Vetted Process Improvement Professionals

“Analytics candidate with hands-on experience turning messy pricing and competitor data into reporting-ready SQL tables, plus building Python automation workflows that replaced manual processing across 40,000 images at roughly 89% accuracy. They also led a price elasticity analysis that informed differentiated pricing strategies and supported reporting through Power BI dashboards.”

“Talent Acquisition Operations leader who has managed teams up to 10 and owns end-to-end TA ops areas (strategy, selection, employer branding, and process/tech optimization). Recently standardized fragmented hiring by moving to a one-funnel approach with competency weighting and recruiter triage, already improving time-to-fill. Led Gem implementation/integration and uses ATS analytics (SmartRecruiters) plus post-hire performance data to validate sourcing and selection quality.”

“COO experience at an early-stage technology company (CyberAlliance) focused on building scalable operating systems: SMART goal-setting by function, KPI-based performance management, monthly business reviews, and a structured stage-gate product introduction process. Also has hands-on experience rapidly adapting support operations to meet new customer 24x7 monitoring requirements while planning for scale.”

“Early-stage investor sourcing/outbound professional who started at Brie ~2 weeks ago and is already driving high-volume outreach via LinkedIn Sales Navigator and cold email (100–200 emails/week), resulting in ~10 investor meetings and additional warm responses. Tracks pipeline in Google Sheets and provides daily activity/response/follow-up updates to the CEO; plans to expand sourcing via Angel Partner.”

Shery Saeed

Screened

Executive Strategic Advisor & Executive Coach specializing in transformation and growth

New York, NY26y exp

“Transformation/PMO leader who launched the Bear Stearns program management office for a firm-wide business transformation, building governance (steering/ops committees), communications, and an issue-resolution system to align five parallel teams. Known as a highly discreet trusted advisor who improves executive effectiveness through delegation systems, and who can influence senior leaders via storytelling and ROI framing—while also advocating strongly for teams on deadlines and workload.”

Zach Pavlosky

Screened

Director-level M&A and Capital Markets advisor specializing in debt placement and middle-market deals

Washington, DC11y exp

“Corporate development / corporate strategy M&A professional from a small boutique consulting firm (Aleris Acquisitions) who also owned internal ops improvements. Led the shift from manual spreadsheet-based tracking to HubSpot with pipeline scoring/prioritization, created enablement materials to drive adoption, and regularly supported founders in tech/tool decision-making through structured presentations and demos.”

Alex Yum

Screened

Senior Supply Chain & Warehouse Operations Leader specializing in logistics optimization

Leonia, NJ20y exp

“Operations leader at AWI who ran multiple high-impact initiatives in parallel, including a WMS implementation, fulfillment workflow redesign, and a company-wide cost optimization effort. Known for building KPI dashboards and exception-based reporting that improved data trust and saved executives ~4–6 hours per week, while standardizing warehouse processes and coaching supervisors to reduce escalations and stabilize day-to-day ops.”

Joseph Dowden

Screened

Director-level HR Business Partner specializing in org transformation and talent strategy

Basking Ridge, NJ14y exp

“HR/People operations leader with global scale experience supporting a 600+ person customer success org across US/EMEA/APAC, including 500+ compensation reviews and employee relations/investigations. Led a major transformation moving 75 employees into sales-compensated roles to improve retention and customer outcomes, and partnered with senior leaders on pay equity/eligibility work resulting in $34K in retro bilingual premium payments plus leader training for consistent application.”

Thomas To

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI/ML data platforms for biotech and FinTech

Emeryville, CA6y exp

“AI/ML full-stack practitioner in a small-scale manufacturing/lab operations environment who deployed a production ML system to improve blood cell order fulfillment by predicting yield/success from donor characteristics. Experienced building custom multi-agent orchestration (Python, LangChain/LangGraph, MCP) and balancing reliability, data quality constraints, and token/ROI economics while communicating tradeoffs to VP-level business stakeholders.”

Laura Florin

Screened

Executive People & HR Leader specializing in high-growth startups and global compliance

New York, NY18y exp

“Operations leader/advisor with experience helping an early-stage tech company scale from ~100 to ~250 employees by redesigning operating processes, implementing RACI-based accountability, and introducing automation and real-time dashboards. Notably improved the sales-to-onboarding handoff to create a more consistent client experience and accelerate onboarding, supporting referral-driven growth while coaching founders/executives to embrace simplicity as a speed lever.”

Kelsey Means

Screened

Mid-level Marketing Manager specializing in marketing operations, paid media, and full-funnel growth

West Palm Beach, FL5y exp

“Paid media performance marketer with hands-on ownership of $100K+/month Meta Ads spend for a luxury jewelry brand, using creative-first testing and funnel-building tactics (e.g., giveaways) to expand retargeting pools and drive attributed sales. Also experienced structuring full-funnel systems across Meta/TikTok/Google and diagnosing Performance Max declines by refining audience signals and bidding to improve lead quality and CPL.”

Dylan Grassl

Screened

Senior Client Success & Events Leader specializing in media and live entertainment partnerships

Chicago, IL15y exp

“Sales development and event-sales professional currently at Yondr, blending inbound lead management with outbound prospecting to drive 8–10 meetings/week and ~50% inbound conversion. Helped lift department revenue 35% and built new sponsorship guidelines that secured strategic partnerships and referral-driven growth. Has experience supporting higher-value healthcare-sector deals ($125K–$750K) and managing longer sales cycles end-to-end.”

“Programmatic media specialist who owned a $50K+/month Trade Desk DSP account for Disney movie/TV launches, leveraging PMPs and rigorous testing across audiences, deals, and creative formats. Drove 5–10% week-over-week gains in video completion rate while maintaining strict brand-safety standards, and has experience leading a team of traders and translating complex performance tradeoffs into client-ready action plans.”

“HR leader who joined Polished as Head of HR days before the entire C-suite resigned, then partnered with new executives to restructure a $500M e-commerce organization using rapid internal promotions and manager development. More recently at Coforge, supported a North America population and used exit-interview and compensation data to address call-center turnover in Charleston, WV, alongside deep experience running sensitive ER investigations.”

“Sourcing/procurement professional with hands-on CAPEX equipment sourcing experience, building RFI/RFP packages, qualifying new vendors, and negotiating using market and internal spend data. Demonstrated process-improvement impact by redesigning proposal evaluations into a parallel workflow, cutting sourcing cycle time by ~20% while maintaining evaluation rigor.”

“Partnerships leader (Director of Partnerships at Frontify; previously supported Founder/CEO/President at Modicum) known for driving cross-functional alignment and executive productivity. Built U.S. market presence and expanded agency partnerships while implementing practical operating rhythms (trackers, leadership syncs, streamlined reporting) to keep senior teams aligned and moving quickly.”

“Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Operations leader with 10+ years driving large-scale K-12 district hiring, including staffing across 200 schools and managing thousands of candidates annually. Known for redesigning fragmented recruiting workflows and implementing ATS solutions (Lever, AppliTrack, Taleo, Oracle HCM) to deliver measurable gains: 15% vacancy reduction, 20% faster time-to-hire, 30% fewer compliance errors, and 25% faster onboarding.”

“QA/automation engineer with experience at Riot Games’ player platform, owning E2E automation for mission-critical authentication/account flows using Playwright/JavaScript plus API automation. Built CI merge gates and nightly verification with Slack reporting, and repeatedly caught backend-driven session/authorization regressions before production. Known for stabilizing flaky UI tests via selector strategy and network intercepts, and for influencing design early with testability hooks and telemetry.”

Angelo Bianchi

Screened

Senior HR Business Partner specializing in organizational design, labor relations, and people analytics

New York, NY16y exp

“HR/people analytics and transformation leader with experience at Royal Caribbean and Baptist Hospital, combining a graduate degree in business analytics with hands-on org design and change execution. Built HR analytics capabilities (predictive/causal approaches, data quality, storytelling) and partnered directly with a CFO to run a 2+ year finance reorg across a 26,000-employee, 14-hospital system, including writing 124 job descriptions and implementing a CoE/business partnering model.”

Ezekiel Homer-Williams

Screened

Senior QA/Test Engineer specializing in game quality assurance

Bellevue, WA9y exp

“Game QA professional with ~10 years in the SDLC and deep live-service experience, including owning QA for Destiny 2's Guardian Ranks progression system across multiple seasonal iterations. Experienced coordinating outsourced QA, building risk-based test coverage plans, and driving bug triage/verification loops end-to-end to protect player experience and sentiment.”

Kristan Mallett

Screened

Director-level HR leader specializing in DEI, HR transformation, and HR technology

Chicago, IL9y exp

“HR leader with cross-border (U.S. & Canada) experience who has supported technical and data orgs (engineering, product, analytics/BI) as an HRBP/HR Director. Partnered directly with C-suite leaders to refresh mission/vision/values using a data-backed proposal and led the rollout across processes, policies, and employee resources, alongside driving succession planning, talent reviews, and compliant reorganizations.”

Mitchell Samora

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in game development and cross-platform apps

Duvall, WA19y exp

“Client Platform engineer with strong Unity/C# background who built a spec-driven code generation system bridging Unity C# to Kotlin and a React/JavaScript UI layer, reducing feature implementation overhead by hours. Has shipped/implemented networking layers for multiple games (including a mobile MOBA) spanning deterministic action-logging approaches and physics/state sync with latency compensation, and built desync detection to debug divergence. Also prototyped a shared VR/mobile app architecture at Meta (Supernatural) demonstrating a single codebase running on both.”

“HR leader experienced in partnering with senior leaders through restructuring and process standardization, supporting multi-location organizations with diverse teams. Strong in org design/workforce planning, manager coaching, and change communications (talking points/FAQs), with a focus on minimizing disruption while monitoring engagement and attrition trends.”

“Recruiting Operations/Talent Ops leader who owns end-to-end TA process, tech stack, and vendors, with experience managing both small direct teams and 20+ person matrix groups. Led complex compliance-focused workflow redesigns (including consent and candidate-to-req linking with 97% completion in 24 hours) and served as TA project manager for a PeopleSoft-to-Workday HCM transition while keeping the ATS running, aligning US/Canada process differences through security and routing.”