Vetted Operations Professionals in the Chicago Metro

“Strategy and operations leader with experience spanning Anheuser-Busch and McMaster-Carr, combining large-scale cost ownership, frontline operations leadership, and sourcing strategy. Particularly compelling for operationally intensive roles: they’ve managed a 150-person service organization, owned a ~$750M cost base, built strategy in ambiguous environments, and independently drove an LLM automation pilot that reached 97% accuracy and saved 3 FTEs.”

“LLM/agentic workflow practitioner (Continuum AI) who productionized an LLM system for manufacturing RMA intake and warranty claims by moving from a brittle prompt to a modular pipeline with RAG, function-calling extraction, deterministic validation, and strong observability. Also diagnosed and fixed an agentic ticket-triage misrouting issue by tracing failures to retrieval timeouts, adding guardrails/fallbacks, and implementing retries plus continuous evaluation—bringing misroutes near zero while creating a repeatable debugging playbook.”

Akarsh Kangondi Lokanath

Screened

Junior Supply Chain Planner specializing in inventory, replenishment, and procurement analytics

Chicago, IL3y exp

“Sourcing/procurement professional from Pavana Impex who has owned end-to-end sourcing for production-critical materials, combining spend/demand analytics with hands-on supplier onboarding, negotiation, and production-to-delivery execution. Demonstrates strong trade and landed-cost acumen (HS classification/COO, broker coordination, packaging changes) and a structured approach to supplier performance improvement using scorecards, CAPA, and OTIF/OTD tracking.”

“Candidate has hands-on experience advising student-athletes and families on college decision-making, NIL opportunities, and football development, with a practical focus on realistic expectations for non-D1 pathways such as Division III. They also contributed on the branding and partnership side of NIL by preparing athlete information sheets, matching athletes with brands, and assisting with deal negotiations.”