Hagai Maidenberg Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

I was recruited during the startup phase of the company to establish robust frameworks, leverage untapped market opportunities, recruit top talent, and fuel the organization's growth. Successfully scaled the advertising and marketing departments to grow top line revenue by over 50%. Implemented a comprehensive restructuring initiative aimed at revitalizing both the team composition and office culture, cultivating a harmonious ecosystem that fosters highly efficient, decentralized teams primed to seize real-time opportunities. Forged strategic partnerships and drove business development initiatives, leveraging my keen insight into market dynamics and future trends to create new revenue streams which now accounts for 25% of our revenue.• Identified, validated, executed, and scaled numerous market strategies increasing revenue by over 50%.• Restructured and rebuilt the entire team and office culture to create highly effective decentralized teams able to take advantage of real-time opportunities.• Fostered a growth culture to instill employees with a learning mindset allowing them to achieve superior results.• Led and developed high-performing teams, fostering a collaborative and empowering environment that unleashes the full potential of individuals.• Spearheaded the launch of multiple sales channels including D2C, alternative marketplaces, and social media to accelerate growth and build out new revenue streams.• Diligently crafted and fine-tuned key performance indicators (KPIs) for every division, ensuring seamless alignment with overarching company objectives.• Proactively forged impactful strategic partnerships and cultivated valuable external relationships, strategically leveraging them to propel business growth and expansion.• Demonstrated exceptional financial acumen by meticulously developing, forecasting, and successfully executing operational budgets surpassing $25MM.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Led the development of several online assets through the entire lifecycle from MVP, through production, to growth and exit. Build, inspire, and mentor high performing teams of software engineers/front end developers/Dev Ops/QA using agile methodologies. Leverage expertise in project management, communications, negotiations, business development and team leadership to consistently increase revenue year over year. Provide critical direction and strategic leadership to fuel the growth of all online assets.• Promoted through the organization to Chief Technology Officer with a mandate to restructure the technical department to increase efficiency, productivity, and workflows to better meet business objectives.• Transformed underproductive teams into highly efficient and productive teams by developing new project management methods, tools, and techniques. • Coached and mentored project managers to better manage their teams.• Lead several partnership negotiations to establish a new and untapped monetization streams leading to an increase in revenues by 250%.• Drove organizational and cultural change by revitalizing IT legacy and fragmented infrastructure, restructured job roles and responsibilities, and reengineered business and technical processes to align with organizational goals.• Conducted due diligence to provide documentation to a potential investor that eventually purchased the entire division.• In conjunction with the CEO, CFO & COO, identified market opportunities, analyzed the risks, and developed a business plan to seize an opportunity to innovate and lead an untapped segment of the online education market.• Spearheaded the migration to agile methodology to increase development efficiency and consistently complete projects ahead of schedule and under budget.• Used cloud based infrastructure to secure our platforms and provide stability and scalability during peak traffic surges.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Lead the migration of our proprietary platform (PERL) to an open sourced platform (PHP). Responsible for security and scalability of platform as well as researching new technologies to best achieve business objectives. Mentored and motivated a team of developers to decrease employee turnover.• Promoted through the organization to project manager with a mandate to turnaround a failing project.• Lead the transformational initiatives and turnaround of a troubled project successfully completing it on time and on budget receiving high customer satisfaction rates. • Directed the planning, design, production and management of several online business units.• Researched and evaluated web-based technologies such as communications systems, project management suites, bug tracking systems, online payment gateways, and various JS frameworks to enhance our products and increase efficiency.• Selected and set up GIT repositories to allow multiple developers to collaborate more effectively on projects. • Implemented GIT best practices and trained employees on how to properly use a VCS.• Implemented Agile Methodology to increase efficiency and the ability to adopt to changes in requirements.• Recruited developers and quickly integrated them into the development workflow and company culture.• Recruited and mentored co-ops leading to their eventual promotion to full time employees up to project management roles, eliminating employee turnover and increasing productivity.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills by managing a team of developers, designers, and content writers to ensure successful completion of projects ahead of schedule.• Efficiently code key parts of the project using PERL, mod_perl, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, XML, and JavaScript.• Analyze and create custom relational databases for efficient retrieval of information from multi gigabyte sized databases.• Perform data modelling and requirements analysis for potential and current projects.• Rapidly deployed entire website directories from start to finish.• Using SEO knowledge, increased traffic to website by 80% year over year and increased search engine placement for thousands of keywords to the first page on Google, Yahoo and Bing.• Teach and mentor junior developers using proper coding conventions and best practices.

Woodbridge, Ontario, Ca

• Promoted through the organization with a mandate to design new cutting-edge embedded system to replace their legacy systems.• Researched, designed and developed a Real Time Operating System (RTOS) to control existing machinery.• Analyzed and solved data transmission problems using creative solutions that lead to widespread company adaptation and increased technical efficiency.• Created base OS images using both WinCE and Embedded Linux for various machines.• Developed and executed stress tests to ensure that the embedded system will be able to work flawlessly both under physical stress, environmental stress, and as well as high usage loads.

Woodbridge, Ontario, Ca

• Planned and developed the entire web presence for D&V which resulted in a 25% increase in sales and a 50% decrease in customer complaints.• Developed a backend administration utility to streamline sales staff processes.• Used PERL & MySQL to create an efficient, well organized customer service interface to allow customers to diagnose their problems online resulting in less service calls.• Using SSL and other online security methods, ensured that sensitive information is well protected against attacks.