Marcus Walton
Human Capital Strategist at MW Recruiting Group.
| Headline: | Recruiter |
| Groups: | Online Advertising Professionals (OAP) |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Meeting new people, Offering Expertise, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | MW Recruiting Group, Washington & California |
| Position: | Human Capital Strategist |
| Time period: | September 2008 - Present |
| Description: | MW Recruiting Group is comprised of highly skilled recruiters with a combined track record of over 30 years. Our success has come from our ability to understand the need of our clients and then locate and secure the best individual for the environment and position. We specialize in recruiting talented professionals within the following areas; Social Media, Virtualization, Web 2.0 and Gaming. |
| Employer: | Yahoo, Sunnyvale, CA |
| Position: | Senior Recruiter |
| Time period: | June 2007 - September 2008 |
| Description: | Yahoo! is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide.
- Recruited Systems Engineers, Architects, QA Engineers, Project Managers and Data Analyst for Grid Computing within the Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure Engineering Organization. - Lead for Y! OS QA and Program Management Recruiting within the Platform & Infrastructure Engineering Organization. Also recruited Architects, Web Developers and Performance Engineers. - Lead for the strategic U.S. company wide QA POD recruiting team. - Partner with Engineering Management to develop recruiting and compensation strategies. - Part of the Communications Task Force to help identify unique communication techniques to disseminate information to both members of staffing and engineering. |
| Employer: | VMware, Palo Alto, CA |
| Position: | Senior Recruiter |
| Time period: | April 2006 - June 2007 |
| Description: | VMware is the global leader in virtualization infrastructure software for industry standard systems.
- Responsible for full cycle recruiting of various types of Software Engineers within the Core Technologies Group (i.e. file systems, storage, resource management, core kernel, and device drivers). - Partner with Senior Engineering Directors and Staffing Managers to develop recruiting and compensation strategies and the opening of the Colorado facility. |
| Employer: | Intel Corporation, Riverton, UT |
| Position: | Senior Recruiter |
| Time period: | March 2005 - February 2006 |
| Description: | Intel is the world's largest chip maker and manufacturer of computer, networking, and communications products.
- Lead Recruiter for the Corporate Technology Group (Communications Technology Lab, Intel Research, Microprocessor Technology Lab and Systems Technology Lab). - Responsible for setting recruiting strategies for both diverse and non-diverse candidates. Lead/Mentor for two recruiters. - Responsible for sourcing, recruiting, and pre-screening Research Scientist in the following areas; Wireless, Photonics, Circuits, Radio Communications, Networking and Systems, for the Corporate Technology Group. - Responsible for educating potential candidates on the Intel culture, values and work ethic. - Provide compensation history to the assigned staffing consultant to assure a higher acceptance level for offers. - Maintain/Track Candidate and Position activity in CATT, GENI and RMT Database Tools. - Recruiting resources: Internet, Monster, Personal Network, Alumni Programs, Diversity Associations, Internal Database, etc. |
| Employer: | FatPipe Networks, Salt Lake City, UT |
| Position: | Account Manager |
| Time period: | February 2004 - March 2005 |
| Description: | FatPipe is the developer of router clustering technology for deployment of mission critical Internet/WAN access.
- Responsible for developing new business in the states of Illinois and Wisconsin as well as manage CDW and Insight nation wide in generating $2 million in annual revenue. |
| Employer: | Accela, Inc, Sandy, Utah |
| Position: | Recruiting Manager/ Director of Strategic Relations |
| Time period: | April 1999 - October 2003 |
| Description: | Accela is a market leader in web-based enterprise automation solutions for State/Local Governments.
- Responsible for overseeing all strategic relations involving our e-business solutions for the state and local government marketplace. - Responsible for an annual pipeline growth of $4 million dollars to the sales organization. - Analyze and recommend new business opportunities for other partnerships that may develop from time to time during the on-going growth of the Company. - Participating in company's strategic decision-making process, including competitive analysis, market positioning and overall corporate direction. - Increased engineering team (QA engineers, Database engineers and Web application engineers) by 50% within 12 months. - Developed and implemented recruiting strategies and an employee development/retention program |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | - Current Board of Directors Member for Mockingbird Society
- Former Advisory Board Member for BYU’s MPA Program 2001-2003 - Former Advisory Board Member for two Internet Corporations 1998-2000 |
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