MARK APTON
1946 Monterey Ct. Santa Clara, CA. 95051
(H) 408 241-1603  (C) 408 910-6632     
mapton@AA-Technical-Recruiter.com
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TALENT ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT•STAFFING PROJECT MANAGER•
SENIOR RECRUITER•SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE ENGINEERING STAFFING
Astute and business savvy Senior Contract Recruiter. 15+ years experience, adept at full life-cycle recruitment. Innovative, consistent, top performer, surpassing staffing objectives. Empowering, team leader, capable of motivating staffing team members and reducing cost per hire. Experienced with recruitment process development/design and implementation. Strong internal account management experience and abilities. Experienced as both a Manager/Leader and individual contributor in companies both public and private, ranging from Fortune 500 to startups. Recruiting (technical and non-technical), headhunting, staffing with HR Generalist knowledge and experience in High-Tech, Wireless, Wireline, Biotechnology /Pharmaceutical and Professional Services organizations.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Huawei Corporation; 11/8 - Present Santa Clara, CA
Contract Recruiter
Full-cycle staffing of senior R&D; Big Data, Virtualization, Cloud, RDBMS, OS, ME, EE for this international $30B, telecommunications systems company.

Philips-Lumileds; 1/11 – 11/8 San Jose, CA
Contract Recruiter
Sourcing to close all candidates within Operations (LED Fab production and Test), Finance, Marketing and Sales.
Engaged with hiring managers and HR to fill high volume staffing needs at corporate headquarters.

Zoran Corporation ; 6/10 – 5/11 Sunnyvale, CA
Contract Recruiter
Full-cycle staffing supporting Home Entertainment and Camera on a chip groups. Sole recruiter for the corporate headquarters also supporting management staffing in the Paris France design center. Sourcing to closing all candidates in Embedded software and semiconductor and all supporting roles.

APTON ASSOCIATES,: - 1/09 – 6/10 Santa Clara, CA
Independent Recruiter
Contingency placements; contract and direct for a select list of
exclusive clients in high tech. Clients include entertainment hardware,
enterprise software , e.g.; SandForce, MarkMonitor, Cantaloupe Systems, Circuit Fusion, PSR Associates, Xchange, Career Element and more.

AMCC Corporation : - 1/08 – 1/09 Sunnyvale, CA
Contract Recruiter
Successfully managed talent acquisition objectives. Developed recruitment strategy for each organization. Partnered with hiring managers to understand key hiring initiatives within their organizations. Staffed positions within a variety of departments; software & hardware development, (e.g. ASIC, embedded s/w, verification), sales, H.R, finance and marketing.



Mobilygen Corporation : -11/05 – 10/08 Santa Clara, CA
Contract Recruiter
Senior Talent Agent, supported recruitment objectives, doing full cycle, corporate in-house recruiting for all software & hardware development (ASIC, semiconductor, fabless), sales and marketing.  Identified, tested (if applicable), interviewed, job offered, negotiated salaries, and hired candidates for management positions ranging from the executive level and below.

APTON ASSOCIATES,: - 3/05 – 11/05 Santa Clara, CA
Independent Recruiter
Contingency placements; contract and direct for a select list of
exclusive clients in high tech. Clients include entertainment hardware,
enterprise software , e.g.; Broadcom and Raza Microelectronics

Siemens Media Division (acquired BBCT) : -12/02 – 3/05 San Francisco, CA
Contract Recruiter
Recruiting Project Manager with responsibility for placing candidates into a variety of positions within Technology and Engineering, Marketing, and Human Resources departments. Sourced Web 2.0 Engineers. See: http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com
Managed process from requirements gathering to sourcing, interviewing, selection, presentation, negotiation, and closing/placement of candidates. I supported offices in Atlanta, New York, San Jose, San Francisco, Burbank and Washington D.C.

APTON ASSOCIATES,: - 4/02 - 12/02 Santa Clara, CA
Independent Recruiter
Contingency placements; contract and direct for a select list of
exclusive clients in high tech. Clients include entertainment hardware,
enterprise software and military/aerospace companies.


Nvidia, Inc.: -12/99 - 4/02 Santa Clara, CA.
Technical Recruiter
Partner with Dept./regional staff to develop and implement recruitment and retention
plans, including projecting recruitment needs, identifying and coordinating recruiting
sources, and monitoring effectiveness of sources. Use of direct sourcing, industry
networking, internet, resume database, employee referrals, and appropriate trade and
industry organizations to recruit and perform in-depth interviews for a successful
preparation and presentation of the offer package. I supported offices in Europe, India, Taiwan, Japan and China.

APTON ASSOCIATES,: - 6/98 – 12/99 Santa Clara, CA
Independent Recruiter
Contingency placements; contract and direct for a select list of
exclusive clients in high tech. Clients include entertainment hardware,
enterprise software , e.g.; Netformx, Macromedia, Zeigeist Data Systems, Hitachi, 



Midcom Corporation, Inc.; - 9/93 - 6/98 Palo Alto, CA.
Technical Recruiter
Provide commercial, industrial, aerospace, manufacturing and gaming industry clients
with H/W and S/W programmers and engineering professionals as well as related
technical personnel. Type of candidates sourced were Unix applications developers and
systems engineers, mechanical engineers, biotech, embedded real-time developers, web
developers, course developers, auditors, financial analysts & accountants.


EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

EDUCATION: Bachelors Science MIS, San Jose State University

Additional Training; Immigration, E.A.P Crisis management
Semco, Airs, Focus Institute of Technology, Openhire ATS

Memberships;
HRCA, SHRM

My Resume web-site;
http://www.aa-technical-recruiter.com

Job Openings Link;

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