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MITCHELL A. LEVY
21265 Stevens
Creek Blvd, Suite 205Cupertino, CA 95014 Phone/Fax: (408) 257-3000
E-mail: mitchell
. levy@ecnow.com
SUMMARY OF KEY SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
| Author/Speaker/Luminary in Business Management | Extensive
E-Commerce & Internet Expertise |
| Recognized Expert
in Corporate Strategy | Expertise in Business Development |
| Effective Conference/Executive Education Organizer |
Extensive Program/Project Management Skills |
| Superior
Problem Solving Capabilities | Exceptional Organizational Skills |
| Effective Change Manager | Adept Facilitator |
EXPERIENCE
ECnow.com, Inc.,
Cupertino, CA Oct 1997 - Present
President & CEO - Founder
of a management consulting firm helping companies grow with strategic consulting
and targeted business education. Partial client
list. Highlights during this period include:
- Aug 2004-Present:
Director and Chief Strategy Officer of the Silicon Valley Executive Business Program
through San Jose State Extension (SJSU-PD).
- Jun 2002-Present: Co-Founder
and Partner in CEOnetworking. Participated in over 75 meetings helping 6-10 CEOs
per meeting explore, analyze and make adjustments to their business.
- Sep
2001-Present: Created the Value Framework®, a strategic framework which helps
companies drive value in the business. Have used the framework to analyze the
business models at over 100 companies.
- 2000-2001: Conference chair
for 4 Comdex conferences. Brought in $2m in revenue.
- Fall 2000: Wrote
a book on transitioning companies from the industrial age to the Internet age
called E-Volve-or-Die.com.
- Sep 1999-Dec 2003: Founded, Ran and was
a Faculty Member of the Enterprise & E-Commerce Management Certificate Program
at SJSU-PD. Created 50 courses, brought in $1.7m in revenue and sold over 4,700
courses.
- Helped a $1B client double Internet sales in 6 months (50%
ahead of schedule).
- Trained, coached and hosted 3 Japanese executives
for 4-5 month intensive training periods. Facilitated an increased knowledge in
business, strategy and management. All 3 were extremely successful contributors
once they returned to their corporations.
- Negotiated over 100 contracts,
20 of which involving partnerships.
Bay
Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA April 1997 - Oct 1997
Senior Marketing
Mgr, Web Business Developement.
Responsible for the strategy, direction
and implementation of e-commerce and all Web-related business activities for this
$2b corporation.
Held various management positions,
leaving Sun as the Worldwide Operations Electronic Commerce Manager.
Led
an 11-person cross-functional team responsible for streamlining Sun’s $3.5b value
chain while building a global EC infrastructure. Functional responsibilities included:
strategic planning, market research, product positioning, business development,
process reengineering, change management, product development and procurement,
system integration, on-going support, people and budget ($1.6m) management.
- Pioneered use of new Internet technologies in Sun’s supply chain
- Developed
Intranet site which facilitated info flow across Supply Mgt., Logistics, AP &
Engineering
- Spoke at major conferences on Internet marketing and Web design.
Published in Internet Journals
Highlights from the other positions
held:
- Chartered by CFO to pull revenue & standard margin data
from disparate worldwide O/E systems. Conceptualized and evangelized the vision,
managed implementation: led teams, wrote spec, designed database, developed sections
of code, marketed system and trained users.
- Responsible for the life cycle
of a worldwide supplier scorecard application. Created product plans, defined
specs, obtained budget, built and led joint IR/user team, delivered on time and
within budget.
- Created a Supply Mgt. Intranet site to share info. (e.g.
reports, process info., project status, etc.) among the 160-person worldwide organization.
Integrated Web technology into business processes.
- Coordinated worldwide
OS transition for all finance, HR, legal & facilities applications.
- Led
team of 6 to right-size a mainframe-based financial reporting application to a
client/server platform. Responsible for entire life cycle. Created product plan,
defined specs, managed team, documented product, created training materials and
trained over 200 users worldwide, provided quality control and successfully managed
user paradigm change.
- Responsible for consolidating & reporting worldwide
actual/plan data from the General Ledger. Negotiated contract, programmed interfaces,
wrote documentation, trained over 150 users and facilitated paradigm changes in
finance community to adopt system.
- Published in "Journal of Info
Strategy", "Journal of Financial & Accounting Systems" and
"Management Accounting"
RELATED EXPERIENCES
- Director
and Chief Strategy Officer of the Silicon
Valley Executive Business Program
- Partner and Chairman, CEOnetworking
- Chairman,
Media Attention Now
- Creator
of the Value Framework®
and CEO and Chief Strategist of the Value
Framework® Institute
- Authored the book E-Volve-or-Die.com
- Founded,
Ran and Instructor in the E-Commerce Management
program at San Jose State University Professional Development.
- Was
actively involved with the Silicon Valley Web Guild
and the Software Development Forum (previously
running e-commerce SIGS within each group)
- Was actively involved with
CommerceNet (500 Company Consortium). Served
as part of the Members Advisory Council and chaired the Marketing Working Group
which drove the architecture and creation of white papers & case studies which
fostered a better understanding of e-commerce.
- Authored, published, and
marketed a nationally released book called "Home
Ownership: The American Myth". Sold over 3,500 copies of the book and
over 800 copies of the software. Appeared
on NBC TV stations and in Parade Magazine around
the world. Made countless appearances on TV, radio, newspapers, magazines &
book stores in the United States.
- Featured on numerous TV,
radio and hard-copy publications
EDUCATION
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