Summary

• IT Executive with deep technology competence in hardware, software, process, methodology, practices and policies.
• Successful Financial, Personnel, and client-facing Engagement Manager.
• Author, lecturer, and recognized authority in IT.
• Multilingual: Fluent in English and Hebrew. Conversant in French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.

Functional Competence

• ExperiencedCTO, CIO, EVP, VP Engineering/Systems/Software Development, Product Manager, and COO, with full P& L.
• Led culturally diverse technology organizations covering Business Development to Delivery, System Management and Operations.
• Directed divisions serving both Private and Public Sectors, domestically and internationally on multimillion dollar engagements.
• Turnaround Specialist for distressed organizations, programs, and projects.
• Experienced in Startup, M& A, and IPO.

Career Synopsis

Confidential, Boston, MA and Santa Monica, CA.

A multi-discipline Information Technology and Business Strategy Consulting company providing functional and strategic services both domestically and internationally.

Chief Information and Technology Officer (CITO), 2000 - Present

Led a Technology Consulting Division.Confidential,

• For Disney provided Consulting Services covering infrastructure architecture for multiple projects within Corporate as well as the various divisions.
• For The Gap provided Consulting Services covering their modernization and redevelopment of the entire retail software complex, in the support of their International Growth Program.
• For Farmers Insurance provided strategic and tactical Consulting Services:
• Reengineered the Solution Design process for new projects to improve efficiency.
• Authored several strategy documents.
• Performed audits (SW, HW, standards, and Processes) of Business Critical Application systems and recommended modifications to raise resilience, and improve SLA
• Architected the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solution for two major data centers to meet strict RPO and RTO SLA requirements.
• Architected over 150 core projects and systems covering multi-OS server configurations, web services, DBMS, ID Management, Call Center telephony, WAN and LAN IP networks, and SAN/NAS storage.
• Architected the migration and split of one large data center from a single location to two others.
• For two early stage (stealth) startups provided strategic and tactical Consulting Services covering:
• Secure Document Management and Document Flow;
• Commercial marketplace facilitating certain business transactions.
• For Serena Software managed the development and maintenance of ChangeMan DS, a Distributed Source Code Control Management (SCM) and Versioning System written in Java and C++.
• For Compaq (HP) and Sun Microsystems (Oracle) provided Engineering Consulting Services optimizing software products (mostly C++) produced by their ISVs including i2, OpenWave, Manugistics, RealNetworks, Rational (IBM), Harte Hanks, and others.

Confidential,Bethesda, MD.

A Software Development and Internet Consulting company specializing in E-Commerce and web based solutions to major US entities.

Executive Vice President, E-Commerce Solutions, 1998 - 2000.

Successfully turned around a distressed E-Commerce Solutions Division focused on developing Systems to establish or enhance E-Commerce capabilities of major US entities, resulting in an M& A by Iconixx. Full P& L.

• Directed the E-Commerce Solution organization of over 125 Engineers, project managers, web producers, architects, designers, and programmers in the execution of multiple concurrent multi-million dollar E-Commerce engagements using multi-tier architecture based on J2EE, NES, NAS, Oracle, Weblogic, MQ Series, XML, Blaze Rules Engine, and Personalization Engines.
• Defined, developed and produced the entire E-Commerce presence (front end and back end) for companies such as CDW, GEICO, GE, The Discovery Channel, The Smithsonian Museum, Schlumberger, Iridium and others, from Requirement Analysis to Deployment, geared to improve their internet based sales.
• Directed all CRM activities and engagements, from Business Development support to Delivery, raising revenues from $1.2m to $12m in 2 years.
• Established program and project management controls resulting in a 100% rate of on-time and within-budget delivery of project services achieving unqualified customer satisfaction and loyalty.
• Established progressive personnel management policies resulting in a 98% retention rate of Consultants and Associates.

Confidential,Murray Hill, NJ, and Bethesda, MD.

A boutique international consulting company specializing in Software Development and IT products and services to Multi-National and Fortune 1000 companies, domestically and internationally, and the US Federal Government and its Prime contractors.

Chief Information and Technology Officer (CITO) 1984 - 1998.

Directed a profitable company focused on Expert Solutions Consulting and Systems Development, domestically and internationally. Full P& L.

• Provided IT products and services to a myriad of Fortune 1000 companies in the US and abroad, including clients such as AT& T (US, Italy, UK), Bezeq (Israel), Boeing, Bell Atlantic, Bit (Brazil), British Telecom and MoD (UK), Bull and EDF (France), DEC, General Automation, GTE, Honeywell, HISI (Italy), MCI, NCR, Nixdorf (Germany), SAIC, SCO, and Wang.
• Provided IT products and services to the US Federal Government and its Prime Contractors on projects ranging from under $1m to over $2.2b.
• Transformed a leading $1b European Computer Company from the ‘Proprietary’ to the ‘Open Systems’ Marketplace, raising it to #1 producer in Europe, with revenues exceeding 300% of expectations.
• Established leadership in turnaround expertise for distressed projects and companies.
• Led internationally dispersed and culturally diverse development organizations covering multiple time zones.
• Directed all CRM activities and engagements, from Business Development to Delivery.
• Established project management controls resulting in a 100% rate of on-time and within-budget delivery of responsive services yielding unqualified customer loyalty.
• Established progressive personnel management policies resulting in a 95% retention rate of Consultants and Associates.

Confidential,Whippany, NJ.

Bell Telephone Laboratories was the premiere Research and Development organization in the US.

Manager of Unix Development 1979 – 1984.

Managed a number of technical and research organizations performing various development tasks, including the creation of several commercial software and hardware products. Received the DMTS award for sustained achievement.

• Directed the development of a Unix Server system from ergonomics to manufacturing, and including HW, SW, documentation, promotion and marketing, maintenance and support, in 9 months and cost of $720,000.
• Developed and supported the Production Oriented Large Relational Information System(POLARIS) RDBMS, successfully used in hundreds of installations within the Bell System for Information and Control Systems applications.
• Provided Technical and Management Consultation within Bell Labs on System Development Methodologies, Practices, and Policies, the Unix Operating System, and Database Management Systems Design, improving competitive posture in the Post Divestiture era.
• Participated as a contributing member of the AT& T Unix System V Steering Committee.

Education

M.B.A. studies,
B.S.Mech.E.,

Affiliations and Awards

• Recipient of the Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff Award (1983), an honor bestowed upon the top 0.3% of Technical Staff of Bell Labs.
• Recipient of the IISEngagement and Program Manager of the Year Award, 1999.
• Member of the faculty at Northeastern University, Boston, MA (2000 – 2004).
• Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University Graduate School teaching a Database Management Systems course (1982 - 1983).
• Inventor of a patented unique solution for Y2K.
• Author of “Zero-Zero” a techno-thriller novel covering events centered on the year 2000 computer bug and “My Little Dog Max” a children story.

Other

• Lectured throughout the Unix community at conferences and various AT& T and Bell Laboratories symposia on Database Management Systems, Communications, Software Development Management, Methodology, Practices, and Policies.
• Fluent in English and Hebrew. Conversant in French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
• US Citizen with previous DoD Secret clearance

Technology Competence Addendum

Select Software Components

Languages and Language Processors

• General: Compilation System Principles (Compilers, Assemblers, Optimizers, Libraries, and Linkage Editors).
• Languages: ANSI C and C++; Java (J2EE) and Javascript; Lex and YACC; csh, ksh, sh, PERL; HTML; Basic (visual and otherwise); Fortran; COBOL; Ada; Assembly on a variety of processors.

Operating Systems and OS extensions

• General: Operating System Principles; UNIX and Linux internals.
• Specific implementations of Unix and Linux (Suse, RHEL, Ubuntu), LAMP, Open Source.
• Security implementations: C2 and B1 (Orange Book), Multi Level Security (MLS), and Compartmentalized Workstation (CMW).
• Real Time extensions (1003.4).
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, XP Professional, Server 2003.

Database Management Systems

• General: Database Management System Principles. Database Design and Optimization.
• Specific Implementations: POLARIS, Informix, Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, DB2/UDB, Unify, Ingres, and Sybase.
• Internals of POLARIS, Ingres and Oracle.
• Languages: SQL, RDL, Alpha.
• Interfaces: ODBC/JDBC.
• Data Warehouse, Informatica ETL.

Networking

• Networking Principles.
• Synchronous and Asynchronous Protocols: 278x, 327x, X.25, ATM, SONET, MPLS.
• Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, FTP, IPv4, IPv6, DNS, DHCP.
• Packet Switched LAN and WAN Design and Optimization

Web Based and
e-commerce Components (B2B and B2C)

• Application Servers: IBM Websphere (WAS), BEA Weblogic.
• Elements Advisor Blaze Rules engine from Fair Isaac.
• SunOne, Apache Tomcat JSP web servers.
• Authorization and Authentication – Siteminder and iPlanet LDAP.
• IBM DataPower appliance.
• Azul Java Engine.

Other Software Components

• Multi Level Client Server Architecture.
• Rational Purify/Quantify/Purecov.
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA, SOAP), and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
• Software Change Managers: ClearCase, ChangeMan DS, CVS, RCS, SCCS.
• .NET Visual Studio IDE.
• Filenet Document Management

Business

• SAP, ERP, SCM, Data Warehouses, Siebel, Pegasystems, Guidewire.

Technology Competence (Cont.)

Confidential,

Systems

• Hardware Architecture Principles.
• Non Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA).
• Symmetrical Multi Processing Systems.
• Specific platforms: HP CISC and RISC based; Sun Sparc; Sequent; Motorola 680x0 based; MIPS/Silicon Graphics; RS6000 based including Multiprocessor Bull XPS-100 and DPX-20.
• Intel based 80x86.
• IBM X and P Series (P5, P6), Z/Linux.
• Sun V440.

Networking and Appliances

• LAN/WAN devices.
• Routers and Switches, Cisco
• Firewalls, Checkpoint.
• Access Points, wired and wireless.
• Circuits – T1, DS3, OC3, OC12, OC48, GigE
• Telephony switching and VOIP.
• IBM DataPower
• Load Balancer BigIP F5

Storage controllers and Appliances

• NAS: NetApp
• SAN: EMC Clariion, Celera, DMX, Centera. VMAX, SRDF, Snap, Recoverpoint replication.
• Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL): EMC CDL, and IBM.
• EMC NeoScale
• Disk Controllers (SCSI, SAS, PATA and SATA, Fiber Channel, FiCon).
• Disk, Tape, Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL), and other storage devices.

Diagnostic tools

• ICE.
• Oscilloscopes.
• Logic / Bus Analyzers.
• Firmware software diagnostics.

Buses

• Bus Architecture Principles.
• Specific Implementations: SCSI; PCI; SATA; USB, FDDI.

Program/Project/Engagement Management

Management Tools

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Visio, and their UNIX equivalents (Staroffice, Openoffice).
• Microsoft Project.
• Various CRM tools.
• Lotus Notes, Exchange, Sametime, and Planview
• Other scheduling and management tools.