Mark Apton

Astute and business savvy Senior Contract Recruiter. 15+ years experience, adept at full life-cycle recruitment. Innovative, consistent, top performer, surpassing staffing objectives. Empowering, team leader, capable of motivating staffing team members and reducing cost per hire. Experienced with recruitment process development/design and implementation. Strong internal account management experience and abilities. Experienced Manager/Leader and individual contributor.

Mark Apton’s Specialties:

I specialize in full-cycle recruiting for start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. My expertise is in semiconductor/embedded, Web 2.0 and three tier software applications.

Mark Apton’s Experience

Recruiter

Apton Associates

(Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)

Recruiting for Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, CSS, AJAX, J2EE, YUI, ZEND, LAMP stack Engineers, MySQL, Linux, Apache, Online Media, Online Security, System Administrator and Consumer Online Sales & Marketing Professionals.
Staffing Management Consultant

SandForce Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Hardware industry)

July 2009 — September 2009 (3 months)

SandForce is the world leader in Flash Controller and SSD technologies, creating innovative and disruptive products for storage, consumer electronics, Netbook, Laptop and Enterprise markets. These products are transforming how data will be stored and retrieved in the process reducing cost, power and increasing performance many times over the traditional disk arrays. We invest in the best talent to develop future technologies to consistently deliver high-quality products. We nurture a culture that promotes and inspires a team of world-class employees to innovate and develop the next generation of storage technologies. We invite you to explore the opportunities available and be part of a world
class engineering team.

Please visit our website to learn more about the current opportunities:
http://www.sandforce.com/index.php?id=38&parentId=5
Contract Recruiter

AMCC

(Public Company; Semiconductors industry)

January 2008 — December 2008 (1 year )

AMCC: 01/08 - 12/08 Sunnyvale, Ca
Contract Recruiter
Successfully managed talent acquisition objectives. Developed recruitment strategy for each organization. Partnered with hiring managers to understand key hiring initiatives within their organizations. Staffed positions within a variety of departments; software & hardware development, (e.g. ASIC, SoC, embedded s/w, verification), sales, H.R, finance and marketing.
Contract Recruiter

Mobilygen Corporation

(Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

November 2005 — October 2008 (3 years )

Mobilygen Corp. : 11/05 - 10/08 Santa Clara, Ca
Contract Recruiter
Senior Talent Agent, supported recruitment objectives, doing full cycle, corporate in-house recruiting for all embedded and application software & hardware development (ASIC, semiconductor, fabless, Audio, H.264 video compression), sales and marketing. Identified, tested (if applicable), interviewed, job offered, negotiated salaries, and hired candidates for management positions ranging from the executive level and below.
Contract Recruiter

Broadcom Inc.

(Public Company; BRCM; Semiconductors industry)

July 2005 — November 2005 (5 months)

Consulted with hiring managers to develop required and desired job skills, salary ranges, and recruiting strategies for all open positions within client base. Full cycle corporate in-house recruiting for all software & hardware development (ASIC, semiconductor, fabless), sales, H.R. and marketing.
Contract Recruiter

Raza Microelectronics

(Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

March 2005 — July 2005 (5 months)

Developed sourcing strategy with hiring managers and recruited, interviewed, negotiated job offers and hired engineers worldwide. Full cycle corporate in-house recruiting for all software & hardware development (ASIC, semiconductor, fabless), sales, operations and marketing.
Recruiter

Siemens Business Services Media

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2002 — March 2005 (2 years 4 months)

Recruiting Project Manager with responsibility for placing candidates into a variety of positions within Technology and Engineering, Marketing, and Human Resources departments. Managed process from requirements gathering to sourcing, interviewing, selection, presentation, negotiation, and closing/placement of candidates. Positions encompassed full time regular employee opportunities as well as contract and contract-to-hire. Filled positions related to DAM, MAM, DRM, Ingest, Post Production, Television Broadcast Master Control Rooms.
Recruiter

Nvidia

(Public Company; NVDA; Computer Hardware industry)

December 1999 — May 2002 (2 years 6 months)

Partner with Dept./regional staff to develop and implement recruitment and retention plans, including projecting recruitment needs, identifying and coordinating recruiting sources, and monitoring effectiveness of sources. Use of direct sourcing, industry networking, internet, resume database, employee referrals, and appropriate trade and industry organizations to recruit and perform in-depth interviews for a successful preparation and presentation of the offer package.
Recruiter

Netformx

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

June 1999 — December 1999 (7 months)

Sourcing, recruiting, interviewing, including internet and direct methods for network design software marketing department, including product, sales, and tech-support managers. Thorough knowledge of compensation, benefits, training and success factors and implications as they relate to staffing. Manage agency relations. Support projects that impact the staffing department.
Recruiter

Macromedia

(Public Company; MACR; Computer Software industry)

March 1999 — July 1999 (5 months)

Contract Recruiter;
Sourcing, recruiting, interviewing, including Internet and direct methods for Online Multi-player Game Developers and Producers, web tool developers and software engineers.
Sr. Recruiter and Account Manager

Midcom Corporation

(Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

January 1993 — October 1997 (4 years 10 months)

Contract and fulltime placements of engineers and supporting staff of commercial, defence, gaming and aerospace clients with H/W and S/W programmers and engineering professionals as well as related technical personnel. Type of candidates sourced were Unix applications developers and systems engineers, mechanical engineers, biotech, embedded real-time developers, web
developers, course developers, auditors, financial analysts & accountants.

Mark Apton’s Education

Cañada College

AA , Liberal Arts , 1991 — 1993
San Jose State University

Bachelors , Business/MIS

Activities and Societies:

MIS Club
University of California, Santa Cruz

Community Studies
Woodside Priory School

College Preparatory

Additional Information

Mark Apton’s Groups:

HRCA, SHRM, SJSU Alumni

San Jose State University (official group)
Executive Suite
Link Silicon Valley, LLC
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
Networked Recruiter (34,197+ total network) 3rd Largest Recruiting and HR & 2nd Largest Agency Group
EMS Insider (Electronics Manufacturing Services)
Technical Recruitment
HRCA
Sourcers Guild
LinkedPHPers - The Largest PHP Group
The UNIX and Linux Forums Users
RecruitingBlogs
Open Source Universe
Hitachi GST
Digital Asset Management
Linux Expert
Recruitment Consultants and Staffing Professionals (30.000+)
Startup Specialists
Broadcast Professionals
Java Developers
Broadcom Corporation Employees & Alumni
Inside Sales Experts
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
Oracle Contractors [9,000+]
Corporate Recruiters. #1 Group for Corporate Recruiters.
Apple - Current and Former Employees
Name Sourcing
Television Broadcast Technologies
Fabless Global - ASIC/FPGA/IP (3000+ members)
Set-top Box & IDTV, Mediacenter DVB and IP / CI+
Human Resources Professionals: THE "Unofficial" forum for SHRM Members
SUN Certified java professionals
Atlanta Jobseekers
NVIDIA Alumni
Semiconductor - VLSI
HR Executive Network
OVM Professionals Network
Mark's HR Network
BBC Technology Ltd Alumni
PCB Forum
Oracle Jobs
Masters of Digital Assets
Expert's in SystemVerilog/Specman/VERA/System C
Valerie Frederickson & Company Consultants
Talent Management Round Table
Data Warehouse Opportunities
Woodside Priory Bay Area Professionals
Social Media Recruiting Group