Vetted Team Management Professionals

Karel Chabera

Screened

Senior Technical Game Designer specializing in gameplay systems and pipelines

Orlando, FL9y exp

“Modes/progression designer on EA College Football (Dynasty and Road to Glory) who has owned multiple shipped progression systems, including recruiting and Road to Glory progression (meters, in-game reward triggers, and a "coach trust" meta-progression). Focused on modular system design and tuning/balancing for player-facing challenges and rewards, with strong QA-driven iteration and Blueprint-based prototyping practices.”

“Programmatic media specialist who owned a $50K+/month Trade Desk DSP account for Disney movie/TV launches, leveraging PMPs and rigorous testing across audiences, deals, and creative formats. Drove 5–10% week-over-week gains in video completion rate while maintaining strict brand-safety standards, and has experience leading a team of traders and translating complex performance tradeoffs into client-ready action plans.”

“AI engineer with robotics perception experience at Forterra, building and deploying moving-object/obstacle detection models into real-time robot pipelines. Addressed training crashes/latency via sub-batch training and optimizer tuning, and improved debugging using ROS/ROS2 tooling with 3D voxel visualization and color-coded validation.”

Angelo Bianchi

Screened

Senior HR Business Partner specializing in organizational design, labor relations, and people analytics

New York, NY16y exp

“HR/people analytics and transformation leader with experience at Royal Caribbean and Baptist Hospital, combining a graduate degree in business analytics with hands-on org design and change execution. Built HR analytics capabilities (predictive/causal approaches, data quality, storytelling) and partnered directly with a CFO to run a 2+ year finance reorg across a 26,000-employee, 14-hospital system, including writing 124 job descriptions and implementing a CoE/business partnering model.”

“People/Org leader with hands-on experience managing teams across Europe and the US, often in post-merger consolidation environments. Has repeatedly built product/design/analytics teams from scratch using benchmarking, role templating, and budget/scenario planning with finance, and has led high-stakes change initiatives including reorgs, M&A integration, and RIF execution with structured global communications.”

“People/HR strategy leader with experience in global team management and workforce planning across five divisions at Kantar. Uses data-driven org change (production + engagement analysis) and practical engagement levers (stay interviews, internal mobility, shift redesign) to deliver measurable results, including a 10% production efficiency gain in six months, and has led targeted initiatives to recruit/retain women through focus groups and flexible work options.”

“Leader at PENTAX Medical with hands-on experience managing globally distributed teams (Japan, Singapore, Europe, Canada) and navigating cultural/time-zone challenges through structured written communication. Helped drive a major shift from regional autonomy to a global leadership model by defining roles, splitting functions into global teams, and identifying skill gaps—resulting in improved efficiency and reduced overhead. Currently building out an analytics function spanning IT, Sales, Marketing, and Finance, including Power BI and Salesforce ownership alignment.”

Elizabeth Larequi

Screened

Senior Recruiting Operations Product Owner specializing in early careers and recruiting technology

Allen, Texas11y exp

“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.”

Lance Chou

Screened

Intern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and MLOps

Canada1y exp

“PhD-led research engineer who has shipped LLM-powered agents for automated knowledge extraction from STEM textbooks/papers into a graph database, reporting a 90% accuracy improvement and major reductions in manual curation time. Also built an end-to-end multi-agent news aggregation/sentiment pipeline using the Agno framework with Pydantic-structured outputs, retries, and monitoring, and has experience processing messy SEC filings.”

“Talent acquisition leader who has managed recruiting orgs of up to 25 direct reports and can also jump in hands-on for SLT/ELT executive searches. Built end-to-end recruiting operations from a blank slate at Lumos (SOPs, KPIs, rubrics, ATS workflows) to enable rapid scaling, and partnered with ELT/Finance on a global contractor/freelancer platform rollout with cost, compliance, and worker-classification risk considerations.”

“CTO who ties technology strategy directly to business outcomes, building multi-year roadmaps with measurable ROI. Led major modernization (cloud, data platform, unified API, microservices + CI/CD) delivering 5x faster releases/deployments, 99.8% uptime, and 40% user growth without headcount increases, while scaling engineering from 15 to 80+ in ~18 months.”

Mohammed Ahmed

Screened

Senior Media Performance Manager specializing in programmatic advertising

Hyderabad, India10y exp

“Performance marketer with 10 years of experience managing large US media budgets for global brands including Ford, Toyota, Nestle, Daimler, and Mondelez. Brings strong programmatic and measurement expertise across DV360, The Trade Desk, StackAdapt, Yahoo DSP, Google Ads, Innovid, IAS, and CM360, with hands-on examples of improving e-commerce sales and restoring lost attribution through pixel diagnostics.”

Joshua Sampson

Screened

Executive digital marketing leader specializing in growth strategy for sports and consumer brands

Charlotte, NC9y exp

“Paid media specialist with D2C/eCommerce experience managing seven-figure budgets across Meta, Google, Amazon, TikTok, and OTT. They stand out for combining hands-on creative testing, channel reallocation, and executive-level strategy guidance—especially in messy situations like rebuilding account structure after a team departure or adjusting performance strategy during tariff-driven market disruption. Currently seeking contract/freelance work, with openness to full-time for the right fit.”

Donovan Mason

Screened

Senior Audio Engineer specializing in audio QA, annotation, and studio production

11y exp

“Game/audio engineer focused on Unreal Engine audio implementation and optimization, with hands-on experience building spatial/environmental and combat/weapon audio behaviors via Sound Cues and Blueprints. Has owned an end-to-end AAA-style audio pipeline (recording through Pro Tools mixing to in-engine integration) with defined sign-off criteria and playtest validation, plus strong dialogue repair experience using iZotope RX.”