CTO, Entrepreneur
San Francisco Bay Area
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- CTO at Current TV
- Past
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- Head of Social Search at Yahoo
- Co-Founder and CTO at FareChase Inc. (now Yahoo! Travel)
- Software Development Group Leader at Tecnomatix Technologies Inc.
- Software Development Project Leader at Israeli Intelligence Corps
- System Architect - Foundation Team Leader at Israeli Intelligence Corps
- Software Developer at Israei Intelligence Corps
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Ofer Shaked’s Experience
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CTO
Current TV
(Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Driving technology and operations for a global cross-platform media company - online, broadcast, cross-platform product development and technology operations. Closely involved with defining corporate strategy and product development on both platforms.
Joined Current as Chief Architect to design, product manage, build and launch current.com and grew it to millions of monthly users. Then transitioned to oversee all of the Technology initiatives for Current. -
Head of Social Search
Yahoo
(Public Company; Internet industry)
May 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 10 months)
Built and headed up the Social Search group in Yahoo Search, leveraging social systems to define the next generation of search. In charge of product development, design, engineering, marketing and operations.
Managed the build-out and launch of Yahoo Answers from inception to 70MM monthly users in record time, Yahoo's fastest growing application in recent history.
Managed Yahoo's social bookmarking initiatives serving tens of millions of users monthly. Defined and led the build-out of the next-generation products. -
Co-Founder and CTO
FareChase Inc. (now Yahoo! Travel)
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
January 2000 — May 2005 (5 years 5 months)
Co-Founded the company to lead all technology through inception, proof of concept, development and implementation of the Internet’s first large-scale real-time Travel Search Engine. Developed a innovative server side technology capable of performing multiple simultaneous, real-time price comparisons across the entire travel spectrum.
Led all product development, engineering and operations activities. Played a central role in business and corporate development, as well as fund raising. Successfully developed and implemented of mission critical Travel Search Technology for the majority of players in the B2B travel business.
Grew the business from zero bookings to thousands of bookings per day and from zero revenue to profitability. Transformed FareChase from an anonymous start-up to the market maker and leader in Internet Travel Search.
FareChase was sold to Yahoo in July 2004 and became the search engine behind Yahoo Travel. -
Software Development Group Leader
Tecnomatix Technologies Inc.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1997 — December 1999 (2 years 6 months)
Led a group of four development teams on three continents to develop the Web-Based “Process Model Platform” for the “eMPower” Manufacturing-Planning product line. Managed development of the product from the prototype stage through developing, supporting and commercial marketing.
A world leader and market maker in manufacturing planning, combining Robotic and Human Simulation, Linear Programming, PDM, ERP and desktop connectivity to create a ubiquitous collaboration for all steps of manufacturing planning. Product sales reached $5M within a year of project initiation.
In charge of software and product development, worked directly with customers and partners like BMW and Parametric Technologies Corp., to define product requirements, architect and implement the product with market leading Manufacturing Planning methodologies. -
Software Development Project Leader
Israeli Intelligence Corps
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1996 — July 1997 (1 year 7 months)
Managed a group of three development teams in planning and delivering the new generation of the corps’ mission critical Information Systems, in a distributed, Client-Server environment. Focused on improving the end users’ work environment, while dealing with aggressive development timelines.
Led the project from initiation, through specification, design and coding, to the production installation.
Pioneered the use of Object Oriented software development and methodologies in an environment combining UNIX and MS Windows, while using the leading commercial tools for Groupware, DBMS and GUI. -
System Architect - Foundation Team Leader
Israeli Intelligence Corps
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1994 — January 1996 (1 year 7 months)
Led a development team, in charge of the Infrastructure and System Architecture of a cutting edge Data Warehousing system.
In charge of system architecture of a large scale system, comprised of Object Oriented distributed modules, TP monitoring and Large Scale Databases, as well as development of all infrastructure. -
Software Developer
Israei Intelligence Corps
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1990 — June 1994 (3 years 8 months)
Software Developer for a scientific, algorithmic real time data mining system, dealing with advanced Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. The system is a world leader, and has won several awards.
Pioneered design and development of algorithms using Object Oriented Technology using C++ in a UNIX environment, with an emphasis on maximum productivity and efficiency. Developed a programming infrastructure, that combines communication and X/Motif integration with an emphasis on programmer flexibility and efficiency.
