Vetted Performance Management Professionals

“Full-lifecycle recruiter who recently led the end-to-end search for newly created Internal Executive Guide roles at Pathways (leadership development), partnering closely with an executive team. Strong in executive alignment and process design—interviewed leaders individually to unify the role vision, coached interview frameworks, managed offers/references, and onboarded the final hire.”

Danny Beck

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology Leader (CTO/Head of Engineering) specializing in platform rebuilds, AI, and Web3

California, USA11y exp

“Startup leader with 15+ years of experience, including lead engineer and founding CTO roles across 5 companies from pre-seed to Series A. Actively develops personal venture ideas by creating product specs/SLAs/business plans and engaging in investor pitch sessions and incubators, with a strong focus on early product-market fit via validated learning and data-driven pivots.”

“Fractional ops/HR leader with 15 years of experience supporting ~40 startups, building internal operations and people infrastructure from scratch (HRIS, recruiting funnels, career pathing, benefits). Recently helped a Series A company ($11M raise) implement headcount budgeting and runway modeling to align young founders on sustainable hiring plans, and uses survey/exit-interview feedback loops to fix leadership communication and retention issues.”

“DevSecOps/AWS infrastructure engineer at Madison Logic who owns a 15-account AWS footprint and treats nearly all AWS resources as code (Terraform/CloudFormation). Led a CI/CD platform migration (Bitbucket → GitLab + GitHub Actions) supporting WordPress and containerized microservices, improving release frequency to weekly/daily, and has hands-on production incident response experience on ECS Fargate using Datadog with fast rollback via immutable ECR tags and task definition revisions.”

“HR Business Partner with experience supporting and scaling product, design, analytics, and technical orgs, including global stakeholder management across the US, Australia, and the UK. Known for bringing consistency to performance/ER/leave practices across regions by partnering with Legal/Payroll/People Ops, and for stabilizing teams during major org changes through role/reporting alignment and manager toolkits.”

Jasmeet Kaur

Screened

Senior HR & People Operations Leader specializing in organizational design and workforce planning

8y exp

“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.”

Edmarie Bonilla

Screened

Director-level Operations & HR Talent Strategy leader specializing in performance metrics and L&D

Remote, US22y exp

“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).”

Elizabeth Abend

Screened

Director-level HR leader specializing in people operations, compliance, and HR systems

New York, NY16y exp

“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 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.”

Michelle Jimenez

Screened

HR Director specializing in HR strategy, benefits/payroll, and industrial security programs

New York, NY21y exp

“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.”

Yarisbeth Sagardia

Screened

HR Director specializing in HR operations, talent management, and organizational development

Brooklyn, NY13y exp

“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.”

“Recruiter with strong full-desk search ownership, including a recent enterprise-level Senior Director of Warehouse, Inventory and Logistics search for Vibrant Ingredients completed in 6-8 weeks. Demonstrates particular strength in passive talent mapping within food and beverage manufacturing, hiring-manager calibration, and using market data, scorecards, and process discipline to unblock stalled searches and close candidates in competitive situations.”

“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.”

“Growth leader with a strong track record in ambiguous, emerging areas—most notably building an agency AEO division from scratch at Roswell and turning AI search visibility into a productized, revenue-linked offering. Also brings deep attribution and analytics rigor from Doctronic, where they unified fragmented paid media measurement, partnered with BI on internal MTA/MMM, and uncovered critical tracking issues affecting funnel performance.”

“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.”

Sean Maguire

Screened

Senior HR & Benefits Professional specializing in payroll, HRIS, and retirement plan administration

New York, NY17y exp

“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.”