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Hard working team-player, idea hacker, enjoys a challenge. IT, internet and venture capital cycle savvy. Technically and strategically experienced. Excellent writer and communicator. Creativity on tap. Midas touch.
Headline:
Entrepreneur
Industries:
Cleantech, Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet, Media
Skills:
Business, Copy Writing, Design, Editing, Entrepreneurship, HTML / CSS, Intellectual Property, Law, Product design, Web design, Web Development, Writing
Location:
Israel
Visas:
Israel, Australia
Interested in:
Advising startups, Brainstorming, Creating a group, Employment opportunities, Finding cofounders, Joining a startup, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups, Receiving feedback, Sharing my projects
Includes the Clean Energy Evaluator, an information product like http://wikimatrix.org enabling organizations to quickly evaluate alternate clean energy products, particularly in reference to their own needs.
Startup type: Company
Status: Active
Stage: Beta
FULL BIO
Best Technical Skills: HTML, CSS, MySQL, SEO, Wordpress, Xoops, open-source LAMP, Windows utilities and productivity applications, Smartdraw, Textpipe Pro, Paint.net, startup business planning, formal strategy planning, business process mapping, usability optimization, social media.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
Self Employed
Position:
Web Developer & IT Support
Time period:
January 2001 - Present
Description:
Performs web development, web hosting and web maintenance activities and provides extensive IT support. Resided on-site at a Monash University college in 2005 for a few weeks.
Employer:
Friendfeed (user)
Position:
Room admin
Time period:
June 2008 - September 2008
Description:
Hand-picked 210+ top YCombinator Hacker News users from a database of over 6000 to participate in a closed discussion room on Friendfeed.com. Discussion was led, managed and monitored for over 200 submission items.
Employer:
Clean Zap (cleanzap.com)
Position:
Blogger and Founder
Time period:
December 2007 - September 2008
Description:
Blog with advanced company directory showcasing startup companies with a focus on clean energy firms in Israel. Tasks included PHP/CSS theme development, and choosing and tweaking plugins. The article inherited from an existing blog 'Guide to Low-Cost High Impact Websites' reached the delicious.com homepage with 366 saves & 7000 page views. A mini-plan resides on the site explaining expansion possibilities.
Employer:
Energy Matters (energymatters.com.au)
Position:
System Support
Time period:
June 2007 - December 2007
Description:
Setting up, configuring, customizing and maintaining open-source Sugar CRM. Providing helpdesk support. Business Process Engineering. Training and giving a presentation. Xoops website construction. (apolloenergy.com.au) from graphic designer specs.
Employer:
Launchpad Israel
Position:
Founder
Time period:
July 2006 - May 2007
Description:
Conceived, built and managed this open-source derived website in the state of Israel to spotlight its venture capital and technology-based industries. Wrote various press releases for LPI and the firms it promoted.
Employer:
Moshtix Pty Ltd (Moshtix.com.au)
Position:
Advisor
Time period:
November 2003 - March 2004
Description:
Sales and strategy consulting work was provided to this Sydney-based, web-distributed ticket vendor in order for it to expand its operations to Melbourne. (acquired Jan 2007, News Ltd.)
Employer:
GrooveTip
Position:
Founder
Time period:
January 2003 - December 2005
Description:
Customized and configured LAMP apps: oscommerce, xoops, netjuke and UIpublish. Learned and operated TextPipe Pro, creating customized grep-like text filters. Designed, published and distributed 16-page 'GrooveGuide' throughout Melbourne. Assisted artists with obtaining gigs, residencies and remixes.
Employer:
Scottmcnealy.com
Position:
R & D
Time period:
January 2002 - December 2004
Description:
Created a comprehensive open-source business strategy for Sun Microsystems that led to online press coverage in 2003. Sun used the open-source directives as published on scottmcnealy.com either indirectly or coincidently, leading to Jonathan Schwartz's appointment as CEO in 2006. An unassociated yet similarly-themed site Thesunalsosets.com also launched during this time. (scottmcnealy.com domain purchased by Sun)
Employer:
Our Community Pty Ltd (ourcommunity.com.au)
Position:
Technology Manager
Time period:
January 2002 - December 2003
Description:
Executed a variety of information technology related tasks and reported directly to the COO. Roles included ASP & JSP programmer, project manager, hardware installation, systems administrator, purchasing and IT support. Created an online radio station and installed 17 PCs in one weekend, receiving award.
Employer:
Melbourne University Entrepreneurs' Challenge (Muec.org)
Position:
Organizer and Competitor
Time period:
May 2001 - August 2001
INFORMATION
Sports:
skiing, blading
Hobbies:
Drums and percussion.
Clubs:
University of Melbourne, 2001. Bachelor of Information Systems.
Includes the Clean Energy Evaluator, an information product like http://wikimatrix.org enabling organizations to quickly evaluate alternate clean energy products, particularly in reference to their own needs.
Enabling elite athletes, particularly from X-Games sports to attract sponsorship and fan interest via a media & community website. Sponsor and endorser companies can showcase their team, the equipment they use and the competitions they enter.
Web analytics tool that extrapolates the number of bookmarks that any set of pages or websites has received from across a set of social bookmarking sites. For each page or website queried, a ‘HotSocial Rank’ is reported and can be widgetized.
I’ve been kicking this idea around for awhile and felt like publishing it because 1) ideas are cheap and 2) the amount of energy/passion required to execute on this idea are so great that I think the only people that could do it need to contact me.
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