Royal Caribbean Group

Lead Talent Partner, Early Career Recruiting

Business Groups: Leadership roles for HR, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, IT, Medical, and Newbuild

Lead Talent Partner, Leadership Recruiting

Technical Sourcer

Wix.com

Recruiter and Talent Operations for the Sales and Account Management/ Customer Success organization. Led weekly meetings with stakeholders to strategically plan around funnel conversion rate, process length, and source of hire data. Experience in mass hiring (200+ AM growth in <6 months) as well as strategic and executive level searches. Managed hiring events for over 30 sales professionals to decrease our process length by 6 days. Worked with international TA team to research and execute on candidate experience projects. Led referral hiring strategy to increase referrals received by 15% over the past year. Created guidance on internal mobility programs. Advisor to WixRainbow ERG.

Recruiter

Surpassed yearly hiring targets for the world’s most profitable cruise by 150% by placing entry level to senior-level hires across 5 unique departments (Marketing, Revenue, Beverage, Housekeeping, and Shore Excursion Sales). Experienced in sourcing and generating a healthy pipeline through career fairs, LI recruiter, agency partnerships. referrals, and specialty job boards. Used talent market insights and industry benchmarking data to influence decisions within the leadership groups and cross-functional team. Managed data integrity process improvement for Talent Acquisition as the project lead. Partnered with the data analytics team to create recruitment metrics, implement a forecasting system, and gain access to 7 new reports to increase female and diversity hires. 
•	President of Young Professionals Employee Resource Group.
•       Onboarded candidates through monthly new hire ship tours.

Global Recruiter

Aflac

Implemented a strategy of consistent campus presence which led to a doubling of the number of candidates applying for the Sales Intern Program. Recruited over 500 agents throughout the southeast region.
Streamlined evaluation of recruiting metrics such as daily call volume, new applicants, new enrollments, and retention by switching from outdated data collection systems to Excel spreadsheets

Recruiting Manager

Lead Talent Acquisition Partner @ Royal Caribbean Group | Empowering candidates to Job Hunt Like A Recruiter

As a Lead Talent Acquisition Partner at Royal Caribbean Group, I am passionate about helping people find the next piece of the puzzle in their career journey. I lead the recruitment for leadership roles in various business groups, such as HR, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, IT, Medical, and Newbuild. I leverage data analytics, employer branding, and diversity and inclusion strategies to attract and retain top talent in the cruise industry. 

I hold a Master of Science in Management from the University of Florida, where I also completed a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. I have also obtained a Certificate of HR Data Analytics from Cornell University and participated in business and Spanish exchange programs at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and Universidad de Salamanca. I am fluent in English and Spanish and have a Bloomberg Certification and a Certified Gator Professional credential. 

Outside of work, I create content on here to help empower candidates to "Job Hunt Like A Recruiter". I host live webinars, coaching sessions, and provide templates for folks to recharge their search. Check out the link in my bio to learn more!

Nicole Fernandez-Valle

Walmart Global Tech

Contributing to the Health and Wellness Org at Walmart.

Software Engineer 3

BNY Mellon

- Worked on Kafka Streaming Project and designed an ideal approach for data streaming & change activity from different sources to Vertica and Elasticsearch DB via Apache Kafka. Reduced technical debt by more than 30% by using microservices for the project.
- Optimized the real-time activity change detection using Kafka by more than 60% and updated the corresponding schema for Bnym end clients. Used Denodo for MD4 project for implementing data virtualization in the cloud providing data integration & abstraction.
- Achieved test-driven development by using JUnit and improved Code Coverage quality of the project by 40% using Sonarqube by detecting & fixing bugs in pre-prod code. Performed log analytics and real-time application monitoring using Kibana and Splunk.

Software Developer

As a Co-op Intern, I am continuing my work that was done during the Summer Internship through my fall semester of university. I am continuing to reinforce my understanding of the Apache Hadoop framework, Apache Spark and Core Java principles, as well as continuing to work with my development team on our project.

Software Developer Co-op

- Working with the Architecture and Data team at BNY Mellon. 
- The Enterprise Data team leads Enterprise and Solution Architecture services for the Bank, including target state roadmaps and governance. 
- The Technology App Development group also provides  Enterprise Data Platforms to capture, integrate, store, and distribute data with modern Data Management.

[ Tools and Technologies:   Java, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Git, Maven ]

Technology Summer Associate - Senior

Arizona State University

- Working on developing Machine learning algorithms in both PyOpenCL/OpenCL and PyCUDA/CUDA programming languages for implementation on FPGA and GPU hardware platforms. 
- Potential implementation environments include:
(1) Intel’s Arria 10 FPGA boards, (2) Qualcomm’s Snapdragon and (3) Nvidia’s Jetson Xavier,GPU platforms. 
- The machine learning algorithms are neural network type and require massively parallel implementation to process and learn from high-velocity streaming data as encountered in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Research Aide : Python / OpenCL / CUDA Programming

Arizona State University - W. P. Carey School of Business

Data Mining (CIS 508) - Graduate Level Course
- I am working as Graduate Teaching Assistant under the professor for Data Mining Course (CIS-508) at W.P. Carey School of Business, ASU where I am working closely with the professor and other TAs to develop a strong curriculum that encompasses fundamentals & recent advancements in the field and give talks on current and past research to the students. 
- We are creating Individual Assignments in Python language for the students so that they can solve Kaggle problems and participate in kaggle competitions

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Motadata

- Created Service Orchestration Engine which served as Provisioning and Configuration Tool to be used by Operational Support System(OSS) to provide end to end service to customers of the Telecom companies in India. 
- My work included Creating and Automating workflow tasks, Provisioning of Telecom Services namely L2VPN, L3VPN, HSI, VOIP and Network Configuration Management using: Ansible for Device Orchestration and Configuration, Camunda for Workflow Orchestration, NetConf and RestConf in Java Environment using MongoDB.

Software Engineer Intern

Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology

Under the guidance of professors, Research Club of DAIICT prepares a set of sessions, tutorials and activities on various topics which have a good scope in research and applications. In
this sessions the students are introduced to the problems, a rough idea
of how to go about it and their doubts related to that field. The students are divided based on their interests in groups and assign them the problems. This session is followed by a series of sessions to keep a check on their progress followed by final presentation.

Member | Research Club DAIICT

Advisor: Suman K. Mitra
Human Action Recognition using PCA and LPP:

- Working on Human Action Recognition from globally recognized Weizman Dataset. 
- Used Dimesionality Reduction Techniques (Locality Preserving Projections) for Object Action Segmentation and KNN for Neighbourhood Classification of Test Data points.

Student Researcher

Advisor: Suman K. Mitra
Scene Change Detection:
 
- Detected Scene Change in Benchmark videos of Computer Vision using Eigen-Scene Modelling crucial for Temporal Video Segmentation using Locality Preserving Projections.

Summer Research Intern

Webcode Solutions India

Had been given the task for creating and enhancing the current website for this company. Enhanced their website using PHP, JavaScript, SQL, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap.

Full Stack Web Developer

Enthusiast, quick learner and passionate about developing software to solve real-world problems. I am a Graduate from  Arizona State University with Master's Degree focused on Computer Science. I have a background in Java, Software Development, Apache Spark, Kafka, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Web development and Competitive programming.

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