Vetted Operations Professionals in the NYC Metro

Smit Patel

Screened

Senior operations and systems builder specializing in AI-enabled business operations

Hackensack, NJ8y exp

“Worked at a startup B2B catering company and framed the business as both logistics and product-driven, showing an operations-oriented view of food service. Described taking on multiple functions in an early-stage environment, including hiring, networking, and helping think through how to scale and win more clients.”

Sampad Ghosh

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Operations & Project Manager specializing in client success and workflow optimization

Brooklyn, NY9y exp

“Project/operations coordinator who helped spin off Cannabiz Advisor from an accounting firm, coordinating tax/accounting, marketing, sales, and client onboarding/training to launch the new service line and build a book of 30 clients within a few months. Also implemented a sales performance cadence at Orion Mobile with the VP of Sales, combining weekly metric reviews with structured rep action plans.”

“Operations/project leader with extensive experience running multiple cross-functional initiatives, including transitioning department functions to an overseas team with defined workflows, KPIs, and executive approval. Implements executive-facing systems (Asana, Microsoft Lists, Geckoboard) and tight communication cadences to drive real-time visibility, alignment, and accountability, and is trusted with sensitive HR/termination-related confidentiality.”

“Wardrobe stylist and merchandiser with hands-on retail installation and visual merchandising experience for Dick’s Sporting Goods, using competitive analysis and sales performance tracking to justify and optimize brand/visual investments. Also has subscription box and e-commerce assortment experience, leveraging surveys and promotional incentives to collect consumer data and drive measurable traffic and sales lift.”

“Works in airline day-of-operations scheduling, where they manage flight attendant schedule modifications under tight time constraints and FAR regulations. Their experience centers on preventing crew legality violations, coordinating with controllers and pilot teams, and using schedule codes to ensure delay-related pay is captured accurately.”

“Frontend-focused builder with startup and open-source experience, including a real estate management SaaS for homeowners that integrated AI document parsing, OCR, auto-tagging, and chatbot features. They also show strong product instincts through A/B testing, direct user interviews, and community-led design decisions that achieved roughly 90% acceptance.”

“Recruiting leader who manages a team of 3 and remains hands-on with high-impact executive searches. Experienced as a client-facing TA partner to HRBPs, hiring managers, and C-suite stakeholders, using talent mapping, competitive intelligence, and compensation/offer consulting to close critical roles. Drove measurable process improvement by streamlining an interview loop from 7 rounds to 3 to reduce candidate drop-off and improve time-to-fill.”

“Seed-stage startup operator/executive partner who joined Bhon Bhon LLC when there was little infrastructure and became the catch-all owner for executive support, operations, budgets, vendors, and special projects. Stands out for turning chaotic founder workflows into scalable systems using tools like Claude, Salesforce, Concur, Superhuman, and Excel, while also bringing niche exposure to NFT/Web3 asset tracking.”

“Graduate student taking advanced coursework in NLP, generative image modeling, and computer vision; built a PPO reinforcement-learning agent for a Super Mario platformer with careful reward shaping and metric-driven evaluation. In a recent internship designing credit risk models, created a 10-method feature-selection voting framework and achieved ~10% out-of-sample performance improvement while reducing features to mitigate overfitting.”

Kaushal Shroff

Screened

Senior Supplier Quality & Regulatory Manager specializing in food and nutraceutical manufacturing

Parsippany, NJ7y exp

“Quality, supplier, and regulatory professional with experience leading facility audits (SQF/NSF/FDA) and building traceable QA processes across raw materials, packaging components, and finished goods. Emphasizes rigorous documentation checks (COAs/specs/batch records), allergen segregation controls, and CAPA closure via SOP revisions and retraining, supported by SAP/ERP/LIMS and TraceGains.”