Redfish Technology

My role encompasses recruiting top-notch candidates for our clients, overseeing multiple recruiting teams, and driving strategic business development initiatives at Redfish Technology. We specialize in recruiting talented professionals within the tech industry, spanning across sales, marketing, engineering, and customer success domains. Collaborating with startups nationwide, we excel in rapidly and effectively building out their teams.

Established in 1996, we pride ourselves on upholding the highest standards of integrity, excellence, and performance in recruitment. Personally, I am deeply passionate about technology and dedicated to attracting the best and brightest talent to contribute to our clients' success.

Specializing in  Edtech, Fintech, AI, Enterprise Software, Ad tech, Big Data, Security, Mobile, SaaS, Wireless, E-Learning, CRM, Marketing Automation, Computer Vision and Networking.

Chief Revenue Officer

As the leader of a dynamic 6-person team, we specialized in sourcing rare talent within the tech sector. 

Recognized as a 2011 top Executive Search Firms of the U.S. by Leading Providers

Managing Director

Executive Recruiter, High Tech Talent Division

Chaparral Broadcasting

Chaparral Broadcasting 
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•	Sold advertising and marketing plans across 6 radio stations
•	#1 Account Executive in hunting new business and building new territories
•	Consistently in top 5 sales reps across the company
•	Clients included advertising agencies and direct buys from businesses
•	Managed existing accounts, met with clients and prepared marketing campaigns
•	Inserted ad schedules on a daily basis
•	Built an account base from zero
•	Account management of existing clients
•	Managed multiple marketing campaigns and coordinated remote events

Account Executive

CRO @ Redfish Technology || Providing Disruptive Tech Companies w/ Talent || 24k Followers || Forbes Next 1000 || Girl Mom

Forbes 2021 - Next 1000 Honoree


Chief Revenue Officer at Redfish Technology, where I lead with empathy, strategic insight, and a commitment to building strong relationships. 

As Viola Davis once said, "My dreams are bigger than my fears."

Our Work

Helped a new VP of Sales at an Enterprise AI Client hire the first 3 members of his Sales Team: Our team consulted with the VP to identify the profiles he needed, researched and built a list of target companies to source from, then reached out nationwide to over 350 AEs in our network, interviewed/screened over 70, submitted 30 to the VP for review, and he hired 3 - saving 100’s of man-hours in the process.

We've built out sales and engineering teams with the top 30 Edtech startups across the country.

Placed Director of Growth at a Fintech Startup: After hiring the Director of Growth, we were asked if we could help with two PM roles, they were struggling with filling. We did so in about 5 weeks for both a Platform PM and Mobile PM. This led to an introduction to their Design team, where we have helped them hire 3 Sr. Product Designers.

Leah Scarnegi

If you’ve identified a rockstar candidate, chances are others have too. 
 
Imagine this: You’re in need of a Salesperson and find the perfect fit. But your hiring process drags. By the time you’re ready to make an offer, they’re already onboarded somewhere else. A missed opportunity! 
 
Delays in hiring aren’t a sign of being thorough—they’re a risk. The longer your process, the more likely top candidates will slip through your fingers. 
 
To stay competitive: 
 
Streamline resume reviews 
Speed up interview scheduling 
Make offers promptly 
Don’t lose the perfect candidate due to unnecessary delays. Move fast, hire smart, and secure the best talent for your team! 
 
#RecruitmentStrategy #HiringTips #TopTalent #EfficiencyMatters #DontMissOut

Leah Scarnegi 

CRO @ Redfish || Scaling Startups with the Right People || Blaine County Board of Education || Forbes 2021 - Next 1000 Honoree

How to Ask for More Money When Negotiating an Offer

Negotiating an offer can feel uncomfortable—but it doesn’t have to be. One simple shift can make all the difference:

 you’re asking for more, clearly state that you’ll commit if the company meets your request.

Too often candidates say, Can we increase the salary? without signaling that saying yes gets the deal done. This leaves hiring teams unsure whether the ask will actually close the loop—or if they’ll approve the increase only to learn the candidate is still undecided.

Here’s a better approach:

Be specific about what you need
“I’m very excited about the role. If we can adjust the base to $X, I’m ready to sign.”

Show you’re serious.
Linking your ask to a commitment builds trust and reduces risk for the employer.


Negotiation isn’t about being demanding—it’s about alignment. When you make it clear that meeting your request = you’ll accept the offer, you streamline the process and strengthen your position.

#joboffers #jobsearch

Want Faster, Smoother Hiring? Fix the Intake Meeting.

When I talk about an *intake meeting*, I mean something very specific:

The kickoff call between the recruiter and the hiring manager where the search is defined, aligned, and set up for success.

It’s not a casual chat.
It’s not a repeat of the job description.
It’s the strategic planning session that determines whether the search will run smoothly or fall apart later.

But here’s the issue:

Only a portion of intake meetings actually cover BOTH the decision flow and the criteria — and that’s where delays, misalignment, and lost candidates begin.

Here’s what should happen in an intake meeting:

1. Decision Flow

This is where you map out:

* Who interviews
* In what order
* What each interviewer is responsible for assessing
* Who makes the final call
* How fast decisions can be made

Without this, you end up with last-minute panel changes, inconsistent feedback, and stalled candidates.

2. Offer Criteria

This includes:

* Salary range
* Equity/bonus structure
* Approval process
* Timeline to extend an offer
* Where the team has flexibility (or not)

If this isn’t aligned upfront, you hit friction at the finish line — or lose candidates to faster teams.

www.redfishtech.com

#hiring #recruiting #hiringtips

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The Resume Format That Actually Helps Gets Engineers Hired (Part 3)

Your skills section is giving you away.

Every engineer lists Python, React, Docker, AWS.
But the strongest resumes do something different:

✅ 1. Keep Skills Tight & Honest

Only list tech you can talk about for 30 minutes without sweating.
A tight list reads senior.
A bloated list reads desperate.

✅ 2. Show How You Used the Tech

This is the real differentiator.

Instead of a laundry list, your experience should show application:

"Deployed LLM pipelines using LangChain + Ollama on GPU instances"

“Built distributed ransomware detection using Kafka + PostgreSQL + Spring Boot”

“Architected CI/CD for Airflow + PostgreSQL using Jenkins & Docker”

Your stack isn’t just what you know — it’s how you apply it.

#resumetips #engineering #resume

Hiring Managers: How to Spot a Quality Recruiter

Not all recruiters are created equal — and the right one will save you time, elevate your hiring bar, and protect your brand.

Here’s how to screen for quality:

✅ They ask smart, detailed questions in the intake.
If they’re not digging into decision flow, offer criteria, success metrics, and deal-breakers, they’re not setting you up for a smooth search.

✅ They push back (professionally).
A great recruiter won’t just take orders — they’ll challenge unclear requirements and help you refine what you actually need.

✅ They communicate consistently and transparently.
No guessing games. No disappearing. They set expectations and hold everyone accountable — including you.

✅ They present fewer candidates, but better ones.
Quality recruiters curate, not spam. Every candidate should feel intentional.

If a recruiter does these four things, you’re in good hands. If not... keep looking.

www.redfishtech.com

#hiring #recruiting #hiringmanager

The Resume Format That Actually Gets Engineers Hired (Part 5 — Final)
This is how you get read in 6 seconds.

✅ 1. Make It Scannable

Hiring managers skim — they don’t read.
Your resume should use:

consistent formatting

short bullets

white space

bolded roles/companies

no colors, text boxes, or templates that break ATS

Clear beats clever. Every time.

✅ 2. Keep It to One Page (Unless You’re Highly Senior)

Under 15 years experience? One page is perfect.
Over 15 years or deep research/architecture work? Two pages is totally fine.

✅ 3. Show Seniority Through Ownership

Seniority isn’t years — it’s impact.
The strongest resumes highlight:

Systems you designed

Pipelines you architected

Teams you mentored

Migrations you owned

Scale, performance, reliability, security

Ownership > job title. Always.

#resumes #engineering

The Resume Format That Helps Gets Engineers Hired (Part 1)

What every engineer should fix today.

If you want a recruiter or hiring manager to read your resume — start with the basics that almost everyone gets wrong:

✅ 1. 𝙺𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚂𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎

No paragraphs. No summaries. No mission statements.
Just:

Name

Email

Location (or “Remote”)

LinkedIn

GitHub

Portfolio (optional but 🔥)

Clean. Scannable. Professional.

#resumetips #resume #engineering

The Resume Format That Actually Helps Engineers Hired (Part 2)

This is the difference between forgettable and unforgettable.

Most engineers write bullet points that look like:
❌ “Worked on APIs”
❌ “Responsible for front-end performance”

These aren’t helping you.

✅ Instead: Use This Formula

Strong verb → what you built → the tech you used → measurable impact

Examples from real placed candidates:
✔ Optimized API endpoints to handle 20,000+ TPS with 175ms latency
✔ Built peak detection algorithms with >99.9% accuracy
✔ Processed millions of assets in under 10 seconds

Numbers = credibility.
Impact = seniority.
Specificity = interviews.

#resumetips #engineering #resume

The Resume Format That Actually Helps Gets Engineers Hired (Part 4)
Your projects section can elevate you... or expose you.

Strong projects follow the exact same structure as your work experience:

- What you built
- The technologies you used
- The outcome or impact

Examples from real placed candidates:
✔ Built a cloud encryption app in Rust + Tauri used for managing S3/Google Drive files
✔ Developed a course planner using a custom topological sort algorithm
✔ Built a video-search CV tool using OpenCV + PyTorch + SAM

Projects should prove engineering judgment — not just that you completed assignments.

#resume #engineering #resumeformat

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Chief Executive Officer

Celeb Luxury

Developing a new company approach that allows the business to scale without adding additional payroll assets.

Onboarded ADP for payroll and Health Care, Automated all Amazon, Inventory, Retail and ecommerce data entry functions by introducing EDI processes that eliminated manual input, increased productivity and reduced errors.. 

Moved our entire warehouse from Davie Florida to Central Georgia to optimize the technology offered to provide real-time insight into order flow, inventory and lead-times across all sales channels.

Maintained Amazon performance metrics while launching eBay, Walmart and Target +

Consistently challenging existing workflow to create a better process

Vice President Operations

ivgStores

Exceeding $20 million in annually with 35 onsite employees and 75 offshore. Closed due to Covid reduction in sales

IVGSTORES is a leading online Retailer with revenues exceeding 20 million dollars per year, offering hundreds of thousands of products for home, work, and play from 3,000 of the world's best brand name partners. We stand ready to ship their high quality furniture, decor, sporting goods, appliances, outdoor and children's products directly from their factories and warehouses to your home or business. We hold ourselves and our suppliers to the highest standards of performance, style, elegance, craftsmanship, uncompromising quality, and reliability.

Our Relationship with Our Customers is Our Highest Priority
Fueled by superb quality, good value, and the strength of a team that stands behind its promises, we are an A+ BBB rated business with an unwavering commitment to our customers. Working 7 days a week, our Florida staff have grown into one of the sharpest, most responsive Customer Service Teams in Retail.  We are committed to every team member in every department, each of whom are committed to success of our company.

Exceeding $20 million annual revenue

Parent Company of ShopLadder.com and Internet Shopping Club
Executive Responsibility for Customer Service, Shipping/Logistics, Purchasing and Product Development. Developed and continue to maintain strategic partnerships with the largest 3rd party marketplaces in the ecommerce space, including but not limited to Amazon, Ebay, Wal-Mart, Houzz and Jet, each of which we maintain top rated seller ratings and consumer feedback scores.

•	Restructured four independently operating departments into one unified team with individual goals focused on our core business strategy 
•	Initiated an international shipping strategy with an annual gross profit increase projection of 7%
•	Revised return policy with an emphasis on customer retention, resulting in an immediate increase in customer satisfaction and an overall decrease in refunds as a percentage of sales 
•	Decreased order processing and shipping lead times, creating a more competitive shopping experience and resulting in increased daily sales 
•	Recognized potential within core team. Created internal career paths, mentored, coached and developed key players into Team Leaders, Middle Tier Management and Director level positions. Identified and eliminated bottom performers and replaced with self motivated, strategically-driven individuals to create a more dynamic team and corporate culture 

Key Results:
➢	Increased production by 200% while reducing operational expenses by 25%
➢	Decreased refunds as a percentage of sales by policy improvement
➢	Reduced customer response times from 24 hours to an average 2 hour response time
➢	Increased website Seller Ratings with an average Customer Satisfaction Score of 98%
➢	Created a more competitive shopping experience and increased daily sales

Chief Operations Officer

eVoter, Inc.

eVoter.com                         
Political Technologies         

Highly interactive onsite consulting providing strategic analysis and direction. Engaging existing staff to examine and determine business objectives and requirements; planning call center technical systems; identifying and correcting technology and operational problems; determining operational call routing strategies, implementing improvements and system upgrades. Building Call center infrastructure; creating org charts, hiring plans and timelines to effectively define the Optimal model for business growth and flexibility.

•	Directly worked with CEO/COO to define business objectives and requirements
•	Created staffing strategy and organizational charts aligned to effectively define optimal model for business growth and flexibility

Independant Consulting Servces

GodTube

Parent Company of Tangle.com/Godtube.com, a leading social media network with over 2 million unique monthly visitors. Specifically recruited from Spark Networks to join Godtube.com to establish processes and scalable solutions to the fast-growing website in 2007, primed for going public or corporate sale. 

•	Planned, executed and developed the Operations, Video Editing, Call Center, Customer Service, In-Bound Sales, Quality Assurance and Human Resources departments
•	Authored technical specification document to enhance the teams ability to review all user generated content more efficiently; allowing for the ability to scale exponentially while reducing the overall cost per contact
•	Managed department of 80 customer service agents and 4 middle managers and onsite in Texas and Virginia, as well as geographically dispersed network of remote agents
•	Created company-wide strategic hiring plan focused on the company’s quarterly goals, and spearheaded all recruiting efforts from C-Level to administrative support
•	Developed strategic partnership with FBI to ensure brand jeopardizing issues were immediately identified and escalated

Key Results:
➢	Reduced staffing levels by 30% while simultaneously increasing service levels across all verticals
➢	Purchased and implemented Cisco Call Center, ZenDesk Email and SalesForce CRM
➢	Established all operational support systems and customer process flows, including the specification and design of a proprietary content approval and management system for the review of user generated video, photos, blogs and comments; response time improved from a 6 week backlog to a 24 hour response

Vice President, Operations GodTube/Tangle.com

Spark Networks

Publicly traded since 2001 exceeding $50 million in annual revenue

Parent Company of over 20 niche online dating sites including JDate.com, ChristianMingle.com and BlackSingles.com with 10 million members globally, operating in 8 languages. Executive responsibility for 24/7 call center operations located in multiple countries; U.S.A., Israel and Sri Lanka.

•	Developed all policies, procedures, payroll, benefits, recruitment, Quality Assurance and Office Operations
•	Identified candidate systems and facilitated domestic and international outsourcing, resulting in significant cost reduction across the operation
•	Provided leadership and direction to staff members in the execution of daily roles and responsibilities, and established a high performance, innovative team that worked cooperatively to achieve common goals
•	Managed the development and selection of HR benefit programs for all employees, hired and trained HR team, managed compensation and recruiting process across the organization for all employee levels
•	Managed after hours Network Operations team, created black box testing Quality Assurance team that was responsible for testing the entire site prior to any new code releases

Key Results:
➢	Built support operations and call center from conception to becoming an industry leader 
➢	Consistently brought operations in $1.2 M under budget while exceeding growth and retention rates
➢	Reduced costs by 25% and increased customer retention by 8%, while generating an additional $8.6M in annual revenue growth
➢	Generated $1.2M annual revenue through the execution and management of JDate member travel program
➢	Achieved 93% customer satisfaction with a significant reduction in support touch per customer

SVP Member Relations and Support Operations

The Wonderful Company

Launched the inaugural web-hosting and e–commerce department of what serves as the primary clearinghouse for transmitting and processing floral orders to customers throughout the United States and internationally.

•	Created department tools for optimal functionality, hired and trained appropriate teams, and developed email solutions to address and resolve department conflicts
•	Managed key accounts for mass merchants and TeleFlora
•	Forecasted and recruited staffing needs for seasonal influx business, and conducted training for up to 250 contingent employees, 6 times annually

Mass Merchandising and E-Commerce Manager

Contact Center Guru, E-Commerce Sales and Business Operations, Team Builder, Collaborative Leader CEO/COO/VP Operations

I am not just an employee—I am an investment in the future success of your organization. I bring a collaborative, results-driven approach to solving complex challenges, unlocking potential, and delivering outcomes that matter. 

My leadership isn’t about titles or accolades—it’s about creating meaningful partnerships, guiding organizations through change, and driving transformational success.

With 15+ years of leadership experience, I’ve redefined what’s possible:

As CEO: Scaled annual e-commerce sales to $20M+, spearheading market expansion and delivering unprecedented growth.

As COO: Led 200+ team members across major U.S. markets, achieving seamless operations and exceptional outcomes.

Globally: Built and optimized contact centers in Israel and Sri Lanka, driving efficiency and extending international presence.

My Approach: I specialize in big-picture thinking, precise execution, and relentless innovation, excelling in:

Strategic Planning & Contract Negotiation
Multi-Channel Contact Center Operations
Customer Service & Tactical Sales Force Leadership
Supply Chain Optimization & Demand Forecasting
Financial Management & Budget Planning

But my proudest achievements go beyond the numbers—they’re reflected in the teams I’ve empowered, the systems I’ve transformed, and the lasting value I’ve created.

Why It Matters: Your business deserves more than operational expertise—it deserves a leader with emotional intelligence, strategic foresight, and a passion for building a stronger future. Together, we can align teams, foster innovation, and drive your organization to new heights.

If you’re ready for a leader who believes in people and the promise of potential, let’s connect. Let’s build your success story.

Confident. Collaborative. Future-Focused.

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