Vetted User Research Professionals

Mark Kemp

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director of Product Management specializing in FinTech and financial data platforms

Austin, TX15y exp

“Product leader in financial services who has built both customer-facing and internal AI-enabled products, including an award-nominated retirement plan platform that drove submissions from 40% to 98% in good order and unlocked a $10M revenue stream. Also built product process and team structure from the ground up at Consero, with experience applying AI/LLMs to workflow automation and reporting in complex, data-heavy environments.”

“Unity VR senior developer with ~8 years in VR and ~3 years focused on Meta Quest, building multiplayer training/digital-twin style experiences. Strong Photon (PUN/Fusion) background, including solving tricky networked object attachment/jitter issues via ownership and local-physics strategies. Demonstrated hands-on performance turnarounds in VR scenes using Mesh Baker, LODs, and impostors, plus experience shipping social multiplayer VR activities with Photon Voice.”

“Startup builder (MagicSeven) who designed and implemented a browser-based, agentic video editor end-to-end, including an AWS event-driven multimodal LLM “indexing” pipeline and an orchestration LLM agent for searching and manipulating footage. Demonstrates deep video file/codec knowledge plus practical production hardening of LLM workflows (format validation, plan/execute, S3-based state for debuggability).”

Mark Thomas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level software architect specializing in cloud, distributed systems, and healthcare IT

McCalla, AL20y exp

“Startup veteran with experience at seven companies since 2004 and direct exposure to Birmingham's Innovation Depot accelerator through three different startups. Has worked closely with investment teams on MVPs and pitch decks and brings a pragmatic lens to evaluating ventures through need, margins, burn rate, cash position, and sales growth strategy.”

Jennie Ocken

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level product leader specializing in enterprise SaaS platforms

Remote, MN19y exp

“Senior product leader with a standout track record in large-scale platform transformation at CHR, where they unified fragmented logistics products into a single customer platform serving ~200,000 users. Combines executive-level product strategy, UX transformation, AI/ML workflow integration, and people leadership, with measurable outcomes including 9,000 customer migrations, 13% CX improvement, and $2M in annual cost savings.”

“Healthcare product leader who rebuilt the NextCare Anywhere urgent care platform across mobile and web, dramatically improving booking conversion from 2% to 34% by simplifying the patient journey and fixing key caregiver workflows. Also brings emerging AI leadership in regulated environments, having helped define AI policy and pilot human-supervised workflows that delivered 30-40x documentation gains with 100% first-pass approval.”