Vetted Microsoft Office Professionals

Daniel Bernhard

Screened

Director-level Manufacturing Operations leader specializing in electromechanical, MEMS, and biotech production

Emeryville, CA11y exp

“Operations/manufacturing leader who owned post-acquisition integration end-to-end, including site consolidation, technical transfer, and business systems alignment—delivering a 15-month multimillion-dollar program on time and 10% under budget. Experienced scaling a company from ~30 people to ~10x growth and driving public-company operational readiness; partnered with the CAO and external auditors to improve controls and remove quarterly shutdowns, increasing manufacturing capacity ~10% without added headcount.”

Faith Akinmola

Screened

Director-level HR Business Partner specializing in employee relations and workforce strategy

Alpharetta, GA8y exp

“People/HR leader with strong employee relations and people analytics experience who partners with senior leaders to build scalable leadership programs. Designed a mentorship program for newly promoted managers that increased stretch project participation by 20% and improved perceived support/buy-in, and has used attrition/ER/L&D data to drive hiring freezes, critical-role exceptions, and targeted recruiting strategies.”

“Built ZenDraft and brings an operator's lens to founder sourcing and evaluation. Demonstrated ability to run structured outbound, convert cold outreach into product-shaping conversations and pilot introductions, and manage an early-stage investment-style pipeline with clear decision frameworks.”

“Enterprise Lead CSM (Grammarly) with end-to-end ownership of major accounts like T-Mobile, driving measurable adoption outcomes (95%+ utilization) and operational impact (5x faster time-to-publish). Strong cross-functional operator who synthesizes enterprise feedback into prioritized product inputs and partners tightly with Sales to deliver land-and-expand growth ($1.5M+ net new revenue). Background in advertising sales (Yelp, BabyCenter/J&J) with data/analytics and SEO-informed campaign strategy.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX administration (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, RMC) and PowerHA cluster failover experience, plus modern DevOps tooling across CI/CD, Kubernetes/Helm, and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible). Emphasizes controlled change management, drift prevention via Git-as-source-of-truth, and observability practices using Prometheus/Grafana.”

Matthew Cason

Screened

Senior Strategy & Venture Investing Professional specializing in deep tech and energy

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“Operator/Chief-of-Staff-style leader with experience spanning a seed-stage aerospace startup, Capital One, and Oasis Financial. Has led multiple executive-driven cross-functional initiatives, built hiring and data/dashboard systems (Tableau) to increase executive leverage, and managed strategic product transformation work alongside day-to-day operational execution.”

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer with nearly 7 years at ABC Television, owning end-to-end email execution at high volume while also supporting Braze-based multi-channel programs across email, in-app, and push. Brings strong entertainment/streaming domain experience, using behavioral personalization and A/B testing to improve CTR, watch time, and ultimately ad revenue per user.”

“Internship experience at TikTok and nCino, with hands-on work spanning production Python data pipelines, recommendation-system feature workflows, Salesforce Apex automation, and flaky UI automation for a live stock recommendation platform. Stands out for a reliability-focused approach: anticipating failure modes, instrumenting observability, and turning ambiguous business processes into maintainable automated systems.”