Vetted Forecasting Professionals

“Operated as a data-driven cross-functional leader during a major company transition, owning initiatives across sales forecasting, pipeline analytics, and GTM process changes. Built an executive operating cadence with dashboards and weekly briefing packets that reduced information-chasing and improved decision-making, and successfully mediated Sales/Finance forecast assumption disputes using a single-page, fact-based recommendation.”

“Cross-functional product/engineering leader with startup and enterprise experience (Whimstay, Wells Fargo, Leap AI Technologies). Has owned end-to-end delivery including UI and payment architecture—built a multi-customer reservation payment flow using pre-auth plus event/timer-driven reminders and handled tricky edge cases like date changeover. Also introduced lightweight process (Jira, sprints, team/module structuring) to increase delivery speed in an early-stage AI document-matching startup.”

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.”

Carla DiNapoli

Screened

Senior Sales Development & Business Development professional specializing in Enterprise B2B SaaS

Nashville, TN10y exp

“Sales development professional with strong outbound and enterprise support experience, generating $2.5M pipeline and 15–20 meetings/month with a 45% meeting-to-opportunity conversion rate. Broke into the financial sector using ZoomInfo/LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Outreach sequencing, and helped win a $250K Nevada Department of Corrections deal by nurturing a CISO relationship over 8 months; known for exemplary Salesforce hygiene (Trailblazer certified).”

Dylan Zhu

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and generative AI

Hoboken, NJ7y exp

“Built and deployed an LLM/RAG system that uses differential privacy and distributional similarity checks to transform private data into a non-sensitive knowledge base while preserving utility. Also has experience demonstrating adversarial ML concepts (FGSM) to non-technical audiences by focusing on observable model behavior rather than implementation details.”

“Analytics professional at TIAA with hands-on experience combining SQL, Python, and statistical modeling to unify complex marketing, product, finance, and customer datasets. Has worked on advisor-tool adoption analysis, 10-year wealth diagnostics, forecasting, cohort analysis, and escalation-risk modeling, with findings used by marketing and contact-center stakeholders.”

“Analytics professional with Dell experience unifying global online sales, web analytics, SAP, and planning data across 20+ countries into scalable reporting pipelines and Power BI dashboards. Stands out for combining deep SQL/ETL work with Python automation, KPI design, and experimentation—delivering measurable outcomes like 80% less manual effort, a 2% conversion lift worth millions, and faster business decision-making.”

“ML/AI engineer with production experience at S&P Global and Accenture, focused on regulated, enterprise-grade systems. Built end-to-end financial risk and credit default models with >90% precision and 12% fewer false positives, and is currently developing secure RAG pipelines on AWS SageMaker for enterprise insight extraction.”

“ML/AI engineer at PNC who has shipped enterprise-grade RAG and document intelligence systems for compliance and policy workflows. Stands out for combining LLM product thinking with production rigor—owning FastAPI/Kubernetes deployments, monitoring, evaluation, and human-feedback loops that drove measurable gains like 40% faster policy search and 30% faster compliance review.”

Shane Howard

Screened

Executive technology and operations leader specializing in consulting, SaaS, and digital transformation

Salt Lake City, UT32y exp

“Serial operator and founder with four exits, including a recent business sale after raising $750K, and experience leading 17 acquisitions. Has held CEO, CIO, and global delivery/operations leadership roles across VC-backed, PE-backed, and high-growth companies, with a strong track record in GTM, operational scaling, and building repeatable cross-functional systems for growth and exit.”

“Sales leader from construction equipment, industrial distribution, and contractor-focused markets who has translated highly consultative, operationally critical selling into public-sector-like environments. He has led dispersed, multi-territory teams, delivered double-digit revenue and market share growth, and won complex CalTrans business by displacing an incumbent through executive relationship strategy, operational creativity, and disciplined execution.”

Leah Kenehan

Screened

Senior CRM & Lifecycle Marketing Manager specializing in retention and customer growth

Valencia, CA19y exp

“Senior CRM/lifecycle marketer who has grown from email execution into full-funnel campaign ownership, spanning strategy, segmentation, deployment, and performance analysis. Brings hands-on experience with Simon Data, Iterable, and Moveable Ink, plus interim people leadership managing a team of six while driving retention and rebooking campaigns in a travel/hospitality-style DTC environment.”

“Built a production AI-driven contract/document extraction system combining OCR, normalization, and LLM schema-guided extraction, orchestrated with PySpark and Azure Data Factory and loaded into PostgreSQL for analytics. Emphasizes reliability at scale—using strict JSON schemas, confidence scoring, targeted retries, and multi-layer validation to control hallucinations while processing thousands of PDFs per hour—and partners closely with non-technical business teams to refine fields and deliver usable dashboards.”

“Built an end-to-end Alexa smart-home IoT application controlling a Wi-Fi bulb, including ESP32 firmware (MQTT) and an AWS serverless backend (IoT Core/Device Shadow, Lambda, DynamoDB) with a REST API. Demonstrates strong real-time scalability patterns (streaming ingestion, stateless processing, partition-key design) and full-stack delivery with Spring Boot + React (JWT auth, CORS, data-heavy dashboards).”

“Built and deployed a GPT-based RAG enterprise search system for healthcare clinicians, emphasizing low-latency performance and reduced hallucinations while maintaining end-to-end HIPAA compliance. Demonstrates deep applied experience with PHI-safe data governance (detection/redaction/de-identification), secure Azure ML deployment patterns, and orchestration of production LLM workflows using LangChain and Airflow.”

“Operations leader specializing in building scalable internal systems for startups, from being Spoonflower’s first ops hire (5th employee) to launching its first international Berlin/EMEA office from scratch. At bookingkit, drove measurable operational improvements by implementing a customized OKR framework (+18% goal achievement) and deploying automation/AI tools like Contractbook and kapa.ai to eliminate manual work and save engineering time.”

“Entrepreneurially minded operator with ~20 years in corporate now building a new venture (business plan + MVP in progress) and focused on rapid traction to reach PMF. Previously identified and executed a major student-events opportunity in Milan, scaling from renting a hotel for 800 paying guests to an Olympic village for 5,000, handling logistics, outreach, and team coordination.”

Jaideep bommidi

Screened

Senior ML Engineer & Data Scientist specializing in LLM agents, retrieval/ranking, and MLOps

Denton, TX8y exp

“Machine Learning Engineer currently at Webster Bank building an enterprise-scale LLM agent for Temenos Journey Manager/Maestro, using RAG-style multi-stage retrieval with FAISS/Pinecone, hybrid dense+sparse search, and LoRA fine-tuning optimized via NDCG/MAP and A/B testing. Previously handled messy incident/telemetry data at Deuta Werke GmbH with deterministic + fuzzy entity resolution, and has strong production data engineering experience across Spark/Hadoop and Python ETL systems.”

“Data/streaming engineer in capital markets who led an end-to-end trade settlement data product (Kafka→MongoDB→data lake) with rigorous data-quality logic and ~$175K first-year operational impact. Also built a low-latency Go-based CME market data engine feeding SOFR curve generation, using MSK on EKS with performance tuning (idempotency, compression, partitioning) to achieve sub-100ms delivery.”

“Healthcare analytics candidate with hands-on experience turning messy claims data in Redshift and S3 into validated reporting tables, plus automating KPI workflows in Python. They’ve owned end-to-end operational analytics projects, including a claims delay analysis that improved processing efficiency by about 20%, and have experience driving stakeholder adoption of standardized metrics across dashboards.”

“Customer-facing leader with a nearly 20-year foundation spanning sales, account management, customer experience, and customer success. Has built functions from the ground up in both established and high-growth private equity-backed software environments, including scaling enterprise success during a period of 3x headcount growth and nearly 6x revenue growth while driving retention and expansion programs.”

Emily MacPherson

Screened

Senior finance and business operations leader specializing in technology financial management

San Francisco, CA14y exp

“Finance leader with roots in telecom and utilities who evolved from FP&A and product analysis into strategic technology business management. They have built cost transparency and total-cost-of-ownership capabilities for large-scale agile product transformations, delivering $41M in expense impact and helping reprioritize $200M+ in capital investments.”

“Built and productionized a multi-agent, LLM-powered document understanding system to replace manual review of long documents, using LangGraph orchestration plus RAG to reduce hallucinations. Implemented layered reliability controls (structured templates, checker agent, and human-in-the-loop feedback) and reported ~40% speed improvement after orchestration; also has hands-on Airflow experience for scheduled data pipelines.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (70/30 app vs infra) with Accenture experience and recent AI workflow work, shipping end-to-end systems from React/TypeScript UIs through FastAPI backends to Postgres. Built an AI-driven data extraction platform with async job APIs, strict schema validation, and strong observability, and has operated AWS ECS-based deployments with real incident mitigation (DB connection exhaustion/latency under traffic spikes).”