About Us...


Overview

Xantiv helps companies develop and implement IT infrastructure that anticipates, adapts to, and manages change. Our experience tells us that change comes from many directions -- business, technological, and regulatory to name a few. Our experience also tells us that sound, flexible, intelligent IT infrastructure can absorb and incorporate change rapidly.

Our technological expertise lets us evaluate competitive solutions and independently select the best. In our terms "best" encompasses a blend of features such as: installed base, functionality, support, underlying company strength, technology, integratability, and price.

On that basis we assemble best of breed IT Infrastructure components that address our customer's most critical need. We install it. We insure that it works with existing infrastructure. And we support it through our scheduled post implementation Integrity Analysis Program.


History

Xantiv is the result of a merger of two companies, Metatak LLC and Sales Concepts. Metatak, a Systems Integrator, IT Consulting, and Development organization, comes with a history of success in companies such as National Semiconductor, Wyeth Labs, Microsoft, and Liberty Mutual. Sales Concepts was a sales and marketing consulting organization whose experience base includes companies such as Delano, Candle Corporation, IBM, EMC and a variety of startups.



Management Team

 

Art Demirjian, Managing Partner

Mr. Demirjian is senior sales and marketing professional with a 15 year proven track record in a variety of technology disciplines and markets. He was a managing partner of Sales Concepts prior to merging with Metatak. Prior to that Mr. Demirjian held Sales Management positions with Divine and DelanoTechnology Corporation. He was Director of Sales at ISS Group where he created and launched strategic account and global account management units. He has held a variety of sales management positions in companies such as Mosaic Technologies, Microtouch Systems and Candle Corporation.

 

Ted Barnard, Vice President Operations

Mr. Barnard has 15 years hands-on experience providing practical technical solutions to complex business problems. He was a managing partner at Metatak prior to the merger with Sales Concepts. At Metatak, Mr. Barnard led a team that provided services ranging from primary architect to program management to software development for companies such as Wyeth Labs, National Semiconductor, and Liberty Mutual. Before that Mr. Barnard led a troubleshooting consulting practice for Black Diamond Consulting where he was responsible for turning around complex, behind schedule projects. He has also held a variety of senior level consulting engagements at companies such as Microsoft, LL Bean, and DEC.


David Schrier, Vice President of Technology


Mr. Schrier brings 20 years software development and project management experience with Internet applications, enterprise solutions, and shrink-wrap products. He was a managing partner at Metatak prior to the merger with Sales Concepts. Before that Mr.Schrier was Chief Architect at TragitMail and Real Software where he successfully brought complex sophisticated products to life. Mr. Schrier is also Architect and Co-author of Surround Video the first commercially available, 3rd party ActiveX control. He also developed code that became the data engine for the genome project that mapped the human gene structure. Among his other accomplishments Mr. Schrier created a Neutron Telescope for IBM to obtain measurements of Neutron flux and correlate them to the failure rates of IBM memory chips used in their mainframe systems. He was responsible for all aspects of data acquisition, instrumentation control and data analysis software.

Mr. Schrier holds a Bachelors of Science in Physics from the University of New Hampshire


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