Tara D. Kimbrough

• As Talent Principal Consultant, recruited, sourced and leveraged expertise to advise and implement recruiting processes to help build diversity talent pipeline with clients such as Github/Microsoft, Promethean World, Jumpstart.com, The Weather Channel's "Local Now", Stratfield Management Consulting, Hunter Technical Services.
• Recruited top executive talent and hard to fill senior engineering roles with 100% success rate across clients, meeting timeline deliverables.
• Identified and created recruitment and administrative performance metrics and data to analyze trends, drive change and assess progress using AI/data assessments to ensure team development succession and growth.
• Track and measure Key Performance Indicators to improve on SLA’s and provide recommendations with stakeholders.
• Created and drove talent acquisition and job placement strategies to attract diverse candidates.
• Training leadership on recruiting processes that drives company culture to appeal, place and retain top talent.

• Partnered and worked directly with the C-suite of each branch of hiring to place VP executives throughout product, engineering and revenue teams.
• Created recruiting strategy and methodology for search of optimal candidates.
• Updated stakeholders on key milestones weekly for executive placements. Since some roles were confidential, I ensured recruiting strategies did not impede on or affect executive networks to ensure full confidentiality.
• Negotiated compensation packages, advising C-Suite on market relevance and succession planning to retain incoming executives.
• Developed and updated tracking spreadsheets using Greenhouse and LI Recruiter to gauge ideal candidates for role requirements.
• Successfully placed the first executive within (32) days, breaking an internal trend of approximately (120) days to fill.

• Co-founded and provided the ideation subscription model for this business to service the start-up ecosystem and address the needs of optimal recruiting and "financial services as a service," providing quality talent and speed of service. Responsibilities were to build, implement and manage the recruiting side of the business.
• Specific expertise in facilitating and implementing an organic network by creating a strong executive talent pipeline amongst founders and co-founders in the start-up ecosystem.
• Implement processes, automation, recruiting best practices, and create and promote marketing concepts for the company’s "Grow In Atlanta" campaign.
• Leveraged several partnerships within ATAP, TAG and Meet-Ups community partnering with organizations in which ROI has rendered several key placements in signature seed start-ups.
• Created monthly engagements with partners to ensure talent pipeline remain consistent and within reach, sponsoring events that led to top placements with several clients with 97% retention rate.
• Key positions included: President/CTO, CMO, CFO, VP of Engineering, VP of Technology, Sales and Marketing Executives and other IT/Engineering disciplines.

• Greenwood is a fintech created with one mission and goal, to provide excellent financial opportunity within the Black and Latinx communities by creating and recirculating wealth and prosperity.
• Created and drove talent acquisition and job placement strategies to attract and place diverse candidates.
• As Head of Talent, work with Chairman/Co-Founder to implement from ground-up full-lifecycle talent acquisition processes, talent mapping/scaling, organizational development planning, and diversity recruiting strategy.
• Developed processes and playbooks for talent review and performance management and built strong teams to facilitate talent discussions.
• Created and standardized a "best in class" recruiting process map for an exceptional candidate experience with completing interviews within a 5-7 day cycle SLA. Talent mapped the organization according to industry standards for fintech organizations.
• As a Predictive Index Certified Optimization Leader, created all job descriptions succinct to the needs of the product roadmap, mapped salary surveys and succession plan for each role.
• Recruiting key C-suite and VP executive team members from the 'Top 25 Women in Financial Technology 2021" from FIS, as well top fintech organizations such as SoFi implementing a recruiting strategy for ascertaining well-defined, innovative and proven leaders in the fintech space.
• Implemented human resources best practices and policies and people operations.
• Present as Talent Head to board members and investors bi-monthly and create the quarterly strategy to recruit top talent in all business segments with human capital budget plan.

• Responsibilities as lead talent partner was to build out recruiting strategy, source and processes to build the first Data Science/Data Research/Data Governance team for new business unit Honeywell Connected Enterprise.
• Partner with EVP/SVP of group to build out recruiting strategy and timeline deliverables for the first data science and development group of Honeywell’s newest start-up.
• Implemented weekly SLAs, sourcing, vetting and placing optimal candidates.
• In this role, I was tasked with building the group’s first 20-25 executive leaders and team members for data science, data governance, engineering and data security, as well as building members of the UI development team: Senior Directors and Principal Architects.

• Luma was an IoT start-up technology company specializing in a consumer product - WiFi router/extender.
• As Head of Talent (hands-on /full life-cycle recruiting), complete RPO outsourcing implementation; promoted to Chief of Staff after 1st year.
• Created People Strategy roadmap, workforce and succession plan to include implementation of vendor HRIS system, Applicant Tracking Systems and best practices processes and hiring compliances.
• Sourced, recruited and closed in six months a team of (51) top engineering/information technology professionals for this IoT technology company from pure sourcing, network and social media platforms with no third-party agencies or recruiting team. Promoted to Chief of Staff after one year.
• Created all job descriptions, processed H1B, green cards and contracted any short-term external contractors.
• Created from ground-up internship programs, personal development, mentor programs, lunch and learns, health and wellness plan,fitness memberships, monthly birthday BBQ, and internal cross-training mentor program.
• Established and implemented best practices tool suite for full lifecycle Talent – to- HR Operations including automation, onboarding to off-boarding, ATS System.
• Coached and implemented training across different departments.
• Success of building a high performing team, including a full level Customer Support team led to sell of company to Fortune 100 Newell Rubbermaid.
• A complete acquisition included all team members excluding CEO, VP Finance and Chief of Staff . Positions placed: Senior Software Engineers, System Engineers, Software Architect, Principal Architects, App Product Managers, UI/UX designer/developers, Mobile App Developers (iOS, Android), Cloud Developers/Architect, DevOps Developer/Architect, DevOps Director, Visual Designer, Controller, VP Finance, Channel Manager, Dir of Logistics, Director Cust Service and full Technical Support Team Level 1-3, Creative Director, Social Media, Interns.
• Streamlined HR efficiencies, coordinated new hire orientations and provided onboarding and training for new employees.

CONSULTANT CONTRACT ASSIGNMENTS:

Clientele RPO Engagements: CNN/Turner Broadcasting, Vanderlande IHG-Intercontinental Hotel Group, Systems, Inc.-Global Technology and Operations/NBA Digital, Cartoon Network, North Highland Worldwide, Ventyx, an ABB (enterprise asset management software) Siemens Industry, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Association, Inc. Volkswagen, ThyssenKrupp, etc.

• Turner Broadcasting Data Cloud/start-up group) 02/16 – 06/16
• Purchasing Power 01/16 – 06/16
• Simeo Solutions, LLC 09/15 – 01/16
• CNN – Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc. (Great Big Story start-up group) 01/15 – 09/15
• InterContinental Hotels Group/Purchasing Power, Inc. 06/14 – 09/14
• Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc./CNN Digital Group (ATOM) 10/13 – 05/14
• North Highland Company - 11/12 – 10/13