Vetted Quality Assurance Professionals

“Game designer focused on mobile/PC action gameplay who owned end-to-end mode design and tuning on "Thrud: Broken Heaven" (3rd-person aerial shooter). Notable for telemetry-driven iteration across CBT1-3, rapid UE5 Blueprint prototyping, and building a reusable in-battle tutorial framework that improved onboarding clarity and reduced frustration while preserving challenge.”

Janine Casale

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Director-level operations leader specializing in franchise and enterprise transformation

Parsippany, NJ29y exp

“Operations and business transformation leader with experience spanning franchise advisory and large-scale enterprise execution, most recently as Senior Director of Operations Solutions & Engagement at Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. Stands out for building structure in ambiguous environments, leading cross-functional initiatives across operations, legal, technology, sourcing, and brand teams, and using analytics tools like Power BI and Salesforce to turn fragmented processes into scalable, insight-driven systems.”

“Paid media specialist with hands-on ownership of high-spend digital audio, including a $75K/month Progressive campaign run in Spotify (trafficked via Megaphone and Google Ad Manager). Demonstrates a structured full-funnel approach across Meta/TikTok/Google and a rigorous testing and incrementality mindset (marginal CPA/ROAS, saturation signals, new-user contribution, branded search lift) to guide optimization and scaling.”

“Game QA professional who shipped AAA (Overwatch 2) as quality feature owner for Campaign missions, owning high-risk areas like mission progression stability and preventing soft-lock/state desync issues. Also shipped Stormgate and caught a critical Steam achievement integration failure near RC by recreating the issue in an anti-cheat, live-mirroring environment and driving it through fix + regression verification.”

“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.”

Seyi R. Afolayan

Screened

Mid-level Robotics & Controls Engineer specializing in safe autonomy and perception-aware motion planning

Itasca, IL4y exp

“Robotics software engineer who built an open-source, real-time Cartesian controller for Universal Robots UR5/UR5e, targeting sub-mm accuracy at 500 Hz within ROS2/ros2_control. Demonstrates strong real-time debugging skills (timing profiling, singularity handling with Tikhonov regularization) and sim-to-real iteration using Gazebo/Isaac Sim plus physical hardware tuning; also has ROS1 experience building URDF/xacro and EKF configs for an underwater vehicle and has developed drone/robot packages.”

John Ward

Screened

Executive Applications Development & Analytics Leader specializing in enterprise transformation

Chicago, IL30y exp

“Candidate has prior startup experience building systems and has firsthand experience with a venture that lost angel funding. They show thoughtful reflection on why the startup failed—emphasizing unclear success criteria, weak funding planning, and lack of team consensus—and would seek experienced advisors earlier in future ventures.”

“Candidate is not currently pursuing a startup and has no familiarity with the VC/accelerator ecosystem, but shows a thoughtful founder mindset centered on building from scratch, evaluating user impact and implementation feasibility, and avoiding financially reckless entrepreneurship.”

“30-year Silicon Valley startup veteran who built Pratexo, an intelligent edge analytics company focused on the energy transition, raised $15M in seed funding, and landed a major partnership with ABB. He has spent the last decade continuously advising startups and brings deep familiarity with VC and accelerator ecosystems including YC and ABB's SynerLeap.”

“Product leader with experience at Catbird and Ipsy, especially strong in e-commerce, personalization, and operational AI. Stands out for combining direct customer immersion with rigorous scoping and stakeholder alignment—launching a new personalization experience in 10 weeks with 100% ROI in 4 weeks, and later driving AI automation that cut merchandising workload by 30%.”

“Product and engineering leader with experience driving large-scale transformation in regulated and enterprise environments, including security modernization at LPL Financial and developer platform standardization at General Motors. He combines hands-on technical judgment, UX modernization, and people leadership, and also brings a former teacher’s perspective to human-centered AI in education.”

“Product leader with experience building a patented demand chain management application inspired by 7-Eleven Japan’s inventory practices and piloting it with strong results: lower inventory, fewer out-of-stocks and waste, and higher sales. Has also shipped early AI features in edtech, including student chat moderation, and brings a notably human-centered perspective on AI’s role alongside tutors rather than as a full replacement.”

“Operator-founder currently building two apps to MVP, handling everything from market research and test-user feedback to hands-on product changes in FlutterFlow and Visily. In a prior large-scale portfolio environment, they brought order to a highly disorganized 100+ person, 26-value-stream delivery organization by standardizing Jira workflows, creating stakeholder cadences, and lifting predictability from 30% to 86%.”