Vetted Training Professionals

Veronica Andrews

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Chief People & Operations Officer specializing in HR strategy and operational scale

Brooklyn, NY16y exp

“People/HR leader with deep org design and change-management experience, including leading a full-company restructuring at Mirimus in direct partnership with the CEO and VPs. Known for combining systems thinking with rigorous people analytics (engagement, churn, capacity, performance signals) to diagnose root causes, redesign operating models, and coach senior leaders through high-stakes transitions and ER situations.”

“Recent McCombs School of Business (UT Austin) Post Graduate Program graduate in Data Science & Business Analytics with hands-on project experience spanning stock clustering/segmentation and hotel booking-cancellation prediction. Strong in end-to-end analysis workflows (EDA, cleaning, feature engineering) and rigorous model comparison/selection, with exposure to boosting methods and imbalanced-data techniques; limited experience so far with embeddings/vector databases and production deployment.”

“Compensation and payroll professional with hands-on ownership of end-to-end U.S. payroll and strategic compensation work, including a full-cycle comp redesign for 1,500 employees across corporate, sales, and technical roles. Stands out for combining operational payroll rigor with analytical compensation modeling, pay equity work, and finance-grade reconciliation controls.”

“AI Software Engineer (student employee) at University of Washington IT who helped deploy "Purple," a governed, explainable LLM platform on Azure used by 100,000+ students/faculty/staff. Independently led scalable reliability efforts by building automated agent quality/load/red-team testing and CI/CD health validation (Playwright/Node.js, Azure DevOps), and previously built an explainable AI scheduling assistant for clinical operations at Proliance Surgeons.”

“QA professional from fintech/SAP security and complex identity systems who has owned end-to-end testing across the SDLC, including being the sole QA on a high-risk payment platform carrier migration. Demonstrated strength in integration testing, data integrity validation, and diagnosing calculation/automation defects using controlled test data and scripted date emulation; experienced with JIRA/TestRail and Selenium-based regression coverage.”

“Entrepreneurial film producer with 30+ years creating award-winning media who has raised capital for multiple feature-length projects and navigated film-finance realities (escrow funding timelines, investor commitment risk). Applies a business lens to ventures (market sizing, scalability, differentiation) and builds cost-effective GTM using Meta/Facebook ads backed by strong creative storytelling and a broad creative network.”

“Senior consultant in professional/managed services specializing in AIX on IBM Power Systems (Power9/10/11), handling multi-client work spanning LPAR builds, hardware refreshes (e.g., P8 to P10), storage/SAN migrations, and cloud migrations. Demonstrates strong operational depth across VIOS/HMC/vHMC, NIM + SUMA patching workflows, and PowerHA clustering, with a track record of scripting/automation (Jenkins + shell) to proactively monitor and streamline migrations.”

“Growth/brand leader who drives measurable revenue outcomes through rebrands, GTM execution, and multi-channel acquisition. Has delivered on-time/on-budget website + brand rebuilds via sourced expert partners, improved conversion from 3% to 8% for an MSP using outsourced outbound, and helped an industrial manufacturer exceed a $2M revenue goal by reaching $3M through repositioning and market expansion.”

Connor Daly

Screened

Mid-level Educator and Youth Program Leader with STEAM and video production experience

Boston, MA9y exp

“Video production assistant at Harvard University supporting live game-day broadcasts, including video board shows, online streams, and TV programming across multiple sports. Also created and uploaded short films to a personal YouTube channel while at Boston University, serving as director/cinematographer and producing with an iPhone under COVID-era constraints. Based in Greater Boston, available immediately, and flexible for travel and non-traditional hours.”

Dominique Jackson

Screened

Director-level Sports & Youth Development Leader specializing in athletic program operations

Baltimore, MD6y exp

“Former Division III college football coach with extensive experience supporting collegiate and professional athletes, including work with Under Armour athletes (e.g., Kelsey Plum, Steph Curry) and Baltimore Ravens player engagement. While not hockey-specific, they emphasize end-to-end athlete guidance (goal-setting, transparency, family support) plus social media/profile-building to increase athlete visibility.”

“Founding BDR who was the first U.S. sales development hire and helped build the outbound GTM motion from scratch in a resource-constrained startup environment. They consistently performed at 150–200% of quota, contributed to growth from roughly 40k to 1.1M ARR, and show strong creativity in prospecting, messaging, and sales process design.”

“Former Cloud Engineer at Indivior (laid off in January) now focused on entrepreneurship; owns multiple businesses including a SaaS product with iOS and Android apps (strive.gifts). Has not raised funding yet and is considering raising working capital to hire full-time backend and UX/UI developers.”

Frank Carrabba

Screened

Executive Software Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS product delivery and global SDLC

Seattle, WA35y exp

“Engineering leader with experience at Replenium, Savo Group, Radnet, and MatricOne, focused on business-aligned roadmaps and transparent, servant-style leadership. Notable for scaling teams quickly (18→36 in 6 months) and resolving high-impact performance incidents by leveraging DevOps data (reframed a suspected memory leak as a memory spike). Has led pragmatic build-vs-buy architecture decisions (waiting for a Microsoft transaction server) and uses Agile/CI/CD practices to drive consistent delivery.”

“Audio/music editor working across longform narrative video and theatrical production, focused on shaping emotional beats through precise timing (delayed builds/drops, extended transitions) and cohesive mixing. Uses Audacity and Ableton/DAWs with EQ, compression, automation, crossfades, and noise reduction, and works closely with editor/producer direction to iterate quickly (typical ~1 week turnaround).”

“Enterprise customer success / partner lead in performance marketing managing multi-million-dollar spend, focused on ROAS/CPA optimization and scaling adoption. Has led cross-functional Product/Engineering efforts (pixel event tracking + custom model) to improve campaign performance and influenced reporting roadmap via structured partner feedback (QBRs/check-ins). Experienced in land-and-expand motions, partnering with Sales to grow accounts by tying expansion directly to measurable value.”

“Account Executive Intern with hands-on end-to-end involvement in HRIS SaaS sales at Paycom (owned most of the AE motion except final close), focused on sourcing greenfield pipeline and building business cases/POVs/POCs. Also helped build an outbound playbook and sales tech stack at Harcourts, including dialer optimization and CRM integration, and has earlier experience selling web/app/marketing services to small businesses.”

“Sales candidate with 35 years of experience who expressed interest in AI and shared a resume link and LinkedIn profile, but did not provide any concrete deal examples or details about outbound prospecting or recent closes during the screen.”

Leonard Payne

Screened

Senior Performance Marketing Leader specializing in paid media, lifecycle/CRM, and analytics

Detroit, MI23y exp

“Performance marketer managing high-spend, multi-platform paid media for major brands (e.g., Navistar, Buick), with end-to-end ownership from strategy to reporting. Uses multivariate testing and trend-based budget reallocations to drive measurable lifts (27–60% KPI improvements) and significant outperformance (2.8x vs forecast), and has experience removing conversion friction by replacing lead forms with landing page + chat-based flows.”