Vetted Leadership Professionals

“Former SDR at Placer AI (later promoted into Customer Success) who generated high outbound volume—booking ~40–50 meetings/month and converting ~30 into opportunities. Experienced selling into municipalities with research-led personalization, and has navigated multi-stakeholder buying committees in healthcare staffing (recruiters/ops/CFO) including ATS and Salesforce-based solution discussions.”

“Paid media specialist with nonprofit/fundraising experience at Keelworks Foundation, running high-spend acquisition across Google, Meta, and LinkedIn (and familiar with TikTok). Uses CRM-driven funnel segmentation and disciplined A/B testing across ads, landing pages, and email flows; has recovered stalled performance and delivered ~10% donation growth while tracking deep donor-quality KPIs (lead-to-donor, retention, avg gift).”

“Game QA professional experienced in live production pipelines with daily builds and sprint cadence, emphasizing LKG-based verification/regression, smoke/BVT stability checks, and disciplined backlog closure. Known for isolating low-repro gameplay/system defects using video evidence and logs, and for streamlining team workflows through standardized JIRA/Azure DevOps templates and data-driven quality feedback to designers/engineers.”

“Growth and partnerships leader spanning creator ecosystem and B2B SaaS GTM. Drove measurable revenue outcomes by combining performance-based creator deals (including whitelisting/retargeting and geo lift testing) with a repeatable demand engine using Google Search, LinkedIn ABM, AI-personalized outbound, and HubSpot automation—scaling MRR from $15K to $110K and lifting trial-to-paid conversion from ~3.4% to ~9% via persona-based onboarding.”

“Mobile F2P product leader (11+ years) who has built and published multiple games—most notably Hexa Sort—into multi-million-dollar IPs with publishers like Lion Studios (AppLovin), Voodoo, and Tango. Known for rigorous, data-driven monetization and engagement optimization (months-long multi-variant testing, activation milestone discovery, ROAS-focused launch tuning) and for leading cross-functional teams across product, growth, and data.”

“Youth AAU basketball coach who also ran tournaments at Union City High School, handling real-time event logistics like team dropouts, parking constraints, and staffing referees/scoreboard. Comfortable scouting talent in person and via social media, with a recruiting lens focused on intangibles and team fit, and creates side-by-side video breakdowns connecting skill work to in-game results.”

“People/HR leader focused on retention, engagement, and organizational effectiveness—partnering with executives to implement performance review systems, redesign teams for growth, and improve hiring/onboarding. Brings strong employee relations experience (including harassment investigations) and uses people metrics and market research to optimize benefits and drive participation.”

“Recent audio production bachelor’s graduate with Unity-based game and cinematic school projects, creating and layering original SFX from scratch and implementing via Wwise. Former 1990s drummer who recorded, mixed, and mastered band EPs using analog gear; eager to ramp up on Unreal Engine audio systems.”

“Operations-focused leader/advisor who has spun up and redirected an internal startup into a standalone division with full P&L ownership, introducing tech-enabled order tracking and a weekly management operating cadence. Experienced driving change in legacy environments through transparency and KPI-driven execution, with additional advisory work supporting founders/executives through M&A and working-capital/inventory discipline.”

“Full-cycle enterprise seller with deep retail-adjacent fluency in payments, stored value/wallets, martech, and loyalty. Highlights include a $1.9M ARR ($9.5M TCV) deal and 220% quota attainment ($2.2M closed) while also building a GTM playbook and sales process; has proven ability to navigate acquisitions, shifting priorities, and executive turnover mid-deal.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“Former basketball player with deep exposure to youth leagues/tournaments and recruitment events, now coaching middle and high school athletes while coordinating district-wide Special Olympics programming. Currently a full-time Florida State University grad student in athletic coaching who regularly produces and edits video content and uses game film breakdown to develop players; comfortable scouting and communicating with families via social media.”

“ML/computer-vision practitioner who shipped a CycleGAN-based bilingual handwriting translation demo (English↔Telugu) for low-resource scripts using unpaired datasets, focusing on preserving handwriting style and real-time deployment via Gradio. Also delivered a medical imaging pipeline by fine-tuning ResNet-50 and ViT-B/16 for pneumonia detection, emphasizing reproducibility, measurable evaluation, and stakeholder-friendly iteration.”

“Fractional CIO/founder-type operator at AHDX Inc, a hybrid-cloud/primary storage solutions startup with a compliance focus targeting healthcare; MVP has completed beta and the company has seed funding while pursuing additional investment. Has supported multiple startups (OmniHR, Combat Connect, 3BX) and cites tangible results tied to DoD/security, Medicare/Medicaid, and Air Force LMS contracts, positioning them as a hands-on "fixer" for early-stage technical strategy and architecture.”

“Applied AI/ML engineer with hands-on production experience building a RAG-based AI assistant for pharmaceutical maintenance troubleshooting using LangChain + FAISS/Pinecone, including a custom normalization layer to handle inconsistent terminology and duplicate document revisions. Also built Airflow-orchestrated pipelines for document ingestion/embeddings and predictive maintenance workflows (SCADA ETL, drift-based retraining), and partnered closely with production supervisors/quality engineers via Power BI dashboards and real-time alerts.”

“Hospitality operations leader with hands-on experience building administrative and operational infrastructure for new hotel and restaurant openings (handbooks, training, SOPs, cleaning regimens). Known for developing talent—mentored 7 team members into General Manager roles—and for running multi-property oversight using daily reporting and continuous communication to drive operational improvements.”

“Performance media buyer focused on content/search arbitrage and native advertising, managing $100K+/month budgets across Taboola, Outbrain, MGID, Zemanta, Newsbreak, and MediaGo. Emphasizes systematic creative/placement/bid testing and rapid optimization, citing ~20–30% RPM improvement while scaling spend and recovering ROI quickly after performance drops.”

“Developed and productionized VL-Mate, a vision-language, LLM-powered assistant aimed at helping visually impaired users understand their surroundings and query internal knowledge. Emphasizes reliability and safety via confidence thresholds, uncertainty-aware fallbacks, hallucination grounding checks, and rigorous offline + user-in-the-loop evaluation, with experience orchestrating multi-step LLM pipelines (LangChain-style and custom Python async) and deploying on containerized infrastructure.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a 150+ LPAR AIX 7.x estate with VIOS/HMC/vHMC and PowerHA in production, including real outage and failover recoveries. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience—built Jenkins pipelines deploying to AKS and implemented Terraform on AWS with remote state, locking, and drift management.”

“Video editor and post producer with ~10 years of extensive Adobe Premiere and After Effects experience, including documentary work for an Abu Dhabi media company (UAE National Day) blending archival footage, live footage, and graphics. Experienced in end-to-end longform YouTube post-production workflows and retention-focused storytelling techniques.”

“Backend/ML engineer focused on clinical AI transparency who built ShifaMind, an explainability-enforced clinical ML system using UMLS/MIMIC-IV/PubMed data with RAG, GraphSAGE, and cross-attention. Demonstrated strong production engineering via FastAPI API design and safe migrations (feature flags/shadow inference), plus HIPAA-aligned auth/RLS patterns; also delivered a real-time comet detection system reaching 97.7% accuracy.”

“Hockey lifer with ~18 years in the sport (4-year varsity player and multi-year captain) who combines on-ice leadership with Marine Corps NCO mentoring experience. Emphasizes disciplined preparation and a holistic approach to player evaluation (IQ, compete level, off-puck play, and character), and is comfortable creating educational social content like roadmaps and Q&As for hockey families.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with internship experience at eXp Realty and Pulse InfoFrame, building survey platforms and a drag-and-drop survey management UI in React + TypeScript. Notably helped execute a post-deployment migration from DynamoDB to Amazon RDS to enable scalable SQL aggregation (tested with ~70k survey instances), and monitored rollout via CloudWatch/Cloudflare logs while driving QA and load testing.”

“Early-career engineer who built a self-directed production-grade security scanning/analysis pipeline that normalizes multi-scanner results, correlates CVEs, and uses an LLM to generate exploit hypotheses—then hardened it for real-world reliability (timeouts, confidence scoring, feature flags, graceful degradation). Also integrated a real-time audio ML model into Discord/Zoom and debugged intermittent latency/dropouts across Python inference, virtual audio drivers, and network jitter; experienced with IAM integrations (Entra ID/Salesforce) and cloud tooling (AWS/Docker/Kubernetes).”