Dan (Dima) Itkis

Current

Director Marketing and Product at Moderro Technologies

Past

Managing Partner at BNTouch, Inc
VP, 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
Portland State University
Kiev State University

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Dan (Dima) Itkis’s Summary

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

Dan (Dima) Itkis’s Specialties:

Strategic Planning,
Leading Product Innovation,
Developing and executing go-to-market strategies,
Collateral, documentation and web site creation and copy-writing,
Agile Project Management,
Hands-on experience with highly diverse, distributed, cross-cultural teams,
Partner and Strategic Alliance Management,
Strategic Account 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 (3 years 3 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.

Leading product management, marketing, channel and business development efforts for the Xpack web computer, hosted management solution, and eco-system.
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.
VP, 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.

At Tivella I managed the enterprise product line, complete with digital signage application and enterprise TV.
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
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
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.

Dan (Dima) Itkis’s Education

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
Kiev State University

Physics and Mechanical Engineering 1989 — 1990