Over 10 years of experience in high-tech industry recruiting and staffing consultation. Human Resource Professional skilled in the recruitment of innovative talent within the Software Engineering and Design, Program Management and Quality disciplines passionate about technical talent sourcing, business relationship development, interviewing excellence, and talent acquisition.

Technical Recruiter @ From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Technical Recruiter/ Talent Acquistion @ Technical Recruiting for Microsoft's Operating Systems Group responsible for full life-cycle recruiting for the Software Engineering, and Quality teams. Includes development for; systems level and kernel developers, device and operating systems security engineers, enterprise systems management and deployment engineers, mobile and developer platform engineers, infrastructure/ build and tools engineers. Experience includes technical recruiting for the Windows and Office Divisions. Partners with business leadership and Human Resource Management on headcount growth, resource planning and delivery of technical industry talent. Develops, drives and executes a global staffing plan for Software Engineering. Full Life Cycle Technical Recruiting of niche engineering talent. Including talent identification through research and sourcing. Talent and skills assessment through phone screening, in-person interviews, offer presentation, negotiation and closing. Proven experience landing senior engineering talent in highly competitive marketplace. Experienced in results presentation through metrics and reporting. Skilled in development of partnerships with business and client group stakeholders, management of CVP level relationships. I've been both a people manager, and individual contributor at Microsoft during my tenure. From May 2006 to August 2015 (9 years 4 months) Recruiting Manager @ Managed, coached and mentored team of 6 technical recruiters. Created team goals and benchmarks, managed team workload. Hired trained, and grew technical recruiting talent supporting Microsoft's agency and vendor model. From November 2003 to May 2006 (2 years 7 months) Bureau Coordinator KingTV/ Belo @ NWCN/ KING TV Bureau Coordinator for Seattle. Developed and maintained affiliate-station relationships for Northwest Cable News. Coordinated content for daily news and live breaking news television. From 1995 to 2000 (5 years)

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication and Media Studies @ Western Washington University From 1991 to 1994 Bachelor's of Arts / Communications @ Western Washington University Michael Ashe is skilled in: Internet Recruiting, Benefits Negotiation, Recruiting, Candidate Generation, Contract Recruitment, Screening Resumes, Screening, Workforce Planning, Employee Relations, Human Resources, Employee Referral Programs, Temporary Placement, Technical Recruiting, Interviews, Sourcing