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Meir is a Principal Software Engineer with expertise in product concept definition, software creation, presales engineering and highly profitable services engagements with major global clients.• He has defined and developed new product concepts and presented them to executives for sponsorship. One result, Technical Support Appliance, is now a featured offering on the IBM Technical Services home page. (See product link in project section below.)• His presales activities with a major global retailer were recognized with an award when they led to a multimillion dollar contract for software license, customization and support for a patented system combining search technology, spelling completion and correction.• He is skilled in system architecture, system design and agile development, with deep and broad expertise in object-oriented programming across multiple languages, including Java, PHP, Ruby and Common Lisp. He also has experience with SQL, REST APIs, javascript and Ajax.• He is known among coworkers for his thoughtful analysis, careful attention to detail, well-written and documented code, excellent writing and presentation skills and his ability to explain complex technical ideas to non-technical people. Congenial and enthusiastic, he works well with team members, across departments and with clients.Recent projects include: development of a client-facing lifecycle gateway for a Platform-as-a-Service cloud based Hadoop offering; concept, architecture and prototype development of a new product to provide automated business consulting services to small businesses; design of a Hadoop based analytics server for cloud performance management; and, design of a REST API for Infrastructure-as-a-Service enterprise cloud provisioning.He is currently learning MongoDB, Hadoop and jQuery mobile and would like to apply them to a data engineering ("Big Data") project.

Listed skills include Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Java, Software Engineering, and 21 others.