Israel Ziv

Current

Consultant in the field of system architecture at (Self Employed)

Past

Head of R&D at Pudding Media
Director at Shopping.com (eBay)
Director of Software Development at Dealtime.com

Director, R&D NMS at Kerenix Inc.
Senior Software Engineer at EDSL
Senior Software Engineer and Project Manager at ELRON TELESOFT (NCC)
Software Engineer at Logtel

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Education

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Bar-Ilan University
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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Israel Ziv’s Summary

Israel is currently a free consultant in the field of system architecture; mainly of Web - related systems. Previously, Israel managed the R&D at Pudding Media, provider of contextual advertisement solution for speech solution providers.
Prior to Pudding Media, Israel worked as a director of R&D for Shopping.com (acquired by eBay, NASDAQ:EBAY). At shopping, Israel initially led the search activity and later on the classification and automatic content generation activity.
Israel also served as a director of NMS activity at Kerenix Inc., a startup company aimed to develop an optic IP router.
Israel holds a Ph.D. in biology from Bar-Ilan University. Additionally, Israel was a post doctoral researcher in the field of computational biology at UT medical school @ Houston, US.

Israel Ziv’s Experience

Consultant in the field of system architecture

(Self Employed)

(Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Israel is currently a free consultant in the field of system architecture; mainly of Web - related systems
Head of R&D

Pudding Media

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

September 2007 — May 2008 (9 months)
Director

Shopping.com (eBay)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EBAY; Computer Software industry)

January 2002 — March 2007 (5 years 3 months)

1. Director of product catalog technology: Leading the technical group (about 15 software engineers) responsible for providing classification and clusterization systems for automatic content generation presented at the Shopping.com site.
2. Director of Search: Leading the activity (about 10 software engineers) of the search-engine associated with Shopping.com.
3. Manager of crawling technologies: Responsibility for the development and maintenance (with a team of ~5 software engineers) of the crawling systems on sites presented at the http://www.shopping.com site.
Director of Software Development

Dealtime.com

(Computer Software industry)

January 2002 — March 2007 (5 years 3 months)

Dealtime.com is the former name of Shopping.com
Director, R&D NMS

Kerenix Inc.

(Computer Networking industry)

August 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 4 months)

Leading the technical group (about 10 software engineers) for developing the management systems (EMS/NMS) for Kerenix’s product line.
Senior Software Engineer

EDSL

(Computer Networking industry)

June 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 1 month)
Senior Software Engineer and Project Manager

ELRON TELESOFT (NCC)

(Computer Software industry)

June 1996 — June 1999 (3 years 1 month)

Managing several projects associated with EMS including

o Authorization- Authentication- Accounting (AAA) server (for the Israeli telephone company Bezeq: 136 service).

o Management tools for the frame-relay product-line of Racal-Datacom

o Managing an e-commerce related project for micro-payment (for cha systems).
Software Engineer

Logtel

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )

Israel Ziv’s Education

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Postdoctoral researcher , Computational Neurobiology , 1990 — 1993

http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/homepage/jbyrne/content/members_ex_postdocs.htm
Bar-Ilan University

Ph.D. , Biology, Department of Life Sciences , 1980 — 1990

My Thessis: Simultaneous regulation of multiple behaviors in the marine mollusc aplysia, with emphasis on feeding and reproduction., Supervisor:Dr. S. Susswein.
(http://www.biu.ac.il/Academics/phd_eng/life.htm)

Activities and Societies:

Mathematical Modeling of Animals Behavior.
shalom

1971 — 1972