Resume

4/2/2008-today OpenText (Vignette) Pty Ltd North Sydney Australia

Senior Consultant/Architect

Being part of the team in VPS exposed me to the software lifecycle from a wide spectrum then engineering teams are exposed to, to be a part of VPS is to be on the border between engineering and client implementations acting as both a pipe and a filter. As a consultant of Vignette Professional Services engagements were diverse and clients were from different segments of the market.

Most clients are from medium enterprise size to mega corporations with global reach, most often from Financial, Telco, Non for profit, media and marketing business fields.

Engagements have spread from implementation of the full product stack to a client to reviews of implementations and problem solving for clients and partners, encompassing data migrations form other providers, solution design and code review and implementation teams.

During some implementations I was team leading and at others a team member or a sole consultant.

Responsibilities:

• Documentation and consultations
• Team lead, Centralizing team tasks and timings and managing personal.
• Consultation and recommendations for customers.
• Product implementations and installations.
• Helping support with issues at remote clients.

Achievements:

• Successfully managing and completing a data migration.
• Successfully keeping clients from leaving Vignette software due to technical problems.

18/4/2006-30/11/2007 Matrix Ltd Hertzelia Israel

Solution Architect/Development Manager

Leader of a development effort to create the next leading Portal based on the vignette infrastructure.

Forming of the team based on budget and skill sets, creating assessment tests, Interviewing candidates, forming a training method to each recruit based on vignette training and the candidate’s role in the project.

Design of the systems architecture and each of its components, the architecture documents included high level and detailed design documents for each component and a system high level Design.

System solution components for the portal are comprised of PortalBeans, JSR 168 portlets, taglibs and a DPM override application. For the Content a CDA override application and CCE widget extension WAR.

Leading the development effort whilst helping team members to confront and solve Vignette oriented problems and Java/JSP programming problems.

In charge of the DBA for Data modeling in both the Vignette Content Management and the JSR-168 application development.

Design of workflows and integrations using VBIS and Visio.

The products Used in the project are Portal 7.3, Content Management 7.3.1, Business Integration Studio 7.4, Portal Builder 7.3 and Collaboration 7.1.

Special highlights from the project are Ajax integration in the Portals component (PortalBeans, JSR-168 and DPM portlets) using DOJO, prototype and Adobe SPRY, Generation of content from internet users using Web Services to the VCM, generation of statistical data from the CAS and the Portal Analytics engines in a live manner.

Involved in the Vignette DSH initiative helping in the requirement gathering from our content contributors and design considerations with our development group.

Managing the team both in the technical and personal levels.

Involved in some pre-sales activities and in the proposal process.

Responsibilities:

• Team forming and leading.
• Team management, Centralizing team tasks and timings and managing personal.
• Customer consultation and decision aid for the best possible solution to each requirement.
• Coding standards, Design documents, How To documents creation and adoption.
• Infrastructure design and managing implementation.
• Architecture of the system and of each component in the system.
• Managing communication to vignette consultants and support.

Achievements:

• Building and maintaining a team of developers.
• Release of the implementation to staging environment.
• Satisfying clients needs in both technical and management aspects.

1/10/2004-01/04/2006 ewave LTD Hertzelia Israel

Team lead / Project Manager / Presale Eng.

Project manager and Tech Lead on a project to deliver an Electronic Medical Record to one of the major health insurers in Israel, managing design and development.

The solution involved an elaborate architecture for prevention of data loss and utilization of existing business logic in the AS400 to cut the cost.

Responsibilities:

• Project Management:
  • Gantt creation and management.
  • Negotiating timelines.
  • Prioritizing tasks
  • Negotiating new contracts and pricing.
• Monitoring progress the project and team leaders and updating stakeholders of on a daily basis.
• Implementation of RUP and SDLC methodologies in the company.
• Managing mock-up creation and integrating focus group response.
• Leading the design and development of the infrastructure for the project as a tech lead.

Project management and team lead of healthcare solution for cardiac monitoring. Team consisted of 3 support persons and 4 developers handling requests and bugs.

Responsibilities:

• Creating coding standards and providing solutions for coding problems.
• Managing the support requests and QA results and transfer them to valid missions for programmers
• Proposal creation for new features and their pricing.

Pre sale activity on proposals for large and medium scale projects, including a proposal for the Gana government for healthcare management which was won by eWave, a proposal and presentation for new software solution to Maccabi healthcare that was won and several other smaller scale proposal help and presentations.

Responsibilities:

• Creating the technical aspects of the proposals.
• Decision making on RFP’s and their relevance.
• Meeting with potential clients for a pre sale presentations and introduction of current solutions.
• Contacting third party suppliers for parts of the proposals.

Achievements:

• Successfully managing a major project.
• Successfully engaging in the sales process.
• Completion of products in the healthcare sector with its special requirements and standards for data management.

1/4/2004-1/10/2004 Netschool group Hertzelia Israel

CTO

Startup developing ERP product for the education sector specializing in K12 and collages.

Leading software development and strategist for the next direction of the product, sifting through new technologies immersing out of Microsoft.

Leading the current programming effort the company is undertaking, handling the teams coding challenges and software coherence with coding conventions.

Responsibilities:

• Incorporating procedural programming infrastructure, establishing Coding conventions for all used languages, establishing tracking mechanisms.
• Solving coding challenges for the team.
• Managing research of new technologies done by team members.
• Managing team’s tasks.

Achievements:

• Alignment of development efforts, implementing a coding practice and setting coding standards for the team.
• Implementation of support tools for project management and bug tracing.
• Development of DB connectors to any ANSI SQL capable db.

Due to lack of funding this startup had closed its business.

1/4/2001-1/4/2004 Documenta LLC. New York

Architect/Developer

Web enablement project for Wachovia Securities enabling web access to stock accounts statements based on Mobius View Direct Document Management system.

Product was approved by the security team of the group after major changes made to the servers architecture to an SOA architecture with a SOAP implementation.

Design and development of search algorithm and implementation as a multi threading search server utilizing the Mobius ViewDirect API to search for accounts.

Technologies used in the project VB, VC++, ATL COM, SOAP, Mobius ViewDirect API, Sql Server and tSQL Stored procedures.

Load testing using RAD WebLoad as part of the system acceptance.

Supporting the client during production and tax season.

Consultation on the Windows and Java Versions of the API and servers to several companies. Development of demos for pre-sale activities of IBM Content Manager OnDemand and Mobius ViewDirect JavaAPI with WebSphere server 5.0 and Tomcat application server.

Established and administered the company back bone network including a VPN connection to company headquarter using Netscreen SOHO products and configured a Domain environment for the company using the Windows 2150 Active Directory and DNS server.

Responsibilities:

• Architecting of a full solution and leading it through development and implementation stages.
• Implementation of solutions.
• Client technical onsite support
• Stress testing design and implementation using WebLoad.
• Pre-sale activity and meeting with potential clients
• Internal company Network administration.

Achievements:

• Implementation of a fully functioning SOA solution supporting all of Wachovia’s stock brokers over the tax period.
• Creating a happy customer with returning business.
• Consulting in the field to other clients due to the success in Wachovia.

9/1999–3/2001 TreeWay Tel-Aviv, Israel

Web Application Analyst/Developer.

Startup creating a web based site generator with 600K-800K users, joined the team as part of a major rebuild of the architecture from an IIS filter to ASP architecture.

Development was done on object oriented architecture utilizing ASP XML/XSL parsing and C++ VB COM components over a data repository based on SQL 2150.

Responsibilities:

• Development of an automatic page generation using ASP pages containing XSL and JavaScript.
• Utilizing Pearl scripting Flash scripting JavaScript and DHTML to create graphic designs to our application and components.
• Site building engine components, design and implementation using C++ and VB COM components
• Database programming using stored procedures in SQL 2150 Server.

Achievements:

• Developing applications using ASP
• Exposure to modern web architecture
  • Separation of layers for better maintenance.
  • Object oriented design.
• Web interface coding with JavaScript and Flash.

1/1998–8/1999 Migdal-Or (Lighthouse) Tel-Aviv, Israel

Software Developer.

Software solution for employee time registration and management, using a clock and enabling the creation and association of users to contracts and payment schemes. Software feature highlights

• Export of accumulated data to market leading salary management software.
• Communication to companies time clock through modem/network/usb/com port for data extraction
• User contract and payment scheme management
• User monthly work calculations.

Development of Punch Clock configuration and data analysis software in C++ and Assembler.

Development of connection drivers and connection management software to external clocks through modem/network/usb/com port.

Development of door security management software utilizing clocks capabilities to manage user card lists.

Responsibilities:

• GUI interface design with VB 6 for non windows users (mainly DOS version users) making every task simpler and automatic.
• Rational database analysis and implementation using Microsoft Access.
• Software Hardware connectivity through modem/network/usb/com port programming in C++ and assembler.
• Integration with Crystal Reports as the reporting tool.

• Field technical support for installations crews.
• Customer second level support in house and on field

Achievements:

• Development of a complete solution.
• Exposure to product lifecycle.
• Experience with software architecture.

4/1997-12/1997 Tel-Aviv University Tel-Aviv, Israel

Web Site Administrator

Site and general support for the education department of Tel Aviv University.

HTML 1.0 web site creation and administration and computer first level administration support.

• Websites creation using HTML 1.0.
• Installation of the sites in a UNIX environment with Netscape web server as the host.
• Windows 95/2150 administration and user support for the professor and staff.

Achievements:

• Web Site creation and administration
• Web and network technology exposure

Ruppin Collage, Israel

B.A in Business management
Average of 83.
Note: The span of years until completion was due to a career choice incurring a move to the US for 3.5 years.

• Vignette Portal Development.
• Vignette Portal Administration.
• Vignette Dynamic Portal development
• Vignette Content Management Administration.
• Vignette Content Management Development.