Visionary Product Manager
Portland, Oregon Area
- Current
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- Director Marketing and Product Development at Moderro Technologies
- NPD Consultant at DRI LLC
- Editor at Office 2.0 Reviews
- Past
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- 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, Product Support Engineer, Webmaster at Intel
- Education
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- 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.
Dan (Dima) Itkis’s Specialties:
Leading Product Innovation
Getting through "fuzzy front ends"
Results-Oriented Project Management
Hands-on experience with highly diverse, cross-cultural teams
Partner and Strategic Alliance Management
Building functional frameworks for decision-making
Positioning companies and products for competitive edge and future growth
Considerable expertise in SaaS business, SOA, VoIP, VideoOverIP, Digital Signage, Software Outsourcing, CRM, Telecommunications, Computer Architecture, Networking
Dan (Dima) Itkis’s Experience
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Director Marketing and Product Development
Moderro Technologies
(Computer Hardware industry)
June 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Moderro Technologies builds and markets products and services designed to facilitate transition and adoption of web computing. 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 marketing and business development efforts for the web computer product. -
NPD Consultant
DRI LLC
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2006 — Present (2 years 1 month)
- Product and Marketing Strategy
- Project and Product management for new products and projects
- Management of distributed and outsourced software development -
Editor
Office 2.0 Reviews
(Online Media industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)
www.office2reviews.com - a resource for organizations and individuals looking for web-based applications to address their needs
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Managing Partner
BNTouch, Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 2 months)
www.bntouch.com - Marketing CRM and Analytics platform
Responsible for P&L and day-to-day operation of the company and marketing activities.
- Created sales environment promoting healthy competition and metrics tracking.
- Developed successful relationships with industry partners
- Created successful promotional campaigns
- Hired and retained key employees
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VP, Marketing & Business Development
Tivella
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years)
Set-top based Digital Signage solutions and IPTV.
Acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. www.tivella.com
Launched the digital signage product line. Developed key strategic partnerships and reference accounts. -
NPD Manager
Videotele.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; TUTS; Telecommunications industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year)
Video headends for Video-over-DSL large-scale distributions. Spin-off from Tektronix. Acquired by Tut Systems in 2002 (now part of Motorola). www.tutsys.com
Faciliated roadmap development and technical partnerships. -
Technical Marketing Engineer, Technical Alliance Manager
ITXC/Efusion
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
VOIP telephony, spin-off from Intel. eFusion was acquired by ITXC and later sold to eStara. www.estara.com
"Minute Man" award for conception and product management of first-of-a-kind VoIP API. -
Technical Marketing Engineer, Product Support Engineer, Webmaster
Intel
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years)
Developed 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
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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- Activities and Societies:
- Omega Rho International Honor Society (Operational Research and Management Science)
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Portland State University
BS, Computer Science, Business Administration, 1991 — 1996
Additional Information
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Dan (Dima) Itkis’s Interests:
Identifying new product/service opportunities; learning new things; having fun with what I'm doing.
Dan (Dima) Itkis’s Groups:
Association of International Product Management
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PDX Technology Professionals - Portland Oregon
Dan (Dima) Itkis’s Honors:
Member of Omega Rho Honor Society of Engineering Technology Management
Dan (Dima) Itkis’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
