Dan (Dima) Itkis

Current

Director Marketing and Product at Moderro Technologies
Editor at Office 2.0 Reviews

Past

Managing Partner at BNTouch, Inc
VP, Marketing & Business Development at Tivella
NPD Manager at Videotele.com

Technical Marketing Engineer, Technical Alliance Manager at ITXC/Efusion
Technical Marketing Engineer, Senior Application Analyst, Webmaster at Intel

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Education

Portland State University - School of Business
Portland State University
Portland State University

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Dan (Dima) Itkis’s Summary

My passion is helping companies, big or small, develop product and marketing strategies, and bring innovative products from concept to market on time and on budget.

Considerable expertise in SaaS business, SOA, VoIP, VideoOverIP, Digital Signage, Software Outsourcing, CRM, Telecommunications, Computer Architecture, Networking, Sales and Marketing to SMB

Dan (Dima) Itkis’s Specialties:

Strategic Planning
Leading Product Innovation
Getting through "fuzzy front ends"
Developing and executing go-to-market strategies
Collateral, documentation and web site creation and copywriting
Agile Project Management
Hands-on experience with highly diverse, cross-cultural teams
Partner and Strategic Alliance Management
Positioning companies and products for competitive edge and future growth or acquisition

Dan (Dima) Itkis’s Experience

Director Marketing and Product

Moderro Technologies

(Computer Hardware industry)

September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Moderro Technologies builds and markets products and services designed to facilitate transition and adoption of web computing on the desktop. Its computer products are designed to be low-power, eco-friendly, small in size, simple to install and maintain, with easy and gratifying experience.

www.Moderro.com
The age of Web-centric computing

Leading the product management, marketing, channel and business development efforts for the Xpack web computer product.
Editor

Office 2.0 Reviews

(Online Media industry)

September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)

www.office2reviews.com - a resource for organizations and individuals looking for web-based applications to address their business needs

The blog attempts to highlight the trends, separate facts from fiction, assist with the decision-making involved in application selection.
Managing Partner

BNTouch, Inc

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

August 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 2 months)

www.bntouch.com - Marketing CRM and Analytics platform

Co-founded and managed go-to-market and early growth phases of the business, growing to break-even and 12 employees in under two years in a highly fragmented market in a competitive industry.

Responsible for P&L and day-to-day operations of the company, sales, marketing, financing, and support activities.

- Hired and retained key employees
- Established industry exposure
- Developed successful relationships with industry partners
- Created and executed successful marketing campaigns
- Created a healthy sales environment
VP, Marketing & Business Development

Tivella

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

2002 — 2004 (2 years)

Set-top based Digital Signage solutions and IPTV.
Acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. www.tivella.com

Tivella provided digital media players and management platform fit for digital television and digital signage. Tivella's platform was set apart by its support of internet media content and powerful management layer. Ultimately Tivella's player was selected by major industry players as OEM platform of choice and resulted in acquisition.

- Launched the digital signage product line.
- Developed key strategic partnerships and reference accounts.
- Developed marketing collateral and pricing
- Product-managed management platform for digital signage
NPD Manager

Videotele.com

(Telecommunications industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year)

A spin-off from Tektronix, Videotele.com was first company successful in sending video through DSL infrastructure. Videotele.com's products offered telecom providers interested in offering video over their networks, re-encoding infrastructure and integration services. Videotele.com was acquired by Tut Systems in 2002 (now part of Motorola). www.tutsys.com

- Faciliated new product roadmap development and technical partnerships.
Technical Marketing Engineer, Technical Alliance Manager

ITXC/Efusion

(Telecommunications industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years)

Backed by patents and R&D from Intel labs, eFusion pioneered real-world VOIP telephony applications and platforms. eFusion's Ad-a-line solution allowed telephone companies to offer call-waiting and call switch solutions while the customer was connected to the internet over dial-up. Push-to-talk line was a first-of-a-kind solution allowing bridging of a phone call from the internet. eFusion was acquired by ITXC and later sold to eStara. www.estara.com

- product managed provisioning systems for Ad-a-line product
- handled technical partnerships for push-to-talk
- received "Minute Man" award for conception and product management of first-of-a-kind VoIP API.
Technical Marketing Engineer, Senior Application Analyst, Webmaster

Intel

(Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years)

Enterprise Server Group and Intel Online Services.

Managed Enterprise Server Group web presence on Intel web sites using document management tools and best practices. Managed agencies involved in production. Was responsible for document management systems and processes. Provided support to the channel for standard, high-volume server products.

- Developed internally hosted CRM before anything was available on the market
- Developed first-of-a-kind computer-based training for enterprise servers

Dan (Dima) Itkis’s Education

Portland State University - School of Business

MS , Technology Management , 2006 — 2009
Portland State University

MS , Engineering Technology Management , 2006 — 2008

Coursework in:
- Project Management
- Operational Research
- Technical Marketing
- Managing Emerging Technologies
- Managing Teams
- Innovation Management
- Decisions under Uncertainty
- Strategy
- New Product Development
- Strategic Planning
- Managerial Accounting
- New Business Ventures

Activities and Societies:

Omega Rho International Honor Society (Operational Research and Management Science)
Portland State University

BS , Computer Science, Business Administration , 1991 — 1996