Claudia M. Loens

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OBJECTIVE:
A Talent Acquisition position in a high-tech environment, utilizing strategic partner-oriented expertise to
acquire top level talent.

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:
  • Twenty years of experience recruiting in Silicon Valley with an emphasis on High-Tech  
  • Over ten years of consulting experience in a variety of settings, from small to large companies
  • Contingency placement services for both technical and non-technical positions
  • Bench player able to recruit for all levels of staff, from hourly to executive level employees
  • Consulting services which include setting up staffing infrastructure in growing organizations
  • Outstanding leadership skills to motivate, educate and elevate large and small teams

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE:
12/97 – Present        Senior Staffing Consultant/President        CMC Consulting Services, LLC

9/06 – present                CMC Consulting Services, LLC
  • Contingency placement of all levels of staff for start-up companies in Silicon Valley, including IT,
    Software Engineers, Sales, Finance and other disciplines.

9/08 – 12/08        Juniper Networks
  • Contract recruiting assignment for Foundation Technologies.  Sourced Kernel engineers and
    Software Developers for JunOS engineering.  Assignment ended due to requisition freeze.

10/07 – 9/08        Xilinx, Corp.
  • Engineering and multi-discipline recruitment, including circuit design engineers, Product Marketing,
    Program Management, Embedded SW Engineers, FAEs, Board Design, Test, Executive and all
    management positions.  Assignment ended due to requisition freeze.

4/04 – 01/07                Yahoo! Inc
  • Senior Engineering Recruiter for Yahoo Media Group, including Yahoo Finance, Games, Sports,
    Entertainment, News & Weather, Lifestyles, Music, Studios and platform organizations
  • Sourced and hired Front End (UI), Back End, QA, Operations Engineers and all levels of
    Engineering Management
  • Achieved average of 10 Engineering hires per month
  • Acted as team lead for coordinated recruiting effort including Sunnyvale, Dallas & Santa Monica
  • Also spent 15 months hiring for IT Operations, including the Data Centers and all IT functions

4/02 – 4/04                Intuit, Inc.
  • Led the talent acquisition project to hire 80 Finance professionals to be located in a San Diego
    finance operations center
  • Other areas of focus included, Software QA Engineers and Managers, Marketing, Sales and
    Process Excellence professionals (six sigma)

2/01 – 5/01                Innoveda, Inc.
  • Focused recruiting for Silicon Valley Sales office
  • Hired for inside and outside Sales and Field Applications Engineering

10/00 – 2/01                Loudcloud, Inc.
  • Managed recruiting, sourcing, coordination and supporting operations team
  • Develop and implement requisition and offer processes
  • Establish immigration practices and implement contingent workforce process
  • Weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting metrics for recruitment activity

9/99 – 10/00                Metricom, Inc
  • Sourced, interviewed and closed all Engineering professionals, including senior level management
  • Worked with Engineering management team to develop effective staffing strategy
  • Reported on hiring metrics and implement additional staffing resources and strategy, as needed.

2/99 – 8/99                  Trimble Navigation, Ltd.
  • Assessed, designed and implemented all aspects of staffing strategy
  • Sourced technical professionals in the areas of embedded software, firmware, software test,
    electronic engineering, marketing, HR, finance and technical support

6/98 – 12/98                MIPS Technologies, Inc
  • Contract Staffing Manager - established all aspects of staffing for this start-up as it spun off from SGI
  • Developed hiring process and candidate flow
  • Set up and managed recruiting strategy
  • Developed and implemented immigration and relocation procedures
  • Sourced and interviewed all candidates for microprocessor design engineering (hardware and
    software), IS, Finance, Technical Marketing and miscellaneous positions
  • Reviewed and initiated resume tracking system

12/97 – 8/98                Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing
  • Sourced and screened technical candidates for Expatriate positions located in Singapore
  • Developed candidate flow process to expedite the hiring of critical personnel
  • Managed outside vendors in relation to recruiting and relocation

REGULAR FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT:
6/96 – 12/97        Silicon Graphics Computer Systems   Staffing Manager/Sr. Recruiter
       Accomplishments
  • Overall responsibility for all aspects of staffing in manufacturing and other Engineering groups.
  • Designed a full range of staffing analysis reports, including cost per hire, requisition aging, interview
    and offer activity
  • Developed staffing roles and flow data for division hiring managers
  • Analyzed, developed and executed divisional college recruitment strategy which resulted in over 40
    college hires in one season
  • Developed a college rotation program for the Materials Organization
  • Managed full time and contract staffing teams
  • Personally filled 80 positions in one year (not including college hires)

2/93 – 6/96        National Semiconductor        Senior Staffing Consultant
       Accomplishments
  • Senior recruiter/Lead on a 200 mm wafer fab project team in S. Portland, Maine.  Hired key
    management positions and Process, Facilities and CIM Engineers. Assignment length: 9 mos.
  • Project Leader for 200 mm wafer fab development recruiting effort in Santa Clara.  Hired, trained
    and managed a 5 person recruiting team

1986 – 1993 Held various HR positions, including Technical Recruiter

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