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Lorraine Won

Chantilly,Virginia

Summary

Highly effective Senior Talent Acquisition professional with a global mindset with a deep expertise in IT and technical recruiting. Strong experience in sourcing top-tier talent in InfoSec/Cyber, Cloud architecture, AI, Machine Learning, Data Analytics and software engineering. Extensive experience in bid proposal recruiting, expertly aligning staff with intricate project requirements to ensure bid success. Proven track record of identifying and securing top-tier candidates for high-stakes proposals, ensuring skill alignment resulting in successful bids and optimal staffing outcomes for both short-term and long-term projects. Crafted impactful Marketing/Employer Branding and have devised Talent Insights strategies that effectively address customer challenges.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Talent Acquisition/Talent Management/People Operations & Analytics

ABARCA HEALTH
02.2022 - 08.2023
  • Manage TA (Hybrid) team of 15 for all of Software Engineering, IT Infrastructure/SaaS, InfoSec/Cyber, Product & G&A (Finance, HR & Legal)
  • Designed and deploy pivotal Talent Acquisition & People operations strategies to prepare, plan and scale for hypergrowth in establishing robust Sourcing strategies that align to key workforce planning company initiatives, this would include market mapping and competitor business intelligence to identify targeted talent pools. Created advanced well-formulated talent strategies to align and ensuring human capital contributes optimally to the achievement of business goals in a high-performance model. Deployed Workforce Training.
    • Designed robust sourcing strategy to support dynamic hypergrowth that was adaptive to the ever-evolving talent market, which led to 287 hires in 12 months with 96% closing ratio on offers accepted. reducing the overall Time to fill 34 days.
    • Establish Employer Branding by leveraging social media for postings to promote, engage and attract talent highlighting key employer & specific hiring teams value propositions, such as company culture, benefits, or other perks and promoting recent hiring testimonies.
    • Diversity & Inclusive Designed strategies that are inclusive, mitigating unconscious bias to attract a diverse talent pool and set metrics to gauge DEIB effectiveness.
    • Initiated People Analytics & Metrics through Power BI Dashboards- Monitoring key trends, KPIs, Time to hire, Time to fill, quality of hire as it relations to performance management and cost per hire.
    • Re-design/streamlined Talent Acquisition processes that included structured Interview framework, and assessments & selection through testing platforms. Optimizing the hiring processes for a better candidate experience.
    • Led Implementation of Testing platform to assess behavioral, cognitive or other methodologies to aligning with a culture that has a high-performance model.

Director, Talent Acquisition & Talent Strategy (Engineering, Product & G&A)

CITYBLOCK
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • Manage team of 7 recruiters (Hybrid RPO model) for all of Software & Data Engineering, IT Operations, Cyber Product & G&A
  • Deployed Talent strategy to support a fast-paced organization in hypergrowth trajectory. Deployed processes that integrated targeted Talent Acquisition sourcing strategies, Workforce planning and Talent development.
    • Lead Technical sourcing for a Series D health tech startup, designing sourcing strategies and execution for all technical roles from IC to Directors (SWE/Data Engineering/Analytics/DS/Cloud Microsoft Azure, AWS & GCP/Cyber/Product). Build robust talent pipeline through sourcing & engaging talent though social media venues yielding 142+ hires with an offer acceptance ratio of 92% in a dynamic and highly competitive talent market.
    • Successfully lead SaaS recruitment initiatives to accomplish new business growth which lead to 120+ hires in 6 months.
    • Deliver an incredible candidate and hiring team experience by streaming and optimized the workflow process to accelerate the hiring process to lead to a time to fill of 42 days.
    • Partner with leadership in headcount planning, prioritization, and resource allocation to achieve hiring targets across all teams.
    • Design and implement talent programs such as interviewer training, diversity/inclusion initiatives within recruiting, employer branding.
    • Evaluate and leverage existing talent acquisition processes, practices, and systems while innovating to ensure a competitive and future-focused approach.
    • Develop and implement DEI strategies that align with the Company’s mission and values
    • Develop and implement recruitment and retention strategies that promote diversity and inclusion (DEIB).
    • Establish metrics to measure and demonstrate the effectiveness of DEI.

Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition & Talent Organizational Development Strategy

WALMART GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY (WALMART LABS)
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Managed team of 10 recruiters (Hybrid RPO model & Multiple locations) for all of Software Engineering, INFOSEC/CYBER Product, Data Science & Machine Learning & G&A (US locations and UK)
  • Led deployment of global Talent strategy by driving expansion of diverse and inclusive talent pipeline, enabling equitable hiring and internal movement practices with shared accountability across enterprise to provide continuous DEIB Initiatives as aligned with business objectives.
    • Transitioned successfully from RPO outsourced model to corporate in-house talent acquisition, included hiring new team.
    • Designed robust recruitment strategies for large scale volume hiring in markets and locations (diversity initiatives, target sourcing, employer marketing/branding) led to 642 hires in a competitive talent market with an 87% offer acceptance ratio and time to fill 47days.
    • Acted with agility and speed to put new insights into practice while minimizing disruption and rework.
    • Led and/or participated in cross-business/cross-company special projects/workstreams and initiatives related to talent acquisition.
    • Implemented data driven approach to measuring program effectiveness to understand and applied customer insights and analysis in driving change.
    • Embraced change by experimenting with and prototyping new tools and sourcing methods. Leveraging data and analytics to generate insights and make informed decisions. Drove removal of redundancy from processes while minimizing disruption to business.

Senior Talent Acquisition Lead (Long-Term Contracting)

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING SECTOR CLIENTS (Supporting INTEL & DOD)
01.2016 - 01.2019
  • Clients: Amazon (AWS & DNS Route 66), Microsoft, SAIC, Booz Allen, Northrup Grumman & General Dynamics
    Positions: Information Technology, Software & Data Engineering, Cyber/INFOSEC and Data Analytic teams
    Led full life cycle recruiting efforts for intel business including variety of Software engineering positions in INFOSEC/Cyber, Cloud (SaaS), DevOps and Data Science. Directed and channeled talent attraction actions to generate talent pipeline linked to long-term talent acquisition plan and business strategy.

    • Recruited and hired highly cleared (TS/SCI with FS Poly) candidates for key locations and addressed key staffing needs through development of strong cleared candidate pipeline.
    • Contributed as part of group in charge of rolling out smartphone application designed to attract and recruit key software talent to easily begin application using mobile phone.
    • Developed creditability with new PM and PRIME by attracting top talent for government customer, as result new excellence rating improved from four to eight out of overall rating of ten.
    • Utilized social media strategy successfully including visibility on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to attract and recruit passive highly cleared candidates to deliver the highest quality of talent to the business.
    • Delivered & supported future business capabilities and skillsets.

Senior Talent Acquisition POC Lead Recruiter (Contract) Cyber & Cloud Services- SITOPs

MICROSOFT, INC.
01.2014 - 01.2016
  • Partnered with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with ability to manage customer/partner expectations through deep understanding of return on investment on talent slotted for hire for current Microsoft high growth Cyber Security, INTEL and Defense practice teams.
    • Led robust sourcing strategy through a multi-channel approach, social media, promoting employer & hiring team branding, AI-powered tools & Talent market intelligence.
    • Built and maintained network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and relationship management.
    • Created strategies related to sourcing that contributed to long-range growth of cyber security and intel defense teams and implemented any new processes for attracting talent.

Education

Some College (No Degree) -

Queens College of The City University of New York
Flushing, NY

Skills

  • Application Tracking Systems: Greenhouse, Workday, Taleo, BRASSRING/Kenexa, iCIMS, SuccessFactors, Avature
  • Analytics Tools: Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft CRM Dynamics, Google Analytics and Tableau

Languages

Fluent in Spanish

Timeline

Talent Acquisition/Talent Management/People Operations & Analytics

ABARCA HEALTH
02.2022 - 08.2023

Director, Talent Acquisition & Talent Strategy (Engineering, Product & G&A)

CITYBLOCK
01.2021 - 01.2022

Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition & Talent Organizational Development Strategy

WALMART GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY (WALMART LABS)
01.2019 - 01.2021

Senior Talent Acquisition Lead (Long-Term Contracting)

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING SECTOR CLIENTS (Supporting INTEL & DOD)
01.2016 - 01.2019

Senior Talent Acquisition POC Lead Recruiter (Contract) Cyber & Cloud Services- SITOPs

MICROSOFT, INC.
01.2014 - 01.2016

Some College (No Degree) -

Queens College of The City University of New York

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