Alain (Alon) Goldberg (Golan)

Past

• System engineer at S.E.M Professionals
• Network consultant & engineer at Artnet
• Network & security manager at Tower Semiconductor

• R&D Diversion at Riverhead
• CEO at Golan Consulting Services
• Mgr. Unix & networking Dept. at Widenet
• Network Manager at ICQ
• Startup and later Network manager at Netvision
• GL software development at NetManage
• Macintosh GL at Mitom Ltd.
• Technical Support Manager at Apple Center Haifa
• untilted at Zohar-Dalia
• Electrical Engineering Faculty . Signal Processing Lab. at Technion
• Civil Engineering Faculty . Environment & water resources Gr at Technion
• various at Technion

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Alain (Alon) Goldberg (Golan)’s Summary

Long management and hands-on experience, network and Linux programming.
I have a solid understanding of networks (infrastructure including routing protocols), network services (DNS Mail etc..), network security, network monitoring, PHP/mySQL and apache, operating systems and great troubleshooting capabilities. Last but not least I am a team leader/player as can be seen in my recommendations.

Alain (Alon) Goldberg (Golan)’s Specialties:

Remote management and monitoring, Complex peering (BGP), troubleshooting, network management scripts, worked with most Cisco equipments in various critical environments.
Unix & Linux system management.
Network security (Cisco, Checkpoint and iptables)
Network Monitoring (CiscoWorks,Nagios,Cacti,Zabbix etc..)
Network protocols (too long to discuss here)

Alain (Alon) Goldberg (Golan)’s Experience

• System engineer

  S.E.M Professionals

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 11 months)

  Beside vertical software development that cannot be mentioned here, I am managing dozens of Linux servers distributed around the world, including scripting software to manage and monitor the servers software and content.

• Network consultant & engineer

  Artnet

  (Public Company; artnet ag; Fine Art industry)

  August 2005 — May 2006 (10 months)

  Outsourcing of Consulting, installation, troubleshooting of various network and security issues/products of ArtNet customers.

• Network & security manager

  Tower Semiconductor

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TSEM; Semiconductors industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

  Managing hundreds of switches and routers, firewalls etc... in a live 24/24 uptime critical production environment, Implemented Network monitoring and management tools, Re-engineered and implemented a network upgrade, issued IPO's, managed also contractors (Cisco, Checkpoint and monitoring on Linux)

• R&D Diversion

  Riverhead

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  May 2001 — November 2002 (1 year 7 months)

  In charge of developing network traffic diversion methods to gather specific traffic for a network DDoS Mitigation Appliance.
  This successful startup was acquired by Cisco.
  The resulting product is now know as:
  "Cisco Guard"
  http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5888/index.html

• CEO

  Golan Consulting Services

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  November 1996 — May 2001 (4 years 7 months)

  Doing Network related consulting to large companies and startups.
  Including:
  ICQ Mirabilis (acquired by AOL)
  Abirnet (acquired by CA)
  Mishei hatakam (acquired by 012)
  012 (ISP 012.net.il) (I Essentially worked with the management and marketing to plan 012 ISP services)
  Widenet (acquired by Netvision)
  During this period I was also teaching Networking & TCP/IP in various technical schools.

• Mgr. Unix & networking Dept.

  Widenet

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years)

  I managed the Unix and Networking group employees, while also doing consulting to Widenet customers.
  Widenet was specializing in outsourcing IT to SMB high tech companies, thus I was also involved in troubleshooting MS based systems.

• Network Manager

  ICQ

  (Public Company; Computer Networking industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years)

  I was in charge of designing and building just-in-time a reliable fast growing network for the ICQ server farms.
  I also helped with some development issues.

• Startup and later Network manager

  Netvision

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  1993 — 1996 (3 years)

  I did (alone) the technical startup of this great ISP, network and servers and all the related work VS international authorities. Then as the company grown I became the technical guru, and deal mainly with the international network infrastructure, peering and authorities.

• GL software development

  NetManage

  (Public Company; Computer Networking industry)

  1992 — 1994 (2 years)

  Managed a small group of TCP/IP applications developers and did the system and network maintenance for the Israeli branch of the company.

• Macintosh GL

  Mitom Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  1991 — 1993 (2 years)

  Started as the team manager of a development group doing SNA/CAPI IBM 3270 terminal emulation for the Apple Macintosh, then pushed the company into the TCP/IP arena with a TN3270 emulation.

• Technical Support Manager

  Apple Center Haifa

  (Computer Networking industry)

  1990 — 1991 (1 year)

  I managed the technical support of the Apple computers distributor in the northen Israel area .

• untilted

  Zohar-Dalia

  (Partnership; 201-500 employees; Chemicals industry)

  1986 — 1989 (3 years)

  Leaded the development of the factory computer-based real-time control system, The system is a VME-Bus multiprocessor, controlling over 2000 I/O’s, with about 10% analog, several terminals and external controllers, PC, Atari ST and Macintosh display stations. A database (4D) on the Macintosh is creating the I/O configuration and the content of the displayed information on VT220 terminals. The Macintosh is connected Bus to Bus with the VME-Bus.

• Electrical Engineering Faculty . Signal Processing Lab.

  Technion

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  1985 — 1986 (1 year)

  - System programmer on VAX/VMS (&Data General Eclipse), ( C & FORTRAN )
  - Communications programming under Unix, VMS & Data-General.

• Civil Engineering Faculty . Environment & water resources Gr

  Technion

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  1984 — 1985 (1 year)

  Technion, Civil Engineering Faculty . Environment & water resources Gr..
  - System programmer on PDP/11 RSX11M (FORTRAN)
  - Communications programming on CP/M machines (FORTRAN)
  - Faculty Guru for MS/DOS & CPM/86.

• various

  Technion

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  1983 — 1985 (2 years)

  Civil Engineering Faculty . Environment & water resources Gr..
  - System programmer on PDP/11 RSX11M (FORTRAN)
  - Communications programming on CP/M machines (FORTRAN)
  - Faculty Guru for MS/DOS & CPM/86.
  - Real time data aquisition
  
  Physics Faculty . Solid state.
  - Communications programmer on PDP/11 RSX11M (FORTRAN)
  
  Civil Engineering Faculty . The Institute for transportation research.
  - Real-time programmer on PDP/11 RSX11M (FORTRAN)

Alain (Alon) Goldberg (Golan)’s Education

• Exams

  CCNA , CCDA , 1999 — 1999

Additional Information

Alain (Alon) Goldberg (Golan)’s Honors:

Patent awarded — "Protecting against spoofed DNS messages"
See: http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week52/OG/html/1325-4/US07313815-20071225.html

I received the ICQ vanity number 88888 - See: http://www.secinfo.com/dqv2b.7x.d.htm (as Alon Golan)

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