Vetted Project Management Professionals

“Operations/program leader who partnered closely with a COO to drive transformation initiatives (compliance workflow automation and budgeting redesign), implementing governance cadences and executive dashboards to improve alignment and decision speed. Managed a $120MM operating budget and successfully delivered regulator-mandated resolution planning under tight timelines, while maintaining strict discretion during restructuring work involving sensitive HR data.”

“Operations/program support professional with experience at Meta and a ~25-person sports/partnerships agency (Innovative Partnerships Group). Known for quickly diagnosing bottlenecks and implementing lightweight systems (e.g., Airtable recruiting dashboard with 150 applicants; monthly vendor accrual process bridging engineering, vendors, and FP&A) to improve executive visibility and operational throughput.”

Jehanzeb Khan

Screened

Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in large-scale data and compute platforms

Sunnyvale, CA20y exp

“Platform and distributed-systems leader (player-coach) who owned architecture and reliability for an Amazon analytics/data platform serving ~100K internal users at exabyte scale. Built an ML-driven “Lakeflow” optimization layer that cut pipeline completion times ~20–25% and reduced compute waste >15%, and led major incident response/redesign efforts (e.g., deletion storm) with strong rollout/observability/rollback practices.”

Sadie Novello

Screened

Executive Operations & Content Leader (COO/CCO) in Media and Technology

Los Angeles, CA21y exp

“Business builder and operator with 15+ years developing new businesses inside larger companies, including joining GIPHY 5 years post-founding and helping drive value pre-acquisition. As Head of GIPHY Studios, led a major org and business-model transformation—converting a non-revenue content team into a profitable, self-sustaining creative agency embedded within the company.”

“Operations/business leader at Rent the Runway who led a cross-functional, Board-visible redesign and network-wide rollout of the company’s garment bag—a >$5M CapEx/OpEx initiative central to luxury customer experience. Known for aligning executives with conflicting priorities (cost vs CX), driving KPI-based operating rhythms, and delivering vendor/manufacturing wins that improved unit cost while upgrading product quality; previously led legal operations with strong confidentiality/privilege discipline.”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer who has shipped across console/PC/VR and mobile, including Ace Combat 7 (VR) and mobile titles. Built monetization-impacting gameplay systems (power-ups) and a full server-authoritative multiplayer architecture, and uses LLM-driven editor tooling and multi-agent workflows to rapidly prototype features while adding automated testing, benchmarking, dashboards, and CI/CD.”

Kimberly Dickens

Screened

Executive CHRO / Chief People Officer specializing in global manufacturing and governance

33y exp

“HR/operations transformation leader with experience implementing HR shared services and building corporate HR functions from scratch across large industrial organizations (BorgWarner, Federal Signal, Dycom, Univar Solutions). Led HR tech enablement (Ultimate Software/Payroll, SAP), created HR business solutions and analytics teams, and drove major efficiency gains including ~30% reductions in team size and budget through self-service, automation, and structured change management.”