Rachelle Munson

Past

Contract Corporate Staffing and Recruiting at Luxtera, Inc.
Staffing/Networking at HireAbility Network Exchange
HR - Technical Recruiter/Staffing at Linksys - Cisco

Technical Staffing/Source Recruiter at Broadcom Corp
Technical Staffing/ Recruiter / HR at Mariner Networks / Odetics
Account Executive / Recruiter at Comms People / Glotel

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Education

San Jose State University

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Rachelle Munson’s Summary

949.690.9947 – shellsanclemente@yahoo.com
- South OC to North San Diego. Will relocate, open to a new adventure. -

Objective: Seeking work in the area of staffing, recruitment, headhunting, or names research. I’m experienced in recruiting for new technologies: 10G IC technology - also software, semiconductors, retail 892.11x, networking hardware, healthcare, pharm, and medical devices.

Professional Summary:
Sole staffing and recruiting person for 2 fast growing companies, total 4 yrs in this role.

Successful and creative senior recruiter with extensive experience in envisioning and implementing recruiting and sourcing strategies. Self motivated, intelligent and hard working with strong problem solving and analytical skills. Able to utilize technologies towards improving efficiencies and achieving measurable results. Exceptional skills in project management and communicating with and working with hiring manager onsite, candidates, and a short list of exceptional 3rd party search firms. Responsible for building sourcing strategy, identifying top talent, building candidate relationships, presenting candidates to hiring managers and contributing to hiring decisions. I've worked as a Corporate Recruiter in-house with HR and Staffing, usually as a consultant working in a combination of onsite and offsite; VPN into the network and work from home office.

Recruiting Experience Highlights:
● Luxtera: 10G High speed mixed signal IC/Chip with Fiber Optics and Opto-Electronics. SOI CMOS Transceiver, HD Video, Networking.
● Linksys/Cisco: Retail 802.11 Wireless Networks and Media Products.
● Broadcom Corp: Lead for the development of Broadcom's Reed Channel Development for Hard Drives in Colorado. Additional Sourcing for Broadcom Chip Development groups: 3G Handset, 802.11, Bluetooth, Controllers, Device Drivers, Cable/Satellite Set-Top Boxes, Gigabit Ethernet, Server/Storage Networks, Wireless Networks, Mobile Comm, Broadband Processors, Bluetooth, VoIP

Rachelle Munson’s Specialties:

Highlights Continued:
● Cybercoders: Biotech, Medical, Healthcare, Chargemaster HIPPA Compliant Software Projects, Genetics, Ph.D.’s, Credit Card Company Statistical Engineering, Data Warehousing, Executive Sales for Chargemaster Software.
● Entropic: Short Contract concurrently with Luxtera. Contract for Broadband HD Video Engineers.

Rachelle Munson’s Experience

Contract Corporate Staffing and Recruiting

Luxtera, Inc.

(Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

January 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 11 months)

Contract Staffing and Recruiting January 2006 – November 2008
HD Video and Networking Interconnect Products. Technology: Fiber Optics, Optoelectronic, and Semiconductor space.
CMOS High Speed Mixed Signal 10Gig/40Gig IC. A high speed mixed signal chip, moving data faster, farther, and cheaper.

As the sole recruiter managing the staffing for Luxtera's hires for 3 years, I was able to build our team from 40 to 85 with exceptional, experienced people in semiconductors and optics from top competitive companies. We focused on PhD's/Masters in education and or a very strong career track with accomplishments. Hires also included all other positions for company; Engineering, Optics, Manufacturing; Testing, Lab, IT, Finance, Sales, Marketing.

● Created strong network and candidate pool of active and passive candidates
● Created strong presence for Luxtera on Internet driving active and passive candidates to Luxtera
● Tools used: Career Builder, Monster, Linkedin.com, Spoke, Jobster, and various niche resume boards
● Created Marketing Tools and Documents for Tradeshows for attracting passive candidates
● Strong Referral and reference network
● Metrics tracking and reports
● Administered NDA’s
● Schedule, Guide and Manage Interviews
● Internships; recruited for and managed university relationship
● Managed relationships with outside vendors
● Ramping up Luxtera, the small to mid sized start-up with hires of tiles such as: Senior Design & Verification Engineers, Test Engineers, FAE's, IC Layout, Marketing, Sales, Finance, FAE’s, Application Engineer’s, IT, and for all other G&A positions.
(As a result of no anticipated hires, my position was eliminated)
Staffing/Networking

HireAbility Network Exchange

(Semiconductors industry)

June 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 8 months)

Independent Recruiting Manager working with fellow Staffing and Recruiting professionals to make placements and provide for our clients staffing and hiring needs.
HR - Technical Recruiter/Staffing

Linksys - Cisco

(Public Company; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

October 2004 — March 2005 (6 months)

Working with Human Resources Director, Compensations and Benefits, Hiring Managers and Administration. Providing recruitment and staffing. Involved with negotiating offers. Weekly headcount report. Meeting and working with Hiring Managers to fill their requirements. Recruiting off resume boards, networking, online resources, and referrals. Working with IT for database development and recruitment strategies.
Technical Staffing/Source Recruiter

Broadcom Corp

(Public Company; BRCM; Semiconductors industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year)

Using Virtual Edge E* Track Applicant Tracking System, Talent Hook, Subscribed Job Boards, IEEE, Career Fairs and Direct Networking to Source Top Talent for Broadcom Bay Area, Broadcom Irvine and Broadcom Global. Engineering in all areas of IC chip design: Software, Hardware, Design, Layout, Embedded, Verification, all the way to tape out. Mobile & Wireless, Enterprise Networking, Central Engineering, and Broadband. System-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions incorporating digital, analog, radio frequency (RF), microprocessor and digital signal processing (DSP) technologies, as well as related hardware and software system-level applications. Additional IT and G&A positions as well. On review and decision making committee for the redesign of our career pages online with external agency. Driving new additions and capabilities to our ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for end users on Career pages and Internal Process.
Technical Staffing/ Recruiter / HR

Mariner Networks / Odetics

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years)

Human Resources: Corporate Staffing and Recruiting Manager April 2000-Feburary 2001
Managed the staffing augmentation for the development of the Multi Service Broadband Access line of Products. Managing the recruitment process to bring in the right skill sets of Hardware and Software Design Engineers for the development of our beta products and customization products for various CLEC customers. Review, pre-screen, interview and recommend talent. Provide guidance to staff to promote a productive workflow and team environment. Performed as the Lead Corporate Recruiter for a company of 30, working to triple in a year. Hired 85% of goal before company was influenced by recession and lay offs. Most of my recruiting was of Hardware and Software Design Engineers.
● Supported the President, V.P. of Engineering, V.P. of Marketing, Managers of Software and Hardware
Engineering and the Financial Controller to build each group and staff the company
● Weekly meeting with Executive Leadership Team to pace company's direction, discuss needs,
cultivate strategy and make decisions
● Recruit, qualify and present candidates with managing all elements of recruiting process with reference
checks and negotiating salary with stock options package
● Advise and work with senior management to create job descriptions and high performing teams in all areas
of company's function
● Coordinate and Recruit using Internet job boards, passive and active candidates on the web, referrals,
through UCI’s graduate program, job fairs, fellow recruiter contacts, and working with top agencies
● Managed and diffused employee relations issues
● Have achieved an excellent reference from Mariner Networks
Account Executive / Recruiter

Comms People / Glotel

(Computer Networking industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years)

Expanded Sales and Business Development for global B2B consulting company. Glotel is a human capital solutions provider focusing on the technology markets in Silicon Valley. Created a book of business and gained loyal clients with Fortune 1000 and Top Technology Companies. Was main contributor in sales to win a successful national sales contest April 1999. Established national and regional contracts with clients and business partners to meet company growth projections. Recruited and filled several positions to close business.

Rachelle Munson’s Education

San Jose State University

BA , Communications: Radio, Television and Film, Minor Advertising , 1991 — 1994

Education:
San Jose State University
BA Communications/RTVF 1994
Advertising Minor with Marketing studies
Saddleback College: Human Resource Management Certification Course 2003

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Rachelle Munson’s Interests:

Growing my Linkedin Network! I am up to 1900+. Please invite me to connect at: shellsanclemente@yahoo.com

Rachelle Munson’s Groups:

ERE, Sourcers Guild, Yahoo Recruiting Groups, San Diego Recruiters Roundtable, HireAbility. Surfrider Foundation. Recruiting Blogs

San Jose State University (official group)
Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals
Telecom Professionals
Electrical/Electronics and Computer Development Engineers Group
OpenNetworkers.info < 50.000+ members across 60 social networks >
Killer Idea Developers (KID)
Analog Mixed-Signal and RF (AMS/RF) IC Design and Development Group
Semiconductor Professional's Group
Technical Recruitment
SemiconductorJobs.com
Lifesciences Opportunities in US
Sourcers Guild
Embedded
HDTV Group
VLSI Design
TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
TalentBar: HR and Recruiter Network
Recruiter-Talk
Surfrider Foundation
Science to Business Expert Group
Green
Licensing, Merchandising & Brand Management
Toy Industry Association™, Inc. (TIA)
International Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association (LIMA)
U.S. National Science Foundation
IC Layout Designers
Semiconductor Community
Technology Recruitment Solutions/Semiconductors/Electronics/Communications/Software/Clean Technology
Toy Industry Global
Women in Toys
RecruitingBlogs.com Group
San Diego Link Referral and Networking Group
SPIE
Paleontology
Printed Circuit Board Technologies and Solutions
Photonics
Semiconductor - Sales & Marketing
National Geographic Society (NGS) ♣1500+ members ♣
Semiconductor - VLSI
The Recruiters Roundtable
Archeology
Silicon Photonics and Opto-Electronics Group
IC Video Group - DisplayPort/HDMI/DVI/VGA - Fiber Optic Cable - Ultra Wide Band Transmission
Sales and Marketing Professionals Promoting HighTech and Technology in Los Angeles and its Vicinity
AHMA Home Improvement Industry Network
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