
Founder at ExternalMix
Greater Seattle Area

Founder at ExternalMix
Greater Seattle Area
Sr. Recruiter with 14 years of experience in the recruiting industry. Skilled in full life cycle recruiting process / staff development, training and coaching. Background includes consistent experience exceeding company and client expectations while forging strategic alliances. Industry experience in various different markets.
Gaming, Web 2.0 (Online Media), Software, Entertainment, Telecommunications, and many more.
(Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
August 2009 — Present (5 months)
ExternalMix is a staffing outsource group, with a background of 14 years in the recruiting & staffing industry. ExternalMix can provide a vast background of resources for our clients with an excellent external mixture of talent. ExternalMix provides contract staffing, contingent staffing, and retained search services. ExternalMix's team of specialist recruiters have the knowledge at our firm to provide the skills needed to help you with top talent. ExternalMix focuses in various industries, gaming, software, online media, social media, internet, entertainment, gaming, telecommunication, etc...
(Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
April 2007 — July 2009 (2 years 4 months)
AttackMedia was a specialized recruiting agency in the Web 2.0 Online Media Space, Entertainment/Gaming, along with the IT space. We did full lifecycle recruiting. We focused are recruiting talents at all levels C, VP, Director Level, Management, Sales, Marketing, and all technology positions. Target Markets: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, & Europe. Skill sets recruited on are as follows, .NET, C++, SQL, ERP, SAP, LAMP, PeopleSoft, SQL, PHP, Oracle Financials, Oracle DBA’s, and Perl.
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
July 2008 — October 2008 (4 months)
I supported the Business Marketing Organization (BMO) at Microsoft Lincoln Square Bellevue location. My main focus is to recruit specialist for specialized teams for Microsoft’s organization, Business Analysts, Database Marketing, Developers, Lead Management, Sr. Web Managers in the Online Media Space for the BMO group. I was involved with the full lifecycle recruiting process. I supported two major teams at Microsoft, and work on multiple requirements at once.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
September 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 8 months)
I worked closely with the VP of Consumer Services, to recruit for talent in the Online Media Space for the Seattle, and the New York Office. I was focused on all levels of positions within the WhitePages.com environment. I hired VP, Director, Account Executives, Marketing, and Business Development personnel. My primary focus was hiring for the sales division. Whitepages.com is a profitable privately held company in the online new media space, and is the leading provider of online people search. WhitePages.com was recognized as the third fastest growing technology company in Deloitte's Pacific Northwest Technology Fast 50, earned the 73rd spot on Deloitte’s 2006 Technology Fast 500 for North America, and was named the 123rd fastest growing technology company on the Inc. 500 List.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2001 — August 2005 (4 years 7 months)
I was responsible for building relationships with new clients and ramping Auxilium up to a profitable standard in the sales division. My duties included cold calling on new accounts and relationship building. I managed the relationships between the clients and consultants. I structured ground breaking sales techniques that allowed Auxilium recruiters to reach new levels in there recruiting abilities. I was responsible for the negotiation process with new clients when it came to the first step introduction process. I successfully completed my appointed projects on time and with a limited budget. I effectively recruited candidates through Internet research, internal database, cold calling, referrals, networking, job fairs, and other strategies. I performed extensive recruiting for Senior Software/Database Developers with heavy focus on technologies such as: C/C++, UNIX, Linux, .NET, Java/J2EE, Peoplesoft, ERP, SQL Server, SAP, Oracle Financials, and Oracle DBA’s.
(Internet industry)
September 2000 — January 2001 (5 months)
In this role at Click2learn.com, I was responsible for building relationships with the internal executive management team. The goal was to sell a new hiring strategy to the internal executive team, which directed the hiring efforts through human resources, verses direct hires through the managers themselves. My role required self-managing, goal oriented processes to fulfill the tasks that were given to me, as well as having a broad range of people skills to accomplish these tasks. My role was to manage several divisions within Click2learn when it came to the hiring needs of the company, and sell potential individuals on Click2learns growth potential, as an e-learning company. Focused on Oracle Financials, and Oracle DBA’s
(Online Media industry)
January 2000 — July 2000 (7 months)
I was Responsible for scouting personnel at all levels for this next generation streaming media company at the corporate headquarters located in Seattle, WA with branch facilities located in New York, Pasadena and Los Angeles California. I was the sole consultant assigned to work closely with key executives of AtomFilms such as the Chief Marketing & Online Officer, VP of New Platforms (wireless), VP of Acquisitions & Film, Sr. VP of Worldwide Revenue & Media Strategy, Sr. VP of Strategy & Development, Sr. VP of Creative Development.
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
September 1997 — October 1999 (2 years 2 months)
I helped build Ardent Consulting LLC. from the ground up. Responsibilities included the following; established relationships with new clients and maintained the relationship through the entire sales life cycle. Skill sets recruited in the following areas. C, UNIX, Java/J2EE, SQL, SAP, Peoplesoft, Cobol and Oracle.
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
August 1995 — September 1997 (2 years 2 months)
My primary focus was to hire Network Administrators and Network Engineers for contract positions with some of the core companies around the Puget Sound region. Skill sets recruited in the following areas. C, UNIX, Java/J2EE, SQL, SAP, Peoplesoft, Cobol, and Oracle.
Serious Poker Player - Cash Game Specialist. Poker industry, World Series of Poker, Poker Charity Events in Las Vegas.
Groups I started on LinkedIn:
PokerPlayersSocialNetwork / Black Executives Network / Whitepages.com Alumni / AtomFilms.com Alumni / ThoseInFilm