Technical director - standard coordination at NDS Ltd and volunteering in various CleanTech related organizations
Israel
Technical director - standard coordination at NDS Ltd and volunteering in various CleanTech related organizations
Israel
Leading all technical activities of NDS in the Asia Pacific region, ranging from technical negotiations with potential customer, internal decision making, evaluation and design of new systems, and up to full responsibility to deliveries, and post sale support.
Contributed to the adaptation of the company to the Asian market, making it the leading solution provider by ensuring competitive, flexible but yet strong enough technical solution, and mainly adequate post sale for the sophisticated system, based on local trained support staff.
Improving internal working environment, being a vital condition for success in a multi-cultural company such as NDS, and a region like Asia Pacific. Being able to work effectively with remote technical teams in UK Israel and India, and also within the region, in Korea, China and Australia.
Assimilation and implementation of new technologies such as mobile TV, and home networks, by playing major role in being the technical linking part between R&D and regional sales.
Setup two Integration Centers in Korea (STB and mobile TV), recruiting the right teams for them, creating the cultural and functional bridges to other technical offices, within the company, which were the basis for their success.
Ability to lead big and complicated projects, which require good technical knowledge, but also to cope with challenges, which are result of the need to work with teams from different backgrounds and cultural mentalities. Dedication to work, drive to achieve goals even when they are difficult to reach, excellent interpersonal skills, ability to self learn new topics and technologies, and to work in organized manners, even when under huge pressure.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; NNDS; Broadcast Media industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Global responsibility for coordination of all standard activity within the company.
The work involve initiating and leading internal discussions to clarify strategy toward specific standards/technology among various groups within the company, such as R&D marketing and sales, and from the other hand coordinate the actual representation in the various standard bodies/committees, and support regional related activity, in Asia, US and Europe.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NNDS; Broadcast Media industry)
July 2003 — August 2007 (4 years 2 months)
Leading all technical activities of NDS in the Asia Pacific region, ranging from technical negotiations with potential customer, internal decision making, evaluation and design of new systems, and up to full responsibility to deliveries, and post sale support.
Improving internal working environment, being a vital condition for success in a multi-cultural company such as NDS, and a region like Asia Pacific. Being able to work effectively with remote technical teams in UK Israel and India, and also within the region, in Korea, China and Australia.
Assimilation and implementation of new technologies such as mobile TV, and home networks, by playing major role in being the technical linking part between R&D and regional sales.
Setup two Integration Centers in Korea (STB and mobile TV), recruiting the right teams for them, creating the cultural and functional bridges to other technical offices, within the company, which were the basis for their success.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NNDS; Telecommunications industry)
July 2000 — July 2003 (3 years 1 month)
Major role in setup of NDS operation in China, recruitment and training of technical staff, design and implementation of simple and economical systems to suit the market
Leading all technical aspects of company activity in Chinese market, from support of the pre-sales stages, to the integration and post sales support.
Major role in making NDS the leading content protection company in China.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NNDS; Telecommunications industry)
January 1998 — July 2000 (2 years 7 months)
Leading several projects for customers in the UK, including BSkyB.
Setup and establish Integration and test process, which includes reference labs for NDS customers, to enable better testing and integration of components before delivered to customer.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NNDS; Telecommunications industry)
November 1994 — January 1998 (3 years 3 months)
Constructed and managed company security teams worldwide.
Responsible for physical and data security.
Played active role in anti piracy activity alongside several local law enforcement organizations.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1994 — November 1994 (11 months)
Programmer.
C++, Visual basic, Assembler
1991 — 1994
Digital photography, Internet research, traveling .