1. Otto Toth
30 River Road Apt.7D
New York
NY 10044
Mail: o.toth@me.com
Phone: 973-220-9254
An alternate of a Resume.
After spending about twenty years in the multinational corporate world when the iPhone development platform became
available for 3rd party developers I made a new start and devoted my time, efforts and resources for the iPhone software
development.
Based on my original education on the structured programming languages and my experiences I have gained in the early ages in
the game and OCR development, I made a big jump and learned the Objective C language and the XCode /IB development
environment. I have signed a Software Developer Agreement with Apple Inc. and started my own application development. Due to
the lack of support at the beginning I had to learn most of the tricks on my own but finally I passed through and submitted my first
application for review what shortly been followed by many others. By now I have built a small portfolio of different applications that
are on sale at the AppStore.
CountDown Timer Meeting Ticker Girlfriend Tracker AngelOrDevil iDrague iFindit AR (under review)
(and most of them has a free or lite versions i.e. Free Counter, Meeting Ticker Lite, Girlfriend Tracker Lite)
You can find them if you search for the developer name: Otto Toth or but if you want to see the whole collection in one place you
can take a look at my web site:
http://www.applesoft.us
From 2009 I’m working at BlackBook Media Inc. fulltime and being their only in-house iPhone developer I’m responsible for
the development of their mobile applications and for the coordination with the external developers. Just to name some of the
applications I played a key role in the whole development process: BlackBook 3.0, CW, Bravo, Elle magazine and P.Diddy’s
guide, Corcoran Real estate.
BlackBook Guides CW City Wize Guides by Bravo Guides by Modern Luxury Diddy’s Guide Elle Shopping Guide Corcoran Real estate
Out Magazine New extended version (under development)
(under review) (under development)
I am a precise, self-motivated, hard working person who can work either independently or as member of a team.
I generate clean and well-documented codes that easy to follow and maintain.
Mastered in digital photography and digital image processing (written a book on image processing for digital
photographers) I could manage the whole graphical designs alone or in cooperation with the graphical designers. One of my
strengths is the user interface programming from the preliminary mockups to all way though to the final production version.
If you are interested in my whole background please see my complete resume below.
2. PROFILE I have over twenty years of experience in building, reorganizing and operating different size of
teams and companies both in Europe and in the United States. I have gained great experience in
developing and managing sales organizations, compiling budgets and business plans, setting up
targets and motivation systems to achieve corporate goals.
EXPERIENCE
2009 - MOBILE DEVELOPER New York,
NY BlackBook Media Inc
After spending one year as an independent iPhone developer I joined to Black Book Media Inc. where I’m
the only inhouse iPhone specialist.
Responsibilities include:
• work on many applications in the same time.
• based on my PhotoShop expertise and practice on application submission to Apple I can quickly deploy
any GUI design in cooperation with the clients and the graphical designers.
• development of the latest versions of their own BlackBook Guide that is based fully on the XCode 3.1
platform and for the maintenance and extension of other applications developed earlier (i.e. Guides By
Bravo and Modern Luxury)
• I play key role in the development of the latest Bravo, CW, Elle, P.Diddy ,Corcoran and OUT apps.
These applications are collecting data from web-servers providing location based textual, image and
video information and pushing online marketing materials with the implementation of the Google
AdSense and Double Klick, KarGo AdMarvel and Medialets advertizing and analytics platforms.
• recently I finished an Augmented Reality based application (iFindit) and working on the integration of
this technology to the BlackBook New York Guide.
• In addition I implemented Omniture’s App Measurement and Flurry Analytics for user data collection
and application usage analytics for most of the abovementioned applications.
• You can find many of these in the AppStore already or you can see them in the very near future.
2008 - 2009 INDEPENDENT iPhone Developer Newark, NJ
Self-Employed
During the one year break I spent in mostly in New Zealand after I finished my job in Europe I fallen in love
with the MAC platform and when the iPhone hit the shelves and the iPhone SDK became available for 3rd
party developers I decided to start on my own as an independent iPhone developer. Based on my previous
experiences on structured programming languages I had learned the Objective C language together with the
XCode and IB environment. I am a registered Apple developer and have applications on sale at the Apple
AppStore.
2002 - 2006 MANAGING DIRECTOR Budapest, Hungary
NextiraOne Hungary; (100% USA owned)
In 2002 Platinum Equity (US financial investment group) acquired the Alcatel e-Business Solution Ltd. and
renamed it to NextiraOne all over Europe. During the transition period I have been nominated as Managing
Director of the Hungarian Office where I had full responsibility for the achievement of the expected level of
EBIT. In 2004 we achieved over $12 million revenue and we won the “Highest Revenue Growth” and the
“Highest Service Revenue Growth” awards within the group. Based on an independent survey we have got
the "Most Satisfied Customers" of NextiraOne second time in a row and finally we received the ‘Premium
Partner of the Year” award from Cisco Systems.
1999 - 2002 GENERAL MANAGER Budapest, Hungary
ALCATEL e-Business Solutions Ltd.; (100% French owned)
Alcatel decided to spin off the Business Communication and distribution division and nominated me to the
general manager position to support and manage the whole spin off process in Hungary. My main duty was
to transfer the company from a hardware manufacturer to a recognized independent solution provider. By
refocusing the attention to the highly profitable solution and services business and shifting out the mass
sales into indirect channels we achieved close to 2 billion HUF (8 million US) revenue in 2002 (about 30%
growth in services revenues compared to 2001).
3. 1998 - 1999 COUNTRY MANAGER Vienna, Austria
Millennium Communication Network Ltd.; (100% Austrian owned)
As the consultant of the top management I worked out the strategy to expand their ISP operation to the
Eastern European countries. At the same time I was in charge of the establishment of their Hungarian
office and to recruit the best people to run the operation.
1995 - 1997 PRESIDENT, CEO Sunnyvale, CA
RECOGNITA Corporation of America; (100% Hungarian owned)
RECOGNITA was a world class Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software what we marketed both on
the North American and the European market.
When I joined to the company my first task was to pull it out from the almost bankrupted situation and to
stabilize the operation. To ensure the survival of the company I defined a new sales strategy and built up a
motivated and reliable sales team. One of my greatest success was to convince Hewlett-Packard to bundle
our software with their scanners all over Europe.
Two years later the company was being sold and my last task was to support the whole selling process.
1993 - 1995 MANAGING DIRECTOR Budapest, Hungary
ICL Hungary, PC Direct; (100% British owned)
I built up from scratch the independent PC Direct division (separated budget, target, P&L, direct report to
the UK.) within the Hungarian office of ICL.
Year by year we duplicated our revenue and shortly became a significant player on the Hungarian
corporate IT market. My well-motivated team achieved 4mGBP revenue in 1995, which summed up half of
the total revenue of ICL in Hungary.
1991 - 1993 GENERAL MANAGER Budapest, Hungary
MONTANA Trading Ltd.; (50% German, 50% Hungarian owned)
Achieved approx. 3mUSD revenue in 1992 from pure product distribution (QMS and LaserMaster Printers,
3Com and Eicon networking products, Microsoft, Banyan Vines, and Aldus software). At the same time we
provided the order handling and logistics services to all of the other members of the Montana Holding.
1989 - 1991 SALES DIRECTOR Budapest, Hungary
CONTROLL Ltd.; (100% Hungarian owned)
Controll Ltd was one of the first private owned IT&Systems Integration Company in Hungary where I started
as a sales rep and after two years of successful selling I was nominated to sales director.
EDUCATION Istvan Szecheny Transportation and Telecommunication College (B.Sc. Degree)
Various internal management developing courses, English course,
Managing People Course. Building Management Capacity course
Coaching training. Presentation skills training in English
SKILLS Languages: English (Cambridge First Certificate) / Hungarian (native)
Proficient in Digital photo editing and manipulation, PhotoShop and various Image editing and
manipulation software.
Objective C, Xcode, IB and iPhone SDK.
OTHER In my spare time I'm deeply involved in many aspects of digital photography and digital photo
editing.
