Michael Mars

Experienced Developer, Team leader and Architect

Ashdod, Israel

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ABOUT

Software Developer, Architect and Team/Project Leader with 10+ years of experience
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◆ Developed and designed business applications in OTT, IoT, banking, defense and other industries
◆ Recruited and trained developers, established and led a back-end team of 4 developers while working on challenging video projects in Kaltura
◆ Resourceful, self-motivated and proficient with object- and (micro)service-oriented design, with passion around technology and business
◆ Hold Bachelor's in Math & Computer Science from Technion, and MBA from leading institutes in Germany and Singapore

LANGUAGES

English

Native or bilingual proficiency

Hebrew

Native or bilingual proficiency

Russian

Native or bilingual proficiency

Deutsch

Professional working proficiency

SKILL DETAILS

Software & Programming

.NET, C#, Dot Net, VB

Kaltura:
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Assumed Team-Leader position in 2014, and established a back-end team of 4 developers.
Recruited and trained developers, prepared and allocated workloads and responsibilities, performed code and design reviews.
Designed and developed customized .NET-based solutions, primarily around content ingest (ETL), user and billing management APIs based on ASP.NET Web services, WCF and Web API.
Handled time-constrained projects as well as ad-hoc requirements, meeting 100% of time constraints with limited resources.
Led a multi-vendor project in Germany, from initiation and requirement gathering and through design, architecture, development, testing and deployment
(50/50 on coding and leading the project solution).
Wrote technical specifications, and participated in customers’ workshops and weekly conference calls, among others.

Bank Leumi:
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Led the development of .NET-based marketing applications over Teradata DB.
Assumed team leader role for period of 02/2009–08/2009 (D/T maternity leave of the former).

Genesis:
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Developed communication intelligence (COMINT) software (C# & MFC C++), in distributed and multithreaded environments, particularly for Elta Systems and Tadiran Electronic Systems.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

November 2017 - Today

Software Architect

TBD, Petah Tikva

Software Architect on IoT projects

June 2012 - October 2017

Back-end Team Leader

Kaltura , Ramat-Gan, Israel

Assumed Team-Leader position upon Kaltura's acquisition of Tvinci in 2014, establishing a new back-end team of 4 developers.
Recruited and trained developers, prepared and allocated workloads and responsibilities.
Designed and developed customized .NET-based solutions, primarily around content ingest (ETL), user and billing management APIs (WCF, Web API and Web Services).
Handled time-constrained projects as well as ad-hoc requirements, meeting 100% of time constraints with limited resources.

November 2007 - September 2009

Senior .NET Developer

Bank Leumi , Lod, Israel

Led the development of .NET-based marketing applications over Teradata DB.
Assumed team leader role for period of 02/2009–08/2009 (D/T maternity leave of the former).
Designed, developed and maintained .NET-based marketing applications.

August 2006 - November 2007

Software developer

Genesis, Rehovot, Israel

Developed communication intelligence (COMINT) software (C# & MFC C++), in distributed and multithreaded environments, particularly for Elta Systems and Tadiran Electronic Systems.