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VP, Recruiting 

DebtBook

First in-house Recruiter hired to build TA processes and attract top talent during a period of hyper growth. During my tenure, DebtBook grew to 135+ employees. As the first in-house recruiter, I wore many hats ranging from “People Operations” (Greenhouse rollout, Offer Approval process automation, Offer Letter Template ATS Integration, Candidate email template and JD template creation), “HR Business Partner” (Internal Mobility policy creation), “TA Manager” (optimizing a thoughtfully structured interview process for all functional business areas, building training materials around interviewing skills, creating SLA that leveraged best practices) and “Lead Recruiter”.  Partnered with Engineering, Product, Sales, Customer Success, Finance and Accounting Product Enablement teams.

Talent Acquisition Manager/ Founding Recruiter

AKASA

AKASA is a A16z-backed tech startup leveraging AI and machine learning to automate backoffice healthcare operations.  Hired as Employee #175 with plans to grow to 350 by EOY 2022.
•	Streamlined core engineering interview process and enhanced candidate experience, drastically improving conversion rate. My offer acceptance rate for Core Engineers was 80% in Q1 2022, up 30% from prior period. Conversion rate (interview to offers) went from 17:1 to 7:1. 
•	Developed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Talent Acquisition and Talent Operations. 
•	Enhanced New Employee Interview Training, updated guides for Reference Checking Best Practices, and began developing New Hiring Manager training to operationalize AKASA’s core values and stakeholders’ adherence to SLA timelines. 
•	Led remote team-building events. Created roadmap for the launch of AKASA’s first ERG, Women@AKASA.  
•	Conducted Lunch-and-Learns for Recruiters on topics like Candidate Experience, Diversity Hiring, and Influencing Stakeholders.

Lead Talent Partner, Engineering & Product

Pegasystems

Sole Tech Recruiter dedicated to Product Engineering for North America, supporting Chief Product Officer’s six Vice Presidents and their respective teams. Adapted to new norms in 2020 as the organization continued to grow quickly, reducing time to fill within 90 days for most roles, hiring 50+ engineering and product professionals in 2020 and 60+ in 2021.

Principal Talent Acquisition Consultant

Carbon Black, Inc.

Promoted from Senior to Lead Recruiter in 2017.  

Lead Recruiter for cybersecurity firm that grew from 320 to 1200 employees & IPO’d May 2018. Focused on Engineering and Product Management and took on additional responsibility for all Corporate functions (Human Resources, Marketing, Finance, Legal, SecOps and IT). Partnered with Executive Leadership team to hire across the organization as we scaled business operations and headed towards an IPO. Valuation was $1.25 billion in May 2018, Nasdaq: “CBLK”.

Lead Recruiter- Product Engineering and Corporate Functions

TripAdvisor

Invited to join TripAdvisor’s corporate team in Newton, MA after successfully recruiting for TripAdvisor’s New York based startup businesses (Jetsetter, Oyster, and TripAdvisor “Flights / New Initiatives”) as an external agency recruiter in 2013.  Worked onsite full-time from December 2013-March 2014.
▪ Sole recruiter supporting TripAdvisor’s high growth start-up business units.  

These divisions included: Vacation Rentals (VR), TripAdvisor For Business (T4B), Dao Dao (TripAdvisor China), and New Initiatives / Flights; as well as for subsidiaries like The Independent Traveler (www.cruisecritic.com).

Senior Tech Recruiter

RIVERVIEW RECRUITING LLC

Riverview is a boutique staffing agency that provides individualized attention and exceptional service, cultivating partnerships with well-regarded, international firms, small to mid-size firms offering dynamic cultures & lifestyle flexibility, and an array of exciting VC-funded start-ups in metro NYC.

We founded our company with the primary goal of working with the best companies in Silicon Alley, to find the best talent. The connections we strive to make on a daily basis, and the relationships we build upon year after year, are translated into a diversified client base and vast candidate network that will further benefit those we serve. We are proud of our loyal, strong referral network and our reputation for high integrity and quality service.

Clients included:  TV Guide Digital, Shutterstock, The Daily, Paperless Post, TuneCore, BuyWithMe, Single Platform, Yamaha Music Interactive, CBS Music Interactive, Major League Baseball, interCLICK, Datalot, Business Insider, Venmo, Voce Communications, Tandem7, Etsy, Popdust, Elephant Ventures, Been Verified, Quidsi, Vivastreet, Lawline.com, Intent Media, The Ladders, Mindspark Interactive, News Corporation, StepOut, Teladoc, Tykoon, Avatar NY, Constellation.tv, Plum Willow, ideeli.com, Roubini Global Economics, The NY Post, and more.

Specialties: Product Management, UX, & Software Engineering

Founder / Talent Acquisition Director

Winter, Wyman & Co.

Senior Technology Recruiter – Permanent Placements (Contingent Fee) 
▪ Full lifecycle recruiter – Candidates and Clients.  Joined a startup division of Winter, Wyman ("New York Technology" newly launched Summer 2006) and was able to quickly land several key clients for Winter Wyman, including, The New York Post, Yamaha Music, The Federal Reserve, and numerous high growth tech startups.  Responsible for signing IFS (a financial services firm relative to hedge fund accounting) which resulted in one of the highest revenue-generating accounts firm-wide.  
Promoted to Senior Recruiter in 2008. 
▪ On the candidate side, actively sourced candidates, scheduled interviews, conducted reference checks, extended offers, ensured successful onboarding.   
▪ On the client side, partnered with hiring managers by taking a consultative approach. Provided feedback on job descriptions (creating them from scratch for busy hiring managers  / startups without HR departments) and recommended changes to streamline hiring process and enhance the candidate experience, sharing market insight. 
▪ Positions hired:  Software Engineers / Web Developers (Java, PHP, Ruby on Rails, C#, Javascript, etc.), Technical Business Analysts, Technical Project Managers, Quantitative / Financial Engineers, Director / VP of Engineering, QA Engineers, Interactive Producers, Information Architects, Product Managers, Director of New Digital Media, Director of Product Development, SEO / SEM, Sys Admins, DBA’s. 
 
Quarterly AWARDS: 
▪ Q1 & Q2 (2008):  Quarterly Achievement: Top 10 Biller       
▪ Q1 & Q2 (2008):  Quarterly Impact Award 
▪ Q2, Q3, & Q4 (2007):  Rookie Achievement Award

Senior Technical Recruiter

Lynch, Brewer, Hoffman & Fink, LLP

Sole attorney supporting Law Partner Elizabeth Zeldin (Harvard Law Grad named “Boston’s Top Lawyer” best known as a thought leader behind concept of “de facto parenthood”) running the firm’s matrimonial practice. Conducted legal research, drafted and argued motions/pre-trial conferences, deposed witnesses, counseled clients, collaborated with subject matter experts (ranging from financial experts to value family-owned businesses or unvested Pre-IPO stock options to mental health professionals and guardians ad litem). 

Argued appeal on behalf of husband in Houston v Houston 64 Mass. App. Ct. 529 (Mass. App. Ct. 2005)

Senior Associate

Metrics-driven, results-oriented full life cycle recruiting professional with 17 years experience in high tech. I thrive in fast paced, high growth mode environments. I have extensive experience streamlining processes, building trusting executive partnerships, and enhancing the candidate experience. 

I'm a Tech Recruiting Lead who is capable of so much more than getting the right candidates hired:
-Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Training
-Employer Branding intiatives
-Executive Recruiting experience
-Compensation 
-Org Design and headcount planning
-Attrition, Retention & Employee Engagement

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