Experience
Agency, enterprise, and healthcare.
Full-cycle recruiting for technical, executive, corporate, and healthcare roles, plus hands-on HR for a regulated healthcare employer.
Founder & Independent Recruiter (part-time)
Oct 2024 – Present
Talent Ninja, LLC · Remote
- Run full-cycle contingency and retained searches as a solo recruiter, carrying 5–12 open searches at a time.
- Deliver the first qualified submittal within 24 hours of intake and average about one placement a month since launch.
- Hold an 89% offer acceptance rate by checking pay, motivation, and counteroffer risk before candidates reach the hiring manager.
- Recruit software engineers, network engineers and architects, infrastructure architects, security talent, critical facilities engineers, and IT leaders in $45K–$130K roles.
- Built my own sourcing setup with Sales Navigator, Apollo.io, Dripify, and AI-assisted search to reach passive candidates without a big-firm database.
- Work directly with owners and hiring managers on role scope, compensation, and offer strategy.
full cyclepassive sourcinghiring manager partnership
Co-Founder & Director of Operations (HR & People)
Jan 2023 – Present
Safe Haven Home Care, LLC · Home care agency · Cincinnati, OH
- Co-founded the agency and built its HR and people operations function from the ground up.
- Run hiring from start to finish: job posts, phone screens, structured interviews, background checks, and offers.
- Rebuilt hiring and credentialing so new caregivers start taking shifts in under 10 days instead of 3 weeks.
- Passed all 43 items of the state DODD compliance review with zero findings, then led the agency through recertification.
- Process payroll in ADP RUN; cut payroll errors by 25% and about $18K a year in admin costs by reworking how HR, billing, and scheduling connect.
- Wrote the employee handbook, policies and procedures manual, and standard operating procedures.
- Kept annual turnover below Ohio's roughly 40% home care average through better screening, training, and clear expectations.
HR generalistonboardingcompliancepayrollemployee relations
ServiceNow Consultant & Business Analyst
Feb 2023 – Jan 2024
Snowfox Solutions · Blue Ash, OH
- Gathered requirements, mapped processes, coordinated UAT, and trained end users on enterprise ServiceNow ITSM and PPM rollouts.
- Wrote the SOPs teams used after go-live.
Technical Recruiting Consultant
Feb 2022 – Oct 2022
Amazon & Ring · Contract · Remote
- Brought on to recruit AWS Solutions Architects and RF Engineers, carrying 15+ high-priority requisitions at a time during an aggressive hiring push.
- Sourced and screened roughly 2,500 candidates a month by phone, email, job boards, and LinkedIn Recruiter.
- Hire sources: 60% LinkedIn Recruiter, 20% Beamery, 20% iCIMS.
- Cut average time-to-fill by 30% by building pipelines ahead of demand and running tighter interview loops with senior hiring managers.
- Earned 90%+ hiring manager satisfaction scores.
Strategic Sourcing Consultant
Oct 2021 – Feb 2022
Allegion · Contract · Remote
- Sourced passive software engineers, data scientists, and solutions architects, raising passive candidate engagement by 40%.
- Filled 10+ hard-to-fill engineering and IT roles within SLA.
Career Break & MBA Completion
Aug 2020 – Oct 2021
Indiana Wesleyan University
- Focused on completing my MBA in Project Management (awarded December 2021) before returning to recruiting with Allegion.
Career Coach & Workforce Development Specialist
Feb 2019 – Aug 2020
OhioMeansJobs / Hamilton County Job & Family Services · Rehired · Cincinnati, OH
- Worked with 200+ job seekers a year, many of them veterans and displaced workers; 65% were placed within 90 days.
- Ran 50+ workshops for 1,000+ people on résumés, interviewing, and workplace skills.
- Built hiring relationships with 25+ local employers in healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, and tech.
- Became the go-to person for veterans making the move into civilian careers.
Technical Recruiter → Senior Technical Recruiter
2014 – 2018
Adecco, Luxottica, E.W. Scripps, Anchor Point Technology, Fahrenheit IT, Connecting People Inc. · Cincinnati, OH & Denver, CO
- Started in recruiting at Connecting People in Denver; later Senior Technical Recruiter at Anchor Point Technology.
- Full-cycle recruiting for Fortune 500 and mid-market clients: developers, architects, systems administrators, help desk and desktop support, IT managers and directors, plus finance, accounting and corporate roles up to C-level.
- Beat monthly and quarterly placement targets by 10–15%.
- Mentored newer recruiters as they built sourcing and pipeline systems that worked for them.
- Worked daily in Taleo, Workday, Bullhorn, and iCIMS; built templates and workflows in Workday and Bullhorn.
Job Developer & Career Coach
2011 – 2014
OhioMeansJobs / Ohio Department of Job & Family Services
- Joined right after graduating from UC, coaching job seekers and developing hiring relationships with local employers.
- Moved to Denver in 2014 to start my recruiting career.
Team Leader, Bradley Linebacker Crewmember (14R) & Administrative Specialist
2002 – 2006
United States Army · Fort Hood, TX & Baghdad, Iraq
- Deployed to Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom II and led soldiers through combat operations.
- Kept personnel records, training schedules, and compliance paperwork for a 30+ soldier element; my first HR job, though nobody called it that.
- Held a Secret security clearance.
- Combat Action Badge, Army Good Conduct Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal.
