Amir Kossover

Product Evangelist at CGS Tower Networks Ltd
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Israel, IL
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Hebrew Native or bilingual proficiency

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Experience

    • Product Evangelist
      • Jan 2016 - Present
    • Product Evangelist
      • Jul 2012 - Sep 2015

      • Promote products and innovations among strategic customers • Assist the VP of technologies in finding the next “cool thing” for our customers • Speak about Net Optics' innovation at industry events • Design innovative solutions for customers with non-standard needs • Startup “skunk” projects and push them into the main stream product (Example: Online Update mechanism, Automatic filter generator, stacking mechanism etc.) • Support the SEs in the field • Train partners on the latest technologies and educate them about recent trends Show less

    • Hungary
    • Computer and Network Security
    • Team Leader
      • Mar 2003 - Jul 2012

      • Managing a team of 5 developers and 1 technical writer • Responsibility of the package development and publication in very short time frames (In matter of hours in some cases) • Research of new vulnerabilities and emerging threats • Prioritizing the development effort • Synchronizing publication with the marketing department in order to alert Check Point’s customers and field people • Close working relations with QA. Analysis of test procedures and their optimization. • Periodic visits and meetings with customers in order to gather feedback. • Close contact with other R&D teams about IPS infrastructure improvement and security coverage • Design of an automatic code generator to shorten development time • Writing periodic competitive analysis reports • Promote new features into the product: Get R&D resources and make sure version time frame is met • Alpha program. Manger. Be the point of contact between R&D and the field (Clients and SEs), push new versions and gather feedback. Show less

    • Technologies Manager
      • Oct 1997 - Feb 2003

      • Exploring and learning new products and solutions (Encryption Software, Routers, Switches, Anti-Virus, Firewall products) and passing the knowledge throughout the company. • Introducing new products and service to customers (Pre-Sale and Post-Sale) • Writing design documents for complex customer implementations. • On-site installation at customer sites, mainly large customers with multi-sites and complex network topology, in Israel and abroad. • Focus on Cisco and Nortel routers and Switches, Check Point VPN-1, Clustering and VASCO authentication • Writing documents for organizational security policy Show less

    • Latvia
    • Telecommunications
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Business Customer Support
      • Nov 1995 - Nov 1997

      Netvision is one of Israel’s largest ISPs, My responsibilities included: • Member of the WAN team • Solving routing problems for customers with router connectivity (BGP-4, OSPF, EIGRP) • Participating in Netvision’s backbone management, a Cisco powered network. • On-site installation at customer site (Cisco Routers, Linux based Mail and DNS servers) • Customer Domain Name registration and mail server management Netvision is one of Israel’s largest ISPs, My responsibilities included: • Member of the WAN team • Solving routing problems for customers with router connectivity (BGP-4, OSPF, EIGRP) • Participating in Netvision’s backbone management, a Cisco powered network. • On-site installation at customer site (Cisco Routers, Linux based Mail and DNS servers) • Customer Domain Name registration and mail server management

Education

  • The Open University
    Philosophy
    2004 - 2007

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