Veiko Herne

Past

• Consultant at Addwit Ltd.
• SEO part time at Bloor Research Ltd.
• Software testing part time at Dataline Software Ltd

• President at Tarkvara Business Software
• Managing Director at Tarkvara

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• My Blog

Veiko Herne’s Summary

Currently an independent consultant providing management consulting for small and medium enterprises on successful web and mobile promotion, search optimisation and technical / market innovation. With a long background as entrepreneur in IT, media, music and art.
My primary achievements have been:
1. During Soviet Occupation era in Estonia I managed pirate radio station to record and promote artists not otherwise supported by Communistic Regime.
2. During the collapse of Soviet Union and independence I built one of the first successful IT companies in Baltic States.
3. Leading a team of three, we where awarded finalists in “Word Championship of Programming” in 1995.
4. Being a pioneer of Internet since 1993, I have been involved to develop Internet technologies.
5. Since 1998-2001 as a result of effective low budget online marketing efforts, I built international awareness for my software products in Financial Accounting/Analysis and HR field building up sales channels in Dubai, Malaysia, India, Singapore.

I’m interested new challenges to manage the success of low budget online and mobile marketing strategies for innovative products (web or mobile) to entrepreneurs maximising the ROI.

Veiko Herne’s Specialties:

Programming: XML,XHTML,HTML,CSS,SQL,SVG, 4GL.
Using, evaluating,integrating and testing variety of technologies, software products, tools and platforms.
Developing and managing succesful online marketing strategies, including SEO work, managing online campaigns and partners, affiliate programs, etc.
Product, technology platform and interface usability testing.

Veiko Herne’s Experience

• Consultant

  Addwit Ltd.

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

  April 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  * Developed Functional Specification for a software application, targeted at the mobile services market.
  * Evaluated and selected the stress-testing tool to test complex Web based system, delivered to Ofsted
  * Market Research and selection of “green energy” technology products.
  * Research of appropriate keyword for marketing unique mobile based application.
  * Wrote XHTML-MP compatibe CSS code for Microsoft Sharepoint based WAP interface.

• SEO part time

  Bloor Research Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry)

  June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

  Keyword research, SEO strategy development and implementation for IT related portals.

• Software testing part time

  Dataline Software Ltd

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2004 — August 2006 (1 year 11 months)

  * Planned and carried on a number of software testing projects for complex information systems delivered to major customers.
  * Creatively and quickly solved numerous problems and holes in User Interface, which can cause invalid data to be stored in database.

• President

  Tarkvara Business Software

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  October 1998 — August 2002 (3 years 11 months)

  * Established the company to develop and sell generic, shrink-wrapped HR Management and Accounting software applications in the global market.
  * Utilised the Internet to create a low-budget marketing strategy, soon achieving a level of 3000 interested visitors per month, with over 800 requests from HR-managers for evaluation copies and presentations from UK and US.
  * Created and maintained board-level relations with the US technology partner Centura Technologies, working with their management in identifying new markets and technologies.
  * Signed up channel partners in Dubai, India and Singapore.
  * Gained valuable experience in a range of markets, developing an understanding of viable models for e-business across all channels: the Internet, mobile, and satellite.
  * Actively participated and gave valuable input for great amount of innovative software and technology products developing and testing programs

• Managing Director

  Tarkvara

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

  September 1989 — October 2000 (11 years 2 months)

  * Started up one of the first private software companies in the post-Soviet marketplace. Successfully developed the company over 11 years, winning 4th position on the "Top-10 growth companies to watch for" list in 1995.

Additional Information

Veiko Herne’s Websites:

• My Blog

Veiko Herne’s Interests:

media,new technology,personalities,mobile,social networking

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