Mohamed Ali

Current

• Corporate Recruiter (Career Services Manager) at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO)

Past

• Recruiter at Spherion / Cisco Systems
• Developer & Owner of Passive Recruiting Search Engine at BIG5HIRE.COM
• Sr. Technical Recruiter at IIC

• Technical Recruiter at eBusinessCorp Inc.
• Technical Recruiter at Bitech Software Ltd.

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Education

• AIRS Recruiter Academy - Recruiter Certification
• Wright State University - MS in Engineering
• Cisco Internal - Celestica / Cisco NPI test set up Training

• University of Madras - BE degree in Engineering

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Recommended

35 people have recommended Mohamed

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Mohamed Ali’s Summary

Moderator of LinkedIn Big5hire user group - Passive Recruiting search engine.
Here’s the link to join:
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/57543/65E7A956846F
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Nationwide Sourcing contest winner 2008 - Illionisrecruiters.org

Aggressive passive researcher and top notch recruiter with engineering background.

* My specialty is understanding engineering requirements like how an engineering professional do. Thus, the quality of candidates that I recruit is impeccable.

* I am currently researching on Cisco's sourcing strategies for the next 5 years on cutting edge new technologies like Cloud Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Web Mashups 2.0, Multicore and Hybrid processors, Contextual computing. Researching competitors (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo's ) Strategies.

* I have successfully ramped up new engineering product teams within Cisco like Nexus Platform (Data Center Ethernet Platform), Web 3.0 Cisco initiatives (Video platform), Cisco Telepresence to position Cisco on top of the market share than its competitors.

* I am currently recruiting for Cisco's Application Delivery & WAN Optimization group (ACE Gateway), Cisco's Wireless product engineering team (Wimax (Navini - Acquisition), WLAN Controller, Wireless Phones, Wireless Bridges), Routing (Cisco's 3800/2800 series routers), Switching (Catalyst 3750-E Series, Catalyst 3560 Series Switches), Cisco Failure Analysis Engineering team.

* I have recruited for various skills: Networking (L2/L3/L4-L7 technologies), Microsoft Server Technologies, Citrix Admins, VMware Virtualization engineers, F5 Load balancer admins (Big-IP), Video, Audio, Wimax, Voice Technologies, ATCA platform, Data Center Ethernet platform, Infiniband Switch, Fiber Channel over Ethernet Products and IT technologies (ERP, Client Server (Java/.NET), Databse (Oracle, SQL), ETL (BO, informatica), IBM (Websphere, AIX, Tivoli)

Mohamed Ali’s Experience

• Corporate Recruiter (Career Services Manager)

  Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

  October 2007 — Present (11 months)

  Top performer for Cisco CDO Staffing for FY'08, performance review rating of "X" - highest rating achieved in my 1st year at Cisco. I am currently recruiting for Cisco's Wireless product engineering team (Wimax (Navini - Acquisition), WLAN Controller, Wireless Phones, Wireless Bridges), Cisco's Application Delivery, Application acceleration and WAN Optimization Group, Routing (Cisco's 3800/2800 series routers), Switching (Catalyst 3750-E Series, Catalyst 3560 Series Switches), Cisco Failure Analysis Engineering team, Cisco Software operations team.

• Recruiter

  Spherion / Cisco Systems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Networking industry)

  June 2007 — October 2007 (5 months)

  Full lifecycle Recruiter / Sourcer – Cisco’s ETG Group, CDO Ops Group, Cisco DSBU Group, Cisco Central Engineering Group
  
  Hired talented engineers by using Patent sites, Linked In, Zoom info, Spoke, name generation techniques and by targeting Competitor Companies. Recruited CTO level solution architects, Backend Video Developers, Hardware Engineers, Failure Analysis Engineers, Layer 2 Layer 3 developers and more.Targeting Base.Google.com, Blog sites, Yahoo site Explorer, Linked In, MSN Live, Zoom info, Spoke, Exalead Search, and User lists, Associations, Virtual community for sourcing Engineers. Team member of Cisco’s recruiting team for PanIIT2007 Conference in Santa Clara. Currently using Virtual Edge ATS for Applicant tracking. Sourced candidates with all candidates meeting OFCCP compliance standards. Preparing Cisco’s Recruiting strategy for ATCA platform conference in Santa Clara.

• Developer & Owner of Passive Recruiting Search Engine

  BIG5HIRE.COM

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2004 — September 2007 (3 years 7 months)

  Owner of BIG5HIRE.COM (Passive Search Recruiting Engine)
  
  * Developed features like Resume Search, Members Search, LinkedinSearch, Mailing Lists Search, Blog Search, Jobster Profile Search all in one Search Box.
  
  * Developed Diversity Recruiting Search Engine
  
  I am adding new features to my search engine which is specific to recruiting industry and any new ideas are welcome. Email me at mohamali@cisco.com

• Sr. Technical Recruiter

  IIC

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 4 months)

  Sourcing candidates through Search Engines, Linkedin, User Groups, Mailing Lists, Job Boards and Virtual networks.
  
  Recruited Technologies: Microsoft Server Technologies (Windows 2K/2K3/NT System Admin's, MS SQL 2005 Dev/Admin, C#/.NET dev/architects, Sharepoint, Biztalk, MS Exchange 2003/2005), Citrix Admins, VMware Virtualization engineers, F5 Load balancer admins (Big-IP), IBM server technologies (AIX, P-regatta, TSM (Tivoli admins), IBM middleware technologies (Websphere), BEA middleware (Weblogic), Client server technologies (Java/J2EE), Database (Oracle, SQL), Legacy languages (Paradox, Mainframe programmers), ETL (Informatica, BO), Unix admins (HP, AIX, Linux - Redhat, Suse), Security technologies (Tumbleweed, Sterling Connect:direct)
  
  Clients Include:
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  IBM, Accenture, Microsoft, Lucent, AT&T, Ingram Micro, Sprint/Nextel, Cap-Gemini, Bank of America, NYSTRS, Verizon, Sun Rocket, Telcordia

• Technical Recruiter

  eBusinessCorp Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2004 — March 2005 (11 months)

  Sourcing candidates through Search Engines, Linkedin, User Groups, Mailing Lists, Job Boards and Virtual networks.
  
  Recruited Technologies: CRM, EAI (Vitria, TIBCO), SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft, Lawson, Teradata, Informatica/Business Objects, Java/J2EE/C/C++, Vignette, BAAN, .NET, ASP, SAS, BA, Tivoli, Websphere/Weblogic, IBM Visual Age, SQL, and MS Project, Mainframe, COBOL.

• Technical Recruiter

  Bitech Software Ltd.

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2001 — June 2002 (1 year 2 months)

  Sourcing candidates through Career Fairs, Search Engines, User Groups, Mailing Lists, Job Boards and Virtual networks.
  
  Implemented Recruiting strategies in order to tap Top Notch Candidates.Negotiated salaries and benefits with candidates and contractors. Recruited Technologies: EAI, ETL, C/C++/JAVA, Oracle, SAP, CRM, UNIX, Sybase RDBMS, ASP, Lotus Notes, Peoplesoft and JDBC, UDB, Mainframe.

Mohamed Ali’s Education

• AIRS Recruiter Academy - Recruiter Certification

  AIRS CIR CERTIFICATION, IT Recruitment/Staffing, 2005 — 2005

  AIRS Search Techniques and Passive Search Tehniques.
  PEEL Search
  Field Search
  X-Ray Search (Bill Gates Methodology)

  Activities and Societies:

  www.airsdirectory.com

• Wright State University - MS in Engineering

  M.S.E, Engineering, 2002 — 2005

  ASIC Design, FPGA, Synopsis, Verilog VHDL Development, C Programming, Spread Spectrum Systems, Power Electronics.

  Activities and Societies:

  IEEE

• Cisco Internal - Celestica / Cisco NPI test set up Training

  NPI / Manufacturing / Test Diagnostics 2001 — 2001

  Basic Overview of Celestica's NPI set up, Celestica's manufacturing process for Cisco products (Chassis, Backplane, Blades) -> SMT, Chip Injection, AOI Quality inspection, Test (Agilent 5DX, Flying probe, ICT (In Circuit test Development), Debug)

• University of Madras - BE degree in Engineering

  BSEE,

Additional Information

Mohamed Ali’s Groups:

TOPLINKED.COM (One of the top linkedin members)
MYLINK500 (One of the prestigious Linkedin Members)
Wirelessfactors Linked Group Member (Group for VOIP/Wireless Engineers)

•    Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (22,000+ members)
•    eOffice
•    Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP)
•    CISCO Affiliates
•    Wireless Jobs
•    WSU Career Connections [international]
•    Wimax channel
•    Wireless Internet Industry Executives (WIIE)...3200 members & growing!
•    Big5Hire - Passive Recruiting Search Engine User group

Mohamed Ali’s Honors:

AIRS Certified Recruiter
IIC/Apollo Recruiter of the Month - Jan 2006
IIC/Apollo Recruiter of the Month - Feb 2006
IIC/Apollo Recruiter of the Month - Mar 2006
IIC/Apollo Recruiter of the Month - Apr 2006
eBusinesscorp Recruiter of the Month - Jan 2005
eBusinesscorp Recruiter of the Month - Dec 2004
eBusinesscorp Recruiter of the Month - Nov 2004
Bitech Young Achiever Award - Feb 2002
State Rank Holder in French - Apr 1998
University Ranked 6th in Bachelors Degree - May 2002

Mohamed Ali’s Contact Settings

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