Experience

Anello

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Talent

  • Dec 2022 - Present

  Anello is redefining navigation with next-generation sensors. Founded by pioneers in silicon photonics and inertial navigation, Anello has developed its groundbreaking Silicon Photonics Optical Gyroscope - SiPhOG™. The Anello SiPhOG offers an affordable mass-market sensor with true Optical Gyroscope performance. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, Anello is funded by leading venture capital firms. For more information and job postings, see https://www.anellophotonics.com/ https://insidegnss.com/bridging-the-gap-a-look-at-silicon-photonic-optical-gyro-siphog-technology/ Show less



Mezmo

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Team

  • Nov 2019 - Oct 2022

  Hired as 1st recruiter at Mezmo (formerly LogDNA). Helped grow the company from 40-160 ppl with a focus on engineering development, infrastructure, and product. Strong technical sourcing abilities in helping grow Mezmo engineering teams: UI/UX, backend engineers, Cloud, distributed systems, ML, devops, test development, and product management. (Linkedin, Gem, Github, social media, technical user groups/meetups). Implement efficient and effective hiring processes from the ground up with all functional leaders. Mezmo is an Observability SAAS Platform to manage and take action on your data. Show less



DS Staffing

• Staffing and Recruiting

• Talent Acquisition Specialist

  • Jan 2004 - Oct 2019

  DS Staffing provides onsite technical staffing services to Bay Area companies. Senior Recruiter, VMWARE, Palo Alto, CA 2019 Full-Cycle Recruiter supporting the application development for Workspace One and related infrastructure technology. Supported application - backend java related development on an open AWS tech stack. Application level networking, distributed systems. Senior Recruiter, BLUE RIVER TECHNOLOGY, Sunnyvale, CA 2018-19 As a full-cycle recruiter, supported HW/SW engineering teams who’s mission is to develop advanced products to improve efficiency of global farms for enhanced food production. Areas of focus: Embedded systems, Backend to Full Stack Dev, Robotics, Computer Vision, AI and Machine Learning. The company is about 100 ppl and worked directly under VP of People (HR) supporting VP and Directors of Engineering. Additional contract and contingency recruiting at various companies (below) from 2004-2015. Show less



Elementum

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Talent Acqusition - Senior Engineering Recruiter

  • Mar 2015 - Jan 2018

  Elementum develops (SAAS) for supply chains of the Fortune 500. Full-cycle recruiter focused on recruiting top-level engineering talent for Data Platform, backend services, full stack web (and mobile) development, and Machine Learning. Helped grow the company by 4x between 2015 and 2018 (from 75 to 350 employees). Worked closely with stakeholders to streamline interview process and allow for high-growth. Within engineering focused on Platform and Apps Services Engineering team. This included mainly backend software development (Java), but also DevOps, Machine Learning, Front-End teams and IT. Utilizing data from platform team, the Machine Learning team was able to develop features into the product to greatly increase the efficiency of some of the largest supply chains in the world. Show less



Lytro (Acquired by Google)

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Technical Recruiter

  • Jun 2013 - Mar 2015

  *Partner with senior management to understand workforce planning needs. Execute on a hiring plan which aligns to the vision and headcount goals of the organization. Helped grow the company from about 75 to 125 people over about 15 months (plus additional replacement fills). *I’ve primarily focused on engineering roles including computational photography (image processing), desktop and web software, on-camera (mobile) firmware and android UI interaction and design/development. *Hardware areas focused around mechanical and HW (electrical design, optical lens design, materials, and manufacturing focused engineering roles. Show less



Salesforce

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr Recruiter

  • 2009 - 2013

  Sourcing/Recruiting - Data.com (2011-12) TechOps (2012-13) Recruiter lead for Jigsaw (Data Cloud) division of Salesforce.com. (6/10-4/11) Lead engineering recruiting for Jigsaw, Salesforce’s first major acquisition. Consultant to VP of Engineering and mgmt team to train in Salesforce hiring culture and processes, form staffing plan, and ultimately execute on over 35 engineering hires within development and quality engineering teams. Provide excellent customer service and full cycle staffing functions to Quality Engineering teams within Salesforce.com product development organization (8/09 –6/10) *Partnered with VP/Director level engineering managers to execute on aggressive hiring plan. *Pressed to find deep pipeline of “dev quality” QA candidates with strong automation and programming background. *Implemented aggressive campaign targeting top talent out of Microsoft resulting in 12 offers and 10 hires over 3 mos. *Helped implement a streamline interview process to accommodate high volume of candidates. Show less



DataDomain

• Computer Hardware
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr Engineering Recruiter

  • Jan 2010 - Nov 2011

  *Strong background recruiting web and client-server application level engineering talent within Cloud computing technologies (c++/java, oop). *Full life cycle recruiting mainly for operating systems (unix /linux/windows), file systems, and application level software engineering talent within a highly competitive storage domain. *Strong background recruiting web and client-server application level engineering talent within Cloud computing technologies (c++/java, oop). *Full life cycle recruiting mainly for operating systems (unix /linux/windows), file systems, and application level software engineering talent within a highly competitive storage domain.



Lookout

• United States
• Computer and Network Security
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Lead Engineering Recruiter

  • Jan 2010 - Jul 2011

  Joined when Lookout out was just 13 people (10 in engineering) and grew engineering to about 40 people during key 1.5 yr growth stage of the company. Focused mainly on hunting top engineers for mobile development (android and ios), cloud server backend (ruby), security engine experts, and QA/SDETs. Joined when Lookout out was just 13 people (10 in engineering) and grew engineering to about 40 people during key 1.5 yr growth stage of the company. Focused mainly on hunting top engineers for mobile development (android and ios), cloud server backend (ruby), security engine experts, and QA/SDETs.



Symantec

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr Technical Recruiter

  • 2006 - 2009

  Enterprise Security and DLP (VONTU data loss prevention) products (1/08 – 7/09): *Perform extensive recruiting for QA/Test Automation Engineers and Senior Software Engineers with heavy focus on technologies such as: OOP, Java/C++, (Windows & UNIX/Linux), Java/J2EE, Database technologies, Networking protocols (IP), and Security. Storage and Availability Management Products (4/06 – 11/07): *Built pipeline of engineering candidates from competitors for file system, data mgmt and other Symantec datacenter product teams. Skill sets included: operating systems, file systems, device drivers, distributed systems, and back-end application dev for all platforms. Show less



NetApp

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Engineering Recruiter

  • Apr 2004 - Apr 2006

  Sr Engineering recruiter building software development teams for Netapp’s core product offerings. Main skill sets recruited for during time at Netapp: -Operating Systems Development: OS Kernel, IP Networking teams, File Systems, and Applications level SW Engineering. Netapp's Advanced Development Group (ADG): Netapp's "research lab". Sr Engineering recruiter building software development teams for Netapp’s core product offerings. Main skill sets recruited for during time at Netapp: -Operating Systems Development: OS Kernel, IP Networking teams, File Systems, and Applications level SW Engineering. Netapp's Advanced Development Group (ADG): Netapp's "research lab".



Technology Search International / TSI

• Senior Technical Recruiter/Contributor

  • Nov 1993 - Nov 2003

  Spent 9 successful years working as a Lead Recruiter and Account Mgr for privately-held boutique technical staffing agency focusing on HW, SW and Internet Service companies in the Silicon Valley, Boston and New York geographies. Primarily focus was FT/Perm contingency recruiting and helping companies build high performance teams. Spent 9 successful years working as a Lead Recruiter and Account Mgr for privately-held boutique technical staffing agency focusing on HW, SW and Internet Service companies in the Silicon Valley, Boston and New York geographies. Primarily focus was FT/Perm contingency recruiting and helping companies build high performance teams.