AI Data Project Manager · Delivery · Toloka AI · Remote US

Jeremy Panasuk

Client delivery with a virtual technical team. Quality, timeline, unit economics, and a status the client can trust.

Sand Creek, WI · 715-970-0204 · jpanasuk@gmail.com
github.com/jpanasuk-netizen · huggingface.co/jpanasuk · linkedin.com/in/jeremy-p-34203322

7–14XF team I led

19/20Crisis recovered

8h→1hDawn · quality used

$4M+Services in two years

11 yrsClient delivery mgmt

LLM labMeasured agents · RAG

Delivered with Dawn · West Bend · Navy Federal · Mercedes · Toyota · Micron · PepsiCo · Ace · Kohl’s · BNY · JPMorgan · Farmers · NWM · Cargill · Harvard · Smith & Nephew

Career timeline · drawn to scale Analyst → Sr. Analyst twice in 4 years. Sr. Analyst → Program Manager in 10.

×2 in 4 yrsPrime + Informatica

Analyst → Sr. Analyst

in 10 yrsInformatica 2008–19

Sr. Analyst → Principal → TDM → SDM → Program Manager

Shop · Fireworks

Cargill

Prime

Informatica IPS / SEAL · Analyst → Program Manager

TCS

MOBE

AI Lab

1996 2004 2007 2008 2020 2023 2024

Toloka’s AI Data Project Manager owns client delivery: quality, dates, unit economics, and a virtual team of engineers and supply. That is Informatica IPS / SEAL — consulting delivery at scale, client in the room, experts and operators on a follow-the-sun clock. Last 24 months I ran the same loop on LLMs I actually measured. Remote US. Available. I do not have a PhD. I have the delivery seat.

01 — Your posting · my receipts

Own delivery

Quality, timeline, cost, transparency. Dawn 8h→1h because it got used. PepsiCo v9→v10 zero data loss. Micron $3M extensions, zero downtime. Status the stakeholder can defend.

Lead a virtual XF team

Teams of 7–14. Engineers, QA, GCS, offshore, the floor. Follow-the-sun. Named skill-up. Retros were writeups the next morning, not a slide.

Client in the chair

Consulting background — the plus you listed. Clients asked for me by name. “Rock star.” Embedded until adoption, then hypercare.

02 — How I run a delivery

Discover + decompose

Environment Summary. Unofficial definitions. Scope, risks, unit of work. I do not wait for a clean spec. I write the path the team can run.

Ship + measure

Implementation, quality gates, throughput. Six-class test. QA twin of production. If humans do not run it Tuesday, it did not launch.

Adopt + improve

Named skill-up. Process change as a deliverable. TCS kept Mercedes docs. Playbooks are how 19/20 stays 19/20.

03 — Independent lab · Aug 2024 – Present · LLM lifecycle, measured

4070 Private inference stack

TabbyAPI EXL3, Ollama, Open WebUI, Compose + CUDA on RTX 4070 / WSL2. Same instinct as a data pipeline: measure decode before claiming quality.

27× Local Grid Suite

Discover, bench, GPU routing, SQLite, CLI + PDF. 1.39 → 37.47 tok/s after routing. Throughput you can report — not a vibe.

Agents Structured generation

Systems → architect → validator on local Ollama: structured output, repair retries. Production WhatsApp agents, 10+ skills. Multi-provider routing with failover.

MCP Bounded tooling

Dockroot-MCP: agents see Docker/network, not host-root. Safety as a boundary, not a slogan — the same muscle as a red-team gate: what the model is allowed to touch.

Honest on SFT / eval / red-team: I have not run a labeling marketplace producing thousands of prompts a week. I have owned data quality, throughput, and client delivery on live platforms, and I have spent 24 months on LLM generate / evaluate / bound loops I can show. I switch domains the way IPS switched clients.

When the pipeline is on fire — most PMs escalate. I close.

20 troubled accounts. 19 recovered. Milwaukee insurer: three-month outage closed in two days. Mercedes +200% on the longest workflows; playbook stayed. That is risk highlighted and resolved before the client stops trusting the weekly. Toloka’s delivery seat is that motion with Experts + Crowd + Tech.

Toloka: own the client’s data solution — quality, date, cost, a team that stays on track. Consulting delivery is the job I already did. LLMs are the stack I already measure.

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Jeremy Panasuk · 715-970-0204 · jpanasuk@gmail.com · AI Data Project Manager · Toloka

04 — Sr. Software Developer, Talend · MOBE · Minneapolis

Live production data — mappings, pipelines, on-call, 99.99%

Jul 2023 – Aug 2024

Talend 8 on a live platform. GitLab CI/CD. Redshift + SQL Server. On-call incident command and root-cause writeups the next morning. Throughput and quality on a clock — the same operating loop as an eval pipeline with a weekly SLA.

05 — Informatica Specialist · Tata Consultancy Services

PepsiCo · Ameriprise · Ace — virtual XF, follow-the-sun

Mar 2020 – Dec 2021

PepsiCo — Grid/HA + DIH across NA/LATAM. Led v9→v10 with zero data loss. Teradata → Big Data (~40% analytics lift). Follow-the-sun with offshore. Tuning written into go-live timelines. Ace Hardware — PowerCenter → Big Data with business + QA. Ameriprise — EDG: IDQ, EDC, Axon. 200+ critical data elements. 24×7. Data quality as a control process, not a hope.

06 — Consulting Manager / SEAL · Informatica · Jun 2008 – Oct 2019

The consulting plus you asked for. Analyst → Program Manager in ten years. SEAL team. Teams of 7–14 engineers and specialists. $4M+ services in two years. Client communication + internal coordination as the default. Discovery, decomposition, scope, implementation, adoption, hypercare. Consultant of the Year runner-up (2016). Parachute closer: 20 in, 19 recovered. Ladder: Sr. Analyst → Principal → TDM → SDM → Program Manager / Consulting Manager.

Client delivery

Virtual XF teams

Data quality

19 / 20 recovered

Unit economics

Process change

Named skill-up

Cargill CFO Award · 2005Highest financial-project award. Six / year. Horizon Milling visibility — quality the board could see.

Quarterly Excellence · 2006Demantra demand planning. Separate from oils ERP. New domain, shipped.

Consultant of the Year runner-up · 2016Micron: 2,080h → 7,000h. $3M extensions. Zero downtime. Unit economics the client renewed.

8h→1h

Dawn Foods — CDC on AS/400 journals. Featured because quality landed in production, not a demo.

−50%

West Bend Mutual — live SOAP/XML path. Throughput the agents felt the next day.

+200%

Mercedes-Benz — longest workflows. Playbook adopted by TCS. Process change that stuck.

7,000h

Micron — fab EDW. $3M extensions. Zero downtime. Delivery the client bought again.

$800k

Toyota — Engine Management go-live. All consultants 5/5. Transparency the account trusted.

20+ nodes

MF Global — world-first Grid/HA + DR. India, UK, NY, Chicago. Virtual team, four regions.

$2.3M+

BNY Mellon — Grid/HA with senior VPs and CEO in the room. Stakeholder transparency.

$10M+

JPMorgan Chase — DW / CoE roadmaps. Discovery through adoption at exec altitude.

~$2M

Kohl’s — Informatica v9 Grid/HA capacity planning and upgrade, including multiple high-availability and Grid components. Target Grid/HA on commodity hardware (Cisco or IBM); cutover off AIX. Current volumes plus a 3-year growth curve; sized to that. Briefed through Senior VPs. Closed ~$2 million in Informatica software. DQ / MDM POCs when Informatica VM labs were not enough for their data.

2 wks

Volkswagen Group of America — complete Grid/HA in two weeks: bonded network / dual NICs, Oracle RAC on InfiniBand, three 8-core PowerCenter servers. Live demo a day early. Four customer consultants shadowed. Parallel DQ on the other side of VW was burning down (pressure, not a DQ miss).

$375k

Unnamed customer — two-week PowerCenter + Data Quality full build on their metal (not the Informatica VM lab), plus complete use-case analysis. Closed $375k the night before quarter end.

$600k

Smith & Nephew — FDA-validated platform. Quality as a control, not a slide.

3,000h

Navy Federal — architecture through go-live training. Implementation + adoption.

Harvard — Version 9. Resource plan through hypercare.

Phase 2

Farmers — Guidewire XML. Skill-up named. New domain, walked with the team.

Northwestern Mutual — domain best practice. QA twin of production.

v9→v10

Waddell & Reed — measured I/O. Upgrade types + tests. Written path, not Slack.

2 days

Milwaukee insurer — three-month outage closed in two days. Risk closed before the weekly.

Also: Merrill / Time Inc. SFDC lift-shift. Ivy Funds Grid/HA. Fed Reserve Philadelphia. Giesecke REST/SOAP, VMs, GitHub, Docker. Ameriprise 200+ CDEs. Retained through 2025 for production rescue: Grid/HA, CDC, IDQ, v9/v10, SOAP/REST, install-to-go-live.

Sr. Integration Engineer · Prime Therapeutics

Jan 2007 – Jun 2008

Medicare + MTM data marts. EDW test lead. Analyst → Sr. Analyst on a 4/5. Quality first — the quote below is theirs. New regulated domain, shipped.

Business Analyst, Oils Plants · Integration Associate · Cargill

Dec 2004 – Jan 2007

Plant ERP on live operations. Demantra: Quarterly Excellence Oct 2006. Horizon Milling: CFO Award 2005. 24/7 across 20+ warehouses. Domain switch is not a theory.

“Jeremy has been a pleasure and an asset to work with. His knowledge not only of the Informatica suite but also at the operating system level has been truly invaluable.”Dawn Foods · client

“He’s a rock star out at Dawn. The customer loves him and the sales team has been leaning on him hard.”Informatica IPS · sales

“It is the belief of the infrastructure staff that you have sent one of the best that Informatica has to offer in Jeremy.”MF Global · infrastructure

“I trusted that Jeremy would deliver, with quality… exceeded the expectations at someone of his grade level.”Prime Therapeutics

Origin · Secret Key / Fireworks Forever · Inventory Manager · 1996–2005

$800K+ seasonal inventory. Four full-time sales. Profit up six years. Crowd + operators + a clock. Loyalty is the metric. Toloka’s Experts + Crowd + Tech is that motion with models on the other side.

07 — Stack · this posting

Delivery · client-facing consulting · virtual XF teams 7–14 · discovery / decompose / scope / implement / adopt · retros · status · unit economics
Data quality · IDQ · EDC · Axon · DVO · 99.99% platforms · zero-data-loss cutovers · QA twin of production · incident command
LLM / AI · local generate–evaluate–bound loop · TabbyAPI · Ollama · RAG · structured agents · SQLite telemetry · MCP boundaries
Code / data · SQL · Python · Informatica PowerCenter · Grid/HA · PowerExchange CDC · Talend 8 · SOAP/REST · Docker · GitLab CI/CD
This posting · U.S. remote · BBA MIS, UW–Eau Claire, 2004 · Informatica Certified Specialist (Admin, Big Data Admin, PowerCenter Developer I & II) · no PhD
Honest · Have not run a labeling marketplace SFT mill. Have owned client delivery of data systems at scale, and 24 months of measured LLM work I can show.
Operating line · Customer satisfaction is worthless. Customer loyalty is priceless.

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