Dan Razen Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

GENERAL MANAGER of a privately held company, managing its day-to-day general business tasks as well as its sales, and marketing promoting its services to potential clients and partners.

INDEPENDENT SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT/CONSULTANT assisting:o Tech Ventures and Startups to discover, define, develop, deliver, and sell their Tech Products.o Organizations with their: - General Projects' needs, from definitions to implementations, ROI, and KPI. - Operational and 3rd Parties Compliance Programs' audit, improvement, implementation, and administration.---KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:o Perform tasks and duties of various tech and non-tech roles as outsourced to Razen Ventures by its clients, on a part-time/fractional or full-time bases, including, but not limited to: - Chief Product Officer, Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Project Manager or Compliance Consultant, including by not limited to working with key stakeholders and other parties to: -- define Organizations' Goals, Missions, and Culture values, alongside their short, mid, and long-term Priorities, and disseminate them across the organization's workforce, ensuring their acceptance and adherence. -- collect, define and document various Products and/or Projects' goals, priorities, time/budget restraints, and functional/performance requirements. -- prepare and present Tech Product's Visions, Scopes, Road Maps, Back Logs, and Pitch Decks to potential clients, VCs, and other partners and interested parties. -- set up and manage Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, MS 365, Azure, MS Project, or other Gantt-related solutions, and their environments. -- estimate Scopes of Work and convert them into Road Maps, alongside proposed timeframes and budgets. -- Execute, build and deliver the approved products, projects, programs, and features in accordance with the approved Product Road Map.---OPEN TO: Networking, Consulting, or Speaking engagements.

Albany, Ny, Us

GENERAL MANAGER of a privately held company, managing its day-to-day general business tasks as well as its sales, and marketing promoting its services to potential clients and partners.

Albany, Ny, Us

CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER, OWNER, and SCRUM MASTER of Angel Investors backed B2B SaaS company, converted complex organizational challenges into simple tech solutions and products.---KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & ACCOMPLISHMENTS:o Worked with the Client's Key Stakeholders (internal and external) to convert their organizational challenges and needs into Initial Product Scope including user stories, features, behaviors, and wireframe lists, alongside their priorities, time, and budget expectations.o Worked with Dev Teams (on or offshore) to produce details estimation of the development efforts of each feature and the overall Product release Road Map, containing sprints, initiatives, and releases projections, alongside their Gantt chart plot and budget expectations.o Oversaw the subsequential product development process using Agile and Scrum methodologies, including the daily stand-up, sprint grooming, estimations, and execution alongside change management.o Created Product that successfully: - competed against giants such as ISNetWorld, Avetta, Browz, and SAP’s Ariba Network, as well as smaller organizations including Eduwhere and many others. - served global conglomerates such as GE, ABB, Lafarge, Holcim, Arcadis, Colliers, Graymont, and thousands of other companies. - integrated with the service and products of giants such as Intervid and G4S. - saved its users millions of dollars in costs of Occupational Fraud, HSE Accidents and Incidents, and Regulatory Agencies citations (500 mill construction site). - increased its user’s insurance coverages (60% or 100 mills just in one instance). - won a bid to extend its service to Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Malesia, Indonesia, and New Zealand. - increased our site-owning clients' insurance coverages by more than 50% at no cost;

Albany, Ny, Us

CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER, SALES EXECUTIVE, and SALESPERSON of Angel Investors backed B2B SaaS company, promoted the company's wide range of EHS, Procurement, and other Operational Compliance validations services to Heavy Industries organizations, VCs, and other potential partners.---KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & ACCOMPLISHMENTS:o Sold company's hosting and validations services including add-ons, to giant organizations such as: - Lafarge US. - Lafarge Engineering Center. - LafargeHolcim. - Graymont. - Maser Engineering. - Colliers Engineering.o Converted some of the "Hosting/Validating" organizations and their contracts from competitors including: - Avetta. - Browz. - ISNetworld. - Eduwhere. - Eclipse.o Sold company basic membership to over 1k Organizations such as: - GE. - ABB. - Colliers International. - HDR Engineering.o Won bid to expand Company services to Canada, Australia, Philippines, Malesia, Indonesia, and New Zealand.o Promoted the company and its services to potential VC and other partners, through various Networking Activities.o Raised nearly 3 million dollars in VC and other equivalents from multiple parties.o Secured a $300k MS Azure grant/credit.o Created all the marketing materials through collaborative work with the founder and chief creator of a Times Square, NYC-based ad agency.

Albany, Ny, Us

Chief Executive Officer leading the Angel Investors backed B2B SaaS company and envisioning its a wide range of EHS, Procurement, and other Operational Compliance validations services. ---KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & ACCOMPLISHMENTS:o Envisioned and set up the values of the Company's: - vision. - mission. - culture. - product.o Source, Interview, and recruited key IT talent, partners, contractors, and VCs/Angels, including multiple on and offshore Soft Dev partners from countries like Israel, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine;

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, at an Angel Investor, backed software development as a service Startup, leading people and processes to discover, design, develop and implement software development projects and products per clients' specifications. ---KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:o Reported to the Board of Directors;o Established the company's mission, goals, and cultural values, and disseminated them through the organizations by documenting, storing, and sharing them as Confluence Spaces and Pages, available to all to see, learn, comment, and follow.o Sourced, Recruited, Trained, and Oversaw the performance of all other Officers, Key Talent personnel, partners, vendors, contractors, and an offshore dev center.o Reduced Key Tech Talent comp by 30% in exchange for the company’s equity.o Lead daily and/or weekly meetings of all Key Personnel and VC partners;o Directly or in-directly managed and oversaw the performance of about 15 persons actively engaged with the company, half of whom were offshore and who needed to be engaged remotely.o Overhauled Corporate Bylaws and other Legal paperwork.

CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER, at an Angel Investor, backed software development as a service Startup, promoting the company and its service to potential Clients, VS, and other partners through Sales and Marketing activities. ---KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:o Secured a $400k, year-long software development service contract;

CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER, at an Angel Investor, backed software development as a service Startup, promoting the company and its service to potential Clients, VS, and other partners through Sales and Marketing activities. ---KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:o Led and documented client product needs discovery process;o Translated client's general product needs into: - Confluence spaces hosted product scope documentation, which included a detailed verbal and visual description of products' features and their intended behavior. - Miro and MS PowerPoint hosted product wireframes, which included a detailed visual and verbal description of products' screens and pop-up layouts and behaviors. - Jira-hosted User Stories, documenting each feature in the light of its intended utilization by a potential user.o Oversaw dev teams' product estimations process.o Translated dev teams' estimations into Jira hosted: - Sub-Stories and their Tasks. - Back Log. - Sprints. - Epics. - Initiatives. - Releases. - Scrum Boards. - Advanced Road Map.o Oversaw the daily, weekly, and monthly implementation of the planned and approved development of Road Map via Jira Scrum Boards; o Designed, Configured, and Administered the products and software used in the above-mentioned processes, such as: - Confluence spaces, and pages. - Miro projects and their boards. - MS PowerPoint, and/or SharePoint hosted Product Wire Screens and their behavior and logic;

Zug, Ch

Analyzed, and improved the cost-effectiveness of contracts and projects of a 300-million-dollar Cement Plant (3 largest in the US).---KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Analyzed and renegotiated employee cafeteria contract, reducing the overall cost to the plant by75% or $300k.• Analyzed, negotiated, and administered quarry clearing and revitalization projects, reducing its original cost by 50% or $500k.• Administered Lafarge US Compliance program to 500 contractors of the plant daily.

Seattle, Wa, Us

An independent merchant services salesperson/consultant, reporting to the VP of Sales and operating in a new geographic location, remotely and autonomously from the company and its support office base in St. Louis, MS.In this role I:o Generated new: -- leads and sales; o Actively engaged in: -- new lead-generating activities like cold calling; -- customers support activities;o Provided merchants with: -- alternative cost-reducing and service-improving merchant services; -- cost-benefit analysis of their current solutions; -- various other financial services and consultations;Resulting in:o Thousands of dollars in new annually recurring revenue;o Many new clients;from previously untouched geographic locations;

An independent freelance physical security and counter-terrorism consultant; modeled the offered services on my 6 years of firsthand occupational experience in the Israeli security world.In this role I:o Designed, developed, and taught a proprietary approach to proactive security, modeled after security programs taught and utilized at Ben Gurion Airport;o Consulted, trained, lectured, and audited security measures and procedures at a wide range of “soft” or “semi-soft” civil and/or faith-based facilities and groups;o Red teamed and consulted RAM Security Team at the Mall of America;o Taught Krav Maga / Kapap based self-defense techniques to youth at Jewish faith-based;Resulting in:o Improved security at a number of faith-based facilities;o Referrals and repeat customers;

- Taekwondo- Kapap / Krav-Maga

Albany, New York, Us

Coordinated and actively led review of revitalization and modernization of NYS OTDA multi million dollars Interim Assistance and Reimbursement (IAR) program’s operational procedures and financial policies.

Albany, Ny, Us

Paraprofessional support capacity for planning, drafting and civil engineering technician work. Utilized, ESRI ArcGIS 9.2 and 9.3, Microsoft Access and Excel.

Tel Aviv, Il

- Central Command Combat Engineers platoon - Lieutenant;- Combat Engineering Corps’ Officer School - cadet;- Combat Officers School - cadet;- North Command K-9 Unit - explosives expert Sargent;- Combat Engineers Corps’ Special Operations Unit EOD school - trainee;

Graduate Studies, Public Finance And Homeland Security

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Urban Studies/Affairs

Associate'S Degree, Archeology And Geography