Vetted Team Leadership Professionals

Joseph Orisino

Screened

Senior Longform Video Editor specializing in YouTube-style storytelling and post-production leadership

New York, NY18y exp

“Senior editor/post-production supervisor with extensive Premiere + After Effects experience across major media brands (Yahoo Finance, Thrillist, Yahoo News/Katie Couric) and current work producing a video suite for SkinCeuticals (L'Oréal). Known for building scalable editorial workflows (style guides, review processes) and delivering retention-focused longform YouTube edits with strong cross-functional coordination through color, audio, graphics, and social versioning.”

Elbot Carman

Screened

Senior Creative & Brand Designer specializing in brand systems, digital marketing, and UI/UX

Atlanta, GA13y exp

“Brand/marketing designer with experience modernizing a SaaS company’s identity (Hudson MX) and improving external perception through cohesive brand systems and asset libraries. Also supported American Express by building a scalable Figma component library to rapidly recreate UI screenshots with high fidelity using in-product access and Chrome DevTools for exact specs, and produced stakeholder interview videos for LinkedIn/Vimeo in Adobe Premiere.”

Nishantkumar Asodariya

Screened

Mid-level Supply Chain Analyst specializing in global logistics automation and forecasting

USA4y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered recruiting workflow that ranks resumes against job descriptions, generates evidence-based justifications, and finds "hidden fit" candidates using embeddings + RAG. Demonstrates strong production engineering around hallucination control, latency, and predictable LLM cost management (budget checks, top-K pruning, tenant caps), plus orchestration experience with Airflow/Prefect/Kubernetes and a structured evaluation/monitoring methodology for AI agents.”

Fitz Harris

Screened

Senior Sound Designer/Audio Editor specializing in podcast and film post-production

Los Angeles, CA8y exp

“Audio editor/mixer and music editor working on the Something Scary podcast’s weekly ~30-minute suspense/true-crime horror video component, where they shape tension and narrative beats through precise music editing, dialogue pacing, and strategic use of silence. Pro Tools–centric, template-driven workflow with automation, subtractive EQ, bussing, and loudness targeting to deliver consistent mixes at high volume and iterate quickly based on producer notes and audience retention.”

Venkata Phaneendra

Screened

Mid-Level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices

United States6y exp

“Full-stack engineer with production ownership across React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres, including zero-downtime releases and rollbackable migrations. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (20% response-time reduction) through DB query profiling and batching, plus hands-on AWS operations (ECS/Lambda/CloudWatch) and reliability patterns for ETL (retries, DLQs, idempotency). Experience shipping microservices quickly in ambiguous, fast-paced environments (Deloitte).”

Jhansi Bendi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and event-driven systems

Antioch, CA18y exp

“Senior engineer/tech lead with 18+ years building large-scale distributed applications, specializing in performance and reliability improvements. Recently owned multiple apps on an email personalization team, shipping major optimizations (including a push-update feature and audience-count architecture redesign) that reportedly lifted system performance from ~50% to ~99% while also leading code standards, reviews, and mentoring.”

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.”

“Senior building products leader with broad regional ownership across sales, operations, and distribution in the Northeast and South Central U.S. Stands out for combining commercial growth with operational rigor—driving $10M+ commodity growth, adding new distribution centers, improving SG&A and inventory performance, and navigating complex dealer/builder channel negotiations to win market share.”

“Consumer brand operator and turnaround leader who has repeatedly joined businesses at inflection points and driven rapid, measurable growth. Built BULLDOG Gin from an early-stage startup into a brand acquired by CAMPARI, then led global brand and innovation work inside a major multinational, and later reversed steep decline at BridgePort Brewing through strategy, renovation, innovation, and PR.”

“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.”

“Recruiting leader who builds structured, competency-based hiring systems and can also personally run Senior Director-to-C-Suite searches. Notable for scaling a full hiring season to 175+ teacher hires and for leading a high-stakes CEO succession search, advising a board to define a new leadership vision and landing a CEO who remains successful four years later.”

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader who has managed a 7-person team and owned end-to-end talent planning, succession planning, performance management, and broader HR operations. Known for redesigning intern recruiting/onboarding by partnering deeply with business units, resulting in stronger intern cohorts and higher engagement scores, and for leading ATS changes as the project manager while building Workday recruiting analytics dashboards with HRIS.”

“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.”

“Engineering leader/player-coach who helped ship a web-based ERP SaaS release (Nov 2025) as part of a long-term migration from a legacy desktop ERP, designing a multi-API architecture (Oracle + EF Core, caching, integrations) and enforcing rigorous code review quality gates. Previously led development of a low-latency, multi-service high-frequency trading platform at a startup hedge fund (Capitalogix Trading), leveraging async/multithreading, event-driven messaging, NoSQL, and WebSockets.”

“Chief of Staff and head of a Global Central PMO who has led high-stakes, cross-functional initiatives spanning budgeting transformation, federal consent order deliverables, and audit process implementation. Drove a major operational automation effort—digitizing headcount tracking and requisition approvals for 10,000+ employees—delivering a reported 65% efficiency gain while maintaining strong executive alignment through concise dashboards and regular checkpoints.”

“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.”

Joseph Herbst

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in IoT, PoE building automation, and semiconductors

Portland, OR35y exp

“Engineering/exec leader (CEO experience) who built a lighting controls and building automation platform from scratch, choosing an Ethernet/PoE and Node.js web-centric architecture that anticipated market shifts and later became an industry pattern. Known for rigorous vendor QA (test-to-failure) and for delivering high-profile deployments (e.g., Black Desert Resort, Resorts World Villa 66) while leading globally distributed engineering teams.”

Sonia Jairath

Screened

Executive Talent Acquisition leader specializing in high-volume and executive hiring across media and tech

Los Angeles, CA20y exp

“Talent Acquisition leader (former Director of Talent Acquisition at Paramount Global) who has managed recruiter teams (1–7 direct reports) and can jump into high-impact executive searches. Experienced partnering with C-suite/EVP stakeholders and HRBPs on offer approvals and leveling/comp adjustments, and has implemented recruiting process/ATS workflows and team training programs across both startups and large enterprises.”

Frank Meadows

Screened

Senior QA Analyst specializing in streaming video, Connected TV, and data annotation

Remote10y exp

“QA professional with experience across e-commerce and video streaming/gaming-style applications, including migrating/duplicating features with feature flags and managing regression across builds. Emphasizes device/hardware constraints, strong defect evidence collection (ADB/logs/video), and proactive test-data governance to avoid real-world vendor/production impact while coordinating with offshore/onshore teams.”

“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.”

Raymon Bledsoe

Screened

Executive sales leader specializing in EdTech, SaaS, and real estate solutions

Dallas, TX10y exp

“Public-sector sales leader in K-12 education currently leading an inside sales team at Edmentum across a large Midwest territory. Brings a disciplined, metrics-driven approach to district acquisition, expansion, forecasting, and manager coaching, with early-year performance at 110% of Q1 goal and clear experience navigating complex multi-stakeholder school district deals.”

“Sales executive and former President/COO who spent eight years transforming a privately held company to make it sale-ready, ultimately delivering 50% revenue growth and a successful exit. Brings hands-on experience building sales structure from the ground up, leading an 8-rep team, expanding into healthcare and Fortune 500 accounts, and aligning revenue growth with bottom-line improvement.”

Christian Mercer

Screened

Senior Ad Operations leader specializing in CTV and programmatic advertising

Lone Tree, CO8y exp

“Paid media and ad operations specialist with deep CTV/OTT experience at FuboTV, where they owned strategy-to-execution workflows across direct and programmatic business and helped scale revenue from $5.3M to $19.5M while maintaining strong retention and low error rates. Stands out for building custom dashboards, pacing tools, and inventory/pricing models that informed C-suite decisions and helped grow major advertiser relationships like Procter & Gamble from $600K to $5M.”