Constantine Kipnis

Current

• CTO & VP, Product Management at FitForCommerce.com

Past

• Product Manager at OnForce.com
• E-Commerce Project Manager at venda.com
• Director, E-Commerce at Photofile, Inc.

• Consultant at Product Delta LLC
• Data Integration Product Manager at Broadband Office, Inc.
• Senior Product Manager / Architect at iManage, Inc.
• VP Product Management at ecommerce-tech.com
• VP Product Development at intermedia.net

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Education

• University of Florida
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Minnesota

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• http://www.productdelta.com

Constantine Kipnis’s Summary

Product managing innovative Internet B2B and B2C application software.

MGMT SKILLS
* Versatile e-business manager with 13 years of Internet experience.
* Seasoned startup manager: from garage to post-IPO.
* Excel at New Product Development (NPD).
* Strategic business skills: M&A, planning, pricing, budgeting, competitive research.
* Certified project manager: PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) and CompTIA IT Project+.
* Successful mentor and team leader: professional teaching and training experience.
* Highly proficient writer/editor, able to rapidly assimilate, process, and communicate complex data for diverse audiences.
* International business experience: 4 languages and solid grasp of European cultures.

TECH SKILLS
* Managing the development and deployment of n-tier Internet/enterprise software products and services.
* Building and deploying ASP, web hosting, data center solutions.
* PMBOK project management methodology.
* Agile: Scrum and eXtreme Programming (XP).

Constantine Kipnis’s Specialties:

Internet Product Manager
Software Product Manager
Project Manager

Constantine Kipnis’s Experience

• CTO & VP, Product Management

  FitForCommerce.com

  (Internet industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

• Product Manager

  OnForce.com

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  March 2007 — December 2007 (10 months)

  Classic software product management role for a succcessful B2B IT Online Marketplace ASP. Extensive engineer-consumable functional and UI specification development in a LAMP environment. Cross-functional consensus-building for multiple external stakeholder groups and key internal executives.

• E-Commerce Project Manager

  venda.com

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2006 — April 2007 (8 months)

  Managed the implementation of several major international brand e-commerce websites on the Venda ASP platform: Crabtree & Evelyn, Danskin, Rapunzel's Closet, and Jurlique. Collaborated with the development team on creation of next generation tools, including extensive Web Services API. Provided overseas troubleshooting in remote offshore location.

• Director, E-Commerce

  Photofile, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

  April 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 3 months)

  Conceptualized, planned, and executed a project tasked with relaunching the e-business of the #1 publisher and vendor of sports prints and related collateral with exclusive rights from MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, and other entities.
   The new solution consolidated existing low-tech e-tail and wholesale websites into a single platform powered by an in-house content management and commerce server and operating from a dedicated server cluster.
   Directly managed the software development effort (open source, Linux, Tomcat, Java, Velocity, MySQL).
   Recruited and directed an offshore development team of five (3 developers, 1 net admin, 1 graphic designer).

• Consultant

  Product Delta LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2001 — March 2005 (3 years 10 months)

  Technical product and project management consulting services: roadmaps, PRD, MRD, marketing collateral, white papers, documentation, market research, UI and usability evaluation.
   Partial client list: FoxNews.com, SchoolNet (educational data mgmt software), Product management consulting for Reunion.com (social network software), ServiceHub (dispatch management wireless solutions), Cirrus Logic (multimedia embedded software), YY Technologies (natural language processing software), Rhaphis Medical (surgical devices), ArteriA Medical Science (cardiovascular devices).

• Data Integration Product Manager

  Broadband Office, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2000 — May 2001 (7 months)

  A unique company with major financing from major REITs and competitors Microsoft and Sun, aiming to deliver a comprehensive package of integrated IP services (applications on demand, workstations on demand, network on demand) for mid-size enterprises. Development work was brought to a halt as the company entered into Chapter 11 in 05/2001 amidst a total collapse of the web industry.
   Authored PRDs and worked in large cross-functional teams to define, deliver, and deploy a platform capable of handling data integration between diverse ASPs to create a seamless experience for corporate clients outsourcing their application needs to a single provider like BBO.

• Senior Product Manager / Architect

  iManage, Inc.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; IWOV; Computer Software industry)

  November 1999 — November 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  Was recruited to spearhead the transition of the company from single-vertical desktop client/server serving the legal market to a Web-centered broad-scope enterprise software company (since acquired by Interwoven (IWOV).
   Managed the integration of an acquired software company, driving the development of a new line of e-business collaboration products, adopted by Cisco and many other enterprises. Since iManage's merger with Interwoven, this industry-leading suite of content management and collaboration tools is marketed as WorkSite MP.
   Defined the scope and managed the roadmap of the product line. Authored MRDs and PRDs, performed extensive strategic market research, interacted with key decision-makers at numerous partner companies, and extensively supported the sales effort.
   Developed the network operations requirements for and managed all phases of rolling out the product as an application hosted at a major data center. Managed vendor relations.

• VP Product Management

  ecommerce-tech.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  July 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 4 months)

  Helped launch this angel-funded Internet B2C startup which pioneered advanced e-commerce solutions and competed against CitySearch and online classified directories as an online network of interlinked geographically-centered e-malls with small businesses and individual vendors.
   Presented the product to the board, VC community, and key executives at Fortune 1000 companies, as well as industry trade shows. Extensively supported the sales effort.
   Drove new product development, authored white papers, PRDs, and technical documentation.
   Managed several teams of engineers and content developers.

• VP Product Development

  intermedia.net

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  September 1994 — June 1998 (3 years 10 months)

   Co-founded this self-financed Internet services startup which developed and hosted some of the earliest advanced Web sites for Fortune 1000 clients, pioneered virtual hosting on the Windows NT platform in 1995, and broke ground with its multilingual chat client/server software in 1997.
   Directed creation of numerous B2C e-commerce and portal sites for Fortune 500 clients, including versions 1.0 and beyond of healthychoice.com, landolakes.com and many others.
   Developed work proposals, technical specifications, and PRDs, interacting extensively with software engineers and network technologists. Authored marketing collateral. Presented to VCs, Fortune 1000, and trade shows.

Constantine Kipnis’s Education

• University of Florida

  MBA , Marketing , January 2004 — June 2006

  Activities and Societies:

  Internet program: http://www.floridamba.ufl.edu

• University of Pennsylvania

  MA , Russian Studies , September 1987 — May 1990

• University of Minnesota

  BA , French Studies , September 1982 — December 1986

Additional Information

Constantine Kipnis’s Websites:

• http://www.productdelta.com

Constantine Kipnis’s Interests:

Internet, software, technology, literature, politics, chess.

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