Owner at >>mlyk consulting. Mobile technology consulting.
Czech Republic
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- Owner at >>mlyk consulting. Mobile technology consulting.
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- Head of Business Development at U-Turn Media Group
- Chief Marketing Officer and Director of Sales at Ginger Alliance s.r.o.
- Chief Technical Officer at Whooshgroup ltd.
- Senior sales engineer at Wysdom
- Project manager (Mobile Data Services) at Mobilcom Multimedia GmbH
- SENIOR SALES ENGINEER at Soltima
- PROJECT MANAGER at 12snap AG
- WEBMASTER/ONLINE PRODUCER at Linguatec
- WEBMASTER at BMW AG Munich
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Michael Kirsch’s Summary
Michael Kirsch is owner of >>mlyk consulting - mobile technology consulting.
Before he was Head of Business Development at U-Turn
Media Group responsible for U-Turn’s mobile marketing solutions, strategy, partnerships and business development.
Prior to U-Turn Media Group Michael was CMO / Director Sales & Marketing at Ginger Alliance s.r.o. (acquired by U-Turn Media Group), responsible for strategy, marketing, product management, partnerships and business development for Ginger Alliance and its sister companies.
Before he was CTO for Whoosh Group Ltd. based in London.
Acquired by YooMedia PLC, www.yoomedia.com.
Whoosh provided TV / media interactivity via the mobile phone using SMS; for clients like the BBC, Celador and CarltonTV.
Before that Michael was Senior Sales Engineer for Wysdom based out of Toronto, Canada. There he oversaw the relationship with the leading mobile operator in Europe and provided technical sales support for EMEA.
Before he was Project Manager for Mobile Data Services at Mobilcom Multimedia GmbH responsible for UMTS mobile data services, partnerships with middleware vendors and strategy planning for new mobile technologies.
Awards
Winner of 'Best Use of Wireless' New Media Age Effectiveness Awards 2004
Nominated “Best Innovation Award” Mobile Entertainment Forum 2004
Michael Kirsch’s Specialties:
Specialties:
- Mobile Media, Entertainment, & Technology
- Product Marketing
- Business Development
- Solid Technical and Development background
- Building & Launching New products
- Sales and Deal Negotiation
- Management / business Consulting
Technology:
GSM, GPRS, 3G, WLAN
Mobile Broadcast DVB-H, Mobiflow, DMB
Content Mgt & delivery
IPTV, VOD,
Device Management
On Device Portals
Digital content delivery
Mobile technology
Mobile Content
Michael Kirsch’s Experience
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Owner
>>mlyk consulting. Mobile technology consulting.
(Telecommunications industry)
January 2001 — Present (8 years 7 months)
mlyk consulting., a leading mobile technology solutions consultancy, offers quality and innovative service within the mobile messaging, mobile content, mobile internet and interactive media industry.
mlyk consulting. helps you find and implement leading mobile technology solutions. We take your requirements and create a solution that fits your individual needs: identifying top-quality and low cost partners, analyzing the market to help you deliver on target and in trend mobile solutions, and working with you throughout the process to ensure the final results satisfy your needs and meet your targets.
Mobile content and mobile internet are the key drivers in the mobile industry. mlyk consulting. works together with first class partners to help you generate new and interesting possibilities to create strong revenue streams for your company. -
Head of Business Development
U-Turn Media Group
(Privately Held; Wireless industry)
October 2006 — March 2009 (2 years 6 months)
Running Business development and sales team, introducing new products, Product and professional service strategies, Customer presentations, Client requirements gathering.
Contract negotiation, process definition, business lead for installation project on client side, tender process management.
U-Turn Media Group owns and operates innovative media, technology and services organizations, including UNITY Mobile, Pixalon Studios and UTMG Consulting. The group has operations in Europe, the Middle East and the United States.
As one of the first companies in the world to bring high quality video to mobile phones, U-Turn Media Group has grown steadily to provide best-in-class products and services across the entire spectrum of interactive media.
UNITY Mobile is a unified services platform that seamlessly marries Web and mobile operations, taking your brand, content and campaigns farther than ever before. -
Chief Marketing Officer and Director of Sales
Ginger Alliance s.r.o.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 9 months)
CMO and Director of Sales, responsible for strategy, marketing, Sales, partnerships and business development of Ginger Alliance and its sister companies.
GA is a technology company that takes a collaborative approach to providing solutions & outsourced development/ systém integration. GA helps to define, design, develop, manage & support solutions to match your needs. Our aim is to make IT simpler, faster & cost effective by using standards-based and if possible open source technologies. An acknowledged innovator in XML development and the creation of Service Orientated Architectures (SOA) enabling web services & mobile applications.
Products include:
-Messaging Oriented Middleware (GA-MOM)
-Content Management Platform (GA-CMP)
- Multi Media Archive (GA-MMA)
- Content Delivery Platform (GA-CDP),
- Device Management System (GA-DMS)
- Mobile Billing Platform (GA-MBP)
Open Source:
A recognised leader in open-source e.g. Sablotron (XSLT processor), PerlRDF -
Chief Technical Officer
Whooshgroup ltd.
(Telecommunications industry)
September 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 4 months)
Acquired by YooMedia PLC
Translate technology vision into technical architect to comply with the business strategy.
Manage implementation including all third-party and vendor management.
Provide ongoing system and application maintenance and production according to defined SLAs.
Communicate technology trends to Board.
Support in the identification and evaluation of partnerships.
Maintain relevant know-how in broad range of mobile telecommunication applications.
Consulting directly to the Board with regards to:
o M&A opportunities
o Partnerships & co-operation
o Advice on feasibility of ideas
Initiate / moderate rolling out best practice processes across Whoosh.
Develop and own partnerships with global technology partners.
Represent Whoosh technology with external community (speaking engagements…)
Served as escalation point for all architecture and implementation issues.
Corporate Awards
Winner of 'Best Use of Wireless' New Media Age Effectiveness Awards 2004 -
Senior sales engineer
Wysdom
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
October 2002 — June 2003 (9 months)
EMEA sales support, technical sales support for Wysdom’s product MAP – OS Portal and Mobile application middleware platform.
Customer presentations, requirements gathering for EMEA. Account Manager for leading mobile operator in Czech Republic.
Other responsibilities include contract negotiation, process definition, change request process, business lead for installation project on client side, tender process management. -
Project manager (Mobile Data Services)
Mobilcom Multimedia GmbH
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
July 2002 — September 2002 (3 months)
Operation of Mobile Data Services including GPRS, WAP-Gateways; Mobile Application Platform; Handset application Platform, SMSC, MMSC and Intelligent Network Solution.
Project Lead for New Mobile data Application and Services, vendor selection, RFI and RFP processes. -
SENIOR SALES ENGINEER
Soltima
(Telecommunications industry)
September 2001 — June 2002 (10 months)
Global sales support, technical sales support for wireless content/applications middleware platform; requirements gathering on client sites for customized applications development; Developed prototype wireless gaming application for sales support.
Conducted client presentations to carriers in Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, Latin America and Middle East. -
PROJECT MANAGER
12snap AG
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)
April 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 6 months)
Responsibilities:
Managed group of 15 programmers/architects, developing wireless messaging tools/applications for mobile commerce, mobile marketing, wireless games & entertainment and supporting administrative tools.
Specific projects include development of GSM gateways, and SMS/CBC messaging applications connected to Europe’s first wireless platform.
Responsible for all website content management and maintenance.
Provided technical support to Marketing/Business Development/Sales.
Worked closely with leading European global telecommunications companies including Cable & Wireless, Swisscom, Vodafone/D2, and DeutscheTelecom/D1.
Technologies: SMS-MO/MT, Cell Broadcast, GSM gateway protocols (MAM, Nokia), JavaScript, Oracle -
WEBMASTER/ONLINE PRODUCER
Linguatec
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1999 — March 2000 (7 months)
Internet web design, development, launch and maintenance for Linguatec websites, project management and web design for www.viavoice.de for IBM Germany.
Technologies: HTML/Dynamic HTML, JavaScript, Java Applets, XML, Java, CGI, Perl, MySql. -
WEBMASTER
BMW AG Munich
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; bmw; Automotive industry)
September 1997 — August 1998 (1 year)
Worked on “Project Internet” as web designer, web master, generated static and dynamic web pages, and administration of BMW’s corporate intranet.
Supported team members to solve specific tasks and provide technical support.
Technologies: CGI, JavaScript, I-Planet Enterprise Server, Livewire, Java.
Additional Information
Michael Kirsch’s Honors:
Nominated “Best Innovation award” Mobile Entertainment Forum 2007
Winner of 'Best Use of Wireless' New Media Age Effectiveness Awards 2004
Nominated “Best Innovation award” Mobile Entertainment Forum 2004
