David Lazar

Current

Sr. Manager, IS Infrastructure at B&H Photo Video
Manager Network Engineering at B&H Photo
Manager Network Engineering at BH Photo Video

CEO at Eco-Renu LLC

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Past

Lead Consultant for Enterprise Systems, Telephony, and Business Improvements/Restructuring at Private Consultant (Sole Proprietorship)
Systems Engineer & Architect at TD Waterhouse
Systems Engineer & Architect at TD Ameritrade

IT Support at Reich & Tang Funds
IT Support at Reich & Tang Asset Management, LP
Sales/IT Support at TrueSence Network Technologies
Manager at Lews Shoes
Manager at Amazing Savings

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Recommended

20 people have recommended David

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Retail

Websites

David Lazar’s Experience

Sr. Manager, IS Infrastructure

B&H Photo Video

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Retail industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Manager Network Engineering

B&H Photo

(Plastics industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )
Manager Network Engineering

BH Photo Video

(Plastics industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )
CEO

Eco-Renu LLC

(Privately Held; Plastics industry)

August 2002 — Present (7 years 4 months)

CEO of a plastics manufacturing and recycling company.

• Assembled a team of executive level managers with the needed skills to build and run facility.
• Conducted global research for the necessary technology to efficiently recycle plastic containers into FDA approved material to be used in place of virgin plastic.
• Drafted full projected financials for the company.
• Created a detailed cost analysis for entire project.
• Developed relationships with suppliers and customers.
• Created a supply chain by working with plastic brokers.
• Designed highly automated manufacturing facility to significantly reduce labor costs.
Lead Consultant for Enterprise Systems, Telephony, and Business Improvements/Restructuring
Private Consultant (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 10 months)
Systems Engineer & Architect

TD Waterhouse

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2000 — March 2006 (5 years 9 months)

Engineer and Architect, lead groups of IT and IS professionals in various different projects.

• Managed a NOC team and created the processes, procedures, and escalation guidelines required within the team to properly find, fix, resolve, document, and prevent problems that create poor user experiences both within the organization and with external customers.
• Created and led a Stability Committee, documented the processes, procedures, and expectations of each member of the committee.
• Created a better managed environment with a more proactive approach.
• Initiated. Led, and managed projects that doubled and tripled the performance of the company’s two brokerage trading websites by using a combination of redesigning, optimizing tweaks, and new technology.
• Prepared comprehensive roll-out procedures for the installation of a new project that increased profits for the company by over $20,000,000 per year.
• Oversaw server consolidation.
Systems Engineer & Architect

TD Ameritrade

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AMTD; Financial Services industry)

July 2000 — March 2006 (5 years 9 months)

Engineer and Architect, lead groups of IT and IS professionals in various different projects.
IT Support

Reich & Tang Funds

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )
IT Support

Reich & Tang Asset Management, LP

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

Supported computer and telephony systems end to end.
Sales/IT Support

TrueSence Network Technologies

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1997 — February 1998 (1 year 2 months)

Design and sold backup, disaster recovery, and redundancy systems for large and small enterprises.
Manager

Lews Shoes

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

1994 — 1998 (4 years )
Manager

Amazing Savings

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

January 1993 — June 1993 (6 months)

Additional Information

David Lazar’s Websites:

David Lazar’s Groups:

Tau Epsilon Phi (TEP), FrumNetwork

On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
Tau Epsilon Phi
FrumNetwork
Jewish Professionals
B&H Photo and Video
The Young Jewish Entrepreneurs Club
Retail Industry Professionals Group
the Cisco Voice
Green
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Professionals
Tau Epsilon Phi Alumni
Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Network - NOT affiliated with Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ)!
Long Island Entrepreneur's Group
Data Center Pulse
Credit Card Business Group
Cobrand, Affinity, & Private Label Cards Network
eGift Cards & Alternate Payment Methods