marty vespa

Responsible for recruiting, interviewing and staffing qualified IT professionals on a contractual and/or permanent basis.

Focused on supporting strategic hiring initiatives for early stage startups in cyber-security or related domains.

* Given the opportunity and heavy responsibility to startup, design, develop and manage the recruiting initiative for Open Port while having no previous corporate recruiting experience. * Implemented a successful process, removed existing inefficiencies and exceeded expectations by reaching hiring goals ahead of forecast.

* Spearheaded a project to develop a referral based candidate database. * Interviewed, trained and managed a team of four recruiters that were responsible for generating referrals from internal employees.

Managed the full life-cycle recruitment of executive level Sr. Commercial Lenders. Successfully handled difficult regions after the majority of the sourcing of local candidates had been exhausted.

* While being the sole recruiter at CHX, I managed the staffing needs of the entire Information Systems Department, which represented over half of the 270 total employees. * Exceeded expectations by hiring over 15 engineers while receiving acceptance on approximately 95% of the offers extended to candidates.

Hired to startup, design and develop the first active recruiting initiative in the company’s 40-year history. Helped to shift the company towards aggressive recruiting with a more collaborative effort. Construction, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing (MEP), Architecture, Engineers

* Joined a small recruiting team as the company was initiating their drive towards an IPO. * In the challenging Silicon Valley environment our team added key contributors throughout the organization with aggressive recruitment strategies. We were considered a value add in the company. * The team became accomplished at hiring in an unstructured organization that made process difficult to implement.

* Key member in the design and development of the Asset Management Executive Search Team (AMES). * AMES served a critical role in retaining executive recruitment internally saving the firm fees of approximately $10MM. * Team was responsible for recruiting strategic executive roles.

Manage the global recruiting team with oversight of strategic initiatives relating to all aspects of the full life cycle. Joined the company as their first full time recruiter at an employee count of 180. Implemented an efficient internal recruiting process which has enabled the company to scale to over 500.