Mike Starkey

Experience

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  HireUp.net

  Jan 2011 - Jul 2014

  Technical Recruiter

  Recruiter for various tech companies across Silicon Valley including Ebay, Yelp, Snapchat, Resilient.

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  BWBacon Group

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2017

  Senior Technical Recruiter

  Have openings for all areas involved with IT/Tech software(RoR, Node.js, Angular.js,Java,.Net, LAMP Stack, among others) (front end, back end, design, data, architects, devops, business analysts/project managers, peoplesoft, Techno/Functional professionals, and sales). Responsible for finding great talent for our exceptional clients throughout Colorado and the entire United States. Recruited directly for UBER within Denver - assisted in growing driver reps which blossomed here in Denver as more driver were needed. Hired numerous individuals for driving screening team. Show less

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  OppenheimerFunds

  Apr 2015 - Sept 2017

  Technical Recruiter
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  Briebug

  Oct 2017 - Sept 2018

  Team Lead / Technical Recruiter - Contract

  We are your full-stack JavaScript/AngularJS experts in Denver, developing web and mobile applications using AngularJS, Node.js, and HTML5. • Identify, contact, pitch, and hire top tier engineering talent• Advanced candidate sourcing utilizing Hubspot, Workable and LinkedIn Recruiter and more• Partner with internal hiring managers to create job descriptions, fine-tune interview process, and establish long term recruiting strategies• Worked with CEO/CTO/executive team to Re-vamp and roll out new interview preparation material/process• Led BrieBug ATS conversion – responsibilities included: researching and negotiating with ATS vendors, pitching ATS to executive team, several rounds of testing to insure data migrated correctly, and training of team. • Led overhaul of internal ATS best practice standards and project management within new ATS.• Led and partnered BrieBug staff in overhaul of our “Candidate Experience” • Represented BrieBug at community events, job fairs, Rocky Mtn Angular meetups and more Show less

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  Wipro Limited

  Sept 2018 - Mar 2020

  Team Lead / Senior Technical Recruiter US Territories

  Hired as Sr. Recruiter. (Oversee Denver, Dallas, New York locations). Leads all hiring efforts as a stand alone full cycle recruiter. We lead digital transformation projects using todays latest technology trends.• Advanced candidate sourcing utilizing Hubspot, Workable, Stackoverflow, LinkedIn Recruiter and many more. • Partner with internal hiring managers to create job descriptions, fine-tune interview process, and establish long term recruiting strategies.• Develop and execute hiring strategy for top engineering and design talent.• Design and implement hiring processes optimized for scale and high growth - We will have the MOST efficient interviewing process.• Collaborate with leadership and hiring teams to understand and define hiring needs and establish effective processes to support those goals• Manage our entire recruiting life cycle process• Provide an efficient, high-touch experience for every candidate from application to onboarding, acting as candidate advocate, evaluating skill level, and driving the interview and offer processes• Responsible for new employee onboarding• Worked alongside engineering teams to develop scorecards and scoring guidance for technical roles, which were successfully implemented in the US and shared with the global teams• Responsible for hiring front end engineers, platform engineers, creative technologists, delivery leads, mobile engineers and leadership roles. Experts within Java, Javascript, TDD, CI/CD and moreAWS experts leading transformation breakthroughs with various clients Show less

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  Amazon

  Feb 2020 - Jan 2022

  Responsible for generating passive candidate interest and will own the process from engagement through interview loop preparation and offer generation.Led System Design, Architecture, Algorithms and Software Engineering Assessments.I took pride in discussing the growth of ‘Devices’ to Senior candidates who were in final stages for positions within Amazon.Our team goal was to hire SDEII and SDEIII across Devices organization.Placed 12 SDM’s (managers) within Amazon utilizing networking and referral programs.Projects included: Fun Team (COVID response team meant to engage with other Amazon employees)Devices DEI - Our mission was to expand our efforts into DEI sourcing and provide a 45% increase in DEI candidate profiles. Eliminate bias across 200 recruiters using our BIAS methodologies / tools. Show less

  • Senior Technical Recruiter

    Dec 2020 - Jan 2022

  • Technical Recruiter

    Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
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  Blue River Technology

  Oct 2021 - Oct 2022

  Senior Technology Recruiter- ISG Autonomous Tractors

  WE ARE JOHN DEERE! Our mission is to create intelligent machinery that solves monumental challenges for our customers!Our team was mainly responsible for bringing external candidates into Deere; building data driven technology in agriculture and construction through methods of data science, machine learning, AI.Administered comprehensive interviewing processes, improving the precision by 25% (time to fill).Played a key role in fostering congenial employee relations, enhancing staff retention by a implementing ‘candidate spotlights’Successfully communicated with Sr. leaders across John Deere in order to place top tier candidates within robotic, AI and autonomous engineering teams. Led a team of 4 into a complete shift in ATS systems - implemented and taught hiring managers usage in order to streamline the interview pipeline. Placed 45 devops, data, machine learning engineers within a 12 month period. Implement AGILE recruitment process (Scrum Master). Show less

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  DAT Freight & Analytics

  Apr 2022 - Oct 2023

  Senior Technical Recruiter

  DAT Freight & Analytics removes the uncertainty from transportation and freight for companies across the nation and across all industries. As North America’s largest on-demand freight marketplace, we are a software and analytics company that sits at the intersection of commerce and fuels the movement of freight through data and automation. Ushered in a 30% increase in recruitment efficiency through enhanced sourcing strategies and recruitment tools.Streamlined IT recruitment processes, including full-life cycle recruiting, reducing time-to-hire by 25% (just under 30 days “time to fill”)..Executed strategic benefits negotiation campaigns resulting in significantly improved employee contentment levels.Led the implementation of user-friendly applicant tracking systems enhancing screening processes by 20%.Facilitated and managed executive search operations optimizing the selection of top candidates.Lead marketing campaign “employee spotlights” - blogs via website to bring in traffic and highlight engineering talent which in turn saw a 25% increase in qualified talent applications.Implement AGILE recruitment process (Scrum Master). Show less

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  Vimana Technical Solutions

  Sept 2023 - now

  Founder & CEO

  Our core capabilities span custom software engineering, IT staffing, managed services and a data and AI practice. We partner with our customers to build a POD (Product Oriented Development) to accelerate business initiatives and projects with hand-picked teams of experts across the customer and company resources. Our talent management division provides recruitment for staffing short-term, long-term, permanent or contract to hire resources for your teams. We offer many other resource experts across all IT functions across automation and orchestration, cloud, digital transformation and security transformation. Show less