Vetted Program Management Professionals

“Program/operations leader with Booz Allen Hamilton experience turning around a near-canceled Millennium Challenge Account Indonesia procurement-training contract by implementing train-the-trainer, mentorship, and KPI/dashboard-driven execution. Currently supports the CFO organization at Berkeley Lab, translating high-level strategy into people/process/technology/governance plans with an executive operating cadence.”

“HR Business Partner with experience supporting technology/product/design and R&D organizations at Samsung, including global team leadership and large-scale org redesign. Drove >50% org growth in 2 years while enabling Samsung Semiconductor’s first full-chip launch outside Korea (delivered ahead of deadline). Built agile-inspired HR programs like the 'Speak Easy' leadership integration initiative (Johari Window), earning 8.3/10 feedback from 150 leaders and contributing to a 5-point attrition reduction.”

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader with deep HR tech governance and process architecture experience, including architecting a Workday Talent Review deployment and building standardized succession/bench-strength data models. Known for driving measurable adoption (Quarterly Conversations from 16% to 85%) and creating legally defensible, high-volume selection workflows through validated assessments (American Airlines), while leading teams across US and Mexico.”

“Operations/process leader with experience in SaaS and RPO environments, known for turning tribal knowledge into scalable, measurable systems. Has built documentation and knowledge-management standards for 90+ person teams, used data and change agents to drive adoption, and delivered major productivity gains (~300%) through training and automated reporting. Also led cross-functional process mapping and implemented partner onboarding workflows directly in Salesforce to improve SI partner enablement.”

“Strategy consulting and business operations professional with climate-tech and climate VC experience (Avnos, Earth Foundry, Strategy&). Led cross-functional work to update a techno-economic analysis and produce a pilot proposal for direct air capture, contributing to a won engagement; also served as Chief of Staff to GPs, streamlining diligence, dealflow, CRM, and LP reporting to boost executive productivity.”

“Automotive embedded product leader (player-coach/product-functional engineering) who helped ship a cybersecurity gateway ECU into production, owning architecture decisions, critical module reviews, and delivery. Demonstrated hands-on security/diagnostics expertise (ADA, RSA) and production defect ownership, plus experience tailoring quality-gate processes to speed variant delivery without sacrificing quality.”

“Seasoned IT professional services and business transformation executive (currently global Head of Business Transformation Management at Fujitsu) who has built scalable sales-to-delivery operating models for growing boutique firms. Uses data-driven process/task mining plus stakeholder-led prioritization to deliver measurable outcomes, including a 30% manufacturing cycle-time improvement and 80+ SAP S/4HANA improvement recommendations implemented via a phased roadmap.”

“Former PwC Director with hands-on early-stage venture experience (e.g., BridgeLights, a big-data analytics concept for early fintech) spanning concept creation, platform architecture, and go-to-market experimentation. Strong focus on building scalable, modular data platforms with rigorous governance/compliance (data lineage, quality controls) and supporting technical diligence in investor-aligned environments.”

“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.”

“CTO/enterprise architect who stays hands-on in code while leading strategy, stakeholder alignment, and team scaling. At Eastridge, established product and technology vision/roadmap, built product engineering/strategy functions, and helped launch products into global markets; most recently led GenAI product design including tech selection, infrastructure, scalability, and observability.”

“Recruiting Operations leader with experience scaling talent functions at Scout Motors, Caribou, Peloton, and Willis Towers Watson—owning dashboards, headcount/forecasting, ATS optimization, and event-based hiring workflows. Implemented Lightcast and SeekOut to uncover niche automotive technical talent beyond LinkedIn, and redesigned onsite hiring event interview processes by department, driving strong candidate feedback (4.7/5).”

“Engineering leader (Credit Karma/fintech) who built internal developer-platform frameworks at near open-source scale, including a unified key management system migrating ~450 services from on-prem HSM to a centralized KMS. Known for driving large cross-team migrations with strong safety mechanisms (canaries, shadow reads, rollback toggles) and measurable DX/ops improvements (60% fewer provisioning requests; 40% faster time-to-first-secret).”

“Cross-functional corporate operations/real estate leader with experience delivering office consolidation, finance centralization, and facilities management transformation programs. Implemented a digital budgeting/forecasting tool covering ~$700MM in costs and automated reporting into OneStream to improve executive visibility and reduce errors. Experienced in portfolio optimization and executive steering committee governance to maintain alignment across Real Estate, IT, and FM stakeholders.”

“Operations leader with repeated experience integrating acquired firms into a larger platform, running top-to-bottom operational reviews and driving transitions to new policies, procedures, and systems using structured project management (ClickUp/monday.com). Known for building accountability cadences and coaching leaders—often shifting KPI visibility and leadership approach to improve consistency across revenue, billability, A/R, and other core metrics.”

“Fractional CFO/operations advisor specializing in early-stage and scaling service businesses, combining Profit First-informed cash management with lean operating systems. Known for 360-degree operational audits and translating complex finance/ops into simple dashboards, scorecards, and process maps; delivered predictable cash flow and scalable structure within ~90 days for a fast-growing startup.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Operations leader/advisor with experience joining a Cedar Sinai Accelerator spinout (RAIOS) at an inflection point and rebuilding the company’s internal ops “connective tissue” across HR, finance, IT, product, and sales. Uses structured frameworks (RACI, OKRs/KPIs), rapid diagnostics, and tool centralization (Gusto, BILL, Brex) to create scalable, founder-friendly operating systems.”

“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.”

“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.”

“People/HR-focused change leader with experience driving a company-wide payroll/PEO provider transition through executive alignment, cross-functional facilitation, vendor coordination, and employee-focused communication/training. Uses systems thinking to diagnose drivers of turnover (e.g., gaps in post-onboarding training) and coaches leaders via 360-style feedback, real-time coaching, and structured behavior experiments to improve delegation and team effectiveness.”

“UE5 UI engineer who built a production-ready, modular training/procedure framework with editor tooling so curriculum designers and technical trainers could author content without Unreal expertise. Deep hands-on ownership across C++/Slate/UMG/CommonUI, including MVVM architecture, cross-platform input/navigation, and rigorous UI profiling/debug tooling that can be stripped from shipping builds.”

“UX/product designer in a medical laboratory B2B portal context who prototypes beyond Figma—built a GPT-based settings chatbot to address findability and low settings adoption, iterating through 11 tested versions with regression safeguards and structured prompts to mitigate instruction truncation/hallucinations. Also redesigned clinic order management by separating doctor vs assistant experiences and introducing step-based status views for a long, multi-stage lab order lifecycle; former full-stack engineer who improves design-to-dev handoffs via templates and readiness rituals.”

“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.”