Laura Le Mond

Experienced recruiter and sourcer, looking for contract or full time recruiting roles. Previous IBM corporate recruiting and agency recruiting full life cycle experience. Laura LeMond is the founder of Mosaic Weighted Blankets. She was born prematurely with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). LeMond was a college student before she finally discovered that placing weighted sandbags on her body calmed her. And when she saw autism activist Temple Grandin’s story about the hug box, she realized she wasn’t alone. In 2010, she created a weighted blanket, a combo beanbag and blanket, and launched Mosaic Weighted Blankets. Today her company is one of the largest retailers in the U.S. for weighted blankets. LeMond sells to adults and children with SPD, Autism, ADD/ADHD, PTSD, Anxiety Disorder and Insomnia. Proud of her “bootstrap” approach to starting a business, she used digital and social media to market a product most people had never heard of. A University of Texas graduate, LeMond credits part of her success to a previous career with IBM. Founded, own and manage weighted blanket company. Run general operations, Marketing, SEO, Social Media and Human Resources for the company, financials, also buy materials, responsible for supply chain, and transportation management, and shipping/receiving. Many people find that they relax and rest better/have better downtime under a weighted blanket.

Owned and operated full time placement and contract services firm • • Worked with hiring managers and executives and participated in conference calls to determine and define client needs for hiring. • Manage team of recruiters • Skillsets included: Developers, (C#.net, any type of application development) Social Media, IT Consultants, Executives, Project Managers, Sales professionals for IT, Hardware and software professionals, Network Engineering, ERP (SAP, Oracle, Peoplesoft), HCM, Strategy and Change, Programmers, Developers, Workday, Cloud, Mobility and Connectivity, Business Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse professionals. • Experienced in recruiting for O&G upstream and downstream opportunities, including Oil and Gas jobs, energy careers, accounting (O&G) Reservoir, Completions, Facilities and Operations Engineers, Geologists and Land Personnel. • Source candidates through Internet sourcing, cold calling and referrals. Skilled in networking, qualifying negotiating and closing candidates for client companies. • Conduct interviews with candidates and cover compensation, benefits and opportunity • Utilized Linked In, job boards, Social Media, Twitter, Blogging and job boards, cold calling to find candidates.

Sourced, screened and evaluated qualified candidates for Petrochem roles in the O&G industry. Skillsets included: Sharepoint and C#.Net application developers for Oil and Gas applications, Oil and Gas Executives, Petroleum Engineers, Reservoir Engineers and Geologists, and Completion Engineers professionals for full time placement with companies. • Built networks for finding talent in Petro Chem professionals for oil and gas companies, and O&G service companies. • Utilized knowledge of multiple recruiting sources such as Dice, Monster, Independent consultants and executed various recruiting strategies. • Utilized social media (Facebook, Twitter), Linked In, cold calling/networking, job boards, Bull Frog and CATS Database

March 2004 – September 2006 (2 years 7 months) • Sourced and recruited ERP consulting professionals for IBM's Global Business Consulting Services (GBS). • Worked as the lead Recruiter for the Oracle practice in full life cycle recruiting – interviewing, scheduling interviews extending offers and arranging 3 rounds of interviews and travel • Skillsets were focused on Oracle functional and technical professionals for Financials, CRM and HR practices, and Peoplesoft functional and technical consulting professionals for Financials and CRM practices (all were 100% nationwide travel consultant roles). Strategy and Change consultants, Associate Partner and Partner roles, Database professionals Database administration, SAP roles, Websphere developers JAVA/J2EE, Sybase, Informix, ETL, AIX/Linux. • Worked closely with IBM managers and Partners and GBS support Duties included recruiting and maintaining a pipeline of talent and candidate screening, internet sourcing, cold calling, working with internal referrals, evaluation of employee referrals and internal candidates, competitive and target recruiting, evaluating job descriptions and posting to internal and external job boards.

• Recruited technical professionals in several areas including: • Global Services - Principal Consultants, Project Managers, E-Business Architects, IT Specialists and Java Programmers Business Integration Solutions- ERP Professionals, including Lawson, PeopleSoft, Siebel and JD Edwards Consultants, Sales and Distribution - Sales Executives, Marketing Professionals, Application Engineers, Sales Technical Engineers and System Administrators. • Full life cycle recruiting, worked closely with hiring managers to determine staffing needs and qualify personnel requirements. Supported over 50 IBM managers openings simultaneously Represented IBM at job fairs and diversity events nationwide to recruit top talent Participated in many special projects for several areas of staffing including process improvements for hiring and diversity recruiting. Member of the Austin Diversity Council for 2001.