Vetted Cross-Functional Collaboration Professionals

Ryan Echols

Screened

Senior Workforce Analytics & WFM Leader specializing in contact center operations

Marietta, GA8y exp

“Operations-focused team lead currently managing 20 coordinators, with strong workforce management experience spanning forecasting, scheduling, KPI/staffing reporting, and executive-facing data presentations. Led a cross-functional Salesforce implementation and redesigned forecasting/workflow to support a newly created internal-promotion department, improving flexibility in coverage planning.”

Carolyn Kostecki

Screened

Mid-level Game Developer specializing in technical animation and Unreal Engine 5

Frisco, TX3y exp

“Gameplay animation/technical animator with Borderlands 4 experience, owning UE5 Animation Blueprint systems end-to-end (including a 3D flight AnimGraph for the "Witness" drone). Built procedural "Gestalt" NPC faces by layering authored facial poses for near-infinite variation, and improved runtime performance via thread-safe AnimBP function isolation while actively bridging animator/engineer collaboration in Unreal.”

ABHISHEK AKODIYA

Screened

Senior Technical Animator specializing in MetaHuman pipelines and AI-driven character systems

Michigan, USA4y exp

“Unreal Engine gameplay/systems developer who owned core systems like NPC AI (AI Controller/Behavior Trees) and loot/itemization/economy, plus progression/difficulty frameworks for a shipped title. Notably drove mobile performance/packaging work, citing a ~75% reduction in AAA Android export size to get a high-end console-quality build under 500MB, including a custom Photoshop macro pipeline to process a massive texture library. Also prototyped advanced MetaHuman features (secure WebSocket, speech/visemes, expressions) using Blueprints and Unreal Editor Python utilities.”

“Backend engineer who built an AI-powered grant matchmaking platform for researchers and professors, combining semantic matching, embeddings, and Semantic Scholar enrichment with rule-based eligibility filters. Stands out for pragmatic AI engineering: they focused on reliability through confidence scoring, logging, manual validation, and production-minded backend design.”

Stephen Pappachen

Screened

Director-level physician consultant specializing in clinical operations and healthcare administration

Lakeland, FL31y exp

“Clinician and former Center Medical Director with experience building operations from the ground up across OB/GYN practice and plasma donation settings. Brings a distinctive blend of clinical oversight, quality improvement, safety-focused implementation support, and protocol/algorithm authoring, especially in regulated healthcare environments.”

Steven Fritsch

Screened

Principal Product Manager specializing in AI and document intelligence

New York, NY12y exp

“Enterprise product leader with significant experience turning AI experiments into scalable, workflow-native capabilities at Datasite, especially in high-stakes M&A environments. Stands out for combining strong AI product strategy with nuanced UX judgment, emphasizing trust, transparency, and human-in-the-loop design over flashy automation.”

“Strategic sourcing/procurement professional with experience at Gumpro and Micron leading indirect (MRO/CapEx) and critical component sourcing initiatives. Uses structured category strategy (spend/Kraljic/Pareto), RFX, risk management, and TCO/should-cost models; reports $10M+ savings and lead-time reduction from 60 days to 2 days while mitigating geopolitical/tariff exposure and strengthening supply resilience.”

“Backend engineer who architected and owned a mission-critical outage management/decision-support platform, replacing a legacy system that failed under load. Emphasizes auditability, deterministic validation, and server-side concurrency controls (section locking, scoped autosaves), plus redundancy/load balancing and monitoring to keep the system stable for 24/7 operations handling 1,500+ weekly outage events.”

“Founding member of Tausight, building AI systems to detect and protect PHI for healthcare organizations; helped take the company through post–Series A funding and exited after ~6 years. Drove a strategic collaboration with Intel’s OpenVINO team—becoming the first to deploy it in a real production system and improving model performance by ~30% on customer Intel-CPU machines.”

“Growth/demand gen marketer with strong partnership negotiation experience (notably renegotiating a G2 deal into a 3-year agreement) and a track record of measurable pipeline and ARR impact. Leverages buyer-intent data (G2/Gartner), competitor intelligence, ABM/LinkedIn, and product-led in-app triggers to drive lead growth, conversion improvements, and enterprise upgrades.”

“Software engineer/product owner who has led end-to-end delivery of AI and content-management platforms, including building RAG-based reliability improvements and migrating fragile systems to containerized AWS ECS/Kubernetes with Terraform-managed CI/CD. Experienced designing event-driven microservices (SQS/SNS/RabbitMQ), scaling queue consumers with autoscaling, and creating internal Python tooling to standardize data connectors (e.g., BigQuery/Airtable/internal APIs) to speed iteration.”

“Unity XR engineer from FitXR who architected a session-based gameplay framework powering workouts across single-player and synchronous multiplayer on multiple headsets (Meta/Pico/OpenXR/Android XR). Deep focus on deterministic authoritative state, bandwidth-aware networking, and VR performance optimization (Quest 1+) with live content delivery via Addressables and production hotfixes.”

“Built and deployed a production SecureAIChatBot (RAG-based) for secure internal information retrieval, using embeddings/vector search, GPT models, monitoring, and safety filters. Focused on real-world production challenges like latency and output consistency, applying caching, retrieval scoping, smaller models, and controlled prompting, and used LangChain to orchestrate the end-to-end workflow.”

“HR leader (VP of HR at Joe Coffee Company; previously at Equinox) with hands-on experience implementing two HRIS migrations and configuring timekeeping/HR systems used as an org-wide hub (ATS, performance management, timekeeping, system of record). Drove a major compliance-focused change to break tracking/pay practices using cost analysis and system configuration to reduce liability while minimizing employee dissatisfaction.”

“Built and shipped production generative AI/RAG assistants in regulated financial contexts (S&P Global), automating compliance-oriented Q&A over earnings reports/filings with grounded answers and citations. Experienced across the full stack—AWS-based ingestion (PySpark/Glue), vector retrieval + LangChain agents, GPT-4/Claude model selection, and production reliability (monitoring, caching, retries) plus rigorous evaluation and regression testing.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with logistics domain experience (DHL) who shipped a real-time shipment status update system using Spring Boot + Kafka and a performance-tuned PostgreSQL tracking schema. Also has AWS production operations experience (ECS/Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible) and has handled peak-load incidents end-to-end by tracing Kafka lag to database bottlenecks and resolving via query/index optimization plus scaling.”

“System Engineer with Panasonic Avionics and DIRECTV experience who functions as a software integration focal point, owning system-level QA from requirements and ATP verification through regression and release readiness. Brings rigorous, compliance-driven testing (FAA/ISO) plus strong RCA skills, including reproducing critical UI freezes under high memory conditions and supplying logs/memory dumps to drive engineering fixes.”

“Full-cycle sales professional focused on IT hardware/infrastructure, prospecting into SMB through enterprise and engaging C-level stakeholders. Reports consistent outbound output (5–10 meetings/week, ~75% conversion) and experience growing large accounts, including expanding a public-company data center initiative into a $2.1M account.”

“Verizon sales development professional supporting two mid-market AEs, running weekly Salesforce funnel reviews and advancing deals involving 10–250 lines and buying committees from IT manager to VP. Drives results through high-volume, multi-channel outbound sequences (calls, email, text, LinkedIn), consistently exceeding 120% quota and generating $200K+ in quarterly revenue while maintaining ~100 active opportunities.”

“Customer Success professional with enterprise experience across Handshake and Xactly, specializing in rescuing at-risk implementations, driving adoption through employer branding/analytics, and coordinating complex stakeholder maps across technical teams and business owners. Has influenced product changes by aggregating high-ARR customer feedback and has supported time-sensitive sales compensation plan rollouts while integrations were in progress, reducing long-term reliance on professional services.”

“Enterprise Customer Success leader in fleet/telematics who managed a multi-million ARR portfolio through complex post-acquisition platform migrations and a large-scale 3G-to-4G transition. Uses data-driven health scoring, QBRs, and stakeholder alignment to drive adoption, reduce churn risk, and support renewals/expansion, and has influenced product roadmap via customer-driven reporting enhancements.”

John Abraham

Screened

Executive Credit Risk Leader specializing in underwriting and lending portfolio management

San Diego, USA21y exp

“Operations leader with deep fintech/lending startup experience (OnDeck Capital, 1st Merchant Funding, ForwardLine, Founders First) building end-to-end underwriting-to-portfolio operations, compliance, and supporting functions like sales/marketing. Known for scaling teams and automating repeatable work—citing growth from ~$3MM to ~$20MM in 2 years—while implementing systems like Salesforce/QuickSight and helping build proprietary funding and portfolio management software. Also provides structured part-time advisory support with clear scope/cadence, including helping set up a global finance company based in Argentina.”