Welcome to my Portfolio

Please have a look around.

About me

Strategic and mission-driven talent partner with 8+ years of experience building high-impact teams across engineering, product, and business functions. Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, design scalable hiring systems, and embed deeply within technical teams. Known for balancing data-driven insight with deep human intuition to identify exceptional talent. Thrives in fast-paced, high-stakes environments that demand creativity, urgency, and precision.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-hildebrand-89a92937/

Core Skills

  • Full-Cycle Technical Recruiting

  • Talent Sourcing & Market Mapping

  • Data-Driven Pipeline Management

  • Interview Design & Calibration

  • Partnership with Hiring Teams

  • Offer Strategy & Candidate Closing

  • Stakeholder Management

  • ATS & Sourcing Tools: Avature, Bullhorn, Workday, Clearancejobs, LinkedIn Recruiter

  • Data Analysis and Visualization: Excel, VBA, Macros, Power query/power pivot, PowerBI

1. Process Revamp: Centralized Hiring Pilot

  • Lead recruiter for National Security Sector pilot program to centralize hiring of key profiles for the National Security Sector. Pilot included: software engineers, cloud engineers, DevOps Engineers, and Data Scientists with TS/SCI polygraph clearances. Included projects in all major IC agencies and all office locations. The program was so successful that it was adopted for more sectors and skill-sets across the company.

2. Data Initiative: Recruiting Tracker

  • Built custom candidate dashboard using Excel VBA, power query, pivot tables and slicers, to track candidates in process, status, interviews, and offers.

Initiatives

Education

B.S., Physical Education, Exercise Science concentration

Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

My projects

Recruiting Projects: Candidate Pipeline Dashboard and Cleared Talent Market Dashboard

Candidate Pipeline Dashboard

Customer Dashboard

This project aims to develop a user-friendly customer dashboard. The user can select the customer name from the drop-down, and the dashboard populates the customers contact info, order history, order count, average freight, the last order #, provides a chart of the data with filters for month.

Cleared Talent Market Report