My Professional Experience

IBM, Jerusalem, Israel, 2007-present.
Chief Technologist and Project Lead

• Pioneered the field of Metadata Analytics, the semi-automated classification of large quantities of metadata using data mining techniques.
• Led and participated directly in all aspects of the project, including defining the product, managing development, and coding.
• Filed patents for ideas in the areas of data mining, flexible metamodeling, and privacy compliance.
• Evangelized the technology by applying to and speaking at top industry conferences.
• Also led cross-IBM Metadata Repository and Registry strategy project, uniting IBM's metadata brands.

Mercury Interactive, Yehud, Israel, 2005-07. (Acquired by Hewlett Packard.)
Principal Architect (Director)

• After joining as the first cross-company architect, launched and designed the cross-portfolio integration architecture for a 700-developer company with seven product lines, including newly acquired companies.
• Gained executive buy-in and grassroots support for initiatives based on SOA and a common model, resulting in radically reduced development costs for new integrations.
• Raised company profile by speaking and publishing at leading industry forums.
• Laid the architectural foundations for full product integration with the acquiring company, Hewlett Packard Software.

Unicorn Solutions, Jerusalem, Israel, 2001-05. (Acquired by IBM.)
Chief Software Architect.

• Designed next-generation semantic software for management and integration of large scale heterogeneous information systems. Coded core components and guided development team.
• Filed three patents for ideas in the areas of ontology and semantics
• Researched technologies for long-term vision of the company's software.
• Sold prospects on the value of the technology.
• Drove technical aspects of corporate partnerships and provided technical due diligence on potential partnerships and acquisitions.
• Evangelized company's technology by applying to and speaking at top industry conferences and by publishing in leading journals.

• Designed and developed Java systems including an Internet service which allows hundreds of customers to browse the web in tandem with Call Center agents in e-commerce sites. Responsible for the server and communications protocols including firewall tunneling, clustering, and link to a Computer Telephony Interface application.
• Raised company profile by applying to and speaking at top industry conferences and by publishing in leading journals.
• Filed one trademark and three patents for ideas in the areas of internet collaboration, telephony, and firewall detection and tunneling.
• Led a small team of software engineers in building a logging system and process dispatcher.

Capella Computers, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1998.
Software Engineer.

• Developed a servlet-enabled multithreaded HTTP/1.1 server in Java, along with a servlet for transmitting presentations from a multimedia database over the Internet.

ELS Interactive, Jerusalem, Israel, 1998.
Programmer (free-lance).

• Developed Windows 95 disability-access software using Borland C++Builder.

Lecturer in Semitic Philology at Hebrew University and Harvard University, 1991-1998.