Information Technology Marketing

Alex Matus

Phone 954-***-****

******.*****@*****.***

Hollywood FL, 33019

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Accomplished VP with a passion for E-Commerce, start-ups and technology management. Specializing at building state-of-the-art technical foundations and enhancing IT organizations to enable start-ups to achieve revenue generation and company maturity.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Offshoring and Outsourcing

Vendor Selection and Management

Strategic Technology Growth Planning

Contract Negotiations

Establishing Agile Development Process

IT Governance

Alignment of IT with Front Office & Back Office Objectives

EXPERIENCE

RingByName, Miami, FL 8/2014 - Present

VP of Information Technology, E-commerce Enterprise IT

Major Accomplishments

Improved time-to-market on software delivery projects by 40%

Contributed to Company’s annual revenue growth by 30%

Increased software output by 50% while increasing quality by 400%

Grew IT organization by interviewing and hiring BA, UI, Programmers and QA candidates (combined staff of 20)

Organized independent QA department to ensure delivery of defect free products

Executed software development release management, monitoring and training procedures

Fostered culture of innovation by leading product and technology brainstorming sessions

Dramatically raised visibility of User Experience Group and improved products’ usability

Implemented Atlassian toolchain including Confluence and JIRA to organize SDLC

Established Product Steering Committee to set priorities for the development team

Day-to-Day Activities

Managed multiple product roadmaps and coordinated interdependencies

Oversaw Strategic Marketing Department that dealt with marketing analysis such as Google analytics, Facebook and business directories

Monthly oversight of Marketing Directors on ROI tactics to satisfy customer conversion rate

Created and oversaw department hit ratio for Web vs Mobile analytics

Chaired Product Steering Committee meetings with CEO, CTO, Directors of Marketing and Sales

Chaired weekly Project Portfolio meetings to ensure alignment of simultaneous projects

Optionova, Miami, FL 6/2013 - 7/2014

VP of Information Technology, Consultant, E-commerce Department

Built product development organization from the ground up and established 4 key groups: Web Engineering, Client Software, User Experience Design, and Quality Assurance. Hired and led team of 4 directors and 16 engineers

Managed the full SDLC to deliver a fully functional online trading website in 12 months

Developed project initiation, work breakdown structure, initial budget and high-level project plan

Conducted vendor selection process to identify the best-fitted trading platform for integration

Developed detailed project plan and obtained approval for the final budget (duration and effort)

Provided regular status reports to CEO and CTO

AutoZone, Memphis, TN 4/2012 - 5/2013

Project Manager, Consultant, E-commerce Department

Managed project via Agile methodology to create a user community for AutoZone.com

Portal allowed 8 million auto enthusiasts to create User Profiles, upload photos, videos, and interact with other users

Portal was linked to social networks like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter and allowed users to push content to those sites and provided a platform to run contests and promotions

The Online Community project resulted in $1 million dollars of revenue per month

Intelli Markets, Hollywood, FL 1/2009 - 2/2012

VP of Information technology/ E-commerce Department

Established fully operational IT organization for the US branch

Interviewed and hired FX dealers, PMs, BAs, QAs, DBAs (Staff of 18)

In charge of selecting and working with IT outsourcing companies

Established Application Support team for the Trading/Front End and Back Office applications

ActForex, New York, NY 01/2005 - 10/2008

V.P / Business Development

Established strategic alliances/partnerships between Actforex and international banks and clearing houses

Acted as liaison between the business and IT to ensure clarity and understanding throughout SDLC

M.I.N.A Consulting, New York, NY 1/1996 - 11/2005

COO/ Operations Manager of IT consulting services

●M.I.N.A provided Information Technology consulting services to various Fortune 500 companies;

Lehman Brothers, New York, NY 1/1993 - 12/1995

Programmer/Analyst

Merrill Lynch, Somerset, NJ 7/1991 - 10/1992

Junior Programmer/Analyst

EDUCATION

Nyack College 2002

BS in Business Organization

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