David Pawlan

“Telecommunications strategist with more than two decades of experience spanning 3G through emerging 6G, focused on shaping global standards and advising senior leadership. Created a global AI-enabled autonomous systems framework in NGMN, has multiple patents in telecom, and is particularly differentiated by his ability to represent company interests in 3GPP while driving interoperable, multi-vendor 6G ecosystems.”

Nigel Lewis

Screened

Senior Investment Banking Associate specializing in Transportation, Logistics & Infrastructure

New York, NY12y exp

“Goldman Sachs VP in the Office of the COO for Merchant Banking (private equity) who led cross-functional integration work through two major divisional reorganizations, building executive reporting and governance to keep senior leadership aligned. Also drove operational buildout for a property manager enabling sensitive rent-controlled housing investments and helping scale a real estate platform to $1B+, and partnered with Technology to implement supervisor dashboards for approvals and project tracking.”

“Robotics software engineer with extensive ROS2 experience building and integrating full autonomous navigation stacks (sensor fusion, ICP/occupancy-grid mapping, planning). Hands-on computer vision work for drones, including monocular depth-from-RGB pipelines (Open3D/OpenCV) and model swaps to improve low-light performance. Also experienced in multi-drone coordination with Crazyswarm2 and Vicon-based state estimation, plus Gazebo simulation for TurtleBot, Franka Emika, and a Lunabotics-style excavation rover.”

“Full-stack engineer and KICKOFFUSA cofounder who built production payment/registration and live tournament experiences under real matchday load (200+ concurrent users), including Stripe webhooks with idempotency and UX improvements that cut checkout abandonment ~15%. Also owned an end-to-end research hub at a GTSCL internship—designed a normalized Postgres schema and full-text search (tsvector/GIN) delivering sub-100ms queries for 300+ researchers.”

Johnq Gromada

Screened

Principal Sound Designer/Composer specializing in theatre, audio drama, and broadcast media

Nyack, NY35y exp

“Music editor/composer and Pro Tools power user who handled all music editing plus original composition/production (with live musicians) for Chazz Palminteri’s "A Bronx Tale: The One Man Show" (Tribeca premiere), and supervised a 5.1 mix at Harbor in NYC. Experienced in dialogue cleanup (iZotope), music-to-picture editing (time-stretch/Melodyne), and fast-turnaround workflows supported by a proprietary FileMaker Pro tracking database; also produces audio drama/Audible Originals.”