Recruiter at Northrop Grumman Corp. - Founder, SanDiegoEmployer.com and DefenseRecruiter.net
Greater San Diego Area
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- Recruiter at Northrop Grumman
- Past
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- Recruiter at Booz Allen Hamilton
- Contract Technical Recruiter at BAE Systems
- Contract Recruiter at Maxima Corporation
- Contract Recruiter at Applied Micro Circuits (AMCC)
- Contract Recruiter at Siemens Info & Communications Mobile (ICM)
- Technical Recruiter at Cayenta
- Technical Recruiter at Kelly Technical Services onsite / Hewlett Packard
- Education
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- Point Loma Nazarene University
- United States Military Academy at West Point
- United States Military Academy Preparatory School (USMAPS)
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Steve Cherry’s Summary
Recruiting and sourcing since 1995 in various technical domains. I currently recruit for the Unmanned Systems group of Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems Western Region.
I am founder of a local San Diego HR network at www.SanDiegoEmployer.com and a national corp recruiter network at www.DefenseRecruiter.net
I do freelance photography and web design in my free time and specialize in pro sports, event, digital art photo and slideshow creation. My portfolio and photoblog can be viewed here: http://www.stevencherry.com
Steve Cherry’s Specialties:
Technical recruiting and specialized sourcing in software development and systems engineering, semiconductor, telecom/wireless, mobile handsets, bluetooth, healthcare, imagery intelligence, C4ISR, all aspects of aerospace including avionics, electronic warfare, flight control, GN&C, low observables(LO), rotorcraft, and UAV development.
Steve Cherry’s Experience
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Recruiter
Northrop Grumman
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)
October 2003 — Present (6 years 2 months)
Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems. San Diego, CA.
October 2003 to present (hired from contract to FTE)
Recruiting embedded software and systems, communications engineering, hardware, Test & Engineering,
Low Observables (LO), Sensors & Payloads, Flight control, Guidance & Navigation, IT programmers.
Business Domain: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to include various Rotorcraft and Fixed Wing platforms. All Military branches and DARPA. -
Recruiter
Booz Allen Hamilton
(Privately Held; Defense & Space industry)
May 2003 — October 2003 (6 months)
Booz | Allen | Hamilton. San Diego, CA.
May 2003 to October 2003
Recruiting Information Assurance (IA), IA Security, Network Engineering, Contracts Administrators, Acquisition, Information Operations, Logistics
Business Domain: Navy, SPAWAR, C4ISR, Defense and Government Strategy and Technology Consulting -
Contract Technical Recruiter
BAE Systems
(Public Company; Defense & Space industry)
March 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 3 months)
BAE SYSTEMS. San Diego, CA.
March 2002 to present
Contracted through: TALENTLAB
Recruited Systems and Software engineers, Systems Architects, Systems Management, Unix Admin, CMM, Financial Analysts and CPA’s, Export Compliance.
Specs: C++ (In Unix environ), OOA/D, CORBA, J2EE architecture, Informix, Some MS environment to include .NET and VC++
Business Domain: Imagery Intelligence, C4ISR, Model and Simulation, BMDS (most searches required high level clearance with current SSBI) -
Contract Recruiter
Maxima Corporation
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
July 2001 — July 2002 (1 year 1 month)
Extensive one on one counsel and technical needs analysis with CEO and executive level management regarding recruiting strategy for very unique skill sets.
Recruited VP of Technology, Interim CFO, DoD Mechanical Engineers and several senior engineering staff with specialized laser and high speed board experience.
Specs: All-weather electro-mechanical, High Frequency transceiver, RF systems, DoD and industrial laser, Free Space Optics
Business Domain: Free Space Optics - Last Mile Networks solution -
Contract Recruiter
Applied Micro Circuits (AMCC)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; amcc; Semiconductors industry)
November 2000 — June 2001 (8 months)
Recruited senior EE hardware and systems designers for applications engineering and “eval board” group at all levels in technical sales and marketing groups located in San Diego, Bay Area, Boston and Research Triangle.
Specs: High speed board design, OC192, OC768 SONET, gigabit ethernet, RF systems, digital, analog, PLL
Business Domain: Semiconductor high bandwidth market -
Contract Recruiter
Siemens Info & Communications Mobile (ICM)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
July 2000 — October 2000 (4 months)
Recruited wireless engineers at all levels from lab technicians to Sr. Principle RF manager, GSM.
Specs: Baseband hardware, RF/Analog, DSP, Tri-mode: CDMA/TDMA/GSM, test engineering, verification engineering, ME
Business Domain: Multi-mode wireless mobile phones -
Technical Recruiter
Cayenta
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
2000 — 2000 (less than a year)
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Technical Recruiter
Kelly Technical Services onsite / Hewlett Packard
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
April 1996 — December 1999 (3 years 9 months)
On-site technical recruiter and personnel supervisor working for Kelly Technical Services at Hewlett Packard Inkjet Printer Division in San Diego.
Steve Cherry’s Education
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Point Loma Nazarene University
BA Pol Sci , Politics, Science , 1991 — 1995
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United States Military Academy at West Point
Engineering pre-req 1989 — 1991
Did not graduate - transferred to private university after 2nd year.
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United States Military Academy Preparatory School (USMAPS)
Completed , Math, English Prep , 1988 — 1989
1 year Math and English prep for SAT located in Fort Monmouth, NJ. Graduated and received nomination to USMA as well as a Senatorial nomination from my home state in NY.
- Activities and Societies:
- Judo
Orienteering
Additional Information
Steve Cherry’s Websites:
Steve Cherry’s Interests:
HR networking, Digital photography
Steve Cherry’s Groups:
San Diego Employer
Defense Recruiter (www.defenserecruiter.net)
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The Long Gray Line, West Point Alumni (TM) -
San Diego Employer -
Photography Industry Professionals -
Defense Recruiter -
Point Loma Nazarene University
Steve Cherry’s Honors:
Black & White Spider Awards - "Nominee" Nature Category - 2006
Published - "North County Times" 2005
Published - "El Universal" 2007
Digital Photographer Magazine contributor
JPG Magazine contributor
FILE Magazine online contributor
Flak Photo Contributor
Steve Cherry’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- expertise requests
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
