Twitter has changed the way people communicate and connects hundreds of millions of users to real-time information about the world we live in. Our engineering team is developing new products and technology to provide users with timely, relevant and personalized information, incorporating the Twitter social graph, a massive corpus of real-time information, and numerous interesting data signals. Behind the scenes, we are building highly scalable distributed systems, and the algorithms necessary to make sense of all this data — all within a matter of milliseconds. One of the things that makes Twitter unique is that Tweets can flow from Twitter to other mediums seamlessly, like TV, websites and mobile applications. In fact, in the third quarter of 2014 there were approximately 185 Billion Tweet impressions off of Twitter. Certified Internet Recruiter (CIR) with over 11 years full Life cycle Recruiting experience with an additional prior 8 years in Global Sales. Expert knowledge of AIRS Boolean search methods for deep internet mining techniques. Hands on leader and thought partner. I source, engage, and develop candidate relationships utilizing sourcing tools such as Linkedin Recruiter and Groups, Boolean string, Blogs, Meetups, events and others. My passions are everything social including gaming, networking and communication platforms, start-ups, new technologies, global recruiting, international travel and cultures. My passions include anything in the Outdoors (surfing, snowboarding, backpacking, rock climbing) as well as yoga, running and pilates. Fluent in French and English. Some Spanish and Italian. Specialties: Digital Media, Rapid Growth, Global Hiring, Start-ups, Boolean Logic, Strategic sourcing, networking, cold calling

Lead Global Recruiter @ *Promoted to help scale Twitter's global hiring initiatives through out the world. *First Recruiter for high-caliber Global Recruiting team *Created go to Market strategies for new offices in the Netherlands, Spain, France, Australia and Canada. *Sent on Special project to London to identify hiring challenges for the EMEA region. Worked closely with Head of EMEA and Sales director to implement new recruitment strategies for the region. *Specialized Diversity hiring with all my roles. Hired Two Women Executives (Heads of Country) for Twitter and helped with identifying executive talent for additional regions. *Mentored new team members both locally and internationally to ensure quick ramp-up for rapid team success *Currently supporting our International and Global efforts with a specialty on hiring needs within APAC, Australia, EMEA, LATAM and Canada. *Thought partner for go to Market Strategies for LATAM countries *Girls Who Code Mentor and Friday for Good lead for volunteer efforts for various diversity and youth focused events Recruiting Executives, Directors, Managers, Digital Sales specialists and more. Identifying project roadmaps and areas in which finding top talent can be challenging. Working on key roles needed to ensure Twitter's successful rapid growth. Thought Partner and advisor on domestic revenue recruitment efforts, working closely with the team on recruiting policy, procedure and best practices. From November 2012 to Present (3 years) GlobalSenior Revenue Recruiter @ *6th Recruiter Hired for Twitter. *Focus was to scale Twitter's new sales org from a team of 20 in November of 2011 to a team of 150 in early 2013 *Recruited entire function of the sales organization and their stake holders to build a world class sales organization. Hired Directors and leaders on the non-engineering side of our company. *Supported Product Marketing, Brand Strategy, Localization, User Services and Facilities. *Developed Twitter's first Employee Referral program that would become an entire function in the recruiting organization Within a year, hired 35% of our domestic team. From October 2011 to December 2012 (1 year 3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaLead Technical Recruiter @ * Hired to scale fast growing mobile gaming start-up with hard to find Android and IOS engineers. * Sourced and hired 2 flash developers within first week of employment * Scaled our engineering team by 30% in under 2 months * Filled two leadership roles on the engineering team * Worked closely with founders to implement recruiting practices needed for accelerated hyper-growth of Funzio From July 2011 to October 2011 (4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaGlobal Staffing Specialist @ *Full-Cycle Recruiting - Sourcing, Screening and Closing Candidates. *Employing a **collaborative and comprehensive approach** -- working closely with executives/hiring managers, absorbing all aspects of a team, matching the-best-and-the-brightest for each team - based on skill sets, team dynamics, and company culture. *Help visionaries achieve their goals by accelerating the growth of their startup & network *Foster and develop mutually beneficial relationships between innovators, influencers and business professionals * Create synergistic relationships between people with complimentary backgrounds, interests, skill sets, talents, personalities, passions, visions, and goals. * Enable the rapid growth of professional networks by facilitating qualified introductions at industry events, conferences and social gatherings. *Passionate about helping startups with their strategic growth; dedicated resource for on-demand recruiting. From February 2010 to 2011 (1 year) Recruitment Manager @ *Lead recruiter for Retained Search company supporting Smith Micro Software *Hired by CEO to implement and create sourcing and research strategies to support key client and manage team of recruiters and sourcers. *Full life-cycle recruiting for VP of Engineering roles, Software Managers and individual contributor roles in the areas of development, QA and Test. *Suggest and implement trainings as well as process improvements *Drove all areas of recruiting strategies for team *Weekly PMO meetings with Executives on hiring needs *Successfully sourced passive candidates through a wide variety of channels including; industry and organizational networking, blogs, cold calling, internet mining From January 2009 to February 2010 (1 year 2 months) Senior Research Recruiter @ *Hired by TAC Worldwide as a contract Research Recruiter for Microsoft. Worked on hard to fill niche System Level Engineer positions and Program Management positions. *Supported Leaders of the MSN Platforms Team, LIVE SEARCH and COSD (Core Operating Systems Division) *Worked with Managers and Onsite Recruiters to identify skill and project oriented experience for key Senior Software Development Engineers in Development and Test *Recruited top Engineers who were Algorithm Development, statistical analytics and search engine gurus to help Microsoft goals to become the number 1# Worldwide search Engine *Updated Taleo and managed OFCCP compliance system. *100% remote employee, visited the Microsoft Campus for meetings and 1:1 *Successfully sourced passive candidates through a wide variety of channels including; industry and organizational networking, blogs, cold calling, internet mining From August 2008 to December 2008 (5 months) Engineering Recruiting Manager @ *Promoted to Manage entire Recruiting team due to success as Sourcer within a 2 month period. *Managed weekly meetings with VP and three Directors within the Engineering efforts of VUDU. Performed weekly status reports to CFO. *Managed a team of recruiters to help define passive recruiting strategies to find highly skilled niche Engineers, Marketing and Sales people. *Drove interview process through Candidate screening, Interview Scheduling, Feedback from Managers, Reference and Background checks, Offer Negotiations and Letters, Visa Transfers, ETC. *Successfully recruited passive candidates through a wide variety of channels including; industry and organizational networking, cold calling, internet mining, jobs boards, employee referrals and internal candidate databases *Identify and implement process improvements. From March 2008 to September 2008 (7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaTechnical Sourcer Recruitment @ *One of two Sourcers hired to help develop and define staffing processes for this established start-up *Reported directly to CFO *Responsible for establishing pipe-line of qualified candidates for operations department using passive sourcing methods, cold-calling, and networking *Instrumental in promoting VUDU and its open positions/hiring needs *Conducted extremely passive candidate sourcing techniques including cold calling directly into targeted companies and recruiting at the Apple Developers Conference From March 2008 to May 2008 (3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaLead Technical Recruiter @ *Responsible for full life-cycle recruitment, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, negotiating, offering, and closing candidates for permanent technical and non-technical positions. *Career highlights include continually define/refine and automate associated processes involved in: requirement analysis & definition; job description development; candidate sourcing; candidate presentation & follow-up; candidate screening and evaluation; candidate references and documentation. *Lead recruiter responsible in developing a successful 2 year relationship with Charles Schwab as their 1# New Vendor and the 3rd top Vendor overall. *Additional placements included AOL, Time Warner, Visa International, Savi Technologies, XM satellite radio, Genentech and Macromedia From 2005 to 2008 (3 years) San Francisco Bay AreaTechnical Recruiter @ Promoted to Senior Recruiter in January 2007 From 2005 to January 2007 (2 years) San Francisco Bay Area

Recruiting and Sourcing Best Practices @ AIRS Recruiter Academy From 2007 to 2008 CIR, AIRS CIR Training Certified @ AIRS SearchLab 2008L'Ecole Bilingue Mikaela Smith is skilled in: Applicant Tracking..., Career Counseling, Temporary Placement, PeopleSoft, HTML, Sourcing, Contract Recruitment, Team Building, Cold Calling, Vendor Management, Digital Media, Training, Business Networking, Data Analysis, Mobile Devices, Executive Search, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Technical Recruiting, Resume Writing, Cloud Computing, Screening Resumes, Screening, Personnel Management, Networking, Social Networking, Process Improvement, Microsoft Office, IT Recruitment, Recruiting, Developers, Interviews, HR Consulting, Research, Strategic Planning, Product Management, Interview Preparation, Start-ups, RPO, Finance, Quality Assurance, Account Management, Coaching, Information Technology, Customer Service, Onboarding, Talent Management, Oracle, Professional Services, Social Media Marketing