Experience

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  Freelance

  • Certified Flight Instructor

    • 2020 - Present

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  Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.

  • R&D Group Manager

    • 2015 - 2018

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  NICE Systems

  • R&D Group Manager

    • 2012 - 2015

    • Manage a development and DevOps group of team leaders and developers located in Israel and Ukraine• Lead a remarkable turnaround in product deployment and migration at customers' sites• Establish the continuous integration of NICE next generation products, which shapes the quality culture of over 100 engineers and shortened the internal delivery cycle from 3 weeks to 10 hours• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to define the product roadmap• Improved the engagement of the group to the company and its objectives

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  Melingo Ltd.

  • VP R&D

    • 2011 - 2012

    • Development and operation of Morfix and other online web and mobile applications that serve over million visits per day.• Successfully lead research and development of a new, machine learning, text classification tool. From requirements definition to launch at customer site.• Define and assimilate an agile development methodology to improve product quality and TTM.• Lead a continues integration project for constant availability of the software build for testing or release.

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  Comverse

  • United States
  • Software Development
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Director of Product Management

    • 2010 - 2011

    • Lead product release from requirements specification through successful launch at customer site.• Lead a solution of customer crisis situation and turned it around into a sale opportunity.• Perform sale and workshop meetings to customers.• Define product roadmap and release plan.

  • Software Development Manager

    • 2006 - 2010

    • Manage a development group of team leaders and developers located in Israel and India.• Design, implementation, deployment and support for Tier-1 cellular operators worldwide.• Successfully lead TTM improvement program that focused on early components integration and test automation. Improve product quality using TDD methodology and JUnit framework.• Development management of distributed product that combines Linux, Solaris and Windows operating systems, as well as Oracle databases and C++, Java, SQL, HTML code disciplines.• Development of new WEB, WAP, SMS, IVR end user interfaces.• Successfully retain and mentor team leaders and key players in the group, including building their career development path.

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  BackWeb Technologies

  • Development Team Lead

    • 2001 - 2005

    • Overall responsibility on server team development life cycle. From requirements definition to version release.• Built development team including recruitment, technical and personal mentoring, design and code reviews.• Development in C++, Java, html and SQL.

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  BackWeb Technologies

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • 1999 - 2000

    • Design and development of a new application server product based on Oracle and SQLServer databases. From early design stage to launch and successful deployments.• Development in C++ and SQL.

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  Ex Libris

  • Software Engineer

    • 1995 - 1999

    • Development in C, SQL and Cobol.• Oracle DBA