Haim Toeg

Technology Entrepreneur and Consultant

Greater Los Angeles Area

Current
  • Co-Founder at Texas Global Software Holdings
  • Chief Operating Officer, North America at dbMaestro
  • Principal at Toeg Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
Past
Education
  • University of Wales, Robert Kennedy College
  • Mamram School of Computer Professions
Connections
481 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Haim Toeg’s Summary

Seasoned high tech customer support and services executive with demonstrated record of success in delivering top line revenue growth, reduced costs, increased customer satisfaction, and employee retention. Visionary with the ability to bring creative and innovative business solutions from genesis to fruition within budget and time constraints. Leader and coach with proven track record in developing next generation leaders and delivering on succession plans. Solid understanding of global enterprise software industry with experience in all cultures and regions. Outstanding record in managing customer support function and producing benchmark quality systems. Solid knowledge of cutting edge business thinking and business process design with a focus on practical application and results.

Haim Toeg’s Specialties:

Enterprise software customer support and services,
Customer satisfaction and retention,
Maintenance renewals,
Global operations,
Budgeting and planning,
Workforce planning,
Critical account management,
Pre / Post sales consulting,


Haim Toeg’s Experience

  • Co-Founder

    Texas Global Software Holdings

    (Computer Software industry)

    September 2008Present (11 months)

  • Chief Operating Officer, North America

    dbMaestro

    (Computer Software industry)

    July 2008Present (1 year 1 month)

    dbMaestro is the developer of TeamWork, an innovative change management platform for database environment.

    TeamWork is the first comprehensive change management platform for a multi-platform, multi-vendor database environment enabling software development organizations to consolidate and manage the complete software development life cycle. With dbMaestro's TeamWork, software development organizations will increase productivity and accelerated time to value while reducing total cost of ownership.

  • Principal

    Toeg Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    July 2007Present (2 years 1 month)

    Toeg Consulting specializes in the delivery of Customer Support and Professional Services in the software industry world-wide.

  • Vice President, World-Wide Customer Support

    BMC Software

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BMC; Computer Software industry)

    October 2003June 2006 (2 years 9 months)

    Global responsibility for customer support organization of up to 350 staff covering USA, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Member of executive leadership team for global sales and services. Stewardship of maintenance stream revenue, management of annual budget and resolution of over 160,000 customer incidents annually.

    • Successfully merged regional organizations into a global organization, managing and bridging cultural and language differences to ensure increased employee commitment and customer satisfaction, leveraging product line capabilities from technical support staff in diverse geographic locations.
    • Established first line customer contact centers in Houston, Dublin and Melbourne, covering 19 European and Asian languages, as part of “follow-the-sun” support structure.
    • Launched a quality program to expand ISO 9000 certification to Asia Pacific and North America as well as the first steps towards a six sigma initiative.

  • Vice President, Customer Support, EMEA

    BMC Software

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BMC; Computer Software industry)

    April 2001October 2003 (2 years 7 months)

    Managed Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) customer support function including a staff of 120 team members with 4 directors and 12 managers. Directed budget of over $15 million annually.
    • Established a customer contact center in Dublin by transitioning positions from the different European locations to the Dublin location achieving cost reductions in excess of $1 million.
    • Responsible for increasing customer satisfaction by ensuring that the staff members were product specific specialists.
    • Implemented a quality initiative resulting in ISO9000 certification for the customer support organization in Europe.
    • Created a metric based reseller support structure to achieve level one service delivery.
    • Developed a customer and reseller European forum to discuss support initiatives and challenges.

  • Business Development Manager, Northern Europe

    BMC Software

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BMC; Computer Software industry)

    July 2000April 2001 (10 months)

    • Recommended streamlined processes to partner with vendors or resellers to ensure complete solutions for customers.
    • Responsible for the information flow between country sales, technical teams and corporate functions.
    • Oversaw 2 management level staff members.
    • Trained and coached sales, management and marketing teams in Northern Europe.
    • Member of the regional management team that was responsible for record regional revenues.

  • Director, Customer Support

    BMC Software

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BMC; Computer Software industry)

    April 1999July 2000 (1 year 4 months)

    • Part of the New Dimensions Executive Team that helped with the acquisition of operations to BMC Software.
    • Received the R&D Recognition Award.
    • Transitioned the customer support organization into BMC Software’s customer support department ensuring employee retention, migration of working processes and customer satisfaction.
    • Coached and developed 2 BMC management teams in their California locations.

  • Vice President, Customer Support

    New Dimension Software

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; DDDDF; Computer Software industry)

    January 1997March 1999 (2 years 3 months)

    • Responsible for the customer support and internal IT systems for North America.
    • In charge of the field support center which assisted the pre-sales team in the field.
    • Oversaw 4 direct report team members.
    • Achieved President Club recognition.
    • Established a Service Advisory Board customer forum to discuss customer support initiatives and challenges.
    • Achieved a continuous increase in customer satisfaction measured through a transactional customer survey tool.

  • Manager, Customer Support

    New Dimension Software

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; DDDDF; Computer Software industry)

    June 1992December 1996 (4 years 7 months)

    • Responsible for the customer support operation of the development lab, product packaging, shipment and internet support site.
    • Evaluated and purchased a commercial customer support application to replace an existing home grown system.
    • Led the team that built a development platform for mainframe products incorporating configuration management and the development of a workflow management system.
    • Coordinated the IT infrastructure and established a WAN connection between Tel Aviv and the California offices achieving cost savings and an increase in productivity.

  • Specialist Program Support Representative

    IBM

    (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

    January 1984May 1992 (8 years 5 months)

  • Programmer

    Israeli Air-Force

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

    July 1978December 1983 (5 years 6 months)


Haim Toeg’s Education

  • University of Wales, Robert Kennedy College

    MBA , 20072010 (expected)

  • Mamram School of Computer Professions

    Programming, System Design, System analysis 19781982


Additional Information

Haim Toeg’s Websites:

Haim Toeg’s Interests:

Business and management; road cycling; sports and exercise; reading, esp. history and biographies; art; travel.

Haim Toeg’s Groups:

American Society for Quality - http://www.asq.org
Lean Enterprise Institute - http://www.lean.org
Association of Support Professionals - http://www.asponline.com/
Association for Service Management International - http://www.afsmi.com

  •    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
  •    Technology Council of Southern California
  •    Configuration management
  •    BMC Alumni
  •    OCEAN - Orange County Executives And Networkers
  •    Software Engineering Institute Virtual SPIN
  •    Enterprise Software Community
  •    BMC Employees - Past and present
  •    IBM co/ex workers independent group
  •    Israeli Hi Tech Entrepreneurs Wherever
  •    Customer Experience Professionals
  •    Sustainability Professionals
  •    Configuration and Release Management
  •    Southern California Venture Capital Community
  •    Green
  •    ASQ Service Quality Division
  •    SCM Professional Network
  •    Customer Experience Management
  •    Sales/Marketing VP's & Directors - Software & Technology
  •    Israel High Tech (7k+ members)
  •    SCM - Software Configuration Management
  •    Sustainability Executives NeTwork (SENT)
  •    ClearCase Administrators
  •    MAMRAM Graduates
  •    Robert Kennedy College
  •    New Dimension Software Alumni
  •    Mamram Alumni
  •    IBM Rational ClearCase Group
  •    Enterprise Systems Management
  •    softwareCEO.com
  •    GreenBiz.com -- Green Business Professionals
  •    Supply Chain Today: Continuous Improvement, Technology Innovation, Executive Jobs, Education 10,000+
  •    Unit 180 Alumni
  •    Sales and Marketing Professionals Promoting Israeli High-Tech in the USA
  •    Sales and Marketing Professionals Promoting HighTech and Technology in Los Angeles and its Vicinity
  •    dbMaestro TeamWork

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