Amiram Hayardeny
Azrieli Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
amiram@hayardeny.net
http://bigmouth.imserious.org/
Engineering Director / VP R&D
Objective
Leadership position in the development, management and deployment of customer solutions, in a global, dynamic, rapidly changing, growing and results driven environment.
Major Accomplishments
Building and maintaining highly productive and fully functional development teams in New York NY, USA, Haifa, Israel, and Beijing, China. Development manager of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions for IBM enterprise storage platforms. Engineering director for Sun Solaris, with full responsibility for the development life cycle of all device drivers on X86 platforms.
Summary
Extremely versatile, expert in building and management of high performance development teams. Particular attention to individual and team skill development, detail, methodologies, quality and processes. Extensive experience in all aspects of project life cycle, from inception and feasibility analysis, through conceptual design, detailed design, intellectual property protection, implementation, test development, documentation, deployment, maintenance, and feature enhancements. Strong and proven interpersonal skills. Vast international experience in the USA, Israel and China. Well experienced in change management with a proven ability to build and manage creative, highly driven, focused teams in areas of complex computing problems. Core competencies include:
Software development process
Change management
Leadership in remote site teams management
Familiar with different technologies and cultures
Fluent in English, Hebrew and basic Mandarin
International experience in US, Israel and China
Planning, scheduling, budgeting, integration
Execution, follow through, reporting, presentation
Hiring, performance management
Public speaking in three continents
Experience
IBM 11,2008 – Present PM, Integrated Supply Chain Tel Aviv, Israel
Focal point for manufacturing related issues for all groups represented in IBM XIV headquarters in Tel Aviv. Aspects covered are procurement, quality assurance, modelling, supplier relations, roadmap, product management. Member of the Senior Leadership Team.
Sun Microsystems 4, 2006 – 11,2008 Engineering Director, Site Lead Beijing, China
Responsible for all aspects of device driver development for Solaris on X86 platforms. The team consisted of over eighty developers and was located in Beijing, China. The team determined Solaris driver needs on X86 platforms, including top Sun’s OEM partners (Intel, IBM and Dell), then devised plans and schedules. Under my leadership, the team has successfully completed the full transition into a high performance software development team, including process following, quality awareness, IP protection, customer needs analysis and integration into the Solaris operating system. During my tenure in Sun China, the team delivered dozens of Solaris drivers in networking (wireless and wired), storage, audio, video and USB. In addition to the engineering responsibilities, I also served as Host Director for the Solaris Business Unit in Beijing (roughly 150 engineers), and Deputy General Manager for Sun China. As the most senior executive in Sun China, I had also represented Sun Microsystems in numerous conferences, conventions and customer pre-sales and post-sales meetings. During the last few months in Beijing, I have served as site lead as well.
IBM (cumulative 1997 – 2006) Haifa, Israel and Tucson Arizona (USA)
1, 2005 – 4, 2006 Head of Storage Development Lab
The team under my leadership successfully delivered technically complex, mission critical, real time solutions for IBM customers in the area of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. The solutions were deployed for IBM’s enterprise customers. The team also delivered systems management solutions and RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) for IBM’s small and medium businesses in the storage area.
The Storage Systems Development Department at IBM Haifa Research Labs was responsible for the development of all
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions. As Lab Director I also took part in business development, pre-sales support, customer escalation and customer support, long term planning, full development cycle, HR issues, and quality.
1, 2003 – 12, 2004 Senior Development Manager
Successfully delivered numerous replication applications (Point in Time and Real Time replications) for IBM’s high end and midrange storage controllers and a robust management system for IBM’s midrange controller. My responsibilities included requirement definition, high level and detailed design, implementation, testing and supporting. In addition I was also responsible for hiring, career development, customer relations, and integration. My team included sixty staff and dozens of contractors.
5, 2001 – 1, 2003 Development Manager
Successfully delivered Business Continuity solutions for IBM’s enterprise customers. The team was responsible for the complete development cycle – from inception to sustaining of Point in Time Data Copy applications. As manager, I was responsible for planning and execution. As an expert in the subject matter, I was often invited to speak to customers as well as academia, on the subject of Disaster Recovery. Won an IBM Award for Management Excellence.
9, 2000 – 5, 2001 Researcher / Developer
Designed and implemented a scalability model as well as a fault tolerance model for a large, distributed server application. Took part in modelling Telephony switches in order to develop a feature development platform offering for Telco systems.
5, 1997 – 9, 2000 Researcher / Developer
Designed and implemented Concurrent Copy – a Point In Time copy function for IBM’s flagship Enterprise Storage Servers. Concurrent Copy was the only copy function rolled out in the product’s first release in 1999. I took part in the design and implementation of IBM’s long distance and asynchronous Disaster Recovery solution for S/390. The Extended Remote Copy (XRC) is successfully deployed around the globe, helping enterprises to ensure their business continuity. From October of 1998 to October 1999, I was stationed in Tucson Arizona, to be the liaison between the Haifa based team and the Tucson based project headquarters.
Contahal 7, 1996 – 5, 1997 Project Manager Givatayim, IL
Involved in pilot programs with the Forte Client Server Application Development platform (an early Java-like development platform). The real success was in training of dozens of developers (internal and external) in Object Oriented Analysis and Design methods.
HBO Time Warner 12, 1991 – 6, 1996 Engineering Manager New York, NY
Lead the effort for redesigning HBO’s billing systems, moving it away from a COBOL based mainframe application, and deploying it on a client-server platform, with an easily understood and user friendly Graphical User Interface. Leader in assimilating the Object Oriented Paradigm and the C++ programming language within the group and within HBO. Successfully developed and deployed a variety of user applications in the area of airing rights, royalties, billing, programming and scheduling.
KPMG Peat Marwick 12, 1989 – 12, 1991 Systems Analyst Montvale, NJ
Developed accounting worksheets using Pascal, Object Pascal and C++. Took part in an attempt to fully automate the audit process. Trained in Object Oriented Design and Analysis, ORACLE RDBMS and C++.
Education
New York Institute of Technology Master of Business (MBA)* New York, NY
SUNY at Stony Brook B.Sc. Computer Science Stony Boook, NY
*Graduated with Honors
Awards and Recognition
IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award
IBM Corporate Technical Recognition Event 2005
IBM Management Excellence Award
Patents and Publications
6 Issued Patents and various pending patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Published “Concurrent and Distributed Desk Checking”, a paper about a special method for code reviewing code written for distributed and multi CPU environments. Concurrent and Distributed Desk Checking
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