Rachelle Munson


Professional Summary:

Hello- I am Rachelle and have been in Technical Recruiting for the past 9 years plus. I conduct Headhunting Searches, Sourcing and Recruiting for High Level people and companies through my Networking Groups.  I've worked as a Corporate Recruiter in-house with HR and Staffing, usually as a consultant.  Currently working as a Contract Recruiter for Luxtera in Carlsbad, Ca. Recruiting Sr Technical individuals from the Fiber Optics, Optoelectronic, and Semiconductor space.  10G/40G Silicon Photonics.  

 

More About Luxtera:

http://www.luxtera.com/company.htm

 

Luxtera’s product roadmap is focused on fulfilling the insatiable demand for bandwidth by directly integrating high speed fiber-optic network interfaces into standard CMOS chips.

 

Our venture capital is provided by some of the world’s most successful venture capital partnerships (Sevin Rosen Funds, New Enterprise Associates, and August Capital). Our team includes accomplished business and technical leaders from a cross-section of the world’s major technology companies and academic institutions including: AMD, Caltech, Intel, JDSU, Lucent, Motorola, MIT, Nortel, Stanford and Tellabs. Last but not least, we’re located in one of the greatest places to live in the world, the southern California coast north of San Diego.

 

EE Times ACE Award Nomination!

 

Luxtera was named as  1 of 5 finalist for the prestigious EE Times ACE Award in the “Startup Company of the Year” category. Luxtera is one of the five finalists in this category!  http://www.eetimes-ace.com/finalists.htm

 

Positions Currently Open or to be open in the near future:
 
Production Manager: Production build tasks, WIP tracking, ESD, Inventory Control (HDD/Disk Drive or Optics product background desired)
Product Engineer:  HDMI/DVI, Compressed Video Exp.
Laser Development Engineer: III-V Devices 1550nm

Sr. High-Speed Layout Engineer: Place & Route

Sr Layout Engineer: Top Level Integration

Test Engineers Optical/Electrical  

Failure Analysis Engineer

Firmware Engineer

Design Engineers - High Speed/Mixed Signal

 

~ We have 75 people now and are making a push to hire 15 more people as we go into our product delivery phase.

~ Not all positions are posted, feel free to inquire with me. Thanks~

 

Recent Press Releases:

 

08/29/07

Greg Young, Top Executive from Broadcom, Joins Luxtera as President and CEO to Lead Company

11/13/07

Luxtera Samples World's First 40 Gigabit Optical Active Cable

10/30/07

Luxtera Chosen for Exclusive Showcase at SC07 by Supercomputings Disruptive Technologies Committee

10/24/07

Luxtera Winner of the 2007 AeA High Tech Award

09/27/07

Luxtera Named as Finalist for the San Diego AeA High Tech Awards   

 

Silicon Photonics: 40G Interconnect Solutions

Rachelle Munson
Sr. Staffing/Recruiting Manager, Luxtera, Inc.
We're hiring!  See our other Openings! 
rmunson@luxtera.com     shellsanclemente@yahoo.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rmunson                           
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2320 Camino Vida Roble
Carlsbad, Ca 92011
 

North San Diego; Coastal Tech Area 

 

PAST PROJECTS:

~ Entropic Communications: Staffing/Recruiting/Headhunting Project Work:  End of '06
~ Linksys: Retail 802.11 Wireless Networks and Media Products.
~ Broadcom Corp: Top Project; Reed Channel Development for Drives. Recruiting PhD candidates in the tech hotbed area of Colorado. 3 Hired to head up the development for Broadcom in Colorado. Additional Sourcing for local Broadcom Chip Development groups: 3G Handset, 802.11 Bluetooth, Controllers, Device Drivers, Cable/Satellite Set-Top Boxes, Gigabit Ethernet, Server/Storage Networks, Wireless Networks, Cable Modems, Mobile Communications, Digital Subscriber Line, Broadband Processors, Voice over IP
~ Cybercoders: Multiple Biotech, Medical, Chargemaster HIPPA Compliant Software Projects, Genetics, Ph.D.’s, Credit Card Company Statistical Engineering, Data Warehousing, Healthcare, Executive Sales.

Specialties:

~ Headhunting for Top Level people
~ Recruiting for Technical positions
~ General Recruiting/Staffing duties

~ Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
~ 3 years in IT Silicon Valley/6 yrs OC/San Diego/LA Headhunting for Chip:ASIC Design, Networking: Router: Media Product Design, Some Biotech and Medical as well as G&A.
~ Consulted onsite for Broadcom, Linksys, Odetics,
~ Headhunting for various positions through my Network.

Experience

Sr Technical Recruiter - Silicon Photonics; Fiber Optics/Semiconductor

Luxtera Corp   Carlsbad, Ca 1/06 - Currently

Staffing and recruiting for Luxtera.  The tools I am using are Prohire as the ATS along with Linkedin.com, monster, careerbuilder, networking and referrals. Recruiting Chip Designers, Reliability and Test IC, high speed and mixed signal design engineers, production and manufacturing managers, design engineers. 

 

Sr Tech Recruiter - Headhunter
HireAbility Network Exchange (Partnership; 51-200 employees)

June 2005 – Present, Passively

Tech/SW/Chip/Engineers/Executive/Sales & Marketing/IT/BioTech

Orange County/Silicon Valley/San Diego/Los Angeles/National

 

HR - Technical Recruiter/Staffing
Linksys - Cisco
October 2004February 2005 (5 months)
Wireless Networking Industry

 

Technical Staffing
Broadcom Corp
20032004 (1 year)
Wireless/IC/Chip/Broadband Company

 

Technical Staffing/ Recruiter / HR
Mariner Networks / Odetics
20002002 (2 years)
Telecommunications Industry

 

Account Executive / Recruiter
Comms People / Glotel
19982000 (2 years)
IT/Computer Networking Industry

Education

 

San Jose State University
BA - Radio, Television and Film. Minor in Advertising.  May 1994

 

Affiliations: San Diego Recruiters Roundtable, Sourcers Guild

 

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