Vetted Strategic Planning Professionals

Michell Graham

Screened

Executive Operations & Commercial Leader in Renewable Energy and Service Delivery

Houston, TX21y exp

“Operations leader with deep experience scaling early-stage energy companies, including helping take Sunnova through an IPO and currently building Radial Power’s project development and accounting frameworks. Known for creating standardized, repeatable workflows (interconnections/community solar) and service operating models (centralized dispatch + local field service) that reduce cost, backlog, and time-to-NTP while enabling rapid growth.”

Bryan West

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack development

Chantilly, VA17y exp

“ML/NLP engineer who built a production system that converts large-scale unstructured text into a connected, searchable knowledge base using spaCy + Sentence Transformers/FAISS and a Neo4j knowledge graph, with BERTopic and XGBoost for organization/labeling. Strong focus on production-grade Python workflows (FastAPI/Celery, Pydantic validation, Docker, AWS ECS/Lambda) and robust entity resolution with measurable precision/recall and human review for low-confidence matches.”

Jeongeun Lee

Screened

Mid-level AI/Robotics Engineer specializing in autonomous systems and perception

San Diego, CA4y exp

“Robotics software engineer in an Autonomous Vehicle Lab building an end-to-end ROS 2 autonomous golf cart stack (sensor integration, SLAM, planning, and camera+LiDAR perception). Demonstrated strong systems-level debugging by fixing a FastLIO2 LiDAR timestamp/IMU-window issue that restored mapping quality, and stabilized real-time GigE camera perception by diagnosing backpressure and tuning ROS 2 QoS plus compressed transport.”

“Sales leader with a strong track record in IT solutions and education-sector selling, combining frontline revenue ownership with sales enablement, training, and process design. Stands out for leading the only quota-attaining team out of 40 across the US and Canada, closing a $17M regulated-sector deal, and repeatedly improving sales performance through customer-centric strategy and operational problem-solving.”

“Healthcare product leader who started as a front-end engineer/unofficial product head and helped transform a custom hospital software business into a SaaS platform that became the company's flagship, generating over 80% of revenue. Later, as VP of Product after acquisition by Press Ganey, they led multi-product consolidation across global teams and launched HIPAA-compliant genAI features that delivered measurable customer efficiency gains.”

“Federal Reserve System leader who drove a multi-year rollout of a new internal mobile service in a highly federated environment, requiring buy-in from all 12 Reserve Bank presidents and ongoing executive briefings. Deep experience in mobile device/security management (including iOS release readiness), rigorous change control, and handling highly restricted information (FOMC/classified data) with Secret-level clearance and audit-backed compliance.”

Waldorff Villacres

Screened

Healthcare technology executive and architect with 20+ years leading enterprise platforms and digital transformation.

Seattle, Washington, USA21y exp

“Healthcare-focused founder in the R&D stage building an EHR and clinical staffing startup centered on value-based care. They have already tested the concept with the market, are engaging Medicaid/Medicare leaders and industry conferences like ViVE and HIMSS, and are focused on early-signal detection to improve patient outcomes while lowering utilization costs.”

“CRM/lifecycle marketing strategist with hands-on ownership of campaign strategy, audience definition, QA oversight, and performance analysis across onboarding, re-engagement, nurture, retargeting, and winback programs. Particularly strong in experimentation design, offer testing, and using behavioral/purchase data to personalize messaging and improve sales outcomes, though not a direct Braze builder.”

“Entrepreneur building an applied-AI tool for geological resource exploration (critical minerals, oil & gas) that overlays proprietary and public data from reports/logs/maps to generate evidence-based greenfield profiling insights. Has spent ~2 years on industry research, built a POC, validated demand with purchasing signals, and developed partnerships/network including USGS, DARPA, and ESRI.”

“Sourcing/procurement professional who owned end-to-end supplier management across concept through launch while running 20 projects concurrently. Known for hands-on supplier recovery (including onsite interventions) and process improvements that delivered measurable results (30% cycle-time reduction) plus strong cost focus via total landed cost analysis and international logistics optimization.”

“Sales leader with deep North American public sector SaaS experience spanning government, municipalities, and adjacent nonprofit segments, including payments/FinTech monetization. Stands out for combining large-scale new ARR ownership ($27M target), measurable retention improvement (cut churn from 13% to 7%), and a track record of building new-market teams from scratch to multi-million-dollar ARR outcomes.”

“Sports marketing professional with 4 years of CRM and multi-channel campaign experience, currently owning marketing strategy and execution for 17 collegiate sports at Pepperdine. They’ve grown from student attendance-focused campaigns into broader donor, alumni, and community engagement work, using segmentation, ticketing data, and cross-functional coordination to drive attendance, renewals, and revenue.”

“Entrepreneurial healthcare executive who led major growth at CAN Community Health (1,800% over 6 years) and launched an in-clinic pharmacy model (partnered with Maxor, expanded to three pharmacies) that ultimately generated about half of CAN’s $435M revenue. Brings hands-on experience raising capital, building detailed budgets/ramp-to-breakeven plans, and executing privacy-focused care delivery for HIV patients.”

“Early-stage operator brought in as hire #1 in a VP/president capacity to build a franchised business from two studios into a scaled support organization (including franchisee onboarding, call center, and a 60-person support staff). Implemented EOS and KPI dashboarding to accelerate speed-to-open and speed-to-profitability, then replicated the playbook as president of an acquired boxing brand while building accounting and ops teams from scratch.”

“Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Operations leader with 10+ years in TA and 6–7 years leading ops teams (up to 5 direct reports). Drove an enterprise-wide, global redesign of EchoStar’s recruiting and selection process, focusing on automation and process streamlining, and has led major HR/TA system implementations (Workday, Dayforce, iCIMS) across ATS/HRIS, onboarding, and payroll.”

“Executive-operations/program leader who supports senior leadership through multiple concurrent, high-visibility initiatives (tech rollout, cost optimization, growth strategy). Known for creating portfolio dashboards, operating cadences, and decision logs that reduce initiative sprawl, accelerate executive decision-making, and keep cross-functional teams aligned while maintaining strict confidentiality during sensitive changes like leadership restructures.”

“Senior enterprise architecture and engineering leader (Sr. Director / Principal Architect) who has owned enterprise IT strategy and governance for a $100M budget and partnered directly with C-suite stakeholders. Led a cruise-industry employee/crew digital transformation, scaling to 10 agile teams (~70 people) using SAFe/TOGAF and making architecture decisions optimized for low-connectivity environments (local database to avoid internet authentication).”

“Operations/HR leader and advisor with hands-on experience scaling an FDA-regulated manufacturing operation after a national retail placement—driving >40% throughput gains, 60% defect reduction, and cutting turnover by more than half through workforce, compensation, and training system redesign. Also led HR process automation (ATS/HRIS integration, employee self-service) and coaches executives on delegation, accountability, and outcomes-based operating rhythms.”

Ann-Marie Waterman

Screened

Executive Higher Education Administrator specializing in operations, finance, and enrollment management

Baltimore, MD29y exp

“Higher-education operations leader (Assistant Dean at Howard University School of Business; inaugural Associate VP of Student Affairs/Enrollment Management at University of the District of Columbia) known for rebuilding and modernizing internal operations under constraint. Delivered measurable results including sustaining fiscal integrity across three budget cycles post-staff reduction and improving admissions throughput (+25% applications, 50% faster decisions) through process re-engineering, automation, and cross-functional governance.”

“Performance marketer focused on full-funnel, cross-platform media systems rather than siloed channel management. They emphasize rigorous testing, holistic profitability analysis, and blending funnel data with direct customer feedback to diagnose issues like churn and restore growth.”

“Sales leader with multi-state revenue ownership in consumer services and partnership-driven growth, including turning HairClub into the top-performing region with 22%+ YoY growth. At Bluegreen Vacations, led complex retail partnership expansion across 40+ locations by building disciplined operating models, cross-functional alignment, and phased scaling strategies.”

“Engineering leader with 8+ years across IoT, emergency messaging, and political campaign data science, including operating a massive IoT microservices platform at several million devices and roughly 200 million requests per minute. Particularly strong in retrofitting legacy systems for modern observability using OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, and Grafana LGTM, while also managing distributed international teams and developing engineers into senior and tech lead roles.”

“Full-stack engineer who built BrewAI, a cloud-native AI resume optimization platform on GCP using React, TypeScript, LangChain, and Gemini, with scalable async job processing and LLM safety guardrails. The product gained real-world traction when an undergraduate college in India asked students to use it for internship resume drafting, and the candidate also has team lead experience shipping an early-stage ERP system.”

“Audio/music editor and producer with recent long-form brand work for Novartis, crafting a playful modern Motown-inspired track tailored to a two-act narrative. Works in Logic Pro and Final Cut with a plugin-heavy mix/master workflow (Soundtoys, Native Instruments, Spectrasonics, Output) and emphasizes automation for dialogue-safe mixes and rapid same-day iteration on notes.”