David Kanter

David Kanter

Customer Experience Team, Sr. Mgr, Intuit, Inc.

Location
Greater San Diego Area
Industry
Internet

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David Kanter's Overview

Current
Past
  • Consumer Tax Group, Senior Business Operations Manager at Intuit
  • Director, Digital Management at VUNetUSA
  • Director, Digitial Media Management Programs at Vivendi/Universal Net USA Technologies
  • Director of Digital Media Management at mp3.com
  • Business Application Manager at UBS Warbug
Education
  • Indiana University Bloomington
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David Kanter's Summary

Over 15 years experience in Project Management, Operations Management, Customer Care, and Business Management. Acted as Project Manager for Entitlement Management Solutions used by QuickBooks Desktop Software. Managed End to End Monitoring Systems for TurboTax Online. Setup End to End Customer Care for SnapTax iPhone and Android Applications, allowing customers to photograph and submit their W2s electronically to Intuit's TurboTax Online product.

Prior to working at Intuit, I was the Director of the Digital Media Management Department for Vivendi/Universal Net USA Technologies, and have managed several key web development and backend infrastructure projects for UBS Warburg, MP3.com, Napster.

Comfortable in Identification of the client's business requirements, reviewing contracts, writing functional specifications, creating statements of work, and general project documentation needs.

I am comfortable leading large team project efforts as well as summarizing the project status, risks and issues to senior management.

Specialties

- End to End Release Management
- Root Cause Analysis on outages
- Project Management
- Operations Management
- Customer Care
- Analytics
- Release Engineering and Deployment Coordination
- Application Support
- Production Support Operations Manager
- Business Process Improvement for Operational Procedures

David Kanter's Experience

Weekly Blogger for AppAdvice

AppAdvice Daily

Media Production industry

May 2011Present (10 months)

Also write a weekly How-To article for AppAdvice on Apple, iPhones, iPads and Mac OS X.

http://appadvice.com/appnn/author/dave

Customer Care, Sr Manager

Intuit

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry

April 2010Present (1 year 11 months)

David Kanter has joined the Consumer Group Customer Care team as the new Sr. Manager for New Business Initiatives (NBI) reporting to B*** *****ts. In this role, David will be responsible for partnering with Product Management, Development and Marketing to design great end-to-end customer experiences for new business initiatives.

David has been with Intuit for over 6 years. He was originally hired as an operations manager for various back-end services for the Quickbooks Online Edition such as login, billing manager, Enterprise Integration Backbone, Java Messaging Servers and Order Management Systems. More recently, he was in Consumer Group’s Business Operations team helping to drive Customer Experience Monitoring and the “***** Process” – ensuring incidents are resolved quickly and communicated clearly to senior management.

Originally from Chicago, Ill., David attended Indiana University and received his Masters degree in Instructional Systems Technology. He spent a great deal of time during his graduate studies in a usability lab learning how to understand users’ needs.

He’s also worked as a Business Application Manager in East Asia for Warburg Dillon Read, UBS Warburg (Swiss bank), as well as a Project Manager and Operations Manager for MP3.com, Napster Online Music Service and Vivendi Universal. David is also fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has lived in Taiwan and Hong Kong for a few years.

In his spare time, David enjoys spending time with his amazing 3-year old son, ****, singing Beatles Rock Band on their Wii. He also plays electric and acoustic guitar and can sometimes be found participating in Open Mic night blues jams at various venues in San Diego.

David had this to say about joining Consumer Group’s Customer Care organization: “I’m seriously thrilled to be in this organization, where we truly understand the customers’ needs!”

David will continue to be based in San Diego, Calif.

Consumer Tax Group, Senior Business Operations Manager

Intuit

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry

January 2004May 2010 (6 years 5 months)

- Operations Team Manager
- Project Manager for Entitlement Management Solutions
- Release Engineering and Deployment Coordination
- Pre-Production & Environment setup planning

Director, Digital Management

VUNetUSA

20022003 (1 year)

Director, Digitial Media Management Programs

Vivendi/Universal Net USA Technologies

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; V; Entertainment industry

July 2000November 2003 (3 years 5 months)

Department Manager for Digital Media Management Department. Managed multiple programs, program managers, projects, project managers, and technical staff. Responsible for daily operations, budgets, projects, revenue recognition, negotiated contracts, managed direct reports.

Director of Digital Media Management

mp3.com

Public Company; 201-500 employees; MPPP; Internet industry

20002003 (3 years)

Business Application Manager

UBS Warbug

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; UBS; Financial Services industry

July 1998July 2000 (2 years 1 month)

Position based mainly in Hong Kong, responsible for managing UAT for Credit Risk Management Applications.

* Created and presented training courses to Credit Risk Officers throughout the Asia Pacific Region.
* Representative for the Data Integrity Program and ecommerce Steering Committee.
* Championed Credit Risk Management best practices throughout the Asia Pacific Region.
* Coordinated User Acceptance Testing for all Risk Management system rollouts in the Asia Pacific Region.
* Project Management & user interface design on large-scale portals.
* Managed the implementation of a document scanning system for legal department with 3rd party vendor.

David Kanter's Education

Indiana University Bloomington

MA, Instructional Systems Technology

19961998

Wisdom Tools, Bloomington, IN
Interactive Systems Designer (1996-1998)

* Technical Lead for Lotus Notes based on-line e-Learning training program created for Eli Lilly
* Created multiple interactive web-based training applications in Flash, Director and HTML/JavaScript.
* Human-Computer Interface Design Course, assisted professor in facilitating class discussions, managed team projects and offered feedback to graduate students.

Activities and Societies: * Indiana University, Bloomington, Instructional Systems Technology, with concentration in Human Computer Interface Design, MS * Completed Stanford Center Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, Taiwan. * Indiana University, Bloomington, East Asian Studies & Chinese Language, with significant coursework in Computer Science, BA

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