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Gal Blank

Cherry Hill, 08003, New Jersey, US
Mobile Phone:
E-mail: galblank@gmail.com


OBJECTIVE
I'm looking for new and exciting opportunities in mobile development ( iOs, Android ).
My perfect environment is cutting edge, dynamic, where I have a free hand leading project and team remaining hands on with writing the code.
My ideal company is where I can grow technically, individually and be a part of a great team.



WORK EXPERIENCE
Mobile Department Manager
January 2011 - present
Vivat Inc. |   Bensalem, PA.
Computer Software

Hands on managing and developing iOs and Android projects for enterprise as well as for the mass market.
Platforms: iOs ( iPhone/iPad ), Android.

Managing onsite and offshore teams client side advising, project architecting and being fully involved in the general SDLC.


VP R&D
January 2008 - December 2011
Astricomsoft Ltd. | Tel Aviv, Israel
Industry: Computer Software

Leading Development department of the Digame Mobile software branch ( www.digame.de )
Leading a large development team in the break through TV to Web software project on the number 1 TV network in Europe ( RTL ) in the following countries ( Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg )
Using Agile software development project planning and managing. Pre-development stage of this project included assessing various companies and technologies world wide technology wise as well as business and productivity wise.


CTO & CoFounder
June 2006 - January 2008
Mobixie |  Tel Aviv, Israel
Mobile Software

Leading company's technological vision.
Responsible for multiple development projects and managing several development teams.
Developing Client – Server mobile platform for establishing P2P         communication between mobile handsets, PC’s and any other type of network enabled machine.(J2ME, C++, C# and SQL Database).
Developing platform WAP solution
Taking part in investment rounds (VC & Private).
Establishing Business Partnership with Motorola US MOTODEV.        
Establishing business relations with strategic customers local and abroad.
Several Patent creations and registrations via Reinhold Cohn patent firm.


Senior Software Engineer
January 2001 - June 2006
AT&T Inc. |  Tel Aviv, Israel
Industry: Computer Software / Telephony


Projects : Developing advanced telephony server using ACE(adaptive communication platform ) under unix and linux OS. • Designing and developing client - server file transfer protocol over IP. Technologies Used : OOD patterns , MFC libraries , Windows API programming. • Designing and Developing Application sharing mechanism. Technologies Used : OOD patterns , MFC libraries , Windows API programming , API “hijacking” methods. • Maintenance Tools : Microsoft windows service based utility , that monitors the local system performance and makes necessary changes inside the running processes . Technologies Used : OOD patterns , MFC libraries , COM. • Designing XML templates : Desgining XML compatible classes which can build / update / send / receive / output XML data. Technologies Used : OOD patterns , VC++ , MFC libraries , DOM ( Document object model ), HTTP. • Head of the Global DNS / WINS support project : Ability for all windows based components to support DNS / WINS resolution. Technologies Used : Rewriting Winsock 2 TCP layer , API Windows programming , MFC libraries.



QA Lead Engineer
January 2000 - January 2001
Jacada Ltd. | Hertzlia, Israel
Leading a several projects .Writting an scripts , applications,scenarios for the QA,
as well as programming and debuging
the current and a updated version of product.
Working with all the Microsoft environments as well as AS400 and MF.
Creating and running the Winrunner test scripts. ( The TSL language ).


Ventures
( These are projects I've been involved in aside from my primary position at that time, such as board member, consultant and/or hands on developer ).

Associate Partner & CTO
October 2010 - January 2012
Inteltrain Inc | 19116, Philadelphia, PA
Industry : Mobile Software

Part of the unique team of the Mobile software company.
Responsible for a 100% development of the iPhone application, Backend server using .NET, Database using MySql and the Ajax enabled website.
iOs, C#, MySql, .Net,



Mobile Software Team Lead
March 2011 - September 2011
Zeyfo Inc. |  New York, NY
Industry : Mobile Software

Part of the founders team of the global mobile location based start-up.
Responsible for iOS application vision and development as well as the guiding together with the team the future of Zeyfo




PUBLISHED APPLICATIONS

Enterprise Apps:
     1   .    Vivat Inc Applications
     2   .    World Bank ( www.worldbank.org )
     3    .    Limo & Towncars companies

Privatly Developed:





EDUCATION
Bachelor's Degree, Business Administration and IT Management,
January 2009 - April 2010
International University of Business and Law - Cherson, Ukraine. | Cherson
Associate Degree, Software Engineer,
September 1998 - June 2000
University of Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv
Graduated summa cum laude


SKILLS
Objective-C / iOs
Expert
Android
Expert
C#
Expert
C++/VC++
Expert


LANGUAGES
English
Fluent
Hebrew
Fluent
Russian
Fluent


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS / AFFILIATIONS
iOs Developer
Android Developer


CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
1. Co-Founded Mobixie Inc. which was successfully sold to the German provider at the end of 2008.
2. During the year 2009 I've spent 1 year in the Netherlands preparing for a big scale Internet to TV project, which included visiting variety of Designers and Technology companies in Europe as well as in South Africa, assessing their capabilities.
3. Published open source library for iOs that closes the gaps between UITextField and UITextView functionality.
https://code.google.com/p/galtextfield


INTERESTS
Jogging , Tennis , Theater , Developing mobile applications for iOs & Android , Mountain Biking 

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