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Ron Barak Address: 3a Pevzner Street, Haifa 33133 Israel Phone: +972 4 8664241 E-mail: perlmonks. comverse@ 9ox. net Work Experience System Development Engineer, 2008 – 2010 LSI Technologies Israel Ltd, Nesher, Israel Developing a graphical tool for the support group of SVSP/SVM in wxPython. The tool aggregates data from various logs and databases and presents the user a comprehensive view of the product’s state, along with errors and warnings that warrant attention, to aid in debugging and health-check. Unix System Developer, 2004 – 2008 Comverse Ltd, Tel Aviv, Israel Creating efficient Perl and shells scripts and RPMs to automate manual installation of Comverse’s MDG integrated system (mainly on Red Hat Linux with some Sun Solaris components; on IBM BladeCenter, EMC storage, and Oracle DB) resulting in reduced system configuration time of ~80%. HP System Engineer on Site - Intel Israel, 1998 – 2004 Hewlett Packard Ltd, Haifa, Israel Managed 400 HP-UX (PA-RISC) and HP-Itanium machines on four highly complex Intel Israel R&D campuses (at Haifa, Yakum, Petach-Tikva, and Jerusalem). Singly handled 3rd level HP-UX support for 2000 Intel engineers. Wrote automated Ignite/UX application resulting in a saving of 96% of manual installation time (down from 12 hours to 25 minutes). Wrote system enhancement/performance tools and scripts in shell/Perl/C to automate manual procedures. Helped designing and managed the high-availability Tape-out environment for the Centrino processors’ family: the Timna, Banias, and Dothan processors were successfully taped-out on this environment. System managed, expanded, and supported ClearCase and Oracle environments. System Manager, 1996 – 1998 Vsoft Ltd, Yoqneam, Israel Managed computers of four company locations (utilising Sun Solaris, Digital Unix, and Windows systems) for a video software start-up company of 50 employees. Associate Programmer, 1990 – 1996 United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Worked as programmer with the UN secretariat in Africa (mainly in C). Was a driving force in management of PADISnet, the first African e-mail network which provided Internet/e-mail connection to sub-Saharan African countries. System Manager - Support Department, 1989 – 1990 Intel Israel design Centre, Haifa, Israel Managed a complex TCP/IP-NFS network of 200 Sun and DEC workstations, 15 DEC super-minis, running SunOS and Ultrix; and two VAX super-minis running VAX/VMS. Automated manual procedures using Perl, DEC DCL, and shell. Was in charge of printing support for the entire site, including writing enhancement scripts/programs and optimization programs. Enhanced and supported NetBatch, an Intel internal distributed batch system. Scientific/technical Translator (Hebrew/English), 1988 – 1990 Hever Hametargemim, Haifa, Israel English Teacher, February-May 1988 Dong-A Languages School, Seoul, South Korea. Education B.Sc. Mathematics and Computer Science, 1984 – 1987 Mathematics Department, Haifa University. Cumulative G.P.A. 3.64 (91%).