Emil Freund

President/Consultant at ManageSolv, Inc.

Greater New York City Area

Current
  • President/Consultant at ManageSolv, Inc.
Past

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Education
  • Columbia University in the City of New York
  • New York University
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Emil Freund’s Summary

Hands-on executive leader with more than 20 years of experience impacting corporate performance through skillful development, enhancement, and orchestration of technical teams, processes and products for rapidly growing businesses. Expertly align IT resources and strategies with enterprise objectives on a global level. Reputable for growing revenue and slashing operational expenditures through strategic business/technology planning, execution of large-scale systemic improvements, and development/launch of cutting edge online products. Award winning builder of effective teams. Effective change agent focused on the continuous delivery of top quality services and products.

Emil Freund’s Specialties:

• Strategic Business/Technology Planning, Transformation, Execution
• Multimillion-Dollar Budget Management
• Process Improvement, Change Management
• Team Leadership, Talent Recruitment & Development
• MBTI Step I & II Certified
• Business Governance, IT Governance, ITIL/ITSM
• Streamlining Operations, Outsourcing, Vendor Relations, Negotiating
• Business Analysis, Project Management
• Application & Web Product Development
• Operations: Help Desk, Infrastructure, Resilience

Emil Freund’s Experience

  • President/Consultant

    ManageSolv, Inc.

    (Management Consulting industry)

    March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

    Provider of IT/business consulting services ranging from performance evaluation and assessment to implementation of new strategies, tools, processes, and systems to enhance overall productivity, profitability, and resources management.

    • Impacted the performance of diverse companies through expert technology due diligence assessment.
    • Achieved the successful turnaround of an at-risk IT department into a top performing entity through strategic transformation of operational platform.
    • Boosted the productivity and profitability of an IT organization with the introduction of IT/business partnership as well as communication tools that facilitated selection of cost-effective projects.
    • Successfully established professional, customer-centric, IT services platforms as well as elevated service quality with the implementation of ITIL- and ITSM-based practices.

  • Managing Partner

    Semantic Communities, LLC

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

    April 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 7 months)

    Semantic Communities, LLC is a start-up focused on bringing to market semantic web based technologies and sites. SC, LLC publishes sites and develops tools that help organizations, systems and individuals exploit the emergence of Web 3.0 technologies -- knowledge exchange and representation standards that collaborate and inter-operate on a worldwide scale. Recently projects:

    The InterestMatrix ™ is an adaptive semantic database that parses and catalogs web-based information along human interests, and is used in a novel approach for creating consumer profiles and psychographics.

    Ardorado.com is a collection of activities, interests, hobbies, and passions derived from the InterestMatrix ™. SC, LC continually crawls the web for news, blog posts, web sites, and e-commerce opportunities and, with the aid of the InterestMatrix ™, we organize and publish the mass of collected information by interests.

  • SVP Information Technology

    Court TV

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

    December 1997 — January 2007 (9 years 2 months)

    Commanded company’s entire IT services and designed both long and short term strategies for the division. Collaborated with senior executive committee to set and manage company goals and conceived of, developed, and directed annual technology projects in support of those objectives. Accomplished a thorough revamping of company-wide IT functions and created a responsive IT organization. Recruited, trained, and motivated a talented staff.

    Provided business analysis and project management services to the company and ensured frictionless operations of daily IT functions, such as application development, desk-side support, structured networking, security, telecommunications, remote application and network access, remote offices, wireless services, a guaranteed 100% uptime for live broadcast and news gathering systems, web application development, and web hosting environment.

  • Director, Information Systems

    American Lawyer Media/Counsel Connect

    (Publishing industry)

    September 1993 — December 1997 (4 years 4 months)

    Charged with managing all IT activities across 3 different lines of business: print, online, and cable television. Negotiated contracts and maintained relationships with vendors. Oversaw day-to-day user support, network maintenance, operations, and web development functions for the company.

  • Director of Information Systems

    Counsel Connect

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1993 — 1997 (4 years)

  • Senior Litigation Support Analyst

    Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

    (Partnership; Law Practice industry)

    February 1991 — September 1993 (2 years 8 months)

  • Litigation Support Consultant

    Adler Consulting Group

    (Legal Services industry)

    January 1990 — January 1991 (1 year 1 month)

  • Legal Assistant

    Proskauer Rose LLP

    (Partnership; Law Practice industry)

    August 1986 — December 1989 (3 years 5 months)

Additional Information

Emil Freund’s Websites:

Emil Freund’s Groups:

  •    Enterprise Architect (Sparx Systems) User Group
  •    Web Producers Organization
  •    Worldwide Management Consultants (23,000+ members)
  •    Alpha Epsilon Pi
  •    NYU Alumni
  •    Technology Leaders Association
  •    ThoseinMedia
  •    E-Commerce Network
  •    American ITIL
  •    Global Private Equity & Venture Capital
  •    ISACA Professionals
  •    Semantic Web
  •    Columbia University Alumni Network
  •    New York Venture Community
  •    Behavioral Targeting Standards Consortium
  •    Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Assessment (MBTI®)
  •    Media Professionals Worldwide
  •    Time Warner Alumni
  •    The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University Alumni Network
  •    Alumni of the Ivy League
  •    MBTI PROFESSIONALS
  •    Big Think
  •    NY/NJ QA and IT Professionals

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