Sales Quality Assurance

Amir Avitzur

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Metuchen, New Jersey 08840

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Summary of Qualifications

High energy and passionate senior business, program, development and

delivery manager with over 18 years of extensive experience in

managing, designing, developing, implementing and delivering a wide

range of financial applications for the global financial industry.

. Extensive experience in managing and leading large scale

projects, products and people through requirements, development,

client relationship, and the implementation phases.

. Extensive knowledge of product, project and software development

life cycle (SDLC) methodologies.

. Proven abilities in managing, leading and mentoring development,

product, quality assurance, and business groups comprised of up

to 50 professionals.

. Responsible for setting, advising, monitoring and exceeding

revenue and profit targets across multiple products and

projects.

. Extensive experience in designing product and projects to fit

small, medium and large clients need, deep involvement in the

client definition and requirement phase of the project.

. Proven ability to manage in-house and outsourced development

projects developed using various software architectures (such as

.NET, SQL Server, ORACLE, JAVA, ASP.NET, C#, XML, CMS and E-

Commerce platforms)

. Proven ability to design, manage and develop a wide range of

global financial applications, including payments, securities,

reconciliation, and treasury systems.

. Strong communication and coordination skills with all levels and

groups in the organization and with clients.

Professional Experience

Business Consulting Company - NYC,NY 1/2007-current

Co-Founder, Program Manager, Consultant

The company is a consulting, business management, and mentoring firm

providing program and project management services to large financial

institution as well as business management and advising services to

small to medium size companies.

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Responsibilities Included:

. Managed the requirements and current/future state information

capturing process for a large financial institutions to support

its global collateral management program.

. Managed, supervised and led the on-shore and off-shore teams of

project managers and business analysts supporting the global

collateral management program.

. Consulted and mentored various business owners in private and

group sessions, Businesses were across the financials, services

and information technologies industries.

. Advised, presented and consulted business owners in the areas of

project management, operations, team structuring and building,

budgeting, sales, marketing, financial planning, capital

allocation and business planning.

. Responsible for all financial aspects of the company, including

budgeting, financial projections, pricing modules.

IT Consulting Company - NYC,NY 10/2008-04/2010

Director of Development Services

The company is an IT consulting, Business applications development and

Web development, providing development and consulting services to

small to medium size businesses with accounting products development,

CRM products development, E-commerce and web solutions.

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Responsibilities Included:

. Managed, supervised and led two operational groups including the

application development and web development groups using both in-

house and outsourced resources. The department was comprised of

managers, senior architects, developers and designers.

. Rsponsiblity for the group financials including revenue targets,

cost structure, utilization and financial performance of the

group.

. Responsible for the overall department strategy, structure,

hiring, projects, internal and external products, web sales, and

all department policies and procedures.

. Managed the interaction with other departments in the company.

. Senior member of the company management team.

Fundtech Corporation - Jersey City,NJ 7/2005-12/2006

VP Program Managment

Fundtech corporation is a leading provider of global payments,

settlement and cash

Management solutions for financial institutions worldwide, Fundtech

solutions have been sold and implemented in more than 700 financial

institutions around the globe.

Managed, supervised and supported the implementation of a Global

Payments products for HSBC. The global payments system using state of

the art architecture provides funds transfer solution for financial

institutions across the globe.

Responsibilities Included:

. Managed Initial requirement and solution specification process

for the program, working together with various client groups and

sales teams.

. Managed, supervised and led the various operational units

including the development, quality assurance, business and

product groups and the supporting units including the finance

and support groups, both in-house and off-shore.

. Rsponsiblity for all financial aspects of the program.

. Responsible for the overall project strategy, the project

planning, execution and the global delivery and implementation

of the funds transfer program.

. Set priorities and standards across the various regions and

projects. Managed inter-regional dependencies and conflicts.

Albridge Solutions/StatementOne - Lawrenceville, NJ 8/2004-4/2005

Consultant

Albridge Solutions/StatementOne provide data consolidation and

performance reporting solutions and manages account data for more than

70 financial institutions, representing over $500 billion in assets,

tens of thousands of financial advisors, and millions of investors.

Their current clients include independent broker dealers, banks, and

insurance companies.

Architect, developed and implement Financial data mining solution to

support the need of utilitzing the vast amount of data within Albridge

Solutions large databases.

Responsibilities included:

. Led the requirements and functional phase, define the technical

specifications for both the internal data mining system which

includes data from various Broker/Dealers such as American

Express and ING

. Designed, developed and implemented the user interface

components, application infrastructure components and

application database layer.

Fundtech Corporation - Jersey City,NJ 1997-5/2004

VP of Software Development/VP of Product management

Managed the development, implementation and support of a domestic

payments product that provides funds transfer solution for financial

institutions in the United States. The product helps financial

institutions manage payments more efficiently and cost-effectively.

The product includes a sophisticated Archive and querying sub product

to enable the investigation of the historical financial transactions.

Managed the development, implementation and support of a Securities,

FX/cash reconciliation and cash projection products for global

financial institutions.

Responsibilities for the: Domestic payments and global Archiving

products:

. Managed the development, support and implementation of the funds

transfer product in over 100 banks among them Washington Mutual

bank, Commerce Bank, Regions Bank, and Synovus.

. Participated in the company User and functional committees

representing the product and development group in defining the

product road map.

. Responsible for designing the functional and technical

requirements of the company archiving and retrieval product

including the recommendation of the technologies, architectures,

software tools and strategies to be used by the outsourced

company in developing the product.

. Led and managed various teams of in-house computer

professionals, system analysts, database administrator, other

support staff, and third party vendors for the development of

the payment and archiving products for over 100 domestic

clients,

. Participated in client site visits to help in the implementation

and conversion of the client payments system.

Responsibilities for the: Securities, FX and cash reconciliation and

cash projection products:

. Led the user sessions, sales phase, requirements phase,

functional and technical specifications and the implementations

with IMI Bank (Italy), Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd.

(Switzerland), KBC Bank (Belgium) and Bank Leumi (Israel).

. Lead product role in the sales effort and security sub product

requirements phase, including negotiating and advising sales

targets for the various products, setting sales and revenue

goals for the products.

. Designed, Managed, developed and implemented a wide array of

user interface components, application infrastructure and

application database layer using Microsoft Development tools.

. Managed the design and user requirements phase for Merrill Lynch

cash projection web front end product.

. Led and managed various teams (20 individuals) of computer

professionals, system analysts, database administrator and other

support staff for the development of the system for over 15

global clients.

VISA - Israel 1994-1997

Senior Software Engineer

Supervised and developed new graphical user interface system for VISA

Israel CAL system to

service both the company's customer base and its internal staff.

Responsibilities:

. Examined, analyzed and advised senior management a preferred

client-server development tools and architecture to be used in

developing the new CAL system user front end.

. Supervised and developed a wide array of pilots for the new

graphical user interface using various tools and technologies

(Visual Basic, DAO, ORACLE), advisor in the user sessions that

defined the suitable user interface and user experience.

. Designed, developed and implemented various infrastructure

components to be used by across the technology organization,

Education

1991-1997 - Tel Aviv Open University - Management and Computer

Science

1989-1990 - Mamram Computer School

U.S Status

U.S. Citizen

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