Owner, Aviad Software LTD
Israel
- Current
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- Owner at Aviad Software LTD
- Past
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- VP R&D, GM Israeli Operations at Dapper
- VP R&D and Technology at Babylon LTD
- VP R&D at Wanway Technologies Inc
- Co Founder & Director of R&D at Portera Inc
- Staff Software Engineer at Borland International
- Education
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- The Hebrew University
- The Hebrew University
- Gimnasia Ivrit, Jerusalem
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Avner Aviad’s Summary
Very strong technologist. Quick starter on new software technologies. Recent and up-to-date involvement with product design, architecture and implementation. Experienced with both Enterprise and Consumer Desktop/WEB software products. Major experience with planning and execution of parallel efforts across full product line. Experienced with the pressures of product delivery in a fast pace market driven environment. Successful recruiter with excellent team building record.
Avner Aviad’s Specialties:
Software Engineering and Architecture. Management of Software R&D. Product Management. Management of an IT operation serving millions of users.
Avner Aviad’s Experience
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Owner
Aviad Software LTD
(Computer Software industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
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VP R&D, GM Israeli Operations
Dapper
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2008 — March 2009 (9 months)
Managed the R&D team and the Israeli office of Dapper with HQ in San Francisco California.
Instrumental in senior management decision process, was very involved in strategic and product thinking and in company road-map planning.
Managing the design and execution of new project and development processes which brought an immediate positive change in team delivery performance.
Demonstrated an ability to learn quickly and was able to become very effective over a very short period of time. -
VP R&D and Technology
Babylon LTD
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
May 2002 — April 2008 (6 years)
Lead all technology aspects of the company. Lead the Babylon technology group through a period of an IPO in TASE. In charge of R&D, Product Management, QA, Support, and IT teams. Teams develop and maintain the Babylon desktop product, the Babylon online store, Babylon online translation servers, and advanced online marketing technologies including mass email system. Transformed the technology group to an efficient service oriented group. During this period, Babylon improved its performance, achieving two consecutive record years 2006-2007. Brought to market 3 major Babylon versions 5, 6 and 7. Excellent record in time planning and on-time project and product delivery. Very successful recruiter of senior and junior personnel.
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VP R&D
Wanway Technologies Inc
(Computer Software industry)
August 2000 — May 2002 (1 year 10 months)
VP R&D: Wanway has developed a network for Video/Voice over IP.
The system includes H323 proxies, XML/DCOM layer 5 routing and call controller, XMHL/HTML/ASP web application integration layer and HTML/XML/ActiveX web client. Managed a team of engineers through major new development in a period of a change in market focus. Worked with CEO and board on business development efforts and business plan update and refocus. -
Co Founder & Director of R&D
Portera Inc
(Computer Software industry)
January 1996 — October 1998 (2 years 10 months)
As a technical founder of the company had a major role in the architecture the implementation and integration of Portera’s products and was involved in all parts of the start-up to product cycle. Portera was funded by leading firms venture firms such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oracle Corporation and American express.
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Staff Software Engineer
Borland International
(Public Company; BORL; Computer Software industry)
August 1987 — October 1995 (8 years 3 months)
1992-1995 Architect, Team Leader: The Advanced Database Technology Group. This new group was formed as an internal technology spin-off group to create a new next generation database product from scratch.
1990-1991 Team Leader: Successfully launched the Paradox SQL Link product, which allowed connectivity of Paradox with multiple SQL based database systems. Team leader in multiple product launch cycles in one of the most competitive market places of that time- the PC database market.
1987-1989 Senior Software Engineer: Designed and implemented the second generation of the query engine of Paradox – a PC databases market leader. This work included relational extensions to Query by Example and specialization in query optimization methods
Avner Aviad’s Education
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The Hebrew University
M.Sc. , Computer Science , 1984 — 1986
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The Hebrew University
B.Sc , Mathematics & Computer Science , 1980 — 1983
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Gimnasia Ivrit, Jerusalem
