About the Expert Consultant (M. Laziev)
I am one of the leading multilingual B2B e-Commerce and IT consultants with more than 15 years of experience in programming, software development, e-Marketing and project management. Proficient in successfully recognizing IT problems, prioritizing client’s spending to meet business objectives and developing solutions that improve the efficiency of IT operations. Proven record of success in reducing downtime, strengthening security, saving costs, and improving user satisfaction. Commercial background includes business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) eCommerce as well as international / domestic experience in leadership roles.
During last few years was involved as a consultant in online B2B marketing, especially in pharmaceutical and chemical fields. Developed the e-Business strategies and designed number of high-profile e-Commerce websites, promoting them to highest levels via online marketing and search engine systems. All the strategy was build from scratch including own promotional and marketing techniques allowing to boost the e-Commerce 'visibility' to very high levels (e.g. more than 25%-30% of visitors are bookmarking the website, etc.) Can lead a business project from the initial outline and budgeting to the final implementation, correlation, business analysis and improvements.
Author and developer of the “Dual Star” B2B e-Marketing concept.
I come from a very strong academic (theoretical physics) and IT (IT Manager in a commercial trading company). I am also a registered consultant in e-Commerce, IT and technology for the European Commission since 2002 and full member of British Institution of Analysts and Programmers (IAP).
Some of my skills and experiences include
- Managerial / Administrative / Marketing:
Development and promotion of corporate websites including marketing strategies for e-Commerce in B2B environment. Marketing of products via Internet, market and business analysis in chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries.
Development of strategic online marketing programs for B2B e-Commerce with full Project Management support including planning, budgeting, ROI estimation, design (in house and outsourced), SEO, localisation, implementation and support. Communicating the ideas to the highest level (CEO) to potential clients and mentoring teams in e-Marketing and e-Commerce.
- IT Manager / Consultant / Developer / e-Commerce:
Software development, installation, debugging and support. IT budgeting and planning. Administrative Processes, Administrative Reporting, Change Management/Systems Integration/ Release Management. E-Commerce (analysis, planning, developing, implementing, maintaining, project management, etc.) In depth understanding of Internet business in both B2B in B2C environments. Ability to define, budget, propose, develop and support the best solutions for businesses both on internal IT systems and Internet. Multilingual Web design, multilingual graphics design, multilingual typesetting. IT Consultant. Strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to work both with senior management and ordinary network users, negotiate with customers and suppliers, develop company's policy in IT, working as a Project Leader.
Operating Systems: Windows 9x, NT 4 workstation and server, Microsoft SBS v 4.5, Windows 2000, 2003 with peer-to-peer or domain based networks, wireless networks, MS Windows XP, Vista, PICK R.86 and AP Native, Raining Data, MAC OS, etc.
Linux and others: Experience in RedHat Linux 5 Enterprise Server administration. Experience with several desktop Linux flavours including openSUSE, Ubuntu, Mandriva (Mandrake), Fedora (as a derivative of the RedHat), PCLinuxOS, etc. Experience with VMWare and running virtual computers for number of different operating systems.
Development tools: Visual Basic v 3, v 4, v 5 Professional, v6 Enterprise, PICK BASIC for R.86 and AP Native, JAVA, JAVA Script, HTML, DHTML, PHP, MySQL, Fortran, etc.
Other Software: Adobe Illustrator vv9 and 10 (both MAC and PC), Adobe Photoshop (both MAC and PC), Adobe Pagemaker, QuarkXpress v3.0.3 - 4.01 (both MAC and PC), Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Fireworks, Microsoft Office 95 / 97/ 2000 / XP with full user support, Lotus SmartSuite 97 / Millennium with user support, number of other developing, graphics, font design, communications and support packages. Scientific packages including MathCad, Maple, Mathematica, etc.
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