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D'Ana Hamilton

San Francisco,CA
D'Ana Hamilton

Summary

Dynamic Talent Manager offering 15-year progressive career across diverse industries. Proven history of designing and implementing recruitment, training and conflict-resolution initiatives for companies up to 200 employees. Insightful and creative with strengths in partnering with cross-functional business executives to strategize personnel-management solutions. Known for identifying improvement opportunities and spearheading projects to drive effectiveness. Technical Executive Recruitment Leader successfully builds future leadership by elevating talent. Experienced in full cycle recruiting to source, select and hire top talent. Establishes and maintains effective recruitment metrics, processes, systems and tools to deliver five star candidate experiences and contribute to company employment brand.

Overview

12
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

Exponent Up

Executive Talent Acquisition Partner (Head of HR)
02.2024 - Current

Job overview

  • Build pipelines of Qualified Executive VP to C-Suite level talent through sourcing
  • Place and onboard over 80 Executive level coaches.
  • Collected and analyzed information to monitor compliance outcomes and identify and address trends of non-compliant behavior.
  • Created and implemented forward-thinking initiatives to improve employee engagement through effective LinkedIn coaching webinars

Alva Talent and Associates

Career Coach
11.2022 - 01.2024

Job overview

  • Empower clients to overcome personal barriers and set ambitious yet achievable goals while identifying and leveraging individuals' strengths to maximize their potential
  • Guide clients in acquiring necessary skills and knowledge to excel in their roles
  • Provide coaching in effective job search techniques to enhance career prospects.

SimpleHealth

Principal Full Cycle Technical Recruiting and Operations
11.2021 - 08.2022

Job overview

  • Launched a technical hiring process detailing core structured steps to increase time to fill and cost per hire.
  • Coordinated de-brief and pre-brief meetings with technical interview teams to highlight candidate experience and prepping
  • Improved time to hire efficiency turn arounds by 90% resulting in more offer letters in the first 2 weeks of job posting.
  • Influenced and partnered with Executive Hiring Managers to improve and refine tech assessments within Engineering; yielding higher tech assessment score rates
  • Effectively maintained great candidate experiences following up during 1 month hiring freeze period.
  • Identified and utilized various diverse and inclusive sourcing channels to hire quality passive talent.
  • Hired 4 priority tech roles the 1st month of being hired – (Eng. Manager, Sr. Front End Eng., Sr. Data Eng. Jr. Front End Eng.)
  • Hired 15 new tech and product managers over a span of 3 months

Motiv Power Systems

Technical Recruiting Manager
07.2019 - 11.2021

Job overview

  • Managed all Recruitment and onboarding functions collaborating with finance, IT, HR, and all Hiring Managers.
  • Sourced and placed hard to fill roles in wire harness (mechanical) drive train power electronics, BIW, Embedded Software Engineering, Controls Engineering (CAN, BMS, Autosar), Sales Operations Manager other sales roles.
  • Implemented a full Greenhouse offer letter approval process with automated DocuSign integrations for new hire & Hiring Manager employee signatures.
  • Implemented full 30/60/90-day onboarding process for all new employees unique to Motiv Power Systems company culture.
  • Managed reporting to the Director of HR weekly recruitment metrics data for all departments.
  • Trained all interview team members and hiring managers in navigating through Greenhouse.
  • Hosted and Lead all Job Career Fairs with net positive success rate in attracting diverse talent.
  • Founded the first ERG called Blacks and Indigenous for safe spaces.
  • Hired over 50 technical and non-technical talent in the pandemic year in 2021. Hired 90 employees’ majority Engineering talent during the pandemic. (Director of Product, Principal Power Electronics Eng., Electrical Engineering Manager to name a few)

Udemy, iWork Global (Up work Contractor)

Sr. Technical Recruiter
06.2018 - 08.2018

Job overview

  • Managed recruitment process for 20+ Full stack engineering, Data Science roles, iOS Engineering Manager, Sr
  • Android Engineer and Infrastructure Manager and more roles
  • Utilized, Boolean and X-ray sourcing, LinkedIn Recruiter, Hired, Entelo, SwitchApp, Underdog.io to source passive candidates.

Alva Talent and Staffing Agency

Freelance Contingency Executive Tech Full Cycle Recruiter
03.2016 - 06.2018

Job overview

  • Executed and Delivered Top Tier Full life cycle recruiting as follows: R&D Engineering, Information Technology, QA and Executive (Director and VP Product Management) for Control 4, Principal Business Analyst and Project Manager for Stanford Health Medical Center
  • API App Developer positions for Rally Health
  • Software Engineer positions for autonomous driving startup company Roadstar.AI.

Wikimedia Foundation – (contractor)

Full Life Cycle Tech Recruiting
06.2015 - 01.2016

Job overview

  • Hosted weekly calibration meetings with hiring managers to effectively determine ways to overcome past high attrition rates to attract and retain talent.
  • Responsible for full life cycle recruiting, sourcing and placing key hard to fill positions on a global spectrum in EMEA markets.
  • Vetting and evaluating technical talent and providing informative candidate experiences.
  • Created job postings and offer letter approvals for C Level Executives review and approval through Green House within a 24-48hr-turnover response rate.
  • Hired over 20+ hard to fill roles during my duration with Wikimedia Contractor.

Impel Inc.

Full Cycle Technical Recruiter Manager
03.2014 - 01.2015

Job overview

  • Responsible for engaging passive candidates detailing demos during interviews converting from passive to fully engaged new-hires.
  • Placed candidates after thirty days leveling candidates to onboard welcome meet and greet with C Level Executives.
  • Effectively hosted and organized tech meet ups to attract candidates.
  • Effectively managed Tech and Product process through Jobvite ATS.
  • Managed 50 outreach cold prospecting per day, training Technical Recruiters on best practices to attract top talent.

Deutsche Telekom Hosted Business Services

Sr. Full Life Cycle Technical Recruiter
10.2012 - 10.2013

Job overview

  • Addressed challenges faced retaining talent to solve talent gaps within the Technical Operations Engineering department with hiring managers
  • Cultivated relationships with key candidates and niche talent pools in telecommunications networks, defined according to long-term initiatives and direction of the organization.

Education

Keller Graduate School of Management of Devry University

Master’s Of Human Resource Management

University Overview

Honors: Alpha Chi National Honor’s Society

  • Honoree of [Honor Name]
  • 3.8 GPA

Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Arts – Arts Entertainment, Media Management

Hampton University
Hampton, VA

Bachelor of Arts from Public Relations And Organizational Communication

University Overview

  • Honor Roll 2002-2003
  • 3.5 GPA

Skills

  • Asana Experience - Onboarding and Project Management
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Acrobat PDF
  • Google Apps
  • Lucid Chart
  • Advanced Internet Search Tools and Boolean Methods/ X-Ray Search (seekout, entelo, LinkedIn Recruiter, etc)
  • Applicant Tracking Systems (Jobvite, Trovix, ICIMS, Green House, Lever, JazzHR,)
  • HRIS systems experience with BambooHR and Rippling
  • Confluence and Notion
  • Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
  • Social Media Recruiting
  • Contractor Management
  • Talent management
  • Candidate Sourcing
  • Global recruitment
  • Work authorizations
  • Salary and benefits negotiations
  • Work Complaint Handling
  • New Hire Onboarding

Accomplishments

  • Identified and utilized various diverse and inclusive sourcing channels to hire quality passive talent.
  • Created a resource page detailing cost-effective job board listings to post for BIPOC, Veterans, Women, LGBTQ and Disabled talent.
  • Hired 4 priority tech roles the 1st month of being hired – (Eng. Manager, Sr. Front End Eng., Sr. Data Eng. Jr. Front End Eng.)
  • Hired 15 new tech and product managers over a span of 3 months.
  • Founded the first ERG called Blacks and Indigenous for safe spaces.
  • Hired over 50 technical and non-technical talent in the pandemic year in 2021. Hired a total of 90 employees’ majority Engineering talent during the pandemic. (Director of Product, Principal Power Electronics Eng., Electrical Engineering Manager to name a few)
  • Built out a comprehensive sourcing strategy automated engagement process for my sourcer in Lever yielding a higher candidate response rate.

Affiliations

  • Society for Human Resource Management
  • National Association for Women Professionals
  • Who’s Who of Professional Entrepreneurs

Certification

  • Udemy - HR Metrics and Analytics in HRM Training - August 2022

Languages

Arabic
Elementary
Greek
Elementary
French
Limited Working

Software

BambooHR

Timeline

Executive Talent Acquisition Partner (Head of HR)

Exponent Up
02.2024 - Current

Career Coach

Alva Talent and Associates
11.2022 - 01.2024

Principal Full Cycle Technical Recruiting and Operations

SimpleHealth
11.2021 - 08.2022

Technical Recruiting Manager

Motiv Power Systems
07.2019 - 11.2021

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Udemy, iWork Global (Up work Contractor)
06.2018 - 08.2018

Freelance Contingency Executive Tech Full Cycle Recruiter

Alva Talent and Staffing Agency
03.2016 - 06.2018

Full Life Cycle Tech Recruiting

Wikimedia Foundation – (contractor)
06.2015 - 01.2016

Full Cycle Technical Recruiter Manager

Impel Inc.
03.2014 - 01.2015

Sr. Full Life Cycle Technical Recruiter

Deutsche Telekom Hosted Business Services
10.2012 - 10.2013

Keller Graduate School of Management of Devry University

Master’s Of Human Resource Management

Columbia College Chicago

Bachelor of Arts – Arts Entertainment, Media Management

Hampton University

Bachelor of Arts from Public Relations And Organizational Communication
D'Ana Hamilton