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Work Background

Quay ConsultingTalent Acquisition Manager

May. 2023Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaQuay Consulting is an Information Technology (IT) professional services business operating in the project management landscape, transforming strategy into fit-for-purpose project delivery. Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy aligned with the company's growth objectives and organizational culture. Team Management: Lead, mentor, and manage the talent acquisition team, providing guidance, support, and professional development opportunities. Recruitment Strategy: Create and execute innovative recruitment strategies to attract high-quality candidates for a variety of roles, including executive, technical, and operational positions. Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with senior leaders and hiring managers to understand workforce needs and provide consultative support throughout the hiring process. Process Improvement: Continuously assess and improve recruiting processes and methodologies to enhance efficiency, candidate experience, and hiring outcomes. Employer Branding: Develop and promote the company's employer brand to attract top talent and maintain a positive reputation in the job market. Data-Driven Decisions: Utilise data and analytics to track recruiting metrics, identify trends, and make informed decisions to drive recruitment success. Diversity and Inclusion: Champion diversity and inclusion initiatives to ensure a diverse talent pool and equitable hiring practices. Compliance: Ensure all recruitment activities comply with legal and regulatory requirements.

Arista NetworksTalent Acquisition Manager (Aust/APAC) & USA Rec (FPGA/HFT/Low-Latency/Go-To-Market(GTM)/Sales/SE

Jan. 2022 - Feb. 2023San Francisco Bay AreaProvide management oversight to Australia/APAC/UAE recruitment team/operations, across key Leadership, Technical, Sales and Presales roles within the business, while also delivering upon key FPGA/HFT/Low-Latency/Go-To-Market (GTM) Sales/Presales/Technical roles within the US..

Arista NetworksAPAC Talent Lead & Global Rec (FPGA/HFT/Low-Latency/Go-To-Market(GTM)/Sales/Exec/Tech)

Feb. 2019 - Jan. 2022Sydney, AustraliaArista Networks (acquired Metamako) is a leading global Data Centre Switching company with one key focus being low-latency switches for High Frequency Trading (HFT). Being the Trusted Advisor to the Senior Leadership Team, and partnering with key business leaders for all things related to Talent Acquisition across the Australian, AsiaPacific and Global workforce. Tasked with providing insights and execution on industry Best Practice Talent Acquisition strategy, while providing end-to-end/360 Talent Acquisition/Recruitment across a range of technologies, disciplines and levels.. Focusing on hardware designers and developers - SW (C/C++/Python), FPGA (Xilinx & Intel/Altera/VHDL/Verilog) & PCB(Altium) combined with full spectrum IT, (OS/Linux/Mac/Kernel/CentOS/Redhat/Mux/Demux/DevOps/SRE/Docker/Kubernetes)and all other business critical roles including but not limited to Senior Management, Country Managers, Go-To-Market (GTM), Accounts & Sales. Roles have been based in Australia, USA, Europe, UAE, Japan, Korea, China and Indonesia

UNSWTalent Acquisition Consultant - Contract

Jun. 2018 - Feb. 2019SydneyProvide Talent Acquisition consulting over Junior to Executive Recruitment within Academic (Medicine, Engineering, Science). Utilising PageUp, PeopleSoft, SciVal, Scopus, Google Scholar, JCR, LinkedIn and various other in-house and external tools.

Quay ConsultingLead Technical Recruiter - Contract

Oct. 2017 - Jun. 2018SydneyTalent Acquisition for PMO, Workforce Management, Review & Recovery. Around transition and capability uplift. Core talent focuses are Program Directors, Project Directors, Project Managers, Project Coordinators, Business Analysts, Technical Business Analysts, IT Architecture, Scheduling, Workforce Management, Change Management, and Testing

SiteMinderTechnical Recruiter - Contract

Oct. 2016 - Dec. 2016SydneyContract Recruiter for SiteMinder. Contract Extended twice. Focused on FullStack Java (Groovy/Grails), FullStackRoR (Ruby on Rails), QA/Test (Manual/Automated, Context Driven Testing), Front-End (HTML5/CSS3), MEAN, Angular.JS, JavaScript, TypeScript, DevOps (Puppet/Chef/Salt/Linux/Ubuntu), MySQL, API's, WebServices (SOAP/RESTful), Software Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud, SaaS, Amazon Web Services, AWS (S3, EC2, Dynamo, Redshift, Kinesis), MicroServices, Event Stream Processing (ESP)

Higher Pty LtdDirector - IT Rec Agency (up to 10 x Full 360 Rec Agents) (Go-To-Market(GTM) & Tech)

Jan. 2007 - Feb. 2023IT Recruitment Business Leader - Provide Engineering and IT Recruitment services throughout Australia and Overseas. RPO Contractor when required. Core focus on Go-To-Market (GTM)/Sales/Exec and deep technical recruitment around Javascript, C, C++, C#, Java, .NET, Oracle, SAP, Security, Networking Another core focus was ERP (SAP). Having supplied contract and permanent staff to key SAP ECC6 and SAP S/4HANA implementations and SAP projects generally. Core SSAP modules were around SAP FICO, SAP SD, SAP MM, SAP PP, SAP PM, SAP PS, SAP QM, SAP HCM, SAP BW, SAP SRM, SAP CRM, SAP BASIS/NETWEAVER and SAP ABAP Developers. This was across both functional and technical professionals

Genesis Recruitment SolutionsSenior Technical Recruitment Consultant/Account Manager

Sep. 2004 - Nov. 2006Focusing on Recruitment Account Management for leading IT&T organisations within the Australian market. Key technologies around .NET/Java/J2EE/ERP/SAP/Security/CISSP/CISA

GAP IT RecruitmentIT/Technical Recruitment Consultant

May. 2004 - Aug. 2004Provide recruiting services to leading organisations, focusing on Project Managers and Business Analysts

Compaq/HPOperations Control Centre Manager

Apr. 1999 - Sep. 2003Provide Resource Management, Recruitment, outage management, service delivery management, customer complaint handling, business analysis for the consumer product range of notebooks and desktops (Presario)