Torsten Volk
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | English, French, German, Languages |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | MadWolf Technologies |
| Position: | Strategy Consultant & Business Analyst |
| Time period: | January 2005 - Present |
| Description: | · Generated over $1 million in consulting revenue
· Created and implemented outsourcing strategy to lower average project costs by over 50% and increase scalability of service offerings · Improved client satisfaction through implementing innovative project management procedures · Supervised project teams to successfully complete projects worth up to $500,000 · Led research projects aimed at identifying viable solutions to client business challenges · Grew strategy consulting practice through focusing company’s unique value proposition on most profitable market segments · Conceptualized and led the development of innovative software products · Supervised the viability assessment and go-to-market strategy for several software products · Clients: World Bank, GAMA, ARI, The Hitachi Foundation, KTA, Pederson Immigration Law Group, Soap and Detergent Association, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation |
| Employer: | University of Maryland |
| Position: | Research Fellow |
| Time period: | January 2003 - December 2004 |
| Description: | · Led research effort to determine correlation between quality of business planning documents and start-up success
· Analyzed over 1,000 real-life business plans obtained from leading venture capital firms to derive key factors for start-up success · Successfully implemented latent semantic analysis-based software to automatically identify independent variables · Wrote core research papers and contributed to various articles |
| Employer: | City Information Centre |
| Position: | IT and Marketing Manager |
| Time period: | January 2000 - December 2003 |
| Description: | · Led the conceptual product development and design of interactive multimedia touch-screen kiosk terminals and web site for the City of London
· Developed and implemented online Marketing and Advertising Strategy · Successfully launched London’s first interactive touch screen information system |
| Employer: | Random House |
| Position: | Assistant to the Electronic & New Media Marketing Director |
| Time period: | January 1999 - December 2000 |
| Description: | · Managed online marketing of top selling book titles
· Developed interactive web features to promote top titles and authors · Supervised the development of web site functionality based on WebCatalog, one of the Leading Enterprise Grade Content Management Systems of the time |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | University of Maryland, 2004: Served as lead writer for paper on “Success Factors for the New Economy” and paper on “Data Mining” and assessed possibilities of using business plans for predicting new venture success. Assumptions and tools developed in these papers will build the basis for further research and papers in neighboring fields. |
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