Vetted Vendor Management Professionals

“Builder/creator who ships practical AI automations and content workflows: created a no-backend website that uses ChatGPT to generate AI agents/manual workflows, and built an inbound/outbound receptionist using n8n and Retell AI (later migrated to Retell workflows). Also produces an AI-written/produced podcast with 55+ hosts and uses tools like Descript and Sora with make.com for batch content creation and scheduling.”

“Strategic sourcing professional with strong vendor onboarding and negotiation approach grounded in open-costing transparency and commodity market analysis. Uses critical path trackers and cross-functional milestone governance to protect OTD, and has mitigated duty/commodity volatility by shifting sourcing and locking prices—avoiding a reported 10–12% cost increase while maintaining quality and delivery.”

“B2B product builder with prior experience taking products from 0-1 and scaling to revenue; previously implemented e-commerce search and turned it into a monetized paid-results/bidding platform requiring architectural changes and GTM alignment. Now exploring a startup idea focused on retention and upsell for B2B companies, targeting the underserved long-tail partner segment and already validating the gap with industry leaders and POC conversations.”

“Sourcing/procurement professional who led a supplier transition for fabric lamp shades when an incumbent vendor exited, managing inventory risk across 9 SKUs and coordinating site/sales communications to avoid order disruption. Strong in vendor qualification (samples, capability discussions, potential facility visits), negotiation framing around mutual profitability, and data-driven planning using Excel, commodity indexes (brass/copper), and MOQ-driven MRP forecasting to reduce waste and improve turnover.”

“Operations-focused founder/operator with hands-on experience scaling a company (Censys) from R&D into manufacturing—setting up the manufacturing space, documenting end-to-end SOPs, training technicians, and implementing inventory/accounting controls. Blends Lean, Agile, and Six Sigma with a systems-engineering mindset, and advises founders on building scalable ops and financial rigor (GAAP, P&L/balance sheet review) through structured quarterly accountability.”

“Cross-functional operations/coordination professional with experience aligning finance (including FP&A), vendor management, and operations through structured communication cadences and tools like Asana. Has supported executive productivity by coordinating executive assistants, prioritizing meeting agendas, and triaging inbound email and meeting requests, and has stepped in to resolve finance-team misalignment by clarifying objectives and delivery expectations.”

“Built and owned a production RAG search/Q&A platform at Data Integrity First for a client with a large, hard-to-search document library, deployed on AWS. Drove major adoption gains by adding source attribution (users trusted answers more) and improved system performance with guardrails, logging, and iterative chunking/OCR normalization—cutting fallback rate from ~22% to under 10%.”

“Performance marketer who has personally owned and optimized $300K–$600K/month paid media budgets across Google and Meta, focused on lead gen and pipeline growth. Uses disciplined testing (creative/audience/bid), daily monitoring, and landing page/conversion-path optimization to improve CPL and lead quality, including experience in early childhood education campaigns (e.g., Endeavor).”