Daryl Daley, CD - Recruiter

IT Recruiter

★ Senior Tech Recruiter ★ Career Coach ★ | Building Elite Teams | Crafting Tech Careers | Connecting Talent with Opportunity | Mastering the Art of Tech Recruitment and Career Fulfillment |

Building Elite Teams. Transforming Careers. Solving Hiring Challenges (Without the Caffeine Overload).

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Whether you’re hiring top talent or looking for your next big career move, I’m here to help.

Hi, I’m Daryl, a Senior Tech Recruiter, Career Coach, and Executive Search Specialist—your trusted guide for hiring the right talent and unlocking career potential.

With 30+ years of experience, I’ve helped companies across tech, cybersecurity, and consulting industries secure top talent while empowering professionals to land impactful roles. Whether you’re hiring for mission-critical positions or ready to take control of your career, I deliver proven strategies, tailored guidance, and real results.

For Companies
Hiring top talent doesn’t have to feel like a never-ending search.

🔍 My Expertise:

Key Talent Recruitment: Recruiting for high-impact technical, cybersecurity, and consulting roles across mid-level and senior leadership.
Executive Search: Helping organizations secure the leadership they need to innovate and thrive.
Results-Focused Strategies: Delivering candidates who hit the ground running, make an impact, and stay for the long term.

📈 The result? Faster hiring, better candidates, and stronger teams built to succeed.

For Professionals
Your next big career move isn’t hiding—it’s waiting for the right strategy.

As a career coach, I’ve guided over 10,000 job seekers to stand out, land interviews, and negotiate offers with confidence.

🚀 What My Clients Achieve:

An immediate increase in inbound interest from recruiters and hiring managers.
More traction with resumes, leading to interviews and offers.
A targeted, strategic job search that eliminates “rage applying” and focuses on roles that align with their goals.
Confidence in interviews, with compelling stories that showcase their unique value.
Stronger negotiating power, resulting in offers they’re excited to accept.

Why Work With Me?
Proven Expertise: 30+ years in tech recruiting and career coaching means I’ve seen it all—and solved it all.
Personalized Approach: No cookie-cutter templates—everything is tailored to your unique needs.
Real Results: Whether it’s building a high-performing team or landing a dream role, my strategies deliver measurable success.

Let’s Connect
Your next hire—or career breakthrough—is just a conversation away.

📩 Message me on LinkedIn
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Whether you’re building your team or your future, let’s make it happen—and maybe even enjoy the process along the way.

Tech Recruiter - Acquirer of High Performance Talent

RESULTS I DELIVER
• Better quality search results. If you are pitting one firm against another, they will race against each other (for a brief while) to get resumes to you as quickly as possible. Because of the imposed urgency, you are likely to see a number of unqualified resumes. Non-exclusive recruiters often hope to get lucky and hit a match, rather than putting in the effort to screen properly.

•  Deeper and broader search. Committing to one recruiter will allow that recruiter to spend the time to network and headhunt to uncover the very best candidate for your requirements, rather than just pulling resumes out of a database.

•  Less work for the hiring manager. If you are working with multiple search firms, you will get a lot more resumes than you would working with just one recruiter. However, many of those resumes will not match your hiring needs, which just makes more work for the hiring manager. Not to mention time spent sorting out candidate ownership disputes between multiple firms.

•  Better candidate experience. Have you ever received the same resume from more than one recruiter? It can make your company look unprofessional if more than one recruiter interviews a candidate about the same job. And you may see some great candidates back out of the process entirely when multiple firms are involved.

•  Confidentiality. For a confidential search, working with more than one recruiting firm makes no sense. It will be impossible for a recruiter to keep the company name confidential if there are multiple search firms involved.

Daryl Daley

Precision Castparts

Planned and deployed initial PKI and HSMs for smartcards, internal TLS, and code signing.  Recently deployed newer geo-redundant HSM cluster after previous HSM EOL (at a huge cost savings vs initial cluster).  Evaluate and manage deployment of OT/ICS IDS infrastructure and network segmentation across nearly a hundred physical sites.  Re-implement vulnerability management solution and establish competitive inter-division KPI tracking.  CASB/Zero Trust Private Access product evaluation and company-wide deployment.  Occasional SOC analyst, company CTF champion! ;-)

Senior Security Engineer

Dejero

DevOps role; according to my manager, I "Played a key role on the IT Infrastructure team, helping to put the systems in place to support LIVE+ Control and bring Dejero's cloud infrastructure and internal IT systems to the next level."  Great company, amazing team!

Senior Network and Systems Administrator

Precision Castparts - Aerostructures Division

Management role for the IT staff of 4 Canadian PCC Aerostructures sites and one site in France.
Providing technical assistance to each site where gaps exist in the local skillsets. Completed
multiple domain migrations and SOX/IT standards integration for acquired companies. Performed role 8 months prior to promotion unofficially, as well as being the lead technical Cybersecurity contact for the Aerostructures division. Coordinated deployment of several new cybersecurity products and standards across division and lead incident response. Hired and trained permanent Cybersecurity analyst in March 2014.

Regional IT Manager - Canada, France

Centra Industries Inc

Performed all System Administrator duties. Deployed Asterisk based VOIP system to replace
aging AVAYA system, replaced PRI circuit with SIP trunking, cut telecom costs substantially while improving reliability and featureset. Implemented plantwide card control access. Deployed additional NetApp based SAN and expanded Citrix Xenserver environment. Reimplemented HP ProCurve infrastructure to improve network performance. Coordinated installation of 10gbit underroad fibre and set up 100mbit wireless backup for plant expansion into new building.

Systems Administrator

Plextec Inc

Providing IT support for a variety of primarily Windows Server environments. Migration to VOIP
telephone systems for several large manufacturing and insurance customers, many of which had a variety of industry specific customizations implemented. Utilized my experience in VLANs, virtualization, SANs and VPNs to create secure hosted Windows Remote Desktop/Terminal Services environments. Leveraged open source products in several instances to manage costs for customers. Key contribution to Plextec was to convince management to change the business model from breakfix to recurring revenue IaaS/PaaS. This has significantly impacted the business in a positive way; Plextec has since experienced substantial growth.

VOIP/Network Engineer

Self Employed

Operated an ISP (one of the first in SW Ontario) from October 1994 until 2010.  Designed architecture and managed deployment of multiple Internet access and hosting technologies including: Dialup (analog and ISDN PRI based access), Fixed Wireless (utilizing Breezecom, Ubiquiti, and other custom/proprietary 802.11 based technologies modified for long distance outdoor use) covering a large swath of rural SW Ontario, SDSL in two small towns using local telco dry loops (became familiar with deploying and maintaining Lucent DSLAMs), and province-wide ADSL (utilizing incumbent telecom provider's gateway access service through L2TP tunnels terminating on a customized platform deployed on my own hardware).  Simultaenously operated a small computer shop until 2008 offering home and small business computer sales and service as well as IT support.

Independent ISP and Computer Shop owner/operator

With an IT career spanning decades, I bring a wealth of hands-on leadership and creative problem solving experience in Cybersecurity, Cloud, Advanced Networking, and Linux/core infrastructure. I'm passionate about protecting systems and data, designing resilient architectures, and driving innovative solutions in mixed cloud/IT/OT/legacy environments.  

Currently serving as a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer for over 9 years in the critical manufacturing sector, I hold top industry certifications including CISSP, CCSP, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect. In addition to my professional work, I actively experiment with self-hosted AI models, legacy application/environment containment, an ever-evolving open source "enterprise IT alternatives" stack, and deploy and maintain various other homelab projects, continuously expanding my technical horizon.

Beyond tech, I’m engaged in my community as the vice-chair of the Perth East Public Library board. I'm an avid non-fiction reader and aspiring polyglot. I enjoy travel and camping with my family, cycling the G2G trail, and amateur radio. My entrepreneurial roots, including launching and running one of the first ISPs in southern Ontario, have honed my leadership, business acumen, and problem-solving skills.

Always eager to connect with forward-thinking professionals and explore opportunities to lead, innovate, and make a meaningful impact.

Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, wife, family, fellow parishioners, neighbours or pets.

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