Creating Premier End-to-End Technology Company I am an experienced Recruitment Manager renowned in the industry for my open, collaborative and hands-on approach which I feel delivers the best results for my team, HR partners, hiring managers and candidates. I am a strong advocate for utilizing social media to source and attract hiring talent directly and have a very strong track record here. Accelerate your career as you help reinvent the value and impact of information for business everywhere. At EMC, we are leading customers on their journey to cloud computing by enabling them to store, manage, protect and analyze their information assets in a more agile, trusted and cost-effective way. If you are passionate about technology and want to be part of the information management revolution, join more than 50,000+ EMCers around the world who are leading the journey to the cloud. EMC established a presence in Ireland in 1988 with its first manufacturing facility outside of North America in Ovens, Cork, followed by sales offices in Dublin and Belfast. The Cork facility has become a multi-functional campus and in 2009 became a Center of Excellence (CoE) incorporating research and training. EMC now employs over 2,500 people in Ireland between all EMC sites, including VMware, RSA, VCE, & Pivotal. EMC established EMC Research Europe from the CoE in partnership with University College Cork in March 2011, advancing EMC's Cloud, Big data and Data Centre transformation research programmes in Ireland and Europe. For more information on types of roles we typically hire please see my recent blog "IT Career Toolkit @ EMC" Voted # 4 "Great Places to Work" Ireland 2015 Voted # 6 "Great places to "Work" Globally 2015 http://ireland.emc.com/about/news/index.htm http://www.emc.com/careers/index.htm

Recruitment Manager, Ireland CoE @ Recruitment Manager for CoE in Ireland heading up recruitment in particular for IT related functions. Our team is always looking to speak to talented people from following technical backgrounds for roles within our CoE here in Cork. - Software Development- in particular Java-based programming experience on Enterprise Applications/APIs with Spring Framework experience in a Scrum/Agile environment to work on new features for EMC Storage Management (Unisphere API). - Software Development for Test- QE/Test - Software Engineers with Automated test experience at all levels using scripting languages (Shell, Powershell, Javascript, Python, etc) and ideally software testing framework (e.g. Selenium, Subversion, Jenkins) experience C Programming - with Multi-threaded C programmers to work on re-writing complex code to embed peripheral hardware into our market-leading Enterprise storage solution VMAX. Big Data- Both Administrators and Developers in Big Data in particular with big databases/data lakes (e.g. Hadoop, Greenplum, etc) Cloud Services - Cloud Engineers & Cloud Administrators with VMWare Server Virtualization (ESXi) and/or Data Center Automation (vCloud, vCenter) experience to work on Virtusteam Cloud Managed Services solutions for Global Enterprise Customers Project Managers- PMP/Prince2 certified from all industries with strong scope, stakeholder and cross-functional management experience to work in "PM-as-a-Service" across the business Solution Engineers- with mix of Cloud/Big Data/Infrastructure experience to work in our Global Solutions Engineering team working on Enterprise Hybrid Cloud and Big Data solutions If you are initially interested in working for EMC in any of these areas or require any further information then please contact me at any stage to discuss in confidence to arrange a call with myself or one of our team. Email - donal.flanagan@emc.com LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/donalflanagan Twitter - @donalflanagan From October 2015 to Present (3 months) Recruitment Manager, EMEA @ VCE is the market leader in converged infrastructure for private cloud computing. Founded in 2009 by by Cisco and EMC and now part of EMC federation, in just 5-years VCE has grown to be a billion-dollar company with annual sales exceeding $2bn so hyper growth. I headed up VCE recruitment for EMEA region wuth a centralized recruitment function based here in Cork Ireland with team recruiting across 25 countries in EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) region. VCE has over 800 staff across EMEA with offices in Cork, London, Paris, Munich & Dubai. VCE is market leader in converged infrastructure with 51% market share in a market estimated to be worth $20bn by 2017 (Gartner). I manage recruitment across EMEA as well as acting as Primary Recruiter for 3 key functions – Sales, Engineering & Leadership roles. Key Achievements: • Since April-2012, our team hired over 800 staff into VCE across 24 EMEA countries primarily using direct sourcing model and tools such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Bullhorn & Rolepoint. This is against backdrop of headcount growth of 100% YoY. • Responsible for Managing end-to-end recruitment process including reporting, requisition approval, ATS system and PSL management • Working with key internal stakeholders & partners including HR Operations & US recruitment to ensure EMEA recruitment process runs efficiently including driving process improvement projects (e.g. employee referral program, new careers website, etc) • Lead weekly EMEA recruitment team meeting as well as hiring manager recruitment meetings to EMEA Functional Director & US VP level • In 2013, 2014 & 2015 (to-date), EMEA recruitment team has best performing global recruitment metrics in terms of Time-to-Fill and Cost-per-Hire • Developed and deliver Smart-Hire training course for Hiring Managers every quarter across EMEA • Report into Sr Director, EMEA HR and Global Recruitment Director • 2 x Passion Awards from EMEA VP since joining VCE in Q3 2013 & Q2 2014 From April 2012 to September 2015 (3 years 6 months) Principal Team Lead @ • Principal Team Lead with Cpl Cork for Technical Division (IT, Science & Engineering) • Our team specializes in sourcing highly-skilled technical personnel for multinational clients within the ICT, pharmaceutical & medical device industries in Cork and greater Munster area. • The key areas that I recruit for are: project management, process engineering, software development, quality assurance, production management, supply chain & shared services. • I am renowned in the industry for an honest, direct and hands-on approach to sourcing suitable candidates. This involves an informative and open approach to managing both clients and candidates including thorough preparation and feedback at every stage in the recruitment process. Key Achievements: • Total personal revenues exceeding €1.5m in placement fees since moved to Cork in 2005 • Promoted to Principal Recruitment Consultant in Jan 2007 • Technical Division Team Lead for Cpl Cork since 2007 where I developed and grew my own recruitment team to max of 6 recruiters • Managed key accounts such as EMC, IBM, Core HR, Boston Scientific, Johnson & Johnson & Milipore From May 2002 to April 2012 (10 years) Recruitment Resourcer @ Sourcing on-site construction staff, conducting market research, hiring direct staff for office, assisting managing director on IT, Finance & Sales improvement projects. From September 2001 to May 2002 (9 months) Marketing Executive @ Market research of over 50 IT companies; preparing all marketing material; presenting offerings to prospective clients. From August 2000 to September 2001 (1 year 2 months)

Degree in Business Studies, Marketing & French, 2.1 @ Institute of Technology, Tallaght From 1996 to 2000 Leaving Certificate, 1996 @ St Finians Community College, Swords, Co. Dublin From 1991 to 1996 Donal Flanagan is skilled in: Technical Recruiting, Social Media, Partner Recruitment, Career Advising, Career Development, Sourcing, Resource Management, Managed Services, Interview Preparation, Account Management, Key Account Management, Job Search, Executive Search, Outplacement, Manufacturing