Marvin Smith

Current

Talent Community Development at Microsoft

Past

Principal Consultant/Owner at Wilson Smith Associates
Senior Recruiter at Universal Avionics
Senior Recruiter at CoCo Communications

Senior Recruiter at Avocent
Senior Recruiter at TeleSym, Inc
Senior Recruiter at NeoRX
Sr Recruiting Manager at nLight Photonics
Senior Recruiter at Microvision
Technical Recruiter at TMP/Management Solutions/Parfitt Casey & Smith
Principal & Founder at Competitive Resources

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Education

Pacific Lutheran University
Grays Harbor College

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500+ connections

Industry

Consumer Electronics

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Marvin Smith’s Summary

Provide the Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division staffing team with mission critical talent by identifying and cultivating relationships with target talent community. Talent community development strategies include competitive intelligence, e-sourcing/recruiting, online recruiting, social networking, and talent database acquisition.

Our business mission is to be at the forefront our Microsoft’s Connected Entertainment initiative by delivering digital lifestyle experiences in collaboration and integration that are designed for a community of users. The Entertainment & Devices is comprised of our distinct businesses: Music (Zune & the Zune Marketplace), Gaming (Causal Game Platforms, Xbox Live, Windows Vista Games, & Xbox 360), Video (Microsoft TV, eHome & Windows Media Center), Communication (mobile & the mobile communications platform), and Productivity & Extended Consumer Experiences (PC Hardware, Windows Automotive, Windows Embedded, & MacOffice).

Marvin Smith’s Specialties:

Talent Community Development
Talent Acquisition
Name Generation Research
Sourcing|Prospecting
Jobster Implementation
Jobs2Web Implementation
PC Recruiter Implementation
Internet Sourcing: AIRS trained (and re-trained).
Sourcing Tools: Broadlook, eGrabber, ZoomInfo, etc
Competitive intelligence | research
Social Networking: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, et al
Technical Recruiting
Diversity Recruiting
Cloud Recruiting
Web 2.0 Recruiting
Data Aggregation
TalentStream

Marvin Smith’s Experience

Talent Community Development

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

Current assignment is to develop talent community for the Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division ($8.5B in sales & 10,00 employees). As Talent Community Project Manager, I support the Staffing Managers (3) and a Recruiting Team (35) with a strategic talent initiative that will identify prospective talent in the areas of engineering (software, hardware, & design), marketing (entertainment, music, PR & lifestyle branding), IT, Solutions, Art/Graphics, Finance, and Operations (manufacturing, procurement, & supply chain).
Principal Consultant/Owner

Wilson Smith Associates

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

May 1999 — March 2006 (6 years 11 months)

OnDemand Recruiting Services combines the best of external recruitment technologies with the teamwork and efficiencies found in internal recruitment. OnDemand Recruiting Services fall into two categories: we recruit a key executive or individual contributor as a “one-off” Managed Search™ Project or we assemble teams of highly skilled, hard to find knowledge workers, scientists, technologists, engineers, marketeers and industry specific business professionals as a “virtual” or “onsite” resource.

Wilson Smith Associates uses our pioneering Managed Search™ recruiting technology to identify, attract, evaluate and hire the desired talent—faster and better while delivering more value. OnDemand Recruiting has transformed the human capital identification process by not just lowering costs, but increased productivity in identifying highly skilled talent and improved retention through improved quality.

List below are the "onsite" clients that we served.
Senior Recruiter

Universal Avionics

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

April 2004 — March 2006 (2 years)

Recruiting and staffing
Senior Recruiter

CoCo Communications

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

May 2005 — July 2005 (3 months)

Sourcing/Pipeling for early stage networking/communication organization.
Senior Recruiter

Avocent

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

December 2004 — March 2005 (4 months)

Sourcing and pipeline generating position augmenting existing HR team's efforts.
Senior Recruiter

TeleSym, Inc

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

March 2003 — April 2004 (1 year 2 months)

Recruiting and staffing for venture funded Wi-Fi start-up.
Senior Recruiter

NeoRX

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; nerx; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

November 2001 — July 2002 (9 months)

Recruiting and staffing for biopharm company
Sr Recruiting Manager

nLight Photonics

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

August 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 3 months)

Responsible for all technical, engineering & business recruiting for well funded, high profile photonics start up with two manufacturing locations.
Senior Recruiter

Microvision

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; mvis; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

November 1999 — September 2000 (11 months)

Recruiting and staffing for photonics firm
Technical Recruiter

TMP/Management Solutions/Parfitt Casey & Smith

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

January 1994 — May 1999 (5 years 5 months)

Joined regional search firm to establish middle and senior management search practice for manufacturing, advancement technology and Fortune 1000 sized companies. Directed a practice that focused on searches for financial/accounting, marketing/sales, technical/engineering and operations executives. Firm was acquired by rapidly expanding staffing firm and was ultimately absorbed by TMP Worldwide.
Principal & Founder

Competitive Resources

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

January 1986 — December 1993 (8 years)

Sourced and recruited, senior and middle level professionals for a varied regional, national and international clientele. Conducted searches for financial/accounting, marketing/sales, operations, and technical/engineering executives. Principal and founder of firm.

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Marvin Smith’s Interests:

Talent community, talent community development, sourcing, telephone sourcing, talent acquisition, internet sourcing, candidate name generation, recruiting researcher, internet recruiting, recruiting, employment coach, executive recruiting, competitive intelligence, social networking, Jobster, AIRS, eGrabber, Broadlook, Microsoft, Microsoft Hardware, MS Hardware, Microsoft hardware engineering jobs, software jobs, software engineer, software developer, SWE, software development in test, SDET, Zune jobs, XBOX 360, Xbox 360 jobs, XNA, XNA development, XNA jobs, Microsoft Game Studios, Microsoft Game Studio Jobs, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Jobs, , Windows Automotive, Microsoft Automotive, Windows Automotive Jobs, Microsoft Automotive Jobs, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile jobs, Windows embedded, Windows embedded jobs, Microsoft surface, Microsoft surface jobs, OfficeMac jobs, Windows Mediaroom, Windows Mediaroom jobs, Software Development Jobs cloud services