Vetted Performance Management Professionals

“Operations Manager leading a 10-person BA team and owning operations execution across three lines of business, with additional ownership of OKRs tied to talent development (IDPs), value metrics, and recognition programs. Designed an onboarding framework aligned to company strategy and OKRs that improved retention, ramp-up, and engagement, and built healthcare college partnerships to strengthen hiring and internship pipelines while supporting cross-functional enterprise system implementations (policy admin, finance/HR, billing, call centers).”

“HR/People leader with multi-industry experience (boutique fitness, retail multi-location, bakery/manufacturing) who partners closely with senior leadership on major change. Has led acquisition integration of people systems, executed org redesign without layoffs, uses people analytics to drive leadership decisions, and manages sensitive ER investigations with a transparency-first approach.”

“Operations-focused startup advisor/consultant who builds lightweight, scalable internal systems (ownership mapping, cadences, Notion, OKRs) for early-stage teams. Drove measurable ops impact including a 35% reduction in onboarding time at Securiguard by implementing an automated onboarding platform integrated with HRIS, and is experienced coaching founders through change resistance while maintaining speed.”

“People/operations leader with experience managing multi-site teams and supporting international offices (Germany and London), known for building connection and culture in distributed environments using structured comms and engagement programs. Partnered with senior leadership through two executive transitions (succession planning, town halls, retreats) and worked closely with finance on restructuring decisions including 2020 layoffs handled with a human-centered approach.”

“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.”

“Operations leader at Bathworks of Michigan who scaled call-center and sales scheduling by commissioning a custom-built tool (drive-time + rep performance routing) as the org grew from ~10 to 30 sales reps, cutting appointment assignment to under 10 seconds. Uses a mix of frontline feedback frameworks and KPI analysis to drive efficiency (e.g., after-hours AI texting + shift changes) and has advised the founder on territory expansion, adding warehouses and leadership layers.”

“Built a production LLM/RAG document extraction and game/quiz content workflow using LLaMA 2, LangChain/LangGraph, and FAISS, achieving ~94% accuracy and reducing turnaround from hours to minutes. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps/orchestration (CI/CD, MLflow, Databricks/PySpark), robust handling of noisy/variable document layouts (layout chunking + OCR fallbacks), and practical reliability practices (human-in-the-loop routing, drift monitoring, A/B testing).”

“Founding People leader at two companies with hands-on experience building talent pipelines and scaling org practices. Led global people & culture across the US, India, and Canada, including creating flexible holiday policies and virtual community-building programs. Partnered with CEO/C-suite to diagnose leadership gaps via listening tours and engagement data, then built manager training programs with 100% completion and reported improvements in clarity and feedback.”

“Talent/recruiting operations leader with 3 years of experience managing 5–6 recruiters and owning client/vendor relationships, KPIs, and process improvement. Notably cut time-to-fill by redesigning interview workflows and solved a hard-to-fill rural cryogenic technician search by shifting requirements to HVAC talent and building a train-up pipeline—an approach still used today.”

“Operations-focused leader/advisor who repeatedly helps growing organizations design and implement scalable internal structures using a People-Process-Technology framework, process mapping, and KPI-driven management. Notable wins include building a delivery operations function after a multi-million-dollar bespoke sale and cutting customer service effort by 30% in a month by shifting from email to structured intake and measurement. Also coaches executives (including remote-management capability) and runs quarterly continuous-improvement cycles to keep ops aligned as companies evolve.”

“AIX/IBM Power Systems engineer with hands-on production performance troubleshooting (NMON) and operational administration across VIOS/HMC/LPAR/DLPAR. Has implemented enterprise patching and security remediation using NIM (e.g., OpenSSH vulnerability) and built automation to generate and curate weekly AIX images for the NIM environment.”

“Entrepreneur and turnaround operator who recently sold a patented mobile + connected TV (CTV) technology startup. Took the product from concept and use-case definition through market testing, product planning, and GTM traction, ultimately converting a prospective client presentation to a European regional digital media company into an acquisition; also advises on turnarounds including stalled VC investments.”

“Operations and people leader with experience managing a 300-person cross-border workforce using HRIS/PEO infrastructure, including hands-on reconfiguration of payroll setups. Also led interior design teams serving high-net-worth clients and delivered measurable business impact through operational streamlining ($500K payroll savings) and restructuring that improved margins while reducing customer churn.”

“India-based engineering leader/player-coach managing ~20 people and three products, while still shipping hands-on in Python/Golang across 8–10 microservices deployed on GCP (Kubernetes) and AWS (ECS). Has led end-to-end delivery (design through QA) and owned production reliability improvements (including building a Slack alerting bot). Strong domain exposure in utilities (MDM/meter readings, billing/rate calculations) and financial integrations (GL code tagging), plus side projects in Golang around LLM API cost-optimization.”