SYDNEY DASILVA
Summary
Strategic and people focused professional with proven success in driving/ organizing special initiatives, optimizing operations, and building high performing, engaged teams.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Executive Administrative Assistant
New Life Doulas
12.2025 - Current
- Coordinated schedules for doulas and clients, ensuring timely appointments and support.
- Managed communication between clients and staff, facilitating clear information flow.
- Organized training sessions for new doulas, enhancing team knowledge and skills.
- Maintained confidential client records, ensuring compliance with privacy standards.
- Assisted in developing client resources, providing valuable information on services offered.
- Streamlined office procedures, improving efficiency in daily operations and task management.
- Planned events and workshops to promote community engagement and support initiatives.
- Supported financial tasks by processing invoices and managing expense reports accurately.
- Organized and maintained executive calendars, scheduled meetings, conferences, travel arrangements, and appointments.
- Managed director's calendar and prepared meeting agenda and materials.
- Created newsletters to share company updates and events.
- Migrated data to new CRM systems and payroll platforms, improving information accessibility.
- Utilized Honeybook, Canva, and full Google Suite products for project management and design tasks.
Senior Human Resources Business Partner
Gunner Roofing
01.2024 - 07.2025
- Led advanced HR initiatives across three company entities, ensuring 100% compliance with federal and state labor regulations and improving HR operational efficiency across the organization.
- Directed and executed multi-phase HR projects, including the implementation of a new ATS and payroll system within 90 days, improving hiring cycle time by 25% and payroll accuracy by 30%.
- Built HR infrastructure from the ground up, creating company-wide SOPs, upgrading onboarding workflows, and integrating automated processes in Paylocity to enhance the employee experience.
- Owned employee relations strategy, managing complex and sensitive matters with high confidentiality and sound judgment.
- Drove company-wide engagement by producing monthly HR communications, digital frameworks, and survey strategies that increased participation and employee satisfaction.
- Launched and led talent development programs, including the company's first internship program, securing six interns in the first cycle and establishing a framework for workforce planning.
- Partnered with senior leadership on performance management, succession planning, employee wellness programs and strategic organizational decisions impacting 50+ employees.
- Mentored and managed HR staff, including direct oversight of an offshore HR team member.
- Managed full-cycle talent acquisition across organization, while maintaining a 95% offer acceptance rate and reducing time-to-fill by 20% across varying leadership levels.
- Represented the company at 10+ external recruiting events maintaining brand presence.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Tradeweb
05.2023 - 01.2024
- Led recruitment for 25+ opens roles across business and technology verticals.
- Drove meetings with internal stakeholders in diverse business units to discuss their needs and identify solutions as needed.
- Increased passive candidate engagement through targeted LinkedIn sourcing campaigns.
- Owned Internship program recruiting operations from sourcing and screening, to interviewing and coordinating hiring decisions.
- Built and maintained a passive talent pipeline through proactive sourcing.
- Drafted job descriptions and optimized posting to attract top talent.
- Execute onboarding in collaboration with the Human Resources team.
- Maintain internal data records including candidate records, ATS workflows, reporting accuracy and analysis of recruitment metrics with responsibility of reporting to the HR Director.
- Contract
Senior Recruiter
Mission Staff
10.2021 - 05.2023
- Managed full cycle recruitment for 100+ placements in digital marketing, technology, and creative fields, achieving a 90% candidate retention rate at 6 months in a recruiting agency setting.
- Acted as POC for all candidates (both contract and permanent roles) placed, checking in on a bi-weekly basis.
- Mentored 3 junior recruiters, contributing to a 30% improvement in their fill rate within 6 months.
- Produce weekly client market analytics reports, identifying talent market trends that drove an increase in qualified submissions.
- Utilized LinkedIn recruiter, Bullhorn, Salesforce, and cold calling efforts to reach out to both candidates and clients when the sales team needed additional support.
- Specialized in creative recruiting which included skill sets: Digital Marketing, Design, advertising, creative PMs, etc.
Account Manager
TEKsystems
03.2021 - 10.2021
- Managed client accounts end-to-end, driving retention and revenue growth.
- Built strong client relationships and delivered tailored solutions to exceed targets.
- Oversaw daily account operations, ensuring seamless communication and on-time deliverables.
- Identified upsell opportunities and improved client satisfaction through proactive support.
Lead Recruiter
TEKsystems
06.2020 - 03.2021
- Acted as a full-service recruiter scheduling initial pre-screenings and acting as point of contact throughout candidate contract duration.
- As a global IT services partner, I support our customers in the Government & Higher Education verticals.
- Qualified business at one of our top local Universities or government entities and begin the recruiting process through our ATS tracking system.
- This includes cold calling candidates with relevant skill set such as, but not limited to: Scrum Masters, Full Stack engineers, Business Analysts, product owner, project managers, principal architects, UX designers & engineers.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
American Cruise Lines
07.2019 - 03.2020
- Experience working with full cycle recruiting, ATS, & ICIMS to help recruit positions onboard our 11 luxury cruise ships that lead in the small cruise ship industry by screening, reviewing and interviewing candidates.
- Building relationships with local businesses and companies while recruiting at their career fairs.
- Conducted 50 interviews weekly through Skype as we recruited talent nationwide.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Southern Connecticut State University
01-2018
Skills
- HRIS management
- ATS Implementation (Salesforce, Greenhouse, Bullhorn, Workday)
- Paylocity
- Google Sheets
- Mondaycom
- Performance Management
- Succession Planning
- Talent Acquisition and Recruiting
- Benefit Administration
- HR Policy & Compliance
- Employee Engagement
- ER Investigations
- Onboarding & Offboarding process
- Employment law & Compliance
- Caliper Certified
- Flodesk
- Canva
- Honeybook
- Enginehire
- Project coordination
Timeline
Executive Administrative Assistant
New Life Doulas
12.2025 - Current
Senior Human Resources Business Partner
Gunner Roofing
01.2024 - 07.2025
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Tradeweb
05.2023 - 01.2024
Senior Recruiter
Mission Staff
10.2021 - 05.2023
Account Manager
TEKsystems
03.2021 - 10.2021
Lead Recruiter
TEKsystems
06.2020 - 03.2021
Talent Acquisition Specialist
American Cruise Lines
07.2019 - 03.2020
Bachelor of Science -
Southern Connecticut State University