Resourceful Talent Acquisition Specialist with extensive experience managing strategic initiatives to attract, recruit, and retain senior, director, and executive-level talent across various sectors, including Banking, IT, Software, and Business Development.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Recruiter
Q2 Software
02.2021 - Current
Primary global (US, Australia, Mexico, Canada) recruiting partner for Engineering, Hosting, Security, and Customer Success.
Led the global expansion and implementation of a new technical skills assessment to streamline hiring process and enhance quality.
Developed and implemented a cohort hiring initiative with budget owners of our Customer Success team - this resulted in having a bench of 15 candidates to balance out rising attrition.
Created and executed an engineering competency bar to drive better alignment on job leveling and quality of hire.
Piloted a new interview framework grounded in the Q2 Success Circle and successfully integrated with our ATS to capture interviewer feedback.
Corporate Recruiter
Turnkey Vacation Rentals
09.2020 - 02.2021
Primary recruiting partner for Sales, Operations, G&A, and IT business units.
Implemented new weekly pipeline reporting for all internal stakeholder groups.
Developed a standard interview scorecard to be used as base model for Talent Acquisition.
Drove an innovative sourcing initiative for outside sales requisitions that resulted in maintaining a time-to-fill average of 45 days. The previous average time-to-fill was 86 days.
Captured and documented recruiting workflow across key business units and distributed to stakeholders with suggestions on improving efficiency.
Talent Acquisition Partner
Q2 Software
11.2019 - 07.2020
Served as a Talent Acquisition Partner to Q2 Hiring Managers, HR Business Partners and Finance.
Manage, drive, and execute sourcing and hiring strategies using various recruiting resources.
Successfully executed a pipeline reporting process to streamline the tracking of all Customer Success internal transfers vs net new requisitions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mapped out flowcharts across Finance, HR, and TA to illustrate changes to requisition/offer approval process during COVID-19 pandemic.
Contractor via Jando Solutions
Recruiter (FTE)
Kony (Acquired by Temenos)
07.2018 - 11.2019
Lead recruiter for all technical hires - specializing in Software Engineers (full stack), UX/UI Design, Site Reliability/DevOps, QA, and Pre-Sales Engineers.
Sourced various online communities targeting top IT candidates (Behance, GitHub, Codepad, etc.)
Drove effort to establish a new sales interview format that resulted in an increase in more qualified finalists.
Led the recruiting integration of Kony's acquisition of Pivotus Ventures (October 2018) - Trained new managers on Kony systems, filled all outstanding vacancies, and established new recruiting processes for the newly inherited technical team.
Developed customized screening tools to highlight candidate's technical proficiencies.
Partnered with hiring managers on recruiting strategy; hired to plan any new headcount or backfills.
Talent Acquisition Partner (Campus Recruitment)
IBM
01.2017 - 07.2018
Responsible for hiring 68 full-time consultants in 2017 while achieving 60:40 gender balance (female: male) and 20% diversity candidates.
Launched a summer hiring campaign to supplement internship program which resulted in 80% of hiring targets being met entering the Fall.
Established new relationships with 11 universities in Texas and served as primary contact for all activities.
Planned and hosted a 'Project View' event with the diversity team at the Dallas office. This event resulted in surpassing our diversity targets by 15%.