Ziv Isaiah

Past

R&D Manager - Broadcast and VOD product lines at Imagine Communications
Founder, CTO, VP Products at Data Phantom
Director of Engineering at SilverKite

R&D Program Manager at Cellglide
Team Leader - IP Networking & Infrastructure at Cellglide
Software Engineer at Check Point
Software Engineer at ECI Telecom

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Education

Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University

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Ziv Isaiah’s Summary

Over 8 years of experience in managing, directing and leading of software development groups in high-tech companies, mainly start ups.
Over 13 years of hands on experience in software engineering under Linux, Windows and Solaris platforms, including C/C++, Kernel, MFC, Win32API and COM.
Over 4 year of networking experience including traffic management and optimizations (QoS, Traffic Shaping, Messaging), Networking protocols as Ethernet, IP, UDP, TCP, IPSec, GRE, GTP, HTTP, and more...

Knowledge and experience in wireless and cellular communication (mobile), GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS.
Knowledge and experience in the SOA environment, including Web Services, Transaction management, XML and more...

Deep knowledge and experience in the video and cable areas.
Deep knowledge in on-line, mobile and TV advertising business models and technologies.

Vast experience in managing R&D activities, full product lifecycle, planning and execution of strategic road maps.

Ziv Isaiah’s Specialties:

Management skills - managed up to 50 people at R&D. Took different ,managerial positions in hi tech companies.

Languages/Environments: C, C++, Java, VB, Java Script, HTML, XML, T-SQL, PL/SQL OOD, UML, Design Patterns

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 7/2000, Oracle 7/8/9/10/11, Microsoft Access, DB2, SYSBASE, MYSQL

Applications: Microsoft Project Plan, Rational Rose (UML), Microsoft Office

Operating Systems: Solaris 8, Linux Redhat/Debian, Windows 2000/2003/XP, NT 4.0, 95/98, 3.1, DOS

Ziv Isaiah’s Experience

R&D Manager - Broadcast and VOD product lines

Imagine Communications

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

July 2006 — January 2009 (2 years 7 months)

Imagine Communications has launched the industry’s most powerful and scalable digital video platform - "Imagine ICE™ Video Platform" enables up to 50% more streams over existing infrastructure, while simultaneously ensuring the highest video quality at any given bit rate. Imagine ICE™ Video Platform enabling system operators to cost-effectively increase both the quantity and quality of digital video services over virtually any system.

Managing R&D activities of ICE™ Video Platform from early stages throughout their lifecycle, specifically - managing R&D s/w activities of ICE Broadcast and VOD Systems.
Founder, CTO, VP Products

Data Phantom

(Internet industry)

December 2005 — September 2006 (10 months)

Data Phantom is a startup in the desktop virtualization area. Data Phantom sees virtualization technology as the future infrastructure for desktop computing and finds its opportunity in bringing this innovative technology to exceptional market segments.
Director of Engineering

SilverKite

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

August 2005 — March 2006 (8 months)

Silver-Kite developed an XML network fabric appliance with an extensible policy driven engine based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) of standard XML technology.
R&D Program Manager

Cellglide

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

April 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 5 months)

CellGlide is a leading provider of mobile traffic shaping (MTS) products and solutions for core mobile data networks (GSM/GPRS, EDGE & UMTS). CellGlide's products and solutions shape mobile data traffic at the cell level and optimally allocate cell resources in real-time, significantly improving quality of service, increasing utilization of scarce cell resources, and enabling the delivery of delay- and rate-sensitive data services. Hence, Cellglide significantly improves user experience across all services and devices.
Team Leader - IP Networking & Infrastructure

Cellglide

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

June 2002 — August 2005 (3 years 3 months)

CellGlide is a leading provider of mobile traffic shaping (MTS) products and solutions for core mobile data networks (GSM/GPRS, EDGE & UMTS). CellGlide's products and solutions shape mobile data traffic at the cell level and optimally allocate cell resources in real-time, significantly improving quality of service, increasing utilization of scarce cell resources, and enabling the delivery of delay- and rate-sensitive data services. Hence, Cellglide significantly improves user experience across all services and devices.
Software Engineer

Check Point

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CHKP; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2000 — June 2002 (1 year 11 months)

Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP) Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is the leader in securing the Internet.
Software Engineer

ECI Telecom

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

November 1998 — August 2000 (1 year 10 months)

DCME SBU
Global provider of telecommunications-network solutions.