Joe Kelly

Pure Storage is a technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It develops all-flash data storage hardware and software products.

• Lead internal hiring efforts for the Platform Engineering business unit by interfacing & providing regular hiring status updates to internal engineering leadership stakeholders
• Provide recruiting direction to three sourcing recruiters
• Presented hiring updates at monthly engineering leadership meetings
• Negotiated & closed engineering candidates on employment offers
• Positions That I Recruited For - Embedded Software Engineers, Firmware Engineers, Hardware Engineers, Linux Engineers, Operating System Engineers, TPMs, Core C/C++ Engineers, Python Developers, Network Engineers.

Druva is a late stage start-up unicorn software company based in Santa Clara, California that provides SaaS-based data protection and management products.

• Full life cycle recruiting for US based Cloud Engineering, IT, DevOps, Sales Engineering, and Executive level positions
• Successfully negotiated and closed engineering, IT, and sales engineering employment offers
• Built and maintained internal client relationships with sales engineering, and technology hiring managers
• Positions That I Recruited For - Pre-Sales Engineers, Post-Sales Engineers, Professional Services Consultants, Cloud Engineers, DevOps, IT Support, IT Leadership roles.

JSK Group is based in Denver, Colorado and is a sole proprietorship focused on providing technical recruiting services.

• JSK Group is a company I founded to provide hourly based and contingent recruiting services
• Partnered with start-ups and established technology companies in a high growth hiring phase to place engineers & IT professionals.

FIS is a financial services company that offers a wide range of financial technology products and services.

• Full lifecycle Sr Technical Recruiter for a leading FinTech payments company
• Placed 100 direct-hire Information Technology professionals in 2018
• Placed 110 direct-hire Information Technology professionals in 2017
• Placed 105 direct-hire Information Technology professionals in 2016
• Recruit, qualify, interview, & hire IT professionals
• Develop recruiting plans for company best practices
• Mentor and lead junior, staff level recruiters
• Act as a thought leader while functioning as an individual contributor in the IT Talent Acquisition space
• Lead recruitment training meetings
• Negotiate salaries with both internal & external candidates
• Attend and recruit candidates at local job fairs
• Train newly hired members of the Talent Acquisition team
• Develop & maintain on-going relationships with internal hiring managers
• Positions That I Recruited For- Software Engineers- .Net, Java, Mobile, SQA, Test Engineering, IT Infrastructure, Oracle-ERP, Hyperion, Big Data, SAP-ERP, VMWare, Linux, Unix, DevOps, Enterprise Architecture, Cisco, Network Engineering, SQL DB, Oracle DB, DB2 DB, DBAs, Database Developers, IT Leadership, Middleware, IT Project Management, Help Desk, Salesforce, Product Management, Systems Administration, Systems Engineering

CyberCoders is headquartered in Irvine, California and is a technology focused recruiting firm.

• Successfully placed over 20 direct hire full-time IT/Engineering professionals within the Denver, and Chicago markets resulting in $400,000 in permanent placement fees collected for 2014
• Achieved $300,000 in permanent placement fees year-to-date (as of September 15th, 2015) for IT/Engineering direct hire placements
• Full-desk recruiter responsible for full-life cycle recruitment including tasks pertaining to job vacancy evaluation, sourcing suitable candidates, conducting interviews, selection processes, and on-boarding
• Created and executed a customized recruiting workflow to source top ranked IT talent in the Denver job market
• Maintain and actively recruit for a consistent volume of between 10 and 20 open job orders at any given time
• Develop and maintain relationships with external client hiring managers
• Negotiate & establish service level contract agreements with clients
• Source both “active” and “passive” candidates for IT openings by writing public ads to attract top talent, leveraging a personal candidate network, recruiting candidates via job boards, database sourcing, social media outlets such as LinkedIn, requesting candidate referrals, cold calls, and direct sourcing efforts
• Interview and evaluate over 20 candidates weekly to determine applicant strength, fit, and suitability for a particular requisition and/or skillset
• Work with both candidates & clients to extend, negotiate, and close employment offers
• Positions That I Recruited For- Direct hire permanent placement: IT/Engineering positions within the following skillsets: Software Development, Web Development, Mobile Development, Embedded SW Engineering, Major ERP’s, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, IT/Engineering Leadership, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, Data Science, Big Data, IT Project Management, Product Management, Networking, CRM, and Help Desk.

Green Tee Lawn Care is based in Aurora, Illinois and they provide residential & commercial lawn care services.

• Successfully sold lawn care services in Chicago in the winter
• Maintained a volume of 150+ cold calls per day
• Successfully Sold $150,000 worth of lawn care services over a period of seven months.

Fifth Third is a consumer bank holding company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio

• Maintained Content Management Systems for Internal web sites
• Market research analysis