Marin Ivezic

I build websites, software and apps. Some of which you probably used today. Learn more about me or connect on:

I also invest in very early stage mobile, enterprise mobile, social networking and cloud computing startups in Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa. I invest $10K - $250K in startups with at least 2 strong technical, "hacker" cofounders. If you would like to talk to me about investing in your company, please contact me.

Ex developer, architect, project manager, CTO and CIO and software entrepreneur. I now help my clients deliver business benefits from their IT investments.

I advise on various aspects of IT management. But my biggest strength and passion is building high-performance, innovative software teams and managing delivery of complex software and web projects.

If you have an ongoing troubled IT project or starting a high-risk project, I can help. Get in touch

Some more info:

• Delivered IT programs of up to $150 million budget

• Managed IT organizations and project teams of up to 250 people

• Defined and implemented IT organizational improvements in global IT groups of up to 4000 people

• Managed development and infrastructure for websites serving up to 600K unique visitors per day

• Restarted failed IT projects and delivered twice the scope for 40% of the total budget of previous failed attempts

• Implemented software QA improvements and achieved up to 50% reduction in time to delivery and 80% reduction of number of bugs in final QA phases

• Achieved up to 66% of reuse

• Negotiated and managed IT outsourcing contracts of up to $50M

• Ex-senior partner in an international IT management consulting firm providing IT delivery consulting and interim management to Global 500 companies as well as web start-ups

• IT strategy and IT outsourcing advisor to corporations and governments

• Active seed-stage investor in web and mobile startups

• Multilingual. Lived, worked, managed projects and teams in number of European countries, USA, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, China, Japan, UAE, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, South Africa, Uganda and Australia

• Corporate clients and employers include CargoWise, Vodafone Hutchison, HotelClub / Orbitz, Commonwealth Bank, Unisys, Macquarie Bank, Stockland, Travelocity / Sabre, Voca, Toyota, Marsh & McLennan, European Commission, Shell, Barclays Capital, HP, Axa, IBM, KPMG, Philips, Cap Gemini, Agfa, EDS, MasterCard, Alcatel, Credit Suisse First Boston, Fortis, ING, Nato, Boston Group, Kaizen Group, Fabricom, Icon MediaLab, Coca-Cola, Ogilvy, Reef and others

• Industry qualifications:

  - COP - Certified Outsourcing Professional
  - MCMM (Cert.) - Certified Member of International Association For Contract & Commercial Management
  - PMP - Project Management Professional
  - MSP - Managing Successful Programmes
  - Prince 2
  - Certified ScrumMaster
  - CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional
  - Certified Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator
  - ITIL Certified
  - Gartner Institute Certified Project Manager in e-business
  - Certificate in IT Law
  - SEO Certified Analyst
  - Sun Certified Java Programmer
  - Sun Certified Java Architect
  - IBM Certified Developer – XML and other
  - IBM Certified for e-business - Solution Designer
  - IBM Certified Specialist for Rational Unified Process
  - Microsoft Solutions Framework Practitioner
  - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
  - Microsoft Certified Solution Developer

Child Rescue

For almost 20 years I have been fighting against child slavery, child trafficking and child commercial sexual exploitation. My involvement ranged from advocating legislative changes and providing training to law enforcement to organizing and coordinating investigations and field operations to find, identify and retrieve children victims of slavery, trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.

Among other achievements, in 1999 my company developed and donated one of the first criminal intelligence solutions focused on child commercial sexual exploitation.

In 2009 I co-founded Child Rescue and am now managing its operations in Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa.

Did you know that:

• An estimated 2.5 million children are sexually exploited in the multibillion dollar commercial sex industry. (UNICEF)

• Majority of them are victims of child trafficking as well.

• 1.2 million children are trafficked every year. Most of them are forced into the commercial sex trade (UNICEF)

• In U.S. alone 300,000 children are at risk every year for commercial sexual exploitation (U.S. Department of Justice)

If you want to learn more or get involved, please contact me or visit:

You can also get involved by purchasing the Child Rescue App. It's an iPhone app that can save your life in threatening situations and by purchasing it, you're helping to fund Child Rescue in its battle to abolish child slavery.

 

Goodes O'Loughlin Foundation

In Australia I'm also involved in Indigenous causes. I helped start and am on the executive committee of Goodes O'Loughlin Foundation.

Adam Goodes and Michael O'Loughlin Foundation exists to enable a brighter future for Indigenous Australians, by providing positive role models, and developing sustainable mutual relationships between Corporate Australia, the Foundation and Indigenous Australians. The Foundation has three broad areas of focus: Education, Employment and Healthy Lifestyles. Under each category the Foundation has developed tailored programs aimed at children, students, and young adults.

If you want to learn more or get involved, please contact me or visit:

Personal interests:

• Travel

• Scuba diving - technical diving, deep diving

• Sky diving

• Aerobatics flying

• Martial arts