Scott Knowles

Current

Executive Search Consultant/CEO at www.greatpeople.com

Past

Sr Technical Recruiter at Unwired Planet/Phone.com/Openwave
Sr Technical Recruiter/Talent Ambassador at Netscape Communications
Sr Technical Recruiter/Manager at Sun Microsystems

Sr Technical Recruiter at Rational Software

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Scott Knowles’s Summary

Scott Knowles’s Specialties:

*Forming complete teams of star talent who can execute great ideas
*C level executive search, sourcing, business intelligence
*Executive management, engineering, marketing and sales
*Software/Systems, web development, Internet, computational finance/services
*Cost effective hiring strategies

Scott Knowles’s Experience

Executive Search Consultant/CEO

www.greatpeople.com

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

July 1996 — Present (12 years 4 months)

Our key focus is on building and growing startups and fortune 500 corporations. Working in tandem with your executive management teams we function as your executive search partner performing both strategic and tactical sourcing solutions and full cycle recruiting. Acting as a seamless extension of your company we will provide you the extraordinary talent/ human capital necessary to execute your stated business plan and objectives. Greatpeople provides complete end to end sourcing, staffing, recruiting and HR solutions.

Notable clients include: Intel, HSBC, Platial, Sun Microsystems-FirstPerson (creator of Java), Netscape Communications, Network Alchemy (acquired by Nokia), TiMetra (acquired by Alcatel), HotJobs (acquired by Yahoo), NetFlix, SecretSeal (PSS Systems), Kontiki (acquired by Verisign), Starfish Software (Motorola), Meridian Data (Quantum), ShareData (E*Trade)
Sr Technical Recruiter

Unwired Planet/Phone.com/Openwave

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; OPWV; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

April 1996 — July 1997 (1 year 4 months)

Unwired Planet Inc. (Openwave) - Sr. Technical Recruiter - 4/96 -7/97
Recruited by the CEO following the A round of funding to build out all core engineering , executive management and infrastructure teams. Responsible for hiring the first 80 employees in this early innovator of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) for the mobile phone sector.

Significant accomplishments: Sourcing and recruiting the first 80 employees of what has now become a multi billion-dollar market leader in wireless communications.
Sr Technical Recruiter/Talent Ambassador

Netscape Communications

(Public Company; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

June 1995 — June 1996 (1 year 1 month)

Netscape Communications Corporation - Sr. Technical Recruiter -6/95 to 6/96
Recruited to this new startup and diligently staffed the engineering and executive management level positions (VP Professional Services, CIO, and VP Core Engineering) plus numerous other key individual contributor positions across several product groups. First year growth was from 50 to 900 employees.

Significant accomplishments: Hiring three key management team executives and building both a software applications and professional services group from the ground up.
Sr Technical Recruiter/Manager

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

December 1993 — June 1995 (1 year 7 months)

Sun Microsystems - Sr. Technical Recruiter/Manager - 12/93 - 6/95
Responsible for all recruiting and staffing for multiple project groups. FirstPerson, SunSoft - Object Products Group SunSoft - Spring OS Project, John Ousterhouts Tcl/Tk project.

Significant accomplishments: Building the stealth engineering team under James Gosling, which later became what is now known as the Java programming language.
Sr Technical Recruiter

Rational Software

(Public Company; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

April 1993 — December 1993 (9 months)

Rational Software Inc. - Sr. Technical Recruiter - 4/93 to 12/93
Responsible for WW Sales, Sales Engineers, Customer support, Professional services and Engineering. Helped Transition Company from a mostly DOD/ADA programming tools company, into more mainstream commercial C++ programming tools and software development environment type products such as Rational Rose.