Maor David-Pur

Current

Technology Advisor for ISVs at Microsoft

Past

VSTS MVP at Microsoft MVP Program
On Site Services Group Manager at SRL
Senior .NET / ALM Consultant & Architect at SRL

Senior Developer at Retalix
Team Leader at Bezeq Call
Developer at InterFAX Inc.

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Education

Microsoft
Derby University
Netanya Academic College

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Maor David-Pur’s Summary

MBA, Master of Business Administration
B.Sc, Computer Science
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Experienced manager with high technical skills (Microsoft.NET technology) & knowledge in leading projects.

Leading software development groups as a direct manager or professional advisor.

Successful management of projects starting from the early stages of the design through the different development stages.

Quick-learning, creative, showing initiative, good team-player.

Experienced speaker and frequently presents at Microsoft events, courses and discussion groups across Israel.

I had the honor to be the first ever Visual Studio Team System MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) in Israel.

Maor David-Pur’s Specialties:

Building and managing teams and coaching developers;
Results oriented and focused;
Software Architecture; Consulting; .NET; Software Development Methodologies; ALM;

Maor David-Pur’s Experience

Technology Advisor for ISVs

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )

My mission is to demonstrate the business value of new innovative Microsoft platform technologies by driving early adoption and creating reference cases that accelerate mainstream adoption. I engages senior business decision makers and technical decision makers in customer and partner companies to articulate the business value of the Microsoft platform.
In my job I focused on ISVs working with top enterprises & startups in Israel providing development best practices and architectural guidance to early adopters of Microsoft .NET. Helping customers achieve higher maturity levels within the Microsoft .NET platform.
VSTS MVP

Microsoft MVP Program

(Computer Software industry)

October 2008 — January 2009 (4 months)

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community's best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.
MVPs are not Microsoft employees, nor do they speak on Microsoft's behalf. MVPs are third-party individuals who have received an award from Microsoft that recognizes their exceptional achievements in technical communities. Therefore, when I joined Microsoft as an employee, thus putting myself in violation of this rule,and I couldn't retaining my MVP title.
On Site Services Group Manager

SRL

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Managed a team of 15-19 .NET professionas who include consultants and development people. Recruiting workers, training and building programs for development growth and progress.
Senior .NET / ALM Consultant & Architect

SRL

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 9 months)

As ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) senior consultant at SRL, my primary responsibility is to help the customers in the process of delivering software as a continuously repeating cycle of inter-related steps: definition, design, development, testing, deployment and management. Each of these steps needs to be carefully monitored and controlled.
As .NET senior consultant and architect at SRL - my primary responsibility is to gather, analyze and execute the best software architectures for my clients and assist them in solving highly complex problems.
My job requires intensive problem solving, management of development and product teams, seeing the big picture and more.

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Employee Excellence Award for 2007
Senior Developer

Retalix

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RTLX; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 4 months)

I lead the development of one of the core products which is part of the company’s next generation line of products.
The product was built as the base for similar products that where built in the next years. Therefore it was built as a generic and stable infrastructure.
The product was developed using design patterns in .Net environment over SQL server on n-tier architecture. Development was done in C# with extensive use of XML/XSL, web services and more.
Team Leader

Bezeq Call

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

November 2003 — January 2005 (1 year 3 months)

I was responsible on the development of the Billing application & the Company's intranet web portal.
The development was done with .NET: C# and Asp.Net with various use in design patters, web services and more.

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Employee Excellence Award for 2004
Developer

InterFAX Inc.

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

July 1998 — November 2003 (5 years 5 months)

I developed there MIS, Billing, Administration appliocations. I also developed there an internet fax server and service which include online purchase and more.
I also developed the company's web site.
The development was with: VB6, ASP, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C# (.NET Framework V1.0)