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Sam Freed - CV
31 Habanai St.
Jerusalem 96264
Israel
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9 Lower Drumcondra Rd
Dublin 9
Ireland
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+972 54 4925 747 - Cell
+972 2 652 5072 - Home
site@freed.net
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Summary
A senior professional/project leader
with 24 years of experience in both the
Software-Manufacturing and Business-Application sides of IT.
Involved in technical aspects of Linux and other open-source projects. Worked in
7 different countries, delivering projects on time and on budget.
Arenas
Software development and manufacturing, Telecom Billing, Training, Government agencies, Banking, start-ups.
Technologies
Linux (RedHat, Debian), Check Point FireWall-1, Mac OSx, UNIX: HP, IBM, Sun, PC.
TCP/IP, Oracle, Xwindows, DEC & IBM proprietary systems.
Work Experience
2007-Current
Founder and CEO of Mental Engines.
2002-2007 Consulting
Main assignments:
- An IT Security project for a manufacturing multinational based
in the UAE. Work included field inspections, on-site consulting, producting reports and
staff training, and coordination
of several consulting firms (3 months)
- Assisting a Hawaii-based music-software startup with their
relationships with various open-source teams. This included handling
legal issues with
licensing schemes, coordinating software development across 3
continents, with several engineers working out of their homes,
and interacting with the market of music distribution
and alternative labels. (18 months)
- Consulting an Interactive-TV startup on business strategy, Capital rounds, etc. (14 months, part time)
- Conceiving, presenting and raising finance for Real-21, an
innovative real-estate arbitrage outfit investing in Budapest
and Buenos Aires. (18 months)
- An Open Source (voluntary) project adapting Linux for Centrino laptops,
specifically Toshiba's R100.
As VP Products, led the design & development of the company's main product,
a FireWall for BlueTooth wireless communications protocols.
Additionally, participated in Business Development, leading to alliances with
market leaders in the field.
2000-01 IdentiSoft, Tel Aviv
Founder & CEO of start-up company introducing a revolutionary concept
in Software Piracy Prevention.
Invented several software processes & business concepts,
some patented in the USA.
Led the company's formation, capital rounds,
product + market development. The company was successfully merged with
First Access.
Projects manager reporting to VP of international operations
with responsibility for:
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Delivery of the company's flagship product (FireWall-1) for
the IBM and HP accounts.
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Introduction of automated product and performance testing.
- Certification of products under the US, European and Australian
Defense-Communication standards (CC, ITSEC).
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Introduction of GUI usability analysis.
1995-96 Softel,
Jerusalem
A technical-lead role introducing international-level work-practices
into the technical team of this Israeli IBM subsidiary. The main product being
developed was a document-processing & OCR package, aimed at
industrial-volume processing of hand-written documents for surveys,
credit-card companies, etc.
All the assignments in the box were done as a
freelance consultant.
1994 Ericsson, Muscat (Oman)
Representing Ericsson to its Omani partners, GTO (the Omani Telecom
company) and their consultants, DeTeCon (Deutsche Telekom Consultants).
Responsibilities included liaison between the various departments of the
ultimate client (GTO) and the various contractors involved. This entailed
managing the efforts to specify the conversion of GTO's records from an
old in-house IBM mainframe system to a new Oracle/AIX system. The project
involved 5 companies, several different departments within GTO, and personnel
from 9 different countries.
Employed by IBM's services centre to provide all necessary support for
Telecom
Eireann's (since renamed EirCom) Financial Systems Division. The "BCA" project replaced all
of Telecom's billing systems (except land based telephony) with a new integrated
system (TIMS) from Teli Telecom (Later acquired by Ericsson Telecom Sweden).
1992 Computer Learning Centre, Dublin
Lectured on UNIX, C, and general software design. Clients included: AIB
Bank, Motorola, Aer
Rianta (Ireland's airports authority).
Assistant integration manager
of a new Corporate Settlement Platform for Europe's largest broker.
Work included surveying
the application and user requirements, and formulating policies, with specific
responsibilities for security, release control and printing. The environment
was HP9000/800 & 700 machines, running ORACLE 6.
1991-92 Lotus Development (Ireland),
Dublin
Created and led the technical team in a new UNIX centre
Lotus was opening in Ireland. This was the first software development effort by
any US-based corporation in Ireland. The team was charged with porting Lotus
1-2-3 from SUN workstations to HP (300/400 and 700/800) DECStations
(MIPS) IBM (RS/6000) and PC/UNIX (SCO, Interactive, SVR4, etc.).
Internationally, assisted Lotus,
Sun
& YHP (Hewlett Packard's joint
venture in Japan) in adding Japanese and Korean language support to Lotus
1-2-3, and in performance issues.
The work involved extremely tight schedules (the first HP port was ready
1 week after the final model SUN product), requiring rigorous control
over source (SCCS), the multi-vendor network (TCP/IP), and system administration
(8 different variants of UNIX). During the team-leading role all projects
completed on or before time and on or below budget.
1990 Quadratron (UK), Sheffield
Employed as a front-line consultant to a major client (HM Department of
Employment, Sheffield) to coordinate support for all office automation
products, and to design a printing subsystem for the TFS project, involving
80 sites, with 1200 end users.
1989-90 Seashell, Dublin
Fee-earning consultant. Assignments included the specification, authoring
and presentation of an intermediate & high level UNIX course for
ICL
training services. The course became part of the official training
suite. Work with Seashell included also the Prototyping of an ISAM product. |
1988-89 Software Laboratories, Dublin
Employed as a UNIX expert with the following responsibilities:
Systems administration (12 machines of 6 different vendors), Security,
Networks, Version control, Configuration control, Staff training in C and
UNIX, Advising management regarding UNIX's capabilities, Initial design
of new products and product extensions.
1985-88 Gould CSD (Israel), Tel-Aviv
Concurrently with military service, employed as part time
consultant on UNIX issues. These included
in-house system management, pre-sales support and training.
1984-87 Military Service, Israel
National service with the Israel
Air Force included the following assignments:
- Participation in a team charged with the maintenance
of a critical multi-mainframe online fault tolerant system, running CICS
over DOS/VSE and OS/VSl on IBM hardware. Personal responsibilities included
the planning of recovery procedures in the event of massive hardware failure,
and general systems support.
- Involvement with development of a manpower administration
system for the Air Force using ORACLE in a VAX/VMS environment.
- Other non-computer-related roles.
Part time work in the Computer
Science department, concurrent
with high-school. The first 2 years were spent setting up the first
full-scale Computer Vision Laboratory in Israel.
The third and last year was spent on setting up NOISE
(Network Of Israel's Science & Education), which was Israel's USENET,
and first international Email link.
Responsibilities throughout the three years included handling
daily support issues arising from a user base of approximately 300 students
& faculty staff, with over 10 machines running 5 different versions
of UNIX.
Education:
1972-84 Various Schools in Scotland & Israel.
1982-84 Concurrently with high-school education, the first
year of a Computer Science course was completed with the Hebrew University,
Jerusalem.
1993-96 BA, Philosophy & Comparative religion, specializing
in Christianity & Indian culture, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Currently - MA in Cognitive Science, Hebrew University,
Jerusalem.
Languages:
Hebrew, English - Native speaker.
Italian - Conversant.
German, French, Arabic, Sanskrit - Student.
Birth Date:
June 3rd, 1966.
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