Irina Shamaeva

Current

• Partner at Brain Gain Recruiting

Past

• Product Development Manager at Path-Wise Corporation
• Director, San Francisco Office at MDL
• Engineering Manager at Verge

• Principal Engineer at e-Motion
• Project Leader at Applied Biosystems
• Research Associate at Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

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Education

• Moskovskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet im. M.V. Lomonosova

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Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

Irina Shamaeva’s Summary

I am a Partner at Brain Gain Recruiting. Our clients are mostly in software, IT, and Consulting, US-nationwide.

I have developed advanced ways to productively and creatively source on the Web and on Social Media.
My blog: http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com has more info about my network, webinars, and training DVDs.

Please feel free to contact me at Irina@braingainrecruiting.com

Follow me on Twitter: @braingain

Office: 510-233-9493 after 9 am Pacific.

Irina Shamaeva’s Specialties:

Grand Master Sourcer, Winner of the SourceCon Challenge-2009
Advanced Internet Research Techniques;
Google, Yahoo, Social Media, especially LinkedIn, and Twitter

Irina Shamaeva’s Experience

• Partner

  Brain Gain Recruiting

  (Partnership; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  2003 — Present (6 years )

  http://www.braingainrecruiting.com
  Recruiting for High-Tech and Big Four Consulting ~ US-Nationwide
  
  Currently 85% of our jobs are in the $100K+ range.
  We place:
  * Strategy Consultants and Executives (Business, Operations, Technology, Organizational Change)
  * IT, SAP, Peoplesoft, Oracle, Siebel, etc. Consultants and Executives
  * Software Engineers and Managers (in the Bay Area and beyond)
  
  Employers: we would love to hear from you! Please call or email if you would like to try us out.
  Candidates: please check the site for job posts. We update them daily.
  Recruiters: We are open to 50/50 split placements.

• Product Development Manager

  Path-Wise Corporation

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

  2004 — 2006 (2 years )

  Part of the start-up's Executive Committee. Formed a team of Java engineers. Managed the development and delivery of web-based e-commerce J2EE applications.

• Director, San Francisco Office

  MDL

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Biotechnology industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years )

  Hired to manage the San Francisco office, previously Afferent, a startup acquired by MDL - the industry leader in chemical databases. Managed a team of LISP software engineers developing combinatorial chemistry software applications. As a Project Manager, coordinated work of distributed teams and delivery of product releases.

• Engineering Manager

  Verge

  (Privately Held; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year )

  Hands-on manager of a team of client-side Java engineers in the fast paced startup. Involved in software design, usability studies, software process improvement, and collection of user feedback.

• Principal Engineer

  e-Motion

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years )

  Cross platform development lead. Ported multimedia distributed C++ products from Windows to the Mac.

• Project Leader

  Applied Biosystems

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Biotechnology industry)

  1994 — 1997 (3 years )

  Built and led a team of engineers to design and develop a brand new Mass Spectrometry quantitation application. Close interaction with the end users and marketing for creation of functional specifications. Hands-on development of the graphical UI, written in C++.

• Research Associate

  Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

  (Research industry)

  1991 — 1994 (3 years )

  (SKI is a non-profit organization in San Francisco, CA.) Designed and implemented a three-dimensional geometric model of the human eye. Visualized the calculations and predictions of the mechanical eye model. Sold the product to eye surgeons worldwide.

Irina Shamaeva’s Education

• Moskovskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet im. M.V. Lomonosova

  MS , Mathematics , 1980 — 1985

Additional Information

Irina Shamaeva’s Interests:

Web Sourcing Domain names Boolean Strings groups

Irina Shamaeva’s Groups:

LION
Open networker
Invites welcome -- invite me
TopLinked.com 11,500+

•    Moscow State University Alumni
•    Executive Suite
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Networked Recruiter (34,197+ total network) 3rd Largest Recruiting and HR & 2nd Largest Agency Group
•    Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
•    Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals
•    Business Development
•    SourceCon2010
•    ERE.net
•    Independent Recruiters
•    SAP Community
•    Sourcers Guild
•    Project Manager Networking Group
•    Business Intelligence Professionals
•    Consultants Network
•    Recruiting Professionals Network
•    IT Recruiters
•    Internet Sourcers and Recruitment consultants
•    CV Sourcing Consultants & CV Sourcers.
•    Open Source Universe
•    Online Advertising Professionals
•    eRecruiting
•    The Recruitment Network
•    Premium Headhunting Network
•    Innovative Marketing, PR, Sales, Word-of-Mouth & Buzz Innovators
•    Business Strategy & Competitive Strategy Forum
•    Biotech & Pharma Professionals Network
•    Organizational Change Practitioners
•    Social Media Marketing
•    Energy & Utilities Network
•    Media Professionals Worldwide
•    Tweeple
•    Corporate Recruiters. #1 Group for Corporate Recruiters.
•    Name Sourcing
•    The Talent Buzz
•    twitter innovators Innovation & Creativity Network of Tweeters
•    Boolean Strings
•    Job Search Help
•    Software Development Jobs
•    Management Consulting Jobs
•    Twitter for Sourcing and Recruiting
•    Linked:HR Event Calendar
•    Social Media Recruiting Group
•    100K+ Jobs Only
•    Google Wave for Recruiting!