Howard Lin

Work History

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  Talent Acquisition Manager

  Deluxe Entertainment

  December 2016 - Present

  Burbank, CA

  Worked with various division VP's and HRBP's in strategic regional expansion and workforce planning. Managed a team of 5 recruiters (4 US, 1 Canada) that produced a total of 350+ new hires per year across the US territory. Optimized recruiting workflow by proposing major changes that reduced approval timeframe by 66% while meeting ATS system requirements. Assisted in ATS migration by identifying problematic areas and proposed solutions to meet reporting requirements. Collaborated with VP of Talent in assisting key recruiting metrics building that brought visibility to business and finance leaders. Leveraged key recruiting metrics to help drive business decision making across various divisions. Partnered with Legal and Immigration to formulate recruiting best practices for foreign applicants. Identified resource deficiencies to EVP/VP of Talent and proposed recommendations for solution.
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  Sr Recruiter

  Deluxe Entertainment

  April 2015 - December 2016

  Burbank, CA

  Provided Creative, Technical, and General recruiting service to the Deluxe Creative Services Division. Division Subsidiaries: Deluxe Culver City (Formerly SONY Colorworks), Method Studios, Encore VFX, Company 3, Beast, Level 3,EFilm, and Deluxe VR.
  
  Deluxe VR: Spearheaded the talent acquisition effort in a brand new Virtual Reality technology division newly formed by Deluxe. Worked closely with the division leaders in a collaborative effort on leveraging relationship building and acquisition of high level Games Engineers, FX R&D Engineers, Designers, Game Development Production artists, Visual Effects Production artists to form a long term R&D division in cultivating the research and development of Virtual Reality solution
  
  Deluxe Culver City: Provided long term recruiting growth solution for the Feature/Television mastering division. Talents acquired include but not limited to Production Producers/Coordinators, Mastering Technicians, DI Technicians, Video Engineers, Systems Engineers, DI Conform Editors.
  
  Method Studios/Company 3: Provided long term recruiting solution for Deluxe’s industry leading Feature and Commercial Visual Effects and Coloring division. Responsible for positions include Core Software Engineers, Sr Systems Engineers, Sales/Marketing Coordinators/Managers, Sr DI Conform Editors, and various levels of Visual Effects Production/Artistic positions.
  
  EncoreVFX: Provided Post Production recruiting solution for Deluxe’s leading Television Visual Effects division. Responsible for sourcing and acquiring core talents for prime time television post productions. Positions include but not limited to Producers, Production Coordinators, Visual Effects Artists, Tools Engineers, and Systems Engineers.
  
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  Recruiter

  Stereo D

  October 2014 - April 2015

  Burbank CA

  Making movies come to life! Full Cycle recruiting for all technical and artistic roles across the entire studio for both US and Canadian offices. Successfully recruited 120+ employees within 6 months across Canadian/US offices. Report directly to the Director of HR. Partner with Hiring Managers and advise labor market conditions across multiple geographic locations. Attend talent events, establish relations with multiple education institutions. Meeting hiring goals for multiple locations by diversifying recruiting methodology. Establish recruiting pipeline from the ground up for emerging markets.
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  Recruiter / Talent Acquisition

  Zoic Studios

  September 2010 - October 2014

  Culver City, CA

  Talent seeker on all things technical and creative.
  Effectively allocate resources for each and every production, creative, technical, and administrative department. Strengthen departmental productivity by sourcing and recruiting for key hires and departmental directors. Leveraging advanced boolean search methods for passive recruitment. Full-cycle recruitment. Screen candidates, conduct phone and in-person interviews for all visual effects, Feature, Commercial, Games, I.T., administrative, managerial, and executive positions. Contract and salary negotiation. Candidate relation management. Attend local/national talent events. Onboarding training for new employees. Establish, and maintain relations with potential future hires. Establish employment and internship relations across different education institutions. Design employee needs analysis to improve productivity. Database management. Fulfill the needs of each and every production, creative, I.T., and administrative departments.
  
  PLAYSTATION FRIENDLY COMPETITION, MEDAL OF HONOR TIER ONE, JEEP CALL OF DUTY, TRANSFORMER (GAME), DEAD SPACE 2, EPIC MICKEY, THE RECKONING, THE ORDER, SKYLANDER SPYRO, PLAYSTATION ALL STARS, XBOX KINECT SPORTS RIVALS, MIDNIGHT STAR, COKE NASCAR, FIFA WORLDCUP, YAHOO, FLASH, CONSTANTINE, SCORPION, INTELLIGENCE, HEMLOCK GROVE, TRUE BLOOD, MAGIC CITY, BREAKING DAWN PART II, GANGSTER SQUAD, REVOLUTION (PILOT), ARROW, VEGAS (PILOT), THE RIVER(PILOT), ONCE UPON A TIME, PAN AM, RINGER, CSI LAS VEGAS, NO ORDINARY FAMILY, V, FALLING SKIES, WHITE COLLAR, FRINGE, RED RIDING HOOD, THE GREY, THIRTY MINUTES OR LESS, PREMIUM RUSH.

• Web Designer/Developer

  Freelance Web Designer (Self-employed)

  October 2009 - August 2010

  • Sole Designer and developer for various large and small corporate websites.
  • Performed branding makeover and redesign utilizing XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash.
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  Visual Effects Artist

  Zoic Studios

  March 2010 - June 2010
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  Freelance Visual Effects Artist / Web Designer / Web Developer

  Freelance

  January 2005 - January 2009

• IT Systems Engineer (Part-Time)

  Boston University Information Technology

  January 2001 - January 2004