Vetted Operations Professionals

“Former U18 AAA (Belle Tire Detroit) player who was drafted to the USHL (Muskegon Lumberjacks) and played a full NAHL season (Keystone Ice Miners), then pivoted to college golf. Uses his own adversity/transition experience to guide youth and junior players with a holistic approach (on-ice traits, consistency, character, and mental skills) and is comfortable producing educational social media content for hockey families.”

“Executive Assistant to the CEO at Bhon Bhon LLC with strong cross-functional program execution experience—built dashboards, trackers, and centralized task systems to improve executive alignment and delivery. Reported measurable operational gains (20% faster admin turnaround, 20% onboarding improvement) while supporting launches, investor materials, hiring/onboarding, and client projects.”

“Founder/operator who turned around an underperforming nightlife/hospitality venture by rebuilding the operating system end-to-end—SOPs, dashboards, staffing/onboarding, pricing/promotions, and weekly forecasting/reporting. Demonstrates strong zero-to-one and ambiguity-to-clarity execution with a metrics-driven operating cadence across GTM, finance, and people operations.”

“Machine learning robotics engineer with internship experience deploying object detection and semantic segmentation models to an autonomous vehicle fleet operating in airports and naval docking stations, optimizing with ONNX/TensorRT for NVIDIA Jetson edge deployment. Also built ROS/ROS2-based decentralized multi-drone coordination (TF trees, shared telemetry) validated in Gazebo and networked via Nimbro with sub-10ms latency messaging.”

“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.”

“Marketing-focused designer building an online portfolio brand (K. Marian Designs) with deliberate typography and color-system rationale. Practices by redesigning poorly designed websites into improved desktop/mobile experiences using InDesign, Xtensio personas, and Wix, and also produces short marketing videos via a Clipchamp-to-CapCut workflow with licensed audio and voiceover.”

“Former hockey player with experience across juniors, NCAA Division III (UNE), and three years of pro hockey in Germany and the U.S., including championship wins at both the college and pro levels. Brings firsthand understanding of player development pathways plus experience evaluating players in-game, mentoring athletes on-ice (skills/skating), and creating social media content (videos/testimonials) for hockey families.”

“Sales/business development professional with experience spanning contractor services and medical/pharma sales. Won accredited contractor status that bypassed bidding and led to 10 awarded projects in the company’s first year, and helped drive Php 1.2M revenue within 6 months from a zero baseline. Also experienced selling into hospitals and buying committees, using patient-volume demand sizing, negotiation, and disciplined Salesforce tracking.”

“Former high-level hockey player (national championship MVP) turned exercise-science-trained performance coach who built a Detroit-area off-season training pipeline for dozens of pro, collegiate, and youth players (including NHL/AHL clients). Known for biomechanics-based development and rehab programming, with notable client outcomes including Kirk Maltby’s post-injury return during a Stanley Cup season and goalie Andrew Hammond’s record-setting NHL rookie run.”

“Growth and partnerships operator in the gaming/creator ecosystem focused on mid-tier creator programs and in-game activations. Uses data-driven ecosystem mapping (e.g., ContentIQ) and performance-based deal structures to hit acquisition, engagement, and monetization KPIs—citing +35% sign-ups, +25% engagement lift, and +25–30% higher in-game spend from creator-led GTM.”

“Frontend engineer with deep Shopify and React/TypeScript experience who has shipped real-time, high-concurrency products—most notably a live auction system on Shopify using pure JavaScript/Liquid with Pusher for instant bid updates. Also built a POS dashboard app with Redux Toolkit for real-time order/cart updates and delivered measurable storefront performance gains (~30–40% faster initial load) through modularization and asset optimization.”

“Remote game QA tester with PlayStation and Xbox testing experience, using Jira to track bugs and create test case reports while collaborating directly with development teams. Has tested titles/projects including Valorant, Roblox, and Unity 3D games, and has self-studied Microsoft XR certification requirements.”

“Former collegiate basketball player (JUCO/D2/D3) turned youth/AAU coach and community scout in Austin. Has recruited players for an AAU program and emphasizes full-game evaluation plus exposure-driven development; also creates Instagram Reels/TikTok content and is willing to be on-camera to educate families about recruiting.”

“Procurement/sourcing professional at Brightmark owning end-to-end CAPEX sourcing for uptime-critical plant components, from RFQs and vendor onboarding through production tracking and delivery. Demonstrated measurable savings (10–12%), mitigated supplier credit and trade/duty risks (Incoterms/HS code/COO), and improved AP/vendor relationships by fixing PO/invoice scope and documentation issues using SAP, Asana, and eMaint.”

“Procurement/sourcing professional with hands-on end-to-end purchasing experience using SAP/ERP—checking inventory, issuing POs, comparing approved suppliers on cost/lead time/performance, and tracking orders through delivery. Demonstrated strong cost control by catching invoice vs PO mismatches (including unapproved freight charges) and improving a late supplier’s OTD through tighter communication and expectations.”

“Former student-athlete and collegiate assistant soccer coach with hands-on experience supporting 20+ athletes across skill development, academic monitoring, travel, and expense handling. Has also worked at the Mountain West Conference on NIL-related tasks and conference realignment, and brings a recruiting-first mindset including player evaluation, relationship-building with coaches, and creating highlight/bio content using Canva.”

“AI/software engineer with hands-on experience deploying an LLM-powered quiz generation platform for students, integrating Python services with Gemini APIs plus frontend and database components. Emphasizes production-grade reliability through observability, schema validation, async processing, and performance tuning under high concurrency, and has collaborated with product/operators (e.g., at Colombo AI) to translate real-world constraints into scalable technical solutions.”

“Junior frontend developer building and shipping personal projects, including an end-to-end access control/registration app with modular/layered architecture, database modeling for scalability, and a React+TypeScript dashboard with filters and detail views. Emphasizes code quality through validation, unit tests, and modern tooling (Jest/RTL, ESLint, Zod, Postman), and uses Figma prototypes to translate UX into responsive UI.”

“Former D1 and overseas professional basketball player who co-founded an Under Armour circuit youth program and has helped 30–40 athletes reach college on scholarships. Combines hands-on scouting/recruiting expertise (including live-period tournament strategy and social scouting) with inside sales experience selling tickets and youth training packages, and is open to being an on-camera content creator to guide families through the recruiting process.”