A diverse Talent Acquisition leader with a wealth of experience in high growth companies. Experienced in technology, ecommerce, gaming, and social network environments. I help teams to understand markets, overcome challenges and identify opportunities for growth and development. Specialties: Seeking out awesome people to work at incredible companies.

Manager, Talent Acquisition @ Leading an incredibly talented, smart and nimble team mixed team of recruiters, sourcers and coordinators here at the fastest growing division of Macy's. We handle all technology, ecommerce, online, mobile and more with several billion in sales each year. Huge challenges combined with an excellent work life balance and company culture with a ton of room to grow your personal and professional career. We are omnichannel leaders, first to same day delivery, technology innovators, featuring one of the most diverse workforce's in the country. Winner of numerous awards from 2014 Mobile Retailer of the Year to being on Fortune's top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Retail. Come join us! Also managing university recruitment, diversity programs and have established several new policies / changes within the company. Currently looking for QE Automation Engineers, Mobile Devs, Ruby Developers, Software Architects, Dev Ops, Analysts and about everything else. matthew.kelson@macys.com From February 2014 to Present (1 year 11 months) Sr. Recruiter @ Working as a recruiter for Disney's gaming division (Disney Mobile, Infinity and Disney Social). Winner of Best Facebook Game 2011 / 2012. Hiring across the entire spectrum of technology from game designers, to server engineers, UI to coders. Start-up environment with tons of IP (Muppets to Marvel, Facebook to console) and the resources to tap into it. It truly is the best of both worlds. From November 2011 to February 2014 (2 years 4 months) Talent Manager @ Hiring...well everyone. Working on doubling the company. Already massively profitable. We do mobile gaming and the market is exploding. IOS, Android and beyond. Was one of two full time recruiters assigned to hire everyone and anyone. Technical, marketing, sales, PM and more. From July 2011 to November 2011 (5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaEngineering Sourcer at Facebook @ Seeking out the best talent in the world to work on the future of web and social media technology. I am involved in the TechOps group, which hires for everything infrastructure related including MySQL DBA's, Network Engineers, Systems Engineers, Hardware Engineers and Storage Engineers. From October 2010 to July 2011 (10 months) Engineering / Ops Recruiter @ Helped build the team from 3 to 25 people. Involved in training, organizing meetings and development/mentoring of new employees. Consistently recognized for accomplishments from VP level. Actively seeking out the best possible talent for various Engineering and Operations roles. Particular focus on excellent Systems Administrators with strong Open Source experience. I am working for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or also known as Google.com. Google.com (SRE or Site Reliability Engineering) is comprised of hundreds of engineers and technologists worldwide who are generalists in software design, architecture, systems administration, and machines/data center operations. The Google.com team is responsible for ensuring new services meet our code and architecture standards during launch. We deploy, maintain, and optimize a subset of services that get huge traffic or generate revenue. Google.com/SRE is also accountable for all mission-critical Google products (as well as the Google site) ensuring availability, performance and capacity Primarily concentrated in Mt. View, Dublin, Zurich, with distributed teams in San Francisco, Santa Monica, Boston, Kirkland, Seattle, New York, London, and Sydney. From November 2009 to October 2010 (1 year) Business Development Manager / Recruiter @ From February 2009 to October 2009 (9 months) Senior Recruiter @ From February 2008 to January 2009 (1 year)

BA, English and Economics @ William & Mary From 2002 to 2007 Matthew Kelson is skilled in: Technical Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Sourcing, Networking, Recruiting, Team Building, Team Leadership, Management, Leadership, Training, Hiring, Applicant Tracking Systems, Interviews, Internet Recruiting, College Recruiting, Mobile Devices, Business Development, Global Talent Acquisition