Ronald Winters

Staffing professional with 15 plus years of experience as a technical sourcer and full life cycle corporate recruiter. Highly motivated and self-directed recruiter providing strong research and planning skills with a history managing projects. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to quickly form productive relationships with managers and TA staff. Mentor sourcing and recruiting teams. Internet savvy performing targeted research/searches using Boolean search strings from AIRS training and developing social networking sites to create candidate streaming. Utilize HRIS software WorkDay, Jobvite extensively to provide HR tracking data and Metrics. Trained on multiple ATS systems to meet company HR tracking and candidate relationships. Worked with Executive leaders, Directors and managers to refine req details, requirements and skills/qualifications to support sourcing skilled applicants, process interviews and make offers to close best candidate selections.

Results-driven recruitment professional with proven ability to connect top engineering talent with leading companies. Expertise in full-cycle recruitment, strategic sourcing, and candidate evaluation. Known for fostering team collaboration, achieving recruitment goals, and adapting to dynamic needs.

Professional recruiter with track record in identifying and acquiring top engineering talent. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving measurable results, adapting seamlessly to changing needs. Skilled in sourcing, interviewing, and placing candidates, while building strong relationships with both clients and candidates. Highly reliable and adept at leveraging industry knowledge to drive successful hiring outcomes. Diligent Sourcer with solid foundation in engineering recruitment and track record of matching top talent to key roles. Successfully collaborated with hiring managers to streamline recruitment processes and enhance candidate experience. Excelled in strategic sourcing and candidate assessment.

• Citrix Systems, Santa Clara, CA, Recruiter, 2018-04-04, 2022-02-28, Recruited and sourced software engineers with experience in Networking, ADC load balancer and analytics. Software developers for cloud products supporting Citrix Workspace and the go to recruiter for cybersecurity including Incident Response, Red team, Blue team and Splunk engineers and analysts. Source Architects, Data systems engineers, Machine learning developers. Sourced Container engineers with enterprise security. Kubernetes, cloud expertise. Sr Principal, Principal DevOps System engineers.
• Lockheed Martin, Senior Corporate Recruiter, 2003-10-01, 2009-11-30, Supported IS&GS division with Sourcing/recruiting for project level work utilizing internet sourcing and Database search tools. Support national engineering staffing for Systems, Software, Network Systems and Information Assurance for large projects. These contracts were $30 million and $150 million awards for full IT management and services. Staffed 13 Software Design and QA/Test in 6 weeks from square one for a Contract supporting the integration of multiple Operating Systems into an open architecture. Supported corporate staffing for Finance, Human Resources and Information Technology group. Average open Req. load was 40-75 positions.
• Nvidia, Santa Clara, CA, Engineering Recruiter, 2022-02-01, 2022-06-30, Engineering recruiter supporting Melanox/Cumulus BU with Networking software development and System architecture. Software development with C, C++, Python coding at kernel, device driver in Linux Windows environment. Sourcing Architects for Cumulus Network and Cloud systems.
• Marvell Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, Recruiter, 2016-04-01, 2017-03-31, Recruiting for ASIC design, Verification and Firmware/Software developers supporting Datacenter, Mobile and storage chips. Sales and Marketing and Analytics. Fleshed out the Finance group with FP&A and GL from Director to Analyst.
• Adara Networks, San Jose, CA, Recruiter, 2016-02-01, 2016-04-30, Providing technical resource services for Sr. level Software Engineers working in Linux, FreeBSD, & Unix Kernel level, device driver, C/C++, Cifs.
• Toshiba America, San Jose, CA, Technical Recruiter, 2014-10-01, 2015-05-31, Sourcing DataCenter Cloud Software including Firmware, Device Driver, Kernel, and Platform Software, Linux, Perl, Python, Java, C, C#. Source Software Developers for Big Data; Opensource, Octo, Ceph, Hadoop; File Systems Developers for Linux Platform and embedded Systems.
• HGST, a Western Digital company, San Jose, CA, Technical Recruiter, 2012-08-01, 2013-04-30, Full-cycle recruiting of Device Driver SW Developers, Embedded firmware for IO Stack in HDD and SSD product areas, and Systems Software Engineering Storage Management Software developers, SQA automation test.
• Fusion io, Senior Technical Recruiter, 2011-12-01, 2012-06-30, While a publically traded stock this is like a start-up environment. Sourced for Virtualization Systems Engineering and Design. I have been recruiting Kernel and device driver developers with C, C++, PHP and Python coding for Virtualization and multi-threading for Virtual Machine processing with IO Turbine group. Algorithm design development, iSCSI, SAN, VMWare, vCenter, ESX/ESXi, SQA and automation tools and test.
• LAM Research/Novelus Systems, Fremont, CA, Recruiter, 2010-08-01, 2011-12-31, Senior Staffing Recruiter Semiconductor Equipment Manufacture supporting Operations including Supply Chain and Business Analytics, Etch Engineering Development Process and Applications support, Marketing and Sales. Recruit corporate Finance, HR and Exec Administration. Source, screen, interview, comp and make/close offers from exempt levels to Director X level. I have a Strategic view of Employee retention and team building and use knowledge of compensation and current market research to recommend the appropriate offer structure. Carried an average Req. load of 25 with bumps up to 35+.
• Samsung SARC/ACL, Santa Clara, CA, Sourcer, 2017-03-01, 2018-03-31, Recruited and sourced Software engineers with experience in Device Drivers, embedded developers and firmware engineers for GPUCPU. OpenCL/GL-ES, Vulkan Hardware and UMD, GPU Performance and Power Architects, Hardware, Design, Verification, CAD tools EDA with scripting (Perl/Python) software, for ACL Business Unit of SARC.
• Broadcom Corp, Santa Clara, CA, Sourcer, 2015-06-01, 2016-01-31, Sourced for Firmware Engineers and IC Design Engineers for the most demanding Design Development in the world today. I hired Hardware (board-level) Engineers, Software Applications Engineers, Product Applications Engineers, Product Marketing, Software Engineers, SQA Engineers and DFT Engineers. Hardware Engineering (ASIC and Processor Design, Verification, Physical Design), Software Engineering (Embedded and Firmware), Systems Software with Algorithm analysis.
• Hewlett Packard, Sunnyvale, CA, Sourcer, 2014-02-01, 2014-07-31, Support Enterprise Storage Group sourcing for Cloud and Enterprise Software Engineers and SQA for the Americas. Recruit software developers including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases and Internet-related tools.