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Jacob Ben-Arie

Personal Details

Jacob Ben-Arie adc5sa@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: +972-**-***-****

Citizenship: Australian, Israeli

Prospective

“Thinking the unimaginable, implementing the impossible”.

CTO/R&D manager with more than twenty years of experience in managing large groups of people, vendors and multi part technology stack in Agile and waterfall methodologies. I am Target focused, end results/deliverables oriented, Innovative, creative, analytical and leadership in technical/people/business.

References will be available upon request.

Professional Experience

2019 – Ongoing local CTO iSoftBet, London, UK

iSoftbet (isoftbet.com) develops games for mobile and online casino as well as integration point between game producers and online casinos operators, with 260+ employees around the world.

I am managing the 100+ people across multiple sites and countries, reporting directly to CEO.

Recruiting (interviewing both personal and technical) and mentoring.

Managing and driving Full product life cycle / Continuous Integration / Automation in agile methodologies.

Ensuring technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs.

Outlining goals, timeline for R&D and technological services

Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements.

Keeping up-to-date with technological trends, developments and innovations.

Mentoring team members

2015 – 2019 Server Group, R&D manager Sisense, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Sisense (sisense.com) develops software in the field of big data and BI analytics.

I have managed a group of 10+ people across multiple sites at the server side, with integration to frontend.

Major achievements and responsibilities:

Transforming Windows based monolithic product to linux using microservices (Dockers, Kubernetes) to accommodate industry need and cloud expansion.

Liaising closely with marketing, sales, business development, product and support, as well as other parts of R&D. Incorporating enhancements of server side, stabilization and performance improvements.

Recruit, technical and personal Interviews and menmtor new employees.

Planning and design of work, new development and existing maintenance and mentoring.

Taking part in the review and and decision making involved in integrating a new technology stack that can improve our product delivery and shorten cycles of product release.

Working with members of the senior/executive management team to achieve company goals and targets.

Working with huge variety of Database technolgis e.g. PostgreSQL, MS-SQL, Oracle, MySql, MongoDB etc

Technology used: c, c++,c#, managed c++, java, scripting such as python, js.

2008 - 2014 Senior Technology manager Telstra Ltd, Melbourne, Australia.

Telstra (telstra.com.au) is the largest Telco in Australia, in the field of: Landlines, Mobiles, ISP, VOD, Cloud services, Entertainment, etc. I managed multi-millions (+20M) projects through to delivery, managing ad-hoc virtual teams of engineers (40+ people) and operation staff. Managed technology, software and hardware integration and operation of the online environment. Managed financial budgets (Opex, Capex), support and vendors. I have managed stakeholder meetings and reports to senior executive management. All the above was done using Agile methodologies.

2007 - 2008 Senior Consultant IGL Ltd, Melbourne, Australia.

IGL Specialized in IT industry consulting, outsourcing, projects design and management.

I worked at a capacity of Senior Consultant in different roles as Project manager and Senior Analyst Programmer for the Victorian government and private/public business.

Developing/designing processes and reporting tools for controlling yearly and projects’ budgets.

2005 - 2007 Senior Lead Software Engineer at ZetaPoint Ltd, Or-Yehuda Israel.

ZetaPoint (http://zetapoint.com) is in the field of optimizing database storage and access time (Big data and Data analytics). It automatically identifies a business’s most active and valuable data, enabling cost-efficient data management and storage. I have cracked/deciphered and reverse-engineered the Oracle underlying protocols, intercepting the calls to oracle server. I have developed, designed and written our own server and tools for collecting all the communication information intercepted between the different clients and the oracle server. The product was developed on different flavours Unix/Linux and Windows

It was developed using Java, C#, structured C and C++ using OOP/OOD/OOA methodologies.

2004 Senior Software Engineer at Comverse, Ramat-Hachyal Israel.

Comverse (www.comverse.com) is a company that develops various solutions to Telephone operators of landline and mobile networks. The leading products are voice mail messages systems and SMSC servers and other products for SMS and mobile device. I was part of a team at the SMS division which was responsible for the SMS-SHIELD product. The SMS-SHIELD is a service (part of SOA design) that can act as anti-spam, anti-spoof, anti-virus and so on over SMS messages. The product was developed on various Unix systems, Linux and partially on windows.

It is developed in C++ using OOP/OOD/OOA methodologies.

2001 - 2003 Team leader/Software engineer at Followap R&D, Haifa Israel.

Followap (www.followap.com) is a company that specializes in the field of Mobile Internet Services. The company developed solutions for end-to-end Instant messaging services from/to PC, Web, mobile-phones and PDAs.

As a member of the R&D my responsibility was the development on the server side. The server topology is distributed and multithreaded.

I wrote an interpreter/compiler enabling parsing and extracting dynamic data, implementing ASP/JSP like functionalities using C++ mapping, and on the client side building the GUI using the power of this compiler.

Part of a team developing MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) Server/Client and integrating with 3rd party vendor machines and API.

I wrote a billing server system for prepaid/postpaid customers, which interacts with Opco’s pricing systems on one side and on the other within Followap product.

I built an infrastructure for simultaneous multilingual support throughout our variety of clients.

I functioned as a team leader for the server team, CC (Configuration Control), including the incorporation of new developers into the server side.

The development was done in C++ for UNIX environment using Oracle DB.

2001 Software engineer at PassCall Advanced Technologies, Haifa Israel.

PassCall (www.PassCall.com) is a company that specializes in the field of mobile Internet services. The company developed solutions for browsing the Internet from cellular devices such as Mobile phones and PDAs, using algorithms for changing and optimizing content from the internet on the fly.

As a member of the R&D my responsibility was the development of a semi-automatic tool for mapping Internet sites. The tool creates patterns to define and filter, in real time, the content of an Internet site’s (source pages) HTML & XML page, so the content would fit browsing through cellular devices.

The development was done in C++ using MFC.

The company was closed due to market recession.

2000-2001 Software engineer at Aladdin, Haifa Israel.

Aladdin (www.Aladdin.com) is a company that specializes in the field of securing digital content from software to Internet, networks and PC’s use and access.

I was a member of the eSafe Gateway team. This group develops the Proactive Internet Content Security

product. I participated in the development of the eSafe Gateway and SMTP Relay products.

The SMTP Relay is a mediator server, which is used for controlling and filtering e-mail content in and out of

the organization in accordance with predefined policy rules the organization sets.

My responsibilities were designing add-on features for improving performance and resource usage, adding

interfaces and implementation for interacting with other products and modules, as well as maintenance of the

product itself.

The development was in C++ (OOD/OOP), Multithreading/Multiprocessing & Synchronization, use of

TCP/IP and SMTP communication protocols and use of WinAPI’s.

Another module that is used by the Gateway product (eSafe Manage & MSP–Management Service provider)

is for managing the Gateway product from a local machine from within the organization network and from

outside the network of the organization. This module supports multiple accesses on one side and multiple

products on the other thus allowing a service company to control and manage several companies network from a remote location.

My responsibility was to design and implement the module, data structures, algorithms and interfaces for other modules.

The development was in C++ (OOD/OOP), Multithreading/Multiprocessing & Synchronization, use of

TCP/IP communication protocols and use of WinAPI’s.

1996-2001 Lecturer and tutor in C, C++ and Data Structures in the following organizations:

The Management Institute, Matam Hi-Tech branch / Sela Institute for software studies.

Software conversion courses for academics (for UNIX as well)

Technion institute for practical engineers.

The Management Institute, for practical engineers.

1996-1997 Taught at Granit Training Center for computer programming languages (IT).

Education

1999-2002 BA, in Computer Science at the Open University.

1995-1997 Technion institute, in the field of Computers/IT (with distinction), Practical engineer diploma.

1991-1992 Electrical engineer degree, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheba.

1990-1991 University Preparatory Studies, Technion institute.

1989-1990 Completed certified electrician.

1980-1986 Kfar Gallim secondary school in the field of automation and control.

Military Service

1986 - 1989 Full military service in the Logistics corps.

Software Languages

C, C++, Structured C, C#, Windows, Linux and UNIX environments, Java

Knowledge of MFC, Win32 API & concepts of ATL/COM, Swift, Spring.

Peripherals: HTML, Javascript, XML, XSL, XSLT, python

Methodologies: SDLC (Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, Extreme Programming (XP))

Languages

Hebrew - Native speaker/Mother tongue

English – Proficient/Fluent

Remarks

I have the ability to motivate and harness people to complete projects on/ahead of time

I have a lot of experience working on large scale mission critical projects and keeping to tight deadlines

I am innovative and agile, while target oriented

I am willing to learn new concepts and improve

I can work as an individual as well as a part of a team

I have fast learning capabilities

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