Andrea Schwartz

Current

Sr. Technical Recruiters at Volt Workforce Solutions

Past

Site Manager for DataDomain Raleigh at Data Domain
Technical Recruiter, RTP at Data Domain
Technical Recruiter in the RTP area at Credit Suisse

Senior Technical Recruiter at Denali Advanced Integration
Technical Recruiter at Excell Data
Recruiter at Ascentium Corp
Sr. Technical Recruiter at Volt Computer Services
Senior Recruiter at Volt Computer Services
Regional Sales at Business Tel - Wireless Web Connect
Animal Health Technician at Pet's Choice Sno-Wood Veterinary Hospital
Public Officer and other positions at Local non profit
Animal Health Technician at Manhattan Beach Veterinary Clinic
Emergency Surgery Tech at Pet's Choice West L.A. Veterinary Center

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Education

Cascadia Community College
Pasadena Community College
Universidad de Buenos Aires

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500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

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Andrea Schwartz’s Summary

Corporate Recruiter with an extensive background in HR. Experienced in site deployment, new technologies, niche searches and sourcing. Technical skills I have experience recruiting: software developers,members of technical staff, software testers, software test developers, tech support, customer service, inside sales, web developers, application developers, network engineers.

C, C++, C#, VB, VB.NET, UI, Java, bash, PERL, Python, PHP, Ruby, Code/Bug management, Unix/Linux/Windows, SSL, HTTPS, Test scripts/automation, tape drives, VTL, backup applications (NetBackup/Netvault/Commvault/TSM), data storage, deduplication. Inside sales, support engineers, tech support levels 1-3, system administrators, desktop support. FID IT product line, which includes Commodities, ACROSS, Loans, Foreign Trade and others. STEs, .NET, UNIX and Java Developers, PMs, and UI design. For Microsoft: Exchange, MSN channels, games, Plus!, Hotmail, Office. Music codexes and sound related teams.Internationalization and Linguistics groups.

Andrea Schwartz’s Experience

Sr. Technical Recruiters

Volt Workforce Solutions

(Public Company; VOL; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)

By connecting top companies with excellent candidates we help our industry move forward. Volt is recognized as one of the nation's most outstanding staffing services. Since 1950, Volt has provided leading companies with dynamic solutions to meet their human resources needs. We are among a select group of staffing companies to be named to the Fortune 1000.
Site Manager for DataDomain Raleigh

Data Domain

(Public Company; DDUP; Computer Hardware industry)

April 2009 — July 2009 (4 months)

I moved to a Site Manager role, taking over all of the facilities support management needs for the site. This includes coordination of Reception, Shipping, Meetings and Training scheduling, building planning and expansion plans.
DataDomain announced on May 21st that it is being acquired by NetApp.

Data Domain is leading the transition from tape to disk-based backup. Its patented data deduplication and compression technologies are doing for enterprise data protection what MP3 did for music. Founded in 2001, Data Domain now has over 3000 customers and 800 employees. We have a dynamic and collaborative environment that allows creative ideas to flourish and innovative people to have real impact on product development
Technical Recruiter, RTP

Data Domain

(Public Company; DDUP; Computer Hardware industry)

May 2008 — April 2009 (1 year )

Corporate Recruiter for DataDomain RTP. We built this new site from 4 staff to 50. Held Recruitment hat locally, and the HR liaison/HR rep in coordination with Corporate.

Data Domain is leading the transition from tape to disk-based backup. Its patented data deduplication and compression technologies are doing for enterprise data protection what MP3 did for music. Founded in 2001, Data Domain now has over 3000 customers and 800 employees. We have a dynamic and collaborative environment that allows creative ideas to flourish and innovative people to have real impact on product development.
Technical Recruiter in the RTP area

Credit Suisse

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CS; Banking industry)

August 2007 — March 2008 (8 months)
Senior Technical Recruiter

Denali Advanced Integration

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2007 — July 2007 (5 months)

Ah, the pleasures of moving across country again. This was a position I held both in WA and in NC. Focused on permanent positions that are strategic to the interaction between the Clients (Fortune 10 and 500 companies in the Pacific Northwest) and Denali's delivery teams.
Technical Recruiter

Excell Data

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2006 — March 2007 (7 months)

Part of Compucom and Platinum Equity, Excell provides high volume, high quality technical staff to the Software community in the Pacific Northwest.
I worked with their Microsoft Account team, and was impressed with their expeditiousness and professionalism. A highly reliable group of recruiters, who take care of their Associates. Left the team to relocate to NC.
Recruiter

Ascentium Corp

(Partnership; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2006 — September 2006 (6 months)

Ascentium is a full service mid-market consulting company with Business Consulting, Creative and Marketing Services, and Technology Services. Located in Bellevue, Washington, just outside of Seattle. Microsoft is Ascentium's largest customer, but they also service a large number of customers in the Northwest. Their business niche is 'technology and marketing organizations in mid market companies and the departmental enterprise' . They work in web and application technology that helps companies take products and services to market. And they are really good at it
Sr. Technical Recruiter

Volt Computer Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Human Resources industry)

October 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 6 months)

I supported the Raleigh, Boston, D.C., Florida, Charlotte NC and Redmond WA teams remotely from my Chapel Hill NC location.
We recruited candidates in the software, baking, pharmaceutical, biochemical, and other industries.
Senior Recruiter

Volt Computer Services

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2000 — December 2005 (5 years 10 months)

Owned the International positions called out by Microsoft to Volt (for testing and test developers with language or linguistics skills added to their computer technologies). I searched, contacted, screened, tested and submitted candidates, and helped coordinate their relocations if necessary. Helped Volt hold 89% of the market in this area, out of the positions called out to all agencies. I sustained a range of 80% or above for about six months.
Technologies: MS technologies: Software testers, software test developers, developers. Exchange, MSN channels, games, Plus!, Hotmail, Office.. I also recruited for the music codexes and sound related requirements. On the last year on this role I had strong focus on the Internationalization and Linguistics groups, which was a lot of fun.
Regional Sales

Business Tel - Wireless Web Connect

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )

Thoroughly enjoyed this technical sales position. I was the only salesperson for this company in the Seattle individual and small company user market. The company is now World Wide Communications, it was at the time associated to Metricom, and targeted mobile laptop users who needed wireless communication. From this position, I took sales from $0 to $40,000 per month in four months. On Jan 99 I expanded into an extra location at the Seatac Airport which increased total sales by 30%. Aggressively established and promoted my office, building strong working relationships with Metricom and the other Ricochet resellers in the Seattle area, which targeted large business.
Animal Health Technician

Pet's Choice Sno-Wood Veterinary Hospital

(Veterinary industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )
Public Officer and other positions

Local non profit

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

1991 — 1997 (6 years )
Animal Health Technician

Manhattan Beach Veterinary Clinic

(Veterinary industry)

1990 — 1991 (1 year )
Emergency Surgery Tech

Pet's Choice West L.A. Veterinary Center

(Veterinary industry)

1989 — 1990 (1 year )

Andrea Schwartz’s Education

Cascadia Community College

English 2002 — 2003
Pasadena Community College

English and Music 1998 — 1999
Universidad de Buenos Aires

Veterinary Medicine 1982 — 1986

Assistant at MAPA (Movimiento Argentino de Proteccion al Animal) where I was a surgery nurse. Teachers from the University were surgeons there, it was a fantastic, educating and maturing experience.