Ami Vider Product And Marketing Manager 2009c

Ami Vider – Product and Marketing Manager 53525 ,‫ גבעתיים‬,30 ‫ההסתדרות‬

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054-3142441 03-7317901

Experienced technology product and marketing manager. Current new media experience (blogs). Strong technology background with US companies. Background in engineering and field sales. Work Experience: 2007-Now

Product and Marketing Manager (Writing and managing) Acharit, 3D-Jazz, Tel Aviv • Marketing and product manager in two start ups. Product definition, marketing writing and market analysis. Organized marketing department, trained sales people (in international sales). Wrote web site articles, blog articles, sales presentations, application notes, white papers. • Coached and trained engineers in marketing and business concepts. Enabled better communication and creative collaboration in developing business models and products. • Technical and marketing writer and editor: engineering definition documents, data sheets and fliers, publication articles (blogs, etc.) and business plans. • Co-designed: GUI, operation, functions/features for: Web2.0 services, CRM system, CAD system and CMS tagging. Wrote: MRD, PRD, RFQ and tracked development progress. • Started, setup and edit 3 blogs with 3 writers. Experience in HTML/CSS, professional level writing and editing, SEO / Google web master tools (Analytics / Adwords / Adsense).

• Sample blogs: http://israeltomorrow.blogspot.com http://www.leafstrategy.com 2006

Technical Writer – Transtech Controls, Hertzelia • Wrote, managed and published operation, service, user and installation manuals for airport lighting systems. Managed one writer and integrated content into software application. • Experience with: MS Office, Adobe PDF/Frame Maker/Photoshop, HTML/CSS/XML (tagging, formatting). Domain experience in optical, networking, storage, semiconductor (ASIC/SoC/IP) and Internet (Web2.0, servers, installation and operation of large applications).

2003-2005

Marketing/Sales Engineer – Emulex, Avid, Brookline, MA • Customization of Fibre Channel HBA cards: design, installation, testing by building server and storage racks. Design and use tests for storage system qualification and large data transfer. • Installed and configured OS, server, management and switching applications (Linux, Windows, DB, Storage/Veritas/IBM). Developed config., plug/hot, firmware and driver tests.

2001-2002

Field Application Engineer – Nurlogic/Artisan, Waltham, MA (USA) • Managed territory (NE US): pre/post-sales role in support of 6 sales reps. Managed sales process from prospecting (market research) to deal close (order). Experience with CRM tools. • Managed staff of 5, increased sales 180%, increased exposure 300%. Company designed semiconductor IP cores (I/Os, timing/PLLS, SERDES, Std cell libraries). Company acquired.

1999-2000

Field Application Engineer / Technical Sales – JNI, Newton, MA (USA) • Managed territory (East Coast US): pre/post-sales, support 3 sales reps. Deploy (install, support) Fibre Channel HBA card in Storage Area Networks (SAN) and optical storage comm. • Strategic customer support: Avid Tech. and EMC. Company developed Fibre Channel cards for storage and communication networks. Due to economic difficulties company reduced staff.

1997-1998

Product Manager – Cadence/Quickturn, Chelmsford, MA (USA) • Product management: product definition with development engineers and strategic customers (Intel, AMD). Defined two products based on existing product (style chk, parallel). • Wrote sales tools and marketing collateral: brochures, presentations, sales channel seminars, data sheets, fliers, reference stories, white papers. Product: Verilog cycle simulator / emulator.

1996

Strategic Product Manager – Atmel, San Jose, CA (USA) • Product management: product definition with development engineers, upgrade of Altera EPM5000 series CPLD. Acquisition and customization of EDA/CAD from Data I/O (Synario). Product: CPLD/FPGA devices using advanced Atmel EEPROM technology.

1982-1995

Semiconductor Circuit Design Engineer – Silicon Valley, CA (USA) • Designed analog and digital circuits. Companies: Cypress, Sierra and General Instrument Microelectronics. Awarded 4 patents one individually for EPROM programming technique.

Technology Summary: Platforms

WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, MediaWiki, HTML/CSS, Verilog, C/C++ API

Experience:

SEO/SEM, Google Analytics/AdWords/AdSense, blog editing/writing

OS:

Windows , Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu), Solaris, MAC

Protocols:

Fibre Channel, SCSI, TCP/IP, Finisar protocol analyzer, Iometer (Intel)

Technologies/Domains:

SAN/NAS, NVM/E2/Flash, EDA/CAD, Semis ASIC/ASSP/SoC/IP cores

Education:

1992-1994 1978-1982

UC Berkeley Certificate in Marketing (professional certificate for technical managers) Temple University, Philadelphia PA: BS-EET, Electrical Engineering (dean's list)

Additional Training: 2002 2000

Sun Microsystems: Fibre Channel, Sun Solaris, Veritas Volume Manager. POLARIS-SAN: Fibre Channel fundamentals, operation and integration.

Languages:

English mother tongue, Hebrew professional working level.