
Product Manager and Entrepreneur
Israel

Product Manager and Entrepreneur
Israel
Founder of FeedJournal - The Newspaper You Always Wanted
Product Manager at Mainsoft
Entrepreneurship, communication and writing, agile development, .NET development and visionary ideas.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Product Manager for SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes and Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz. Presenting web seminar demos and writing magazine articles.
(Publishing industry)
March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
FeedJournal is my own startup. It lets you generate a printable newspaper on the fly, using your favorite news sources and web feeds.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ECIL; Telecommunications industry)
July 2004 — February 2007 (2 years 8 months)
Managed the build management team in automating builds using .NET technology.
(Telecommunications industry)
2002 — November 2003 (1 year)
C++/MFC development of Windows desktop application. Rebuilt the class architecture for the database layer. Working with stored procedures on SQL Server. Improved quality by introducing code reviews.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; FTID; Internet industry)
1999 — 2002 (3 years)
C++/COM development. Leading a 6-person pilot using extreme programming.
(Telecommunications industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years)
Automating newsfeeds and working with Oracle database.
(Computer Hardware industry)
1996 — 1996 (less than a year)
Creating Windows NT network drivers for fax encryption products. (summer job)
B.Sc. , Computer Science , 1995 — 2002
Thesis on Agile development and the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) that I presented at XP2003 in Italy.
existential risk, chess
- First Place winner in Microsoft's Made In Express Contest 2006
- Crossword constructor for Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet
- Chess club team captain and teacher
- First to solve hack.net web deciphering challenge