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Hedgify shields companies from price volatility with the ultimate price protection solutions. Hedgify’s user-friendly platform helps to understand and mitigate risks associated with commodities, energy costs, interest rates, and currency exchange rates.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Responsiblities included:Development of the native CallApp Android applicationDevelopment of the back end server and databaseDevelopment of the iPhone native prototype

Senfigo, a startup in its early stages, develops computerized therapy programs that guide parents on how to treat their children's psychological difficulties.Our approach combines e-learning methodologies and tools, with psychotherapy domain expertise. This enables us to provide treatment programs that require minimum human intervention and are as effective as conventional treatment practices.

Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

Database and ETL consultant in an anti money laundering project in Mitsubishi Securities. Planned and designed the architecture of the ETL infrastructure (SQL Server 2005, SSIS)

Responsibilities included:Designing the architecture of the new data warehouse platform. Design goals focused on scaling the platform in terms of number of sources and the volume of data supported, significantly reducing the operational and maintenance costs, and improving the productivity of developers' and user's within the group by redefining the structure of the project group and ensuring that the design and technologies used support that fundamental change,

During role managed two projects in parallel:1. Managed a complex project spanning several teams in the organization. Responsibilities included: planning and overseeing the entire life cycle of the project, gathering business requirements, leading the development of a data warehouse system (Oracle 9i RAC, C++, Discoverer, Advanced SQL), coordinating the integration efforts, and managing the deployment process.2. Managed a data mining project which was destined to handle an unprecedented number of records per day (hundreds of millions)

Responsibilities included: leading the maintenance and development of a distributed transaction processing system (Platforms/technologies used: HP/UX, C++, Oracle 9i, MQ Series, Business Objects, Perl, Windows), collaborating with the users’ representatives on future versions, and managing integration projects with different systems in the organization, managing and training team members.Main Accomplishments:Proposed and lead a revolutionary project which consisted of restructuring the system architecture and porting the entire system from an expensive HP-UX environment to a Wintel environment. As a result, system hardware and maintenance costs decreased by more than 90%, while system performance increased by approximately 100%; received a commendation of excellence in achievement from unit commander.

Team Leader of an OLTP systemResponsibilities included maintenance and support of the system's users.Senior developer in a team responsible for a high volume distributed transaction processing system. System's purpose was to apply sophisticated text classification algorithms on millions of transactions a day.Main accomplishments:1. Incorporated a new set of procedures in working with source control software in order to boost team productivity.

Responsibilities included: maintenance and development of a three tier OLTP system serving hundreds of users. Platforms/technologies used: MF (Adabas, Data Processing Tables, Natural), Compaq Tru64 Unix Servers (C++, Informix SQL, Motif-X, Windows Workstations (Visual C++).Main accomplishments:Proposed, designed and developed a new scalable printing system utilizing local PC printers rather than a limited number of dedicated high end printers. Project saved the organization approximately $50,000; received a commendation for excellence in achievement.

Developed a couple of 2D computer games for DOS and Windows using Turbo Pascal, Assembly and Visual C++, DirectX respectively.Developed a few products using Delphi.Became senior developer on company's flagship product. Activities in this role included extending the product and deploying it in several locations, modifying its architecture, and designing and planning its port from Turbo Pascal on DOS to to C++ on Windows.

Mba

M.Sc., Computer Science

B.Sc, Computer Science & Mathematics