VP R&D

• May 2013 - Present

Co-Founder

• Nov 2011 - Apr 2013

Co-Founded Scene Interactive - A location based service offering a new way of social discovery and local interaction. • Led both technical and business aspects. • Released an iOS client featuring a beautiful and innovative design. • Designed and implemented a cloud-based, scalable architecture leveraging Amazon Web Services: - Spring RESTful web services over Apache Tomcat - MongoDB NoSQL Database with replication - eJabberd XMPP server Co-Founded Scene Interactive - A location based service offering a new way of social discovery and local interaction. • Led both technical and business aspects. • Released an iOS client featuring a beautiful and innovative design. • Designed and implemented a cloud-based, scalable architecture leveraging Amazon Web Services: - Spring RESTful web services over Apache Tomcat - MongoDB NoSQL Database with replication - eJabberd XMPP server

Application Frameworks Department Manager

• Dec 2010 - Oct 2011

• Led 5 R&D teams delivering top-class SDKs used as the building blocks of the organization's various products.• SDKs include: - Spatial data visualization and manipulation- Unified data access and entity management- System wide caching and logging- Composite client creation and instrumentation• Catalyzed the creation of a cohesive architectural vision for the organization's products.• Established partnerships and collaborations with other tech units within the intelligence corps.• Oversaw an in-depth research of different GIS platforms (e.g., Google Earth, Bing Maps, ESRI) leading to the adoption of a new platform throughout the entire intelligence corps.• Mentored and trained team leaders and developers. Show less

Architecture & Development Management Team Leader

• Dec 2009 - Nov 2010

• Led a group of seasoned architects looking for ways to consolidate the organization's most valued software products.• Conducted design and code reviews periodically and provided technical assistance to the different development teams.• Promoted agile development which led to the practice of Scrum in two teams.• Promoted the concepts of Unit Testing, Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration.• Introduced a central ALM platform (TFS 2010) for the entire organization to further support agile frameworks.• Established the concept of a training graph for each new developer within the organization (encompassing the needed training within first 3 years, according to specialty). Show less

Software Development Team Leader

• Mar 2007 - Nov 2009

• Led a team developing a mission critical GIS solution suited to the special needs of the intelligence corps.• Developed a new generation of the product from scratch, re-engineering the user process and offering unprecedented productivity.• Set a new bar for stability and performance.• Integrated the solution with other products within the organization, leading to new possibilities for data analysis.• Initiated the practice of Scrum within the department.• The developed solution was written using Microsoft.NET (C#) and ESRI ArcObjects. Oracle was the database of choice. Show less

.NET Software Developer

• Oct 2005 - Feb 2007

• Part of a development group working on a mission critical GIS solution, situated in IAI's (Israel Aircraft Industries) engineering center.• Main contributions include: - Spatial data analysis tools- Data integrity and ETL- User Authentication & Authorization- Performance optimizations- Software packaging