Sama Mushtaq
I have led teams of up to 120, managed approximately $30 million in cumulative P&L responsibility, opened new businesses, directed vendor-built products, and built practical systems for scheduling, pricing, reporting, and analysis.
My work usually starts with a problem that crosses several teams and has no clean owner. I define what needs to happen, make the dependencies visible, and stay with the work through launch and adoption.
Based in Ohio. Open to relocation and remote, hybrid, or on-site work.
Selected work
These cases explain the problem, my responsibility, the decisions I made, and the result. Confidential records and third-party data are not published.
August 2024 to presentI used field observations to map intake, testing, disposition, data destruction, pricing, and client reporting. I turned those workflows into acceptance criteria, vendor milestones, and four stakeholder portals.
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January 2024 to January 2025I connected P&L, inventory, labor, and product-mix data to training and manager reviews. The operation included 120 employees, including approximately 80 union team members.
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September 2022 to January 2024I managed dependencies across construction, licensing, vendors, menu, pricing, POS, reservations, staffing, training, scheduling, payroll, and readiness. I also simplified the menu and bar workflow before full-volume service.
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November 2019 to presentWith a three-person founding team, I led brand, acquisition, onboarding, curriculum, content, member support, moderation, retention, payments, and a platform migration.
Read the caseCurrent AI quality work
At Mercor, I review model-generated presentations, documents, spreadsheets, and other professional work across business and technical subjects. I often need to learn unfamiliar material quickly before I can judge whether a response is accurate, complete, and useful.
I compare responses against detailed criteria, trace claims and calculations to the supplied evidence, and document why an answer passes or fails. I look for reasoning gaps, missed instructions, unsupported claims, calculation errors, weak analysis, and work that appears polished but cannot be trusted or used.
I also review evaluation quality, write evidence-based feedback, and help improve consistency across complex assignments. Further details are limited by confidentiality.
Technical and analytical projects
These repositories are sanitized demonstrations. Each one states what I contributed, what was reconstructed, and what should not be treated as a live production claim.
Encodes availability, station qualifications, training gates, shift rules, and labor targets into a repeatable scheduling workflow.
View repositoryConverts supplier data into cost per ounce, markup, margin, and POS pricing decisions with a documented audit trail.
View repositoryDemonstrates asset, financial, disposition, and sustainability reporting logic for the e-waste operating model.
View repositoryExplores market data, drawdowns, volatility, concentration, and portfolio risk through reproducible analysis.
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AI Annotator and Quality Reviewer, Contract
General Manager, promoted from Assistant General Manager
Operations Manager, promoted to Assistant General Manager and Acting General Manager, Contract
Director of Operations and Launch Consultant
Opening Manager and Operations Lead
Mechanical Design Engineer
General Manager and Multi-Unit Lead
Concurrent founder work
Co-Founder and Program Lead
Founder and Program Lead
Contact
I am considering program management, implementation, operations, product delivery, and selected entry-level mechanical engineering roles. I am based in Ohio and open to relocation.
