Irina Shamaeva

201 Vista Heights Road,

El Cerrito CA 94530
Home office: 510-233-9493
irina@braingainrecruiting.com

LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/irinashamaeva

Twitter: http://twitter.com/braingain
Grand Master Sourcer – SourceCon 2009

Summary

 Recruiter, Sourcer, and Trainer with strong Software Engineering development and management
background
 Available as a sourcer, to train sourcers and recruiters, and as a third party recruiter

“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 and Founder at Brain Gain Recruiting, El Cerrito CA, 2004 – present
Technical and Executive Recruiter and Sourcer. Company is recruiting for about 20 software
development, Wall Street, and Big Four Consulting clients, US-nationwide, on a contingency basis.
Specializing in hard-to-fill openings. Placing:

 Strategy Consultants and Managers: Business, Operations, Technology, Organizational Change

 IT, SAP, Peoplesoft, Oracle, Siebel Consultants and Executives
 Software Engineers and Managers (all programming languages, tools, and operating systems)

Responsible for internet research, business development, interacting with clients, sourcing candidates,
technical screening of candidates, managing partnerships, and training consultants.

Sourcing Community Leader, 2007 – present

 Developing, applying, and teaching innovative web sourcing tricks and techniques
 Discovering and sharing creative and productive uses of Boolean searches, professional sourcing
tools, and Social Media for recruiting
 Designed and ran the International Boolean Strings Contest in 2008
 Delivered web and social media sourcing webinars on my own, for Kennedyinfo, Bill Radin,
Hireability, and NPA, to over 1,000 listeners in 2009
 Provided custom training for corporations
 Created training DVDs for recruiters: Boolean Search Strings; Twitter Techniques; Social Media
Sourcing
 Leader, Blogger, Boolean Strings Network and Group, Twitter for Recruiting Group, and other
online communities; a total of 30,000+ members
 Speaker, ERE Fall Expo – 2009, and author, ERE.net
  Winner, SourceCon 2009
 Blog post contests winner, TalentBar, and TalentBuzz, 2008

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