Scott Knowles

Current

Executive Search/Sourcing Consultant/Founder ceo/chairman at www.greatpeople.com

Past

Executive Search/Sourcing Consultant at Intel Corporation
Executive Search /Sourcing Consultant at HSBC Card Services
Executive Search/Sourcing Consultant at Stealth

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

We are analytical passionate entrepreneurs/ technologist/strategist/marketing persons at heart and thoroughly enjoy what we do. You could call it work because companies do pay us well for what we do but it does not appear that way to us as it blends together hobby, our passions, innovations, and includes creating/ building.

This has taken shape in the form of significant contributions with both early stage start ups and fortune 100 corporations.

Having played an integral part in well over 30 successful early and late stage ventures, we have acquired a unique perspective which has allowed us to better help companies navigate from concept to execution, traction, and growth/ trajectory stages.
Our specialty involves very hands on strategic and tactical high impact contributions through crucial human capital /talent acquisition.
We have a high degree of gratitude for both the opportunities we have been given and the contributions we have been able to achieve thus far and many thanks go out to all of those who have helped us along the way.

Scott Knowles’s Specialties:

We possess broad/deep understanding of most technologies and have focused upon everything from programming languages/algorithms/everything internet/RIA/Flex/Ajax/LAMP/platforms/SaaS/machine learning/natural language processing/ computational quantitative finance/ risk/ multi-core chip design/ architecture, online advertising
*C -level executive search, sourcing, business intelligence
*Executive management, engineering, marketing and sales

Scott Knowles’s Experience

Executive Search/Sourcing Consultant/Founder ceo/chairman

www.greatpeople.com

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

July 1997 — Present (12 years 1 month)

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)
Executive Search/Sourcing Consultant

Intel Corporation

(Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

September 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 6 months)

Core Member - Diversity Strategic Sourcing / Executive Search for Principal Engineers, Fellows, Architects and VP's within Digital Enterprise Group. Specializing in the areas of Circuit Design, Validation, Component Design, Automation tools, 3D Graphics, Ingredient stack including CPU, Chipsets, Memory Solutions, Data Storage, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Opensource, Linux Kernel.
Executive Search /Sourcing Consultant

HSBC Card Services

(Public Company; HBC; Financial Services industry)

September 2006 — February 2009 (2 years 6 months)

Key member of elite US based sourcing organization specializing in identifying, engaging and hiring the top minds in the analytical finance universe for HSBC USA Card and Retail Services. Roles ranged from Sr Analyst to SVP/GM and skill sets encompass all aspects of Data Driven Qualitative and Quantitative Marketing Strategies, Risk, Finance, Analytical Modeling, etc.
Executive Search/Sourcing Consultant

Stealth

(Internet industry)

December 2008 — January 2009 (2 months)

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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.