Vetted Process Improvement Professionals

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.”

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.”

Jeff Craven

Screened

Director-level delivery executive specializing in enterprise SaaS, telecom, and platform deployments

Gainesville, GA37y exp

“Enterprise SaaS implementation leader with broad cross-functional ownership spanning project management, sales engineering, customer success, and technical account management. Has delivered complex migrations and multi-release portfolios across 40+ enterprise customers, including utilities, telecom, and municipal environments, with strong experience coordinating high-stakes cutovers, integrations, and executive stakeholder communication.”

“Execution-oriented operator with experience spanning Credit Suisse digital assets leadership, Citi Wealth GenAI initiatives, and advisory work for founders and executives. Stands out for bridging strategy, governance, and hands-on execution across highly regulated financial services and emerging-growth environments, especially in blockchain and AI.”

“Operations leader with 8 years of experience spanning healthcare, consumer products, and financial services, now serving as a strategic operational partner to senior leadership at Point72. Stands out for redesigning complex cross-functional processes, including cutting associate integration cycle time by 4 weeks and building governance frameworks that reduced compliance risk across HR, Legal, Recruiting, and Immigration.”

“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.”

“Senior Membership Manager at Chief who operated in a player/coach leadership role across US/UK teams. Partnered with CRO and RevOps to shift the business from a city-by-city model to a national GTM, scaling membership from 3,400 to 20,000+ and lifting conversion 10% through revamped workflows, enablement, and data-driven KPI dashboards.”

“Talent Ops/TA leader who has managed a 15-person combined recruiting + operations team and owned major HR tech initiatives, including end-to-end CRM implementations (Phenom People, GEM) and ATS/HRIS compensation-field integrations (PeopleSoft to Taleo). Known for measurable process improvements—cut time-to-fill from 100 to 65 days, increased offer acceptance by 20%, and boosted referrals by 30%—and for building analytics dashboards to pinpoint funnel bottlenecks and hiring manager responsiveness.”

“Operations and general management leader with experience spanning Citibank (Regional VP), a startup COO/GM role, and industrial operations at Tatco. Has delivered high-impact operational and technology changes including a Paychex payroll migration for 150+ employees and an ERP/subscriber migration of 200,000+ records that improved marketing execution and sales enablement, while also managing executive alignment and sensitive workforce matters.”

Rick Desrosiers

Screened

Executive IT Director and CISO specializing in regulated gaming and enterprise infrastructure

Wilmington, Delaware15y exp

“Early ING Direct (2001) IT leader responsible for network communication architecture in a Cisco-based environment, building secure, always-on infrastructure for one of the early pioneers of online banking. Strong blend of security/compliance depth (EFTA, GLBA, AML) and operational improvement skills (KPIs, process mapping, cross-functional redesign), with an executive-facing communication style geared toward influencing budget and strategy.”

Christi Lind

Screened

Senior HR Business Partner specializing in employee relations and organizational change

New York, NY10y exp

“People/HR partner with experience supporting globally distributed teams at Justworks, Flatiron School, and WeWork (including greenfield operations in APAC). Has partnered closely with engineering/product/design/analytics leaders on job architecture, leveling criteria, and change rollouts, including coaching senior technical leaders on communication and engagement during mergers and restructuring.”

Kevin Scharf

Screened

Senior Project Management & Compliance Professional in Aerospace & Defense

Englewood, CO8y exp

“Internal audit/GRC professional who partners closely with engineering on access controls, change management, and remediation—often translating "technically compliant" states into realistic threat scenarios and business impact. Has driven measurable reductions in privileged-access exposure through least-privilege resets and recurring reviews, and has hands-on experience troubleshooting real-world deployment/integration issues (including in a manufacturing environment) using logs/metrics and strong escalation documentation.”

Naga Manasa Bandaru

Screened

Mid-level Frontend Software Engineer specializing in React, Next.js, and TypeScript

Dallas – Fort Worth, TX4y exp

“Product-focused full-stack engineer with FedEx experience building an internal logistics dashboard for near real-time shipment status and performance metrics using Next.js App Router + TypeScript. Strong in production ownership and performance work—uses React Profiler/Chrome DevTools to eliminate expensive re-renders and applies Postgres indexing/query tuning validated via EXPLAIN ANALYZE to improve dashboard responsiveness.”

Elizabeth Larequi

Screened

Senior Recruiting Operations Product Owner specializing in early careers and recruiting technology

Allen, Texas11y exp

“Recruiting Operations leader in agency owner and licensed sales recruiting who has managed a 9-person sourcing team and driven measurable funnel improvements (35%+ pipeline increase) through workflow redesign. Owns ATS/CRM ecosystems (iCIMS, Yello) and has led major migrations/integrations (SuccessFactors, Oracle) while coordinating across controls, data, engineering, recruiters, vendors, and legal.”

“Executive recruiter with ownership of full-desk VP-level sales searches in healthcare technology/SaaS at IKS Health. Demonstrates a structured, research-driven approach to market mapping, competitor sourcing, candidate slate presentation, and offer negotiation for high-value roles in the $200K base / $400K-$500K OTE range.”