Wall of Love

What 50+ CIOs & CTOs say
about Tiva.

Twenty+ years of delivering for technology leaders. Here's what they have to say about working with Tiva Systems.

50+ CIOs & CTOs1200+ Projects96% On-Time20+ Years

“I've worked with dozens of staffing firms over my career. Tiva Systems is in a category of its own. When they commit to a timeline, they deliver — every single time.”

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Ginna Raahaug
SVP & CIO
Riverbed Technology
Dependability

“Tiva found us a principal architect in 11 days. Our previous firm took four months and still couldn't close.”

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Sarbjit Sidhu
Director, IT
Riverbed Technology
11 days to fill senior role

“What sets Tiva apart is the breadth. Infrastructure, security, applications, QA — Tiva Systems handles it all, and the quality never drops.”

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Bill Bragg
VP IT, Infrastructure
Riverbed Technology
Breadth

“When it comes to security talent, Tiva Systems understands the difference between someone who can pass the interview and someone who can do the job. That distinction matters in security.”

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Salahuddin Kamran
CISO
Riverbed Technology
Recruiting

“Tiva's engineering candidates consistently outperform the people we source ourselves. At this point I just call Tiva first and skip the rest.”

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Nitin Gupta
VP, Engineering
Riverbed Technology
Recruiting

“I tell every IT director I know: stop wasting time with the big firms. Call Tiva. You'll get better people, faster delivery, and someone who actually cares.”

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Sean Murphy
Director, Global Support Infrastructure
Riverbed Technology
Tiva

“Three roles, three early fills. I've never had that happen with any other firm.”

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Vineet Abraham
VP, Engineering
Riverbed Technology
Speed

“Tiva Systems personally reviews every candidate before they reach us. You can feel the ownership in every placement.”

PS
Partha Srinivasan
Sr. IT Director
Riverbed Technology
Quality

“Tiva treats my budget like it's their own money. No padding, no surprises, no nickel-and-diming. Just honest work at honest prices.”

MH
Michael Havey
VP, Operations & PMO
Riverbed Technology
Tiva

“Other recruiters send 50 resumes hoping one sticks. Tiva sends 3, and you want all of them.

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Kand Ly
Sr. Director of Engineering
Riverbed Technology
Recruiting

“The best thing about Tiva? They tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. That's saved us from at least two bad hires.”

RH
Richard Hillebrecht
VP IT, Enterprise Architecture
Riverbed Technology
Tiva

“From infrastructure to application layer to hiring the team to run it — Tiva delivered the entire stack. No other firm could do that.”

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Prabhakar Ponugoti
Sr. Director of IT
Riverbed Technology
Breadth

“We needed a mobile app team, an API architect, and a Salesforce integration lead — all in one quarter. Tiva delivered all three on schedule.

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Kevin Glavin
Technical Director
Riverbed Technology
Breadth

95% retention rate on Tiva placements after two years. Our internal recruiting? 60%. The numbers speak for themselves.”

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Bonni-Jo Bouchard Salazar
Director, Global Partner Programs
Riverbed Technology
95% 2-year retention

“Our board asked who our most critical vendor is. Without hesitation, I said Tiva. And then I said it's not really a vendor — it's a partnership.”

MB
Mary Beam
Sr. Director, QA Engineering
Riverbed Technology
Dependability

“Tiva's team found and fixed a $400K/year gap in our staffing model that three other agencies had missed. That's not just recruiting — that's caring.”

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Petek Utku
Director, IT Infrastructure
Riverbed Technology
$400K/yr gap identified

“If you're a CIO in the Valley and you don't know Tiva Systems, you're at a disadvantage. Simple as that.”

GR
Ginna Raahaug
SVP & CIO
Riverbed Technology
Tiva

“What sets Tiva apart is the one-stop shop. SAP, cloud, recruiting — Tiva Systems handles it all. I stopped juggling five vendors years ago.”

RW
Ross Wilson
Sr. Director, Solution Management
McKesson
Breadth

“Tiva represents some of the best quality staffing I've gotten in twenty years of managing application teams. Bar none.”

RT
Ron Thompson
VP, Application Management
McKesson
Quality

Four Oracle upgrades in four years — all on time, all under budget. At some point you stop being surprised and just start being grateful.”

EO
Enrique Olavarria
Director, Solutions Management Finance
McKesson
Dependability

“Tiva Systems doesn't just fill roles. They map our entire IT leadership and understand who needs what before we even post the req.”

PC
Philip Constantinou
Associate CIO
Stanford University
Tiva

“Tiva understood our culture better than our own HR team. Every candidate was a fit.

RY
Randy Yee
CIO
Stanford GSB
Recruiting

“I asked Tiva for a senior systems analyst on a Friday. By Monday morning, someone brilliant was ready to start.”

HJ
Hans Jacobsen
Director, Operations/IT
Stanford
Speed

“Tiva doesn't just execute — they make your project better than you imagined.”

AW
Audrey Witters
Director, Technology & Operations
Stanford GSB Executive Education
Quality

“I showed Tiva's candidate shortlist to a Big 4 partner friend of mine. He asked me how much I paid, then went silent for about ten seconds. Said he couldn't compete.”

SS
Scott Showalter
Director of Development
Stanford Law School
Quality

“MVP in 6 weeks. Production-ready in 10. Tiva moves at startup speed with enterprise quality.”

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Cedric Bennett
Director, Information Security Services
Stanford
10 weeks to production

“Tiva calls it recruiting. I call it talent matchmaking. They don't just find skilled people — they find the right people for your specific culture.”

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Anastasia Ginzbursky
Associate Director, Information Services
Stanford
Recruiting

“Tiva Systems doesn't send resumes — they send people they personally vouch for. That changes everything about the hiring process.”

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Jesse Thompson
Director of Technology
Stanford
Recruiting

“I've never met a firm that can talk cloud architecture in the morning and close an executive search by lunch. Tiva Systems is one of a kind.”

BB
Bob Burkhardt
IT
Stanford
Breadth

“The telecom billing specialist Tiva placed solved in weeks what our internal team couldn't crack in months. And the documentation was thorough enough that our team could maintain it after.”

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Rick Nottingham
IT
Cepheid
Quality

“We have worked with Tiva Systems to hire top notch SME's for our key programs and Tiva Systems always does an amazing job in identifying the most trusted SME's for last 12 years.”

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Brian Prescott
Vice President, Technology
McAfee
Dependability

“We interviewed several vendors to help us build infrastructure PMO team and Tiva Systems was clearly the most outstanding partner for us and we were very successful in migrating some of our data centers to newer locations and also cloud migrations.”

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Rosie Tichener
McAfee
McAfee
Quality

“I worked with the most amazing talent Tiva Systems brought for our ERP Systems and IT PMO team.”

DC
Defne Colasan
McAfee
McAfee
Quality

“Tiva Systems built our entire DevOps team for our cloud operations organizations. This initiative was massively successful and I thank Tiva Systems for partnering with us.”

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Scott D. Boss
Enterprise
McAfee
Breadth

“I brought some key SME's from Tiva Systems for our back office ERP Systems like SAP and Workday and they clearly went above and beyond our expectations.”

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Lewis Moore
McAfee
McAfee
Quality

“Tiva Systems recognized my skills and placed me in four to five projects over 7 years, these projects were very successful and I received lots of recognition and rewards for my contributions.”

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Dharmendra Sharma
Consultant (CW)
McAfee
7 years placed across 4–5 projects

“Even though I was a passive candidate, Tiva Systems made it seem super exciting and inline with my career objectives. This turned out to be an amazing decision — I landed a director level role in a very prestigious organization.”

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Vijay Bangalore Rudrappa
McAfee
McAfee
Recruiting

“When McAfee was getting ready to build a business PMO team, I was recommended to work with Tiva Systems and after 3 years of working together, I must say that they were my best choice amongst all other vendors.”

NJ
Nicole Jones
McAfee
McAfee
3 years preferred vendor

“Tiva Systems brought some management level security consultants for our CISO organization and added tremendous value.”

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Manisha Agarwal-Shah
McAfee
McAfee
Recruiting

“Tiva Systems gets the big picture. When we talked about multi-product quality modeling, they immediately connected us to the right people. That's not a recruiter — that's a technology partner.”

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Venky Nanniyur
Quality Program Lead
Cisco
Tiva

“Speed matters in a high growth enterprise company, and we couldn't afford long ramp-up times. The developers from Tiva Systems contributed meaningful code within the first week and helped accelerate our release cycles.”

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Pritam Shah
Engineering VP
Cisco
Speed

“Tiva didn't just teach us Agile — they embedded with our teams and changed how we ship software. The transformation was real and lasting.”

BW
Brian Williamson
Director, ITSS - Agile Transformation
USAA
Quality

“When Tiva Systems says they'll deliver by Thursday, I don't even put a backup plan together. That's how much I trust them.”

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Jill Spencer
Director, Information Strategy
USAA
Dependability

“I've known Tiva Systems since the Blackrock days. When I moved to First Republic, they were still the first people I called. That kind of loyalty goes both ways.

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Mike Lee
Voice & Video Analyst
First Republic Bank
Dependability

“We needed a project manager in PST with Agile and Scrum experience for two concurrent projects. Tiva had someone within the week.

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Annavie Arnesen
Technology Director
Limeade
Speed

“The consultant Tiva Systems placed with us was an absolute pleasure to work with and someone we genuinely wanted to continue engaging beyond the authorized term. When Tiva places a consultant, they consistently become people the client wants on the team long term.”

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Roger Reynolds
Manager
Trellix
Quality

“The Scrum Master and Agile Release Program Manager Tiva Systems sent us is among the strongest we have seen across our Agile transformation work. Tiva has an instinct for timing — matching the right profile to the specific stage our program is in.”

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Thomas Sowinski
Agile Transformation
BHHC
Recruiting

“Tiva Systems understood the business logic behind Gap's supplier consolidation strategy — not merely the staffing mechanics — and positioned themselves as a partner aligned with where our IT function was heading.”

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Arash Rad
IT Leadership
Gap
Tiva

“The work Tiva Systems has delivered on our placements has been phenomenal, and the consistency across engagements is what actually stands out. Front-end quality of candidate presentation and back-end quality of delivery are both reliable.”

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Sarah Shields
Technology
Impax
Quality

“Tiva Systems only places consultants they are willing to stake the firm's reputation on, and that selectivity compounds across engagements — the quality of who they recommend is why the relationship continues to hold up.”

AB
Andras Bori
Engineering
Adobe
Quality
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