Creative Professional | Technology Consultant
Vancouver, Canada Area
- Current
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- CEO at XLsuite
- CEO at StrataXL Software Inc.
- CEO at IXLD Media
- Owner at We Put Up Lights Inc
- Past
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- Board Member at Circus West
- Prime Minister at undernet.* Services Ltd.
- Presentation Consultant at Pacific Space Centre
- Assistant to the Producer at Forefront Productions Inc
- Education
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- Columbia Academy
- Bishop's University
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Riel Roussopoulos’s Summary
I've got experience in getting projects off the ground. Be they new product launches or new companies, I have a good ability to take a project from concept to functional business model.
My specialty is really technology evangelism. I have always used technology and particularly the internet to distinguish myself from "the rest".
Likewise I have an uncanny ability to evaluate a business or idea and visualize how to digitize their process and both streamline and vastly increase their work flow as a result.
I have experience in orchestrating large scale public events and creating and executing the plan to deal with thousands of people.
In business I've played all the rolls from sales to CEO to messenger to council member, which means that I bring a wealth of experience from all sides of the equation to every project that I take on.
I am looking for capital to help grow a new company which builds communities and business management solutions. Part of that includes showing business's, artists and other organizations how to use web based tools to better manage their client and content management needs.
I am always interested in consulting with people and groups on their technology needs and options and plans... I am a very good IDEA person that can show you avenues that you may not have been aware of.
Riel Roussopoulos’s Specialties:
Technology Evangelist, Consulting, Needs Assessment, Web Strategy, Project Management, E-Business Strategy, E-Commerce, SEO, Multi Site Strategy, Viral Marketing, Producer, Director, Excellent Promotions Director... All Round Creative Professional.
Riel Roussopoulos’s Experience
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CEO
XLsuite
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
XLsuite is an open source ruby on rails based application which combines best of breed features from CRM / CMS and ERP packages. It is a project of our company iXLd Media Inc.
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CEO
StrataXL Software Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
StrataXL is the company which represents the Real Estate business vertical of XLsuite. It's role is to commercialize the XLsuite platform specifically in the real estate sector.
Additionally StrataXL holds ownership of hundreds of domains related to the promotion of real estate, strata property management and many community focused web properties.
Mainly StrataXL is a sales and marketing entity with a focus on the real estate sector. -
CEO
IXLD Media
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)
IXLD Media Inc develops virtual properties with a proprietary set of web publishing and marketing tools.
We generally work in partnership with key industry leaders to create powerful marketing and business process improvement tools.
We partner with our clients to improve their business returns in a measurable and dramatic way and work with them to create new and largely automated revenue channels. -
Owner
We Put Up Lights Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Services industry)
October 2001 — Present (8 years 2 months)
We put up lights... for all sorts of clients, residencial to commercial.
Specialize in holiday lighting and LED's.
We've since grown our website into a web portal for other installers and now service thousands of customers all over North America with a network of over 1400 installers internationally. -
Board Member
Circus West
(Online Media industry)
March 2006 — March 2008 (2 years 1 month)
This was an interesting opportunity for me.
Cirkids was in the midst of a major strategic plan and was assisted in the process by a consultant Rick Knowland.
As a small business owner, I'm more used to being able to move quickly and make snap decisions.
An organization the size of Cirkids has to move much more methodically and engage all the stake holders in the decision.
At the end of a 2 year process, the organization emerged with clear goals related to growth and a stronger organization with buy in from all the major stake holders (Board, Teachers, Parents, Funders).
The new organization is now called Circus West and includes both training and semi professional troops extending past just kids to include training and professional opportunities for adults.
While sometimes rocky, I'm proud to have been a part of the transformation and value the experience that it brought me in working in a larger group. -
Prime Minister
undernet.* Services Ltd.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)
1994 — 2000 (6 years )
undernet.* Started it's life as a reuseable ticketing and membership system that was in opperation in throughout the 90's. We were very focused on the Rave scene and had tied a lot of the systems reporting and tracking technology into the existing bylaw structure of the "private members club". As such the system required that you register as a member and the card (a magnetic stripe credit card style event ticket) became your ticket to all future events. (as well as a member of a private club, thereby bybassing the "public event" bylaws).
For a number of reasons both personal and growth related, we decided to stop our current business path and put undernet.* on hold for a while.
Since then, we've repurposed the name (federally trademarked) to be a VoIP company with national reach. Please visit www.undernet.ca to learn more. -
Presentation Consultant
Pacific Space Centre
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)
January 1996 — January 1998 (2 years 1 month)
The HR MacMillan Planetarium was in a funk and hadn't been updated since the late 60's. Working under Michael Harding, a leading Vancouver campaign manager and government relations expert, I acted in the position of Presentation Consultant, preparing most of the funding requests to both private sector companies and matching government funds.
We raised a total of $8.8 Million and successfully saw the launch of the New Pacific Space Centre... since renamed the HR MacMillan Space Centre (can you guess who our biggest contributor was?) -
Assistant to the Producer
Forefront Productions Inc
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Entertainment industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years )
I was the producers assistant on a major (CTV-GLOBAL) prime time television series. Over the course of my employ, I handled all correspondence between agents and the producer. I sourced negotiating A&R rights for sound track music and produced the opening for the second season.
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