Vetted Consulting Professionals

“Global HR leader who has managed teams across EMEA/APAC/Canada/Australia and led large-scale people initiatives spanning comp/benefits, recruiting, talent management, and employee experience. Notably modernized a manufacturing organization by implementing an AI-driven performance management system tied to operational KPIs, delivering major gains in engagement, customer satisfaction, culture, and internal promotions, and later drove a continuous-feedback performance overhaul with significant retention and manager-effectiveness improvements.”

“Operations/people-ops leader who helped an industrial fabrication company (Carlucci) scale through a major contract by standardizing operations, rolling out iPad + barcode workflows, and building workforce planning/onboarding/succession systems—doubling headcount. Uses a structured 100-day diagnostic and KPI-driven operating cadence (dashboards, AOP, goal deployment, 9-box, DISC) and mentors founders/executives by translating operational detail into strategic decision-making.”

“President of Open Table, Inc. (food relief org) who modernized and scaled multi-site operations—moving intake/check-in to the cloud, implementing VolunteerHub to coordinate 750+ volunteers, and launching online ordering with curbside distribution during the pandemic. Strong in change management, end-user-driven process improvement, and using impact data/storytelling to align boards and teams on scaling decisions.”

Shane Weinstock

Screened

Senior Data Scientist & Product Analytics Leader specializing in ML and experimentation

Austin, TX17y exp

“Aspiring founder with ~15 years of experience across varied backgrounds, motivated by frustration with slow, change-resistant large organizations and a desire to bring innovative ideas to market. Familiar with how venture capital/accelerators function (though not directly worked in them) and expresses strong willingness to take entrepreneurial risks.”

“Senior consultant in professional/managed services specializing in AIX on IBM Power Systems (Power9/10/11), handling multi-client work spanning LPAR builds, hardware refreshes (e.g., P8 to P10), storage/SAN migrations, and cloud migrations. Demonstrates strong operational depth across VIOS/HMC/vHMC, NIM + SUMA patching workflows, and PowerHA clustering, with a track record of scripting/automation (Jenkins + shell) to proactively monitor and streamline migrations.”

Andres Patiño

Screened

Mid-level Game & Interactive Software Developer specializing in Unreal Engine and Unity

Medellin, CO6y exp

“Game developer/designer building an open-world MMO/RPG largely solo in Unreal Engine 5, combining Blueprints and C++ and integrating Steam plus AWS/Amazon GameLift. Demonstrates strong playtest-driven iteration, including major redesigns to PvP balance and inventory/progression systems, and uses disciplined design documentation (rules, states, tuning tables) with Agile/Scrum practices.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an end-to-end low-code/no-code IDE for creating AI/ML workflows for industrial IoT sensors using Next.js/TypeScript and NestJS microservices. Focused on scaling high-volume sensor dashboards—improved UX and performance via WebSockets, debouncing, pagination, and API payload reduction—validated with profiling tools and user feedback in a startup environment.”

“Senior technologist (25 years experience) who served as chief architect/CTO for a patented software startup that was acquired. Strong at building scalable, robust, technology-agnostic systems and translating technical value into investor-ready narratives (forecasts, roadmaps, documentation). Currently prefers joining an existing founding team as a key technical leader/mentor rather than leading entrepreneurship solo.”

“Consulting-style LLM practitioner who builds enterprise knowledge assistants using RAG and takes them from prototype to production with guardrails, evaluation, and full-stack observability. Experienced partnering with IT and customer-facing teams to demo solutions, build tailored prototypes, and drive adoption through API-based integration.”

Brian Carroll

Screened

Principal Cybersecurity & Network Infrastructure Leader specializing in cloud, zero trust, and SIEM

Bakersfield, CA20y exp

“Founder of a self-funded IT management consulting practice specializing in security, compliance, and risk engineering for highly regulated sectors (banking/finance, healthcare, energy, defense, telecom). Uses consulting engagements to build repeatable “military-grade” security foundations and identify recurring pain points, with a longer-term goal of transitioning from consulting into a sustained internal team role for deeper impact.”

Julia Vavrinyuk

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud, GenAI, and SaaS solutions

Remote, USA9y exp

“Candidate combines B2B SaaS sales experience with hands-on technical delivery, spanning full-cycle selling at Consensus Cloud Solutions and GenAI POC leadership at Capgemini. Particularly interesting for Solutions Engineering roles that need someone comfortable with enterprise demos, AWS-based AI architectures, regulated-industry customers, and translating technical trade-offs into business decisions.”

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer who built financing-journey email campaigns at Blue X Trade using Mailchimp and n8n, including an AI agent to validate user info and trigger instant correction emails—improving retention and ROI. Runs structured A/B tests on dynamic personalization (name/location/trading country) that increased engagement and bookings, and has led cross-functional promotions while managing third-party rewards integration issues with monday.com.”

“HR/people operations professional supporting a multi-office firm across the US and Amsterdam, partnering closely with an HR counterpart internationally. Led the firm’s first performance review rollout end-to-end (training, communications, leader alignment) and achieved 100% completion, demonstrating strong change management and org-wide execution.”

Judi Bell

Screened

Executive COO specializing in human capital management and operational transformation

Eatonton, GA, USA30y exp

“Operations leader who joined People2.0 at inception (2004), led client implementations and major platform rollouts, then as COO (2016–2023) drove a Shared Services transformation and integrated 3 US/Canadian acquisitions. Deep staffing/back-office operations expertise (payroll, tax, billing, CRM) with a hands-on process-improvement style and strong change-management focus on adoption, training, and ROI.”

“Candidate’s primary change-management approach centers on employee dialogue sessions and coaching, focusing on explaining business results and organizational climate to build employee understanding and support for organizational changes.”

“Worked on large financial analytics datasets combining complaint text, transaction logs, and demographics; built end-to-end NLP/ML pipelines (TF-IDF + Random Forest) and data integration in BigQuery with Tableau reporting, citing ~95–98% accuracy. Also implemented entity resolution with fuzzy matching and semantic linking using BERT sentence-transformer embeddings stored in FAISS, including fine-tuning on labeled pairs to improve search/linking relevance.”

“Sales candidate with 35 years of experience who expressed interest in AI and shared a resume link and LinkedIn profile, but did not provide any concrete deal examples or details about outbound prospecting or recent closes during the screen.”

Jarron Tate

Screened

Director-level Enterprise SaaS Sales Leader specializing in HR Tech

Gretna, NE18y exp

“Enterprise and public-sector sales leader with experience managing teams of up to 16 and selling into education, government, healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality, tech, and other verticals. Most recently drove $30M+ pipeline and $4M ARR at HR Acuity while landing marquee customers like Google DeepMind, PayPal, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks, and previously helped scale Roots through international expansion before its acquisition by Deel.”

“Partnerships and growth operator with experience in community/creator-style ecosystems (Cantanda Company and other sales/consulting roles). Uses on-the-ground community research and relationship-led outreach to source and close partnerships, then measures impact via engagement, reach, and community growth. Has run referral-driven activation experiments and community-led GTM programs that became repeatable playbooks across locations.”

“Operations-focused advisor with experience helping small and growing businesses implement structured management frameworks (Balanced Scorecard, Value Chain Analysis) and select supporting systems like CRMs. Notably modernized an architectural firm's outdated hardware/software environment through license consolidation, phased replacement planning, and server re-organization—improving morale and speeding drawing production while reducing man-hours and payroll load.”

“Application security and vulnerability management professional with banking/regulatory compliance experience, coordinating SAST/DAST and third-party pentests under tight timelines and budgets. Strong in vendor/SOW management, stakeholder communication, and operationalizing reporting and remediation tracking via SharePoint dashboards and ServiceNow; also partnered with SOC to resolve suspicious traffic tied to dynamic pentest IPs.”

“Analytics professional with University of Florida experience in occupational health reporting, including bloodborne pathogen and needlestick exposure programs. Stands out for turning messy healthcare operational data into trusted, analysis-ready reporting assets using SQL and Python, while partnering closely with stakeholders to define reliable metrics and improve operational oversight.”