
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 10 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 9 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