Vetted Inventory Management Professionals

“Architect/product owner/lead developer who built high-scale ERP supply chain and inventory transaction capabilities (including order-to-order pegging) with strong performance tuning in Postgres and robust monitoring/reprocessing dashboards. Also led product for an enterprise agentic development platform using LLM integrations to generate user stories, data models, workflows, and RBAC-secured applications, with sandboxing and promotion guardrails plus UAT across technical and non-technical personas.”

“Chief of Staff to the family of Kevin Scott (CTO of Microsoft), serving as the first CoS to unify previously siloed teams and build an operating cadence for executive decision-making. Experienced running high-stakes, high-security events including a Presidential fundraiser/President Biden visit, coordinating with the presidential advance team and Secret Service while protecting principal priorities and privacy.”

“Operations leader with repeated startup/entrepreneurial experience building internal operating systems from the ground up—creating department-by-department SOP/policy manuals and implementing KPI-driven management. Strong in diagnosing issues via operational/financial data and rolling out scalable people systems (structured interviews, training/certifications, onboarding) with retention measured across 14/30/60/90-day cohorts.”

“Operator/program leader from Keyo who builds the “operating backbone” for fast-moving teams—OKRs/KPIs, dashboards, SOPs, and tight decision cadences. Led end-to-end initiatives spanning supply/delivery stabilization, finance reporting/forecasting inputs, vendor alignment, and company-wide SOC 2 Type II compliance with centralized audit evidence.”

“Fashion buyer/category manager with end-to-end ownership of Shopbop’s evening business, using Excel-driven classification and pricing tier analysis to uncover demand opportunities and deliver +20% above annual sales target on higher margin. Experienced negotiating vendor sell-through agreements (e.g., Marchesa Notte) and using RTV to reduce inventory risk while maintaining full-price selling; also has a track record coaching buyers to drive incremental revenue (e.g., $350K unplanned full-price sales via an exclusive delivery).”

“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.”

“Sourcing/NPI leader with hands-on expertise in should-cost modeling and contract negotiations (including exclusivity and lifecycle cost-downs), leading supplier onboarding through industrialization and SOP. Demonstrated proactive trade/duty risk mitigation by driving a phased localization plan that reduced part costs by 15% then an additional 20%, and has a track record of turning around underperforming suppliers to stabilize samples and improve OTD.”

“Built Nexthire-AI, shipping an end-to-end LLM-powered resume–job description matching product (React + Node.js) using embeddings and retrieval to generate match scores and skill-gap recommendations. Improved post-launch engagement by making feedback cleaner and more actionable, and added production guardrails (validation, timeouts, fallbacks) to handle messy resume formats and AI API instability.”

“Performance marketer with hands-on ownership of high-spend acquisition programs, including managing ~50K/month at Backblaze across Google Ads and paid social while optimizing for trial-to-paid conversion. Built Protective's employee benefits paid media from scratch into a full-funnel LinkedIn + Google program, scaling spend ~300% YoY and improving lead quality through tighter targeting and keyword refinement.”

“Senior Recruiter at Gusto with 10+ years spanning agency recruiting ops and in-house TA, leading a CX Invite team and coaching 3–5 recruiters. Known for scaling high-volume contact center hiring (20 hires/month) by redesigning interview workflows—cutting steps, introducing batch interview days, and driving measurable gains (candidate NPS +20, offer acceptance +10%). Experienced with Greenhouse, ModernLoop scheduling automation, LinkedIn Recruiter extensions, and Tableau recruiting dashboards.”

“Hands-on engineering manager/lead focused on Azure application deployments and CI/CD automation. Has led design sessions and 1:1 code reviews, and owned a production performance incident end-to-end from measurement and test-environment setup through production validation, while coaching team members via regular 1:1s.”

“Backend/DevOps engineer pivoting into robotics/space, building hands-on ROS2 (Humble) skills via Gazebo simulations and experimenting with Nav2 and slam_toolbox. Brings strong distributed-systems and real-time debugging practices (profiling, instrumentation, QoS/retry patterns) and is actively learning perception and control fundamentals to transition into autonomous robotics.”

“Omnichannel merchandising and partnerships leader who owned end-to-end strategy for major soccer programs, including USA Soccer and the Argentina National Team. Negotiated a sophisticated dual-license structure to preserve Amazon channel rights while protecting margin, and drove $8M in pre-buys plus margin improvement through disciplined planning, Excel-based hindsight analysis, and in-season inventory adjustments.”

“Wayfair strategic sourcing/procurement professional who led a major shift from push-based replenishment to a demand-driven pull model, combining SAP IBP/S4HANA planning with supplier renegotiations and performance scorecards. Drove measurable outcomes including $100K annual savings, 98% on-time delivery, and an SAP Fiori + Tableau inventory visibility improvement that cut 1,500 units of waste and saved $150K.”

“Sourcing/procurement professional who owned end-to-end supplier management across concept through launch while running 20 projects concurrently. Known for hands-on supplier recovery (including onsite interventions) and process improvements that delivered measurable results (30% cycle-time reduction) plus strong cost focus via total landed cost analysis and international logistics optimization.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on coding time who has driven major commerce and data-platform transformations: defined goop’s omnichannel strategy, unified payments to Square, and rebuilt real-time NetSuite inventory flows plus forecasting tools. Currently reorganized engineering into Product/Data/Support teams to hit aggressive seasonal roadmaps, and led a data-lake/medallion ELT refactor feeding embedded analytics (Tinybird) with improved reliability and cost efficiency; also accelerates onboarding via AI coding tools in a serverless, event-driven architecture.”

“Buyer managing the Nightwear & Lingerie category with end-to-end ownership across range planning, vendor negotiation, phased launches, and in-season trading. Reported delivering $61M in sales at a 56% margin with 4% growth in 2024–2025, and demonstrates strong retail math/OTB discipline plus vendor-led speed-to-market tactics (e.g., pulling forward pipeline and using air freight when needed).”

“Backend/AI engineer who owned a high-scale Java/Spring Boot microservice for a financial application (millions of requests/day) and led major reliability/performance fixes (including ORM/query and PostgreSQL tuning) achieving ~60% latency reduction. Also shipped application-layer LLM features for ops teams (summarization + tool-calling) with strong guardrails (PII redaction, validation, audit/feedback) and designed a state-driven agent workflow with retries, circuit breakers, and human escalation.”