My Resume
Irina Shamaeva
201 Vista Heights Road,
El Cerrito CA 94530
Home Office: 510-233-9493
LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/irinashamaeva
Twitter: http://twitter.com/braingain
Blog: http://booleanstrings.com
Summary
Technical Recruiter, Expert Internet Sourcer with strong Software Engineering Development and Management background
“Irina Shamaeva is one of the brightest minds in our industry.” Job Bryant, Management Consultant in Talent Acquisition
“She must be one of the leading professionals in her field in the world. Her ideas are extremely innovative and sometimes unique.” Rob Thomas, Principal Consultant, UK
Experience
Partner, Chief Sourcer at Brain Gain Recruiting, El Cerrito/Palo Alto CA, 2004 – present
Technical and Executive Recruiter and Sourcer. Responsible for internet research, business development, interacting with clients, sourcing candidates, technical screening of candidates, managing partnerships, and training consultants.
Brain Gain is recruiting for about 20 software development, Wall Street, and Big Four Consulting clients, US-nationwide on a contingency and retained basis. We specialize in hard-to-fill openings. On average, 95% of our candidates are interviewed. We place:
- Software Engineers and Managers (all programming languages, tools, and operating systems)
- Strategy Consultants and Managers: Business, Operations, Technology, Organizational Change
- IT, SAP, Peoplesoft, and Oracle Consultants and Executives
- Provide Sourcing and name generation services (all verticals).
Internet Sourcing Community Leader, 2008 – present
- Maintaining a blog on sourcing: creative and productive uses of Boolean searches, professional sourcing tools, semantic and deep web search, use of social networks for recruiting, custom search engines
- Delivered Internet sourcing webinars and workshops to over 20,000 students since 2009
- Leader, Blogger, Boolean Strings Network and Group, Twitter for Recruiting Group
- Winner, SourceCon Challenge 2009, Contest 2010, Speaker, SourceCon 2011
- Online references
Product Development Manager at Path-Wise Corporation, San Francisco CA, 2004 – 2006
Part of the start-up’s Executive Committee. Hired a team of Java engineers. Managed the development and delivery of web-based e-commerce J2EE applications.
Director, San Francisco Office at MDL (now Symyx), San Francisco CA, 2000 – 2002
The head of the San Francisco office, previously Afferent, a startup acquired by MDL – the industry leader in chemical databases. Managed a team of LISP software engineers developing combinatorial chemistry software applications. As Project Manager, coordinated work of distributed teams and the delivery of product releases.
Engineering Manager at Verge, San Francisco CA, 1999 – 2000
Hands-on manager of a team of client-side Java engineers in the fast paced startup. Involved in project management, software design, usability studies, software process improvement, and collection of user feedback.
Principal Engineer at e-Motion, Palo Alto CA, 1997 – 1999
Cross platform development lead at the start-up. Ported multimedia distributed C++ products from Windows to the Macintosh.
Project Leader at Applied Biosystems, Foster City CA, 1994 – 1997
Hired and led a team of engineers to design and develop a Mass Spectrometry quantitation application. Interacted with the end users in Pharma companies, and marketing for creation of functional specifications. Developed the graphical user interface in C++.
Research Associate at Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 1991 – 1994
Designed and implemented a three-dimensional geometric model of the human eye in C, C++. Visualized the calculations and predictions of the mechanical eye model. Sold the product to eye surgeons worldwide.
Education
Moscow State University, Russia. BS, MS, Mathematics, 1980 – 1985