Gil Zilberfeld

Current

Technology Evangelist at Typemock

Past

Sr. Software Developer at Typemock
Software Development Process Improvement at Bio-Rad Israel
Project Manager at Bio-Rad Laboratories

Project Manager at Bio-Rad Israel
Software Developer at Bio-Rad Israel
Image Processing Expert at IDF

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Education

Tel Aviv University
Rashish

Connections

235 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Gil Zilberfeld’s Summary

Develop great software, and have great fun doing it.
Improve software development processes.
Manage software projects.

Gil Zilberfeld’s Specialties:

Project management skills, including negotiations with customers on schedule and scope.
Lead development teams.
Identify and introduce relevant best practices.
Excellent technical skills, (for example production time debugging, .Net, C#, C++ etc.)
Great power of shoot-myself-in-the-foot +4.

Gil Zilberfeld’s Experience

Technology Evangelist

Typemock

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

Evangelize Typemock technology. Really.

I meet with customers and prospects, and talk about unit testing, how to do it, how to implement it in an organization and how to use Typemock products to make unit testing simple.
Sr. Software Developer

Typemock

(Computer Software industry)

October 2007 — August 2008 (11 months)

Agile .Net development, developing software for my brethren software developers.
Software Development Process Improvement

Bio-Rad Israel

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; BIO; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

April 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Develop and train new processes for software development, improve existing processes.
Introduce Retrospective meetings to the software development. Implement bug review process in the project teams.
Manage relationship with consultants and providers for the new tools
• Managed the implementation the first stage of new bug tracking system (Rational ClearQuest). Designed the database and life cycle by working with consulting firm (TesCom).
• Reduced cost of ClearCase maintenance by more than 70% over 6 months, by transferring knowledge of residing TesCom consultants to company employees.
• Raised quality of code by implementing code review processes across projects (average of detecting 3 undiscovered defects per 4 code review sessions).
• Defined new metrics for project assessment and reporting processes for software development. Developed a data extraction system for metric collection.
• Coordinated audit and training plan for the company.
Project Manager

Bio-Rad Laboratories

(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

October 1997 — October 2007 (10 years 1 month)
Project Manager

Bio-Rad Israel

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; BRI; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

January 2001 — April 2006 (5 years 4 months)

Managed 2 separate software projects (one for 1.5 years with team size topping at 8 people, the second for 3 years with team size topping at 10) for the company's diagnostic and life-science products. The software controlled complex instruments for different types of chemical and biological analysis.
Hired and led a team consisting of programmers and testers. Negotiated requirements and schedules with the marketing and management team, based in Hercules, CA. Project had to abide by ISO 9000 standards.
Planned and executed development activities. Architect the software for the two projects. Introduced .Net technology into the software project. Led the system design and test design for the software applications.
• Released to customer multiple software application versions
• Supported company-wide development by creating support tools for partner (chemistry, software) teams.
• Recognized as lead technologist in the company
Software Developer

Bio-Rad Israel

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; BRI; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

October 1997 — December 2000 (3 years 3 months)

Design and develop software for confocal microscopy (4D-images producing electronic microscope). Collaborate with partner development team based in Hemel Hempstead, England, and helped in handing over the project to them at the end.
• Developed analysis algorithms and graphic components as part of development team.
• Recognized as technology lead, quick to implement new technologies (COM, DirectX)
Image Processing Expert

IDF

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

October 1994 — October 1997 (3 years 1 month)

Served as deputy manager for photography lab for Experiments unit. Responsible to design and develop image processing software for different experiments.
• Developed software applications using image processing to support tank calibration, finding center of gravity for vehicles, etc.
• Awarded as for development patented tank calibration application by logistic division commander.