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Bay Area Sr. Technical Recruiter Available

Posted by: "Bridget Cooper" bridget@marincounty.net

Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:10 pm (PST)

My hourly rate for on-site is $75hr., for off-site $60hr. I have 12 years experience.
Tons of software, networking infrastructure, on demand-hosted- SaaS, social
networking, sales, marketing, professional services, and yes, if I have to,
engineering! ; ) I'll travel as far south as San Jose, as far north as Santa Rosa, as
far east as Livermore, and as far west as a good day at Stinson.
Here's my resume as follows:
Bridget M. Cooper

(415) 897-0118 office

(415) 845-2870 cell

bridget@marincounty .net

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INDUSTRY EXPERTISE:
Extensive background in recruiting across all industries and position levels.
Particular experience in Sales, Marketing and Engineering in difficult technology
from semiconductor to data networking infrastructure, Web Applictions Software
companies, IT, accounting, customer service and tech support.

· 12 years technical and non-technical recruiting and management experience.

· Recruiting methods: Employee referral programs, posting, resume banks, user

groups, advanced internet searches, strong traditional cold calling methods.
Strong internet research skills.

· Experienced in putting together the entire recruiting process, project

management of a strategic plan, to development of job descriptions, sourcing,
career events, interviewing, compensation analysis, reference checking.

CLIENT COMPANIES, PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

GoFish.com, San Francisco, CA. Social Networking site. Worked with a retained
search firm on a VP Engineering search for GoFish. Found 6 candidates, but
GoFish decided to put the position on hold until the new CTO was onboard.
8/06 to present: Nimblefish Technologies, San Francisco, Web Application. On
demand direct marketing software company. Positions recruiting for are
Java/J2EE developers, UI designers and engineers, sales engineers, client services
directors, Program Manager, VP of Marketing.
9/2004 – 6/2006 SuccessFactors. San Mateo. Web Application. Recruited large
professional services team for implementation of HR software for large and small
scale projects across the US. Recruited VP of Professional Services, Practice
Lead/East Coast, several project managers and professional services consultants,
tech writers, webmaster, field marketing, customer support, lead gen, receptionist,
product managers, product marketing manager, web developer, for this ASP of
workforce performance management tools.
July, 2004-Nov., 2005 Connecting Neighbors/Reply! , Web Application.
Recruited, trained and managed 12 Lead Development positions. Product is an
interactive neighborhood website sponsored by real estate agents. Recruiting and
training inside sales persons to make lead development calls. Recruited 50 Inside
Sales for the parent company, Reply, Inc., an online lead generation tool for the
real estate industry.

2003/2004 FormFactor, (Retained). Sr. Director Product Marketing DRAM,

Principal PhD Metallurgist, Principal Microsassembly, PhD, Principal Test
Engineer, Principal Mechanical Design Engineer, Principal Supplier QA. Form
Factor is a back end semiconductor test company, product is a wafer probe card.
Positions are highly scientific in nature, involving metrology, metallurgy and
alloys, electromechanical assemblies and components, ceramics, etc. Most
positions require PhDs.

2002/2003/2004 Vernier Networks, (Contract Recruiting), Wireless Networking

Security, Mountain View. Wireless Network Security. Server. Positions recruiting
for on an ongoing basis are Director of Product Management; FreeBSD
Networking Guru; Network Engineers for Post Sales Support; QA Manager,
Directors of Sales for Education, Government, East Coast, West Coast. Recruiting
for engineers with strong data networking and systems backgrounds, operating
systems expertise in FreeBSD and Microsoft OS, heavy hitting networking
software engineers expert in C programming, Winsock, Installshield, VPN,
TCP/IP, Ipsec, PPTP, etc.

2003 Packet Design, (Retained), Networking Infrastructure. Palo Alto, CA.

Director of East Coast Sales and Director Product Management for a network
management/routing map product. Recruited for expertise in Internet architecture,
network management systems and IP data networking products.

2003 Precision I/O (Retained) VP Engineering, VP Product Management, 2

individual unix kernel/driver software engineers. Company’s product is a server
I/O architecture on an FPGA and ultimately on an ASIC.

2003 CSAA, San Francisco, CA. Placed and payrolled IT contractors for call
center and CTI projects.
2002 diCarta, Web Based Applications, Redwood City, placed and payrolled 5
software contractors, front-end and back end enterprise software engineers for
web based contracts management software.

9/01 to 5/02 iReady Corporation. (On-site Recruiter), Semiconductor, Santa Clara,

CA Participated in the VP Engineering search, Director of ASIC Design, Director
of Verification . Project managed and recruited 18 ASIC, Software and Hardware
engineers for TCP/IP on a chip startup in Santa Clara. This project included
research, developing job descriptions, Brass Ring events, outplacement job fairs.

6//01 to 10/01 Intel, Semiconductor, Key positions for the network processor
group of Intel in Hudson, MA and Santa Clara, CA; ASIC and VLSI, analog I/O,
and circuit design engineers.

1/01 to 6/01 ON Semiconductor, (On-site Recruiter) Cupertino,CA. Recruited the

Design Center Director, the Director of Applications Engineering, and the high-
speed mixed-signal, analog and digital IC design engineering team for broadband
communications division. This project included many recruiting events with Brass
Ring (3 events at the Santa Clara Convention Center) a recruiting booth at
Networld-Interop, hosting a dinner event at the Tech Museum in San Jose and a
Gordon Biersch pub event. The position had overall responsibility for all staffing
activities for the Cupertino Design Center, including compensation analysis,
responsibility for recommendations of appropriate offers, and implementing
recruitment and staffing strategies.

8/00-12/31/00: Morphics Technology, Semiconductor (On-site Recruiter),

Campbell, CA. ASIC Design & Verification engineers, Embedded SW Engineers,
Board and System Design engineers for this wireless technology start-up.

1/00-8/00. Contingent Fee Basis for Invisible Worlds, True Time, Inc., Indus
International, Charles Schwab, Providian, Yipes, Banc America Securities, and
Cogit.com. Experienced in recruiting for the following positions:

Systems Administrators (Unix, NT), Oracle DBAs , Data Modelers, Developers,

Tech Writers, Network Engineers

1994-1999, Director Recruiting, CADD Applications, Novato, CA CADD

Applications was owned and operated by sole proprietors, Harry Cooper and
Bridget Cooper. This was a vocational school teaching all AutoDesk software
products including AutoCAD Rel. 12 through 14, 3D Studio Max, and
Mechanical Desktop. My primary role was in the business development and
recruiting and placement for the following positions/industrie s:

Manufacturing: mechanical engineers, R & D engineers, mechanical and electro-

mechanical designers and drafters. Electronics technicians and assemblers.
Building: Architects, civil and structural engineers, designers, job captains,
project managers, drafters. Multimedia: 3D Modelers and Animators.

Responsible for developing all business marketing strategies for the company via
all means of client development including internet, print media, college relations,
cold calls, etc.

Attended various industry conventions, regional job fairs and other valuable
networking activities.

Developed all resumes of graduates of CADD Applications’ courses.

Established and maintained contact with Bay Area employers for employment of
all graduates.

Established and maintained all internal business management including,

databases, payroll, A/P and A/R for the company.

Prepared and submitted extensive annual reports to the Bureau for Private
Postsecondary and Vocational Education to obtain and maintain licensing for the
training division of CADD Applications.

EDUCATION:
BSBA, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA 1998
AAS & Certificate – Paralegal, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID 1989

Sincerely,
Bridget Cooper, Sr. Recruiter
415 897 0118