I have focused my career on hiring software engineers at all skill levels. While primarily working for companies in their growth stages, I have had an opportunity to gain experience building engineering organizations and solving hiring problems to efficiently scale a hiring team. My favorite part of the job is hiring leadership talent and solving hiring problems. I left LinkedIn to pursue part time contract work. Moving forward, I will be looking at positions which offer part time work from home and/or contingency hiring arrangements.

Contract Technical Recruiter @ Currently hiring: Development engineers and automation engineers with experience in back end Java and multiple distributed systems. Also looking for a lead/manager who is 70% hands on/30% lead doing mentorship and code reviews. Release cycles 4 times/year. Please contact me directly should you have interest in exploring any of these opportunities. Developers need a minimum of 5 years of experience. https://www.linkedin.com/company/1767/careers Perks: * Market leader * Well established company * Small office of 28 * Great work/life balance * Competitive compensation * Onsite cafeteria and gym * Walking/jogging paths around the building, located east of 101 State Street is a well established Boston based bank with $2.3 trillion in assets under management operating in more than 100 geographic markets. I am working for the the Currency Exchange Division of State Street in Redwood City - Currenex - https://www.currenex.com/. Founded in 1999, Currenex offers institutional buyers and sellers in the FX and money markets reliable, low cost and secure electronic access to the $1 trillion a day global FX market. From October 2015 to Present (3 months) Executive Recruiter for Engineering @ Did you know..... *We were just voted #2 Best Place to Work in Silicon Valley by Silicon Valley Business Journal *Jeff Weiner's approval rating on Glass Door is 100% *We want to provide economic opportunity to the world's workforce *We will measure this vision by developing the world's first economic graph *Obama has adopted an initiative using LinkedIn's data to close the US employment gap of 4 million jobs and 20 million unemployed/underemployed *We have 3 robust lines of business-Talent-$1.3 billion in sales revenue, Marketing-$455 million in sales revenue, and Sales-$437 in sales revenue (Trailing 4 quarters as of Q4 2014) From March 2015 to September 2015 (7 months) Owner/Recruiting Consultant @ Worked as a sole proprietor to assist both small and large companies with their hiring needs in management and individual contributor roles. I have engaged in full life cycle recruiting and owned small pieces of the hiring process for my clients which may involve consulting on the best way to set up hiring within the company. Some clients in this capacity have been: Reddit, Autodesk, ADARA Networks, Bantr/Circle of Moms, Cureatr, Crossbow Technologies, Palantir, Mogees, Patterson Sheridan, Dentsply International, eBay From January 2007 to February 2015 (8 years 2 months) Executive Recruiter, Engineering Leadership Team @ -Met twice weekly with Engineering VP's to identify and hire management level candidates to be placed throughout the engineering organization -Worked on original team of 4 executive recruiters -Responsible for full life cycle of sourcing, recruiting and closing of all candidates From December 2004 to January 2007 (2 years 2 months) Sr. Technical Recruiter @ -Full life cycle recruiting of individual contributors and engineering managers for development, QA and architecture groups -First engineering recruiter hired at Paypal -Built a hiring plan for the engineering group with Engineering VP, which would later scale the development group from 3 hires/month to 20 hires per month. -Attended weekly CTO staff meetings to provide status reports on engineering hiring on behalf of the staffing group -Consistently met or exceeded hiring quotas -Chosen to assist in evaluation and selection of Applicant Tracking System for staffing department -Assisted in the integration of engineering teams through eBay's acquisition of PayPal and Billpoint -Assessed many recruiting tools for development hiring along with a chosen team of engineers and engineering managers such as TopCoder and LinkedIn in it’s infancy. Conducted user testing on LinkedIn product in it’s infancy and was one of the first recruiters to post a job description on the site. From June 2002 to October 2004 (2 years 5 months) Technical Recruiter @ -Full life cycle recruiter for QA, i18n and Localization positions within the engineering department -Second engineering recruiter hired at Ariba -Consistently met or exceeded hiring quotas -Selected to sit on committee to assess and select our Applicant Tracking System for staffing department -Assisted with reduction in force of initial layoff of 33% of employees From February 2000 to May 2001 (1 year 4 months) Recruiter @ The Trattner Network was a small boutique engineering recruiting agency that specialized in training recruiters in how to hire all types of engineers. -Hybrid role of recruiting and account management -Successful in bringing in and growing early stage startup accounts -The Trattner Network was acquired in early 2000 by Spherion From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) Branch Recruiting Manager @ Insurance Overload Systems is a boutique staffing firm which specializes in placing insurance professionals in all aspects of the insurance industry. This firm hires people from the insurance industry and trains them to be recruiters. -Originally hired in Los Angeles office as a recruiter -Promoted after 6 months to open an office in San Jose -San Jose office became profitable after 6 months with profits of $25,000/month From January 1997 to December 1998 (2 years)

BS, Marketing @ University of Colorado at BoulderInternational Business, Intensive French Study @ AIFS Study Abroad Program in Paris Laura King is skilled in: Technical Recruiting, Applicant Tracking Systems, Recruiting, Internet Recruiting, College Recruiting, Sourcing, Executive Search, Talent Management, Contract Recruitment, Screening, Screening Resumes, Temporary Placement, Hiring, Management, Staff Augmentation