Vetted Budgeting Professionals

“25-year builder/operator who has scaled others' visions and led VC-backed startup incubation work (Saltmines). Built Bridgetree’s AI CoE from 0 to 1 and cites $20M+ measurable customer impact, with experience leading 110-person cross-disciplinary teams. Exploring a new venture idea (gotAgentic.ai) focused on agentic AI solutions such as AI-ready data prep, agentic SDLC teams, and front-office automation (scheduling/invoicing).”

“Sole founder of Bazaaro who built the company’s operations across product, hiring, GTM, finance, and investor relations—securing initial investment by effectively spanning multiple functions. Also drove a high-stakes operational turnaround at Ciena by process-mapping end-to-end workflows, correcting cost mis-modeling, and building Excel dashboards to recover $60K+ while improving margin visibility.”

“Master’s-level IoT course project that the candidate helped evolve into a research lab effort by “ROSifying” a soil-fertility detection rover (autonomous navigation within a GPS geofence, sensor fusion, and rover-to-base-station telemetry via NRF24 to a Raspberry Pi dashboard). Also built a ROS/Gazebo vision-based teleoperation system using a SigLIP hand-gesture model mapped to geometry_msgs/Twist, and improved stability by instrumenting and filtering a latency-prone perception-to-control pipeline.”

“HR/talent business partner with global experience supporting teams across the US, UK, and Canada, focused on adapting talent initiatives to cultural and legal requirements. Played a key role in a successful company integration, driving HRIS/process changes, compliance, and employee communications, and has supported product/design/analytics orgs with staffing, compensation strategy, and career mapping.”

“Longform video editor/content creator who supported Principal Financial Group (Fortune 200) for 13 years, handling end-to-end production across video, photography, audio, and music. Emphasizes narrative storytelling for engagement, disciplined media organization for reliable handoffs, and has experience mentoring other editors using brand-standard playbooks and stakeholder review processes.”

“AI/ML Engineer who built a production RAG-based LLM system for insurance policy documents, turning thousands of messy PDFs into a searchable index using LangChain, Azure AI Search vectors, hybrid retrieval, and FastAPI. Strong focus on evaluation (MRR/precision@k/recall@k, REGAS) and performance optimization (vLLM), with prior clinical NLP experience using BERT-based NER validated on ground-truth datasets.”

“Engineering/technology leader with experience tying roadmaps to OKRs/KPIs, scaling cross-functional engineering teams, and driving go-to-market execution for Managed IT Services revenue growth. In an early-stage company setting, personally stood up core systems (CRM, lead gen, website) and multi-cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS) while building investor materials (pitch deck, VDR, financials), resulting in an investor LOI within 8 months. Also led an on-prem deployment architecture redesign for a network monitoring (NPM) product to improve compatibility, scalability, and security.”

“Partnership and growth professional with experience closing 5+ sponsorship/partnership deals for a flagship conference (LPN Congress & Expo) through cold outreach and tailored packages, then measuring ROI via post-event lead/sales tracking. Also brings CPG and B2B marketing experience from Mondelez and agriNews, including data-driven in-store GTM diagnostics and iterative lead-gen funnel optimization (landing page + social + email).”

“Hands-on architect/executive who built a virtual sales platform from scratch with real-time video delivery and autoscaling global video nodes, while also operating at the stakeholder/roadmap level. Previously scaled IT as Arbonne grew from ~$11M to $1B in annual sales and led large digital transformation efforts including a 70-person team for princesshouse.com; also advises startups (e.g., SocialBud) on product expansion and roadmaps.”

“Veteran college/high school basketball coach and recruiter with a proven track record signing elite talent (7–8 ESPN Top 100 players) and contributing to top-ranked recruiting classes (including #1 in Conference USA and multiple Big 12 Top 25 classes). Also produces athletic department and recruiting video content, with strong editing skills in Final Cut Pro/CapCut and comfort being on camera for social media.”

“Operator who has repeatedly stepped into high-growth, founder-led agencies to stabilize and scale execution across functions (hiring, GTM, finance, investor comms). Known for building lightweight operating cadences, dashboards, and decision artifacts anchored on leading indicators (time-to-value, unit economics, throughput) to improve margins, delivery speed, and reduce founder dependency.”