Main areas: Machinists and Machine Programmers, assemblers and office staff.

• Phone screened and scheduled candidates appropriately

• Managed pipeline in web based ATS and updated it regularly

02/08 TO 03/09 Total Success Staffing Services, Inc. San Bruno, CA

SALES/RECRUITING SPECIALIST (CONTRACT)

• Responsible for Maintaining a high standard for our clients in the food services by training and monitoring our on call wait staff, culinary assistants, bartenders and event managers.

• Instrumental in bringing in new satisfied clients in the Bay Area and increasing overall revenues by 25% in this region.

01/07 TO 02/08 Kerner Mobile Technologies San Jose, California

CORPORATE RECRUITER/HR MANAGER (CONTRACT),START UP

• Wore many hats in this start up environment from identifying and hiring talent for our seasonal events, everything from Art Designers and Directors to construction and set design professionals, to HR Director maintaining employee files, hiring and exit interviews.

• Sourced, recruited and hired for other fulltime positions in Sales, Marketing and Finance

• Was the “Go to” person for everything to do with hiring and firing of employees.

• Hired a total of 100+ temporary and regular staff in a one month period.

01/06 TO 12/06 YohIT Santa Clara, California

SR. TECHNOLOGY RECRUITER

• As the most senior level recruiter in this office, trained and mentored 3 other recruiters in technology recruiting for both contract and direct hire positions in SW engineering, Business Analysts, Tech Support and Firmware Engineers.

• Was one of the top producers in the country and was a candidate for “Rookie of the Year” prior to leaving.

• Managed candidate pipeline and updated web Based proprietary ATS.

09/04 TO 11/05 Liveops, Inc. Palo Alto, California

NEW AGENT RECRUITING LEAD (CORPORATE, START UP)

• Worked closely with engineering to create an automated recruiting process for high volume recruiting.

• Was extremely successful and was able to identify and bring on board 200 new agents in a one week period for our busiest seasons.

• The program was so successful that this position was eventually eliminated.

05/01 TO 09/04 Various Companies San Jose, California

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT (CONTRACT)GENISAR(START UP), THOITS INSURANCE,IP INTERNATIONAL, ETC

• Sales, Recruiting, Telemarketing.

• Helped numerous start ups with business development and recruiting talent for various key positions

Worked in many capacities from insurance, telemarketing, and lead generation to contract recruiting and sales.

11/99 TO 05/01 Lucent WW Services(orig. INS) Sunnyvale, California

CORPORATE RECRUITER (START UP PURCHASED BY LUCENT)

• Sourced and hired all levels of employees for division headquarters in the United States and Europe.

• Interacted Daily with hiring managers in various departments and Specific fields included: Sales, Finance, marketing, Inside Sales, Legal Services, Training and Development, HR, and IT.

• Met and exceeded hiring goals every quarter and averaged 40-60 hires per quarter.

• Managed and updated pipeline in web based ATS (Hiresystems, now Brassring)

11/97 TO 11/99 Oxford Global Services Cupertino, California

SENIOR TECHNICAL STAFFING SPECIALIST

• Was hired to spearhead the Perm division of Oxford in the Cupertino office.

• Areas of recruiting responsibilities included but not limited to Technical project managers, software engineers, technical writers, and database developers.

• Became the #1 perm recruiter in the country out of 40 recruiters with a yearly billing of $440,000 in perm fees.

10/95 TO 10/97 Online Staffing San Jose, California

TECHNICAL RECRUITER

• As a member of the Perm recruiting division quickly became one of the top producers in my group with billings of over $250,000.

• Areas of Recruiting responsibilities were in the areas Software Engineering for Unix environments, Technical Sales and marketing. Some HW Engineering.

• Was instrumental in training and mentoring 3 other recruiters in my group who also have gone on to become some of the top producers in the industry.

6/72 to 10/95

PRIOR EMPLOYMENT

LAGO SYSTEMS 1/94 TO 9/95,TELEMARKETING SUPERVISOR

CAREER SEARCH-8/89 TO 9/93, G&A PERM RECRUITER(OFFICE STAFFING SERVICES)

-SPECIALIZED IN RECRUITING AND PLACING TALENT FOR G&A AND SALES POSITIONS

SONOTEK CORP-7/86 TO 8/89, SALES ENGINEER (SEMINCONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT)

MTI CORP-4/84 TO 6/86, PROCESS APPLICATIONS ENGINEER (SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT)

NONOMETRICS-4/82 TO 3/84.APPLICATIONS SPECIALIST, PRE/POST SALES SUPPORT(SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT)

STC COMPUTER RESEARCH-4/81 TO 4/82, ENGINEERING PROCESS TECHNICIAL(WAFER FAB)

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES-1/79-3/81, ENGINEERING PROCESS TECHNICIAN (WAFER FAB)

SIGNETICS CORP 7/72 TO 3/81,WAFER FAB OPERATOR, ENGINEERING PROCESS TECHNICIAN

EDUCATION

A.S. DEGREE IN HUMAN RESOURCES, IN PROGRESS

EXPECTED 2012

• Colorado Online Technical

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Certified Personnel Consultant CAPC 1990

• Conflict Management courses 1999

• Best Practices in Corporate Recruiting, Lucent WW Services 2000, 2001.

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